K.S.A. 65-1713b: Funeral service or interment, who in charge of.

Every funeral service or interment, or part thereof, hereafter conducted in this state must be in the actual charge and under the supervision of a Kansas licensed funeral director, or of the duly licensed assistant funeral director: Provided, however, That this shall not prevent a family from burying its own dead where death did not result from a contagious, infectious or communicable disease, nor shall it prevent a religious group or sect whose religious belief require the burial of its own dead from conducting such services where death did not result from a contagious, infectious or communicable disease.