As used in the Funeral Services Licensing Act:

1. 1. "Embalmer" means a person who disinfects or preserves dead human remains, entire or in part, by the use of chemical substances, fluids or gases in the remains, or by the introduction of same into the remains by vascular or hypodermic injection, or by direct application into organs or cavities;

2. 2. "Funeral director" means a person who:

   1. a. is engaged in or conducts or represents themselves as being engaged in preparing for the burial or disposal and directing and supervising the burial or disposal of dead human remains,
   2. b. is engaged in or conducts or represents themselves as being engaged in maintaining a funeral establishment for the preparation and the disposition, or for the care of dead human remains,
   3. c. uses, in connection with the name of the person or funeral establishment, the words "funeral director" or "undertaker" or "mortician" or any other title implying that the person is engaged as a funeral director, or
   4. d. sells funeral service merchandise to the public;
3. 3. "Funeral establishment" means a place of business used in the care and preparation for burial or transportation of dead human remains, or any place where any person or persons shall hold forth and be engaged in the profession of undertaking or funeral directing;
4. 4. "Apprentice" means a person who is engaged in learning the practice of embalming or of the practice of funeral directing, as the case may be, under the instruction and personal supervision of a duly-licensed embalmer or a duly-licensed funeral director of and in the State of Oklahoma, pursuant to the provisions of the Funeral Services Licensing Act, and who is duly registered as such with said Board;
5. 5. "Board" means the Oklahoma State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors;
6. 6. "Directing a funeral" or "funeral directing" means directing funeral services from the time of the first call until interment or entombment services are completed, or until the remains are released for transport to a crematorium, or released to a public carrier;
7. 7. "First call" means the beginning of the relationship and duty of the funeral director to take charge of dead human remains and have such remains prepared by embalming, cremation, or otherwise, for burial or disposition, provided all laws pertaining to public health in this state are complied with. First call does not include calls made by ambulance, when the person dispatching the ambulance does not know whether or not dead human remains are to be picked up;
8. 8. "Personal supervision" means the physical presence of a licensed funeral director or embalmer at the specified time and place of the providing of acts of funeral service;
9. 9. "Commercial embalming establishment" means a fixed place of business consisting of an equipped preparation room, and other rooms as necessary, for the specified purpose of performing preparation and shipping services of dead human remains to funeral establishments inside and outside this state;
10. 10. "Funeral service merchandise or funeral services" means those products and services normally provided by funeral establishments and required to be listed on the General Price List of the Federal Trade Commission, 15 U.S.C., Section 57a(a), including, but not limited to, the sale of burial supplies and equipment, but excluding the sale by a cemetery of lands or interests therein, services incidental thereto, markers, memorials, monuments, equipment, crypts, niches or outer enclosures; and
11. 11. "Outer enclosure" means a grave liner, grave box, or grave vault.

Laws 1941, HB 73, p. 235, § 3, emerg. eff. May 20, 1941; Amended by Laws 1963, HB 962, c. 117, § 2, emerg. eff. May 31, 1963; Amended by Laws 1999, SB 86, c. 64, § 2, emerg. eff. July 1, 1999 (superseded document available).