Funeral Director Law
Funeral Director Law - answer Act 160 of 1970
Funeral Director Law - answer To provide for the better protection of life and health of
the citizens of this Commonwealth by requiring and regulating the examination,
licensure and registration of persons and registration of corporations engaging in the
care, preparation and disposition of the bodies of deceased persons, and providing
penalties; providing for a State Board of Funeral Directors in the Department of State,
and repealing other laws. (Title amended
July 31, 1968, P.L.1008, No.295)
Funeral Director - answer any person engaged in the profession of a funeral director or
in the care and disposition of the human dead, or in the practice of
disinfecting and preparing by embalming the human dead for the funeral service, burial
or cremation, or the supervising of the burial, transportation or disposal of deceased
human bodies, or in the practice of funeral directing or embalming as presently known,
whether under these titles or designation or otherwise.
Funeral Director - answera person who makes arrangements for funeral service and
who sells funeral merchandise to the public incidental to such service or who makes
financial arrangements for the rendering of such services and the sale of such
merchandise.
Board - answerState Board of Funeral Directors in the Department of
State.
Department - answerDepartment of State of this Commonwealth.
Resident Intern - answerany person operating under or with a funeral
director for the purpose of learning the profession, to the end that he may become a
licensed funeral director. The term shall also include a student apprentice serving as
such on the effective date of this act under any law repealed hereby.
Student Trainee - answerany person accepted for matriculation at a mortuary college or
university specializing in mortuary subjects which have been approved by the American
Board of Funeral Service Education, Inc.
Funeral Establishment - answerevery place or premise approved by the
State Board of Funeral Directors wherein a licensed funeral director conducts the
professional practice of funeral directing including the preparation, care and funeral
services for the human dead.
, Preceptor - answerlicensed funeral director under or with whom a resident intern is
registered and operates
School of Embalming - answera mortuary college, institute or university offering a
course of actual class work in didactic and laboratory studies in a
manner accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service Education, Inc.
Profession - answerthe aggregate of all funeral service licensees and their duties and
responsibilities in connection with the funeral as funeral directors licensed under this
act.
Advertisement - answermean the publication, dissemination, circulation or placing
before the public, or causing directly or indirectly to be made, published,
disseminated or placed before the public any announcement or statement in a
newspaper, magazine or other publication, or in the form of a book, notice, stationery,
circular, pamphlet, letter, handbill, poster, bill, calendar, sign, placard, cards, labels or
tags or
over any radio or television station whenever applicable to any rules and regulations
approved by the board.
Full-Time Supervisor - answera licensed funeral director who is a registered supervisor
of no more than one funeral establishment and who is accessible to
serve the public at the funeral establishment which he is supervising and is not engaged
in any activity, business or profession, including assisting other funeral directors, which
substantially interferes with or prevents the supervision of the practice carried on by the
funeral establishment which he supervises.
Application for License; Qualifications of Applicants - answerAny person not holding a
license to practice the profession of a funeral director and desiring to practice such
profession in this Commonwealth shall make application for examination and licensure
to the board, upon a form furnished by it, and shall accompany the application by such
fee as may be fixed by the department.
Application for License; Qualifications of Applicants - answerEach applicant shall be a
citizen of the United States, at least twenty-one (21) years of age, and a graduate of an
approved high school of this Commonwealth or have an education equivalent thereto
under the rules and regulations of the board.
Application for License; Qualifications of Applicants - answereach applicant shall have
successfully completed a course
of actual class work in didactic and laboratory studies in a school of embalming for a
period to be fixed by the board at not less than nine hundred (900) hours nor more than
twenty-four hundred (2400) hours, and shall have completed two years as a resident
trainee.
Funeral Director Law - answer Act 160 of 1970
Funeral Director Law - answer To provide for the better protection of life and health of
the citizens of this Commonwealth by requiring and regulating the examination,
licensure and registration of persons and registration of corporations engaging in the
care, preparation and disposition of the bodies of deceased persons, and providing
penalties; providing for a State Board of Funeral Directors in the Department of State,
and repealing other laws. (Title amended
July 31, 1968, P.L.1008, No.295)
Funeral Director - answer any person engaged in the profession of a funeral director or
in the care and disposition of the human dead, or in the practice of
disinfecting and preparing by embalming the human dead for the funeral service, burial
or cremation, or the supervising of the burial, transportation or disposal of deceased
human bodies, or in the practice of funeral directing or embalming as presently known,
whether under these titles or designation or otherwise.
Funeral Director - answera person who makes arrangements for funeral service and
who sells funeral merchandise to the public incidental to such service or who makes
financial arrangements for the rendering of such services and the sale of such
merchandise.
Board - answerState Board of Funeral Directors in the Department of
State.
Department - answerDepartment of State of this Commonwealth.
Resident Intern - answerany person operating under or with a funeral
director for the purpose of learning the profession, to the end that he may become a
licensed funeral director. The term shall also include a student apprentice serving as
such on the effective date of this act under any law repealed hereby.
Student Trainee - answerany person accepted for matriculation at a mortuary college or
university specializing in mortuary subjects which have been approved by the American
Board of Funeral Service Education, Inc.
Funeral Establishment - answerevery place or premise approved by the
State Board of Funeral Directors wherein a licensed funeral director conducts the
professional practice of funeral directing including the preparation, care and funeral
services for the human dead.
, Preceptor - answerlicensed funeral director under or with whom a resident intern is
registered and operates
School of Embalming - answera mortuary college, institute or university offering a
course of actual class work in didactic and laboratory studies in a
manner accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service Education, Inc.
Profession - answerthe aggregate of all funeral service licensees and their duties and
responsibilities in connection with the funeral as funeral directors licensed under this
act.
Advertisement - answermean the publication, dissemination, circulation or placing
before the public, or causing directly or indirectly to be made, published,
disseminated or placed before the public any announcement or statement in a
newspaper, magazine or other publication, or in the form of a book, notice, stationery,
circular, pamphlet, letter, handbill, poster, bill, calendar, sign, placard, cards, labels or
tags or
over any radio or television station whenever applicable to any rules and regulations
approved by the board.
Full-Time Supervisor - answera licensed funeral director who is a registered supervisor
of no more than one funeral establishment and who is accessible to
serve the public at the funeral establishment which he is supervising and is not engaged
in any activity, business or profession, including assisting other funeral directors, which
substantially interferes with or prevents the supervision of the practice carried on by the
funeral establishment which he supervises.
Application for License; Qualifications of Applicants - answerAny person not holding a
license to practice the profession of a funeral director and desiring to practice such
profession in this Commonwealth shall make application for examination and licensure
to the board, upon a form furnished by it, and shall accompany the application by such
fee as may be fixed by the department.
Application for License; Qualifications of Applicants - answerEach applicant shall be a
citizen of the United States, at least twenty-one (21) years of age, and a graduate of an
approved high school of this Commonwealth or have an education equivalent thereto
under the rules and regulations of the board.
Application for License; Qualifications of Applicants - answereach applicant shall have
successfully completed a course
of actual class work in didactic and laboratory studies in a school of embalming for a
period to be fixed by the board at not less than nine hundred (900) hours nor more than
twenty-four hundred (2400) hours, and shall have completed two years as a resident
trainee.
