Document Citation: K.S.A. § 65-1762

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KANSAS ANNOTATED STATUTES
Chapter 65. PUBLIC HEALTH
Article 17. REGULATION OF EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS; FUNERAL ESTABLISHMENTS
GENERAL PROVISIONS

Date:
01/21/2014

Document:
65-1762. Supervision; crematory operator license requirement; cremation requirements; authorization form and cor-oner's permit.

(a) The licensed crematory operator in charge shall supervise the licensed crematory on a full-time or a part-time basis and perform such other duties relating to the supervision of a licensed crematory as prescribed by the board by rules and regulations. The crematory operator in charge of a licensed crematory must hold a Kansas crematory opera-tor's license. Additionally, a crematory operator in charge must hold a funeral director's license unless the crematory only receives dead human bodies for cremation through licensed funeral establishments or branch funeral establish-ments.

(b) Only licensed crematory operators may perform cremation.

(c) No crematory operator or crematory operator in charge shall cremate or cause to be cremated any dead hu-man body until it has received:

(1) A cremation authorization form signed by an authorizing agent. The written authorization shall include:

(A) The identity of the dead human body and the time and date of death;

(B) the name of the funeral director or assistant funeral director and the funeral establishment or branch estab-lishment, or the authorizing agent, that obtained the cremation authorization;

(C) notification as to whether the cause of death occurred from a disease declared by the department of health and environment to be infectious, contagious, communicable or dangerous to the public health;

(D) the name of the authorizing agent and the relationship between the authorizing agent and the decedent;

(E) authorization for the crematory to cremate the dead human body;

(F) a representation that the dead human body does not contain a pacemaker or any other material or implant that may be potentially hazardous or cause damage to the cremation chamber or the person performing the cremation;

(G) the name of the person authorized to receive the cremated remains from the crematory; and

(H) the signature of the authorizing agent, attesting to the accuracy of all representations contained on the cre-mation authorization form.

(2) A completed and executed coroner's permit to cremate, as is provided in K.S.A. 65-2426a, and amendments thereto, indicating that the dead human body is to be cremated.