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Iowa Code § 156.1 Definitions.
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As used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Board” means the board of mortuary science. 2. “Cremation” means the technical process, using heat and flame, that reduces human remains to bone fragments. The reduction takes place through heat and evaporation. C…
Iowa Code § 156.10 Inspection.
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1. The director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing may inspect all places where dead human bodies are prepared or held for burial, entombment, or cremation, and may adopt and enforce such rules and regulations in connection with the inspection as may be nece…
Iowa Code § 156.12 Funeral directors — solicitation of business — exceptions — penalty.
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Every funeral director, or person acting on behalf of a funeral director, who pays or causes to be paid any money or other thing of value as a commission or gratuity for the securing of business for the funeral director, and every person who accepts or offers to accept any money …
Iowa Code § 156.14 Funeral establishment and cremation establishment license.
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1. A person shall not establish, conduct, or maintain a funeral establishment or a cremation establishment in this state without a license. The license shall be identified as an establishment license. a. An establishment license issued by the board under this chapter shall be iss…