07 LC
25 4951ERS
The
Senate Regulated Industries & Utilities Committee offered the following
substitute to HB 391:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Code Section 10-14-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to definitions relative to cemetery and funeral services, so as to redefine
certain terms; to amend Code Section 43-8B-5 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to the State Board of Cemeterians and the number, terms,
appointments, vacancies, and removal of members, so as to change certain
provisions relating to qualifications of board members; to provide an effective
date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Code
Section 10-14-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
definitions relative to cemetery and funeral services, is amended by revising
paragraphs (3), (14), and (21), respectively, as follows:
"(3)
'Burial merchandise,' 'funeral merchandise,' or 'merchandise' means any personal
property offered or sold by any person for use in connection with the final
disposition, memorialization, interment, entombment, or inurnment of human
remains,
including without limitation a mausoleum, cremation urn, cremation bench,
cremation marker, or
cremorial."
"(14)
'Entombment'
mean
means
the disposition of a dead human body in a
mausoleum,
including without limitation a crypt, private mausoleum, or any other permanent
above-ground structure not used for
inurnment, but shall not include the
opening and closing of a grave space, crypt, or niche or the installation of a
vault."
"(21)
'Inurnment' means the disposition of the cremated remains of a deceased human
being in
an
any fashion,
including without limitation in a columbarium niche, cremorial, cremation bench,
cremation rock,
urn,
or other container but shall not include the opening and closing of a grave
space, crypt, or niche or the installation of a vault."
SECTION
2.
Code
Section 43-8B-5 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the State
Board of Cemetarians and the number, terms, appointments, vacancies, and removal
of members, is amended by revising subsection (a) as follows:
"(a)
The board shall consist of six members who shall be practicing cemeterians with
a minimum of five years of
registration
as such in this state immediately preceding their
appointment
experience
and one member who shall have no connection whatsoever with the cemetery
profession but who shall have a recognized interest in consumer affairs and in
consumer protection concerns."
SECTION
3.
This
Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its
becoming law without such approval.
SECTION
4.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.