Sections
26 entriesSection 7615Defines a “funeral director” as a person engaged in, conducting, or representing involvement in preparing, directing, or supervising transportation, burial, or other…Section 7616Defines a licensed funeral establishment as a fixed-address business for funeral preparation and disposition with storage or preparation facilities. Nearby commonly owned…Section 7616.2Requires every licensed funeral establishment to employ a licensed funeral director at all times to manage, direct, or control its business or…Section 7617Requires a licensed funeral establishment’s business to be conducted at a fixed place or facility and prohibits any person or organization from…Section 7617.1Requires a funeral-establishment license applicant to be at least 18 years old and to have committed no acts or crimes constituting grounds…Section 7618Requires an application for a funeral director’s license to be written on a bureau-provided form, verified by the applicant, accompanied by the…Section 7619Requires a funeral-director license applicant to be at least 18 years old, possess an associate of arts or science degree, an equivalent…Section 7619.3Prohibits a licensed funeral director from engaging in, conducting, or holding themselves out as conducting funeral-director activities unless the director is employed…Section 7622Requires an individual to pass an examination before receiving a funeral director license covering signs and determination of death; laws governing preparation,…Section 7622.2Prohibits any person from opening or maintaining a place or establishment for engaging in or conducting funeral-director activities, or from holding themselves…Section 7622.5Requires an applicant taking the referenced funeral-director examination to pay the funeral director’s examination fee established by the chapter. Payment of that…Section 7623Requires an applicant who proposes to engage in or conduct more than one funeral establishment to file a separate application and obtain…Section 7624Limits each specific funeral facility to one person, partnership, association, corporation, or other organization transacting business there as a funeral establishment. More…Section 7625Requires the bureau, upon receiving a license application, to investigate the proposed funeral establishment’s physical status or plans and the applicant’s other…Section 7626Requires the bureau to examine and decide a license applicant’s qualifications regarding ability and experience before considering the physical status, plans, or…Section 7626.5Requires a hearing held to determine whether a license application should be granted to follow the specified Government Code administrative-hearing procedures. The…Section 7627Requires every funeral-director license application to be granted or refused within 90 days after filing. If a hearing is held on the…Section 7628Requires a person or entity seeking to move a licensed funeral establishment to apply on bureau forms and pay the chapter-set fee.…Section 7629Prohibits a funeral establishment from operating or advertising under a name that could mislead the public or is sufficiently similar to another…Section 7630Allows assignment of a funeral-establishment license after fee, application, independent CPA audit, and funding trust shortages. If estate matters or litigation involving…Section 7631Allows the bureau, after a licensed funeral director’s death, to issue the estate’s legal representative a temporary establishment license unless the representative…Section 7632Requires a funeral director to ensure all human remains embalmed in or at the direction of the funeral establishment are embalmed by…Section 7633Prohibits a funeral director from charging a fee for filing a death certificate or furnishing copies that exceeds the fees set by…Section 7634Allows a licensed embalmer, at a licensed physician’s request, to remove tissue from human remains for transplant, therapeutic, or scientific purposes under…Section 7635Requires a funeral-establishment employee or agent who consults with a deceased person’s family or representatives to arrange specified services to receive documented…Section 7636Requires a person associated within the preceding 10 years with a bureau license or registration that was revoked, suspended, placed on probation,…