Tex. Occ. Code § 651.255 · Subchapter F. LICENSE REQUIREMENTS: FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS
EXAMINATIONS REQUIRED FOR FUNERAL DIRECTOR'S LICENSE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The commission shall administer or arrange for the administration of:
(1) a written professionally prepared examination on:
(A) the art and technique of funeral directing;
(B) the signs of death;
(C) the manner by which death may be determined;
(D) sanitation and hygiene;
(E) mortuary management and mortuary law;
(F) business and professional ethics; and
(G) other subjects that may be taught in a recognized school or college of mortuary science; and
(2) a written examination developed by the commission or developed for the commission by contract on:
(A) laws applicable to vital statistics pertaining to dead human bodies; and
(B) local and state rules and laws relating to the preparation, transportation, care, and disposition of dead human bodies.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.651.htm
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