Tenn. Code Ann. § 46-1-201
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It is the purpose of this part to require cemetery companies in the state to carry at all times a sufficient improvement care trust fund to maintain, keep up and beautify the cemeteries, without commercializing the operation of the cemeteries, and to maintain a pre-need merchandise and services trust fund to ensure that the pre-need sale of cemetery merchandise and services is properly accounted for and administered. Amended by 2016 Tenn. Acts, ch. 911,s 17, eff. 4/27/2016. Acts 1927, ch. 75, § 11; mod. Code 1932, § 3933; Acts 1968, ch. 557, §§ 2, 4; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 46-117; T.C.A., §§ 46-217, 46-2-117; T.C.A. § 46-2-301 ; Acts 2006, ch. 1012, § 3.
It is the purpose of this part to require cemetery companies in the state to carry at all times a sufficient improvement care trust fund to maintain, keep up and beautify the cemeteries, without commercializing the operation of the cemeteries, and to maintain a pre-need merchandise and services trust fund to ensure that the pre-need sale of cemetery merchandise and services is properly accounted for and administered.
Amended by 2016 Tenn. Acts, ch. 911,s 17, eff. 4/27/2016.
Acts 1927, ch. 75, § 11; mod. Code 1932, § 3933; Acts 1968, ch. 557, §§ 2, 4; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 46-117; T.C.A., §§ 46-217, 46-2-117; T.C.A. § 46-2-301 ; Acts 2006, ch. 1012, § 3.
It is the purpose of this part to require cemetery companies in the state to carry at all times a sufficient improvement care trust fund to maintain, keep up and beautify the cemeteries, without commercializing the operation of the cemeteries, and to maintain a pre-need merchandise and services trust fund to ensure that the pre-need sale of cemetery merchandise and services is properly accounted for and administered.
Amended by 2016 Tenn. Acts, ch. 911,s 17, eff. 4/27/2016.
Acts 1927, ch. 75, § 11; mod. Code 1932, § 3933; Acts 1968, ch. 557, §§ 2, 4; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 46-117; T.C.A., §§ 46-217, 46-2-117; T.C.A. § 46-2-301 ; Acts 2006, ch. 1012, § 3.
Status: in_force
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