Virginia § 57-39.20 - Definitions
Full text of Virginia Code of Virginia § 57-39.20 — Definitions, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 57-39.20. Definitions
As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
"Burial right" means the right of interment.
"Interment" means the disposition of pet remains by earth burial, entombment in a mausoleum, or inurnment in a columbarium.
"Operator" means any person engaged in the business of selling or offering for sale any burial or interment right in a pet cemetery and representing to the public that such cemetery, single burial or interment right therein will be perpetually cared for.
"Perpetual care fund" means a fund created to provide income to a pet cemetery to provide care, maintenance, administration and embellishment of the pet cemetery.
"Pet" means an animal that has been adapted or tamed to live in intimate association with or for the pleasure of people and includes but is not limited to dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, and hamsters.
"Pet cemetery" means land, together with any structures, facilities, or buildings appurtenant thereto provided to members of the public for use or reservation for use for the individual interment, above or below ground, of pet remains. "Pet cemetery" does not include land used exclusively for landfilling or the communal burial of pets, but does include an area where a portion of the land is used for the communal burial of pets.
1996, c. 957.
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