Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 59-396.2

As used in the Funeral Services Licensing Act:

1. "Embalmer" means a person who disinfects or preserves dead

human remains, entire or in part, by the use of chemical substances,

fluids or gases in the remains, or by the introduction of same into

the remains by vascular or hypodermic injection, or by direct

application into organs or cavities;

2. "Funeral director" means a person who:

a. is engaged in or conducts or represents themselves as

being engaged in preparing for the burial or disposal

and directing and supervising the burial or disposal

of dead human remains,

b. is engaged in or conducts or represents themselves as

being engaged in maintaining a funeral establishment

for the preparation and the disposition, or for the

care of dead human remains,

c. uses, in connection with the name of the person or

funeral establishment, the words "funeral director" or

"undertaker" or "mortician" or any other title

implying that the person is engaged as a funeral

director,

d. sells funeral service merchandise to the public, or

e. is responsible for the legal and ethical operation of

a crematory;

3. "Funeral establishment" means a place of business used in

the care and preparation for burial, commercial embalming, or

transportation of dead human remains, or any place where any person

or persons shall hold forth and be engaged in the profession of

undertaking or funeral directing;

4. "Apprentice" means a person who is engaged in learning the

practice of embalming or the practice of funeral directing, as the

case may be, under the instruction and personal supervision of a

duly licensed embalmer or a duly licensed funeral director of and in

the State of Oklahoma, pursuant to the provisions of the Funeral

Services Licensing Act, and who is duly registered as such with said

Board;

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 59. Professions and Occupations Page 368

5. "Board" means the Oklahoma Funeral Board;

6. "Directing a funeral" or "funeral directing" means directing

funeral services from the time of the first call until final

disposition or release to a common carrier or release to next of kin

of the deceased or the designee of the next of kin;

7. "First call" means the beginning of the relationship and

duty of the funeral director to take charge of dead human remains

and have such remains prepared by embalming, cremation, or

otherwise, for burial or disposition, provided all laws pertaining

to public health in this state are complied with. First call does

not include calls made by ambulance, when the person dispatching the

ambulance does not know whether or not dead human remains are to be

picked up;

8. "Personal supervision" means the physical presence of a

licensed funeral director or embalmer at the specified time and

place of the providing of acts of funeral service;

9. "Commercial embalming establishment" means a fixed place of

business consisting of an equipped preparation room, and other rooms

as necessary, for the specified purpose of performing preparation

and shipping services of dead human remains to funeral

establishments inside and outside this state;

10. "Funeral service merchandise or funeral services" means

those products and services normally provided by funeral

establishments and required to be listed on the General Price List

of the Federal Trade Commission, 15 U.S.C., Section 57a(a),

including, but not limited to, the sale of burial supplies and

equipment, but excluding the sale by a cemetery of lands or

interests therein, services incidental thereto, markers, memorials,

monuments, equipment, crypts, niches or outer enclosures;

11. "Outer enclosure" means a grave liner, grave box, or grave

vault;

12. "Funeral director in charge" means an individual licensed

as both a funeral director and embalmer designated by a funeral

service establishment, commercial embalming establishment, or

crematory who is responsible for the legal and ethical operation of
emorials,

monuments, equipment, crypts, niches or outer enclosures;

11. "Outer enclosure" means a grave liner, grave box, or grave

vault;

12. "Funeral director in charge" means an individual licensed

as both a funeral director and embalmer designated by a funeral

service establishment, commercial embalming establishment, or

crematory who is responsible for the legal and ethical operation of

the establishment and is accountable to the Board;

13. "Authorizing agent" means a person legally entitled to

order the cremation or final disposition of particular human remains

pursuant to Section 1151 or 1158 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma

Statutes;

14. "Cremation" means the technical process, using heat and

flame, or heat and pressure, that reduces human remains to essential

elements, including bone fragments. The reduction takes place

through heat and evaporation. Cremation shall include, but not be

limited to, the processing and pulverization of the bone fragments,

or through alkaline hydrolysis;

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 59. Professions and Occupations Page 369

15. "Crematory" means a structure containing a furnace or

alkaline hydrolysis vessel used or intended to be used for the

cremation of human remains. The term includes a facility that

cremates human remains through alkaline hydrolysis; and

16. "Alkaline hydrolysis" means the reduction of human remains

to bone fragments and essential elements in a licensed crematory

using heat, pressure, water and base chemical agents.