A licensed funeral director employed by a licensed funeral home in South Carolina may be licensed as an agent for a life insurer doing business in this State. However, a funeral director licensed under this section may act only as an agent for a life insurer in connection with the funding of a preneed funeral contract under Chapter 7, Title 32. The amount of an insurance policy sold by a licensed funeral director licensed under this section may not exceed the amount of the preneed funeral contract as defined in Section 32-7-10(3). In addition to the filing and approval requirements of Section 38-61-20, a life insurer must file a sample policy to fund a preneed funeral contract with the South Carolina Board of Funeral Service. The board also shall maintain a list of all funeral directors licensed as insurance agents, the insurer each director represents, and the type of policy each director is licensed to sell. Except for a funeral director licensed under this title, no insurance agent, as defined in Section 38-1-20, or person, as defined in Section 38-1-20, shall sell any policy, as defined in Section 38-1-20, which has for its purposes the funding of any funeral services, or the furnishing or delivery of personal property, merchandise, services of any nature in connection with the final disposition of a dead human body, to be furnished or delivered at a time determinable by the death of a person whose body is to be disposed of, but does not mean the furnishing of a cemetery lot, crypt, niche, mausoleum, grave marker, or monument.

HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 38-55-330 [1962 Code Section 37-1233; 1964 (53) 2293] recodified as Section 38-57-240 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; Former 1976 Code Section 38-9-530 [1948 (45) 1947; 1952 Code Section 37-178; 1962 Code Section 37-178] recodified as Section 38-55-330 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; 1995 Act No. 67, Section 6; 2002 Act No. 313, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on June 6, 2002).