Pennsylvania Statutes Title 63 P.S. Professions and Occupations (State Licensed) § 479.3. Application for license; qualifications of applicants

(a) Any person not holding a license to practice the profession of a funeral director and desiring to practice such profession in this Commonwealth shall make application for examination and licensure to the board, upon a form furnished by it, and shall accompany the application by such fee as may be fixed by the department.

(b) Each applicant shall be a citizen of the United States, at least twenty-one (21) years of age, and a graduate of an approved high school of this Commonwealth or have an education equivalent thereto under the rules and regulations of the board.

(d) Integration and coordination of all educational requirements and examination procedures, including any academic work at a college or university or actual class work in didactic and laboratory studies in a mortuary college or university, shall be permitted and shall be encouraged under any rules or regulations that the board shall make.

(e) Except in the case of a resident interne who has registered with the board and has begun his training period before the effective date of this act, the required period as a resident interne shall, in each case, be served after the applicant has fulfilled his educational requirements.

(f) The requirements of a resident interne, as to maximum and minimum hours, the number of cases to be handled, and the training and duties included and excluded, shall be fixed by rules and regulations of the board. They shall in all cases include a requirement that each resident interne shall completely embalm at least twenty-five (25) bodies.

(g), (h) Deleted by 1983, Dec. 22, P.L. 354, No. 88, § 1, imd. effective.