Section 479.3 - Application for license; qualifications of applicants(a) Any person not holding a license to practice the profession of a funeral director and desiring to practice such profession in this Commonwealth shall make application for examination and licensure to the board, upon a form furnished by it, and shall accompany the application by such fee as may be fixed by the department.(b) Each applicant shall be a citizen of the United States, at least twenty-one (21) years of age, and a graduate of an approved high school of this Commonwealth or have an education equivalent thereto under the rules and regulations of the board.(c)(1) In addition thereto, each applicant shall have successfully completed a course of actual class work in didactic and laboratory studies in a school of embalming for a period to be fixed by the board at not less than nine hundred (900) hours nor more than twenty-four hundred (2400) hours, and shall have completed two years as a resident trainee.(2) Each applicant shall have successfully completed two years of academic work at a college or university accredited by the Department of Education, and a one year course at a mortuary college or university accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service Education, Inc. and shall have completed one year as a resident interne.(3) No more than an average of one hundred (100) hours of embalming or mortuary school training shall be given or required in any calendar month of any one year.(d) Integration and coordination of all educational requirements and examination procedures, including any academic work at a college or university or actual class work in didactic and laboratory studies in a mortuary college or university, shall be permitted and shall be encouraged under any rules or regulations that the board shall make.(e) Except in the case of a resident interne who has registered with the board and has begun his training period before the effective date of this act, the required period as a resident interne shall, in each case, be served after the applicant has fulfilled his educational requirements.(f) The requirements of a resident interne as to maximum and minimum hours, the number of cases to be handled, and the training and duties included and excluded, shall be fixed by rules and regulations of the board. They shall in all cases include a requirement that each resident interne shall completely embalm at least twenty-five (25) bodies.1952, Jan. 14, P.L. (1951) 1898, § 3. Amended 1953, July 25, P.L. 592, § 1; 1968, July 31, P.L. 1008, No. 295, § 2; 1983, Dec. 22, P.L. 354, No. 88, § 1, imd. effective.