§ 396.2. Definitions
Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 59. Professions and OccupationsEffective: November 1, 2021
Effective: November 1, 2021
59 Okl.St.Ann. § 396.2
§ 396.2. Definitions
As used in the Funeral Services Licensing Act:
4. “Apprentice” means a person who is engaged in learning the practice of embalming or the practice of funeral directing, as the case may be, under the instruction and personal supervision of a duly licensed embalmer or a duly licensed funeral director of and in the State of Oklahoma, pursuant to the provisions of the Funeral Services Licensing Act, and who is duly registered as such with said Board;
7. “First call” means the beginning of the relationship and duty of the funeral director to take charge of dead human remains and have such remains prepared by embalming, cremation, or otherwise, for burial or disposition, provided all laws pertaining to public health in this state are complied with. First call does not include calls made by ambulance, when the person dispatching the ambulance does not know whether or not dead human remains are to be picked up;
10. “Funeral service merchandise or funeral services” means those products and services normally provided by funeral establishments and required to be listed on the General Price List of the Federal Trade Commission, 15 U.S.C., Section 57a(a), including, but not limited to, the sale of burial supplies and equipment, but excluding the sale by a cemetery of lands or interests therein, services incidental thereto, markers, memorials, monuments, equipment, crypts, niches or outer enclosures;
12. “Funeral director in charge” means an individual licensed as both a funeral director and embalmer designated by a funeral service establishment, commercial embalming establishment, or crematory who is responsible for the legal and ethical operation of the establishment and is accountable to the Board;
14. “Cremation” means the technical process, using heat and flame, or heat and pressure, that reduces human remains to essential elements, including bone fragments. The reduction takes place through heat and evaporation. Cremation shall include, but not be limited to, the processing and pulverization of the bone fragments, or through alkaline hydrolysis;
Credits
Laws 1941, p. 625, § 3, emerg. eff. May 20, 1941; Laws 1963, c. 117, § 2, emerg. eff. May 31, 1963; Laws 1989, c. 297, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1989; Laws 1999, c. 64, § 2, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2003, c. 57, § 3, emerg. eff. April 10, 2003; Laws 2013, c. 97, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013; Laws 2021, c. 148, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2021.
59 Okl. St. Ann. § 396.2, OK ST T. 59 § 396.2
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 125 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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