Code of Virginia - Title 54.1 Professions And Occupations - Chapter 28 Funeral Services

54.1-2800 Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning: "Advertisement" means any information disseminated or placed before the public. "At-need" means at ...
54.1-2801 Exemptions
A. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any officer of local or state institutions or to the burial of the bodies of ...
54.1-2802 Board; appointment; terms; vacancies; meetings; quorum
The Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers shall consist of nine members as follows: seven funeral service licensees of the Board with at least five ...
54.1-2803 Specific powers and duties of Board
In addition to the general powers and duties conferred in this subtitle, the Board shall have the following specific powers and duties to: 1. Establish ...
54.1-2804 Licensing authority
The Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers is authorized to determine the qualifications to enable any person to engage in the practice of funeral service, ...
54.1-2805 Engaging in the practice of funeral services or the business of preneed funeral planning or acting ...
It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in or hold himself out as engaging in the practice of funeral services or the business ...
54.1-2806 Refusal, suspension or revocation of license
The Board may refuse to admit a candidate to any examination, refuse to issue a license to any applicant and may suspend a license for ...
54.1-2807 Other prohibited activities
A. A person licensed for the practice of funeral service shall not (i) remove or embalm a body when he has information indicating the death ...
54.1-2807.1 Confidentiality of information on infectious diseases
All information received by any person practicing funeral services or his agent regarding the fact that any dead body which they have received harbors an ...
54.1-2808 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1998, c. 867. ...
54.1-2808.1 Disposition of cremains
A funeral director may dispose of the cremains of an individual by interment, entombment, inurnment, or by scattering of the cremains, if after ninety days ...
54.1-2809 Penalties
Any person, partnership, corporation, association, or its agents or employees who violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a Class ...
54.1-2810 Licensure of funeral establishments
No person shall conduct, maintain, manage or operate a funeral establishment unless a license for each such establishment has been issued by the Board. No ...
54.1-2811 Facility requirements
A funeral service establishment shall contain a preparation room equipped with a tile, cement or other waterproof floor, proper drainage and ventilation, the necessary instruments ...
54.1-2812 Itemized statement and general price list of funeral expenses to be furnished
Every person licensed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall furnish a written general price list and a written itemized statement of charges in ...
54.1-2813 License for the practice of funeral service
To be licensed for the practice of funeral service, a person shall (i) be at least 18 years of age; (ii) hold a high school ...
54.1-2814 Examination
Each applicant for license for the practice of funeral service shall be examined in writing on: 1. Basic and health sciences including anatomy, chemistry, bacteriology, ...
54.1-2814.1 Registration as a cremator
A. No crematorium, cemeterian, memorial society, or other establishment, organization, or person shall cremate a dead human body without having registered with the Board as ...
54.1-2815 Application for license; how license signed; duration
All applications for examination for a license for the practice of funeral service shall be upon forms furnished by the Board. All licenses shall be ...
54.1-2816 License renewal; failure to return renewal form
Prior to the expiration of a license, the Board shall provide to each person licensed to practice funeral service, embalming, or funeral directing a renewal ...
54.1-2816.1 Continuing education requirements; promulgation of regulations
A. The Board shall promulgate regulations governing continuing education requirements for funeral services licensees, funeral directors and embalmers licensed by the Board. B. The Board ...
54.1-2817 Funeral service interns
A person desiring to become a funeral service intern shall apply on a form provided by the Board. The applicant shall attest that he holds ...
54.1-2818 Registration and display of licenses
A copy of all licenses shall be displayed in a conspicuous place in each establishment in which the licensee practices. (Code 1950, § 54-260.31; 1956, ...
54.1-2818.1 Prerequisites for cremation
No dead human body shall be cremated without (i) permission of the medical examiner as required by § 32.1-284 and either (ii) visual identification of ...
54.1-2818.2 Inapplicability to officers of state and local institutions
Nothing in this article shall be applicable to any officer of any institution operated by the Commonwealth or by any county, city or town in ...
54.1-2818.3 Applications for registration required
Any crematory shall apply for and receive a registration from the Board as a registered crematory. However, this section shall not supersede or restrict the ...
54.1-2819 Registration of surface transportation and removal services
Any person or private business, except a common carrier engaged in interstate commerce, the Commonwealth and its agencies, or an emergency medical services agency holding ...
54.1-2820 Requirements of preneed funeral contracts
A. It shall be unlawful for any person residing or doing business within this Commonwealth, to make, either directly or indirectly by any means, a ...
54.1-2821 Exemptions
This article shall not apply to the preneed sale of cemetery services or supplies regulated under Chapter 23.1 (§ 54.1-2310 et seq.) of this title. ...
54.1-2822 Deposit of money received pursuant to preneed funeral contract
A. Within 30 days following the receipt of any money paid pursuant to any preneed funeral contract or interest or income accrued thereon, unless such ...
54.1-2822.1 Funeral establishments to maintain preneed records
Every person selling preneed funeral contracts within this Commonwealth shall keep and maintain such records of preneed transactions, including copies of preneed contracts, as may ...
54.1-2823 Exemption from levy, garnishment and distress
Any money, personal property or real property paid, delivered or conveyed subject to § 54.1-2822 shall be exempt from levy, garnishment or distress. (1989, c. ...
54.1-2824 Declaration of trust in consideration other than money
Within thirty days following the receipt of any personal property other than money delivered pursuant to any preneed funeral contract, the person receiving it, if ...
54.1-2825 Person to make arrangements for disposition of remains
Any person may designate in a signed and notarized writing, which has been accepted in writing by the person so designated, an individual who shall ...

Last modified: April 3, 2009