Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 22 - MORTUARIES, CEMETERIES, EMBALMERS, UNDERTAKERS AND MORTUARY AUTHORITIES
Section 11-22-4 - Embalming and embalmers
Universal Citation: HI Admin Rules 11-22-4
Current through February, 2024
(a) Embalming.
(1) No person shall embalm a dead human body
unless licensed by the director as an embalmer or registered with the director
as an apprentice embalmer under the supervision of a licensed
embalmer.
(2) Except as provided in
§
11-22-4(a)
(3), a dead human body shall be embalmed, if the condition of the body permits,
cremated, or buried within thirty hours after death, unless the body has been
placed in the custody of the coroner, medical examiner, county, or county
physician. In such instances, the body shall be embalmed, cremated, buried
within thirty hours after release, or placed in refrigerated storage in a State
approved hospital.
(3) No embalming
fluid, or substitute therefor, shall be injected into any dead body:
(A) if the death is subject to investigation
by the coroner or medical examiner, or
(B) if the death was from plague, asiatic
cholera, smallpox, epidemic typhus fever, yellow fever, or louse-borne
relapsing fever, or any approved term indicating such diseases. Permission to
embalm in case (A) above must be secured from the office of the coroner or
medical examiner and in case (B) from the director.
(b) Embalmer's license.
(1) Any application for an embalmer's license
in the State must be made under oath to the director on forms provided for that
purpose, the applicant shall meet the requirements prescribed by §
469-1, HRS.
(2) An examination shall be held at least
once a year and at such time as the director may determine. All applications
shall be filed with the director on or before the first of the month in which
the examination is to be held. A fee of $25 shall be submitted with the
application.
(3) There shall be a
written examination, supplemented by a practical examination. Applicants shall
be examined in the subjects of embalming, anatomy, pathology, bacteriology, and
chemistry and in such other related subjects as the director may prescribe, all
examination papers shall be filed in the department of heath.
(c) Apprentice embalmers.
(1) Whenever any person wishes to qualify as
an apprentice embalmer, the person shall register with the director upon forms
furnished for the purpose and shall otherwise comply with the requirements of
§
469-4,
HRS.
(2) An apprentice who is a
graduate of an embalming school recognized by the Commission of Schools of the
American Board of Funeral Service Education may begin embalming upon
registration; an apprentice without such training may not actually embalm as
defined in §
11-22-2,
until after completing one year of apprenticeship. In all cases, an apprentice
shall embalm only in the presence of and under the direction of a license
embalmer.
(3) The maximum term of
apprenticeship shall be not more than two years beyond the required period of
practical experience specified in §
469-1, HRS, except that
apprentices on register as of July 1, 1957 shall not be affected.
(4) The director may grant leaves of absence
and approve absences during the term of apprenticeship.
(5) An apprentice must work under the
personal supervision of the licensed embalmer under whom apprenticed. The
director must be notified of any substitute arrangement with another licensed
embalmer that is expected to last more than one month.
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