§ 33-16-502 — Definitions

Wyoming § 33-16-502

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 33: Professions and Occupations
• Ch. 16: EMBALMERS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS, UNDERTAKERS AND
• Art. 5: FUNERAL SERVICE PRACTITIONERS ACT

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(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Accredited program of funeral service education"
means a funeral service education program accredited by the
American Board of Funeral Service Education to teach mortuary
science and other funeral service related curricula;
(ii) "Apprentice funeral service practitioner" means
a person, who has been issued an apprentice funeral service
practitioner license and is registered by the board to engage in
funeral service practice, which includes all aspects of funeral
directing, embalming and the final disposition of human remains,
under the supervision of a funeral service practitioner licensed
by the board;
(iii) "Board" means the Wyoming state board of
funeral service practitioners;
(iv) "Chemical disposer" means a licensed funeral
service practitioner who is also licensed by the board as a
person permitted to dispose of human remains by chemical
disposition;
(v) "Chemical disposition" means the process by which
a deceased human body is reduced to a powder by use of materials
other than heat and evaporation;
(vi) "Chemical disposition facility" means any
building or facility or part thereof engaging in the chemical
disposition of human remains;
(vii) "Conviction" means a finding or verdict of
guilt, an admission of guilt or a plea of nolo contendere;
(viii) "Cremated remains" means all human remains
recovered after the completion of a cremation, including
pulverization that leaves only bone fragments reduced to
unidentifiable dimensions;
(ix) "Cremation" means a technical process, using
heat, which reduces human remains to bone fragments. The
reduction takes place through heat and evaporation. Cremation
does not include other processes of disposition, chemical or
otherwise;
(x) "Cremation chamber" means an enclosed space
within which a cremation process takes place;
(xi) "Cremation container" means a container in which
the human remains are placed in a cremation chamber for a
cremation;
(xii) "Crematory" means the building or portion of a
building that houses the cremation chamber and the holding
facility;
(xiii) "Disposition" means the final disposal of a
dead human body by:
(A) Traditional burial or earth interment;
(B) Above ground burial;
(C) Cremation;
(D) Burial at sea or in any body of water, as
approved by applicable law;
(E) Delivery to a medical institution or to
another legally authorized person or entity as a full body
donation;
(F) Chemical disposition; or
(G) Other lawful means.
(xiv) "Embalming" means the disinfecting, preparing
or preserving for final disposition of dead human bodies, in
whole or in part, or any attempt to do so, by the use or
application of chemical substances, fluids or gases on the body,
or by the introduction of the same into the body by vascular or
hypodermic injection or by direct introduction into organs or
cavities, or by any other method or process. "Embalming" does
not include setting features for the purpose of identification
of an unembalmed dead human body or disinfecting a dead human
body through non-arterial methods;
(xv) "Funeral director" means a person who assumes
the responsibility for the operations of a particular funeral
establishment or multiple funeral establishments, or crematory
or multiple crematories, or a chemical disposition facility or
multiple chemical disposition facilities, who ensures that the
funeral establishment, crematory or chemical disposition
facility complies with this chapter and all other laws under
which the funeral establishment, crematory or chemical
disposition facility is operated, who is permitted by law to
perform funeral directing and who:
(A) Has been licensed prior to July 1, 2014 by
the board of embalming as a funeral director; or
(B) Is a licensed funeral service practitioner.
(xvi) "Funeral establishment," "mortuary," "funeral
home" or "funeral chapel" means a place of business which has
been issued a funeral establishment permit by the board to
conduct business at a specific street address or location which
is devoted to the embalming of dead human bodies for burial,
cremation, chemical disposition, transportation or other
disposition;
(xvii) "Funeral service practice," means the all-
encompassing combined practice of funeral directing or
undertaking, and embalming, and includes the practice of
conducting and overseeing all activities related to the
disposition of human remains. "Funeral service practice"
includes all of the following unless exempted from this act
pursuant to W.S. 33-16-529:
(A) Counseling individuals, families or next of
kin about the final disposition of human remains;
(B) Directing or supervising funerals;
(C) Providing for or maintaining a funeral
establishment;
(D) Making pre-need or at-need contractual
arrangements for funerals, memorial services, celebrations of
life, wakes or any similar service or activities;
(E) Removal and transportation of dead human
bodies from the location of death or any other location for the
purpose of final disposition;
(F) Preparing dead human bodies for viewing or
final disposition, other than by embalming, cremation or
chemical disposition;
(G) Maintaining a mortuary for the preparation,
disposition or care of dead human bodies;
(H) Representing oneself as or using in
connection with one's name the title of funeral director,
mortician, funeral service practitioner or any other title
implying that the person is engaged in the business of funeral
directing; and
(J) Obtaining burial or removal permits or
assuming other duties incidental to the practice of embalming.
(xviii) "Funeral service practitioner" means a person
licensed under this act to practice the profession historically
known as undertaking, mortuary science or embalming, including
individuals formerly licensed as funeral directors or embalmers
who meet the educational requirements set forth in this act
required of funeral service practitioners;
(xix) "Human remains" means the body of a deceased
person or part of a body or limb that has been removed from a
deceased person, including the body, part of a body or limb in
any stage of decomposition. The following are not "human
remains":
(A) The cremated remains of any human;
(B) Powder resulting from chemical disposition
of a human body;
(C) Any body part removed and held for testing,
research or other medical or law enforcement purposes; or
(D) Hair or nail clippings.
(xx) "This act" means W.S. 33-16-501 through