Section 3Sec./Art. 3

Definition of Terms. - As used in this Act:

(a) Funeral establishment refers to a licensed business that provides funeral services, such as funeral parlor, funeral chapels, and any similar place used in the preparation, transportation, storage, and care of the body of a deceased person for burial or cremation;

(b) Indigent funeral package refers to the preparation of funeral documents, embalming, interment, or burial services, transport, cremation, and inurnment services, including the provision of a casket, urn, or venue, as the case may be, offered by funeral establishments; and

(c) Poor refers to those families whose income falls below the poverty threshold as defined by the Department of Economy, Planning, and Development (DEPDev) and/or who cannot sustain or provide their minimum basic needs of food, health, education, housing, or other essential amenities of life as defined under Republic Act No. 8425, otherwise known as the "Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act".