65-1713b. Funeral service or interment, who in charge of. - Kansas Statutes

65-1713b

Chapter 65.--PUBLIC HEALTH Article 17.--REGULATION OF EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS; FUNERAL ESTABLISHMENTS

      65-1713b.   Funeral service or interment, who in charge of.Every funeral service or interment, or part thereof, hereafter conductedin this state must be in the actual charge and under the supervision of aKansas licensed funeral director, or of the duly licensed assistant funeraldirector: Provided, however, That this shall not prevent a family fromburying its own dead where death did not result from a contagious,infectious or communicable disease, nor shall it prevent a religious groupor sect whose religious belief require the burial of its own dead fromconducting such services where death did not result from a contagious,infectious or communicable disease.

      History:   L. 1941, ch. 297, § 16; June 30.