SEC. 73-11-41. Definitions.

The following terms shall have the meanings ascribed herein unless the context shall otherwise require:

(a) "Board" shall mean the State Board of Funeral Service of the State of Mississippi as created by Section 73-11-43, or any successor thereof.

(b) "Embalming" shall mean the disinfection of the dead human body by replacing certain body fluids with preserving and disinfecting chemicals.

(c) "License for funeral establishment" shall mean a license issued to a place or premise devoted to or used in the immediate post-death activities of custody, shelter, care, preparation and/or embalming for final disposition of the body; or used for religious services or other rites or ceremonies associated with the final disposition of human dead; or maintained for the convenience and comfort of the bereaved and the community for viewing or other services in connection with the human dead, and as the office or place for carrying on the profession of funeral service and/or funeral directing.

(d) "License for the practice of funeral directing" shall mean the license given to a person engaging in the "practice of funeral service" who is not engaged in the practice of embalming.

(e) "License for the practice of funeral service" shall mean the license given to a person engaging in the "practice of funeral service," including the practice of embalming.

(f) "Practice of funeral service" shall mean (i) providing shelter, care and custody of the human dead; (ii) conducting immediate post-death activities; (iii) preparing of the human dead by embalming or other methods for burial or other disposition; (iv) being responsible for the transportation of the human dead, bereaved relatives and friends; (v) making arrangements, financial or otherwise, for the providing of such services; (vi) the sale of funeral merchandise; or (vii) the practice or performance of any function of funeral directing and/or embalming as presently known, including those stipulated herein. This definition shall not include persons or corporations engaging only in the pre-need sale of funeral merchandise or service.

(g) "Resident trainee" shall mean a person who is preparing to become licensed for the practice of funeral service or funeral directing and who is serving under the supervision and instruction of a person duly licensed for the practice of funeral service or funeral directing in this state.

(h) "Solicitation" means the act or practice of approaching someone with a request or plea, or urging someone toward a particular cause, as it may pertain to the care, custody or disposition of a dead human body.

SOURCES: Laws, 1983, ch. 351, Sec. 1; reenacted and amended, 1991, ch. 463, Sec. 2; reenacted, 1993, ch. 499, Sec. 4; reenacted, 1995, ch. 387, Sec. 2, eff from and after June 30, 1995