Conn. Gen. Stat. § 20-207

Current with legislation from the 2024 Regular and Special Sessions.

Section 20-207 - Definitions

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the meanings specified:

(1) "Board" means the Connecticut Board of Examiners of Embalmers and Funeral Directors;

(2) "Person" means an individual or corporation, but not a partnership;

(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; (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; (H) casketing human remains; (I) making cemetery and cremation arrangements; and (J) preparing funeral service contracts, as defined in section 42-200;

(4) "Funeral director" means any person engaged or holding himself or herself out as engaged in funeral directing whether or not he or she uses in connection with his or her name or business the words "funeral director," "undertaker" or "mortician" or any other word or title intended to designate him or her as a funeral director or mortician or as one so engaged;

(5) "Funeral service business" means the business, practice or profession of funeral directing;

(6) "Licensed embalmer" means an embalmer holding a license as provided in this chapter;

(7) "Licensed funeral director" means a funeral director holding a license as provided in this chapter;

(8) "Registered apprentice embalmer" means a person registered with the Department of Public Health as an apprentice pursuant to the provisions of this chapter;

(9) "Registered apprentice funeral director" means a person registered with the Department of Public Health as an apprentice pursuant to the provisions of this chapter;

(10) "Full-time employment" means regular and steady work during the normal working hours by any person at the establishment at which he is employed;

(11) "Manager" means an individual who (A) is licensed as an embalmer or funeral director pursuant to this chapter and (B) has direct and personal responsibility for the daily operation and management of a funeral service business; and

(12) "Cremation" means the disposition of a body through incineration or alkaline hydrolysis.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 20-207

(1949 Rev., S. 4538; 1951, S. 2246d; P.A. 80-484, S. 82, 176; P.A. 82-472, S. 80, 183; P.A. 92-59 , S. 1 ; P.A. 93-381 , S. 9 , 39 ; P.A. 95-257 , S. 12 , 21 , 58 ; 95-271 , S. 14 , 40 ; P.A. 07-217 , S. 86 ; P.A. 14-231 , S. 55 .)

Amended by P.A. 24-0068,S. 14 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2024 Regular Session, eff. 5/28/2024.

Amended by P.A. 21-0121, S. 12 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2021 Regular Session, eff. 10/1/2021.

Amended by P.A. 14-0231, S. 55 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2014 Regular Session, eff. 10/1/2014.

See Sec. 19a-91 re transportation of bodies of deceased persons.