Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A)
Master embalmer
and master funeral director responsibilities
(1)
A master embalmer
or master funeral director shall arrange for the apprentice to receive training
from any other master embalmers or funeral directors in the state of Ohio in
those areas where the primary master embalmer or funeral director does not have
sufficient business to satisfy the requirements of the "Embalmer and/or Funeral
Director Task List." However, no apprentice may serve more than one-half of
their time working under a embalmer or funeral director who is not the master
certifying the apprenticeship.
(2)
A master embalmer
or funeral director may certify an apprentice only if they are employed or
self-employed at the licensed funeral home or embalming facility where the
apprentice has certified. The funeral home or embalming facility where the
master embalmer or master funeral director is employed must have completed not
less than thirty deaths in the previous year, except if granted prior written
permission by the board.
(3)
In no case shall an apprentice spend more than twenty
per cent of any apprenticeship assisting in pre-need solicitation or
arrangements.
(4)
An apprentice is not permitted to sign a funeral
purchase record or contract. The apprentice is not permitted to sign an
insurance contract unless the apprentice is a licensed insurance agent.
(B)
Multiple
apprentices
A master embalmer or master funeral
director shall certify to the board only one apprenticeship at one time for
each license, except under extenuating circumstance and with prior written
permission from the board.
(C)
Master emabalmer and master funeral director
disability
In case of the death or disability of
the master embalmer or master funeral director, the board may accept in lieu of
the master's certification of apprenticeship one or more affidavits from other
funeral directors, embalmers, or reputable citizen having knowledge of the
apprenticeship. Such affidavit(s) shall include the dates of the
apprenticeship, the relationship of the affiant to the applicant, and the
circumstances which give the affiant knowledge of the apprenticeship, its
nature, extent, the services provided, and the tasks accomplished.
(D)
Direct supervision of an apprentice
(1)
Direct
supervision, as defined in division (I) of section
4717.01 of the Revised Code, is
required for at least twenty-five arterial adult embalming cases performed and
reported over the course of a minimum of two calendar quarters in which the
apprentice embalmer assists and the first twenty-five funeral services in which
the apprentice funeral director assists and reports over the course of two
calendar quarters of apprenticeship or, in the case of an apprentice who did
not complete mortuary science college, the course of six calendar quarters of
apprenticeship.
Supervision, as defined in division (H)
of section 4717.01 of the Revised Code is
required for all acts of the apprentice.
(2)
A funeral
director apprentice who has, in the sound professional judgment of the master
funeral director, attained sufficient skill and experience during the
apprenticeship, including but not limited to, assisting under the direct
supervision of a licensed funeral director with twenty-five funerals and who
has successfully completed nine months of an apprenticeship or, in the case of
an apprentice who did not complete mortuary science college, completed eighteen
months of an apprenticeship, may meet independently with families that have
been advised prior to the meeting of the apprentice's status, to prepare
at-need and preneed funeral arrangements using a worksheet to determine and
define the family's desires. The worksheet shall be given to the master or
other licensed funeral director associated with the same funeral home as the
master who will use it to prepare a funeral purchase contract conforming to the
federal trade commission part 453 - funeral industry practices revised
rule.
