ENGROSSED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 36
(By Senators Fanning, Helmick, Jackson, Anderson, Edgell,
Ross, Minard, Ball, Kessler, Oliverio, Hunter and Mitchell)
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[Originating in the Committee on the Judiciary;
reported February 12, 1999.]
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A BILL to amend article six, chapter thirty of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended,
by adding thereto a new section, designated section
seventeen, relating to funeral directors and embalmers;
providing for a special emeritus license for licensees
sixty-five or older with at least ten years experience; and
exempting licensee from continuing education requirements.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article six, chapter thirty of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section
seventeen, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 6. EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
§30-6-17. Special emeritus license for embalmers and funeral
directors.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the
board shall establish a special emeritus license for any licensed
embalmer or funeral director sixty-five or older. After becoming
sixty-five years of age with at least ten years experience as a
licensed embalmer or licensed funeral director, a
licensed
embalmer or funeral director is entitled to be issued a license
as an embalmer emeritus
or funeral director emeritus
.
The
emeritus license shall entitle the holder to all the rights and
privileges of the license previously held by the licensee, except
that a licensee emeritus shall be exempt from all continuing
education requirements set forth in section three of this
article.
The annual license fee for an embalmer emeritus or funeral
director emeritus shall be no more than that required of a
licensed embalmer or licensed funeral director.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide funeral
directors and embalmers who are sixty-five or older an exemption
from continuing education requirements.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.)