Approved May 27, 1999.

CHAPTER 680
(House Bill 1031)

AN ACT concerning

Office of Cemetery Oversight - Religious, Nonprofit Cemeteries

FOR the purpose of repealing a certain provision that applies to a person that owns
and operates a bona fide religious, nonprofit cemetery and sells preneed goods;
expanding the scope of a certain exemption; and generally relating to
cemeteries.

BY repealing

Chapter 675 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1997
Section 9

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Business Regulation
Section 5-102(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Replacement Volume)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Business Regulation
Section 5-405

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Chapter 675 of the Acts of 1997

[SECTION 9. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the provisions of this
Act relating to the registration or permitting of a person that owns and operates a
bona fide religious, nonprofit cemetery and sells preneed goods shall take effect on
October 1, 1999.1

Article - Business Regulation

5-102.

(a) The registration and permitting provisions of this title do not apply to:

(1) a person that owns and operates a bona fide religious, nonprofit
cemetery in this State [and does not sell preneed goods]; or