2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 34 - Funeral Directing › Title 1 - General Provisions › 3400 - Funeral Directing; Definitions.

§  3400.  Funeral  directing;  definitions.  As  used in this article,
unless otherwise stated, the following terms shall have  the  respective
meanings hereinafter set forth or indicated:
(a)  "Funeral director" means a person to whom a valid license as such
has been duly issued.
(b) "Undertaker" means a person to whom a valid license  as  such  has
been duly issued.
(c) "Embalmer" means a person to whom a valid license as such has been
duly issued.
(d)  "Funeral  directing" means the care and disposal of the body of a
deceased person and/or the preserving,  disinfecting  and  preparing  by
embalming  or  otherwise,  the  body  of  a  deceased person for funeral
services, transportation, burial or cremation; and/or funeral  directing
or   embalming   as  presently  known  whether  under  these  titles  or
designations or otherwise.
(e) "Undertaking" means the care, disposal, transportation, burial  or
cremation  by  any  means other than embalming of the body of a deceased
person.
(f) "Embalming" means preparing, disinfecting and  preserving,  either
hypodermically,  arterially or by any other recognized means the body of
a deceased person for burial, cremation or other final disposition.
(g) "Funeral establishment" means a single physical location,  address
or premises devoted to or used for the care and preparation of a body of
a deceased person for disposition and for mourning or funeral ceremonial
purposes.
(h) "Burial" includes transportation and/or cremation.
(i) "Advertisement" means the publication, dissemination, circulation,
or  placing  before  the public, or causing directly or indirectly to be
made,  published,  disseminated,  or  placed  before  the  public,   any
announcement   or   statement   in   a  newspaper,  magazine,  or  other
publication, or in the form  of  a  book,  notice,  circular,  pamphlet,
letter,  hand-bill, poster, bill, sign, placard, card, label, tag, or by
radio or television or any other means.
(j) "Funeral firm" means an individual,  partnership,  corporation  or
estate  representative  engaged  in the business and practice of funeral
directing.
(k)  "Registered  resident"  means  a  person  who  passed  a  funeral
directing  examination  and  who  is  duly  registered  as such with the
department while in the employ of a registered funeral firm and  who  is
engaged  in the practice of funeral directing under the supervision of a
licensed funeral director or undertaker and embalmer; provided, however,
that a registered resident shall not have authority to sign any form  or
document  required  by  law  which  requires the signature of a licensed
funeral director or make funeral arrangements or own or manage a funeral
firm.
(l) "Embalming fluid" means any chemicals or  substances  manufactured
primarily   for  use  by  licensed  funeral  directors,  undertakers  or
embalmers, or registered residents, to prepare, disinfect  or  preserve,
either  hypodermically,  arterially or by any other recognized means the
body  of  a  deceased  person  for  burial,  cremation  or  other  final
disposition.