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(A) An applicant for a funeral director’s license who holds a bachelor’s degree and intends to serve two years of apprenticeship in lieu of attending mortuary college must obtain and file with the board of embalmers and funeral directors prior to commencement of apprenticeship training, form F-1, together with the applicable fee(s) and an official transcript from a college or university authorized to confer degrees by the Ohio board of regents or a comparable legal agency of another state in which the college or university is located, showing that the applicant has earned a bachelor’s degree. Upon approval of the application, the board will issue form F-2, certificate of registration.
(B) An applicant for a funeral director’s license who has attended mortuary college and intends to serve a one year apprenticeship must obtain and file with the board of embalmers and funeral directors-form F-1, together with the applicable fee(s) and an official transcript from a college or university authorized to confer degrees by the Ohio board of regents or a comparable legal agency of another state in which the college or university is located, showing that the applicant has earned a bachelor’s degree. Upon approval of the application for registration, the board will issue form F-2, certification of registration as a funeral director apprentice.
(C) Upon issuance of F-2, certificate of registration, the applicant shall submit to the board form F-3, certificate of apprenticeship, along with the applicable fee(s) certifying the commencement of the apprentice credit time. The funeral director’s certificate of apprenticeship shall bear the signature and certification of the apprentice and of the master funeral director and shall be filed with the board within ten days of the beginning of apprenticeship credit time. The board will not accept a funeral director’s certificate of apprenticeship from any person who is not registered with the board.
(D) Upon approval of form F-3, certification of apprenticeship, the board shall issue form F-4, funeral director apprenticeship card, carrying the beginning and ending dates of the funeral director apprentice’s credit time and bearing the signature of the secretary-treasurer of the board. This card shall be carried by the funeral director apprentice at all times while engaged as a funeral director apprentice.
(E) The applicant must satisfactorily complete twelve consecutive months of apprenticeship under a funeral director licensed in the state of Ohio after having completed in a satisfactory manner twelve months’ instruction in a college of mortuary science recognized by the board. The applicant must assist the master funeral director in twenty-five full service adult funerals. In lieu of mortuary college training, the applicant must satisfactorily complete twenty-four months of apprenticeship under a funeral director licensed in Ohio. The applicant must assist the master funeral director in fifty full-service adult, thirteen years of age or older, funerals.
(1) During the time of funeral director’s apprenticeship, the apprentice shall file with the board progress case reports quarterly upon forms supplied by the board. Failure to comply shall be grounds for voidance or suspension of apprenticeship credit time by the board.
(2) The apprentice shall report to any board member within thirty days after each six months of each year of apprenticeship credit time for a personal interview.
(3) During the period of funeral director’s apprenticeship, the master funeral director under whom the apprentice is certified shall file quarterly master funeral director’s reports on the apprentice activities to the board.
(F) Upon completion of the full apprenticeship credit time, the applicant shall submit to the board the following:
(1) The funeral director’s termination of apprenticeship, form F-5 bearing the signatures and certifications of the apprentice and the master funeral director to the dates of the apprenticeship credit time. This termination of apprenticeship shall be filed with the Board no later than thirty days after the completion of any period of apprenticeship credit time;
(2) The funeral director’s certificate of registration, form F-2;
(3) The funeral director’s apprenticeship card, form F-4.
(G) In the event the period of apprenticeship is terminated prior to the completion of such apprenticeship, the master funeral director and apprentice funeral director shall immediately notify the board of such termination on form F-5, funeral director’s termination of apprenticeship, along with the following:
(1) Form F-4, funeral director’s apprenticeship card.
(H) Failure to submit form F-5 upon termination of an apprenticeship prior to the completion of such apprenticeship shall be grounds for voidance or suspension by the board of the apprentice credit time.
(I) Upon approval of the termination of apprenticeship, form F-5, and successful completion of the full apprenticeship credit time, the board shall issue form F-6, application for funeral director’s examination. The application for funeral director’s examination and the appropriate fee(s) shall be filed with the board at least thirty days prior to the funeral director’s examination.
(J) Upon earning a passing score of seventy-five or higher on the funeral director’s examination, the applicant shall submit to the board, form F-7, application for funeral director’s license, along with the applicable fee(s).
(K) At the board meeting following receipt of the fully completed form F-7, application for funeral director’s license, and the applicable fee(s), the board may grant a funeral director’s license.
(L) The applicant shall be required to make such application, show such preliminary requisites, and take such examinations as are deemed necessary by the board in its rules.
Effective: 11/10/2005
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 08/26/2005 and 06/22/2010
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: R.C. 4717.04
Rule Amplifies: R.C. 4717.04, R.C. 4717.05
Prior Effective Dates: 6/19/74, 3/12/79, 1/1/84, 1/1/86, 7/1/87, 1/1/01