Pennsylvania Code › Title 49 - PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL STANDARDS › Part I - DEPARTMENT OF STATE › Subpart A - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL AFFAIRS › Chapter 13 - STATE BOARD OF FUNERAL DIRECTORS › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 13.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Act
-The Funeral Director Law
						(63
						P. S. §§
												479.1-479.20) which
						regulates the licensure of persons and of corporations engaged in the
						preparation and disposition of the bodies of deceased persons.
Board
-The State Board of Funeral
						Directors of the Department of State of the Commonwealth.
Bureau
-The Bureau of Professional and
						Occupational Affairs of the Department of State of the Commonwealth.
Commissioner
-The Commissioner of
						Professional and Occupational Affairs of the Department of State of the
						Commonwealth.
Funeral entity
-A restricted business
						corporation, professional corporation, pre-1935 corporation, partnership, sole
						proprietorship, widow, widower or estate authorized by the Board to practice
						the profession of funeral director.
Funeral establishment
-A place or premise
						approved by the Board wherein a licensed funeral director conducts the
						professional practice of funeral directing, including the preparation, care and
						funeral services for the human dead.
Hour of continuing education
-Sixty
						minutes of actual instruction in an approved course of continuing
						education.
Licensed funeral director
-An individual
						who has met the educational requirements and passed the examinations required
						by the act.
Limited license
-A license issued by the
						Board that authorizes a person licensed to practice funeral directing in a
						reciprocal state to practice funeral directing in this Commonwealth in
						accordance with section 9(c) of the act (63 P. S. §
												479.9(c)).
Preceptor
-A licensed funeral director
						under or with whom a resident intern is registered and operates.
Premises
-The property on which the
						funeral establishment is located which consists of a tract of land not
						intersected by a public highway or thoroughfare.
Prepaid burial account
-An account in
						which moneys are deposited by the funeral director during the lifetime of an
						individual in accordance with a contract executed between the parties for
						funeral merchandise and services to be performed and delivered at a future
						time.
Prepaid burial contract
-A contract
						executed between a consumer and a licensed funeral director which provides that
						the funeral director will provide funeral merchandise and render services to
						the consumer upon the consumer's death or the death of another designated
						individual and for which the consumer pays to the funeral director moneys at
						the time of the contract or at a time prior to the rendition of these
						services.
Profession
-The aggregate of all funeral
						service licensees and their duties and responsibilities in connection with the
						funeral as funeral directors licensed under the act.
Reciprocal state
-The District of
						Columbia or a state or territory of the United States of America whose agency
						that is authorized to license persons to practice the profession of funeral
						director in that jurisdiction has entered into an agreement with the Board
						under which persons licensed in that jurisdiction may receive a limited license
						in this Commonwealth.
Restricted business corporation
-A
						business corporation formed under 15 Pa.C.S. (relating to the Associations
						Code) and authorized under the act.
Supervisor
-A licensed funeral director
						employed on a full-time basis to supervise the professional activities of a
						licensed estate, widow, business corporation pre-1935 restricted business
						corporation, professional corporation or branch place of practice under any of
						the foregoing, as defined in the act.
The provisions of this §
													13.1 amended under sections 9(c),
						  10(b), 11(a)(5) and 16(a) of the Funeral Director Law (63 P. S.
						  §§
														479.9(c),
						  479.10(b), 479.11(a)(5) and
						  479.16(a)).
This section cited in 49 Pa. Code §
													13.251 (relating to funeral
						  supervisors and funeral directors on active duty-statement of
						  policy).