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NJ A2921

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/9/2024

Primary Sponsor

Gary Schaer

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Origin

General Assembly

2024-2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Eliminates the 15% fee that cemetery companies are required to charge when a grave, crypt, or niche is transferred to a new owner
  • Currently under the "New Jersey Cemetery Act, 2003," cemetery companies must collect this transfer fee and deposit it into their Maintenance and Preservation Fund
  • The original sale of graves, crypts, and niches will continue to be subject to the existing 15% fee (or 10% for crypts/niches in public mausoleums or columbariums)
  • Amends P.L.2003, c.261 (C.45:27-13) to remove paragraphs (5) and (6) which established the transfer fees, along with related definitions of "transfer"
  • Intended to reduce financial burden on bereaved families who may need to transfer burial plots at a time of need

Legislative Description

Eliminates 15% fee charged by cemetery company on transfer of graves, crypts and niches.

Regulated Professions

Last Action

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Regulated Professions Committee

1/9/2024

Committee Referrals

Regulated Professions1/9/2024

Full Bill Text

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