Title 5
Businesses and Professions

Chapter 33.2
Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments

§ 5-33.2-6. Qualifications of funeral director/embalmers.

A funeral director or embalmer’s license shall be issued only to individuals, and no corporation, partnership, association, limited-liability company, or organization shall be entitled to obtain the license. In order to be entitled to a funeral director/embalmer’s license, an applicant must meet the following requirements:

(1) Be at least eighteen (18) years of age;

(2) Be a citizen of the United States or have lawful entry into the country;

(3) Show to the satisfaction of the division that he or she is of good moral character;

(4) Be a high school graduate or its equivalent;

(5) Have graduated from a school of mortuary science accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service Education, Inc.;

(6) Have at least an associate degree or the equivalent of sixty (60) semester hours from an approved college or university or be currently enrolled in a school accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service Education, Inc.;

(7) Have completed a registered funeral director/embalmer internship;

(8) Have satisfactorily passed the funeral director and embalmer portions of the written examination of the Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards;

(9) Have satisfactorily passed a practical examination that the board deems proper to ascertain his or her efficiency and qualifications to engage in the business of funeral directing and embalming;

(10) All individuals holding an embalmer and/or funeral director license on November 1, 1995, will be automatically issued a funeral director/embalmer license upon payment of the required annual license renewal fee; and

(11) The name and title of at least the funeral director/embalmer registered with the department as the licensee in charge of the funeral establishment or funeral establishment branch, shall appear in all printed advertising.