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This section outlines the rules of professional conduct for licensees
832 IAC 2-2-1 Confidential information
Authority: IC 25-15-9-8
Affected: IC 25-15-8-4
Sec. 1. A licensee shall neither discuss the confidential and private
matters or secrets of the domestic life of any family he or she may be
called upon to serve, nor cause the dissemination of the same in such a
way as to violate the privacy of the family served. (State Board of
Funeral and Cemetery Service; 832 IAC 2-2-1; filed Jan 30, 1986, 2:23
pm: 9 IR 1367; readopted filed May 10, 2001, 2:39 p.m.: 24 IR 3236;
readopted filed Jul 19, 2007, 12:52 p.m.: 20070808-IR-832070048RFA)
832 IAC 2-2-4 Professional conduct
Authority: IC 25-15-9-8
Affected: IC 25-15-2; IC 25-15-4; IC 25-15-5; IC 25-15-6; IC 25-15-7; IC 25-15-8-2
Sec. 4. No licensee shall permit or engage in:
(1) the use of drugs or the consumption of alcohol or any other
substance of similar nature that would affect the ability of a licensee
to perform the duties and services for which he is licensed;
(2)
refusal to promptly surrender the custody of a dead human body upon the
express order of the person who is in the closest degree of
consanguinity as defined by the common law;
(3) failure to secure permit for removal or burial of a dead human body prior to interment or other disposal;
(4) obtaining possession or embalming a dead human body without first
being duly authorized to do so by a relative of the deceased person or
a person legally entitled to authorize such possession or embalming;
(5) directing, allowing, or permitting any individual or person who is
not a licensee to perform funeral services, as the same are defined in
IC 25-15-2-17 to the extent not otherwise exempt under IC 25-15-2-10.
This prohibition does not extend to the sale of funeral goods as
defined in IC 25-15-2-14;
(6) a violation of any part of IC
25-15-2 thru and including IC 25-15-8 or any part of the regulations
promulgated thereunder.
(State Board of Funeral and Cemetery
Service; 832 IAC 2-2-4; filed Aug 6, 1986, 10:10 am: 9 IR 3092;
readopted filed May 10, 2001, 2:39 p.m.: 24 IR 3236; readopted filed
Jul 19, 2007, 12:52 p.m.: 20070808-IR-832070048RFA)
IC 25-1-11
Where there are rules there are also the means for enforcing those same rules. We have discussed the rules concerning how the different licenses relating to the funeral home industry are obtained and retained by their licensees. Regarding the method of retaining licenses what has gone before should be considered as the normal situation and what follows should be considered as the abnormal situation. A professional license is not only a source of personal pride but also the source of one s livelihood, and so the loss of that license is blow to one s self esteem and financial
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well-being. It is presumed that no~ intentionally engages in
behavior that will result in a license being lost and the best method for preventing the loss of a license is to know what will
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The section is divided into three subsections. The first deals what one has to do to be brought before the Board for discipline; what duties the licensee must first violate. The second deals with the range of penalties available to the Board. The final section is an overview of procedures that the Board must follow in disciplining a licensee.
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