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Alabama State Law Exam Study Guide
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accredited school - CORRECT ANSWER-A school or college approved by the Alabama
Board of Funeral Service and which maintains a course of instruction of not less than 48
calendar weeks or four academic quarters or college terms and which gives a course of
instruction in the fundamental subjects including, but not limited to, the following:
COLLEGE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE - CORRECT ANSWER-A school or college
approved by the Alabama Board of Funeral Service and which maintains a course of
instruction of not less than 48 calendar weeks or four academic quarters or college
terms and which gives a course of instruction in the fundamental subjects including, but
not limited to, the following:
Fundamental Subjects - CORRECT ANSWER-a. Mortuary management and
administration.
b. Legal medicine and toxicology as it pertains to funeral directing.
c. Public health, hygiene, and sanitary science.
d. Mortuary science, to include embalming technique, in all its aspects; chemistry of
embalming, color harmony; discoloration, its causes, effects, and treatment; treatment
of special cases; restorative art; funeral management; and professional ethics.
e. Anatomy and physiology.
f. Chemistry, organic and inorganic.
g. Pathology.
h. Bacteriology.
i. Sanitation and hygiene.
j. Public health regulations.
k. Other courses of instruction in fundamental subjects as may be prescribed by the
Alabama Board of Funeral Service.
Alkaline hydrolysis - CORRECT ANSWER-The technical process that reduces human
remains to bone fragments using heat, water, and chemical agents.
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American Board of Funeral Service Education - CORRECT ANSWER-That funeral
service educational organization which is an agency granted official recognition by the
United States Secretary of Education and which is composed of members representing
the American Association of College of Mortuary Science, the Conference of Funeral
Service Examining Board of the United States, Inc., the National Association of
Colleges of Mortuary Science, and the University Mortuary Science Education
Association and which has as its object the furtherance of education in the field of
funeral service and in fields necessary to, or allied with, the field of funeral service, and
further to formulate standards of funeral service education and to grant accreditation to
qualified schools and colleges of mortuary science and to do all things incidental to the
foregoing.
Apprentice embalmer - CORRECT ANSWER-Any person engaged in the study of the
art of embalming under the instructions and supervision of a licensed embalmer
practicing in this state.
APPRENTICE FUNERAL DIRECTOR - CORRECT ANSWER-Any person operating
under or in association with a funeral director for the purpose of learning the business or
profession of funeral director, to the end that he or she may become licensed under this
chapter
Authorizing agent - CORRECT ANSWER-A person at least 18 years of age, except in
the case of a surviving spouse or parent, who is legally entitled to order the cremation or
final disposition of particular human remains.
Board - CORRECT ANSWER-The Alabama Board of Funeral Service.
Cash Advance Items - CORRECT ANSWER-Any item of service or merchandise
described to a purchaser using the term cash advance, accommodation, cash
disbursement, or similar term. A cash advance item is also any item obtained from a
third party and paid for by a funeral provider on behalf of a purchaser.
Cash Advance Items - CORRECT ANSWER-a. Cemetery or crematory services.
b. Pallbearers.
c. Public, or other, transportation.
d. Clergy honoraria.
e. Flowers.
f. Musicians or singers.
g. Nurses.
h. Obituary notices.
i. Funeral programs.
j. Gratuities.
k. Death certificates.
l. Outer burial containers.
m. Cemetery plots.
n. Escorts.
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Alabama State Law Exam Study Guide
Exam with complete solutions latest
version
accredited school - CORRECT ANSWER-A school or college approved by the Alabama
Board of Funeral Service and which maintains a course of instruction of not less than 48
calendar weeks or four academic quarters or college terms and which gives a course of
instruction in the fundamental subjects including, but not limited to, the following:
COLLEGE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE - CORRECT ANSWER-A school or college
approved by the Alabama Board of Funeral Service and which maintains a course of
instruction of not less than 48 calendar weeks or four academic quarters or college
terms and which gives a course of instruction in the fundamental subjects including, but
not limited to, the following:
Fundamental Subjects - CORRECT ANSWER-a. Mortuary management and
administration.
b. Legal medicine and toxicology as it pertains to funeral directing.
c. Public health, hygiene, and sanitary science.
d. Mortuary science, to include embalming technique, in all its aspects; chemistry of
embalming, color harmony; discoloration, its causes, effects, and treatment; treatment
of special cases; restorative art; funeral management; and professional ethics.
e. Anatomy and physiology.
f. Chemistry, organic and inorganic.
g. Pathology.
h. Bacteriology.
i. Sanitation and hygiene.
j. Public health regulations.
k. Other courses of instruction in fundamental subjects as may be prescribed by the
Alabama Board of Funeral Service.
Alkaline hydrolysis - CORRECT ANSWER-The technical process that reduces human
remains to bone fragments using heat, water, and chemical agents.
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American Board of Funeral Service Education - CORRECT ANSWER-That funeral
service educational organization which is an agency granted official recognition by the
United States Secretary of Education and which is composed of members representing
the American Association of College of Mortuary Science, the Conference of Funeral
Service Examining Board of the United States, Inc., the National Association of
Colleges of Mortuary Science, and the University Mortuary Science Education
Association and which has as its object the furtherance of education in the field of
funeral service and in fields necessary to, or allied with, the field of funeral service, and
further to formulate standards of funeral service education and to grant accreditation to
qualified schools and colleges of mortuary science and to do all things incidental to the
foregoing.
Apprentice embalmer - CORRECT ANSWER-Any person engaged in the study of the
art of embalming under the instructions and supervision of a licensed embalmer
practicing in this state.
APPRENTICE FUNERAL DIRECTOR - CORRECT ANSWER-Any person operating
under or in association with a funeral director for the purpose of learning the business or
profession of funeral director, to the end that he or she may become licensed under this
chapter
Authorizing agent - CORRECT ANSWER-A person at least 18 years of age, except in
the case of a surviving spouse or parent, who is legally entitled to order the cremation or
final disposition of particular human remains.
Board - CORRECT ANSWER-The Alabama Board of Funeral Service.
Cash Advance Items - CORRECT ANSWER-Any item of service or merchandise
described to a purchaser using the term cash advance, accommodation, cash
disbursement, or similar term. A cash advance item is also any item obtained from a
third party and paid for by a funeral provider on behalf of a purchaser.
Cash Advance Items - CORRECT ANSWER-a. Cemetery or crematory services.
b. Pallbearers.
c. Public, or other, transportation.
d. Clergy honoraria.
e. Flowers.
f. Musicians or singers.
g. Nurses.
h. Obituary notices.
i. Funeral programs.
j. Gratuities.
k. Death certificates.
l. Outer burial containers.
m. Cemetery plots.
n. Escorts.
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