316.010 Definitions for chapter.
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As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1)"Apprentice" means a person engaged in learning the practice of embalming or
funeral directing who is under the instruction and personal supervision of a
Kentucky-licensed embalmer or a Kentucky-licensed funeral director;
(2)"Board" means the Kentucky Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors;
(3)"Direct burial" means the pick-up, transport, and interment of a dead human body or
body parts without a funeral;
(4)"Embalmer" means a person who preserves, restores, and disinfects dead human
bodies by the application of chemical substances either externally or internally, or
both;
(5)"Embalming service establishment" means a place of business where dead human
bodies are embalmed or otherwise prepared or held for burial. An embalming
service establishment shall not arrange or conduct a funeral or direct burial. An
embalming service establishment may arrange for and transport dead human bodies
only under the following circumstances:
(a)On behalf of a full-service funeral establishment;
(b)On behalf of a visitation and ceremonial funeral establishment; or
(c)At the direction of a coroner;
(6)"Funeral" means the ceremonies or services related to the final disposition and
interment of a human body or body parts;
(7)"Full-service funeral establishment" means a place of business where dead human
bodies may be embalmed or otherwise prepared and held for burial and where
funeral services may be arranged, provided, and conducted;
(8)"Funeral director" means a person who, for profit, engages in or represents himself
or herself as engaged in the supervision, direction, and arrangement of funeral
services, transportation, burials, and disposals of dead human bodies;
(9)"Funeral establishment" or "establishment" means:
(a)A full-service funeral establishment;
(b)An embalming service establishment; or
(c)A visitation and ceremonial funeral service establishment;
(10)"Memorial service" means a ceremony or service held in honor of a deceased
human being at which there are no human remains, as defined in KRS
367.97501(14) present, and for which no license is required;
(11)"Person," as used in this chapter, includes but is not limited to an individual,
partnership, firm, association, or corporation;
(12)"In use" means that funeral directing or embalming is taking place in a funeral
establishment;
(13)"Courtesy card" means a card that is issued by the board to a funeral director or an
embalmer from another state that gives the director or embalmer permission to
receive and transport a dead human body to and from Kentucky for a funeral and to
conduct funeral services and burials in Kentucky;
(14)"Supervision" means responsibility for the professional activities of the funeral
establishment that requires a Kentucky-licensed funeral director or a Kentucky-
licensed embalmer, as appropriate, to be on the premises when the funeral
establishment is in use. If the Kentucky-licensed funeral director or the Kentucky-
licensed embalmer is unable to be on the premises due to a reasonable
circumstance, then the Kentucky-licensed funeral director or the Kentucky-licensed
embalmer shall be within a reasonable proximity to the funeral establishment so that
upon contact the funeral director or embalmer is able to immediately return to the
funeral establishment; and
(15)"Visitation and ceremonial funeral service establishment" means a location from
which a funeral establishment may provide all services except embalming within
either the same or adjoining county as that served by an affiliated full-service
funeral establishment. The visitation and ceremonial funeral service establishment
shall be owned in whole or in part by the affiliated full-service funeral
establishment, and shall be located sufficiently close to the full-service funeral
establishment to share administration and services in a manner that renders it
unnecessary for the visitation and ceremonial funeral service establishment to
independently meet the minimum licensure requirements for a full-service funeral
establishment. A full-service funeral establishment may own and operate more than
one
(1)visitation and ceremonial funeral service establishment.