1. This chapter applies only to the sale of funeral services, funeral merchandise, or a combination of these.
2. As used in this chapter:
a. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of insurance or the deputy appointed under section 502.601.
b. "Funeral merchandise" means one or more types of personal property to be used at the time of the final disposition of a dead human body, including but not limited to clothing, caskets, vaults, and interment receptacles. "Funeral merchandise" does not include real property, and does not include grave markers, tombstones, ornamental merchandise, and monuments.
c. "Funeral services" means one or more services to be provided at the time of the final disposition of a dead human body, including but not limited to services necessarily or customarily provided in connection with a funeral, or services necessarily or customarily provided in connection with the interment, entombment, or cremation of a dead human body, or a combination of these. "Funeral services" does not include perpetual care or maintenance.
d. "Inner burial container" means a container in which human remains are placed for burial or entombment and, if only one container is used for purposes of burial or entombment, includes a container designed to serve the same function as merchandise commonly known as burial vaults, urn vaults, grave boxes, grave liners, and lawn crypts.
e. "Prepaid contract" means a written contract or other agreement executed by a seller in which the seller promises to deliver merchandise or services upon the future death of a person named or implied in the agreement.
[82 Acts, ch 1249, § 2]
87 Acts, ch 30, §5, 6; 98 Acts, ch 1189, §8; 99 Acts, ch 166, §9
Referred to in § 523I.4
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