1. A. Each funeral conducted within this state shall be under the personal supervision of a duly-licensed funeral director who holds a valid license from the Oklahoma State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors. A registered apprentice may assist in conducting funerals. To conduct a funeral shall require the personal supervision of a licensed funeral director from the time of the first call until interment is completed. A funeral director conducting a funeral in this state shall ensure that the casket or other container holding the deceased human remains shall not incur any damage other than that which is normally incurred in the burial or final disposition of human remains.
2. B. The embalming of dead human remains shall require the presence and the direct supervision of a duly-licensed embalmer, however, a licensed registered apprentice embalmer may perform the embalming of a dead human provided said registered apprentice embalmer is under the direct supervision of a duly-licensed embalmer.
3. C. Nothing in this section regarding the conduct of funerals or personal supervision of a licensed director, a registered apprentice embalmer, or licensed embalmer, shall apply to persons related to the deceased by blood or marriage. Further, nothing in this section shall apply or in any manner interfere with the duties of any state officer or any employee of a local state institution.
4. D. Dead human remains shall be picked up on first call only under the direction and personal supervision of a licensed funeral director or embalmer. Dead human remains may be transferred from one funeral home to another funeral home and from a funeral home to and from a morgue where an autopsy is to be performed without a licensed funeral director personally making the transfer. In circumstances in which there is no reasonable probability that unlicensed personnel will encounter family members or other persons with whom funeral arrangements are normally made by licensed funeral directors or embalmers, dead human remains may be picked up or transferred without the personal supervision of a funeral director or embalmer. Dead human remains may be picked up or transferred by a currently registered apprentice without the personal supervision of a funeral director or embalmer, provided however, any inadvertent contact with family members or other persons shall be restricted to the currently registered apprentice identifying the employer to the person, arranging an appointment with the employer for any person who indicates a desire to make funeral arrangements for the deceased and making any disclosure to the person that is required by any federal or state regulation. A funeral director or embalmer who directs the removal or transfer of dead human remains without providing personal supervision shall be held strictly accountable for compliance with the requirements of, and exceptions to, first call as provided by the Funeral Services Licensing Act.

Laws 1989, SB 155, c. 297, § 10, eff. November 1, 1989.