2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 37:832 — Louisiana state board of embalmers and funeral directors; appointments; terms of office

§832.  Louisiana State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors; appointments; terms of office

A.(1)  There is created within the Department of Health and Hospitals the Louisiana State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors that shall be subject to the provisions of R.S. 36:803.  

(2)  The board shall consist of seven members to be appointed by the governor, subject to Senate confirmation, as further provided in Subsection B of this Section.  All members of the board shall serve at the pleasure of the governor for terms of four years.  

B.(1)  The board shall include three licensed embalmers and three licensed funeral directors, all of whom shall have been residents of the state of Louisiana for at least five years and all of whom shall have had experience in their respective professions for at least five years.  Two such members shall be appointed from the state at large and the other four members shall be appointed as follows:

(a)  One member shall be a resident of District A, comprised of the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines.  

(b)  One member shall be a resident of District B, comprised of the parishes of Vernon, Rapides, Avoyelles, Concordia, Catahoula, LaSalle, Grant, Natchitoches, Sabine, DeSoto, Red River, Winn, Caldwell, Franklin, Tensas, Madison, Richland, Ouachita, Jackson, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Webster, Claiborne, Lincoln, Union, Morehouse, West Carroll, and East Carroll.  

(c)  One member shall be a resident of District C, comprised of the parishes of Beauregard, Allen, Evangeline, St. Landry, St. Martin, Iberia, St. Mary, Lafayette, Acadia, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Cameron, and Vermilion.  

(d)  One member shall be a resident of District D, comprised of the parishes of Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana, East Feliciana, St. Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington, St. Tammany, St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, Lafourche, Terrebonne, Assumption, Iberville, West Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Livingston, Ascension, and St. James.  

(2)  The board shall also include one member, appointed by the governor, who shall be sixty years of age or over and who shall serve as a representative of the elderly consumers of Louisiana.  The elderly member shall not be actively engaged in nor shall he be retired from the occupation, profession, or industry of funeral directors or embalmers.  The elderly member shall be a full voting member of the board, except that the elderly member shall not participate in the grading of individual examinations.  

C.  Each appointment shall be submitted to the Senate for confirmation.  Members of the board may serve two consecutive four-year terms.  However, at least one year shall elapse between the expiration of a member's second consecutive term and his appointment to a subsequent term.  When the governor removes a member and replaces him with another person, the replacement shall serve for the remainder of the removed member's term.  Such service shall constitute a four-year term for purposes of this Section.  

D.  Repealed by Acts 1988, No. 275, §2, eff. July 1, 1988.  

Acts 1963, No. 12, §1; Acts 1966, No. 19, §1, eff. June 15, 1966 at 10:30 A.M.; Acts 1977, No. 684, §2.  Acts 1984, No. 941, §1, eff. July 20, 1984; Acts 1986, No. 782, §1, eff. noon July 11, 1988; Acts 1988, No. 275, §§1, 2, eff. July 1, 1988; Acts 1990, No. 163, §1.  

{{NOTE:  SEE ACTS 1984, NO. 941, §2.}}

{{NOTE:  SEE ACTS 1986, NO. 782, §2.}}

{{NOTE:  SEE ACTS 1988, NO. 275, §3.}}

{{NOTE:  SEE ACTS 1990, NO. 163, §2.}}