Statute 65-1713a: Funeral establishment defined; branch establishments.
(a) A "funeral establishment," as the term is used herein, is a
business
premises where a funeral service, visitation or lying in-state of a dead
human body is arranged and conducted, or dead human bodies are embalmed or
otherwise prepared for a funeral service, visitation, lying in-state, burial,
cremation or transportation. A funeral establishment shall be maintained
at a fixed and specific
street address or location and shall contain a preparation room equipped
with a sanitary floor, walls and ceiling, with adequate sanitary drainage
and disposal facilities, good ventilation and light, and the necessary
instruments, equipment and supplies for the preparation and embalming of
dead human bodies for burial or transportation. The preparation room shall be
clearly identified by signs on all preparation room entrance doors, shall
be separate from any funeral merchandise display room and chapel
or visitation rooms, and shall not be a part of the living quarters. Each
funeral establishment shall have available or employ a
Kansas
licensed embalmer for all embalming work, if the funeral director in charge
of the establishment is not a Kansas licensed embalmer. Each funeral
establishment shall be under the personal
supervision of a Kansas licensed
funeral director.
(b) The provisions and requirements herein contained shall
apply to all branch establishments as well as principal establishments, except
that:
(1) Only the funeral director in charge of the
funeral establishment who holds the
funeral establishment license shall be eligible to apply for a
branch establishment license;
(2) a branch establishment is not required to contain a funeral
merchandise display room or a preparation
room or to be a place where dead bodies are prepared for burial, cremation
or transportation;
(3) a branch establishment ownership shall be identical to the ownership
of the funeral establishment which owns the branch;
(4) the funeral director in
charge of the funeral establishment also shall be responsible for the
supervision of all branches of that funeral establishment; and
(5) a branch establishment is not required to be under the
personal supervision and charge of a licensed funeral director.
History: L. 1941, ch. 297, § 15;
L. 1986, ch. 238, § 1;
L. 1992, ch. 51, § 1;
L. 1995, ch. 86, § 3; July 1.