Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 396.3
Funeral Director or Embalmer - Determination of Qualifications - Requirements - Curriculum of Study - Issuance of License - Inspection - Funeral Director in Charge License
Effective Apr 10, 2003Laws 1941, HB 73, p. 236, § 4, emerg. eff. May 20, 1941; Amended by Laws 1945, HB 36, p. 192, § 1; Amended by Laws 1961, SB 267, p. 453, § 1; Amended by Laws 1963, HB 962, c. 117, § 3, emerg. eff. May 31, 1963; Amended by Laws 1970, SB 169, c. 311, § 1, emerg. eff. April 27, 1970; Amended by Laws 1983, HB 1174, c. 163, § 1; Amended by Laws 1989, SB 155, c. 297, § 4, eff. November 1, 1989; Amended by Laws 1999, SB 86, c. 64, § 4, emerg. eff. July 1, 1999 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2003, HB 1270, c. 57, § 5, emerg. eff. April 10, 2003 (superseded document available).
- A. The Oklahoma Funeral Board shall determine the qualifications necessary to enable any person to practice as a funeral director or embalmer, and prescribe the requirements for a funeral establishment or commercial embalming establishment. The Board shall examine all applicants for licenses to practice as a funeral director or embalmer. The Board shall issue the proper licenses to applicants who successfully pass such examination and qualify pursuant to any additional requirements the Board may prescribe.
B. The minimum requirements for a license to practice funeral directing or embalming, or both, are as follows:
An applicant for a license to practice embalming shall be at least twenty (20) years of age, a legal resident of this state, a citizen or permanent resident of the United States, and of good moral character. In addition, an applicant shall have at least sixty (60) semester hours of study earned, measured in quarter or clock hours, from a regionally accredited college or university, shall be a graduate of a program of mortuary science accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service Education, and have served one (1) year as a registered apprentice. The applicant may serve as a registered apprentice prior to enrollment in an approved school of mortuary science, or subsequent to graduation from said school.
Curriculum of study for an embalmer and/or funeral director is a program of mortuary science which shall be that prescribed by the American Board of Funeral Service Education.
- C. The Board shall issue the appropriate license to any qualified applicant whose application has been approved by the Board, and who has paid the fees required by Section 396.4 of this title, has passed the required examination with a general average of not less than seventy-five percent (75%) and has demonstrated to the Board proficiency as an embalmer or funeral director.
- D. The Board shall maintain for public inspection a list of all accredited schools of embalming and mortuary science.
Laws 1941, HB 73, p. 236, § 4, emerg. eff. May 20, 1941; Amended by Laws 1945, HB 36, p. 192, § 1; Amended by Laws 1961, SB 267, p. 453, § 1; Amended by Laws 1963, HB 962, c. 117, § 3, emerg. eff. May 31, 1963; Amended by Laws 1970, SB 169, c. 311, § 1, emerg. eff. April 27, 1970; Amended by Laws 1983, HB 1174, c. 163, § 1; Amended by Laws 1989, SB 155, c. 297, § 4, eff. November 1, 1989; Amended by Laws 1999, SB 86, c. 64, § 4, emerg. eff. July 1, 1999 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2003, HB 1270, c. 57, § 5, emerg. eff. April 10, 2003 (superseded document available).