The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
003
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CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 5434)
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§ 5434. Penalty for doing business as a cemetery association without authority
A person, firm, corporation, or association, or a trust, trustee, or trustees of any
person, firm, corporation, or association, who, without authority of this chapter
so to do, shall exercise or attempt to exercise any powers, privileges, or franchises
that are specified or may be granted under this chapter to incorporated cemetery associations,
or who shall by any device attempt to evade the provisions of this chapter applicable
to cemetery associations in respect to the sale of lots or spaces for the permanent
disposition of human remains and the disposition of the proceeds thereof, shall be
fined not less than $1,000.00 nor more than $10,000.00, and may be enjoined from further
doing of such acts at the suit of any taxpayer of the State. However, the provisions
of this section shall not affect or impair the rights of a person, firm, corporation,
or association or a trust, trustee, or trustees of such person, firm, corporation,
or association under any existing contract or contracts between such parties and incorporated
cemetery associations, nor shall the performance of the provisions of such contract
or contracts subject parties thereto to the penalties imposed by this section. (V.S. 1947, § 4068; P.L. § 3900; 1933, No. 49, § 21; amended 2021, No. 169 (Adj. Sess.), § 15, eff. January 1, 2023.)