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License Process

License Process. Review the licenses and registrations under new Chapter 497. Purpose . We will cover the license processes and general duties of all registrants of Chapter 470. Funeral Establishments. Funeral Home. Must be located at a specific address 1,250 sq feet of space

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License Process

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  1. License Process Review the licenses and registrations under new Chapter 497

  2. Purpose • We will cover the license processes and general duties of all registrants of Chapter 470

  3. Funeral Establishments

  4. Funeral Home • Must be located at a specific address • 1,250 sq feet of space • Preparation room or refrigeration or contract for these services • FDIC • Annually inspected • Biennially renewal of license

  5. Funeral Home • Embalmers must have license • Identify all principals on application • Must display name of FDIC at public entrance • All licenses must be posted in public area • No co-location of funeral homes and direct disposer after 10/1/1993

  6. Funeral Home • Direct Disposer can not practice direct disposition in a funeral home!

  7. Visitation Chapels • Each funeral home may operate a visitation chapel at a separate location within the county the funeral home is located in. • 500-700 sq feet in size • Can only be used for visitation • Must have licensed FD present during visitations

  8. Funeral Director in Charge • Responsibility of the FDIC • Make sure they are operating legally • Available within 2 hours by telephone • Make sure there is a funeral director available • Oversee all pre-need contracts if they have a Pre-need License (COA) • Notify to Brd. within 20 days of new FDIC

  9. Funeral Director • Able to perform all duties within the funeral home except embalming. Can only practice at a license establishment FD and Embalmer license

  10. Funeral Director requirements • 18 yrs • Convicted of a crime • AS degree or higher http://www.abfse.org/ • Pass the NBE http://www.cfseb.org/ • Year of Internship • Pass 75% Rules and Regulations test • Communicable disease class

  11. Embalmer License • License to embalm • Same procedures as FD but: • Complete one year of school in embalming sciences • Pass the Science section on NBE

  12. License by Endorsement • FD & Emb who holds a valid license from another state. • Similar qualifications • Passing the rules and regulations exam with a 75% • Prior to 1979 exemption from Associated degree

  13. Temporary License • Valid license from another state can have up to 6 months to work under the direction of a license funeral director and embalmer

  14. Provisional License • Individuals who have met all requirements to sit for examination for licensure may apply for a provisional license. Must practice under direct supervision of a license individual.

  15. Practice of Funeral Directing • Selling or offering to sell funeral services on a at-need basis. • During the arrangement conference • Setting the time of service • Establishing the type of service • Acquiring the services of clergy • Obtaining vital information for the DC or burial transit permit

  16. Practice of Funeral Directing • Making or negotiating financial arrangements for a funeral service • Directing or supervising funeral service in a funeral home, cemetery or elsewhere • Directing a visitation, but does not need to be physically present throughout the service, but does need to be in touch

  17. Funeral Director and Embalmer re-licensure • Continuing Education requirements • 12 CEU’s • 1 CEU for HIV/Communicable Diseases

  18. Funeral Director and Embalmer Intern • Internship – 12 months period of time working at an approved training agency. • Funeral Home must provide 40 cases per intern. • Internship is served after completing their education requirements

  19. Embalmer Apprentice • Any person desiring to become a funeral director and embalmer may apply for embalmer apprenticeship. • 18 yrs old • High school or GED • Serve up to 3 years • Work under direct supervision

  20. Direct Disposer Establishment • Can only arrange for immediate cremation. No services • Funeral Directors working at DD establishments can only do direct cremations. • No viewings, memorial services or any type of gatherings. • No ID viewings!

  21. DD duties • Removal from place of death • Vital statistics information • Necessary permits for cremation • Arrange for obituaries as long as name of DD establishment is not listed with memorial service • Refrigerate remains • Contract with removal services and crematories

  22. Direct Disposer Establishments • Director Disposer can only practice here • 625 square feet at physical address • Name of DDIC at public entrance • Refrigeration or contracted for services within 75 miles • Biennially renewal and annually inspected • May not operate at same address as other establishments unless were collocated before 7/1/2000

  23. Direct Disposer • 18 yrs old • High school or GED • Conviction of a crime • Passing grade in college credit course in Florida funeral law • Pass examination by Brd. on rules and regulations • 2 ceu’s course on communicable diseases

  24. Direct Disposer • Continuing education requirements for relicensure • 2 CEU’s on HIV/communicable diseases • 3 CEU’s in Health, Safety or Laws and Rules

  25. Centralized Embalming Establishment • Provide embalming services for funeral establishments only • Meet all requirements of a funeral home preparation room • Embalmer in Charge • Report cases handle • Annual inspection biennially renewal

  26. Centralized Embalming Establishment • Must have identification process for all bodies. • Can not work for the public

  27. Criteria for licensure • Refrigeration equipment large enough to store all bodies found in the facility • Proper exhaust system • Non-porous surfaces • Floor drain or equivalent • Embalming instruments • Embalming chemicals

  28. Criteria for licensure • Disinfecting chemicals • Sealed containers for transportation of bodies • Bio Medical waste procedures • Asked for receipts

  29. Cinerator Facilities • Facilities where dead human bodies are reduced to a residue, including bone fragments by direct flame, also know as cremation or by intense heat, also known as calcination.

  30. Cinerator • Biennially renewal with annual inspections • Goes null and void if not renewed • Must be under direction of LFD or DD • FD if located at funeral home • May only cremate dead human bodies after 48 hrs • Monthly reports of persons cremated

  31. Cinerator • All bodies must be cremated in a covered container or casket. The container must be rigid enough to provide easy handling and leak proof. • Single cremation unless authorized by next of kin

  32. Removal Services • Make removals for funeral homes and direct disposer establishments • Inspection should: • Clean and sanitary • PPE’s • Cots and covers • Body bags • First Aid kit • Fire extinguisher

  33. Removal Services • Must have identification process

  34. Refrigeration Services • Not connected with a funeral home, crematory or direct disposer. Provide refrigeration services to funeral homes and direct disposer facilities. • Bodies must be kept below 40 degrees

  35. Broker of Burial Rights • No person may receive compensation to act as a third party to the sale of transfer of three or more burial rights in a 12 month period unless registered with the Board (Brd). • Does not apply to anyone register with Brd. • Records must be maintained • Biennial renewal

  36. Preneed License • Funeral home, cemetery, direct disposer establishment or monument dealer may be licensed to sell preneed if approved by the Brd. • This contract can be for services or merchandise

  37. Pre-need agents • Must be under contract or employed by the preneed license they represent • Can be under more than one preneed license • 18 yrs old • Biennially renewal

  38. Monument Establishments • Sell markers, monuments and memorials to public. • Not associated with licenses • Must have an office, reception area and display • Open to public • Must meet local zoning laws

  39. Monument Builders • Can apply for preneed license • 3 years experience • Net worth of $10,000 • Alternate methods to meet net worth

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