Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 30 - Professions and Occupations › Part 2401 - Administrative Law › Chapter 7 - Reciprocity (Out-of-State Licenses) › Rule 30-2401-7.1

Current through June 25, 2024
Applicants for licensure by reciprocity/endorsement who hold
				  a valid license from another state may be eligible for licensure in Mississippi
				  provided:
1. The applicant must submit
				the required license application and all appropriate fees
2. The applicant provides evidence
				satisfactory to the Board that he or she holds a valid, unrevoked, and
				unexpired license a funeral service practitioner or funeral director in another
				state having substantially similar requirements to the requirements for
				licensure as either an embalmer or funeral director in this state including a
				copy of his/her original license issued by the other state.
3. The applicant possesses a license in good
				standing in all states in which the applicant is licensed.
4. The applicant must not be the subject of
				any pending or unresolved complaint, investigation or disciplinary proceeding
				or action in any state or jurisdiction in which the applicant holds or has held
				a license. The applicant must provide all information, including any
				information or documentation requested by the Board, in connection with any
				pending or unresolved complaint, investigation or disciplinary action for the
				Board's review. The pendency of any complaint or disciplinary action or
				proceeding will be considered by the Board as a reason for denying licensure by
				reciprocity.
5. The Board receives
				a certification from the licensing board of the state or territory from which
				the applicant seeks a reciprocal license showing the applicant to be in good
				standing with the Board and whether the reciprocal applicant has ever been
				subject to discipline or if there are any complaints pending against the
				reciprocal applicant.
6. The
				applicant provides proof of his or her educational and professional
				qualifications which shall be substantially equivalent to the requirements
				existing in Mississippi at the time he or she was originally
				licensed.
7. Sufficient evidence is
				presented to the Board showing that the applicant has achieved a score of
				seventy-five percent (75%) or better on the National Board Funeral Service Arts
				Examination provided by the International Conference of Funeral Service
				Examining Boards, Inc., or designee of the board, if applying for only a
				funeral director license; or
For reciprocal license issued from and after 2002,
				  sufficient evidence must be presented to the Board showing that the applicant
				  for a funeral service license has achieved a score of seventy-five percent
				  (75%) or better on the National Board Funeral Service Arts Examination and a
				  score of seventy-five percent (75%) or better on the National Board Funeral
				  Service Examination administered by the National Conference of Funeral Service
				  Examining Boards; or
For reciprocal license issued prior to 2002, the applicant
				  for reciprocal funeral service licensure must show evidence satisfactory to the
				  Board that the applicant has successfully passed the National Board Examination
				  as administered by the National Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards.
				  The examination must have included two (2) sections, funeral service arts and
				  funeral service sciences, and the applicant must have received a cumulative
				  average score of at least 75 percent on the sections with not less than 70
				  percent on either of these two sections. The applicant must also provide
				  documentation satisfactory to the Board, including an attestation from his or
				  her employing funeral establishment, showing that the applicant has been
				  engaged in the active practice of funeral service as a licensed embalmer and
				  licensed funeral director continuously for a minimum of five (5) years
				  immediately before the date of the Board's receipt of the reciprocal
				  application.
8. The
				applicant must not have committed any act which could result in denial of a
				license or discipline pursuant to Section
				73-11-57
				of the Mississippi Code of 1972, as amended.
9. The applicant must not have been subject
				to any disciplinary action in any state or other jurisdiction related to the
				practice of funeral directing of funeral service or related to any other
				profession for which the applicant is licensed, certified, registered or
				legally recognized to practice including resignation from practice, revocation,
				suspension, withdrawal or surrender of the applicant's license, certificate or
				registration as a result of or during the pendency of disciplinary proceedings
				or investigation for potential disciplinary action.
Miss. Code Ann.
				  §§
										73-11-49(7)
				  and
				  73-11-51(7)(Rev.
				  2012 & Supp. 2014).