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Funeral - ✔️✔️A ceremony for celebrating, sanctifying, or remembering the life of a
person who has died.
Funeral Arrangements - ✔️✔️The completing of funeral service arrangements,
cremation arrangements, and the financial details of a funeral at the time of death. The
term includes the collection of vital statistic information, death certificate information,
obituary and funeral notice completion, the completion of a statement of funeral goods
and services selected, organizing of funeral and memorial services for families, and the
ordering of cash advance items.
Funeral Directing - ✔️✔️The practice of directing or supervising funerals, the practice
of preparing dead human bodies for burial by means other than embalming, or the
preparation for the disposition of dead human bodies; the making of funeral
arrangements or providing for funeral services or the making of financial arrangements
for the rendering of these services; the provision or maintenance of a place for the
preparation for disposition of dead human bodies; or the use of the terms funeral
director, undertaker, mortician, funeral parlor, or any other term from which can be
implied the practice of funeral directing; or the holding out to the public that one is a
funeral director or engaged in a practice described in this subdivision.
Apprentice embalmer - ✔️✔️Any person engaged in the study of the art of embalming
under the instructions and supervision of a licensed embalmer practicing in this state.
APPRENTICE FUNERAL DIRECTOR - ✔️✔️Any person operating under or in
association with a funeral director for the purpose of learning the business or profession
of funeral director, to the end that he or she may become licensed under this chapter
Authorizing agent - ✔️✔️A person at least 18 years of age, except in the case of a
surviving spouse or parent, who is legally entitled to order the cremation or final
disposition of particular human remains.
Authorizing Agent Order - ✔️✔️1. Listed on dd form 93
2. Appointee on affidavit
3. Spouse
4. Sole child or majority of children
5. Sole grandchild or majority of grandchildren
6. Parents
7. Sole sibling or majority of siblings
, 8. Sole grandparents or majority of grandparents
9. Guardian at time of death
10. Personal representative of estate
11. Next degree of kinship
12. Public Officer
13. Any other person willing to assume responsibility
Board - ✔️✔️The Alabama Board of Funeral Service.
Cash Advance Items - ✔️✔️a. Cemetery or crematory services.
b. Pallbearers.
c. Public, or other, transportation.
d. Clergy honoraria.
e. Flowers.
f. Musicians or singers.
g. Nurses.
h. Obituary notices.
i. Funeral programs.
j. Gratuities.
k. Death certificates.
l. Outer burial containers.
m. Cemetery plots.
n. Escorts.
Cash Advance Items - ✔️✔️Any item of service or merchandise described to a
purchaser using the term cash advance, accommodation, cash disbursement, or similar
term. A cash advance item is also any item obtained from a third party and paid for by a
funeral provider on behalf of a purchaser.
Casket - ✔️✔️A rigid container designed for the encasement of human remains.
Cemetery - ✔️✔️A place dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the
permanent interment of human remains. It may be either land or earth interment; a
mausoleum for vault or crypt entombment; a structure or place used or intended to be
used for the interment of cremated remains; cryogenic storage; or any combination of
one or more thereof.
Cemetery Authority - ✔️✔️Any individual, person, firm, profit or nonprofit corporation,
trustee, partnership, society, religious society, church, association or denomination,
municipality, or other group or entity, however organized, insofar as they or any of them
may now or hereafter establish, own, operate, lease, control, or manage one or more
cemeteries, burial parks, mausoleums, columbariums, or any combination or variation
thereof, or hold lands or structures for burial grounds or burial purposes in this state and
engage in the operation of a cemetery, including any one or more of the following: The
care and maintenance of a cemetery; the interment, entombment, and memorialization
of the human dead in a cemetery; the sale, installation, care, maintenance, or any