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Roy Funeral Home’s longtime owner accused of operating without a license

By Jordan J. Phelan
EAGLE TIMES STAFF
CLAREMONT — A Claremont funeral home director has been arrested and charged with numerous violations, including operating without a permit, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office announced late Thursday.

James R. Roy, 65, longtime owner of Roy Funeral Home on Sullivan Street in Claremont, was charged with one count of operating an unlicensed funeral home, two counts of making funeral arrangements without a license, one count of failure to transmit a death record, four counts of transporting a dead body without a burial permit, and three counts of unsworn falsification, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office said in a news release.

All charges against Roy, who has operated Roy Funeral Home for nearly five decades, are Class A misdemeanors and are each punishable by up to 12 months in the House of Corrections and a $2,000 fine.

The complaints allege that following the 2021 expiration of Roy’s funeral home and funeral director licenses, Roy continued to accept new clients, failed to file a death certificate, and generated counterfeit burial permits, according to the news release.

Funeral homes and funeral directors must be licensed in New Hampshire. Funeral directors are also required to file death certificates with, and obtain burial permits from, the New Hampshire Division of Vital Records Administration.

Roy is scheduled to be arraigned in district court in Claremont on Monday, May 16.

The Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau of the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office and the Claremont Police Department participated in the investigation.

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