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Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
Sec. 1. (a) A licensee that:
(1) promotes or participates in a scheme or plan in the nature of a burial association, burial certificate plan, or burial membership plan;
(2) after an individual has died, personally or through an agent solicits, makes, or offers to make a direct or an indirect payment of a commission for the purpose of securing the individual's human remains;
(3) fails to promptly surrender possession of human remains after receiving a demand from the person legally entitled to custody of the human remains;
(4) transports or disposes of human remains without a permit required by law;
(5) takes possession of human remains without authorization from the person legally entitled to custody of the human remains;
(6) makes a misleading claim concerning the protective qualities of a casket, an alternative container, or an outer burial container;
(7) shows a casket, an alternative container, or an outer burial container to a consumer if the casket, alternative container, or outer burial container does not have a conspicuously displayed card or brochure that lists the price of the casket, alternative container, or outer burial container and briefly describes the casket, alternative container, or outer burial container; or
(8) is found to have accepted payment by assignment of third party life insurance proceeds for at-need funeral services performed for more than the amount of the contracted funeral expenses arranged for by an authorizing agent;
may be disciplined under IC 25-1-11.
(b) Subsection (a)(8) does not apply to funeral trust funds under IC 30-2-10 and IC 30-2-13.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Indiana Code Title 25. Professions and Occupations § 25-15-8-1 - last updated January 02, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/in/title-25-professions-and-occupations/in-code-sect-25-15-8-1/
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