§34-13-3. Applicability of chapter.

This chapter does not apply to any cemetery or cemetery authority or to any public institution, medical college, county medical society, anatomical association, college of embalming, or any officer thereof, or to any other recognized person carrying out the provision of the statutes of the State of Alabama prescribing the conditions under which indigent human dead bodies are held subject for scientific or anatomical study; provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed to give any cemetery or cemetery authority or any other person or entity the right to enter into or engage in any funeral home operation or the practice of embalming or funeral directing or any related funeral home or funeral directing activities. Nor shall this chapter include any temporary or occasional or extra help to assist in the conduct of a funeral employed on such basis by a funeral director, provided such funeral is under the general supervision of a licensed funeral director.

(Acts 1975, No. 214, p. 705, §11.)