CHAPTER 570

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 54-244 and 54-245 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to certain licenses required of funeral directors and assistant
funeral directors.

[S 265]

Approved April 6, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 54-244 and 54-245 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

54-244. Every person engaging in the practice of funeral directing
shall obtain a license from the Board, and no person shall engage in such
practice unless he shall have been licensed by the Board. No person shall
be entitled to a license to engage in such practice unless he has served as
an assistant to a funeral director for at least two years prior to being
licensed, is of a good moral character, is at least twenty-one years of age,
and passes such examination as shows that he is possessed of a reasonable
knowledge of sanitation and disinfection of bodies of deceased persons *,
and has complied with all the requirements and regulations of the Board
applying to funeral directors. Every person desiring a license as a funeral
director shall make written application to the Board in which shall be
stated the name, age and place of business of the applicant, the length
of time and place where he has been employed as a funeral director
or where he has been employed as an assistant to a funeral director
in which latter case the applicant shall state the name of such funeral
director and shall state the length of time such applicant served as an
assistant to him. The application shall also contain such other information
as may be required by the Board. Such application shall be accompanied
by a license fee of twenty-five dollars. When the applicant has complied
with the provisions of this section, the Board shall issue to him a license
to practice funeral directing and shall thereupon register such applicant as
a duly licensed funeral director, which license shall be signed by a majority
of the Board and attested by its seal.

§ 54-245. No person shall be employed as an assistant funeral direc-
tor until he shall be licensed by the Board. No person, not engaged as an
assistant funeral director on June nineteenth, nineteen hundred thirty-six,
shall be entitled to a license to engage in the practice of an assistant
funeral director, unless he is of good moral character, is at least twenty-
one years of age and passes such examination before the Board as shows
that he is possessed of a reasonable knowledge of sanitation and disin-
fection of bodies of deceased persons * , and has complied with all the
requirements and regulations of the Board applying to assistant funeral
directors. Each original application for a license as an assistant. funeral
director shall be accompanied by a fee of five dollars which shall be paid
to the treasurer of the Board.