2021 Georgia Code
Title 10 - Commerce and Trade
Chapter 14 - Cemetery and Funeral Services
- § 10-14-1. Short Title
- § 10-14-2. Regulation of Preneed Dealers, Registrants, and Cemetery Companies; Licenses
- § 10-14-3. Definitions
- § 10-14-3.1. Authority of Boards
- § 10-14-4. Registration of Dealers and Cemeteries; Perpetual Care Cemeteries Trust Funds; Nonperpetual Care Cemeteries; Preneed Escrow Accounts
- § 10-14-5. Preneed Sales Agents; Contracts; Retention of Employee Data
- § 10-14-5.1. Relationship Between Life Insurance and Funeral Establishment
- § 10-14-6. Irrevocable Trust Fund
- § 10-14-7. Preneed Escrow Accounts or Trust Funds
- § 10-14-7.1. Trust Accounts for Preneed Funds
- § 10-14-8. Prohibition of Certain Persons From Employment; Notice and Hearing; Emergency Orders
- § 10-14-9. Amendment of Registration Application; State Audit of Records; Change of Ownership
- § 10-14-10. Minimum Acreage for Cemeteries; Exceptions
- § 10-14-11. Stop Order Suspending or Revoking a Registration; Denial or Refusal of Application for Registration; Penalties
- § 10-14-12. Separate Accounts and Records; Owner Acting as Trustee; Bond; Removal of Trustee or Escrow Agent; Allocation of Funds; Financial Reports
- § 10-14-13. Venue for Civil or Criminal Actions
- § 10-14-14. Administration of Chapter; Rules and Regulations
- § 10-14-15. Investigations by Secretary of State; Subpoenas; Hearings
- § 10-14-16. Cemetery Rules and Regulations; Service Charges
- § 10-14-17. Prohibited Acts; Fees
- § 10-14-18. Duties of Registrant; Written Contract
- § 10-14-19. Enforcement of Chapter; Civil Penalties
- § 10-14-20. Criminal Penalties
- § 10-14-21. Purchaser's Remedy for Violations
- § 10-14-22. Judicial Appeal of Order of Secretary of State
- § 10-14-23. Administrative Appeal of Order of Secretary of State
- § 10-14-24. Effect of Consent to Service of Process
- § 10-14-25. Waiver of Rights or Defenses in Cemetery Purchase Agreements Void
- § 10-14-26. Secretary of State Immune From Liability
- § 10-14-27. Evidence in Civil or Criminal Actions Under Chapter
- § 10-14-28. Actions Pending Under Prior Law
- § 10-14-29. Construction Regulations; Preconstruction Trust Funds
- § 10-14-30. Adoption of Minimum Standards by Secretary of State
- Disposition of dead bodies, T. 31, C. 21.
Regulation of funeral directors, embalmers, and funeral establishments, and contracts for preneed funeral services, T. 43, C. 18.
Authority of administrator to issue cease and desist orders or impose civil penalty, judicial relief, and receivers, § 10-1-397.3.
Protection of American Indian human remains and burial objects, T. 44, C. 12, Art. 7.
Limitations upon right to choose funeral services for insured, entry into contracts by life insurers, and receiving of compensation from undertakers, § 33-1-10 et seq.
Administrative Rules and Regulations.- Rules of General Applicability, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Office of Secretary of State, Cemeteries, Preneed Dealers, and Merchandise Dealers, Chapter 590-3-1.
Preneed Sales Agents, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Office of Secretary of State, Cemeteries, Preneed Dealers, and Merchandise Dealers, Chapter 590-3-2.
Preneed Dealers, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Office of Secretary of State, Cemeteries, Preneed Dealers, and Merchandise Dealers, Chapter 590-3-4.
Merchandise Dealers, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Office of Secretary of State, Cemeteries, Preneed Dealers, and Merchandise Dealers, Chapter 590-3-5.
Mausoleum Preconstruction, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Office of Secretary of State, Cemeteries, Preneed Dealers, and Merchandise Dealers, Chapter 590-3-6.
Administrative Hearings, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Office of Secretary of State, Cemeteries, Preneed Dealers, and Merchandise Dealers, Chapter 590-3-7.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
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- Validity and reasonableness of rules and regulations of cemetery company or association as to improvement or care of lots, 32 A.L.R. 1406; 47 A.L.R. 70.
Cemetery property and cemetery lots as subject to assessment for public improvement, in absence of express exemption, 71 A.L.R. 322.
Rights and remedies of holder of lien on cemetery property, 90 A.L.R. 444.
Right to take property under eminent domain as affected by fact that property is already devoted to cemetery purposes, 109 A.L.R. 1502.
Right to exclude from privilege of burial in cemetery, 110 A.L.R. 388.
Validity of public prohibition or regulation of location of cemetery, 50 A.L.R.2d 905.
Cemetery or burial ground as nuisance, 50 A.L.R.2d 1324.
To whom does title to burial lot pass on testator's death, in absence of specific provision in his will, 26 A.L.R.3d 1425.
Liability of cemetery in connection with conducting or supervising burial services, 42 A.L.R.4th 1059.
Dead bodies: liability for improper manner of reinterment, 53 A.L.R.4th 394.
Construction and effect of contracts or insurance policies providing preneed coverage of burial expense or services, 67 A.L.R.4th 36.
Validity, construction, and application of statutes or ordinances regulating perpetual-care trust funds of cemeteries and mausoleums, 54 A.L.R.5th 681.
