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2022 New York Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 34 - Funeral Directing
Title 2 - Licensing and Registration
3421 - Funeral Directing; Requirements for License to Practice.

Universal Citation:
NY Pub Health L § 3421 (2022)
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§ 3421. Funeral directing; requirements for license to practice. 1. In
order  to  be  licensed, an applicant for licensure shall pass a funeral
directing  examination  prepared  or  approved  by  the  department   to
determine  his  knowledge  and  fitness  therefor,  as  required by this
article. No person shall be permitted to enter funeral director  school,
apply  for  a  funeral  directing  examination  or  apply  for a funeral
directing license without  submitting  to  the  department  satisfactory
evidence of good moral character.
  2. Except as provided in subdivision three, the department shall admit
to examination any applicant who pays a fee of forty dollars and submits
evidence  subscribed and affirmed as true under the penalties of perjury
and satisfactory to the department that the applicant:

(a) is a citizen of the United States or a noncitizen lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States;

(b) has satisfactorily completed a course of collegiate level study in funeral service, the curriculum of which has been approved by the department, consisting of not less than ninety quarter credits or sixty semester credits in an institution or institutions approved by the department or an accrediting agency recognized by the department;

(c) has upon entering an approved institution as herein provided for the purpose of beginning his funeral service study, registered as a student with the department upon a form to be provided by the department, and has paid to the department a registration fee of fifty dollars. 3. Delay in registering as a student as herein required may be excused, in the discretion of the commissioner. 4. The department shall issue a license to practice funeral directing to an applicant for such license on the basis of the following procedures:

(a) who shall have successfully passed the examination as herein provided in subdivision one of this section, and

(b) who pays a fee of one hundred twenty-five dollars, and

(c) who, after having passed such examination, serves a one year period as a registered resident in a manner satisfactory to the department, and

(d) who, has passed a second examination after or during the serving of a one year period as a registered resident. The said examination shall be on the New York state laws, rules and regulations relating to funeral directing and shall be prepared or approved by the department of health.

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