(B) Hardship exemptions will not be granted for consecutive licensing periods. (j) The Commission will not renew the license of an individual who fails to obtain the required 16 hours of continuing education.
(k) Any licensee receiving or submitting for credit continuing education hours in a fraudulent manner shall be required to obtain all continuing education on site and not online for two consecutive renewal periods and shall be subject to any applicable disciplinary action. (2) Embalmers are required to utilize all personal protective equipment required by either OSHA or its corresponding state agency during the embalming procedure. (3) Clothing and/or personal effects of the decedent shall either be disinfected before delivery to any person or discarded in a manner consistent with the disposal of biohazardous material. (4) The technique utilized to effect eye, mouth, and lip closure shall be any technique accepted as standard in the profession. Regardless of the technique chosen, the embalmer shall be required to achieve the best results possible under prevailing conditions. (5) The entire body may be thoroughly cleaned before arterial injection and shall be cleaned immediately after the embalming procedure with an antiseptic soap or detergent. (6) Body orifices (nostrils, mouth, anus, vagina, ear canals, and urethra) open lesions, and other surgical incisions shall be treated with appropriate topical disinfectants either before or immediately after arterial injection. After cavity treatment has been completed, body orifices shall be packed in cotton saturated with a suitable disinfectant of a phenol coefficient not less than one in cases where purge is evident or is likely to occur and/or when the body is to be transported out of state or by common carrier. (7) The arterial fluid to be injected shall be one commercially prepared and marketed with its percent of formaldehyde, or other approved substance, by volume (index) clearly marked on the label or in printed material supplied by the manufacturer. (8) The fluids selected shall be injected into all bodies in such dilutions and at such pressures as the professional experience of the embalmer shall indicate, except that in no instance shall dilute solution contain less than 1.0% formaldehyde, or an approved substance that acts the same as formaldehyde, and as the professional experience of the embalmer indicates, one gallon of dilute solution shall be used for each 50 pounds of body weight. Computation of solution strength is as follows: C x V = C' x V', where C = strength of concentrated fluid, V = volume of ounces of concentrated fluid, C' = strength of dilute fluid, and V' = volume of ounces of dilute fluid. (9) Abdominal and thoracic cavities shall be treated in the following manner. (A) Liquid, semi-solid, and gaseous contents which can be withdrawn through a trocar shall be aspirated by the use of the highest vacuum pressure attainable. (B) Concentrated, commercially prepared cavity fluid which is acidic in nature (6.5 pH or lower) and contains at least two preservative chemicals shall be injected and evenly distributed throughout the aspirated cavities. A minimum of 16 ounces of concentrated cavity fluid shall be used in any embalming
TAC Chapter 203. Licensing and Enforcement – Specific Substantive Rules Sub-Chapter B: Duties of a Funeral Establishment/License Rule 203.24 Display of License (a) The funeral establishment license shall be conspicuously displayed in an area of the establishment open and accessible to the general public.
(b) If a license holder is in contact with the public during the course of his or her job, the funeral establishment shall conspicuously display the holder’s license in each place of business at which the license holder practices. (c) If a license holder is not in contact with the public during the course of his or her job, the funeral establishment shall make the license available for inspection in each place of business at which the license holder practices. (d) A license is conspicuously displayed when it is placed in an area of the funeral establishment generally accessed by a consumer making funeral arrangements. (e) The displayed license must be an original non-expired license issued by the Commission. (f) In the event the license holder who assists the public and/or embalms a dead human body is a temporary employee of the funeral establishment, the funeral establishment shall maintain a copy of the license holder’s original license for inspection by a customer or prospective customer. The copy of the license holder’s original license shall be maintained for a period of two years after the temporary employment occurred. (g) If a regular full- or regular part-time employee is no longer employed by the funeral establishment, the funeral establishment shall maintain a copy of the license holder’s original license for a period of two years after the employment ends. Rule 203.32 Requirements Relating to Embalming (a) In order to ensure the maximum inhibition of pathogenic organisms in the dead human body, the following minimum standards of performance shall be required of each licensed embalmer in the State of Texas in each instance in which he or she is authorized or required to embalm a dead human body. (1) Embalming shall be performed only by embalmers licensed by the Commission, in properly equipped and licensed establishments, or in the event of a disaster of major proportions, in facilities designated by a Medical Examiner, Coroner, or state health official. Only three types of people may under certain circumstances assist licensed embalmers in embalming: provisional licensed embalmers under the personal supervision of a licensed embalmer; students who are enrolled in an accredited school of mortuary science working on a case intended toward completion of the student’s clinical requirements, under the personal supervision of a licensed embalmer and with written permission to assist the embalmer from a family member or the person responsible for making arrangements for final disposition; and, in the event of a disaster of major proportions and with the prior approval of the Executive Director, embalmers licensed in another state as long as they are working with or under the general supervision of a person licensed as an embalmer in this state.
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