Title 73, Professions and Vocations

The board shall hold not less than two (2) meetings annually for the purpose of conducting the business of the board and for examining applications for licenses. Four (4) or more members shall comprise a quorum. Any member who shall not attend two (2) consecutive meetings of the …

(1) The board is authorized to select from its own membership a chairman, vice chairman and secretary-treasurer. Election of officers shall be held at the first regularly scheduled meeting of the fiscal year. (2) All members of the board shall be reimbursed for their necessary tr…

(1) No person shall engage in the business or practice of funeral service, including embalming, and/or funeral directing or hold himself out as transacting or practicing or being entitled to transact or practice funeral service, including embalming, and/or funeral directing in th…

(1) The State Board of Funeral Service is authorized to establish a trainee and apprenticeship program whereby persons desiring to apprentice as a funeral service or funeral director trainee may be issued a resident traineeship certificate to practice funeral directing or funeral…

(1) No person or party shall conduct, maintain, manage or operate a funeral establishment or branch thereof unless a license for each such establishment has been issued by the board and is conspicuously displayed in such funeral establishment. In case of funeral services held in …

On or before October 1 of each year, the board shall determine the amount of funds that will be required during the next ensuing two (2) years to properly administer the laws which the board is directed to enforce and administer and by rule and regulation shall fix fees in such r…

(1) The board, upon satisfactory proof at proper hearing and in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the regulations of the board, may suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew any license under this chapter, reprimand or place the holder of a license on a term o…

The State Board of Funeral Service may revoke, refuse to renew, suspend or place on probation the license of a funeral home establishment or funeral director, or both, if the funeral home or funeral director accepts funds for a preneed funeral contract or other prepayment of fune…

(1) No person or entity shall engage in any activity for which a license is required under this chapter, without holding such licensure in good standing. (2) A person may not be, act as, or advertise or hold himself or herself out to be a funeral service, a funeral director, or a…

(1) Residents of the state shall have the right to direct their own disposition without interference from others, regardless of their relationship. This right of self-authorization can be executed through the use of the Self-Directed Disposition Authorization document. This docum…

Any person, partnership, corporation, association or his or her or its agents or representatives who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,…

Every funeral director or funeral service licensee shall provide, before the rendering of services, the funeral establishment’s current general price list, casket price list, outer container price list, and a statement of goods and services to the person or persons who authorize …

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the regulation or licensing of cemeteries or cemetery chapels by the board, except the regulation or licensing of any funeral establishment operated by a cemetery. In addition, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to p…

Every funeral service or interment, or part thereof, that is conducted in Mississippi must be in the actual charge and under the supervision of a funeral director or funeral service licensee who is licensed under this chapter. However, this section shall not prevent a family from…

(1) Every person, establishment or company not licensed under this chapter that sells caskets at retail shall register annually with the board. The names of registrants under this section shall be made available to any person upon request during the regular business hours of the …

(1) No person or party shall conduct, maintain, manage or operate a crematory unless a license for each such crematory has been issued by the board and is conspicuously displayed in such crematory. (2) The operator of a crematory facility shall issue a certificate of cremation to…

(1) Upon the completion of each cremation, and insofar as is practicable, all of the recoverable residue of the cremation process shall be removed from the crematory and placed in a separate container so that the residue may not be commingled with the cremated remains of other pe…

(1) A funeral establishment and its employees, licensees and/or representatives shall not respond to a death call unless properly contacted and requested to so respond. No person or entity subject to regulation under this chapter shall remove or cause to be removed any dead human…