§ 62-5-301 Publication of examination rules
§ 62-5-302 Preservation of examination papers
§ 62-5-303 Licensing requirement
§ 62-5-304 Application for funeral establishment license
§ 62-5-305 Application for funeral director’s license – Apprenticeship
§ 62-5-306 Examination for funeral directors – Issuance of license
§ 62-5-307 Application for embalmer’s license – Apprenticeship
§ 62-5-308 Embalmers’ examination – Issuance of license
§ 62-5-309 Practice by unregistered persons prohibited
§ 62-5-310 Licenses to establishments operating before 1969
§ 62-5-311 Reciprocity – Examination – Continuing education – Fee
§ 62-5-312 Registration as an apprentice
§ 62-5-313 Requirements for operation
§ 62-5-314 Use of names of unregistered persons restricted
§ 62-5-315 Term of licenses – Not transferable – Duplicates – Renewals
§ 62-5-316 Invalidity of unrenewed license – Renewal, reinstatement or reapplication
§ 62-5-317 Grounds for denial, suspension or revocation of license
§ 62-5-318 Requirement that removal service be registered with board of funeral directors and embalmers – Registration fee – Registration and renewal forms – Penalty

Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 62 > Chapter 5 > Part 3 - Licensing

  • 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.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • apprentice: means a person who is engaged in learning to practice as a funeral director or embalmer, as the case may be, under the personal supervision and instruction of a duly licensed funeral director or embalmer of this state under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • Board: means the board of funeral directors and embalmers. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • 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.
  • Cremation: means the heating process by which a human body or body parts are reduced to bone fragments through combustion and evaporation. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • Crematory: includes crematorium. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Embalming: means the preservation and disinfection, restoration or attempted preservation or disinfection of dead human bodies by the application of chemicals externally or internally, or both. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • 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.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Funeral directing: means the:
    (i) Practice of directing or supervising funerals or the practice of preparing dead human bodies for burial by any means, other than by embalming, or the disposition of dead human bodies. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • Funeral establishment: means any business, whether a proprietorship, partnership, firm, association or corporation, engaged in arranging, directing or supervising funerals for profit or other benefit, the preparing of dead human bodies for burial, the disposition of dead human bodies, the provision or maintenance of place for the preparation for disposition, or for the care or disposition of human bodies. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • Licensee: means an embalmer or funeral director who holds a license issued by the board. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • 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.
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105