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Committee backs lowering perpetual‑care set‑aside to ease cemetery maintenance costs
Summary
The committee voted 12–0, 1 absent, to recommend a do‑pass on House Bill 1219, which would reduce the statutory minimum set‑aside for perpetual‑care cemetery fund contributions from 20% of lot sales to 10%, allowing associations to use more current revenue for maintenance.
The House Political Subdivisions Committee recommended a do‑pass for House Bill 1219 after hearing that some perpetual‑care cemetery associations face shrinking volunteer capacity and rising maintenance costs.
Representative Alisa Mitzgog presented the bill on behalf of Fairview Cemetery Association in Wahpeton. The bill would reduce the mandatory portion of lot‑sale proceeds that a perpetual‑care cemetery must place in its endowed care fund from 20% to…
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