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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.3063 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19990112 Primary Sponsor:Davenport All Sponsors:Davenport Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\psd\7066ac99.doc Residing Body:House Current Committee:Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee 27 H3M Subject:Funeral merchandise, definition revised; Cemeteries History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ House 19990112 Introduced, read first time, 27 H3M referred to Committee House 19981209 Prefiled, referred to Committee 27 H3M Versions of This Bill
TO AMEND SECTION 40-19-20, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO DEFINITIONS USED WITH REGARD TO THE LICENSURE AND REGULATION OF EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS, SO AS TO REVISE THE DEFINITION OF "FUNERAL MERCHANDISE" TO EXCLUDE RECEPTACLES INTO WHICH A BODY IS DIRECTLY PLACED.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 40-19-20(13) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 380 of 1998, is further amended to read:
"(13) 'Funeral merchandise' means that personal property used in connection with the conduct of funerals or with the transportation and final disposition of a dead human body including, but not limited to, the receptacle into which the body is directly placed. The term does not mean caskets or other receptacles into which the body is directly placed or mausoleum crypts, interment receptacles preset in a cemetery, and columbarium niches."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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