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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="5-602" title_number="5" title_name="Cemeteries" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Perpetual Care">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This subtitle does not apply to a cemetery that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>has less than 1 acre available for burial; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>is owned and operated by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a county;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a municipal corporation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a church;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>a synagogue;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>a religious organization;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>a nonprofit organization created before 1900 by an act of the General Assembly;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>a family and does not conduct public sales; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>a State veterans agency.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This subtitle does not apply to the sale of a below–ground earth–covered chamber.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>This subtitle does not amend a trust agreement covering a perpetual care fund that existed on or before July 1, 1973, except as to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the appointment of a successor trustee or cotrustee;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>deposits into the fund after July 1, 1973; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the withdrawal from the fund of income on deposits made after July 1, 1973.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
