TITLE 54

PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES

CHAPTER 11

MORTICIANS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS

54-1101.  Public interest and concern in disposition of human bodies. The practice and processes involved in processing and making final disposition of human bodies is hereby declared to affect the public interest, health, safety and welfare and to be subject to regulation and control in the public interest. It is further declared to be a matter of public interest and concern that the processes involved in preparing and making final disposition of human bodies should be so controlled as to protect the public interest and merit the confidence of the public, and to that end that only qualified persons be permitted to practice such acts in the state of Idaho. This act shall be liberally construed to carry out these objects and purposes.

History:

[54-1101, added 1970, ch. 70, sec. 1, p. 167.]