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title: Title 10, Chapter 14. Cemetery and Funeral Services
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date: 2025
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heading: CEMETERY AND FUNERAL SERVICES
title_heading: COMMERCE AND TRADE
section_count: 33
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# Title 10, Chapter 14. Cemetery and Funeral Services

Title 10. Commerce and Trade

33 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 10-14-1, Short title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-1.md
- 10-14-2, Legislative findings and intent, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-2.md
- 10-14-3, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-3.md
- 10-14-3.1, Authority of boards, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-3.1.md
- 10-14-4, Registration of cemetery owners, preneed dealers, and burial or funeral merchandise dealers; exemptions; nonperpetual care cemeteries, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-4.md
- 10-14-5, Registration of preneed sales agents; retention of employee applications by registered cemeteries, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-5.md
- 10-14-5.1, Relationship between life insurance and funeral establishment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-5.1.md
- 10-14-6, Perpetual care trust funds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-6.md
- 10-14-7, Preneed escrow accounts or trust funds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-7.md
- 10-14-7.1, Trust funds or escrow accounts for preneed funeral services, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-7.1.md
- 10-14-8, Prohibition of certain persons from employment; notice and hearing; emergency orders, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-8.md
- 10-14-9, Amendment of registration applications; audit of registrant records; transfer of ownership in cemeteries or preneed dealers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-9.md
- 10-14-10, Minimum acreage for cemeteries; exceptions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-10.md
- 10-14-11, Stop orders suspending, revoking, or denying the effectiveness of registration; late penalty fees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-11.md
- 10-14-12, Separate accounts and records; owner acting as trustee; removal of trustee or escrow agent; financial reports, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-12.md
- 10-14-13, Venue for civil or criminal actions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-13.md
- 10-14-14, Administration of chapter; rules and regulations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-14.md
- 10-14-15, Investigations by Secretary of State; subpoenas; hearings, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-15.md
- 10-14-16, Cemetery rules and regulations; schedule of charges, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-16.md
- 10-14-17, Prohibited acts; fees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-17.md
- 10-14-18, Duties of registrants; requirements of written contracts, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-18.md
- 10-14-19, Enforcement of chapter; civil penalties, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-19.md
- 10-14-20, Criminal penalties, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-20.md
- 10-14-21, Purchaser’s remedy for violations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-21.md
- 10-14-22, Judicial appeal of orders issued by Secretary of State, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-22.md
- 10-14-23, Administrative appeal of orders issued by Secretary of State, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-23.md
- 10-14-24, Effect of consent to service of process, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-24.md
- 10-14-25, Waiver of rights or defenses in cemetery purchase agreements void, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-25.md
- 10-14-26, Secretary of State immune from liability, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-26.md
- 10-14-27, Evidence in civil or criminal actions under chapter, reserved (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-27.md
- 10-14-28, Actions pending under prior law, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-28.md
- 10-14-29, Construction of mausoleums and columbariums; preconstruction trust funds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-29.md
- 10-14-30, Adoption of minimum standards by Secretary of State, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-14-30.md