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18VAC65-20-540: Preparation room requirements
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 18. Professional And Occupational Licensing
- Agency 65. Board of Funeral Directors And Embalmers
- Chapter 20. Regulations Governing the Practice of Funeral Services
- Part VII. Standards for Embalming and Refrigeration
A. A funeral service establishment shall have at least one room used exclusively for embalming or preparation of the body for burial, transportation, or other disposition.
B. The following are required of a preparation room:
1. The walls shall extend floor to ceiling;
2. The floor and wall surfaces shall be of a material or covered by a material impervious to water; and
3. The material shall extend from wall to wall with all joints tight and sanitary.
C. All functions connected with embalming shall be performed within the preparation room.
D. A funeral service establishment with more than one location at which it performs funeral services shall not be required to maintain more than one preparation room.
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