Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 59-396.12
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Funeral establishment required to be licensed – Display
Official statutory text
of license - Inspection of premises - Sanitary rules – Commercial
embalming establishments.
A. Any place where a person shall hold forth by word or act
that the person is engaged in the profession of undertaking or
funeral directing shall be deemed as a funeral establishment and
shall be licensed as such pursuant to the provisions of the Funeral
Services Licensing Act.
B. A funeral establishment shall not do business in a location
that is not licensed as a funeral establishment, shall not advertise
a service that is available from an unlicensed location, and shall
advertise itself by the name that the establishment is licensed as
pursuant to the Funeral Services Licensing Act.
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 59. Professions and Occupations Page 381
C. Every funeral establishment, commercial embalming
establishment, and crematory shall be operated by a funeral director
in charge. Each establishment license shall be conspicuously
displayed at the location.
D. The Oklahoma Funeral Board shall have the power to inspect
the premises in which funeral directing is conducted or where
embalming or cremation is practiced or where an applicant proposed
to practice, and the Board is hereby empowered to prescribe and
endorse rules for reasonable sanitation of such establishments,
including necessary drainage, ventilation, and necessary and
suitable instruments for the business or profession of embalming and
funeral directing.
E. Any place where a person shall hold forth by word or act
that such person is engaged in preparing and shipping of dead human
remains to funeral establishments inside and outside this state
shall be deemed a commercial embalming establishment and shall be
licensed as such pursuant to the provisions of the Funeral Services
Licensing Act.
embalming establishments.
A. Any place where a person shall hold forth by word or act
that the person is engaged in the profession of undertaking or
funeral directing shall be deemed as a funeral establishment and
shall be licensed as such pursuant to the provisions of the Funeral
Services Licensing Act.
B. A funeral establishment shall not do business in a location
that is not licensed as a funeral establishment, shall not advertise
a service that is available from an unlicensed location, and shall
advertise itself by the name that the establishment is licensed as
pursuant to the Funeral Services Licensing Act.
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 59. Professions and Occupations Page 381
C. Every funeral establishment, commercial embalming
establishment, and crematory shall be operated by a funeral director
in charge. Each establishment license shall be conspicuously
displayed at the location.
D. The Oklahoma Funeral Board shall have the power to inspect
the premises in which funeral directing is conducted or where
embalming or cremation is practiced or where an applicant proposed
to practice, and the Board is hereby empowered to prescribe and
endorse rules for reasonable sanitation of such establishments,
including necessary drainage, ventilation, and necessary and
suitable instruments for the business or profession of embalming and
funeral directing.
E. Any place where a person shall hold forth by word or act
that such person is engaged in preparing and shipping of dead human
remains to funeral establishments inside and outside this state
shall be deemed a commercial embalming establishment and shall be
licensed as such pursuant to the provisions of the Funeral Services
Licensing Act.
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