46-1-212 - Sale of unconstructed or unfinished mausoleums, crypts and columbariums.

46-1-212. Sale of unconstructed or unfinished mausoleums, crypts and columbariums.

Any corporation, person, or business, except those corporations, persons or businesses owning and operating a cemetery that maintains an improvement care trust fund, and in which the mausoleum is to be, is being, or has been constructed, engaged in the public sale of burial space in a mausoleum, crypt or columbarium that is not completely constructed at the time of a sale, shall withhold the first seventy-five percent (75%) of the proceeds of the sale, to be placed in trust or invested under the provisions of this part, until such time as the mausoleum, crypt, or columbarium, space in which was sold, is completed. After completion, the improvement care trust fund provided in § 46-1-204 shall apply to the completed structure.

[Acts 1963, ch. 202, § 1; 1968, ch. 557, § 2; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 46-121; T.C.A., §§ 46-221, 46-2-121; T.C.A. § 46-2-304; Acts 2006, ch. 1012, § 3.]