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Texas Occupations Code - OCC § 651.656. Crematory Establishment License Required

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) A person may not conduct a crematory business in this state unless the person who is the owner or operator of the crematory holds a crematory establishment license issued by the commission.

(b) A person may not hold a crematory establishment license unless the person:

(1) holds a funeral establishment or commercial embalmers establishment license; or

(2) owns or operates a perpetual care cemetery.

(c) Subsection (b) does not apply to the owner or operator of a crematory registered with the commission on September 1, 2003.

(d) Repealed by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., ch. 263, § 33(2).

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