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Session Laws, 1941
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HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1215

(b) False or misleading advertising as a Funeral Director
or Embalmer.

(c) Solicitation of business by the licensee, his agents or
employees whether such solicitation occurs after death or
while death is impending; provided that this Act shall not
be deemed to prohibit general advertising.

(d) Employment by the licensee of persons known as
"cappers", "steerers", or "solicitors" or other persons to ob-
tain funeral directing or embalming business.

(e) Employment directly or indirectly of any apprentice,
agent, assistant, embalmer, employee or other person on
part or full time, or on commission, for the purpose of call-
ing upon individuals or institutions by whose influence dead
human bodies may be turned over to a particular Funeral
Director or Embalmer.

(f) The buying of business by the licensee, his agents,
assistants or employees, or the direct or indirect payment
or offer of payment of a commission by the licensee, his
agents, assistants or employees for the purpose of securing
business.

(g) Aiding or abetting an unlicensed person to practice
funeral directing and embalming.

(h) Solicitation or acceptance by a licensee of any com-
mission, bonus or rebate in consideration of recommending
or causing a dead human body to be disposed of in any
crematory, mausoleum or cemetery.

(i) Violation of any of the provisions of this Act.

(j) Violation of any State law or municipal or County
ordinance or regulation affecting the handling, custody, care
or transportation of dead human bodies.

(k) Fraud or misrepresentation in obtaining a license.

(1) Refusing to surrender the custody of a dead human
body upon the demand of the person lawfully entitled to
the custody thereof.

(m) The selling or offering for sale of shares, certificates
or interests in the business of any Funeral Director or Em-
balmer or in any corporation owning or conducting an under-
taking or embalming establishment under the promise of or
purporting to give to the purchasers thereof a right to the
services of such Funeral Director, Embalmer or corporation
at a charge or cost less than that offered or given to the pub-
lic at large.

Before proceeding to suspend or revoke any such license,
the person against whom complaint is made shall be furnished
with a copy of the complaint and the charges made against
him, and shall be given an opportunity for a hearing before
the Board in person, or by attorney, and at such hearing testi-

 

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