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34-13-1
Section 34-13-1 Definitions. (a) For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) ACCREDITED SCHOOL or COLLEGE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE. A school or
college approved by the Alabama Board of Funeral Service and which maintains a course of instruction
of not less than 48 calendar weeks or four academic quarters or college terms and which gives
a course of instruction in the fundamental subjects including, but not limited to, the following:
a. Mortuary management and administration. b. Legal medicine and toxicology as it pertains
to funeral directing. c. Public health, hygiene, and sanitary science. d. Mortuary science,
to include embalming technique, in all its aspects; chemistry of embalming, color harmony;
discoloration, its causes, effects, and treatment; treatment of special cases; restorative
art; funeral management; and professional ethics. e. Anatomy and physiology. f. Chemistry,
organic and inorganic. g. Pathology. h. Bacteriology. i. Sanitation...
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designed for the encasement of human remains and which is usually constructed of wood, metal,
or like material, and ornamented and lined with fabric. (11) CEMETERY. A place that is established,
maintained, managed, operated, or improved and which is dedicated to and used or intended
to be used for the final disposition of human remains and their memorialization. (12) CEMETERY
AUTHORITY. Any person who owns or controls a cemetery or conducts cemetery business. (13)
CEMETERY MERCHANDISE. Any personal property offered for sale, contracted for sale,
or sold for use in connection with the burial of, final disposition, memorialization, interment,
entombment, or inurnment of human remains by a cemetery authority. Cemetery merchandise specifically
includes, but is not limited to, the casket, the outer burial container, and the memorial.
(14) CEMETERY SERVICES. Services provided by a cemetery authority for interment, entombment,
inurnment, and installation of cemetery merchandise. (15)...
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34-13-113
Section 34-13-113 Application for license; inspection of establishment; issuance of license.
(a) Application for a license to operate a funeral establishment shall be made in writing
on a form provided by the board. The application shall be verified by the applicant or, if
the applicant is a corporation, firm, or other organization, by an officer or member thereof,
and shall be accompanied by an application fee established by the board not to exceed five
hundred dollars ($500). The application shall disclose all of the following: (1) The name
and address of the establishment. (2) That the establishment is operated by a managing funeral
director and a managing embalmer or a person licensed both as a funeral director and embalmer.
(3) A description and photographs of the buildings, equipment, and facilities of the establishment.
(4) That the establishment has a sanitary, properly equipped embalming room, a room suitable
for public viewing or other funeral services that is able to...
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34-13-56
Section 34-13-56 Grounds for revocation, suspension, or refusal to issue or renew licenses,
etc.; hearing; fines. (a) The board may refuse to license any person or establishment for
violation of this chapter. If the board refuses to issue, grant, or renew a license based
on a violation of this chapter, including, but not limited to, violations listed in subsection
(c), the licensee or prospective licensee may request a public hearing before the board to
appeal the action of the board. The request for a public hearing shall be submitted to the
board in writing within 14 calendar days after the date of the refusal. Upon request, the
board shall provide the licensee or prospective licensee with 20 days' notice of the public
hearing by United States certified mail. The public hearing shall be conducted pursuant to
Section 34-13-26. (b) A public hearing conducted pursuant to Section 34-13-26 shall be provided
by the board to any licensee for whom the board is considering the probation,...
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34-13-121
unless the cremation container is metal and the authorizing agent has been informed in writing
that the crematory does not cremate metal containers. (e) A cremation container shall be all
of the following: a. Composed of readily combustible materials suitable for cremation. b.
Able to be closed in order to provide a complete covering for the human remains. c. Resistant
to leakage or spillage. d. Rigid enough for handling with ease. e. Able to provide protection
for the health, safety, and personal integrity of crematory personnel. f. Equipped
with a covering that clearly identifies the name and date of death of the decedent. (f) It
shall be disclosed to the family member serving as the authorizing agent that he or she, or
his or her designee, may witness the transportation of the human remains to be cremated to
the crematory. Every funeral establishment performing cremation services that prohibits relatives
or the responsible party from viewing the cremation process shall disclose...
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34-13-120
Section 34-13-120 License required; crematory requirements; application and inspection; records;
violations; rulemaking authority. (a) No person, firm, corporation, association, entity, or
funeral establishment, or branch thereof, may operate a crematory for the purpose of cremating
dead human bodies, unless licensed by the board as a funeral establishment and the crematory
being registered with the board and inspected by the board before any cremations of human
remains are performed. (b) A crematory shall satisfy all of the following requirements and
have the following minimum equipment, facilities, and personnel: (1) Registered with the board.
(2) Inspected by the board before performing any cremations. (3) Fixed on the premises of
a funeral establishment. For the purposes of this subdivision, fixed means permanently attached
to the real property where the establishment is situated. (4) Owned by the same individual,
partnership, or corporation as the funeral establishment. (5) Under...
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34-13-74
Section 34-13-74 Application by surviving spouse upon death of funeral director; operation
under special permit by operator. (a) When a licensed funeral director dies leaving a licensed
funeral business with no licensed funeral director, the surviving spouse, or a surviving child
of legal age, may make application for examination as a funeral director. The application
shall be in writing, on a form prescribed by the board, and shall state the facts pertaining
to the case. The board may certify the applicant for the examination prescribed for funeral
directors, in which event the requirements with respect to prior experience and apprenticeship
shall be waived. (b) When a licensed funeral director dies leaving a licensed funeral business
with no licensed funeral director, the board may issue a special operating permit to the operator
of the licensed funeral business for a period of up to 12 months, with the board having the
right to extend the permit an additional reasonable time to...
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45-49-252
Section 45-49-252 Definitions. The following words, phases, or terms as used in this part,
unless the context indicates otherwise, shall have the following meanings: (1) ABANDONED PROPERTY.
Wrecked or derelict property having no value other than nominal salvage value, if any, which
has been left abandoned and unprotected from the elements and shall include wrecked, inoperative,
or partially dismantled motor vehicles, trailers, boats, machinery, refrigerators, washing
machines, plumbing fixtures, and other similar articles which have no value other than nominal
salvage value, if any; and is in a condition violative of Alabama statutes. (2) ADMINISTRATIVE
DEPARTMENT. The department charged by the Mobile County Commission with the administrative
management of this part. (3) COMMISSION. The Mobile County Commission of Mobile County, Alabama.
(4) BULKY WASTE. Items whose large size precludes or complicates their handling by normal
collection, processing, or disposal methods. (5) BUNDLE. A...
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31-9-40
the exchange of medical, fire, police, reconnaissance, welfare, transportation and communications
personnel, and equipment and supplies. Article VIII - Compensation. Each party shall provide
for the payment of compensation and death benefits to injured members of the emergency forces
of that state and representatives of deceased members of the forces in case members sustain
injuries or are killed while rendering aid pursuant to this compact, in the same manner and
on the same terms as if the injury or death were sustained within their own state.
Article IX - Reimbursement. Any party state rendering aid in another state pursuant to this
compact shall be reimbursed by the party state receiving the aid for any loss or damage to
or expense incurred in the operation of any equipment and the provision of any service in
answering a request for aid and for the costs incurred in connection with such requests. Any
aiding party state may assume in whole or in part loss, damage, expense, or other...
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13A-7-23.1
a memorial of the dead, or any fence, railing, curb, or any enclosure for the protection or
ornamentation of any tomb, monument, gravestone, burial mound, earthen or shell monument containing
human skeletal remains or associated burial artifacts, or other structure before mentioned,
or for any enclosure for the burial of the dead, or any person who willfully and wrongfully
or maliciously destroys, removes, cuts, breaks, or injures any tree, shrub, plant, flower,
decoration, or other real or personal property within any cemetery or graveyard shall
be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. (b) Any person who willfully or maliciously desecrates,
injures, defaces, removes, or destroys any tomb, monument, structure, or container of human
remains, burial mound, earthen or shell monument containing human skeletal remains or associated
burial artifacts, and invades or mutilates the human corpse or remains shall be guilty of
a Class C felony and upon conviction the person shall be punished as...
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