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Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 90-210.28

  • Board: means the North Carolina Board of Funeral Service. See North Carolina General Statutes 90-210.20
  • Embalmer: means any person engaged in the practice of embalming. See North Carolina General Statutes 90-210.20
  • Embalming: means the preservation and disinfection or attempted preservation and disinfection of dead human bodies by application of chemicals externally or internally or both and the practice of restorative art including the restoration or attempted restoration of the appearance of a dead human body. See North Carolina General Statutes 90-210.20
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of a statute, shall be construed to mean the section next preceding or next following that in which such reference is made; unless when some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
  • Funeral director: means any person engaged in the practice of funeral directing. See North Carolina General Statutes 90-210.20
  • Funeral service: means the aggregate of all funeral service licensees and their duties and responsibilities in connection with the funeral as an organized, purposeful, time-limited, flexible, group-centered response to death. See North Carolina General Statutes 90-210.20

The Board may set and collect fees, not to exceed the following amounts:

Establishment permit

Application $400.00

Annual renewal 250.00

Late renewal 150.00

Establishment and embalming facility reinspection fee 150.00

Courtesy card

Application 100.00

Annual renewal 75.00

Out-of-state licensee

Application 250.00

Embalmer, funeral director, funeral service

Application-North

Carolina-Resident 200.00

-Non-Resident 250.00

Annual Renewal-embalmer or

funeral director 75.00

Total fee, embalmer and funeral director

when both are held by the same person 100.00

-funeral service 100.00

Inactive Status 50.00

Reinstatement fee 50.00

Resident trainee permit

Application 50.00

Voluntary change in supervisor 50.00

Annual renewal 35.00

Late renewal 25.00

Duplicate license certificate 25.00

Chapel registration

Application 150.00

Annual renewal 100.00

Late renewal 75.00

The Board shall provide, without charge, one copy of the current statutes and regulations relating to Funeral Service to every person applying for and paying the appropriate fees for licensing pursuant to this Article. The Board may charge all others requesting copies of the current statutes and regulations, and the licensees or applicants requesting additional copies, a fee equal to the costs of production and distribution of the requested documents. (1979, c. 461, s. 22; 1981, c. 619, s. 5; 1985, c. 447, ss. 1, 2; 1987, c. 710; 1989 (Reg. Sess., 1990), c. 968; 1997-399, s. 15; 2001-294, s. 5; 2007-531, s. 6; 2018-78, s. 3.)