Arizona Laws 32-2194.28. Deposit in endowed-care fund from sales
A. In addition to establishing a trust fund as required by this article, every perpetual or endowed-care cemetery shall deposit into its trust fund according to the following schedule for each sale within thirty days after the contract for the purchase of cemetery property is paid in full:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 32-2194.28
- cemetery property: means any one, or a combination of more than one, of the following in a place that is used, or intended to be used, and dedicated for cemetery purposes:
(a) A burial park, for earth interments. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Perpetual or endowed-care cemetery: means a cemetery in which lots or other burial spaces are sold or transferred under the representation that the cemetery will receive perpetual care or endowed care free of further cost to the purchaser after payment of the original purchase price for the lot, burial space or interment right. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
1. Two dollars seventy-five cents per square foot for each grave.
2. Thirty-six dollars for each niche.
3. One hundred twenty dollars for each crypt.
B. In addition to the deposits required in subsection A of this section, a cemetery may deposit in its trust fund up to fifteen per cent of the gross sales price of a grave, niche or crypt.
C. This section applies to every cemetery which in any way represents that it is a perpetual or endowed-care cemetery, regardless of whether it operated as a perpetual or endowed-care cemetery before July 2, 1963.
D. In the case of a perpetual or endowed-care cemetery which was in operation as a perpetual or endowed-care cemetery before July 2, 1963, the fund created by the deposits which subsection A of this section requires is subject to the same restrictions to which the trust funds required by sections 32-2194.24 and 32-2194.25 are subject.