2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards
Chapter 385 - Embalmers and Funeral Directors
Section 20-220 - Requirements for engaging in funeral directing business. Exemption.

CT Gen Stat § 20-220 (2015) What's This?

Except as provided in section 20-223, no person shall carry on or engage in the business of funeral directing, or hold himself out to the public as a funeral director, unless he is licensed by the Department of Public Health as a funeral director and unless he owns his business of funeral directing or is an employee or member of a firm, partnership or corporation operating a funeral directing business at an established place of business, for which place of business there has been issued a certificate of inspection by said department as provided in section 20-222. Facilities that accept bodies for anatomical purposes pursuant to section 19a-270 are exempt from this section.

(1949 Rev., S. 4545; 1951, S. 2259d; P.A. 80-484, S. 90, 176; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 05-272, S. 33.)

History: P.A. 80-484 replaced “board”, i.e. board of examiners of embalmers and funeral directors, with references to department of health services; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 05-272 exempted facilities that accept bodies for anatomical purposes pursuant to Sec. 19a-270, effective July 13, 2005.

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