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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="7-503" title_number="7" title_name="Morticians and Funeral Directors" subtitle_number="5">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a licensee may not practice mortuary science under any name other than the name that appears on that person’s license.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The name appearing on the license may be a trade or copyrighted name which may be sold to another licensee as part of the goodwill of the funeral establishment.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the sale of the trade name or copyrighted name is made part of a sale of a funeral establishment:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The buyer must:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Notify the Board of the sale of the trade or copyrighted name; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Apply for a funeral license in the name of the new owner; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The funeral establishment license must indicate that the trade or copyrighted name will continue to be used by the new owner.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The sale of a funeral establishment does not preclude the buyer from advertising the funeral establishment as the successor to the funeral establishment acquired.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
