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These regulations shall not require the use of a casket for transportation. No licensed funeral service establishment shall be required to receive such registration in addition to its funeral service establishment license. However, such establishment shall be subject to the regulations pertaining to transportation and removal services.\n\t\tEvery applicant for registration as a surface transportation and removal service shall include the name of a manager of record on any application for registration and shall notify the Board within 30 days of any change in the manager of record. Such notice shall include the name of the new manager of record of the surface transportation and removal service.\n\t\tAll registrations as a surface transportation and removal service shall be renewed annually and no person or private business shall engage in the business as a surface transportation and removal service without holding a valid registration.\n\t\tAny surface transportation or removal service that is not registered or persons who knowingly engage in transportation or removal services without registration shall be subject to the disciplinary actions provided in this chapter.\n\t\tThis section shall not be construed to prohibit private individuals from transporting or removing the remains of deceased family members and relatives either by preference or in observation of religious beliefs and customs.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":212057,"text":"Any person or private business, except a common carrier engaged in interstate commerce, the Commonwealth and its agencies, or an emergency medical services agency holding a permit issued by the Commissioner of Health pursuant to \u00a7 32.1-111.6, shall apply for and receive a registration as a transportation and removal service in order to be authorized to engage in the business of surface transportation or removal of dead human bodies in the Commonwealth.\n\t\tSurface transportation and removal services shall not arrange or conduct funerals, provide for the care or preparation, including embalming, of dead human bodies, or sell or provide funeral-related goods and services without the issuance of a funeral service establishment license.\n\t\tThe Board shall promulgate regulations for such registration including proper procedures in the handling of all dead human bodies being transported, the application process for registration, and the establishment of registration fees. 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This law was first created in 1984. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 761 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1984 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 4 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1986, chapter 198; in 1988, chapter 765; in 2006, chapter 555<\/a>; in 2015, chapters 110<\/a> and 534<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":72624,"section_number":"32.1-111.6","catch_line":"Emergency medical services agency license; emergency medical services vehicle permits","order_by":null,"url":"\/32.1-111.6\/"}],"permalink":{"id":241899,"object_type":"law","relational_id":57886,"identifier":"54.1-2819","token":"54.1\/III\/28\/4\/54.1-2819","url":"\/54.1-2819\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/54.1-2819\/","token":"54.1\/III\/28\/4\/54.1-2819","dublin_core":{"Title":"Registration of surface transportation and removal services; penalty","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 54.1-2819","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Any person or private business, except a common carrier engaged in interstate commerce, the Commonwealth and its agencies, or an emergency medical services agency holding a permit issued by the Commissioner of Health pursuant to \u00a7 32.1-111.6<\/a>, shall apply for and receive a registration as a transportation and removal service in order<\/span> to be authorized to engage in the business of surface transportation or removal of dead human bodies in the Commonwealth.\n\t\tSurface transportation and removal services shall not arrange or conduct funerals, provide for the care or preparation, including embalming<\/span>, of dead human bodies, or sell or provide funeral-related goods and services without the issuance of a funeral service establishment<\/span> license.\n\t\tThe Board<\/span> shall promulgate regulations for such registration including proper procedures in the handling of all dead human bodies being transported, the application process for registration, and the establishment of registration fees. These regulations shall not require the use of a casket for transportation. No licensed funeral service establishment<\/span> shall be required to receive such registration in addition to its funeral service establishment<\/span> license. However, such establishment shall be subject to the regulations pertaining to transportation and removal services.\n\t\tEvery applicant for registration as a surface transportation and removal service shall include the name of a manager of record on any application for registration and shall notify the Board<\/span> within 30 days of any change in the manager of record. Such notice shall include the name of the new manager of record of the surface transportation and removal service.\n\t\tAll registrations as a surface transportation and removal service shall be renewed annually and no person or private business shall engage in the business as a surface transportation and removal service without holding a valid registration.\n\t\tAny surface transportation or removal service that is not registered or persons who knowingly engage in transportation or removal services without registration shall be subject to the disciplinary actions provided in this chapter.\n\t\tThis section shall not be construed to prohibit private individuals from transporting or removing the remains of deceased family members and relatives either by preference or in observation of religious beliefs and customs.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nREGISTRATION OF SURFACE TRANSPORTATION AND REMOVAL SERVICES; PENALTY (\u00a7\n54.1-2819)\n\nAny person or private business, except a common carrier engaged in interstate\ncommerce, the Commonwealth and its agencies, or an emergency medical services\nagency holding a permit issued by the Commissioner of Health pursuant to \u00a7\n32.1-111.6, shall apply for and receive a registration as a transportation and\nremoval service in order to be authorized to engage in the business of surface\ntransportation or removal of dead human bodies in the Commonwealth.\n\t\tSurface transportation and removal services shall not arrange or conduct\nfunerals, provide for the care or preparation, including embalming, of dead\nhuman bodies, or sell or provide funeral-related goods and services without the\nissuance of a funeral service establishment license.\n\t\tThe Board shall promulgate regulations for such registration including proper\nprocedures in the handling of all dead human bodies being transported, the\napplication process for registration, and the establishment of registration\nfees. These regulations shall not require the use of a casket for\ntransportation. No licensed funeral service establishment shall be required to\nreceive such registration in addition to its funeral service establishment\nlicense. However, such establishment shall be subject to the regulations\npertaining to transportation and removal services.\n\t\tEvery applicant for registration as a surface transportation and removal\nservice shall include the name of a manager of record on any application for\nregistration and shall notify the Board within 30 days of any change in the\nmanager of record. Such notice shall include the name of the new manager of\nrecord of the surface transportation and removal service.\n\t\tAll registrations as a surface transportation and removal service shall be\nrenewed annually and no person or private business shall engage in the business\nas a surface transportation and removal service without holding a valid\nregistration.\n\t\tAny surface transportation or removal service that is not registered or\npersons who knowingly engage in transportation or removal services without\nregistration shall be subject to the disciplinary actions provided in this\nchapter.\n\t\tThis section shall not be construed to prohibit private individuals from\ntransporting or removing the remains of deceased family members and relatives\neither by preference or in observation of religious beliefs and customs.\n\nHISTORY: 1984, c. 761, \u00a7 54-260.74:1; 1986, c. 198; 1988, c. 765; 2006, c. 555;\n2015, cc. 110, 534.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}