Retired License

PURPOSE: This rule clarifies the requirements to retire from the practice of funeral directing and/or embalming. (1) Any person licensed to practice as a funeral director and/or embalmer in Missouri who is over sixty-five (65) years of age and who retires from such practice, shall file with the board an affidavit, on a form to be furnished by the board, which states the date on which s/he retired from such practice, that s/he will not practice such profession and such other facts as tend to verify the retirement as the board may deem necessary; but if s/he thereafter wishes to reengage in the practice, s/he shall renew his/her registration with the board as provided in section 333.081.1, RSMo. (2) For purposes of this section, a retired Missouri licensed funeral director and/or Missouri licensed embalmer is one who is neither engaged in the active practice of funeral directing/ embalming nor holds him/herself out as an actively practicing funeral director/embalmer and has executed and filed with the board a retirement affidavit. A retired Missouri licensed funeral director/embalmer may keep his/her wall-hanging certificate after execution of a retirement affidavit but shall surrender, upon retirement, all other indicia of licensure. (3) The rules in this division are declared severable. If any rule, or section of a rule, is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction or by the Administrative Hearing Commission, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect unless otherwise determined by a court of competent jurisdiction or by the Administrative Hearing Commission. AUTHORITY: sections 333.081, RSMo Supp. 2003 and 333.111, RSMo 2000.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 120-2.022. Original rule filed July 15, 1996, effective Jan. 30, 1997. Amended: Filed Dec. 31, 2003, effective July 30, 2004. Moved to 20 CSR 2120-2.022, effective Aug. 28, 2006. *Original authority: 333.081, RSMo 1965, amended 1981, 2001 and 333.111.1, RSMo 1965, amended 1981, 1993, 1995.