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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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27-17A-2
Section 27-17A-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) ALTERNATIVE CONTAINER. A nonmetal receptacle or enclosure, without ornamentation
or a fixed interior lining, which is designed for the encasement of human remains and which
is made of cardboard, pressed-wood, composition materials (with or without an outside covering),
or pouches of canvas or other materials. (2) ARRANGEMENT CONFERENCE. The meeting occurring
either at need or preneed between the seller and the purchaser during which funeral or cemetery
merchandise and services are discussed. (3) ARRANGEMENT CONFERENCE FEE. The charge to the
purchaser in conjunction with the arrangement conference. (4) AT NEED. At the time of death,
or immediately following death. (5) AUTHORIZING AGENT. One who is lawfully authorized to control
the final disposition of human remains. (6) BELOW-GROUND CRYPT. A preplaced enclosed chamber,
which is usually constructed of reinforced concrete,...
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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
Section 34-13-121 Cremation procedures; authorization; identification of remains; records.
(a) Human remains shall not be cremated under either of the following circumstances: (1) Within
24 hours after the time of death, unless death was a result of an infectious, contagious,
or communicable disease and unless the disease is verified and the time requirement waived
by a medical examiner, county health director, county coroner, or attending physician where
the death occurred. (2) Without a completed cremation authorization form approved by the board
and signed by the authorizing agent and a completed state identification form. A copy of the
cremation authorization shall be presented with the body to the crematory before any cremation
process may be initiated. (b) All cremations of human remains performed in this state shall
be arranged through a funeral establishment licensed by the board pursuant to this chapter.
(c) Whenever a crematory is unable or unauthorized to cremate human...
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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
Section 31-9-40 Compact adopted and enacted. The Emergency Management Assistance Compact is
enacted into law and entered with all jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the form
substantially as follows: THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE COMPACT Article I - Purpose
and Authorities. This compact is made and entered into by and between the participating member
states which enact this compact, hereinafter called party states. For the purpose of this
agreement, the term "states" is taken to mean the several states, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and all U.S. territorial possessions. The purpose
of this compact is to provide for mutual assistance between the states entering into this
compact in managing any emergency or disaster that is duly declared by the governor of the
affected state or states, whether arising from natural disaster, technological hazard, man-made
disaster, civil emergency aspects of resources shortages, community disorders,...
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13A-7-23.1
Section 13A-7-23.1 Desecration, defacement, etc., of memorial of dead; invasion or mutilation
of corpse. (a) Any person who willfully or maliciously injures, defaces, removes, or destroys
any tomb, monument, gravestone, burial mound, earthen or shell monument containing human skeletal
remains or associated burial artifacts, or other structure or thing placed or designed for
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...
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