Missouri § 214.340 - Report required — content — oath — filing required.

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§ 214.340. Report required — content — oath — filing required.

1.  Each operator of an endowed care cemetery shall maintain at an office in the cemetery or, if the cemetery has no office in the cemetery, at an office within a reasonable distance of the cemetery, the reports of the endowed care trust fund's operation for the preceding seven years.  Each report shall contain, at least, the following information:

(1)  Name and address of the trustee of the endowed care trust fund and the depository, if different from the trustee;

(2)  Balance per previous year's report;

(3)  Principal contributions received since previous report;

(4)  Total earnings since previous report;

(5)  Total distribution to the cemetery operator since the previous report;

(6)  Current balance;

(7)  A statement of all assets listing cash, real or personal property, stocks, bonds, and other assets, showing cost, acquisition date and current market value of each asset;

(8)  Total expenses, excluding distributions to cemetery operator, since previous report; and

(9)  A statement of the cemetery's total acreage and of its developed acreage.

2.  Subdivisions (1) through (7) of the report described in subsection 1 above shall be certified to under oath as complete and correct by a corporate officer of the trustee.  Subdivision (8) of such report shall be certified under oath as complete and correct by an officer of the cemetery operator.  Both the trustee and cemetery operator or officer shall be subject to the penalty of making a false affidavit or declaration.

3.  The report shall be placed in the cemetery's office within ninety days of the close of the trust's fiscal year.  A copy of this report shall be filed by the cemetery operator with the division of professional registration as condition of license renewal as required by subsection 4 of section 214.275.

4.  Each cemetery operator who establishes an escrow or trust account pursuant to section 214.387 shall file with the report required under subsection 1 of this section an escrow or trust account report that shall provide the following information:

(1)  The total face value of all contracts for burial merchandise and services that have been deferred for delivery by purchase designation; and

(2)  The amount on deposit in the escrow or trust account established pursuant to section 214.387, and the account number in the case of an escrow account.

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(L. 1961 p. 538 § 9, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1079, A.L. 1994 S.B. 496 merged with S.B. 701, A.L. 2007 S.B. 272, A.L. 2010 H.B. 1692, et al. merged with H.B. 2226, et al. merged with S.B. 754)

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