§ 5-33.2-16. Funeral director/embalmer — Internship.
(a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting any person from serving as a funeral director/embalmer intern. Before an internship begins, the person desiring to become an intern shall register with the division on any forms that it prescribes. No person under the age of eighteen (18) years shall be permitted to register as an intern. The division may make any rules and regulations that it deems advisable for the supervision of interns. All persons registering as an intern shall pay a fee as set forth in § 23-1-54 at the time of the registration. That intern is not permitted to advertise or hold himself or herself out to the public as a registered funeral director/embalmer. The term of internship shall be not less than one year; provided, that if an intern after having served his or her internship fails to pass the examination for a funeral director/embalmer’s license or fails to embalm fifty (50) human remains during his or her internship, he or she may continue his or her internship. The total term of internship must be completed within five (5) years from the date of original registration.
(b) The intern must have assisted in embalming at least fifty (50) bodies if the period for registered internship is to be satisfied in one year. If the internship is for more than one year, the applicant must embalm at least twenty-five (25) bodies for each year of his or her internship. Each licensed funeral establishment embalming up to one hundred fifty (150) human remains per year shall be allowed to register one intern at one time. Each establishment embalming more than one hundred fifty (150) but less than three hundred (300) human remains per year shall be allowed to register two (2) interns at one time. Each establishment embalming three hundred (300) or more human remains per year shall be allowed to register three (3) interns at one time.
History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 255, § 2; P.L. 2001, ch. 77, art. 14, § 8; P.L. 2007, ch. 73, art. 39, § 6; P.L. 2012, ch. 241, art. 9, § 7.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 5 - Businesses and Professions
Chapter 5-33.2 - Funeral Director/Embalmer and Funeral Service Establishments
Section 5-33.2-1. - Definitions.
Section 5-33.2-2. - Board of examiners — Qualifications and removal of members — Vacancies.
Section 5-33.2-3. - Rules and regulations.
Section 5-33.2-4. - Unlicensed practice unlawful.
Section 5-33.2-5. - Application for license — Application fee.
Section 5-33.2-6. - Qualifications of funeral director/embalmers.
Section 5-33.2-7. - Armed forces embalming experience.
Section 5-33.2-8. - Participation in burial certificate plans.
Section 5-33.2-9. - Cemetery operators ineligible to conduct business of funeral directing.
Section 5-33.2-10. - Issuance of licenses — Expiration and renewal of licenses.
Section 5-33.2-11. - Display of licenses — Assignment of licenses prohibited.
Section 5-33.2-12. - Funeral establishment and branch offices licenses.
Section 5-33.2-13.1. - Crematories — License and inspection.
Section 5-33.2-13.2. - Cremation of human remains.
Section 5-33.2-14. - Payments for securing business prohibited.
Section 5-33.2-15. - Annual renewal of licenses.
Section 5-33.2-16. - Funeral director/embalmer — Internship.
Section 5-33.2-17. - Revocation or suspension of license.
Section 5-33.2-18. - Summons of witnesses.
Section 5-33.2-20. - Restricted receipts accounts for fees.
Section 5-33.2-21. - Penalty for violations.
Section 5-33.2-22. - Complaints of violations.
Section 5-33.2-23. - Severability.
Section 5-33.2-24. - Proper authority for funeral arrangements and disposition of human remains.
Section 5-33.2-25. - Mandatory continuing education training.