CHAPTER 356

An Act to amend and reenact § 54-260.25 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to funeral directors, so as to provide exemption from examination to
certain persons who were hospitalized in a veteran’s hospital due to
service-connected disability.

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Approved March 18, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

. That § 54-260.25 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 54-260.25. The examination for funeral director’s license shall be
both theoretical and practical and shall embrace the subjects of bacteri-
ology, care and disposition of the dead, disinfection and sanitation, in-
fectious and contagious diseases, mortuary law and administration and such
other subjects as the Board may from time to time deem appropriate and
necessary to establish a reasonable knowledge of the care and disposition
of the dead and of the sanitation and disinfection of the bodies of deceased
persons, their clothing, bedding and living quarters, and competence to
engage in the profession or business of funeral directing and as the board
may set out in its rules, regulations and by-laws. The examination shall be
written or partly written and partly oral and by practical demonstration,
but the Board may at any examination or from time to time dispense with
either or both the oral or practical demonstration part of the examination,
provided, that no examination shall be required of any person who was a
licensed embalmer in this State on June twenty-eight, nineteen hundred and
thirty-six, and is the holder of an embalmer’s license on the effective date
of this act, who by reason of a service-connected disability was hospitalized
tm a veteran’s hospital on June twenty-eight, nineteen hundred and thirty-
six, and who has been from January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight
continuously associated and connected with a business conducting “Funeral
directing” as defined in § 54-260.1 of the Code. Any person entitled to
exemption hereunder shall file, not later than sixty days after the effective
date of this act, with the President of the Virginia Board of Funeral Di-
rectors and Embalmers an application for license as a “Funeral Director’,
which application when verified by the affidavit of the applicant and
supported by documentary evidence of such hospitalization shall entitle

such person, if he is the holder of such license as an embalmer, to a funeral
director’s license.