2025 Code of Georgia
Title 43 - Professions and Businesses (Chs. 1 — 51)
Chapter 18 - Funeral Directors and Establishments, Embalmers, and Crematories (Arts. 1 — 2)
Article 1 - Funeral Directors and Establishments, Embalmers, and Crematories (Pts. 1 — 4)
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Notes
Editor’s notes.Ga. L. 1990, effective April 11, 1990, repealed the Code sections formerly codified at this article and enacted the current article. The former article, pertaining to funeral directors, embalmers, and operators of funeral establishments, consisted of Code Sections 43-18-1 through 43-18-8 (Part 1 of Article 1), 43-18-20 through 43-18-23 (Part 2 of Article 1), 43-18-40 through 43-18-50 (Part 3 of Article 1), and 43-18-70 through 43-18-77 (Part 4 of Article 1). These Code sections were based on Ga. L. 1899, p. 70, §§ 1-9; Civil Code 1910, §§ 1712-1720; Penal Code 1910, § 411; Ga. L. 1916, p. 77, §§ 1, 3; Ga. L. 1925, p. 188, § 2; Ga. L. 1933, p. 132, §§ 1, 2, 5, 6, 9; Code 1933, §§ 84-801 — 84-812, 84-816, 84-819 — 84-823, 84-827 — 84-829, 84-9912, 84-9913; Ga. L. 1935, p. 485, §§ 1-3; Ga. L. 1943, p. 307, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1950, p. 238, §§ 1-14, 17-20, 24-29; Ga. L. 1959, p. 359, § 1; Ga. L. 1960, p. 806, §§ 1-10; Ga. L. 1966, p. 377, § 1; Ga. L. 1967, p. 811, § 1; Ga. L. 1975, p. 1152, § 1; Ga. L. 1976, p. 233, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1002, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1359, §§ 1-4; Ga. L. 1980, p. 1097, §§ 2-6; Code 1981, § 43-18-8; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 43; Ga. L. 1984, p. 511, §§ 1-3.
Ga. L. 1990, p. 1372, § 2, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “nothing in this Act shall prohibit any funeral home director to conduct business outside of his or her county of residence.”
Research References & Practice Aids
Cross references.Disposition of dead bodies generally, T. 31, C. 21.
Administrative rules and regulations.Organization, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Georgia State Board of Funeral Service, Chapter 250-1.
Hierarchy Notes:O. C. G. A. Title 43
O. C. G. A. Title 43, Ch. 18
