Standards of practice - embalming - transporting.

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(1) A funeral establishment that performs embalming shall:

  1. Maintain a sanitary preparation room with sanitary flooring, drainage, and ventilation;

  2. Employ universal biological hazard precautions;

  3. Employ reasonable care to minimize the risk of transmitting communicable diseasesfrom human remains;

  4. Be equipped with instruments and supplies necessary to protect the health and safetyof the public and employees of the funeral establishment; and

  5. Transport human remains in a safe and sanitary manner.

(2) A funeral establishment that transports human remains shall:

(a) Use a motor vehicle that is appropriate for the transportation of human remains; and (b) Transport human remains in a safe and sanitary manner.

(3) A funeral establishment shall remove any implanted device in human remains before transporting the body to a crematory.

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 949, § 1, effective October 1.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-54-112 as it existed prior to 2019.


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