§ 25-15-8-1 — Grounds for discipline of licensees

Indiana § 25-15-8-1

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 25: PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
• Art. 15: EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS
• Ch. 8: Grounds for Discipline; Sanctions by Board; Violations

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(a) A licensee that:
(1) promotes or participates in a scheme or plan in the nature of
a burial association, burial certificate plan, or burial membership
plan;
(2) after an individual has died, personally or through an agent
solicits, makes, or offers to make a direct or an indirect payment
of a commission for the purpose of securing the individual's
human remains;
(3) fails to promptly surrender possession of human remains after
receiving a demand from the person legally entitled to custody of
the human remains;
(4) transports or disposes of human remains without a permit
required by law;
(5) takes possession of human remains without authorization from
the person legally entitled to custody of the human remains;
(6) makes a misleading claim concerning the protective qualities
of a casket, an alternative container, or an outer burial container;
(7) shows a casket, an alternative container, or an outer burial
container to a consumer if the casket, alternative container, or
outer burial container does not have a conspicuously displayed
card or brochure that lists the price of the casket, alternative
container, or outer burial container and briefly describes the
casket, alternative container, or outer burial container; or
(8) is found to have accepted payment by assignment of third
party life insurance proceeds for at-need funeral services
performed for more than the amount of the contracted funeral
expenses arranged for by an authorizing agent;
may be disciplined under IC 25-1-11.
(b) Subsection (a)(8) does not apply to funeral trust funds under IC 30-2-10 and IC 30-2-13.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.246-1985, SEC.7. Amended by P.L.207-1993, SEC.6; P.L.214-1993, SEC.46; P.L.47-2019, SEC.1.