Sec. 20-224. Employment of assistants and students. Apprentice registration.
Sec. 20-224. Employment of assistants and students. Apprentice registration.
(a) The provisions of sections 20-217, 20-220 and 20-227 shall not prohibit the employment of assistants or of student embalmers and student funeral directors as provided in
this chapter, provided a licensed funeral service business may employ no more than
two student embalmers at any one time, and any person, firm, corporation or other
organization engaged in the business of funeral directing may employ no more than one
student funeral director at any one time, without the approval of the Board of Examiners
of Embalmers and Funeral Directors.
(b) Student embalmers and student funeral directors shall register as apprentices
with the Department of Public Health, in the manner prescribed by the commissioner
in regulations adopted pursuant to section 20-211, for purposes of completing practical
training and experience pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
(1949 Rev., S. 4541; 1951, S. 2263d; P.A. 73-80; P.A. 80-484, S. 162, 176; P.A. 92-59, S. 2; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39;
P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58.)
History: P.A. 73-80 made proviso re employment of student embalmers applicable to licensed "funeral service business"
rather than to "embalmer" and required approval of board of examiners before employment of more students than allowed
is undertaken; P.A. 80-484 deleted reference to repealed Sec. 20-225 and deleted word "registered" modifying student
embalmers; P.A. 92-59 made the existing section Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) 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.