Texas Occupations Code

§ 651.001 — DEFINITIONS

OC § 651.001Title 3. HEALTH PROFESSIONS · Part L. CREMATORY SERVICES, FUNERAL DIRECTING, AND EMBALMING · Ch. 651. CREMATORY SERVICES, FUNERAL DIRECTING, AND EMBALMING · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

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In this chapter:

(1)"Cemetery" means a place that is used or intended to be used for interment, and includes a graveyard, burial park, or mausoleum.

(2)"Commission" means the Texas Funeral Service Commission.

(3)"Crematory" means a structure containing a furnace used or intended to be used for the cremation of human remains.

(4)"Embalmer" means a person licensed under this chapter who for compensation, wholly or partly, disinfects or preserves a dead human body by:

(A)using chemical substances, fluids, or gases, including by introducing those substances, fluids, or gases into the body by:

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Legislative history

Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 682, Sec. 1.03, eff. Sept. 1, 2001; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 562, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.