New York Consolidated Laws, Public Health Law - PBH § 3441. Funeral firms;  operation by licensed persons

(a) if the owner is an individual, he shall be a duly licensed funeral director or undertaker;  if the owner is a partnership organized at any time after the seventh day of April in the year nineteen hundred forty-four and first registered with the department after that date all partners shall be duly licensed funeral directors or undertakers;  if the owner is a corporation, or is a partnership organized and registered with the department before the seventh day of April in the year nineteen hundred forty-four and having any unlicensed partners, or is the legal representative of a deceased funeral director or undertaker, the manager registered with the department shall be a duly licensed funeral director or undertaker;

(b) the owner shall biennially register with the department in accordance with the provisions of this article;

(c) the certificate of registration issued by the department to a funeral firm shall be conspicuously displayed at the funeral establishment for which the registration was issued;

(d) the license of the registered manager of a registered firm, shall be conspicuously displayed at the establishment for which the firm registration was issued;

(e) it shall be under the immediate and personal supervision, direction, management, and control of a licensed funeral director or undertaker, registered with the department, who shall not serve as the manager at more than one funeral establishment for more than one firm;

(f) all funeral directing, undertaking, and embalming shall be under the immediate and personal supervision, direction, management, and control of a duly licensed funeral director, undertaker and embalmer, respectively;  and,

(g) the operation thereof and the maintenance of the establishment shall conform to the rules and regulations of the department.