Sec. 5. (a) This section does not apply to a practitioner acting as an exempted person.

     (b) A practitioner who, when selling funeral goods or services to a consumer, fails to give the consumer a written statement signed on behalf of a funeral home licensee by a funeral director that includes:

(1) an itemized description of each funeral goods and funeral service for which the consumer has contracted and either the price of each item or the package price for all of the items;

(2) an itemized description of any supplemental goods and services that the consumer has the option to purchase from the funeral home licensee and the price for each item;

(3) an indication of the contract items on which the funeral home licensee is advancing credit and the amount of the credit being advanced;

(4) the total cost to the consumer of the contract items; and

(5) a description of the method of payment agreed upon;

may be disciplined under IC 25-1-11.

As added by P.L.246-1985, SEC.7. Amended by P.L.207-1993, SEC.11; P.L.214-1993, SEC.50.