1. A person shall not advertise, sell, promote, or offer to furnish cemetery merchandise, funeral merchandise, funeral services, or a combination thereof when performance or delivery may be more than one hundred twenty days following initial payment on the account without a sales permit. A permit holder must be an employee or agent of a person holding an establishment permit who can deliver the cemetery merchandise, funeral merchandise, funeral services, or a combination thereof being sold. A person must have a sales permit for each establishment at which the person works. However, a person may apply for a sales permit covering multiple establishments, if the establishments have common ownership. The establishment permit holder is liable for the acts of its employees and agents performed in advertising, selling, promoting, or offering to furnish, upon the future death of a person named or implied in a purchase agreement, cemetery merchandise, funeral merchandise, funeral services, or a combination thereof.
2. This chapter does not permit a person to practice mortuary science without a license. A person holding a current sales permit may advertise, sell, promote, or offer to furnish a funeral director's services as an employee or agent of a funeral establishment furnishing the funeral services under chapter 156.
3. An application for a sales permit shall be filed on a form prescribed by the commissioner and be accompanied by a five dollar filing fee.
4. The application shall contain:
a. The name and address of the person.
b. The name and address of the person's employer and each establishment on whose behalf the person will be advertising, selling, promoting, or offering to furnish cemetery merchandise, funeral merchandise, funeral services, or a combination thereof.
c. The name and address of the provider who will provide the cemetery merchandise, funeral merchandise, funeral services, or a combination thereof if different from the person's employer.
5. An initial permit expires one year from the date the application is filed. The permit may be renewed for four years by filing the form prescribed by the commissioner under subsection 3, accompanied by a twenty dollar filing fee.
6. A permit holder shall inform the commissioner of changes in the information required to be provided by subsection 4 within thirty days of the change.
7. A sales permit is not assignable or transferable. A permit holder selling all or part of a business shall cancel the permit and the purchaser shall apply for a new permit in the purchaser's name within thirty days of the sale.
8. If no denial order is in effect and no proceeding is pending under section 523A.503, the application becomes effective at noon of the thirtieth day after a completed application or an amendment completing the application is filed, unless waived by the applicant. The commissioner may specify an earlier effective date. Automatic effectiveness under this subsection shall not be deemed approval of the application. If the commissioner does not grant the permit, the commissioner shall notify the applicant in writing of the reasons for the denial.
9. The commissioner may by rule create or accept a multijurisdiction sales permit. If the sales permit is issued by another jurisdiction, the rules shall require the filing of an application or notice form and payment of the applicable filing fee of five dollars for each year. The application or notice form utilized and the effective dates and terms of the permit may vary from the provisions set forth in subsections 3 and 5.
2001 Acts, ch 118, §34; 2002 Acts, ch 1119, §83
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