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RI Gen L § 5-33.1-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.1 - Funeral Service Contracts|Section 5-33.1-10 - Fines - Penalties.

§ 5-33.1-10. Fines — Penalties.(a) Any person, partnership, corporation, association, or his or her or its agents or representatives violating any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500), or both.(b) Any complaints for violations or appeals follow the same form and procedure as in chapter 33.2 of this title.History of Section.P.L. 1990, ch. 103, § 1.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-2 - Board of examiners - Qualifications and removal of members - Vacancies.

§ 5-33.2-2. Board of examiners — Qualifications and removal of members — Vacancies.(a) The members of the board of examiners in embalming shall be residents of this state for at least five (5) years; three (3) of whom shall have had at least five (5) years' practical experience in embalming dead human bodies and in funeral directing, and shall have been actually engaged in these professions in this state and two (2) of whom shall be private citizens who represent the consumer and who are not involved with or affiliated with, financial or otherwise, any funeral establishment and/or funeral director/embalmer. The current members shall serve their present term as they fulfill the requirements of this section. No member shall serve more than two (2) consecutive terms.(b) The director of the department of health may remove any member of the board for cause. Vacancies are filled pursuant to § 5-26-4.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-3 - Rules and regulations.

§ 5-33.2-3. Rules and regulations.The director of the department of health has the power to adopt any rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, that he or she deems necessary, in carrying out the purposes of this chapter and for the prevention of and transmission of disease.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-4 - Unlicensed practice unlawful.

§ 5-33.2-4. Unlicensed practice unlawful.It is unlawful for any person to engage in, conduct, or hold himself or herself out as engaged in the practice of funeral directing and/or embalming, or of preparing for or disposing of dead human remains by any means in this state or preserving in any manner, dead human bodies, in this state, unless he or she holds a funeral director/embalmer's license issued in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. It is unlawful for any person, partnership, association, corporation, limited-liability company, or other organization to open or maintain a place or establishment at which to engage in or conduct, or hold himself, herself, or itself out as engaging in or conducting, the business of funeral directing without that place or establishment being licensed under this chapter as a funeral establishment. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, a person under the supervision of a licensed funeral director/embalmer is allowed to: fulfill duties not specifically prohibited by this chapter, and those duties allowed by the Federal Trade Commission funeral rule.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-5 - Application for license - Application fee.

§ 5-33.2-5. Application for license — Application fee.Any person who desires to engage in embalming or funeral directing, or both, shall submit, in writing, to the division of professional regulation, an application for a license. That application shall be accompanied by a fee set by the department of health.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-6 - Qualifications of funeral director/embalmers.

§ 5-33.2-6. Qualifications of funeral director/embalmers.A funeral director or embalmer's license shall be issued only to individuals, and no corporation, partnership, association, limited-liability company, or organization shall be entitled to obtain the license. In order to be entitled to a funeral director/embalmer's license, an applicant must meet the following requirements:(1) Be at least eighteen (18) years of age;(2) Be a citizen of the United States or have lawful entry into the country;(3) Show to the satisfaction of the division that he or she is of good moral character;(4) Be a high school graduate or its equivalent;(5) Have graduated from a school of mortuary science accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service Education, Inc.;(6) Have at least an associate degree or the equivalent of sixty (60) semester hours from an approved college or university or be currently enrolled in a school accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service Education, Inc.;(7) Have completed a registered funeral director/embalmer internship;(8) Have satisfactorily passed the funeral director and embalmer portions of the written examination of the Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards;(9) Have satisfactorily passed a practical examination that the board deems proper to ascertain his or her efficiency and qualifications to engage in the business of funeral directing and embalming;(10) All individuals holding an embalmer and/or funeral director license on November 1, 1995, will be automatically issued a funeral director/embalmer license upon payment of the required annual license renewal fee; and(11) The name and title of at least the funeral director/embalmer registered with the department as the licensee in charge of the funeral establishment or funeral establishment branch, shall appear in all printed advertising.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-7 - Armed forces embalming experience.

§ 5-33.2-7. Armed forces embalming experience.Any person who has served in the armed forces of the United States and has been honorably discharged from that service, and who has, prior to his or her induction into the armed forces, completed his or her high school education and a full course of instruction in a funeral/director embalming school, as provided in § 5-33.2-6, and who had also prior to that induction commenced his or her internship, as provided in § 5-33.2-6, and who, while in the armed forces, assisted in the embalming of human bodies, shall be conclusively presumed to have been continuing that course of training during the time he or she was engaged in assisting in embalming human bodies while in the armed forces, and all bodies in the embalming of which he or she assisted while in the armed forces are deemed to have been embalmed during his or her internship, and in compliance with the provisions of § 5-33.2-6. Each person shall submit to the division proof of his or her having assisted in the embalming of bodies while in the armed forces, and of the number of bodies embalmed, by filing with the division his or her sworn affidavit of the related facts, which, in the absence of specific proof to the contrary, are presumed to be true and authentic.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-8 - Participation in burial certificate plans.

§ 5-33.2-8. Participation in burial certificate plans.No person who has promoted or is promoting, or has participated in or is participating in, any scheme or plan in the nature of a burial association or a burial certificate plan, or in which there is any element of fraud, shall be entitled to any license under the provisions of this chapter, and the board shall revoke the license of any holder of a license who has engaged, directly or indirectly, in the practices enumerated in this chapter. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent that person from performing his or her obligations under any contract executed prior to April 25, 1952.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-9 - Cemetery operators ineligible to conduct business of funeral directing.

§ 5-33.2-9. Cemetery operators ineligible to conduct business of funeral directing.Any person or persons, association, or corporation having charge of or conducting a cemetery shall not engage in the business of funeral directing. No funeral home will be licensed, nor be permitted to operate as a funeral home, if it is located on property owned by a cemetery or is contiguous with cemetery property.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-10 - Issuance of licenses - Expiration and renewal of licenses.

§ 5-33.2-10. Issuance of licenses — Expiration and renewal of licenses.All licenses issued under the provisions of this chapter shall expire on the thirty-first day of December each year, unless previously suspended or revoked. The division shall keep a register in which is entered the names of all persons to whom licenses are issued under this chapter, and that register shall be open to public inspection at the office of the administrator of the division.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-11 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-11 - Display of licenses - Assignment of licenses prohibited.

§ 5-33.2-11. Display of licenses — Assignment of licenses prohibited.Every license issued as a funeral director/embalmer shall specify the name of the person to whom it was issued, and shall be conspicuously displayed in his or her place of business or employment. Every license issued as a funeral establishment or branch office shall specify the name of the establishment as listed on the application. Licenses issued under the provisions of this chapter shall not be assignable.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-13 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-13 - Funeral establishment and branch officer - Crematories - Inspections - Denial of access.

§ 5-33.2-13. Funeral establishment and branch officer — Crematories — Inspections — Denial of access.(a) Any licensed funeral director/embalmer employed, authorized, and empowered by the division of professional regulation may enter any funeral establishment, funeral-establishment branch office, or crematory licensed under the provisions of this chapter, during the hours the funeral establishment, funeral-establishment branch office, or crematory is open for business, for the purpose of inspecting the sanitary conditions, complaint investigations, and ascertaining if the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations are being observed in the operation of the funeral establishment, funeral-establishment branch office, or crematory. The inspector may request permission from the department to be accompanied by another employee of the department of health prior to an inspection. Failure or refusal of the person in charge of that funeral establishment, funeral-establishment branch office, or crematory to permit the inspection at all reasonable times shall be deemed sufficient cause for the revocation of any license issued to the funeral establishment, funeral-establishment branch office, or crematory and any certificate of approval issued by the division.(b) Funeral establishments and branch offices and crematories licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall be inspected at least twice each year. Inspections shall include all areas of sanitation and public health, complaint investigations, as well as conformity with applicable section of this chapter and the rules and regulations.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-13.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-13.1 - Crematories - License and inspection.

§ 5-33.2-13.1. Crematories — License and inspection.No crematory owned or operated by or located on property licensed as a funeral establishment or at another location or by a cemetery shall conduct cremations without first having applied for and obtained a license from the department. Applications for the crematory license shall be made on forms furnished by the division accompanied by the application fee as set forth in § 23-1-54. Upon receipt of a completed application, the department shall issue a license. A license shall be issued to a specific licensee for a specific location and is not transferable. The facility and licensee shall meet all requirements as prescribed by the rules and regulations established by the department, not inconsistent with this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2; P.L. 2001, ch. 77, art. 14, § 8; P.L. 2007, ch. 73, art. 39, § 6; P.L. 2012, ch. 241, art. 9, § 7.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-13.2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-13.2 - Cremation of human remains.

§ 5-33.2-13.2. Cremation of human remains.(a) (1) Cremation shall not take place until the necessary permits and consents are issued pursuant to § 23-3-18.(2) A crematory shall not take custody of unidentified human remains.(3) Human remains designated for cremation shall be cremated without unreasonable delay.(4) When the crematory is unable to cremate the human remains immediately upon taking custody, the crematory shall provide a holding facility that complies with any applicable public health law and that preserves the dignity of the human remains.(5) Holding facilities must be secure from access by all unauthorized persons.(6) A crematory shall not simultaneously cremate more than one human remain within the same cremation chamber. The processing, packaging, storage, and disposition of cremated remains shall be as prescribed in the rules and regulations promulgated by the department of health division of professional regulation.(7) A crematory or funeral home shall be authorized to dispose of the cremated remains that have been abandoned at the crematory or funeral home for more than six (6) months. All reasonable attempts must be made and diligence exercised to contact the person in charge who authorized the cremation.(b) This section does not apply to the cremation of various body parts from different human bodies.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-14 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-14 - Payments for securing business prohibited.

§ 5-33.2-14. Payments for securing business prohibited.Every funeral establishment, funeral director/embalmer, or his, her, or its agent or representatives, who pays, or causes to be paid, directly or indirectly, any sum of money or other valuable consideration for the securing of business, and every person who accepts any sum of money or other valuable consideration, directly or indirectly, from a funeral director/embalmer or an agent or owner of a funeral establishment in order that the latter may obtain business, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished as subsequently provided, and the certificate of any funeral director/embalmer or the license of any funeral establishment violating the provisions of this section or whose agents or servants violate these provisions, shall be revoked by the division. This section does not prohibit the funeral establishment or funeral director/embalmer from advertising.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-15 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-15 - Annual renewal of licenses.

§ 5-33.2-15. Annual renewal of licenses.All licenses issued under the provisions of this chapter must be renewed annually by their holders, who shall pay to the division a yearly renewal fee for the renewal of a funeral director/embalmer's license, and additional fees for each funeral-establishment branch office license and for the crematory license. These fees are as set forth in § 23-1-54. On or before the fifteenth day of November in each year, the division shall mail to each licensed funeral director/embalmer and to each licensed funeral establishment, funeral-establishment branch office, and crematory an application for the renewal. Applications, accompanied by the fee for renewal, shall be filed with the division on or before the thirty-first day of December in each year. Applications filed after the thirty-first of December and on or before the fifteenth of January must be accompanied by a fee as set forth in § 23-1-54 for funeral director/embalmers and funeral establishments in addition to the previously established renewal fees. Any funeral director/embalmer who acts or holds himself or herself out as a funeral director/embalmer after his or her certificate has been lapsed shall be punished as provided in this chapter. Any funeral establishment, funeral-establishment branch office, or crematory that acts or holds itself out as a funeral establishment after its license has lapsed shall be punished as provided in this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2; P.L. 2001, ch. 77, art. 14, § 8; P.L. 2007, ch. 73, art. 39, § 6; P.L. 2012, ch. 241, art. 9, § 7.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-16 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-16 - Funeral director/Embalmer - Internship.

§ 5-33.2-16. Funeral director/embalmer — Internship.(a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting any person from serving as a funeral director/embalmer intern. Before an internship begins, the person desiring to become an intern shall register with the division on any forms that it prescribes. No person under the age of eighteen (18) years shall be permitted to register as an intern. The division may make any rules and regulations that it deems advisable for the supervision of interns. All persons registering as an intern shall pay a fee as set forth in § 23-1-54 at the time of the registration. That intern is not permitted to advertise or hold himself or herself out to the public as a registered funeral director/embalmer. The term of internship shall be not less than one year; provided, that if an intern after having served his or her internship fails to pass the examination for a funeral director/embalmer's license or fails to embalm fifty (50) human remains during his or her internship, he or she may continue his or her internship. The total term of internship must be completed within five (5) years from the date of original registration.(b) The intern must have assisted in embalming at least fifty (50) bodies if the period for registered internship is to be satisfied in one year. If the internship is for more than one year, the applicant must embalm at least twenty-five (25) bodies for each year of his or her internship. Each licensed funeral establishment embalming up to one hundred fifty (150) human remains per year shall be allowed to register one intern at one time. Each establishment embalming more than one hundred fifty (150) but less than three hundred (300) human remains per year shall be allowed to register two (2) interns at one time. Each establishment embalming three hundred (300) or more human remains per year shall be allowed to register three (3) interns at one time.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2; P.L. 2001, ch. 77, art. 14, § 8; P.L. 2007, ch. 73, art. 39, § 6; P.L. 2012, ch. 241, art. 9, § 7.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-18 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-18 - Summons of witnesses.

§ 5-33.2-18. Summons of witnesses.The division has power by its administrator to summon any person to appear as a witness and testify at any hearing of the division under the provisions of this chapter and to examine and to administer oaths to those witnesses.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-19 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-19 - Appeals.

§ 5-33.2-19. Appeals.Any person aggrieved by any decision or ruling of the division may appeal that decision to the administrator of the division or his or her designee. A further appeal may then be made to the appropriate board of examiners. Any person aggrieved by any decision or ruling of that board may appeal the decision to the director of the department. Any further appeal from the action of the director shall be in accordance with the provisions of chapter 35 of title 42, "administrative procedures act." The division shall be considered a person for the purposes of this section.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-20 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-20 - Restricted receipts accounts for fees.

§ 5-33.2-20. Restricted receipts accounts for fees.All the proceeds of any fees collected pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall be placed in a restricted receipts accounts, which is used for the general purposes of the division of professional regulation with the department of health.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch, 255, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-33.2-21 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments|Section 5-33.2-21 - Penalty for violations.

§ 5-33.2-21. Penalty for violations.Any person, partnership, corporation, limited-liability company, association, or his or her or its agents or representatives violating any of the provisions of this chapter, or of any rules or regulation of the division, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for not exceeding six (6) months, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500), or by both the fine and imprisonment, within the discretion of the court.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2.