PURPOSE: This rule outlines the procedure for registering renewal licenses with local registrars.

1. (1) Pursuant to section 333.091, RSMo every holder of a Missouri embalmer’s or funeral director’s license, upon receiving his/her initial or renewal license(s), shall register his/her signature, name, address and license number with the local registrar of vital statistics for the registration district in which the licensee practices.
2. (2) Whenever a licensee changes his/her place of employment from the jurisdiction of one (1) registration district to another registration district, within ten (10) days after that change, s/he shall register with the local registrar to whose jurisdiction s/he has moved.
3. (3) The boundaries of the registration district shall be determined as required by the rules promulgated by the Department of Health.
4. (4) Each licensed embalmer who embalms a dead human body shall state on the death certificate that s/he embalmed the dead human body described on the death certificate. Each statement must be signed by the licensed embalmer. If the body was not embalmed, the fact that the body was not embalmed shall be stated on the death certificate prior to the filing of the death certificate by the licensed funeral director.
5. (5) Each signature of a licensed embalmer on a death certificate must correspond with the same licensee’s signature as registered with the local registrar of vital statistics.
6. (6) The rules in this division are declared severable. If any rule, or section of a rule, is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction or by the Administrative Hearing Commission, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect unless otherwise determined by a court of competent jurisdiction or by the Administrative Hearing Commission.

AUTHORITY: sections 194.119, RSMo Supp. 2003 and 333.091 and 333.111, RSMo 2000.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 120-2.030. Original rule filed Oct. 17, 1975, effective Oct. 28, 1975. Refiled March 24, 1976. Emergency rule filed Nov. 9, 1978, effective Nov. 20, 1978, expired Feb. 11, 1979. Amended: Filed Nov. 8, 1978, effective Feb. 11, 1979. Rescinded and readopted: Filed Jan. 13, 1982, effective April 11, 1982. Amended: Filed June 9, 1982, effective Sept. 12, 1982. Amended: Filed Jan. 13, 1986, effective April 24, 1986. Amended: Filed Aug. 4, 1986, effective Oct. 11, 1986. Amended: Filed Jan. 15, 1988, effective April 11, 1988. Amended: Filed Nov. 1, 2001, effective April 30, 2002. Amended: Filed Dec. 31, 2003, effective July 30, 2004. Moved to 20 CSR 2120-2.030, effective Aug. 28, 2006. *Original authority: 194.119, RSMo 2003; 333.091, RSMo 1965, amended 1981; and 333.111, RSMo 1965, amended 1981, 1993, 1995.