Within four years after the date of the first sale, a cemetery company or other seller of mausoleums and garden crypts shall be required to start construction or development of that undeveloped ground or section of a mausoleum or garden crypt in which sales, contracts for sales, or agreements for sales are being made. The construction or development of such undeveloped mausoleum section or garden crypt shall be completed within five years after the date of the first such sale. Completed construction shall be deemed performance for purposes of this chapter.
1998, cc. 708, 721.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 54.1 - Professions and Occupations
Chapter 23.1 - Cemetery Operators, Perpetual Care Trust Funds and Preneed Burial Contracts
§ 54.1-2311. Cemetery operators required to be licensed by the Board
§ 54.1-2312.01. Special interments; definitions; regulations by Board
§ 54.1-2312.2. Resale of interment right by certain churches and religious organizations
§ 54.1-2313. Board; appointment; terms; vacancies; meetings; quorum; other powers; regulations
§ 54.1-2314. Refusal, suspension or revocation of license or registration
§ 54.1-2315. Other prohibited activities
§ 54.1-2316. Certain representations unlawful; perpetual care trust fund required
§ 54.1-2317. Who may serve as trustee of perpetual care trust fund
§ 54.1-2318. Application of Part a (§ 64.2-1200 et seq.) of Subtitle IV of Title 64.2
§ 54.1-2319. Deposit in perpetual care trust fund required upon sale of graves, etc.
§ 54.1-2320. Additional deposit not required upon subsequent sale of same grave, crypt or niche
§ 54.1-2321. Recovery of original perpetual care trust fund deposit
§ 54.1-2322. Use of income from perpetual care trust fund; distributions
§ 54.1-2323. Financial records required
§ 54.1-2326. Who may serve as trustee of preneed trust fund
§ 54.1-2328. Requirements of preneed burial contracts
§ 54.1-2329. Identification of specific funds
§ 54.1-2330. Specific funds and income to remain in preneed trust account; exception
§ 54.1-2331. Disbursement of trust funds upon performance of contract
§ 54.1-2332. Seller required to keep records
§ 54.1-2334. Inclusion of property and services to be delivered within 120 days
§ 54.1-2335. Breach of contract by seller; trust to be single purpose trust
§ 54.1-2336. Trustee may rely on certifications and affidavits
§ 54.1-2337. Transfer of trust funds to another trustee
§ 54.1-2338. Use of trustee's name in advertisements
§ 54.1-2339. Construction and development of mausoleums and garden crypts
§ 54.1-2340. Waiver of chapter void