§ 3420 Funeral directing; license to practice required; exceptions
§ 3421 Funeral directing; requirements for license to practice
§ 3422 Funeral directing; licensing examinations; content; procedure
§ 3423 Funeral directing; undertakers and embalmers; requirements for license to practice; examinations
§ 3424 Funeral directing; reports by trainees, employees and schools
§ 3425 Funeral directing; schools; approval
§ 3426 Funeral directing; licensing reciprocity with other states
§ 3427 Funeral directing; issuance of duplicate licenses
§ 3428 Funeral directing; registration of licenses; fees
§ 3429 Continuing education for funeral directors

Terms Used In New York Laws > Public Health > Article 34 > Title 2 - Licensing and Registration

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
  • Community rating: means a rating methodology in which the premium equivalent rate for all persons covered under a municipal cooperative health benefit plan is the same, based upon the experience of the entire pool of risks covered under the plan, without regard to age, sex, health status or occupation and such that refunds, rebates, credits or dividends based upon age, sex, health status or occupation are not permitted. See N.Y. Insurance Law 4702
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • contribution: means the amount contributed by participating municipal corporations to cover expected claims and expenses thereon, required reserves, surplus, stop-loss insurance, and other expenses associated with the operations of the municipal cooperative health benefit plan. See N.Y. Insurance Law 4702
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • 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.
  • Embalmer: means a person to whom a valid license as such has been duly issued. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
  • Embalming: means preparing, disinfecting and preserving, either hypodermically, arterially or by any other recognized means the body of a deceased person for burial, cremation or other final disposition. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Fully-insured: means that all benefits payable pursuant to a municipal cooperative health benefit plan are guaranteed under a contract or policy of insurance delivered in this state and issued by an insurance company authorized to do accident and health insurance business in this state, an article forty-three corporation, or a health maintenance organization. See N.Y. Insurance Law 4702
  • Funeral directing: means the care and disposal of the body of a deceased person and/or the preserving, disinfecting and preparing by embalming or otherwise, the body of a deceased person for funeral services, transportation, burial or cremation; and/or funeral directing or embalming as presently known whether under these titles or designations or otherwise. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
  • Funeral director: means a person to whom a valid license as such has been duly issued. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
  • Funeral establishment: means a single physical location, address or premises devoted to or used for the care and preparation of a body of a deceased person for disposition and for mourning or funeral ceremonial purposes. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
  • Funeral firm: means an individual, partnership, corporation or estate representative engaged in the business and practice of funeral directing. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
  • Governing board: means the group of persons, designated in the municipal cooperation agreement establishing the municipal cooperative health benefit plan, to be responsible for administering the plan. See N.Y. Insurance Law 4702
  • Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. Source: Federal Reserve
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Municipal cooperation agreement: means an appropriate cooperative agreement authorized by article five-G of the general municipal law. See N.Y. Insurance Law 4702
  • Municipal corporation: means within the state of New York, a city with a population of less than one million or a county outside the city of New York, town, village, board of cooperative educational services, school district, a public library, as defined in section two hundred fifty-three of the education law, or district, as defined in section one hundred nineteen-n of the general municipal law. See N.Y. Insurance Law 4702
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • plan: means any plan established or maintained by two or more municipal corporations pursuant to a municipal cooperation agreement for the purpose of providing medical, surgical or hospital services to employees or retirees of such municipal corporations and to the dependents of such employees or retirees. See N.Y. Insurance Law 4702
  • Plan document: means the group contract issued by the municipal cooperative health benefit plan to participating municipal corporations describing the terms and conditions of coverage. See N.Y. Insurance Law 4702
  • Qualified actuary: means an actuary who is a member in good standing of the American Academy of Actuaries or Society of Actuaries, with experience in establishing rates for self-insured trusts providing health benefits or other similar experience. See N.Y. Insurance Law 4702
  • Registered resident: means a person who passed a funeral directing examination and who is duly registered as such with the department while in the employ of a registered funeral firm and who is engaged in the practice of funeral directing under the supervision of a licensed funeral director or undertaker and embalmer; provided, however, that a registered resident shall not have authority to sign any form or document required by law which requires the signature of a licensed funeral director or make funeral arrangements or own or manage a funeral firm. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Summary plan description: means the certificate of coverage or booklet delivered to employees or retirees enrolled in the plan, summarizing the essential terms and conditions of coverage for employees or retirees and their dependents. See N.Y. Insurance Law 4702
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Undertaker: means a person to whom a valid license as such has been duly issued. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400
  • Undertaking: means the care, disposal, transportation, burial or cremation by any means other than embalming of the body of a deceased person. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3400