Funeral Director
- Exam
- No exam
- Education
- None
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- None
Any person engaged in the profession of a funeral director or in the care and disposition of the human dead, or in the practice of disinfecting and preparing by embalming the human dead for the funeral service, burial or cremation, or the supervising of the burial, transportation or disposal of decreased human bodies, or in the practice of funeral directing or embalming as presently known, whether under these titles or designations or otherwise. The term funeral director shall also mean a person who makes arrangements for funeral services and whose sells funeral merchandise to the public incidental to such service or who makes financial arrangements for the rendering of such services and the sale of such merchandise.
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Stand-alone license
- Exam
- No exam
- Education
- No education required
- Continuing education
- Continuing education required
- Certification
- No mention of certification
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- No criminal record requirements
Issuing body
- Department
- Department of State
- Division
- Bureau of Professional & Occupational Affairs
- Board
- Funeral Directors Board
- Address
- P.O. Box 2649 Harrisburg, PA 17105
- Phone
- (717) 783-3397
- Agency website
- https://www.dos.pa.gov/ProfessionalLicensing/BoardsCommissions/FuneralDirectors/Pages/default.aspx
- Last updated
- March 11, 2021
Occupations (O*NET)
- Funeral Director 11-9171.00
- Funeral Director 39-4031.00
Source and verification
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