Welcome
to the home page of the
Kansas
State Board of Mortuary Arts
Our office will be closed
on Thursday-Friday, November 26-27, 2009 to celebrate Thanksgiving.
On
behalf of the Mortuary Arts Board and Administrative Staff, we wish you
a
Happy
and Safe Thanksgiving!
PLEASE
NOTE: Some of the
information on our web site is in pdf/Adobe Acrobat Reader format. If
you
do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader
already installed on your computer, please visit their site to download
it.
 Our Purpose, Our Goal
Facts about Funerals (informational brochure)
Pre-Planning
Your Funeral Arrangements
(informational brochure)
Memorial Planning Guide NOTE: This is a pdf document.
If you do not already have Adobe Acrobat Reader
already installed on your computer, please visit their site to download
it.
License Renewal
Due Dates UPDATED
10-10-2009
Continuing Education UPDATED
11-18-2009
Complaint
Information
Education
Services/
License
Requirements/Applications
Job Search UPDATED
11-19-2009
KPERS Death Benefit
Information
The Board UPDATED
11-19-2009
Rulebook
(Includes laws effective as of 10-15-2009)
UPDATED
10-15-2009
Closed
Funeral Home Record Search
Roster
of Kansas Funeral Homes and Crematories with Refrigeration Units
Board
Actions Actions taken
against licensees or applicants for licensure since
1/1/2003. UPDATED
10-10-2009
For information pertaining to Licensees In the
Military Service, please click here.
Consumer Board Member Charles Smith
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What's
New:
- RENEW
YOUR LICENSE ONLINE
- KDHE OVS announces
proposed changes regarding Death Certificates ADDED 11-4-2009
- Draft 2010
Cremation Legislation
ADDED
10-27-2009
- Agency
Newsletter For the
latest news. UPDATED
11-20-2009
- My Two Cents
Worth is a new column written by KSBMA Exec. Sec. Mack Smith UPDATED
11-19-2009
- The Tentative
Agenda for the January
14, 2010 Meeting. The filing deadline for the upcoming
Board Meeting of January
14,
2010 is December 15, 2009.
All applications, fees and documentation must be
filed with the KSBMA office by no later than December 15th,
2009 in order to be placed on the agenda for the January
14,
2010
meeting. UPDATED
11-20-2009
- Assistant
Funeral Directors: The filing
deadline for the AFD examination of Wednesday, December 2, 2009
is Monday, November 16, 2009. UPDATED
10-28-2009
- Consumer
Corner Information for
Kansas consumers concerning the funeral industry.
- Legislation Information from the 2009-2010
Kansas Legislative Session affecting funeral service and the
KSBMA including recent fee sweeps from the agency's fee fund to
the state's general fund. Also included are bills passed during
the
2008 Legislative Session.
- SRS's Funeral Assistance Program's
amended regulation effective 1/1/2008: KAR 30-4-98
This regulation
should be amended again in the near future to reflect the changes
effective 7/1/09. Please
note that the
maximum benefit for qualified applicants decreased from $680 to $550
effective July 1, 2009.
- Information
regarding
the rehabilitation
of Memorial
Service/Lincoln Memorial Life Insurance Companies/National Prearranged
Funeral Services which includes Legal
Documents relating to the
rehabilitation. Additional information can be found on the
web site of the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), including a Resouce Page
and notices/news/press
releases and FAQ.
- Most Recent
Quarter State Inspection Report
- FY 2009 Year
End State Inspection Report
- To view two generic
forms dealing with KAR 63-7-2
and Crematory Recordkeeping,
please click here
- Information on the Willed
Body Program at the University of Kansas Medical Center including
the certificate necessary for Bequeathing
A Body UPDATED
9-30-2009 Note: Web site change
- Contact information
for the KHPA/Estate
Recovery Unit can be found on the KSBMA Agency
Newsletter portion of this
web page. To
read an interesting article dealing with disposition of dead human
remains, please select here
- Licensee
Question of Knowledge
UPDATED
11-3-2009
- Change
of Address Form (for
licensees)
- Legal
Next-of-Kin (K.S.A. 65-1734)
- Kansas
Dead Body Law A
helpful article written by Brian Vazquez regarding Unclaimed Bodies
- K.S.A.
17-1305 regarding
Private Burying Grounds; Control by county clerk; Actions for Damages
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