Section 333.011

Title XXII OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS

Chapter 333

Effective - 28 Aug 2007, 3 histories, see footnote (history) 

  333.011.  Definitions. — As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise, the following terms have the meanings indicated:

  (1) "Board", the state board of embalmers and funeral directors created by this chapter;

  (2) "Embalmer", any individual licensed to engage in the practice of embalming;

  (3) "Funeral director", any individual licensed to engage in the practice of funeral directing;

  (4) "Funeral establishment", a building, place, crematory, or premises devoted to or used in the care and preparation for burial or transportation of the human dead and includes every building, place or premises maintained for that purpose or held out to the public by advertising or otherwise to be used for that purpose;

  (5) "Person" includes a corporation, partnership or other type of business organization;

  (6) "Practice of embalming", the work of preserving, disinfecting and preparing by arterial embalming, or otherwise, of dead human bodies for funeral services, transportation, burial or cremation, or the holding of oneself out as being engaged in such work;

  (7) "Practice of funeral directing", engaging by an individual in the business of preparing, otherwise than by embalming, for the burial, disposal or transportation out of this state of, and the directing and supervising of the burial or disposal of, dead human bodies or engaging in the general control, supervision or management of the operations of a funeral establishment.

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(L. 1965 p. 522 § 1, A.L. 2007 S.B. 272)