{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-occupations-code-651.459","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Occupations Code § 651.459","heading":"OTHER UNETHICAL CONDUCT IN PROVIDING FUNERAL SERVICES.","body":"(a) A person violates this chapter if the person:\n(1) wilfully makes a false statement on:\n(A) a death certificate, including forgery of a physician's signature; or\n(B) a document required by this chapter or a rule adopted under this chapter;\n(2) engages in fraudulent, unprofessional, or deceptive conduct in providing funeral services or merchandise to a customer;\n(3) engages in dishonest conduct, wilful conduct, or negligence in the practice of embalming or funeral directing that is likely to or does deceive, defraud, or otherwise injure the public;\n(4) causes the execution of a document by the use of fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation;\n(5) directly or indirectly employs a person to solicit individuals or institutions by whose influence dead human bodies may be turned over to a particular funeral director, embalmer, or funeral establishment;\n(6) misappropriates funds held by a license holder, a funeral establishment, an employee or agent of the funeral establishment, or another depository, that create an obligation to provide a funeral service or merchandise, including retaining for an unreasonable time excess funds paid by or on behalf of the customer for which the customer is entitled to a refund; or\n(7) performs acts of funeral directing or embalming that are outside the licensed scope and authority of the license holder, or performs acts of funeral directing or embalming in a capacity other than that of an employee, agent, subcontractor, or assignee of a licensed funeral establishment that has contracted to perform those acts.\n(b) A funeral director or embalmer violates this chapter if the funeral director or embalmer states or implies that a customer's concern with the cost of any funeral service or funeral merchandise is improper or indicates a lack of respect for the deceased.\n(c) A funeral director in charge violates this chapter if the funeral director in charge fails to provide a funeral director or an embalmer for direction or personal supervision for a first call.\nActs 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 562, Sec. 28, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.","path":["OCCUPATIONS CODE","TITLE 3. HEALTH PROFESSIONS","SUBTITLE L. CREMATORY SERVICES, FUNERAL DIRECTING, AND EMBALMING","CHAPTER 651. CREMATORY SERVICES, FUNERAL DIRECTING, AND EMBALMING","SUBCHAPTER J. PROHIBITED PRACTICES"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.651.htm#651.459","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:31Z","sha256":"d8ddb054b11f19883a3a191a801e8220f1b4844812ffbdc99a335db220eb337a","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-occupations-code-651.458","next":"us-tx/tex.-occupations-code-651.460"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}