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316.030 Embalmer's license -- Qualifications -- Funeral director's license -Qualifications -- Restriction on place of practice -- Apprenticeship.
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No person shall engage in, or attempt to engage in, embalming or funeral
directing in the Commonwealth of Kentucky unless the person is licensed
under the provisions of this chapter.
All Kentucky-licensed persons who practice embalming or funeral directing in
Kentucky shall practice from a funeral establishment that is licensed to operate
under the provisions of this chapter.
One (1) member of every firm, and one (1) officer and one (1) stockholder of
every corporation, that engages in embalming and funeral directing in
Kentucky, shall be a Kentucky-licensed embalmer and a Kentucky-licensed
funeral director.
One board shall issue an embalmer's license to an applicant who:
(a) Is at least eighteen (18) years of age;
(b) Is of good moral character;
(c) Has graduated from high school or possesses a High School Equivalency
Diploma;
(d) Has received an associate degree in funeral services from a college or
university accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service
Education;
(e) Has served an apprenticeship of one (1) year in a Kentucky funeral
establishment under the supervision of a Kentucky-licensed embalmer;
(f) Has taken an active part during the apprenticeship in assisting with the
embalming of at least twenty-five (25) dead human bodies under the
direct supervision of a Kentucky-licensed embalmer;
(g) Has paid to the board an examination fee of seventy-five dollars ($75);
and
(h) Has passed an examination prepared or approved by the board.
The board shall issue a funeral director's license to an applicant who:
(a) Is at least eighteen (18) years of age;
(b) Is of good moral character;
(c) Has graduated from high school or possesses a High School Equivalency
Diploma;
(d) Has served an apprenticeship of three (3) consecutive years in a
Kentucky funeral establishment under the supervision of a
Kentucky-licensed funeral director. An associate degree in funeral
services from a college or university accredited by the American Board of
Funeral Service Education shall substitute for two (2) years of the
apprenticeship. The completion of thirty (30) semester credit hours or the
equivalent from an accredited college or university shall substitute for one
(1) year of the apprenticeship. At no time shall more than two (2) years of
the apprenticeship be substituted;
(e) Has taken an active part during the apprenticeship in assisting with the
management of at least twenty-five (25) funerals under the direct
supervision of a Kentucky-licensed funeral director;
(f) Has paid to the board an examination fee of seventy-five dollars ($75);
and
(g) Has passed an examination prepared or approved by the board.
(6) An applicant may serve embalming and funeral directing apprenticeships
concurrently.
(7) At the beginning of an apprenticeship, an applicant for an embalmer's or a
funeral director's license shall:
(a) Appear before the board;
(b) Pay to the board a registration fee of thirty dollars ($30); and
(c) File with the board the sworn statement of the supervising
Kentucky-licensed embalmer or the Kentucky-licensed funeral director
averring that the applicant will work full-time under supervision in the
funeral establishment and will receive a regular salary.
(8) An applicant shall work full-time in the funeral establishment during the
apprenticeship and shall receive a regular salary.
(9) An applicant shall file with the board semiannually during the apprenticeship
sworn statements by the applicant and the supervising Kentucky-licensed
embalmer or Kentucky-licensed funeral director setting out the number of hours
worked, the number of embalmings or funerals in which the applicant has
assisted, and the salary received.
(10) A Kentucky-licensed embalmer or a Kentucky-licensed funeral director shall
not supervise more than five (5) applicants serving apprenticeships at any one
(1) time.
Effective:July 13, 2004
History: Amended 2004 Ky. Acts ch. 69, sec. 1, effective July 13, 2004. -Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 149, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended
1988 Ky. Acts ch. 125, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1970 Ky.
Acts ch. 120, sec. 9. -- Amended 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 52, sec. 3, effective June 16,
1960. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942,
from Ky. Stat. sec. 1599a-7.
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