Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-36 – Perpetual care required
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-36
- Cemetery: means any property, or part interest therein, dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the permanent interment of human remains. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
- Cemetery authority: means any person who undertakes to establish, maintain, manage, operate, improve, or conduct a cemetery to inter human remains; or offers perpetual care of the cemetery; or sells or holds money in trust for pre-need interment services, whether or not the person undertakes such activity for profit; provided that this shall not apply to the designated trustee of the funds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
- Perpetual care cemetery: means any cemetery or section of a cemetery, the plots, crypts, or niches of which are sold or disposed of, or are offered for sale or disposition, upon the representation that the plots, crypts, or niches will receive perpetual care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
- Perpetual care fund: means a fund separately maintained to provide for the perpetual care of a cemetery in conformity with this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
Any cemetery hereafter established shall be a perpetual care cemetery. No existing cemetery shall be operated as, or advertised or represented to be, a perpetual care cemetery except in compliance with this chapter. Every cemetery authority operating a perpetual care cemetery shall establish a perpetual care fund.