The purposes of this chapter are to provide for the licensure and regulation of funeral directors, apprentice funeral directors, and funeral services establishments in the District of Columbia, and to protect the public from fraudulent, unfair, and deceptive practices by persons licensed to provide funeral directing services.
D.C. Code § 3-401
Purposes
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Cooper v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services (1991)
Most recently applied in Robert Lee Parrish v. District of Columbia (September 1998)
May 22, 1984, D.C
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: D.C. Law Library (Council of the District of Columbia). Reproduced from public-domain District of Columbia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.