Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-11


STATE BOARD OF UNDERTAKE
ERS, WITH EXAMINATION AND
LICENSE.
The State Board of Undertakes of
this State has prepared two bills for
presentation to the Legislature at the
coming session.
The first is a short measure, and its
effect is to exempt funeral directors
and undertakers from jury service.
The second bill provides for the
creation of a State Board Of Under
takers, with systematic examination,
registration and license and providing
suitable penalties.
The first section authorizes the Gov
ernor, with the advice and consent OF
the Senate, to appoint Board of five
persons who shall be practicing under
takers, to constitute a State Board of
Undertakers, one of said appointees to
hold Office for one year, one for two
ytdIS, anu 0O OA up W 11fO ) Sc'A ., VIZ
Governor to fill vacancies by appoint
ment on recommendation Of the Board,
and vacancies to be filled by eXpira-
ton of terms in like manner, for three
year terms.
Sec. 2 provides for an oath, and en-
powers the Board to elect officers and
adopt regulations.
Sec fixes the salary at not less
than two dollars for each meeting
and the Secretary to receive not less
than $500 and travelling expenses.
Sec. 4 requires the Board to meet
at least once every year, but provides
for special meetings.
Sec 5. 1t shall be the duty of any
person, persons or corporation en-
gagged in the business of undertaking,
care, preparation, disposition and
burial of the dead at the time of the
passage of this act, to cause within
six months after the passage of this
act, her, their or his name or names,
residence and place of business to be
registered with said Board, whose Sec
rotary shall keep book for the pur-
pose, and enter such registration there
in upon the payment of fee OF ten
dollars and transcript from said book
certified to by the secretary with the
common seal of said Board, shall be
evidence in any court in this State,
to adopt and use a common seal and
issue such certificates.
Sec. 6. Before any person, persons
or corporation shall hereafter engage
in the business of undertaking in the
State of West Virginia, in their own
name and on their own account, and
before amy person, persons or corpora
tons now engaged in said business,
who shall have failed to register with
said Board in accordance with Sec
of this Act shall continue in said
business, such persons comprising
such corporations shall apply to said
Board for a license to practice the
same; whereupon the applicant, as
aforesaid, shall present himself or her
self before said Board at a
time and place to be fixed
by said Board, and if the
Board shall find upon due examination
that the applicant or applicants are of
| good moral character, possessed of
skill and knowledge of the said bust
ness of undertaking, and have a rea-
sonable knowledge of sanitation, pre-
| servation of the dead, disinfecting the
body of deceased persons, the apart
ment, clothing and bedding in cases
diseases, the Board shall issue to said
applicant or applicants upon payment
of fee of twenty-five dollars, a license
TO practice said business of undertake
ing, and shall register such applicant
or applicants as duly licensed under
takers.
Said Board shall have power at any
time to revoke any licenses thereto
fore granted, on proper causes and
after full hearing of all the parties in
interest.
"Such license shall be signed by a
majority of the Board and attested by
its seal. All persons receiving such
license who shall register before said
Board, as provided in Sec. of this
Act, shall also register the fact at the
office of the Board of Health of the
city in which it is proposed to carry
on said business, and any person, per-
sons or corporation obtaining license
under this section shall register that
fact at the office of the Board of
Health of the city or County Clerk in
which it is proposed to carry on said
business and shall display said license
in a conspicuous place in the Office
of the place of business of such
lieensee.
Sec. Z. ANY persons. persons. cor