2006 Code of Virginia § 54.1-2315 - Other prohibited activities

54.1-2315. Other prohibited activities.

The following acts shall be prohibited:

1. Employment directly or indirectly of any sales representative, agent,employee or other person, on a part-time or full-time basis, or on acommission, for the purpose of calling upon individuals or institutions bywhose influence dead human bodies may be turned over to a particular funeralestablishment or cemetery company;

2. Solicitation, offer, payment, or acceptance by a licensee or registeredsales personnel of a licensee, of any commission or bonus or rebate inconsideration of recommending or causing a dead human body to be disposed ofin any crematory, mausoleum or cemetery;

3. Violating or cooperating with others to violate any provision of thischapter or Board regulations;

4. Interfering with the freedom of choice of the general public in the choiceof persons or establishments providing funeral services, preneed funeralplanning or preneed funeral contracts.

Nothing in this section shall preclude a cemetery company employing orretaining a sales representative, agent, employee or other person, on apart-time or full-time basis, from offering cemetery company goods andservices on a commission basis.

(1998, cc. 708, 721.)