Section 156.1 shall not be construed to include the following classes of persons:
1. Manufacturers, wholesalers, and jobbers of caskets, vaults, or other burial receptacles not engaged in the other functions of furnishing of funeral services or embalming as above defined.
2. Those who distribute or sell caskets, vaults, or any other burial receptacles and who do not furnish any funeral service or embalming, except a registered apprentice under the personal direction of a funeral director.
3. Those who use bodies for scientific purposes as defined in sections 142.1, 142.2, and 142.5; or those who make scientific examinations of dead bodies, or perform autopsies.
4. Physicians or institutions who preserve parts of human bodies either for scientific purposes or for use as evidence in prospective legal cases.
5. Persons burying their own dead under burial permit from the registrar of vital statistics.
[C31, 35, § 2585-c2; C39, § 2585.02; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 156.2]
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