PRINTER'S NO. 1314
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1069
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY SANTORA, MILLARD AND READSHAW, APRIL 10, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, APRIL 10, 2017
AN ACT
Amending the act of August 14, 1963 (P.L.1059, No.459), entitled
"An act prohibiting future need sales of cemetery merchandise
and services, funeral merchandise and services, except under
certain conditions; requiring the establishment of and
deposit into a merchandise trust fund of certain amount of
the proceeds of any such sale; providing for the
administration of such trust funds and the payment of money
therefrom; conferring powers and imposing duties on orphans'
courts, and prescribing penalties," further providing for
merchandise trust fund and for financial report.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2 of the act of August 14, 1963 (P.L.1059,
No.459), referred to as the Cemetery and Funeral Merchandise
Trust Fund Law, is amended by adding subsections to read:
Section 2. * * *
(a.1) The seller may retain, and apply to operating
expenses, all or a portion of the remaining thirty percent of
the retail sale price of the personal property or personal
services sold under the following conditions:
(1) the seller's merchandise trust fund is funded in an
amount equal to seventy percent of the retail sales price of all
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