Bill Text: NJ A1732 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires certain advertising disclosures by certain funeral establishments.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-10 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Regulated Professions Committee [A1732 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-A1732-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
215th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2012 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman VINCENT PRIETO
District 32 (Bergen and Hudson)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Rumpf
SYNOPSIS
Requires certain advertising disclosures by certain funeral establishments.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
An Act concerning certain advertising by certain funeral establishments and supplementing chapter 7 of Title 45 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. As used in this act:
"Advertisement" means any attempt, direct or indirect, by publication, dissemination, circulation or broadcast through the public media to induce any person to purchase or enter into an agreement to accept mortuary or funeral services or merchandise, including, but not limited to, business cards when business cards are used as copy in an advertisement or are published, disseminated, circulated or broadcast in the public media.
"Public media" means newspapers, magazines, periodicals, professional journals, telephone directories, circulars, handbills, flyers, letters, billboards, aerial displays, signs, television, radio, internet and any other similar item, document, publication or device used to communicate to the general public or to a specific group.
2. If a registered mortuary or funeral establishment is not wholly owned by the licensed practitioner of mortuary science or funeral director, or the members of his family, operating out of the mortuary or funeral establishment, then the mortuary or funeral establishment, when identifying the firm name in advertisements and posting of signs, shall conspicuously indicate its source of ownership.
3. This act shall take effect on the first day of the fourth month following enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill provides that if a registered mortuary or funeral establishment is not wholly owned by the licensed practitioner of mortuary science or funeral director, or the members of his family, operating out of the mortuary or funeral establishment, then the mortuary or funeral establishment, when identifying the firm name in advertisements and posting of signs, shall conspicuously indicate its source of ownership.
