Title 26, Title 26: Professions and Occupations

§ 1216. Construction (a) Nothing herein shall be construed as meaning that a licensed funeral establishment shall not have the right to prepare at the residence or place of death or some place approved by the local board of health a dead human body for burial. (b) Nothing in this…

§ 1251. License requirements (a) A person, partnership, corporation, association, or other organization shall not open or maintain a funeral establishment unless the establishment is licensed by the Office to conduct the business and unless the owner, a co- owner, or manager is a…

§ 1252. Application; qualifications (a) Funeral director. (1) Any person holding a high school certificate or its equivalent shall be entitled to take an examination as a funeral director provided that he or she has: (A) graduated from a school of funeral service accredited or ap…

§ 1253. Examinations An applicant for a funeral director’s or embalmer’s license shall be examined as the Director may require by rule. (Amended 1959, No. 224, § 6; 1969, No. 239 (Adj. Sess.), § 13; 2009, No. 35, § 19; 2017, No. 144 (Adj. Sess.), § 15.)

§ 1254. Issuance or denial of license If, upon review, it is found that the applicant possesses sufficient skill and knowledge of the business and has met the application and qualification requirements set forth in this chapter, the Director shall issue to him or her a license to…

§ 1256. Renewal of registration or license (a) Biennially, every licensee shall renew his or her or its registration or license by paying the required fee. (b) Upon request of the Department of Health or a person authorized to issue burial or removal permits, a licensee shall sho…

§ 1257. Unprofessional conduct (a) A licensee shall not engage in unprofessional conduct. (b) Unprofessional conduct means the following conduct and conduct set forth in 3 V.S.A. § 129a: (1) Using dishonest or misleading advertising. (2) Failure to make available, upon request of…

§ 1271. Prepaid arrangements A funeral establishment that sells services or merchandise that is not to be delivered or provided within 30 days of sale has entered into a prepaid funeral arrangement and shall comply with the requirements of this subchapter. (Added 1991, No. 219 (A…

§ 1272. Rules; prepaid funeral funds The Director shall adopt rules to carry out the provisions of this subchapter to ensure the proper handling of all funds paid pursuant to a prepaid funeral agreement and to protect consumers in the event of default. The rules shall include pro…

§ 1272a. Activities connected with funeral A funeral establishment may offer food and drink in connection with a funeral, provided the establishment complies with applicable requirements of the Department of Health. (Added 1997, No. 40, § 22d.)

§ 1273. Written agreements (a) Each prepaid funeral arrangement shall be expressed in a written contract. The Director shall adopt rules for standard provisions to be included in all pre-need trust forms and may adopt a standard form that every funeral director accepting prepaid …

§ 1274. Transfer of contracts and assets (a) A buyer of prepaid funeral arrangements may transfer a revocable or irrevocable contract and assets to another funeral director under similar arrangements, in Vermont or outside. The funeral director who originated the contract may cha…

§ 1276. Embalming fluids and compounds; sale or use; prohibition The sale or use for embalming purposes of any fluid containing arsenic, zinc, mercury, copper, lead, silver, antimony, chloral, or cyanogen, or of any compound containing any of these, or any poisonous alkaloid, sha…

§ 1277. Suspicious cases A person shall not embalm or introduce any fluid into a body of a person who has died under suspicious circumstances or when a criminal cause of death is suspected until after a legal investigation has determined the facts. An embalmer shall forthwith rep…