§ 33-16-526 — Specific prohibited conduct of licensees

Wyoming § 33-16-526

• 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) The board may suspend or revoke licenses or impose
other disciplinary action appropriate under the circumstances on
licensees, permittees and registrants, after hearing by the
board and after ten (10) days' notice to the licensee, upon the
licensee, permittee or registrant being found by the board to
have committed any of the following acts or omissions, as the
acts are further defined by the board:
(i) Conviction of a felony or misdemeanor related to
the licensee's ability to practice funeral services;
(ii) Unprofessional conduct, including, but not
limited to:
(A) Misrepresentation or fraud in the conduct of
the business or the profession of a funeral director or funeral
service practitioner;
(B) False or misleading advertising as a funeral
service practitioner;
(C) Solicitation of human dead bodies by the
licensee, his agents, assistants or employees, whether the
solicitation occurs after death or while death is impending,
provided this shall not be deemed to prohibit general
advertising;
(D) Aiding or abetting an unlicensed person to
engage in funeral service practice, unless the unlicensed person
is lawfully doing so as an employee of a funeral establishment
permitted by the board under the supervision of a funeral
service practitioner also employed by the same funeral
establishment;
(E) Except as otherwise provided by rule and
regulation, using any casket or part of a casket which has
previously been used as a receptacle for, or in connection with,
the burial or other disposition of a dead human body;
(F) Violation of any of the provisions of this
act;
(G) Violation of any state law or municipal or
county ordinance or regulation affecting the handling, custody,
care or transportation of dead human bodies;
(H) Fraud or misrepresentation in obtaining a
license;
(J) Refusing to promptly surrender the custody
of a dead human body, upon the express order of the person
lawfully entitled to the custody thereof.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law the lease
of a casket for funeral and other services of a person to be
cremated is hereby authorized. The board shall adopt rules
regulating the lease of caskets to ensure sanitary use.