Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 645 - Professional Licensure Division › Funeral Directors › Chapter 100 - Practice of Funeral Directors, Funeral Establishments, and Cremation Establishments › Rule 645-100.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
"Alternative container"
means an unfinished
				  wood box or other nonmetal receptacle or enclosure, without ornamentation or a
				  fixed interior lining, that is designed for the encasement of human remains and
				  that is made of fiberboard, pressed wood, composition materials (with or
				  without an outside covering) or like materials that prevents the leakage of
				  body fluid.
"Authorized person"
means that person or
				  persons upon whom a funeral director may reasonably rely when making funeral
				  arrangements, including but not limited to embalming, cremation, funeral
				  services, and the disposition of human remains pursuant to Iowa Code section
				  144C.5.
"Autopsy"
means the postmortem examination
				  of a human remains.
"Board"
means the board of mortuary
				  science.
"Body parts"
means appendages or other
				  portions of the anatomy that are from a human body.
"Burial."
See
"Interment."
"Burial transit permit"
means a legal
				  document authorizing the removal and transportation of a human remains.
"Casket"
means a rigid container that is
				  designed for the encasement of human remains and that is usually constructed of
				  wood, metal, fiberglass, plastic or like material and ornamented and lined with
				  fabric.
"Cemetery"
means an area designated for the
				  final disposition of human remains.
"Columbarium"
means a structure, room or
				  space in a mausoleum or other building containing niches or recesses for
				  disposition of cremated remains.
"Cremated remains"
means all the remains of
				  the cremated human body recovered after the completion of the cremation
				  process, including pulverization that leaves only bone fragments reduced to
				  unidentifiable dimensions and may include the residue of any foreign matter,
				  including casket material, bridgework or eyeglasses that were cremated with the
				  human remains.
"Cremation"
means the technical process,
				  using heat and flame, that reduces human remains to bone fragments. The
				  reduction takes place through heat and evaporation. Cremation will include the
				  processing, and may include the pulverization, of the bone fragments.
"Cremation authorization form"
means a form,
				  completed and signed by a funeral director and authorized person, to accompany
				  all human remains accepted for cremation.
"Cremation chamber"
means the enclosed space
				  within which a cremation takes place.
"Cremation establishment"
means any person,
				  partnership or corporation that is licensed by the board and provides any
				  aspect of cremation services.
"Cremation permit"
means a permit issued by
				  a medical examiner allowing cremation for human remains.
"Cremation room"
means the room in which the
				  cremation chamber is located.
"Crypt"
means a chamber in a mausoleum of
				  sufficient size to contain casketed human remains.
"Custody"
means immediate charge and control
				  exercised by a person or an authority.
"Dead body."
See
"Human
				  remains."
"Death certificate"
means a legal document
				  containing vital statistics pertaining to the life and death of the
				  decedent.
"Decedent."
See
"Human
				  remains."
"Disinterment"
means to remove a human
				  remains from its place of final disposition.
"Disinterment permit"
means a permit from
				  the department of health and human services that allows the removal of a human
				  remains from its original place of burial, entombment or interment for the
				  purpose of autopsy or reburial.
"Disinterment permit number"
means the
				  number assigned to a disinterment permit by the department of health and human
				  services, giving the funeral director the authority to remove a human remains
				  from its place of final disposition.
"Embalming"
means the disinfection or
				  temporary preservation of human remains, entire or in part, by the use of
				  chemical substances, fluids or gases in the body, or by the introduction of
				  same into the body by vascular or hypodermic injections, or by surface
				  application into or on the organs or cavities for the purpose of temporary
				  preservation or disinfection.
"Embalming record"
means a record completed
				  by the licensed funeral director or registered intern for each body embalmed in
				  Iowa, or otherwise prepared for disposition by the licensee. "Embalming record"
				  includes, at a minimum, a case analysis and a detailed listing of the
				  procedures or treatments or both performed on the deceased.
"Entombment"
means to place a casketed body
				  or an urn containing cremated remains in a structure such as a mausoleum,
				  crypt, tomb or columbarium.
"Final disposition"
means the burial,
				  interment, cremation, removal from the state, or other disposition of a dead
				  body or fetus.
"Funeral ceremony"
means a service
				  commemorating the decedent.
"Funeral director"
means a person licensed
				  by the board to practice mortuary science.
"Funeral establishment"
means a place of
				  business as defined and licensed by the board devoted to providing any aspect
				  of mortuary science.
"Funeral rule"
means the Federal Trade
				  Commission Funeral Rule, 16
				  CFR §
										453.4, as amended to 1994.
"Funeral services"
means any services that
				  may be used to (1) care for and prepare human remains for burial, cremation or
				  other final disposition; and (2) arrange, supervise or conduct the funeral
				  ceremony or final disposition of human remains.
"Holding facility"
means an area isolated
				  from the general public that is designated for the temporary retention of human
				  remains.
"Human remains"
means a deceased human being
				  for which a death certificate or fetal death certificate is required.
"Interment"
means to place a casketed human
				  remains or an urn containing cremated remains in the ground.
"Intern"
means a person registered by the
				  board to practice mortuary science under the direct supervision of a preceptor
				  certified by the board.
"Mausoleum"
means an aboveground structure
				  designed for entombment of human remains.
"Medical examiner"
means a public official
				  whose primary function is to investigate and determine the cause of death when
				  death may be thought to be from other than natural causes.
"Memorial ceremony"
means a service
				  commemorating the decedent.
"Niche"
means a recess or space in a
				  columbarium or mausoleum used for placement of cremated human remains.
"Preparation room"
means a room in a funeral
				  establishment where human remains are prepared, sanitized, embalmed or held for
				  ceremonies and final disposition.
"Pulverization"
means a process following
				  cremation that reduces identifiable bone fragments into granulated
				  particles.
"Removal"
means the act of taking a human
				  remains from the place of death or place where the human remains is being held
				  to a funeral establishment or other designated place.
"Removal technician"
means a person
				  registered with the board to perform removals.
"Scattering area"
means a designated area
				  where cremated remains may be commingled with other cremated remains.
"Temporary cremation container"
means a
				  durable receptacle designed for short-term retention of cremated
				  remains.
"Their own dead"
refers to the legal
				  authority the authorized person has regarding a human remains.
"Topical disinfection"
means the direct
				  application of chemical substances on the surface of a human remains for the
				  purpose of temporary preservation or disinfection.
"Transfer."
See
"Removal."
"Universal precautions"
means a concept of
				  care based upon the assumption that all blood and body fluids, and materials
				  that have come into contact with blood or body fluids, are potentially
				  infectious as prescribed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
				  (CDC).
"Urn"
means a receptacle designed for
				  permanent retention of cremated remains.