§ 10-14-16. Cemetery Rules and Regulations; Service Charges
The owner of every cemetery may make, adopt, and enforce rules and regulations for the use, care, control, management, restriction, and protection of such cemetery and of all parts and subdivisions thereof; for restricting, limiting, and regulating the use of all property within such cemetery; for regulating and preventing the introduction and care of plants […]
§ 10-14-17. Prohibited Acts; Fees
It shall be unlawful for any person: To sell or offer to sell any burial rights, burial or funeral services, or burial or funeral merchandise by means of any oral or written untrue statement of a material fact or any omission to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in […]
§ 10-14-4. Registration of Dealers and Cemeteries; Perpetual Care Cemeteries Trust Funds; Nonperpetual Care Cemeteries; Preneed Escrow Accounts
Unless exempt under this chapter, it shall be unlawful for any person to offer for sale or to sell any cemetery burial rights, mausoleum interment rights, columbarium inurnment rights, grave spaces, or other physical locations for the final disposition of human remains in this state unless such person is registered as or employed by and […]
§ 10-14-5. Preneed Sales Agents; Contracts; Retention of Employee Data
All individuals who offer preneed contracts to the public, or who execute preneed contracts on behalf of any entity required to be registered as a preneed dealer, and all individuals who offer, sell, or sign contracts for the preneed sale of burial rights shall be registered with the Secretary of State as preneed sales agents, […]
§ 10-14-5.1. Relationship Between Life Insurance and Funeral Establishment
Any individual engaged in the sale of life insurance shall not use the name of any funeral establishment or any price list which identifies the funeral establishment or any reference to a funeral establishment or crematory in connection with the sale of life insurance without the express written authorization of the funeral establishment. When a […]
§ 10-14-6. Irrevocable Trust Fund
As used in this Code section, the term “income” means: The net income, including the collected dividends, interest, net realized gains, and other income of the trust reduced by any expenses, including, but not limited to, taxes on income, fees, commissions, and costs; or Four percent of the net fair market value of the trust […]
§ 10-14-7. Preneed Escrow Accounts or Trust Funds
Each preneed dealer which sells burial or funeral merchandise on a preneed basis or preneed burial or funeral services, other than preneed funeral services described in Code Section 10-14-7.1, shall establish and maintain a trust fund or a preneed escrow account. With respect to each monument and outer burial container, bench, coping, and other burial […]
§ 10-14-7.1. Trust Accounts for Preneed Funds
Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in Chapter 1 of Title 7, the “Financial Institutions Code of Georgia,” or in any other provision of law, a preneed dealer registered or deemed registered pursuant to Code Section 10-14-5 who provides funeral services shall provide for funds to be deposited in an escrow account pursuant to […]
§ 10-14-8. Prohibition of Certain Persons From Employment; Notice and Hearing; Emergency Orders
The Secretary of State, by order, may prohibit a person who is an employee, officer, independent contractor, or other agent directly involved in the sale of burial rights, burial or funeral merchandise, or burial or funeral services from employment or other association with a registrant under this chapter if the Secretary of State finds that […]
§ 10-14-1. Short Title
This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the “Georgia Cemetery and Funeral Services Act of 2000.” History. Code 1981, § 44-3-130 , enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 1508, § 1; Code 1981, § 10-14-1 , as redesignated by Ga. L. 2000, p. 882, § 1. Code Commission notes. Pursuant to […]