A. Any place where a person shall hold forth by word or act that the person is engaged in the profession of undertaking or funeral directing shall be deemed as a funeral establishment and shall be licensed as such pursuant to the provisions of the Funeral Services Licensing Act.
B. A funeral establishment shall not do business in a location that is not licensed as a funeral establishment, shall not advertise a service that is available from an unlicensed location, and shall advertise itself by the name that the establishment is licensed as pursuant to the Funeral Services Licensing Act.
C. Every funeral establishment, commercial embalming establishment, and crematory shall be operated by a funeral director in charge. Each establishment license shall be conspicuously displayed at the location.
D. The Oklahoma Funeral Board shall have the power to inspect the premises in which funeral directing is conducted or where embalming or cremation is practiced or where an applicant proposed to practice, and the Board is hereby empowered to prescribe and endorse rules for reasonable sanitation of such establishments, including necessary drainage, ventilation, and necessary and suitable instruments for the business or profession of embalming and funeral directing.
E. Any place where a person shall hold forth by word or act that such person is engaged in preparing and shipping of dead human remains to funeral establishments inside and outside this state shall be deemed a commercial embalming establishment and shall be licensed as such pursuant to the provisions of the Funeral Services Licensing Act.
Added by Laws 1941, p. 238, § 13, emerg. eff. May 20, 1941. Amended by Laws 1945, p. 193, § 5, emerg. eff. April 28, 1945; Laws 1961, p. 455, § 5, emerg. eff. July 11, 1961; Laws 1970, c. 311, § 3, emerg. eff. April 27, 1970; Laws 1989, c. 297, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 1989; Laws 1999, c. 64, § 10, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2003, c. 57, § 12, emerg. eff. April 10, 2003.
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