New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter II - Administrative Rules and Regulations › Subchapter J - Funeral Directing, Undertaking And Embalming › Part 77 - Practice Of Funeral Directing › Section 77.4 - Funeral service schools

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
				  Approval procedure.
(1) Any school offering a
				  curriculum in funeral service education may make application for approval on a
				  form provided by the department and shall remit the fee prescribed by
				  law.
(2) Any school applying for
				  approval shall supply all data necessary for a complete evaluation of its
				  administration, curriculum, physical facilities, faculty, and such other
				  information as the department may require.
(3) A certificate of approval shall be issued
				  to a school maintaining standards satisfactory to the department.
(4) The department may grant full approval,
				  provisional approval, limited approval or conditional approval.
(5) Approval shall be on a fiscal-year basis,
				  starting April 1st of each year and terminating the following March 31st. The
				  certificate of approval issued to any school by the department during a fiscal
				  year shall expire at the end of that fiscal year. Application for renewal of
				  approval in any year shall be made not later than 60 days prior to the
				  beginning of the new fiscal year. Each school shall remit with the renewal
				  application such fee as is prescribed by law.
(6) The department may, in lieu of the
				  approval procedures contained in paragraphs (1)-(3) and (5) of this
				  subdivision, accept the certification of accreditation issued by an accrediting
				  organization recognized by the department, or the department may conduct its
				  own examination and evaluation to determine the degree of compliance by the
				  school of the rules, regulations and standards of the accrediting
				  agency.
(7) Approval of a school
				  for funeral service education may be withdrawn by the department for any
				  violation of this Part or of the provisions of the Public Health Law or other
				  statutes pertaining to funeral directing, or the rules, regulations and
				  standards of the accrediting agency. When charges of violation are brought to
				  the attention of the department, the affected school shall be notified in
				  writing of the alleged violations, and shall be given an opportunity to be
				  heard on the charges. If, after hearing, the school shall be found guilty of
				  the violations, the certificate of approval may be withdrawn by order of the
				  commissioner served personally or by mail on the school.
(8)
(i) A
				  school whose approval has been withdrawn shall not be eligible for a new
				  approval until such time as the school has corrected all conditions specified
				  in the withdrawal order.
(ii)
				  Reports. Each approved school shall report in writing to the department the
				  name and address of each student enrolled in the funeral service course who has
				  expressed an intention to apply for a funeral director license in the State of
				  New York. Upon graduation, a certification of graduation, together with a
				  transcript of grades and attendance records, shall be forwarded by the school
				  to the department within 20 days after graduation.
(iii) Students. A student, enrolled in the
				  funeral service course of an approved school, who enters active service in the
				  Armed Forces of the United States of America, may continue his academic
				  studies, provided such student registers within one year after the date of the
				  honorable termination of his initial term of such active service, but credit
				  for studies prior to his entry therein shall be at the discretion of the school
				  administrator.