Legal Opinion
Rooney v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Virginia
Decided June 30, 1998No. 1402973PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLEMAN, Judge.
Code §§ 57-35.15 and 57-35.21 require that a cemetery company deposit into a trust account certain percentages of receipts from the sale of preneed and perpetual care burial property and services. 1 Failure of a cemetery company to deposit receipts into the preneed and perpetual care trust accounts is a Class 1 misdemeanor. Code § 57-35.35.
Rooney Enterprises, Inc. (corporation) operated a cemetery in Franklin County. Upon receiving payments pursuant to preneed and perpetual care burial contracts, the corporation failed to make deposits into the preneed and perpetual care trust…
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