For the purposes of administering this chapter, there is established a South Carolina Perpetual Care Cemetery Board with the power and duty to promulgate regulations, approved by the Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, to carry out this chapter as provided for by § 40-1-10.

Cemeteries, burial grounds, and any agreement or contract which has for a purpose the furnishing or delivering of a person, property, or merchandise of any nature in connection with the final disposition of a dead human body, must be subject to sufficient regulation by the State to ensure that sound business practices are followed by all entities subject to this chapter.

Terms Used In South Carolina Code 40-8-20

  • Board: means the South Carolina Perpetual Care Cemetery Board. See South Carolina Code 40-8-30
  • Cemetery: means a place used, dedicated, or designated for cemetery purposes including any one or combination of:

    (a) perpetual care cemeteries;

    (b) burial parks for earth interment;

    (c) mausoleums;

    (d) columbariums. See South Carolina Code 40-8-30
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Department: means the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. See South Carolina Code 40-8-30
  • Director: means the Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, or the director's official designee. See South Carolina Code 40-8-30
  • Merchandise: means items used in connection with grave space, niches, mausoleum crypts, granite, memorials, grave liners, and vaults; however, merchandise shall expressly exclude caskets and cremation urns, burial clothing, facilities used for preparation, viewing, and automotive equipment and transportation. See South Carolina Code 40-8-30
  • Perpetual care: means the maintenance and the reasonable administration of the cemetery grounds and buildings in keeping with a cemetery properly maintained using a care and maintenance trust fund. See South Carolina Code 40-8-30
  • Person: means an individual, entity, corporation, partnership, joint venture, or association. See South Carolina Code 40-8-30
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