The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Title 26 : Professions and Occupations
Chapter 021 : Funeral Services
Subchapter 002 : LICENSES
(Cite as: 26 V.S.A. § 1257)-
§ 1257. Unprofessional conduct
(a) A licensee shall not engage in unprofessional conduct.
(b) Unprofessional conduct means the following conduct and conduct set forth in 3 V.S.A. § 129a:
(1) Using dishonest or misleading advertising.
(2) Failure to make available, upon request of a person who had received services, copies of documents in the possession or under the control of the practitioner.
(3) Failure to comply with rules adopted by the Director, the Office, or by the Federal Trade Commission relating to funeral goods and services.
(4) For funeral directors, failure to make available at the licensee’s place of business, by color picture or display, the three least expensive caskets, as available. For the purposes of this section and related administrative rules, the three least expensive caskets shall include one cloth, one metal, and one wood casket.
(c) [Repealed.]
(d) [Repealed.]
(e) [Repealed.] (Amended 1969, No. 239 (Adj. Sess.), § 15; 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974; 1973, No. 236 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 1995, No. 138 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; 1997, No. 40, § 22c; 1997, No. 145 (Adj. Sess.), § 38; 1999, No. 133 (Adj. Sess.), § 14; 2001, No. 151 (Adj. Sess.), § 18, eff. June 27, 2002; 2005, No. 27, § 44; 2017, No. 144 (Adj. Sess.), § 15.)
