Maine Statutes
§ 13 §1304 — Sales for speculation or investment
The sale of cemetery lots and plots, or the sale of crypts in a community mausoleum or niches in a columbarium for speculative or financial investment purposes, or the conveyance of any portion of a cemetery already dedicated to burial purposes as security for debt, is prohibited. Every such conveyance, whether made by a person or by a cemetery association, or by a company or association owning and operating a community mausoleum, crematory, natural organic reduction facility or columbarium, or by any holding, development or subsidiary company, is void and of no effect. Whoever makes or attempts to make a sale or conveyance contrary to this section must be punished as provided in section 1035.
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Legislative History
PL 2023, c. 676, §8 (AMD).
Nearby Sections
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§ 13 §1302
Recording of deeds§ 13 §1303
Ownership and operation§ 13 §1304
Sales for speculation or investment§ 13 §1305
Care and maintenance§ 13 §1306
Cemetery perpetual care fund§ 13 §1341
Location§ 13 §1342
Approval of health authority§ 13 §1343
Type of construction; examinations§ 13 §1345
No use before completion§ 13 §1346
No sale before completion§ 13 §1347
Improper conditions; removal of bodies§ 13 §1348
Permanent care and improvement fund§ 13 §1349
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