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Commissioner is: registered cemetery owner and operator
licensed funeral director and embalmers who have been
Commissioners are:
practicing for a minimum of 5 years.
4 commissioners are: members of the public with no ties to the industry regulated.
A dead human body can be there is no reasonable probablility of contact with a family
transported without the member.
presence of a licensed
Funeral Director if:
A deceased person may not within 48 hours of death without a specific waiver from the court.
be cremated:
After 24 hours a dead body embalmed, refrigerated, or sealed in a leak and odor proof
must be: container.
All records maintained in the for a minimum of 2 years.
funeral establishment:
Bodies may be held in 30 days
temporary receiving vault for
how long without being
considered disinterred?
Chapel must have: seating for ten, pulpit, podium, lecturn, adaquate room for a
casket.
Commission has 2 functions - ensure competent well qualified professionals are licensed to
first function: serve the public.
Commssions second function ensure that violations of law and regulations are aggressively
is: and fairly prosecuted.
Commissioners are appointed Governor of the State of Texas.
by
Commissioners term is for six years.
, presented at the same time as the General Price List
Consumer brochure is given
when: GPL and is on conspicuous display.
Continuing Education 16 hours in 2 years & 16 mandatory hours in ethics, state law & vital
Requirements - statistics.
Crematories are covered in 716
Chapter
Death Records are covered in 193
Chapter
a person who for compensation disinfects or preserves
Embalmer
a dead human body - must be licensed by the
commission
Embalmers must wear PPE - personal protective equipment and clothings
Embalming is not required by Texas state law
Embalming may be done a documented three hour attempt has been made to
without approval when: obtain approval - but even then authority is still NOT
assumed under the law.
Embalming REQUIRES to be performed, and to be charged.
approval
Excess funds must be within ten (10) days.
returned:
Fetal death certificate is for any fetus weighing 350 grams or after 20 weeks of gestation
required: period.
the beginning of the relationship and duty of a funeral
First call:
director to take charge of a dead human body -
must be initiated by the client.
acts of any person assocated with or arranging for the
Funeral directing:
disposition of human remains for compensation.
a person licensed under this chapter who engages in for
Funeral director: compensation or
represents to the public as being engaged in for
compensation the preparation other than
embalming of a dead human body.
18 years of age, high school or equlvalent, mortuary
Funeral director and embalmer school graduate, completed provisional licensing
must be:
program, scored 75 or better on required exam and
state law exam.
Funeral director may not in a commercial embalming establishment.
complete provisional