2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions And Occupations
Article 135. Mortuaries and Crematories
Section 12-135-112. Standards of practice - embalming - transporting.
(1) A funeral establishment that performs embalming shall:
Maintain a sanitary preparation room with sanitary flooring, drainage, and ventilation;
Employ universal biological hazard precautions;
Employ reasonable care to minimize the risk of transmitting communicable diseasesfrom human remains;
Be equipped with instruments and supplies necessary to protect the health and safetyof the public and employees of the funeral establishment; and
Transport human remains in a safe and sanitary manner.
(2) A funeral establishment that transports human remains shall:
(a) Use a motor vehicle that is appropriate for the transportation of human remains; and (b) Transport human remains in a safe and sanitary manner.
(3) A funeral establishment shall remove any implanted device in human remains before transporting the body to a crematory.
Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 949, § 1, effective October 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-54-112 as it existed prior to 2019.
