No entity may engage in the business of operating a perpetual care cemetery company, except as authorized by this chapter, without first obtaining a license from the board. A license issued under this chapter is not transferable or assignable and a licensee may not develop or operate a perpetual care cemetery authorized by this chapter under a name or a location other than that contained in the license.
No entity may hold itself out to be a perpetual care cemetery without an authorization to operate as such by the South Carolina Perpetual Care Cemetery Board.
Those cemeteries which furnish perpetual care to some portions and no perpetual care to other portions shall identify the appropriate sections of the cemetery at application and shall designate each section by a sign on the premises. Portions designated "Perpetual Care" may not be changed to "No Perpetual Care" once the designation is made.
HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 322, Section 10A.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 40 - Professions and Occupations
Chapter 8 - South Carolina Perpetual Care Cemetery Act
Section 40-8-20. Perpetual Care Cemetery Board; creation.
Section 40-8-35. Cemetery contract disclosure requirements.
Section 40-8-40. Licensure requirements, "Perpetual Care" and "No Perpetual Care" designations.
Section 40-8-50. Board membership.
Section 40-8-60. Election of chairman and vice chairman; expense reimbursements; meetings.
Section 40-8-70. Board power and duties.
Section 40-8-80. License fees.
Section 40-8-140. Cemetery signs.
Section 40-8-150. Disciplinary action; grounds.
Section 40-8-160. Dissemination of order finding basis for disciplinary action; fine.
Section 40-8-170. Voluntary surrender of license.
Section 40-8-190. Punishment and fines for violation of chapter.
Section 40-8-200. Certain cemeteries excepted from provisions of chapter.
Section 40-8-210. Licensing of existing cemeteries.
Section 40-8-230. Severability.
Section 40-8-240. Application of chapter to new public cemeteries.