1. (a) A cemetery authority may take, receive, and transfer to the trustee as a part of or incident to the perpetual care fund any property, real, personal, or mixed, bequeathed, devised, granted, given, or otherwise contributed to it for perpetual care purposes and shall transfer to the trustee the amount stipulated in the contract or deed as being for perpetual care purposes for each plot, niche, or mausoleum crypt sold or disposed of, but not less than:

   1. (1) $1 per square foot of interment space;
   2. (2) $50 for each mausoleum crypt;

   3. (3) $15 for each niche.

      Such transfer shall be made not later than thirty days after the receipt of the final payment of the purchase price of each plot, niche, or crypt sold as property entitled to perpetual care.

2. (b) A cemetery or pre-need funeral authority may take and receive, but shall transfer to the trustee as part of or incident to the pre-need trust, all payments received after the recovery of acquisition costs, which shall be the lesser of thirty per cent of the contract price or the difference between the contract price and the cost of the pre-need interment or pre-need funeral services contracted to be provided. The transfer shall be made not later than thirty days after receipt of payment from the purchaser and shall be immediately deposited in the trust.

[L 1967, c 199, pt of §1; HRS §441-38; am L 1985, c 101, §18]