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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="5-102" title_number="5" title_name="Cemeteries" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions; General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The registration and permitting provisions of this title do not apply to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a person that owns and operates a bona fide religious–nonprofit cemetery in this State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a cemetery owned by a nonprofit organization created before 1900 by an act of the General Assembly;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a county, city, or municipal corporation that owns and operates a cemetery in the State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>a veterans’ cemetery operated by the State; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>a private family cemetery that does not conduct public sales.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This title does not apply to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the operation of a funeral establishment, including the sale of burial goods in the ordinary course of the funeral establishment’s business;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the operation or ownership of a crematory, incinerator, or reduction facility;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a licensed funeral director acting within the scope of the funeral director’s license; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>a mortician acting within the scope of the mortician’s license.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
