New York Consolidated Law|SECTION 3400

                                                

  § 3400. Funeral directing; definitions. As used in this article,
unless otherwise stated, the following terms shall have the respective
meanings hereinafter set forth or indicated:

(a) "Funeral director" means a person to whom a valid license as such
has been duly issued.

(b) "Undertaker" means a person to whom a valid license as such has
been duly issued.

(c) "Embalmer" means a person to whom a valid license as such has been
duly issued.

(d) "Funeral directing" means the care and disposal of the body of a
deceased person and/or the preserving, disinfecting and preparing by
embalming or otherwise, the body of a deceased person for funeral
services, transportation, burial or cremation; and/or funeral directing
or embalming as presently known whether under these titles or
designations or otherwise.

(e) "Undertaking" means the care, disposal, transportation, burial or
cremation by any means other than embalming of the body of a deceased
person.

(f) "Embalming" means preparing, disinfecting and preserving, either
hypodermically, arterially or by any other recognized means the body of
a deceased person for burial, cremation or other final disposition.

(g) "Funeral establishment" means a single physical location, address
or premises devoted to or used for the care and preparation of a body of
a deceased person for disposition and for mourning or funeral ceremonial
purposes.

(h) "Burial" includes transportation and/or cremation.

(i) "Advertisement" means the publication, dissemination, circulation,
or placing before the public, or causing directly or indirectly to be
made, published, disseminated, or placed before the public, any
announcement or statement in a newspaper, magazine, or other
publication, or in the form of a book, notice, circular, pamphlet,
letter, hand-bill, poster, bill, sign, placard, card, label, tag, or by
radio or television or any other means.

(j) "Funeral firm" means an individual, partnership, corporation or
estate representative engaged in the business and practice of funeral
directing.

(k) "Registered resident" means a person who passed a funeral
directing examination and who is duly registered as such with the
department while in the employ of a registered funeral firm and who is
engaged in the practice of funeral directing under the supervision of a
licensed funeral director or undertaker and embalmer; provided, however,
that a registered resident shall not have authority to sign any form or
document required by law which requires the signature of a licensed
funeral director or make funeral arrangements or own or manage a funeral
firm.

(l) "Embalming fluid" means any chemicals or substances manufactured
primarily for use by licensed funeral directors, undertakers or
embalmers, or registered residents, to prepare, disinfect or preserve,
either hypodermically, arterially or by any other recognized means the
body of a deceased person for burial, cremation or other final
disposition.