Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-05-06
CHAPTER 417-H. F. No. sos
A BILL

Minnesota Statutes of 1927, Sec
tons 5S17, 1913, 1919, $500, 1921
and 1922, relating to the business
or practice of Embalming and/or
Funeral Directing, the regulation
thereof, and the licensing and
registration of persons engaged
therein; and providing for the
appointment of a committee of
examiners by the State Board of
Health.
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of
the State of Minnesota:
Section l. That Mason's Mime
sofa Statutes of 1927, Section 5817,
be amended so as to read as follows:
"5817. No person shall embalm
any dead human body or practice
embalming, direct or supervise
funerals in the State Of Minnesota
without being licensed by the State
Board Of Health, except as herein
after provided.
For the purposes Of this Act, the
following definitions shall be adopt
ed and understood to be included
within the meaning Of this Act:
(a) Any person who shall embalm
dead human bodies, or who shall
take charge Of the remains Of those
dead Of any communicable disease,
or prepare dead human bodies for
shipment, or hold himself out to do
any Of the above acts by advertising
or any other means, shall be de-
fined as and construed to be prac-
ticing embalming;
CD Any person who engages for
compensation in the following prac-
tees, to-wit: directing or supervis-
ing funerals, or the business or
practice of preparing dead human
bodies for burial by means other
than embalming, or the disposition
of dead human bodies, or the pro-
vision or maintenance Of a place
for the preparation for disposition
or for the care or disposition Of
dead human bodies, or the use In
connection with such business Of
the word or term funeral director" +,
undertaken" "mortician", or any
other word or term from which can
be implied the business Of funeral
directing, or the holding out to the
public that one is funeral di-
rector, shall be defined as and con-
strued to be practicing funeral di-
recting, provided, however, that the
word person" as used herein shall
apply only to natural person.
Co An "embalmer" Is any person
who has secured a license to engage
in the practices hereinbefore set
forth;
Cd A funeral director" Is any
person who has secured license to
engage in the practices hereinbe-
fore set forth;
(e) An apprentice funeral direc-
tor" is any person engaged in the
learning of the practice OF funeral
directing under the instruction and
personal supervision Of a duly Ii
censed and registered funeral di-
rector under the provisions of this
Act; provided, that no persons shall
serve or attempt to serve as such
apprentice funeral director under
any such funeral director until he
has filed a registration thereof with
the board;
Cd An apprentice embalmer" Is
anv person engaged in the learning
of the practice of embalming under
the instruction and personal super
vision Of a duly licensed and reg
istered embalmer under the pro-
visions of this Act; provided, how
ever, that no person shall serve or
attempt to serve as such apprentice
einbalmer under any such embalmer
until he has filed a registration
thereof with the board;
(g) An apprentice funeral direc-
tor and/or embalmer may serve his
apprenticeship concurrently under
the direction and instruction OF any
person duly licensed and registered
as an embalmer and/or funeral di-
rector under the provisions of this
Act, provided that such concurrent
apprenticeship shall not be served
unless such apprentice has filed a
thereof with the board"
Section 2. That Mason's Mime
sofa Statutes Of 1927, Section 1913,
be amended so as to read as fol-
lows:
1918. The State Board Of Health
Of the State Of Minnesota is hereby
authorized and empowered to eX-
anime all applicants for license to
practice embalming and/or funeral
and to determine whether
or not such applicants possess the
qualifications to practice