(a) A pre-need authority licensee covered under this chapter may seek to terminate all further responsibilities for compliance with the requirements of this chapter by voluntarily offering to surrender its license to the director with a sworn statement to that effect. The statement shall be accompanied by an affidavit that the licensee has lawfully expended or refunded all pre-need trust funds accepted by the person or made provisions to transfer the pre-need trust funds subject to the obligations related thereto to another person subject to approval of the director, and that the pre-need authority surrendering the license will accept no additional pre-need payments.

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-46

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Cemetery: means any property, or part interest therein, dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the permanent interment of human remains. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
  • Cemetery authority: means any person who undertakes to establish, maintain, manage, operate, improve, or conduct a cemetery to inter human remains; or offers perpetual care of the cemetery; or sells or holds money in trust for pre-need interment services, whether or not the person undertakes such activity for profit; provided that this shall not apply to the designated trustee of the funds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
  • Director: means the director of the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
  • Perpetual care fund: means a fund separately maintained to provide for the perpetual care of a cemetery in conformity with this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, county, association, or any other group however organized. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
  • Pre-need funeral authority: means any person who is engaged in the business of selling pre-need funeral services, or holds money in trust to provide for future funeral services; provided that this shall not apply to the designated trustee of the funds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
  • Pre-need trust: means a fund separately maintained to provide for the future services agreed to or contracted for by the pre-need funeral service plan participant or the pre-need interment service plan participant. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
(b) A cemetery authority licensee covered under this chapter may seek to terminate all further responsibilities for compliance with the requirements of this chapter by voluntarily offering to surrender its license to the director with a sworn statement to that effect. The statement shall be accompanied by an affidavit that the licensee has made provisions to have the trustee of the perpetual care fund provide for the perpetuity of the cemetery or to transfer the perpetual care fund subject to the obligations related thereto to another person subject to the approval of the director, and that the authority seeking to surrender the license will make no additional interments.
(c) The person proposed to receive the pre-need trust or perpetual care fund subject to the obligations related thereto shall meet and satisfy the requirements of section pre-need funeral authority license issued when” class=”unlinked-ref” datatype=”S” sessionyear=”2019″ statecd=”HI”>441-21 prior to the director accepting the voluntary surrender of the pre-need or cemetery authority license and canceling or revoking the license.