Ariz. Admin. Code § 4-12-545

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section R4-12-545 - Deceptive, Misleading or Professionally Negligent Practices

In selling or offering to sell prearranged funerals, or in handling the trust funds or accounts of a prearranged funeral consumer, it is a deceptive, misleading or professionally negligent practice for anyone licensed under Title 32, Chapter 12, A.R.S. or his agent:

1. To misstate or omit to state any material fact upon which a prearranged funeral consumer detrimentally relies concerning the transaction or the prearranged funeral.

2. To represent or imply that the prices of funeral goods and services to be provided pursuant to a fixed price prearranged funeral agreement are guaranteed, frozen or otherwise an absolute economic certainty.

3. To guarantee or promise that the funeral establishment will be in business at any indefinite time in the future.

4. To fail to disclose to the purchaser or beneficiary within ten business days after a request, the most currently available information concerning the purchaser's principal payments, all earned interest on the principal and total service fees charged concerning that purchase.

5. To intentionally mislead or deceive by entering into a contract with a prearranged funeral purchaser, while any blank in the contract other than for the account number has not been completed.

6. To enter into a prearranged funeral agreement to provide funeral goods and services not regularly sold by the funeral establishment at the time of execution of the agreement.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R4-12-545

Adopted effective January 1, 1985 (Supp. 85-1).