Sec. 20-207. Definitions.
Sec. 20-207. Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise
requires, the following terms shall have the meanings specified:
(1) "Board" means the Connecticut Board of Examiners of Embalmers and Funeral
Directors;
(2) "Person" means an individual or corporation, but not a partnership;
(3) "Funeral directing" means the business, practice or profession, as commonly
practiced, of (A) directing or supervising funerals, or providing funeral services; (B)
handling or encasing or providing services for handling and encasing dead human bodies, otherwise than by embalming, for burial or disposal; (C) providing embalming
services; (D) providing transportation, interment and disinterment of dead human bodies; (E) maintaining an establishment so located, constructed and equipped as to permit
the decent and sanitary handling of dead human bodies, with suitable equipment in
such establishment for such handling; and (F) conducting an establishment from which
funerals may be held;
(4) "Funeral director" means any person engaged or holding himself out as engaged
in funeral directing whether or not he uses in connection with his name or business the
words "funeral director," "undertaker" or "mortician" or any other word or title intended
to designate him as a funeral director or mortician or as one so engaged;
(5) "Funeral service business" means the business, practice or profession of funeral
directing;
(6) "Licensed embalmer" means an embalmer holding a license as provided in this
chapter;
(7) "Licensed funeral director" means a funeral director holding a license as provided in this chapter;
(8) "Student embalmer" means a person studying embalming and registered with
the Department of Public Health as an apprentice pursuant to the provisions of this
chapter;
(9) "Student funeral director" means a person studying the funeral service business
and registered with the Department of Public Health as an apprentice pursuant to the
provisions of this chapter;
(10) "Full-time employment" means regular and steady work during the normal
working hours by any person at the establishment at which he is employed; and
(11) "Manager" means an individual who (A) is licensed as an embalmer or funeral
director pursuant to this chapter and (B) has direct and personal responsibility for the
daily operation and management of a funeral service business.
(1949 Rev., S. 4538; 1951, S. 2246d; P.A. 80-484, S. 82, 176; P.A. 82-472, S. 80, 183; P.A. 92-59, S. 1; P.A. 93-381,
S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; 95-271, S. 14, 40; P.A. 07-217, S. 86.)
History: P.A. 80-484 changed alphabetic Subdiv. indicators to numeric indicators and deleted definition of registered
student embalmers or funeral directors; P.A. 82-472 divided section into Subdivs. and corresponding Subparas. where
necessary; P.A. 92-59 amended Subdivs. (8) and (9) to add language concerning registration; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced
Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public
Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 95-271 added Subdiv. (11) defining "manager", effective July 6, 1995; P.A. 07-217
made a technical change in Subdiv. (3), effective July 12, 2007.
See Sec. 19a-91 re transportation of bodies of deceased persons.