Tennessee § 46-1-201 - Purpose of part.
Full text of Tennessee Tennessee Code Annotated § 46-1-201 — Purpose of part., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 46-1-201. Purpose of part.
It is the purpose of this part to require cemetery companies in the state to carry at all times a sufficient improvement care trust fund to maintain, keep up and beautify the cemeteries, without commercializing the operation of the cemeteries, and to maintain a pre-need merchandise and services trust fund to ensure that the pre-need sale of cemetery merchandise and services is properly accounted for and administered. Acts 1927, ch. 75, § 11; mod. Code 1932, § 3933; Acts 1968, ch. 557, §§ 2, 4; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 46-117; T.C.A., §§ 46-217, 46-2-117 ; T.C.A. § 46-2-301 ; Acts 2006, ch. 1012, § 3; 2016, ch. 911, § 17. Compiler's Notes. Acts 1927, ch. 75 was declared unconstitutional in Spring Hill Cem. v. Lindsey, 162 Tenn. 420, 37 S.W.2d 111 (1931). Former § 46-2-301 was transferred to this section by Acts 2006, ch. 1012, § 3, effective January 1, 2007. Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 5 Tenn. Juris., Cemeteries, § 8.
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