Virginia Administrative Code › Title 18 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING › Agency 47 - CEMETERY BOARD › Chapter 20 - CEMETERY BOARD RULES AND REGULATIONS › Part I - General Provisions › Section 18VAC47-20-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this chapter
					 shall have the definitions ascribed to them in § 54.1-2310 of the Code of
					 Virginia or shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly
					 indicates otherwise:
"Administration" means the cost to administer and maintain
					 records required by Chapter 23.1 (§ 54.1-2310 et seq.) of Title 54.1 of
					 the Code of Virginia or any regulation of the board, including a percentage of
					 compensation of employees, payment of insurance premiums, reasonable payments
					 for employees' pension and other benefit plans, and costs of maintaining
					 cemetery company and sales personnel compliance with the board's licensure and
					 registration requirements.
"Approved training program" means a training program that
					 has been approved by the board to provide training for individuals to act as a
					 compliance agent or compliance agent designee.
"Change in ownership" means a change in 50% or more of the
					 stockholders or partnership interest, or both, of a cemetery company.
"Compliance agent designee" means an individual who shall
					 be designated by the cemetery company to assure the compliance of the cemetery
					 company with the provisions of Chapter 23.1 (§ 54.1-2310 et seq.) of Title
					 54.1 of the Code of Virginia and this chapter when the compliance agent is not
					 available to supervise the activities of any of its affiliated
					 cemeteries.
"Experience" means supervisory experience with a cemetery
					 company as defined in § 54.1-2310 of the Code of Virginia.
"Licensee" means any person licensed by the board as a
					 cemetery company.
"Moral turpitude" means, but is not limited to, lying,
					 cheating or stealing.
"Outer burial container" means any container which is
					 designed for placement in the grave around the casket including, but not
					 limited to, containers commonly known as burial vaults or grave boxes and grave
					 liners.
"Perpetual care" means continuing care, maintenance,
					 administration and embellishment of the cemetery.
"Preneed trust fund" means those moneys held in accordance
					 with § 54.1-2325 of the Code of Virginia.
"Principal" means the following individuals:
1. The sole proprietor of a sole
				  proprietorship.
2. The partners of
				  a general partnership.
3. The
				  managing partners of a limited partnership.
4. The officers of a corporation as
				  registered with the State Corporation Commission.
5. The managers of a limited liability
				  company.
6. The officers or
				  directors of an association.
"Registrant" means any natural person registered with the
					 board as sales personnel.
"Sales personnel" means any natural person employed by or
					 affiliated as an independent contractor with a licensed cemetery company who
					 deals with the public in the sale or offering for sale of any property or
					 services enumerated in the definition of "cemetery company" contained in §
					 54.1-2310 of the Code of Virginia.
"Services" means any act or activity by the cemetery
					 company in relation to arranging, supervising, interring or disposing of the
					 remains or commemorating the memory of deceased human beings.
Statutory Authority
§§ 54.1-201 and 54.1-2313 of the Code of
						Virginia.