§ 156.2 — Persons excluded

Iowa § 156.2

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title IV: PUBLIC HEALTH
• Ch. 156: FUNERAL DIRECTING, MORTUARY SCIENCE, AND CREMATION

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The terms defined in section 156.1 shall not be construed to include the following classes
of persons:
1. Manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers of caskets, vaults, urns, or other
burial receptacles not engaged in the other functions of furnishing of funeral services or
embalming as above defined.
2. Those who use bodies for scientific purposes as defined in sections 142.1, 142.2, and
142.5; or those who make scientific examinations of dead bodies; or those who perform
autopsies.
3. Physicians or institutions who preserve parts of human bodies either for scientific
purposes or for use as evidence in prospective legal cases.
4. Persons who, without compensation, bury their own dead under a burial transit permit
secured pursuant to section 144.32.

Legislative History

[C31, 35, §2585-c2; C39, §2585.02; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §156.2]