PRINTER'S NO. 3610
No. 2725 Session of 1980
INTRODUCED BY DIETZ, HALVERSON, CUNNINGHAM AND SHUPNIK,
JUNE 18, 1980
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS AND COMMERCE, JUNE 18, 1980
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 9 (Burial Grounds) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for permanent lot
3 care funds.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 301 of Title 9, act of November 25, 1970
7 (P.L.707, No.230), known as the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes, is amended to read:
9 § 301. Initial deposits by newly-organized cemetery companies.
10 (a) General rule.--No cemetery company shall establish a
11 cemetery, or dispose or make sale of any lot therein, without
12 first causing to be deposited with a qualified trustee a sum of
13 not less than $25,000 as a permanent lot care fund.
14 (b) Exceptions.--The provisions of subsection (a) of this
15 section shall not apply:
16 (1) to any bona fide church or religious congregation or
17 any association created by any such bona fide church or
18 religious congregation; or
1 (2) to any corporation not-for-profit incorporated after
2 December 31, 1980 to maintain a cemetery established before
3 October 2, 1959, which cemetery has not been extended or
4 enlarged since October 2, 1959 and is not extended or
5 enlarged by the corporation.
6 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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