The purposes of the corporation shall be to bring together a voluntary group of Roman Catholic cemetery personnel included in Regions VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, and XIII of the United States as determined by the United States Catholic Conference, and the four Western Provinces of Canada:

1. To foster the Christian concepts of interment in its full aesthetic and traditional dimensions in accordance with the best of contemporary Catholic theological thought;

2. To combine efforts to meet, in its many forms, the modern challenge to the Catholic cemetery;

3. To provide an opportunity for the discussion of matters of mutual concern to the participating Catholic cemeteries;

4. To promote a high standard of cemetery management and operation in the service of the Catholic community;

5. To carry out research on problems of the Catholic cemetery and to make recommendations for prudent action based on that research;

6. To collaborate with associated industries in upgrading the standards of service and improving community regard for our common endeavors;

7. To cooperate with other associations and cemeteries, Catholic and non-sectarian, to promote these and similar aims on a regional or national basis; and

8. To engage in any other lawful activity which may hereafter be authorized from time to time by the Board of Directors; provided, however, that the purposes for which the corporation is formed shall at all times be consistent with Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenues Code of 1986 (the "Code"), as it now exists of as hereafter amended, including within such purposes the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under Section 501 (c)(3) of the Code.

adopted August 1994