45:7-61. Operating and maintaining mortuary; conditions

No person shall operate, maintain or use a mortuary within this State unless:

(a) He, they or it shall annually register with the board in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-four of this act;

(b) The certificate of registration issued by the board shall be conspicuously displayed within the establishment;

(c) The licenses of the individual owner, of all partners, or of the manager of the establishment in all cases where the establishment is not managed by a licensed individual owner or licensed partners, shall be conspicuously displayed within the establishment;

(d) It shall be under the immediate and personal supervision, direction, management, and control of a person duly licensed as a practitioner of mortuary science, under the provisions of this act, or of a person duly licensed as a funeral director under the provisions of this act or of any prior law of this State; and all funeral directing shall be under the immediate and personal supervision, direction, management, and control of a person duly licensed as a practitioner of mortuary science, under the provisions of this act, or of a person duly licensed as a funeral director under the provisions of this act or of any prior law of this State;

(e) Its construction, maintenance and operation shall conform to the rules and regulations of the board promulgated to safeguard and promote the public health, safety, morals and welfare.

L.1952, c. 340, p. 1111, s. 30.