Mississippi Code
State Board of Funeral Service
§ 73-11-65. Funeral service interments must be under supervision of Mississippi licensed funeral director or funeral service licensee

Every funeral service or interment, or part thereof, that is conducted in Mississippi must be in the actual charge and under the supervision of a funeral director or funeral service licensee who is licensed under this chapter. However, this section shall not prevent a family from burying its own dead without charge.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 73 - Professions and Vocations

Chapter 11 - Practice of Funeral Service and Funeral Directing

State Board of Funeral Service

§ 73-11-33. Repeal of Sections 73-11-41 through 73-11-73

§ 73-11-41. Definitions

§ 73-11-43. State board of funeral service; membership

§ 73-11-45. Oath of office

§ 73-11-47. Meetings; quorum; removal for nonattendance

§ 73-11-55. Licensing of funeral establishment; license classifications; exceptions; requirements; applications and fees

§ 73-11-56. Schedule of fees

§ 73-11-57. Grounds for refusal to issue or renew license; suspension or revocation of license; complaint procedure; temporary suspension of license; sanctions for violations; hearings; attendance of witnesses; production of books and records; subpoe...

§ 73-11-57.1. Authority to revoke, refuse to renew, suspend or place on probation license of funeral home establishment or director under certain circumstances

§ 73-11-59. Penalties

§ 73-11-61. Price list and statement of goods and services must be provided before services rendered

§ 73-11-63. Application of provisions to cemeteries or cemetery chapels; chapter does not interfere with religious ceremonies or customs

§ 73-11-65. Funeral service interments must be under supervision of Mississippi licensed funeral director or funeral service licensee

§ 73-11-71. Intermingling of cremated remains prohibited; written acknowledgment from person entitled to control disposition of remains; content of acknowledgment