Minn. Stat. § 149A.73
In selling or offering to sell funeral goods, funeral services, burial site goods, or burial site services to the public, it is a deceptive act or practice for a funeral provider to require that a casket be purchased for alkaline hydrolysis, cremation, or, effective July 1, 2025, natural organic reduction.
To prevent unfair or deceptive acts or practices, if funeral providers arrange for alkaline hydrolysis or cremations, they must make an alkaline hydrolysis container or cremation container available for alkaline hydrolysis or cremations.
To prevent unfair or deceptive acts or practices, funeral providers must place the following disclosure in the general price list, immediately above the prices required by section 149A.71, subdivision 2, paragraph (e), clauses (4) to (10): "The goods and services shown below are those we can provide to our customers. You may choose only the items you desire. If legal or other requirements mean that you must buy any items you did not specifically ask for, we will explain the reason in writing on the statement we provide describing the funeral goods, funeral services, burial site goods, and burial site services you selected." However, if the charge for "services of funeral director and staff" cannot be declined by the purchaser, the statement shall include the sentence "However, any funeral arrangements you select will include a charge for our basic services." between the second and third sentences of the sentences specified in this subdivision. The statement may include the phrase "and overhead" after the word "services" if the fee includes a charge for the recovery of unallocated funeral overhead. If the funeral provider does not include this disclosure statement, then the following disclosure statement must be placed in the statement of funeral goods, funeral services, burial site goods, and burial site services selected, as described in section 149A.71, subdivision 2, paragraph (f): "Charges are only for those items that you selected or that are required. If we are required by law or by a cemetery, alkaline hydrolysis facility, or crematory to use any items, we will explain the reasons in writing below." A funeral provider is not in violation of this subdivision by failing to comply with a request for a combination of goods or services which would be impossible, impractical, or excessively burdensome to provide.
It is a deceptive act or practice for a funeral provider to require as a condition of providing any funeral good or burial site good that the funeral good or burial site good be purchased by a consumer when rental of the good is practicable.
Minn. Stat. § 149A.73
1997 c 215 s 30; 2000 c 438 s 24-27; 2013 c 108 art 12 s 87-89