Any corporation registered with the [Securities and Exchange] Commission and authorized/licensed to sell or offer for sale Pre-Need Plans.  A Pre-Need Company may be a single plan (selling one type of Pre-Need Plan) or multi-plan (selling more than one (1) type of Pre-Need Plan). (New Rules on the Registration and Sale of Pre-Need Plans under Section 16 of the Securities Regulation Code, Rule 1.3) See also Pre-Need Plans.

Includes any corporation supervised and/or regulated by the SEC and is authorized or licensed to sell or offer for sale pre-need plans. Pre-need, plans are contracts which provide for the performance of future service(s) or payment of future monetary consideration at the time of actual need, payable either in cash or installment by the planholder at prices stated in the contract with or without interest or insurance coverage and includes life, pension, education, internment and other plans, which the Commission may, from time to time, approve. (Implementing Rules and Regulations of Republic Act No. 9160, also known a the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2001, Rule 3.a.3)