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Committee backs lowering mandatory perpetual-care set‑aside from 20% to 10% for some cemeteries
Summary
After testimony from a local cemetery association and state regulators, the committee recommended a change that would let perpetual-care cemeteries set aside a minimum of 10% (instead of 20%) of lot sales for their perpetual-care funds; vote was 5-1.
House Bill 1219, brought at the request of the Fairview Cemetery Association in Wahpeton, would reduce the required minimum set-aside into perpetual-care funds from 20% of lot sales to 10% for perpetual-care cemeteries.
Representative Alisa Mitskog told the committee that some perpetual-care cemeteries rely on lot sales and volunteers and face financial strain as volunteer availability declines and operating costs…
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