SEC. 73-11-53. Resident trainee for practice of funeral service or funeral directing.

Section 73-11-53, Mississippi Code of 1972, is reenacted as follows:

73-11-53. (1) A person desiring to become a resident trainee for the practice of funeral service or funeral directing shall make application to the board. Such application shall be sustained by the licensee under whom the applicant is serving, and shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee in an amount set by the board in accordance with Section 73-11-56. When the board is satisfied as to the qualifications of an applicant, it shall issue a certificate of resident traineeship. No credit toward the resident traineeship will be allowed prior to the receipt of a properly completed application and applicable fee at the board office.

(2) The board shall have the power to suspend or revoke a certificate of a resident traineeship for violation of any provision of this chapter.

(3) A resident trainee who has allowed a certificate of resident traineeship to lapse or who has had a resident traineeship suspended or revoked, may, within one (1) year after such lapse, suspension or revocation, make application for reregistration, but no more than two (2) such consecutive registrations shall be allowed by the board.

SOURCES: Laws, 1983, ch. 351, Sec. 7; reenacted and amended, 1991, ch. 463, Sec. 8; reenacted, 1993, ch. 499, Sec. 8; reenacted, 1995, ch. 387, Sec. 8, eff from and after June 30, 1995