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Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 59-396.12: Funeral establishment required to be licensed – Display

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  2. Title 59

of license - Inspection of premises - Sanitary rules – Commercial

embalming establishments.

A. Any place where a person shall hold forth by word or act

that the person is engaged in the profession of undertaking or

funeral directing shall be deemed as a funeral establishment and

shall be licensed as such pursuant to the provisions of the Funeral

Services Licensing Act.

B. A funeral establishment shall not do business in a location

that is not licensed as a funeral establishment, shall not advertise

a service that is available from an unlicensed location, and shall

advertise itself by the name that the establishment is licensed as

pursuant to the Funeral Services Licensing Act.

C. Every funeral establishment, commercial embalming

establishment, and crematory shall be operated by a funeral director

in charge. Each establishment license shall be conspicuously

displayed at the location.

D. The Oklahoma Funeral Board shall have the power to inspect

the premises in which funeral directing is conducted or where

embalming or cremation is practiced or where an applicant proposed

to practice, and the Board is hereby empowered to prescribe and

endorse rules for reasonable sanitation of such establishments,

including necessary drainage, ventilation, and necessary and

suitable instruments for the business or profession of embalming and

funeral directing.

E. Any place where a person shall hold forth by word or act

that such person is engaged in preparing and shipping of dead human

remains to funeral establishments inside and outside this state

shall be deemed a commercial embalming establishment and shall be

licensed as such pursuant to the provisions of the Funeral Services

Licensing Act.

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