566A.5  Nonperpetual care cemeteries.

1.  Each nonperpetual care cemetery shall have printed or stamped at the head of all of its contracts, deeds, statements, letterheads, and advertising material, the legend:   "This is a nonperpetual care cemetery", and shall not sell any lot or interment space in the cemetery unless the purchaser of the lot or interment space is informed that the cemetery is a nonperpetual care cemetery.

2.  A nonperpetual care cemetery or cemetery operator or employee or agent of a nonperpetual care cemetery shall not advertise or represent that the cemetery is a perpetual care cemetery or use any similar title, description, or term indicating that the cemetery provides guaranteed or permanent maintenance and care or that the cemetery has a trust fund or endowment fund to pay for the expenses of such care.

Section History: Early form

  [C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 566A.5]

Section History: Recent form

  95 Acts, ch 149, §36; 97 Acts, ch 89, §1, 2


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