(A) Required. No person shall act as an undertaker, prepare a dead body for burial or cremation, manage a funeral, conduct, manage or be in charge of an undertaking room, store or place, or in any way advertise or hold himself or herself out to the public as an undertaker by card, sign, solicitation or otherwise, without first obtaining a license as an undertaker or funeral director.
(B) Applications.
(1) A person who wishes to obtain a license shall make an application in writing therefor to the City Collector, setting forth therein the name and residence of the applicant, stating that the applicant is a licensed embalmer and giving the number of the applicant’s state embalmer’s card and the location of the room, store or place where the applicant intends to carry on or conduct the business of undertaking.
(2) The application shall also state that the applicant shall comply with the laws and ordinances of the city, and the rules and regulations of the Board of Health, governing and concerning the removal, preparation and burial or cremation of the dead, and that the applicant has a practical knowledge of approved and sanitary methods of caring for dead bodies and preparing the same for burial, or cremation, including the embalming and disinfection of dead bodies.
(3) The Collector shall give to each applicant not less than three days’ notice of the time when the applicant will be required to furnish evidence of his or her qualifications.
(4) The applicant shall further furnish to the Collector evidence that the applicant is a resident of the city and that he or she is a fit person to be licensed as an undertaker.
(5) No license shall be issued unless the requirements of this division have been complied with.
(C) Suspension and revocation.
(1) A license provided for in this section may be suspended, for a period not to exceed 30 days, or be revoked, by the Mayor, in addition to any other penalty imposed for a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or any other law or ordinance relating to the conduct of the occupation in the city, after a hearing pursuant to Chapter 292 of these Codified Ordinances.
(2) If, at any time before the expiration of the license or certificate it is revoked, the licensee shall forthwith surrender and deliver to the City Collector, or his or her duly authorized representative, the license so revoked. If the licensee neglects, fails or refuses to surrender and deliver the license as provided in this division, the Director of Finance shall seize and destroy the revoked license.
(D) Separate license fee for each location. A license provided for in this section shall entitle the licensee to engage in, carry on or conduct the business of undertaking only at and from the store, room or place designated in the license. If the applicant for the license wishes to carry on, conduct or engage in the business of undertaking at more than one store, room or place in the city, he or she shall be permitted to do so only upon the payment of a license fee, as set forth in § 801.13(MMM), for each store, room or place.
(E) Posting. Every license provided for in this section shall be posted, for the period of the license, in a conspicuous place on the wall of the store, room, place or establishment used for the undertaking business. No person licensed under this section shall permit or allow any license issued to him or her to remain posted in any store, room, place or establishment used for the business of undertaking, after the expiration of the period for which the license was issued.
(Ord. 98-02, passed 1-13-1998)