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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="5-606" title_number="5" title_name="Cemeteries" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Perpetual Care">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each sole proprietor registered cemeterian, permit holder, or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle shall keep detailed records of all sales of burial lots or burial rights in a cemetery and money received.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The records of each sole proprietor registered cemeterian, permit holder, or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle and of each trustee appointed by the sole proprietor registered cemeterian, permit holder, or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle are subject to examination by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the Director;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the Attorney General or an authorized representative of the Attorney General; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the State’s Attorney for the county where the cemetery owner does business or where the cemetery is located.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each sole proprietor registered cemeterian, permit holder, or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle shall submit a report to the Director within 150 days after the close of each calendar or other fiscal year chosen by the sole proprietor registered cemeterian, permit holder, or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The report shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>be on the form that the Director requires;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>be certified as to correctness by a certified public accountant retained by the cemetery;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>be accompanied by a trustee’s annual summary statement of assets for the reporting period that includes:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the amount of money in the perpetual care trust fund at the beginning of the reporting period;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>an investment portfolio summary describing the asset and the market value for each investment class;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>a transaction summary of the perpetual care trust fund containing:</text>
        </level>
        <level label="A">
          <text>trust account earnings, including interest, dividends, and realized gains or losses;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="B">
          <text>money deposited;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="C">
          <text>total receipts;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="D">
          <text>administrative expenses;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="E">
          <text>disbursements of income for cemetery care, maintenance, administration, and embellishment;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="F">
          <text>other disbursements; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="G">
          <text>total disbursements; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>the amount of money in the perpetual care trust fund at the end of the reporting period;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>be accompanied by a fee of $25; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>include:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the name of the sole proprietor registered cemeterian, permit holder, or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>each location of the sole proprietor registered cemeterian, permit holder, or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>the amount of money in each perpetual care trust fund at the beginning of the calendar or other fiscal year chosen by the sole proprietor registered cemeterian, permit holder, or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>the amount of money that the sole proprietor registered cemeterian, permit holder, or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle received during that year that is subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>the amount of money actually deposited into each perpetual care trust fund in that year;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="6">
          <text>the amount of money spent during that year to provide care, maintenance, administration, and embellishment of each cemetery, except for money used for the care of monuments and memorials; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="7">
          <text>the name and address of each trustee.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If the Director determines, after a review of the report and annual summary statement of assets required by this subsection, that additional documentation is required, a sole proprietor registered cemeterian, permit holder, or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle shall provide the additional documentation to the Director.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A sole proprietor registered cemeterian, permit holder, or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle who stops selling burial lots or burial rights in a cemetery as to which perpetual care is stated or implied shall notify the Director in the required report for the year in which sales stop.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The Director may require a sole proprietor registered cemeterian, permit holder, or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle to correct any underfunding, including interest, due to the perpetual care trust fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Director may adopt regulations:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>to administer subsection (b) of this section; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>for determining whether registered cemeterians, permit holders, or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle are complying with this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
