(a) The primary objective of the Board of Funeral Services, to which all other objectives and purposes are secondary, is to protect the general public, specifically those persons who are the direct recipients of services regulated by this chapter, from unsafe practices and from occupational practices which tend to reduce competition or fix the price of services rendered.
(b) The secondary objectives of the Board are to maintain minimum standards of practitioner competency, and to maintain certain standards in the delivery of services to the public. In meeting its objectives, the Board shall:
(1) Develop standards assuring professional competence.
(2) Monitor complaints brought against practitioners regulated by the Board.
(3) Adjudicate at formal hearings regarding complaints brought against practitioners regulated by the Board.
(4) Promulgate rules and regulations.
(5) Impose sanctions where necessary against practitioners, both licensed and formerly licensed.