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.
Code 1950, § 38-155; 1952, c. 317, § 38.1-565; 1986, c. 562.
Structure Code of Virginia
§ 38.2-4000. Societies to which chapter applies
§ 38.2-4001. Society may be incorporated
§ 38.2-4002. Continuation of existing societies
§ 38.2-4003. Licensing of additional societies prohibited
§ 38.2-4004. What laws applicable
§ 38.2-4005. License may be renewed annually
§ 38.2-4007. Adoption of bylaws
§ 38.2-4008. Fidelity bond required
§ 38.2-4009. Inspection of books and papers
§ 38.2-4010. Accumulation of reserve for an emergency fund
§ 38.2-4011. Maintenance of reserve for an emergency fund
§ 38.2-4012. Disposition of reserve for an emergency fund; discontinuance of business; receiver
§ 38.2-4013. Certificates of membership
§ 38.2-4014. Required grace period
§ 38.2-4015. Certificate to specify amount of payment and when to be paid
§ 38.2-4016. Payments become liens on society's property
§ 38.2-4017. Notice of assessment
§ 38.2-4018. Liability on officers and directors for failing to levy assessments
§ 38.2-4020. When certificate invalid
§ 38.2-4021. Interest in benefits; assignability; liability to attachment, etc.
§ 38.2-4022. Certain contracts with undertakers, etc., forbidden