Tennessee Code 62-5-314 – Use of names of unregistered persons restricted
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 62-5-314
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Embalming: means the preservation and disinfection, restoration or attempted preservation or disinfection of dead human bodies by the application of chemicals externally or internally, or both. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
- Funeral establishment: means any business, whether a proprietorship, partnership, firm, association or corporation, engaged in arranging, directing or supervising funerals for profit or other benefit, the preparing of dead human bodies for burial, the disposition of dead human bodies, the provision or maintenance of place for the preparation for disposition, or for the care or disposition of human bodies. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
- Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
The name of any living person who has not been licensed as provided in this chapter shall not be shown or displayed upon any funeral establishment, or used alone, in, as part of or in connection, association, combination or together with the name or title of any person, firm, corporation or other form of enterprise engaged in undertaking or embalming, on any card, sign, stationery or other printed or written instrument or device, in any announcement or advertisement or in any manner so as to give or tend to give the impression that the person is licensed or entitled to practice either as a funeral director or embalmer.