Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Occupations Code § 651.4085: INTERMENT OR ENTOMBMENT.

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OCCUPATIONS CODE
TITLE 3. HEALTH PROFESSIONS
SUBTITLE L. CREMATORY SERVICES, FUNERAL DIRECTING, AND EMBALMING
CHAPTER 651. CREMATORY SERVICES, FUNERAL DIRECTING, AND EMBALMING
SUBCHAPTER I. PRACTICE BY LICENSE HOLDER

(a) A funeral director who contracts with a customer to perform funeral directing under this chapter, or an agent of the funeral establishment, shall be present when the casket containing the human body to which the contract applies is placed in a grave, crypt, or burial vault unless interment or entombment takes place at a location outside this state.

(b) The funeral directing duties related to interment or entombment services are complete when the casket is placed in a grave, crypt, or burial vault.

Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 312 (H.B. 2286), Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 2011.

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