(a) All payments of money made to any person, partnership, association or corporation upon any agreement or contract, or any series or combination of agreements or contract, but not including the furnishing of cemetery lots or mausoleums, which has for a purpose the furnishing or performance of funeral services or the furnishing or delivery of personal property, merchandise or services of any nature in connection with the final disposition of a dead human body for future use at a time determinable by the death of the person whose body is to be disposed of, are held to be trust funds. The person, partnership, association or corporation receiving the payments is declared to be a trustee thereof and shall deposit all payments in a trust account with an insured institution. All of the interest, dividends, increases or accretions of whatever nature earned by the funds deposited in a trust account shall remain with the principal of such account and become a part thereof, subject to all of the regulations concerning the principal of said fund herein contained.
(b) Except where payment is made pursuant to § 3403 of this title or the trust is established in accordance with § 3404 of this title, all payments made under the agreement, contract or plan are and shall remain trust funds with the insured institution until the death of the person for whose service the funds were paid and until the delivery of all merchandise and full performance of all services called for by the agreement, contract or plan.
(c) Except as provided in § 3404 of this title, the funds shall not be paid by the insured institution until a certified statement is furnished to the insured institution setting forth that all of the terms and conditions of the agreement have been fully performed by the person, association, partnership, firm or corporation. Any balance remaining in the fund after payment for the merchandise and services as set forth in the agreement, contract or plan shall be paid to the estate of the beneficiary of the agreement, contract or plan.
(d) Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to contracts for funeral service or merchandise sold as burial insurance policies which are regulated by the Insurance Department of this State.
24 Del. C. 1953, § 3121; 58 Del. Laws, c. 415, § 2; 63 Del. Laws, c. 145, § 1; 68 Del. Laws, c. 389, §§ 1, 2; 69 Del. Laws, c. 165, §§ 12, 13; 71 Del. Laws, c. 19, §§ 10, 12, 13.
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