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566A.1 Applicability of chapter---requirements for certain organizations.

1. A corporation or other form of organization engaging in the business of the ownership, maintenance, or operation of a cemetery, which provides lots or other interment space for the remains of human bodies, is subject to this chapter. However, a religious cemetery is subject only to subsection 2, and sections 566A.2A and 566A.2B. A cemetery with average retail sales equal to or less than five thousand dollars for the previous three calendar years is exempt from section 566A.2C. Political subdivisions of the state which are counties are exempt from this chapter. Political subdivisions of the state other than counties are subject only to sections 566A.1A, 566A.2A, 566A.2B, and 566A.2D.

2. An organization which establishes a fund for the perpetual care of a cemetery shall establish the fund as an irrevocable trust to provide for the care and maintenance of the cemetery for which it was established, and shall provide for the appointment of a trustee, with perpetual succession, in case the organization is dissolved or ceases to be responsible for the cemetery's care and maintenance.

Section History: Early form

[C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 566A.1]

Section History: Recent form

91 Acts, ch 188, §12, 13; 95 Acts, ch 149, §29

Internal References

Referred to in § 566A.7, 566A.8


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