Warehouse for Cemetery Merchandise

Administrative Code (Code Book)

A cemetery warehouse is a business entity used as a place of storage for cemetery merchandise sold under a preneed sales contract. Cemetery merchandise refers to goods associated with the burial of human remains, including monuments, markers, nameplates, vases and urns, and any services that are associated with supplying or delivering those goods or with the burial of human remains and that may be lawfully provided by a cemetery authority. The term does not include caskets or outer burial containers.

No person may own or operate a cemetery warehouse unless the warehouse is approved. The purpose of the approval process of cemetery warehouses is to assure that they have sufficient bonding, so that cemetery merchandise stored until delivery will be available when delivery is expected.