                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CERTAIN CONTRACTS WITH UNDERTAKERS, ETC., FORBIDDEN (§ 38.2-4022)

No burial society shall contract to pay or pay benefits provided under
certificates of membership, to any official or designated undertaker or
mortician or person engaged in the business of conducting and servicing
funerals, so as to deprive the representatives or family of the deceased member
from, or in any way control them in, obtaining funeral supplies and services in
an open competitive market.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 38-155; 1952, c. 317, § 38.1-565; 1986, c. 562.