Approved Code No. 884-Amendment No. 1 Registry No. 17 4 9-04 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

FUNERAL SERVICE INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON JULY 24, 1934 

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WASHINGTON: 1934 

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Approved Code No. 384-Amendment No. 1 

Al\'IENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

FUNERAL SERVICE INDUSTRY 

As Approved on July 24, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT OF ConE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE 

FuNERAL SERVICE INDUSTRY 

An application having been duly made pursuant to and in full 

compliance with the provisions of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, for approval of an amendment to a Code of Fair Competition for the Funeral Service Industry, and opportunity to be heard having been duly given thereon 

and the annexed report on said amendment, containing findings with 

respect thereto having been made and directed to the President: 

NO\V, THEREFORE, on behalf of the President of the United 

States, I , Hugh S. Johnson, Administrator for Industrial Recovery, 

pursuant to authority Yested in me by Executive Orders of the 

President, including Executive Order No. 6543-A, dated December 

30, 1933, and otherwise; do hereby incorporate, by reference, said 

annexed report and do find that said amendment and the Code as 

constituted after being amended comply in all respects with the 

pertinent provisions and will promote the policy and purposes o£ 

said Title of said Act, and do hereby order that said amendment be 

and it is hereby approved, and that the previous approval of said 

Code is hereby modified to include an approval of said Code in its 

entirety as amended. 

HuGHS. JonNsoN, 

Administrator f or I ndustrial R ecovery. 

Approval recommended: 

GEo. L. BERRY, 

Division Administrator. 

"\VASHI~GTON, D.C., 

July 24, 1934. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

Sm: An application has been duly made pursuant to and in full 

compliance with the provisions of the National Industrial Recovery 

Act, for an amendment to the Code of Fair Competition for the 

Funeral Service Industry, submitted by the Code Authority for the 

Funeral Service Industry. 

The purpose and effect of the amendment are to authorize the 

Code Authority to submit a budget and method of assessment upon 

which funds shall be contributed by members of the Industry. 

FINDINGS 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to me on said amendment to said Code having found as herein set forth and on the basis 

of all the proceedings in this matter : 

I find that: 

(a) The amendment to said Code and the Code as amended are 

well designed to promote the policies and purposes of Title I of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act including the removal of obstructions to the free flow of interstate and foreign commerce which tend 

to diminish the amount thereof7 and will provide for the general 

welfare by promoting the organization of industry for the purpose 

of cooperative action among trade groups, by inducing and maintaining united action of labor and management under adequate governmental sanction and supervision, by eliminating unfair competitive practices, by promoting the fullest possible utilization of the 

present productive capacity of the industries, by avoiding undue 

restrictions of production (except as may be temporarily required), 

by increasing the consumption of industrial and agricultural products through increasing purchasing power, by reducing and relieving 

unemployment, by improving standards of labor, and by otherwise 

rehabilitating industry. 

(b) The Code as amended complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of said Title of said Act, including without limitation Subsection (a) of Section 3, Subsection (a) of Section 7 and 

Sub ection (b) of Section 10 thereof. 

(c) The Code empowers the Code Authority to present the aforesaid amendment on behalf of the industry as a whole. 

(d) The Amendment and the Code as amended are not de igned to 

and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

(e) The Am ndment and the Code as amended are not desiD"ned 

to and will not eliminate or oppre small enterpri es and will not 

operate to eli criminate against them. 

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(f) Those engaged in oth r steps of the economic process have not 

been deprived of th rio·ht to be heard pri r to ar proval of said 

Amendment. 

For these r asons, therefore, I have approved this Amendment. 

Respectfully, 

H um-r S. JoHNSON, 

· Ad1ninistrator. 

JULY 24, 1934. 
.AJ\1ENDl\1ENT TO CODE OF FAIR COl\fPETITION FOR 

THE FUNERAL SERVICE INDUSTRY 

r ( 1) Amend Article VI by inserting a new section to be known as 

Section 8 as follows : 

"8 (a) It being found necessary in order to support the administration of this code and to maintain the standards of fair competition established hereunder and to effectuate the policy of the Act, the 

Code Authority is authorized: 

"(1) To incur such reasonable obligations as are necessary and 

proper for the foregoing purposes and to meet such obligations out 

of funds which may be rai eel as hereinafter provided and which 

shall be held in trust for thP purposes of the code; u (2) To submit to the Administrator for his approval, subject to 

such notice and opportunity to be heard as he may deem necessary 

(1) an itemized budget of its estimated expenses for the foregoing 

purposes, and (2) an equitable basis upon which the funds necessary 

to upport such budget hall be contributed by members of the 

indu try; 

"(3) After such budget and basis of contribution have been approved by the Administrator, to determine and obtain equitable contribution as above set forth by all members of the industry, and to 

that end, if necessary, to institute legal proceedings therefor in its 

own name. 

"(b) Each member of the industry shall be liable for his or its 

equitable contribution to the expenses of the maintenance of the 

Code Authority, determined as hereinabove provided, and ubject to 

rules and regulations pertaining thereto issued by the Administrator. Only members of the industry complying with the Code and 

contributing to the expenses of its administration as hereinabove 

provided, (unless duly exempted from making such contributions) 

shall be entitled to participate in the selection of members of the 

Code Authority or to receive the benefits of any of its voluntary 

activities or to make use of any emblem or insignia of the National 

Recovery Aclmini tration. 

' (c) The Code Authority shall neither incur nor pay any obligation substantially in excess of the amount thereof a e timated in 

it approYed budget, and shall in no event exceed the total amount 

contained in the approv d budo·et except upon approval of the 

A 1mini trator fir t obtained; and no ub equent buclo·et hall con- tain any deficien y item for expenditure in cxc _ of prior buclaet 

timat ~ xc pt tho e \vhich th Admini trator shall have so 

appro-ve l.' 

(2) Am n l rticle \I, Se tion G, by del ting sub- ection ( 0'). 

Approv d Code ' o. 3 4--Am nc1ment No. 1. 

R gi try 10. 1749- 04. 

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