25.0940.01000
Sixty-ninth
Legislative Assembly
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Representatives Mitskog, Schreiber-Beck
Senator Luick
A BILL for an Act to amend and reenact subsection 2 of section 23-21.1-03 of the North Dakota
Century Code, relating to the perpetual care fund.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Subsection 2 of section 23-21.1-03 of the North Dakota
Century Code is amended and reenacted as follows:
2.To continue to operate as a perpetual care cemetery, any suchan organization shall
set aside and deposit in the perpetual care fund not less than the following amounts
for lots of interment space thereafter sold or disposed of:
a.A minimum of twentyten percent of the gross selling price with a minimum of
twenty dollars for each adult space, whichever is the greater.
b.A minimum of twentyten percent of the gross selling price for each child's space
with a minimum of five dollars for each space up to forty-two inches [1006.8
millimeters] in length or ten dollars for each space up to sixty inches [1524
millimeters] in length, whichever is the greater.
c.A minimum of twentyten percent of the gross selling price with a minimum of one
hundred dollars for each space or crypt in a mausoleum, whichever is the
greater, except a mausoleum located in a cemetery covered by a perpetual care
fund which consists of at least twentyten percent of the proceeds received by the
cemetery from the sale of cemetery lots, in which event, the perpetual care fund
for the public or community mausoleum itself shall contain a minimum of
twentyten percent of the cost of the construction of such public or community
mausoleum.
d.A minimum of twentyten percent of the gross selling price with a minimum of ten
dollars for each inurnment niche in a columbarium, except a columbarium located
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in a cemetery covered by a perpetual care fund which consists of at least
twentyten percent of the proceeds received by the cemetery from the sale of
cemetery lots, in which event, the perpetual care fund for the public or community
columbarium itself shall contain a minimum of twentyten percent of the cost of the
construction of such public or community columbarium.
e.A minimum of twentyten percent of the gross selling price with a minimum of one
hundred dollars, whichever is the greater, for each interment space in crypt
gardens or any other structure or device by whatever name, established or
constructed wholly or partially above the natural surface of the ground, for the
interment of any dead human body.
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