(1) No person shall operate a full-service funeral establishment, a visitation and ceremonial funeral service establishment, or an embalming service establishment in the Commonwealth of Kentucky without first obtaining the applicable establishment license issued by the board.
(2) The board shall issue the appropriate establishment license to an applicant who:

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 316.125

  • Board: means the Kentucky Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors. See Kentucky Statutes 316.010
  • Embalmer: means a person who preserves, restores, and disinfects dead human bodies by the application of chemical substances either externally or internally, or both. See Kentucky Statutes 316.010
  • Embalming service establishment: means a place of business where dead human bodies are embalmed or otherwise prepared or held for burial. See Kentucky Statutes 316.010
  • establishment: means : (a) A full-service funeral establishment. See Kentucky Statutes 316.010
  • Funeral: means the ceremonies or services related to the final disposition and interment of a human body or body parts. See Kentucky Statutes 316.010
  • 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. See Kentucky Statutes 316.010
  • 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. See Kentucky Statutes 316.010
  • Sworn: includes "affirmed" in all cases in which an affirmation may be substituted for an oath. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • 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. See Kentucky Statutes 316.010

(a) Has paid to the board an establishment license fee as set out in administrative regulations promulgated by the board; and
(b) Has filed with the board a sworn statement that sets out the following:
1. Name of the funeral establishment;
2. Address of the funeral establishment;
3. Type of funeral establishment;
4. Owners of the funeral establishment, indicating which owners are licensed by the board; and
5. Name and address of the Kentucky-licensed embalmer or the Kentucky- licensed funeral director who will supervise the funeral establishment pursuant to subsection (4) of this section.
(3) Each funeral establishment shall be licensed separately from any other funeral establishment.
(4) Each funeral establishment, when in use, shall be under the supervision of a
Kentucky-licensed embalmer or a Kentucky-licensed funeral director.
(5) A Kentucky-licensed embalmer or a Kentucky-licensed funeral director shall not supervise more than one (1) funeral establishment at the same time.
(6) The funeral establishment shall display in a public place in the establishment its establishment license and the license of the embalmer or funeral director who supervises the establishment pursuant to subsection (4) of this section.
Effective: June 29, 2021
History: Amended 2021 Ky. Acts ch. 23, sec. 2, effective June 29, 2021. — Amended
2006 Ky. Acts ch. 112, sec. 2, effective July 12, 2006. — Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch.
90, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1998. — Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 149, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1996. — Created 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 82, sec. 4, effective July 13,
1984.

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