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Section 40-8-10. Short title. - This chapter may be cited as the "South Carolina Perpetual...
Section 40-8-20. Perpetual Care Cemetery Board; creation. - For the purposes of administering this chapter, there is established...
Section 40-8-30. Definitions. - As used in this chapter, unless otherwise stated or unless...
Section 40-8-35. Cemetery contract disclosure requirements. - The cemetery contract must disclose to the consumer: (1) the...
Section 40-8-40. Licensure requirements, "Perpetual Care" and "No Perpetual Care" designations. - No entity may engage in the business of operating a...
Section 40-8-50. Board membership. - The board consists of seven members appointed by the Governor....
Section 40-8-60. Election of chairman and vice chairman; expense reimbursements; meetings. - The board shall elect annually a chairman and vice chairman....
Section 40-8-70. Board power and duties. - In addition to the powers and duties included in Sections...
Section 40-8-75. Seal. - The board shall have and use an official seal bearing...
Section 40-8-80. License fees. - (A) The following fees must be assessed, collected, and adjusted...
Section 40-8-90. Application to establish cemetery; license change application incident to purchase of existing cemetery. - (A) A legal entity wishing to establish a cemetery shall...
Section 40-8-100. Records; adoption and notification of use, care, management, and merchandise installation policies; service fees. - (A) A record must be kept of every lot owner...
Section 40-8-110. Care and maintenance trust funds; merchandise accounts; financial reports; penalties. - (A) A cemetery company is not permitted to establish a...
Section 40-8-120. Land requirements; conveyance and use of excess contiguous lands; transfer to municipality. - (A) A licensee shall set aside a minimum of thirty...
Section 40-8-130. Mausoleum and below ground crypt construction deadlines; burial vault placement; coastal and lowland exception. - (A)(1) A cemetery company is required to start construction of...
Section 40-8-140. Cemetery signs. - All cemeteries in this State shall display a sign at...
Section 40-8-150. Disciplinary action; grounds. - In addition to grounds for disciplinary actions as set forth...
Section 40-8-160. Dissemination of order finding basis for disciplinary action; fine. - Upon a determination by the board that one or more...
Section 40-8-170. Voluntary surrender of license. - A licensee who is under investigation for any of the...
Section 40-8-180. Appeal. - A person aggrieved by any action of the board may...
Section 40-8-190. Punishment and fines for violation of chapter. - A person who operates a cemetery in this State in...
Section 40-8-200. Certain cemeteries excepted from provisions of chapter. - The provisions of this chapter do not apply to governmental...
Section 40-8-210. Licensing of existing cemeteries. - (A) A perpetual care cemetery licensed by the South Carolina...
Section 40-8-220. Disclosure of conditions for free burial rights; basic maintenance requirements; religious code isolation designations. - (A) A cemetery company which offers free burial rights to...
Section 40-8-230. Severability. - If any provision of this chapter or the application of...
Section 40-8-240. Application of chapter to new public cemeteries. - Except as provided in Section 40-8-200, no person including a...