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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59562</law_id><section_number>54.1-2811</section_number><catch_line>Facility requirements</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="28">Funeral Services</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Licensure of Funeral Establishments</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A <span class="dictionary">funeral service establishment</span> shall contain a preparation room equipped with a tile, cement or other waterproof floor, proper drainage and ventilation, the necessary instruments and supplies for the preparation and <span class="dictionary">embalming</span> of dead human bodies for burial, transportation or other <span class="dictionary">disposition</span>, and separate restroom facilities.
		A <span class="dictionary">funeral service establishment</span> having more than one location at which it performs funeral services shall not be required to maintain more than one preparation room.
		The <span class="dictionary">Board</span> may adopt regulations and classifications to prescribe proper drainage and ventilation and necessary instruments and supplies in preparation rooms and separate restroom facilities.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 54-260.39, 54-260.40; 1956, c. 220; 1972, c. 797, &#xA7; 54-260.73; 1974, 164; 1978, c. 849; 1988, c. 765.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
