N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 10 § 77.0 - Definitions
The following words and phrases as used in this Part shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) Department means the New York State
Department of Health.
(b)
Commissioner means the Commissioner of Health of the State of New
York.
(c) School means any
educational institution wherein funeral directing, embalming and related
subjects are taught for the purpose of preparing students for licensing and
practice as funeral directors.
(d)
Curriculum means the complete program of instruction in funeral service
education.
(e) Accrediting agency
means a duly constituted and departmentally recognized agency which evaluates
and accredits curricula in funeral service education.
(f) Common carrier is defined, for the
purposes of this Part and Part 13 of this Title, as a carrier licensed or
authorized to transport cargo by any of the following:
(1) New York State Department of
Transportation;
(2) Interstate
Commerce Commission;
(3) Federal
Aviation Administration; or
(4)
United States Coast Guard.
(g) Customer means the person making
arrangements, or the customer's designee, to whom a written statement showing
thereon the price of the funeral, including an itemized list of the services
and merchandise to be furnished for such price, shall be furnished at the time
funeral arrangements are made.
(h)
Customer's designee means the person whom the funeral director reasonably
believes to be acting on behalf of a customer.
(i) Casket includes coffin and means a rigid
container designed for the encasement of human remains and customarily
ornamented and lined with fabric.
(j) Outer interment receptacle means any
container or enclosure which is placed in the grave around the casket to
prevent the collapse of the grave and/or to protect the casket, including but
not limited to receptacles commonly known as burial vaults, grave boxes or
grave liners.
(k) Actual retail
price is the price for which a funeral director regularly sells an item of
merchandise to customers.
(l)
Direct cremation is the disposition of human remains by cremation, without a
formal viewing, visitation or ceremony with the body present.
(m) Direct burial is the disposition of human
remains by burial, without formal viewing, visitation or ceremony with the body
present, except for a graveside service.
(n) Unfinished wooden box is an unornamented
casket made of wood which does not have a fixed interior lining.
(o) Alternative container is a nonmetal
receptacle or enclosure, without ornamentation or a fixed interior lining,
which is designed for the encasement of human remains and which is made of
cardboard, pressed wood, composition materials (with or without an outside
covering) or pouches of canvas or other materials.
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