25.0940.01000
Sixty-ninth
Legislative Assembly HOUSE BILL NO. 1219
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Representatives Mitskog, Schreiber-Beck
Senator Luick
1 A BILL for an Act to amend and reenact subsection 2 of section 23-21.1-03 of the North Dakota
2 Century Code, relating to the perpetual care fund.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
4 SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Subsection 2 of section 23-21.1-03 of the North Dakota
5 Century Code is amended and reenacted as follows:
6 2. To continue to operate as a perpetual care cemetery, any suchan organization shall
7 set aside and deposit in the perpetual care fund not less than the following amounts
8 for lots of interment space thereafter sold or disposed of:
9 a. A minimum of twentyten percent of the gross selling price with a minimum of
10 twenty dollars for each adult space, whichever is the greater.
11 b. A minimum of twentyten percent of the gross selling price for each child's space
12 with a minimum of five dollars for each space up to forty-two inches [1006.8
13 millimeters] in length or ten dollars for each space up to sixty inches [1524
14 millimeters] in length, whichever is the greater.
15 c. A minimum of twentyten percent of the gross selling price with a minimum of one
16 hundred dollars for each space or crypt in a mausoleum, whichever is the
17 greater, except a mausoleum located in a cemetery covered by a perpetual care
18 fund which consists of at least twentyten percent of the proceeds received by the
19 cemetery from the sale of cemetery lots, in which event, the perpetual care fund
20 for the public or community mausoleum itself shall contain a minimum of
21 twentyten percent of the cost of the construction of such public or community
22 mausoleum.
23 d. A minimum of twentyten percent of the gross selling price with a minimum of ten
24 dollars for each inurnment niche in a columbarium, except a columbarium located
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1 in a cemetery covered by a perpetual care fund which consists of at least
2 twentyten percent of the proceeds received by the cemetery from the sale of
3 cemetery lots, in which event, the perpetual care fund for the public or community
4 columbarium itself shall contain a minimum of twentyten percent of the cost of the
5 construction of such public or community columbarium.
6 e. A minimum of twentyten percent of the gross selling price with a minimum of one
7 hundred dollars, whichever is the greater, for each interment space in crypt
8 gardens or any other structure or device by whatever name, established or
9 constructed wholly or partially above the natural surface of the ground, for the
10 interment of any dead human body.
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Statutes affected:
INTRODUCED: 23-21.1-03