North Dakota § 43-10.1-01 Definitions

North Dakota Statutes

§ 43-10.1-01 — Definitions

North Dakota § 43-10.1-01

Title 43Occupations and Professions

Ch. 43-10.1Pre-Need Funeral Services

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N.D. Cent. Code § 43-10.1-01 (2026).

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As used in this chapter:

1."Cemetery association" means any person owning, conducting, or maintaining a cemetery or plot for the burial of dead human bodies.

2."Cemetery merchandise" means all service or property to be used in funeral services or burials other than professional service or personal property to be used in funeral services.

3."Commissioner" means the insurance commissioner.

4."Irrevocable itemized funeral contract" means an irrevocable pre-need funeral service contract that is an itemized listing of goods and services that will be received based on the contract.

5."Licensed funeral establishment" means a funeral establishment as defined and licensed in accordance with sections 43-10-21 and 43-10-22.

6."Pre-need funeral service contract" means any contract, other than an

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As used in this chapter:
1. "Cemetery association" means any person owning, conducting, or maintaining a
cemetery or plot for the burial of dead human bodies.
2. "Cemetery merchandise" means all service or property to be used in funeral services
or burials other than professional service or personal property to be used in funeral
services.
3. "Commissioner" means the insurance commissioner.
4. "Irrevocable itemized funeral contract" means an irrevocable pre-need funeral service
contract that is an itemized listing of goods and services that will be received based on
the contract.
5. "Licensed funeral establishment" means a funeral establishment as defined and
licensed in accordance with sections 43-10-21 and 43-10-22.
6. "Pre-need funeral service contract" means any contract, other than an insurance
contract, under which for a specified consideration paid in advance in a lump sum or
by installments, a person promises, upon the death of a beneficiary named or implied
in the contract, to furnish professional service or personal property to be used in
funeral services, or to furnish cemetery merchandise.
7. "Professional service or personal property to be used in funeral services" means all
personal property, services, supplies, and equipment normally performed or furnished
by a licensed embalmer, a licensed funeral establishment, or a cemetery association
including any inside interment receptacles or containers into which a dead human
remains may be directly placed, caskets, crypt beds, catafalques, and all other articles
of merchandise incident to a funeral service, but excluding any outside interment
receptacles into which any inside receptacle or container will be placed, grave lots,
grave spaces, grave markers, monuments, tombstones, crypts, niches, and
mausoleums unless these items are sold by a companion agreement or in
contemplation of a trade or barter which includes the sale or rental of any inside
interment receptacles or containers into which a dead human remains may be directly
placed, caskets, crypt beds, catafalques, or other articles of merchandise incident to a
funeral service.