445.12 Prohibited practices.
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445.12 Prohibited practices.
(1)No funeral director may embalm a dead human body when he or she has information reasonably indicating crime in connection with the cause of death, until permission of the coroner or medical examiner has first been obtained.
(2)No licensed funeral director may sign a certificate stating that he or she has embalmed or prepared a dead human body, when in fact, some other person embalmed or prepared said dead human body; provided, that this subsection shall not be construed as preventing a registered apprentice funeral director assisting the licensed funeral director from so certifying.
(3)No licensed funeral director or operator of a funeral establishment may, directly or indirectly, solicit a funeral service or the right to prepare a dead human body for burial or transportation either before or after death has occurred, or pay or cause to be paid any sum of money or other valuable consideration for the securing of the right to do such work. This subsection does not prohibit any of the following:
(a)The solicitation of memberships or the sale of stock or memberships in any association organized under ch. 185 or 193 by any person who is not a licensed funeral director.
(b)The solicitation or sale of burial agreements under s. 445.125
(1)and the solicitation and sale of burial agreements under s. 445.125
(3m)to the extent permitted under sub.
(3g)and s. 445.125
(3m).
(a)Except as provided in pars.
(b)and
(c), a licensed funeral director, agent of a licensed funeral director, operator of a funeral establishment or agent of an operator of a funeral establishment may not solicit the sale of a burial agreement under s. 445.125
(3m)by doing any of the following:
1. Knowingly contacting a prospective purchaser of a burial agreement in a hospital, health care facility or similar facility or institution.
2. Knowingly contacting a relative of a person whose death is imminent or appears to be imminent.
3. Contacting a prospective purchaser of a burial agreement by door-to-door solicitation or in a manner that violates rules promulgated by the examining board under s. 445.125
(j)2.
(b)A licensed funeral director, agent of a licensed funeral director, operator of a funeral establishment or agent of an operator of a funeral establishment may solicit the sale of a burial agreement under s. 445.125
(3m)by contacting any person if any of the following applies: