Wyoming Statutes Title 33. Professions and Occupations § 33-16-504. Created; designation; composition; appointment; qualifications of members; officers; removal

The Wyoming state board of funeral service practitioners is created to regulate the practice of professional funeral service in Wyoming in order to safeguard life, health and property and to promote the public welfare. The board shall consist of five (5) persons to be appointed by the governor. The governor may remove from office any member of the board as provided in W.S. 9-1-202. The director of the department of health or his designee shall be a member of the board, and the other four (4) members shall be licensed funeral service practitioners and shall serve for a term of three (3) years. The members of the board shall be citizens of the United States and residents of the state of Wyoming, and except for the director of the department of health or his designee, shall each have had at least three (3) years' experience in the practice of embalming and disposition of the dead human body and who shall each have had for two (2) years previous to their appointment an unexpired funeral service practitioners' license. The board shall elect one (1) of its members to serve as president.