(a) The provisions of sections 20-217, 20-220 and 20-227 shall not prohibit the employment of assistants or of registered apprentice embalmers and registered apprentice funeral directors as provided in this chapter, provided a licensed funeral service business may employ no more than two registered apprentice embalmers at any one time, and any person, firm, corporation or other organization engaged in the business of funeral directing may employ no more than one registered apprentice funeral director at any one time, without the approval of the Board of Examiners of Embalmers and Funeral Directors.

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 20-224

  • Board: means the Connecticut Board of Examiners of Embalmers and Funeral Directors. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-207
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Funeral directing: means the business, practice or profession, as commonly practiced, of (A) directing or supervising funerals, or providing funeral services. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-207
  • Funeral director: means any person engaged or holding himself or herself out as engaged in funeral directing whether or not he or she uses in connection with his or her name or business the words "funeral director" "undertaker" or "mortician" or any other word or title intended to designate him or her as a funeral director or mortician or as one so engaged. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-207
  • Funeral service business: means the business, practice or profession of funeral directing. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-207
  • Person: means an individual or corporation, but not a partnership. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-207

(b) Registered apprentice embalmers and registered apprentice funeral directors shall register as apprentices with the Department of Public Health, in the manner prescribed by the commissioner in regulations adopted pursuant to § 20-211, for purposes of completing practical training and experience pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.