{"data":{"id":"us-in/ic-25-15-8-1","jurisdiction":"us-in","citation":"IC 25-15-8-1","heading":"Grounds for discipline of licensees","body":"Sec. 1. (a) A licensee that:\n(1) promotes or participates in a scheme or plan in the nature of a burial association, burial certificate plan, or burial membership plan;\n(2) after an individual has died, personally or through an agent solicits, makes, or offers to make a direct or an indirect payment of a commission for the purpose of securing the individual's human remains;\n(3) fails to promptly surrender possession of human remains after receiving a demand from the person legally entitled to custody of the human remains;\n(4) transports or disposes of human remains without a permit required by law;\n(5) takes possession of human remains without authorization from the person legally entitled to custody of the human remains;\n(6) makes a misleading claim concerning the protective qualities of a casket, an alternative container, or an outer burial container;\n(7) shows a casket, an alternative container, or an outer burial container to a consumer if the casket, alternative container, or outer burial container does not have a conspicuously displayed card or brochure that lists the price of the casket, alternative container, or outer burial container and briefly describes the casket, alternative container, or outer burial container; or\n(8) is found to have accepted payment by assignment of third party life insurance proceeds for at-need funeral services performed for more than the amount of the contracted funeral expenses arranged for by an authorizing agent;\nmay be disciplined under IC 25-1-11.\n(b) Subsection (a)(8) does not apply to funeral trust funds under IC 30-2-10 and IC 30-2-13.","path":["TITLE 25. PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS","ARTICLE 15. EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS","Chapter 8. Grounds for Discipline; Sanctions by Board; Violations"],"source_url":"https://iga.in.gov/ic/2026/Title_25.html#25-15-8-1","current_through":"2026","vintage":"2026","retrieved_at":"2026-10-06T20:43:28Z","sha256":"8466e83d63d5ef1428dc6d7652c0c6756fb4ffc640cbf6bea3f8d25372cb5450","source_id":"us-in","stale":false,"prev":"us-in/ic-25-15-7-5","next":"us-in/ic-25-15-8-1.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}