Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 385 - Embalmers and Funeral Directors
Section 20-230b. - Statement of prices for requested services and merchandise. Method of payment. Cash advanced.

No person engaged in the business of funeral directing and no licensed funeral director or licensed embalmer shall fail to provide the person making funeral arrangements or arranging for disposition of a dead human body, at the time funeral arrangements are completed and prior to the time of rendering service or providing merchandise, a written statement indicating to the extent then known: (1) The price of the service that the person has selected and what is included therein; (2) the price of each supplemental item of service or merchandise requested; (3) the amount involved for each of the items for which the funeral firm will advance money as an accommodation to the family of the deceased; and (4) the methods of payment. No person engaged in the business of funeral directing and no licensed funeral director or licensed embalmer shall bill or cause to be billed any item that is referred to as a “cash advanced” item unless the net amount paid for such item by the funeral firm is the same as is billed by the funeral firm.

(P.A. 77-219, S. 2.)

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