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MS Code § 73-11-56 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 11 - Practice of Funeral Service and Funeral Directing|State Board of Funeral Service|§ 73-11-56. Schedule of fees

 On or before October 1 of each year, the board shall determine the amount of funds that will be required during the next ensuing two (2) years to properly administer the laws which the board is directed to enforce and administer and by rule and regulation shall fix fees in such reasonable sums as may be necessary for such purposes within the following limitations:   Funeral establishment:   Application fee, for a new or change of   ownership establishment. . . . .$ 500.00   Inspection fee. . . . .$ 75.00   Renewal application and licensee fee. . . . .$ 300.00   Commercial mortuary service license fee   for a new or change of ownership. . . . .$ 500.00   Renewal application and licensee fee. . . . .$ 300.00   Crematory application fee for a new   or change of ownership. . . . .$ 500.00   Renewal application and license fee. . . . .$ 300.00   Special work permit. . . . .$ 150.00   Funeral service:   Initial application fee. . . . .$ 50.00   Reciprocal application fee. . . . .$ 200.00   Renewal license and application fee. . . . .$ 125.00   Work permit. . . . .$ 50.00   Funeral director:   Initial application fee. . . . .$ 50.00   Reciprocal application fee. . . . .$ 200.00   Renewal license and application fee. . . . .$ 100.00   Work permit. . . . .$ 50.00   Certified crematory operator:   Initial application fee. . . . .$ 100.00   Renewal license and application fee. . . . .$ 100.00   Resident trainee certificate:   Funeral service application fee. . . . .$ 50.00   Funeral director application fee. . . . .$ 50.00   Funeral service renewal application fee. . . . .$ 50.00   Funeral director renewal application fee. . . . .$ 50.00   Other fees:   Certification fee. . . . .$ 50.00   Duplicate license fee. . . . .$ 25.00   Reinstatement of lapsed license fee, equal to the   amount of the applicable license fee (or the amount of   the application fee for the resident trainees).   Late fee equal to the amount of the applicable   license fee (or the amount of the application fee   for the resident trainees).   Public records of the board per page. . . . .$ 1.00   All licenses will have a reinstatement and late fee added to the renewal fee if the payment is not in the board's office or postmarked by the due date.   At least thirty (30) days prior to the expiration date of any license issued by the board, the board shall notify the licensee of the applicable renewal fee therefor.
MS Code § 73-11-57.1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 11 - Practice of Funeral Service and Funeral Directing|State Board of Funeral Service|§ 73-11-57.1. Authority to revoke, refuse to renew, suspend or place on probation license of funeral home establishment or director under certain circumstances

 The State Board of Funeral Service may revoke, refuse to renew, suspend or place on probation the license of a funeral home establishment or funeral director, or both, if the funeral home or funeral director accepts funds for a preneed funeral contract or other prepayment of funeral expenses without a registration to sell preneed funeral contracts; or is registered to sell preneed funeral contracts and fails to deposit the funds in trust or to timely remit premium payments from consumers to the insurer as provided in Section 75-63-59 and Section 75-63-61, respectively.   The State Board of Funeral Service shall make written notification to the Secretary of State of all license suspensions and revocations issued by the board as well as written notification for all new licenses issued by the board. The Secretary of State shall make written notification to the board of all registration suspensions, revocations, orders of cease and desist, and administrative penalties imposed by the Secretary of State under Article 3, Chapter 11, Title 73, Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 73-11-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 11 - Practice of Funeral Service and Funeral Directing|State Board of Funeral Service|§ 73-11-59. Penalties

 Any person, partnership, corporation, association or his or her or its agents or representatives who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months in the county jail, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
MS Code § 73-11-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 11 - Practice of Funeral Service and Funeral Directing|State Board of Funeral Service|§ 73-11-61. Price list and statement of goods and services must be provided before services rendered

 Every funeral director or funeral service licensee shall provide, before the rendering of services, the funeral establishment's current general price list, casket price list, outer container price list, and a statement of goods and services to the person or persons who authorize the services and is responsible for payment of the expenses therefor, in a manner and format as prescribed by the Federal Trade Commission's Funeral Rule of 1984 and any future changes with regard to required disclosures. The general price list must be made available to any person upon request.
MS Code § 73-11-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 11 - Practice of Funeral Service and Funeral Directing|State Board of Funeral Service|§ 73-11-63. Application of provisions to cemeteries or cemetery chapels; chapter does not interfere with religious ceremonies or customs

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the regulation or licensing of cemeteries or cemetery chapels by the board, except the regulation or licensing of any funeral establishment operated by a cemetery. In addition, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent or interfere with the ceremonies, customs, religious rites or religion of any people, denomination, or sect, or to prevent or interfere with any religious denomination, sect or anybody composed of persons of a denomination, or to prevent or interfere with any church or synagogue from having its committee or committees prepare human bodies for burial or the families, friends or neighbors of deceased persons who prepare and bury their dead without charge.
MS Code § 73-11-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 11 - Practice of Funeral Service and Funeral Directing|State Board of Funeral Service|§ 73-11-65. Funeral service interments must be under supervision of Mississippi licensed funeral director or funeral service licensee

 Every funeral service or interment, or part thereof, that is conducted in Mississippi must be in the actual charge and under the supervision of a funeral director or funeral service licensee who is licensed under this chapter. However, this section shall not prevent a family from burying its own dead without charge.
MS Code § 73-11-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 11 - Practice of Funeral Service and Funeral Directing|State Board of Funeral Service|§ 73-11-67. Retail sellers of caskets required to register annually with board; procedure for disciplinary proceedings

  Every person, establishment or company not licensed under this chapter that sells caskets at retail shall register annually with the board. The names of registrants under this section shall be made available to any person upon request during the regular business hours of the board. The procedure for conducting a disciplinary proceeding against any casket retailer accused of failing to register with the board, as well as the penal sanctions available to the board, shall be the same as those set forth in Section 73-11-57.   Any person, establishment or company required to register under subsection (1) of this section that sells preneed contracts for caskets, either directly or indirectly or through an agent, shall be required to meet all of the requirements of Sections 75-63-51 through 75-63-75 that are applicable to preneed contracts for funeral services under those sections. For the purposes of this section, the term "preneed contract for caskets" means any contract, agreement or any series or combination of contracts or agreements, whether funded by trust deposits or insurance, or any combination thereof, that is for the purpose of furnishing or delivering a casket or caskets for the final disposition of a dead human body, to be furnished or delivered at a time determinable by the death of the person whose body is to be disposed of.
MS Code § 73-11-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 11 - Practice of Funeral Service and Funeral Directing|State Board of Funeral Service|§ 73-11-71. Intermingling of cremated remains prohibited; written acknowledgment from person entitled to control disposition of remains; content of acknowledgment

  Upon the completion of each cremation, and insofar as is practicable, all of the recoverable residue of the cremation process shall be removed from the crematory and placed in a separate container so that the residue may not be commingled with the cremated remains of other persons. Cremated remains of a dead human shall not be divided or separated without the prior written consent from the person entitled to control the disposition of the cremated remains.   Written acknowledgement from the person entitled to control the disposition of the cremated remains shall be obtained by the person with whom arrangements are made for disposition of the remains on a form that includes, but is not limited to, the following information:  "The human body burns with the casket, container or other material in the cremation chamber. Some bone fragments are not combustible at the incineration temperature and, as a result, remain in the cremation chamber. During the cremation, the contents of the chamber may be moved to facilitate incineration. The chamber is composed of ceramic or other material which disintegrates slightly during each cremation and the produce of that disintegration is commingled with the cremated remains. Nearly all of the contents of the cremation chamber, consisting of the cremated remains, disintegrated chamber material, and small amounts of residue from previous cremations, are removed together and crushed, pulverized or ground to facilitate inurnment or scattering. Some residue remains in the cracks and uneven places of the chamber. Periodically, the accumulation of this residue is removed and interred in a dedicated cemetery property or appropriate area."   The acknowledgment shall be filed and retained for at least three (3) years by the person who disposes of or inters the remains.
MS Code § 73-11-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 11 - Practice of Funeral Service and Funeral Directing|State Board of Funeral Service|§ 73-11-73. Removal of body from place of death, embalming body, or cremating body without permission of next of kin prohibited; picking up or removing body on first call; written record of oral consent for embalming or cremation required

  A funeral establishment and its employees, licensees and/or representatives shall not respond to a death call unless properly contacted and requested to so respond. No person or entity subject to regulation under this chapter shall remove or cause to be removed any dead human body from the place of death or take or cause to take custody of a dead human body without the permission of the next of kin or authorized representative, in the order of priority specified in Section 73-11-58, of the deceased.   Dead human bodies may be picked up on first call or removed by a funeral director or funeral service practitioner licensed by the board or under the direction of the licensed funeral director or funeral service practitioner. When a licensed funeral director or funeral service practitioner directs another to make a first call or removal of a dead human body, he accepts, in every manner, full responsibility for all aspects of the first call or removal.   A licensed funeral establishment or other licensee of the board shall not embalm or cremate a dead human body without the prior written or oral consent of the next of kin or authorizing agent or representative of the deceased for each body that is placed under its care and custody. In determining who the proper next of kin is or authorizing agent or representative of the deceased, the order of priority is the same as provided in Section 73-11-58.   The licensed funeral establishment or licensee responsible for the embalming or cremation of the dead human body shall create a written record of an oral consent given under this section that includes all of the following:   The name of the authorizing agent;   The relation of the authorizing agent to the deceased;   The date and time that consent was given;   The name of the person who obtained the consent; and   Any other information required by the board.
MS Code § 73-13-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 13 - Engineers and Land Surveyors|Engineers|§ 73-13-1. Engineer must be registered; use of words "graduate engineer."

 In order to safeguard life, health, and property, and to promote the public welfare, any person or firm in either public or private capacity practicing or offering to practice engineering shall hereafter be required to submit evidence that the person or firm is qualified so to practice engineering and shall be licensed as hereinafter provided; and it shall be unlawful for any person or firm to practice or to offer to practice in this state, engineering, as defined in the provisions of Sections 73-13-1 through 73-13-45, or to use in connection with his name or otherwise assume, use, or advertise any title or description tending to convey the impression that he is a professional engineer, unless such person has been duly licensed under the provisions of Sections 73-13-1 through 73-13-45. There is specifically reserved to engineering graduates of all universities and colleges accredited by a regional accrediting body that is recognized by the United States Department of Education, the right to disclose any college degrees received by such individuals and use the words "graduate engineer" on his stationery, business cards and personal communications of any character.
MS Code § 73-13-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 13 - Engineers and Land Surveyors|Engineers|§ 73-13-7. Qualifications of board

 Each member of the board shall be a citizen of the United States and shall have been a resident of the state for at least five (5) years prior to the appointment. He shall be at least thirty-two (32) years of age, shall have been engaged in the practice of engineering or surveying, as the case may be, for at least ten (10) years and shall have been in responsible charge of important engineering or surveying work, as the case may be, for at least five (5) years. Each year of teaching engineering or surveying in a school or college shall be equivalent to a year of responsible charge of engineering or surveying work. Not more than two (2) members of the board at any time may be teachers of engineering in the universities or colleges of the state. All members of the board shall be licensed professional engineers or licensed professional surveyors, as the case may be.
MS Code § 73-13-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 13 - Engineers and Land Surveyors|Engineers|§ 73-13-9. Compensation of the board

 Each member of the board shall receive per diem in accordance with Section 25-3-69 when actually attending to the work of the board or any of its committees, and shall be reimbursed for traveling expenses in accordance with Section 25-3-41 in carrying out the provisions of Sections 73-13-1 through 73-13-105.
MS Code § 73-13-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 13 - Engineers and Land Surveyors|Engineers|§ 73-13-11. Removal of board; vacancies

 The Governor may remove any member of the board for misconduct, incompetency, neglect of duty, or for any other sufficient cause. Vacancies in the membership of the board shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment by the Governor as provided in Section 73-13-5.
MS Code § 73-13-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 13 - Engineers and Land Surveyors|Engineers|§ 73-13-13. Meetings of board; election of officers; quorum

 The board shall hold at least two (2) regular meetings each year, in the first and third calendar quarters. Special meetings shall be held at such time as the regulations of the board may provide. Notice of all meetings shall be given in such manner as the regulations of the board may provide. The board shall elect annually, at a regular or special meeting, the following officers: a president, a vice president, and a secretary. A quorum of the board shall consist of not less than five (5) members.
MS Code § 73-13-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 13 - Engineers and Land Surveyors|Engineers|§ 73-13-15. Rules and regulations; seal; powers

 The board shall have the power to adopt and amend all regulations and rules of procedure, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this state, which may be reasonably necessary for the proper performance of its duties and the regulations of the proceedings before it. The board shall adopt and have an official seal. It shall not be required to post bond on appeals. The board shall have the further power and authority to:   Establish standards of conduct and ethics;   Institute proceedings in its own name;   Promulgate rules restricting competitive bidding;   Promulgate rules limiting or restricting advertising;   Promulgate rules requiring a demonstration of continuing education;   Adopt and promulgate reasonable bylaws and rules and regulations necessary or appropriate for the proper fulfillment of its duties under state laws pertaining thereto;   Provide for the enforcement of and to enforce the laws of the State of Mississippi and, in particular, the provisions of this chapter, and the bylaws, rules and regulations of the board;   Provide by appropriate rules and regulations, within the provisions of this chapter, a system for taking the disciplinary actions provided for in Section 73-13-37, including the imposition of fines as provided therein;   Investigate, prosecute or initiate prosecution for violation of the laws of this state pertaining to the practices of engineering and surveying, or matters affecting the rights and duties or otherwise related thereto;   Adopt rules setting forth qualifications and standards of practice for firms; and   Provide by appropriate rules and regulations, within the provisions of this chapter, a system for the annual and/or biennial renewal of certificates of licensure.   In carrying into effect the provisions of Sections 73-13-1 through 73-13-105, the board, under the hand of its president or secretary and the seal of the board may subpoena witnesses and compel their attendance, and also may require the production of books, papers, documents, etc., in any case involving the disciplinary actions provided for in Section 73-13-37 or 73-13-89 or practicing or offering to practice without licensure. Any member of the board may administer oaths or affirmations to witnesses appearing before the board. If any person shall refuse to obey any subpoena so issued, or shall refuse to testify or produce any books, papers or documents, the board may present its petition to such authority as may have jurisdiction, setting forth the facts, and thereupon such authority shall, in a proper case, issue its subpoena to such person, requiring his attendance before such authority and there to testify or to produce such books, papers, and documents, as may be deemed necessary and pertinent by the board. Any person failing or refusing to obey the subpoena or order of the said authority may be proceeded against in the same manner as for refusal to obey any other subpoena or order of the authority.
MS Code § 73-13-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 13 - Engineers and Land Surveyors|Engineers|§ 73-13-17. Money received by board to be deposited in special fund; regulation of fund; audit; surety required of executive director and secretary; employees

  The board shall keep an account of all monies derived from the operation of Sections 73-13-1 through 73-13-105. All fees and any other monies received by the board shall be deposited in a special fund that is created in the State Treasury and shall be used for the implementation and administration of Sections 73-13-1 through 73-13-105 when appropriated by the Legislature for such purpose. The monies in the special fund shall be subject to all provisions of the state budget laws that are applicable to special fund agencies, and disbursements from the special fund shall be made by the State Treasurer only upon warrants issued by the State Fiscal Officer upon requisitions signed by the executive director of the board and countersigned by the secretary of the board. Any interest earned on this special fund shall be credited by the State Treasurer to the fund and shall not be paid into the State General Fund. Any unexpended monies remaining in the special fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund. The State Auditor shall audit the financial affairs of the board and the transactions involving the special fund at least once a year in the same manner as for other special fund agencies.   The executive director and the secretary of the board shall give a surety bond satisfactory to the other members of the board, conditioned upon the faithful performance of their duties. The premium on said bond shall be regarded as a proper and necessary expense of the board. When any member of the board or any employee thereof is engaged on business of the board away from the principal office of the board, he shall be entitled to receive expenses as authorized in Section 25-3-41, and members of the board shall be entitled to per diem in an amount not to exceed that authorized in Section 25-3-69, all as approved by the board.   The board shall employ an executive director and may employ such clerical or other assistants as are necessary for the proper performance of its work, and may make expenditures for any purpose which in the opinion of the board are reasonably necessary for the proper performance of its duties under this chapter.
MS Code § 73-13-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 13 - Engineers and Land Surveyors|Engineers|§ 73-13-19. Records and reports

 The board shall keep a record of its proceedings and a register of all applications for licensure, which register shall show (a) the name, age and residence of such applicant, (b) the date of the application, (c) the place of business of such applicant, (d) his educational and other qualifications, (e) whether or not an examination was required, (f) whether the applicant was rejected, (g) whether a certificate of licensure was granted, (h) the date of the action of the board, and (i) such other information as may be deemed necessary by the board.   The records of the board shall be prima facie evidence of the proceedings of the board set forth therein, and a transcript thereof, duly certified by the executive director of the board under seal, shall be admissible in evidence with the same force and effect as if the original were produced.   Annually, on or before March 15, the board shall submit to the Governor a report of its transactions of the preceding year, and shall file with the Secretary of State a copy of such report of the board, attested by affidavits of its president and its secretary.