Section 479.2 - DefinitionsThe following terms as used in this act shall, unless the context indicates otherwise, have the following meanings:
(1) The term "funeral director" shall include any person engaged in the profession of a funeral director or in the care and disposition of the human dead, or in the practice of disinfecting and preparing by embalming the human dead for the funeral service, burial or cremation, or the supervising of the burial, transportation or disposal of deceased human bodies, or in the practice of funeral directing or embalming as presently known, whether under these titles or designation or otherwise. The term "funeral director" shall also mean a person who makes arrangements for funeral service and who sells funeral merchandise to the public incidental to such service or who makes financial arrangements for the rendering of such services and the sale of such merchandise.(2) The word "board" shall mean State Board of Funeral Directors in the Department of State.(3) The word "department" shall mean the Department of State of this Commonwealth.(4) The term "resident interne" shall mean any person operating under or with a funeral director for the purpose of learning the profession, to the end that he may become a licensed funeral director. The term shall also include a student apprentice serving as such on the effective date of this act under any law repealed hereby.(5) The term "student trainee" shall mean any person accepted for matriculation at a mortuary college or university specializing in mortuary subjects which have been approved by the American Board of Funeral Service Education, Inc.(6) The term "funeral establishment" shall mean every place or premise approved by the State Board of Funeral Directors wherein a licensed funeral director conducts the professional practice of funeral directing including the preparation, care and funeral services for the human dead.(7) The word "preceptor" shall mean a licensed funeral director under or with whom a resident interne is registered and operates.(8) The term "school of embalming" shall mean a mortuary college, institute or university offering a course of actual class work in didactic and laboratory studies in a manner accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service Education, Inc.(9) The term "profession" as used in this act shall mean the aggregate of all funeral service licensees and their duties and responsibilities in connection with the funeral as funeral directors licensed under this act.(10) The term "advertisement" shall mean the publication, dissemination, circulation or placing before the public, or causing directly or indirectly to be made, published, disseminated or placed before the public any announcement or statement in a newspaper, magazine or other publication, or in the form of a book, notice, stationery, circular, pamphlet, letter, handbill, poster, bill, calendar, sign, placard, cards, labels or tags or over any radio or television station whenever applicable to any rules and regulations approved by the board.(11) The term "full-time supervisor" shall mean a licensed funeral director who is a registered supervisor of no more than one funeral establishment and who is accessible to serve the public at the funeral establishment which he is supervising and is not engaged in any activity, business or profession, including assisting other funeral directors, which substantially interferes with or prevents the supervision of the practice carried on by the funeral establishment which he supervises.1952, Jan. 14, P.L. (1951) 1898, § 2. Amended 1959, Aug. 10, P.L. 658, § 2; 1968, July 31, P.L. 1008, No. 295, § 1; 1978, Oct. 5, P.L. 1074, No. 250, § 1, effective in 60 days.