Title 20 — Title 20: Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards

Sec. 20-207. Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the meanings specified: (1) “Board” means the Connecticut Board of Examiners of Embalmers and Funeral Directors; (2) “Person” means an individual or corporatio…

Sec. 20-208. Examining board. (a) The board shall consist of five members, who shall be residents of the state, three of whom shall be practical arterial embalmers, shall be actively engaged in the practice of embalming at the time of their respective appointments and shall be li…

Sec. 20-209. Powers and duties. Oath. Section 20-209 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 4526; 1951, June, 1955, S. 2248d; P.A. 77-614, S. 432, 610; P.A. 80-484, S. 175, 176.)

Sec. 20-209a. Duties of board. The Board of Examiners of Embalmers and Funeral Directors shall (1) hear and decide matters concerning suspension or revocation of licensure, (2) adjudicate complaints filed against practitioners licensed under this chapter and (3) impose sanctions …

Sec. 20-210. Compensation of members; secretary. Section 20-210 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 4527; 1951, June, 1955, S. 2249d; 1959, P.A. 616, S. 60.)

Sec. 20-211. Regulations. The Commissioner of Public Health, with advice and assistance from the board, shall from time to time adopt regulations for the purpose of carrying out the board's duties. (1949 Rev., S. 4528; 1951, S. 2250d; P.A. 77-614, S. 433, 610; P.A. 80-484, S. 85,…

Sec. 20-211a. Reciprocal agreements waiving apprenticeships. The Connecticut Board of Examiners of Embalmers and Funeral Directors may, upon the affirmative vote of a majority of its members, enter into an agreement with the corresponding licensing authority of any other state co…

Sec. 20-212. Embalming, care and disposal of bodies restricted. No person, except a licensed embalmer, shall inject any fluid or substance into any dead human body, except that a registered apprentice embalmer may, even if not in the presence of a licensed embalmer, make such inj…

Sec. 20-213. Embalmer's license. Examination. Fee. Out-of-state licensees. (a)(1) After a registered apprentice embalmer has (A) completed a program of education in mortuary science approved by the board with the consent of the Commissioner of Public Health, (B) successfully comp…

Sec. 20-214. Examination questions. Examinations for the purpose of examining applicants for licenses as embalmers shall be upon the questions prescribed by the Commissioner of Public Health with the advice and consent of the board. (1949 Rev., S. 4531; 1951, S. 2253d; February, …

Sec. 20-215. Affidavit re preparation or embalming of body. No licensed embalmer shall sign an affidavit attesting the preparation or embalming of any body unless such body has been prepared or embalmed by such licensed embalmer, or by a registered apprentice embalmer under such …

Sec. 20-216. Medical examiner's permission for embalming. No person shall inject any fluid or substance into the body of any person whose death is subject to investigation by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner until permission has been obtained from the Chief Medical Examin…

Sec. 20-217. Funeral director's license. Examination. Fee. Out-of-state licensees. (a) When a registered apprentice funeral director has completed a program of education approved by the board with the consent of the Commissioner of Public Health, has successfully completed an exa…

Sec. 20-218. Display of licenses. Each license shall be signed by the Commissioner of Public Health or his designee, and shall specify the name of the person to whom issued. Each license shall be nonassignable and nontransferable and shall be displayed by the holder thereof in a …

Sec. 20-219. Renewal. Section 20-219 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 4543; 1951, S. 2258d; 1959, P.A. 616, S. 63; 1967, P.A. 835, S. 8.)

Sec. 20-219a. Continuing education requirements. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Licensee” means a funeral director or embalmer licensed pursuant to this chapter; and (2) “department” means the Department of Public Health; and (3) “registration period” means the twelve-month pe…

Sec. 20-220. Requirements for engaging in funeral directing business. Exemption. Except as provided in section 20-223, no person shall carry on or engage in the business of funeral directing, or hold himself out to the public as a funeral director, unless he is licensed by the De…

Sec. 20-221. Employment of embalmers. Each holder of a funeral director's license issued in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, who becomes an owner or part owner of an establishment, shall comply with the requirements and provisions of section 20-222 and, in addition…

Sec. 20-222. Funeral home license. Hearing; appeal. Record-keeping requirements. (a) No person, firm, partnership or corporation shall enter into, engage in, or carry on a funeral service business unless a funeral home license has been issued by the department for each place of b…

Sec. 20-222a. Renewal of licenses. (a) Each embalmer's license and funeral director's license issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be renewed, except for cause, by the Department of Public Health upon the payment to said Department of Public Health by each appl…

Sec. 20-222b. Disclosure of ownership information. (a) Each person, firm or corporation that carries on or engages in a funeral service business, as defined in section 20-207, shall display, on a sign located immediately inside of such funeral service business, in a place proxima…

Sec. 20-222c. Transfer of ownership. Notice requirements. Upon the transfer of more than a fifty per cent ownership share, discontinuance or termination of a funeral service business, the person, firm, partnership or corporation to whom the funeral home license has been issued sh…

Sec. 20-223. Embalmers may act as funeral directors. Any embalmer's license issued by the Department of Public Health shall entitle the holder thereof to act as a funeral director or embalmer, provided owners of establishments operating a funeral service business shall comply wit…

Sec. 20-224. Employment of assistants and registered apprentices. Apprentice registration. (a) The provisions of sections 20-217, 20-220 and 20-227 shall not prohibit the employment of assistants or of registered apprentice embalmers and registered apprentice funeral directors as…

Sec. 20-225. Registration of students. Section 20-225 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 4542; 1951, S. 2264d; 1959, P.A. 616, S. 65; June, 1971, P.A. 8, S. 74; 1972, P.A. 223, S. 13; P.A. 80-484, S. 175, 176.)

Sec. 20-226. Lists of licensees and students to be filed with town clerks. Section 20-226 is repealed, effective July 6, 2021. (1949 Rev., S. 4534; 1951, S. 2265d; 1967, P.A. 835, S. 4; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 80-484, S. 163, 176; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12,…

Sec. 20-227. Disciplinary action; grounds; appeals. The Department of Public Health may refuse to grant a license or the board may take any of the actions set forth in section 19a-17 against a licensee or registrant if it finds the existence of any of the following grounds: (1) T…

Sec. 20-227a. Conditions for prohibition of disciplinary action for invalidation of examination score. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 20-213, 20-217 and 20-227, the Connecticut Board of Examiners of Embalmers and Funeral Directors and the Department of Public Heal…

Sec. 20-228. Reinstatement of registration or license of veteran. Any person who has served in the armed forces of the United States and who was a holder in good standing of a registration or a license as provided in this chapter at the date of his entry into the armed forces may…

Sec. 20-229. Reciprocal agreements. The Commissioner of Public Health may enter into an agreement with the corresponding licensing authority of any other state competent to enter into such agreement, which agreement shall be in substantially the following form: “We, the undersign…

Sec. 20-230. Business not to be conducted in cemetery or on tax-exempt property. Exemption. No person, firm, association or corporation shall engage in the business of funeral directing, except in continuing the supervision of a funeral, or in the profession of embalming or the s…

Sec. 20-230a. Price list of available services and merchandise. Purchaser's rights. No licensed funeral director or licensed embalmer shall offer to sell services to arrange for or conduct funerals or offer to sell any merchandise used in connection with a funeral without first p…

Sec. 20-230b. Statement of prices for requested services and merchandise. Method of payment. Cash advanced. No person engaged in the business of funeral directing and no licensed funeral director or licensed embalmer shall fail to provide the person making funeral arrangements or…

Sec. 20-230c. Cremation requests. Written documentation by funeral directors and funeral service businesses. If the person who has custody and control of the remains of a deceased person pursuant to section 45a-318 requests the disposal of the deceased person's body by cremation …

Sec. 20-230d. Disposition of unclaimed cremated remains by funeral directors. Notice requirements. (a) If the cremated remains are not accepted by a person in accordance with the requested disposition of the cremated remains on the form required by section 20-230c or by the perso…

Sec. 20-230e. Service of nonalcoholic beverages and packaged food at a funeral home. Any person engaged in the business of funeral directing and any funeral director, as such terms are defined in section 20-207, may serve nonalcoholic beverages and packaged food, as defined in se…

Sec. 20-231. Misleading statement by license applicant; penalty. (a) No applicant for an embalmer's license or a funeral director's license shall present to the Department of Public Health any written statement, signed either by himself or any other person, which is misleading or…

Sec. 20-232. Disposition of fees and fines. All fees collected and fines paid under the provisions of this chapter shall be paid to the secretary of said board, and by him accounted for and paid over to the State Treasurer. (1949 Rev., S. 4550; 1951, June, 1955, S. 2269d.)

Sec. 20-233. Penalty. Any person, firm, corporation or partnership, or his or its agent or representative, who violates any provision of section 20-217, 20-220, 20-221, 20-224, 20-227, 20-230a or 20-230b shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for the first offense, and …