Bill Text: CT SB00435 | 2014 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Definition Of Funeral Directing.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-10 - File Number 484 [SB00435 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2014-SB00435-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Substitute Bill No. 435
February Session, 2014		*_____SB00435PH____032514____*

AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF FUNERAL DIRECTING.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subdivision (3) of section 20-207 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2014):

(3) "Funeral directing" means the business, practice or profession, as commonly practiced, of (A) directing or supervising funerals, or providing funeral services; (B) handling or encasing or providing services for handling and encasing dead human bodies, otherwise than by embalming, for burial or disposal; (C) providing embalming services; (D) providing transportation, interment and disinterment of dead human bodies; (E) maintaining an establishment so located, constructed and equipped as to permit the decent and sanitary handling of dead human bodies, with suitable equipment in such establishment for such handling; [and] (F) conducting an establishment from which funerals may be held; (G) engaging in consultations concerning arrangements for the disposition of human remains, including, but not limited to, arrangements for cremation or alkaline hydrolysis; (H) casketing human remains; (I) making cemetery and cremation arrangements; and (J) preparing funeral service contracts, as defined in section 42-200;

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2014	20-207(3)

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