Undertaker or funeral director shall mean any person conducting fir engaging in the practice of funeral directing or embalming, as defined in Illinois Revised Statutes 1955, Chapter 111 1/2, Paragraphs 73.2, 73.11.
Every undertaking establishment or funeral directing place shall include a preparation room or morgue which shall connect with a sewer by an approved sanitary drain and have running water available, a nonabsorbent floor, washable walls and forced ventilation. Such room or morgue shall be partitioned from other parts of the undertaking establishment or funeral directing place and such room or morgue shall be arranged or placed so that it will not serve as an exit from such establishment or from other rooms which are a part thereof. An annual inspection of each undertaking establishment or funeral directing place shall be made, or caused to be made, by the commissioner of health to ascertain that the requirements of this section are being observed.
No permit for the burial or cremation of any dead human body shall be issued to anyone except an undertaker or funeral director who is licensed as provided in this chapter.
Any burial or cremation permit may be recalled by the commissioner of health at any time when he shall have evidence that such permit was issued on improper or insufficient information contained in the death certificate or when it is found that the conditions of the permit are not complied with. Any undertaker or funeral director holding such permit shall upon notification of its recall forthwith surrender such permit to the commissioner of health.
It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of an undertaker or funeral director or to conduct, manage and operate an undertaking establishment or funeral directing place without first having been qualified under and having received the license required by Illinois Revised Statutes, 1959, Chapter 111 1/2, Paragraph 73.1 et seq. Persons assisting or otherwise employed by undertakers or funeral directors also must first secure such state licenses as their duties require before engaging in the same.
[1943 Code]
It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of an undertaker or funeral director or to conduct, manage or operate an undertaking establishment or funeral directing place without first having applied for and obtained a Village license in the manner provided in this article.
[1943 Code; Ord. 2001-2, 2-5-2001, § 1]
An application for a Village license under this article shall be made to the Village Clerk. The applicant shall, on forms prepared and furnished by the Village Clerk for such purpose, state his name and residence address, that he is licensed by the state to practice embalming or funeral directing, and give the number of his state registration card and the location of his fixed place of business, and where the place or location is not already an established undertaking establishment, shall if the same is in a consent district, procure and attach to or exhibit with such application such consents. Such application shall be transmitted to the director of health and human services for his approval.
Any undertaker or funeral director making application in proper form and obtaining the consents, where consents are required and otherwise meeting the requirements of the preceding paragraph of this section shall be entitled to the Village license required in this article upon payment of the license fee provided for in Section 29-11 of this Code.
[1943 Code; Ord. 2001-2, 2-5-2001, § 1]
Any license issued under this article may be suspended by the director of health and human services for a period of not to exceed 10 days, and such license may be revoked by the President and Board of Trustees at any time after the issuance thereof, for a violation of any of the provisions of this Code or the rules or regulations of the department of health and human services, or of any law relating to the practices for which such license is given.
Upon the revocation of any license issued pursuant to this article, the licensee shall immediately surrender and deliver to the Village Clerk the license certificate so revoked. If any person licensed under the provisions of this article shall fail or neglect or refuse to surrender such certificate so revoked, the director of health and human services shall have the power and it shall be his duty to seize and destroy the same.