(a) A funeral director, undertaker or embalmer shall not permit any unlicensed person to engage in or take charge of the activities for which a license to engage in the business or practice of funeral directing, undertaking or embalming is required by the provisions of the Public Health Law.

(c) Every person, including a person acting lawfully in an emergency, in charge of a cemetery, crematory, vault or other place to which a dead human body is brought for temporary or permanent disposition shall require the person in charge of such body to identify himself/herself as a duly licensed and registered funeral director or undertaker or as a registered resident and to produce his/her current certificate of registration as such.

(d) In the event such burial or other disposition is not in the charge of a duly licensed and registered funeral director or undertaker or registered resident, the person in charge of the cemetery, crematory, vault or other place where dead human bodies are brought for temporary or permanent disposition shall immediately submit to the Department of Health the name and address of the person who had charge of the body at the time of burial or other disposition and the name and address of the funeral director, undertaker, registered resident or funeral firm for which such person was acting.

(e) In the event that a person other than a duly licensed and registered funeral director or undertaker shall make any arrangements for the purchase, sale of rental or funeral merchandise, services or paraphernalia accompanied by the representative of a decedent at a casket showroom, display room or other facility, the owner or manager of such facility shall immediately notify the Department of Health of the name and address of the person and of the funeral director, undertaker or funeral firm for which such person was acting.

(f) Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to require that a mere transporter, to whom or to which a dead human body has been duly released for the sole purpose of transportation or transfer, shall be a duly licensed and registered funeral director or undertaker or a registered resident.

(g) A funeral director, undertaker or funeral firm entering another state or a province of the Dominion of Canada, personally or by an agent or employee, pursuant to a reciprocal agreement between the State Commissioner of Health and such state or province, shall not violate any statute, code, rule or regulation of such state or province relating to the practice of funeral directing, undertaking or the equivalent thereof.

(h) A registered resident may only render the services described in this section under the supervision of the sponsor for his/her registration. A registered resident shall not have the authority to sign any form or document required by law which requires the signature of a licensed funeral director, or to make funeral arrangements or to own or manage a funeral firm.