NEVADA FUNERAL ARRANGER TEST
STUDY GUIDE 2026 FINAL PAPER
PRACTICE QUESTIONS VERIFIED ANSWERS
PROFESSIONAL PREP SET GRADED A+
⩥ Yes; "authorizing agent".
Answer: May a person in the State of Nevada, while still living, order
the burial or cremation of his/her own body after death? If so, what is the
legal name of a person acting pursuant to his or her instructions?
⩥ Must complete an affidavit before a notary public using the
appropriate language; Yes.
Answer: What is the requirement for someone to authorize another
person to order the burial or cremation of his or her remains in the event
of his/her death? Does fulfilling this requirement supercede the order of
priority?
⩥ Passes to the next person or category of persons in the order of
priorty; 30.
Answer: What happens if the person with authority is not reasonably
available? The presumption is that a person is not availble after due
diligence has been exercised and the establishment has not received
contact within _______ days after initial contact or attempt to contact
was made.
,⩥ The person with the higher authorization priority.
Answer: If a person of a lower authorization authority is the person
authorized to order the burial or cremation of a decedent and at the time
of death, another person of a higher authorization priority makes intial
contact with the funeral estalbishment and is available to perform the
duties of an authorized person, who is the authorized person to order the
burial or cremation at the time of death?
⩥ True.
Answer: If the governing body of any county, city or town within the
State of Nevada must arrange for and order the decent burial of any
person dying within such county, city or town, leaving a husband or wife
or parent in whose custody such person remained at the time he or she
died, which husband or wife or parent is not indigent and not otherwise
eligible for assistance as a poor person and expenses for a decent burial
have been paid out of public funds pursuant to such an order, the county,
city or town must be reimbursed for its expenses of burial of the dead
body of such person by the husband, wife or parent charged by law with
the duty of burial.
⩥ A Category D Felony.
Answer: A person who removes the dead body of a human being, or any
part thereof, from a grave, vault or other place where it has been buried
or deposited awaiting burial or cremation, without authority of law, with
the intent to sell it, or for the purpose of securing a reward for its return,
or for dissection, or from malice or wantonness, is guilty of
,⩥ A Category D felony.
Answer: A person who purchases or receives, except for burial or
cremation, any such dead body, or any part thereof, knowing that it has
been removed contrary to the provisions of subsection 1, is
⩥ A Category D Felony.
Answer: A person who opens a grave or other place of interment,
temporary or otherwise, or a building where such a dead body is
deposited while awaiting burial or cremation, without authority of law,
with the intent to remove the body or any part thereof, for the purpose of
selling or demanding money for it, for dissection, from malice or
wantonness, or with the intent to sell or remove the coffin or any part
thereof or anything attached thereto, or any vestment or other article
interred or intended to be interred with the body, is guilty of
⩥ No it is illegal; classified as a misdemeanor for arresting a dead body
upon a debt..
Answer: Can the funeral arranger demand payment in full of an
outstanding balance prior to the release of a decedent's remains?
⩥ Guilty of a misdemeanor.
Answer: Any person who without lawful authority obstructs or detains a
person engaged in carrying or accompanying a dead body to a place of
burial or cremation is.....
, ⩥ Permit; misdemeanor; is not.
Answer: A person in charge of a cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium or
other place of burial shall not disinter or remove or permit disinterment
or removal of human remains unless the person has received a copy of a
_________ A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty
of a _____________ A county coroner (Is/Is not) required to obtain a
permit from the local health officer for the disinterment, removal or
transportation of human remains while carrying out his or her duties as
the county coroner
⩥ the public health will not be endangered; died from or with a
contagious or loathsome disease.
Answer: The boards of county commissioners of the several counties in
which human remains are buried or interred are authorized to grant and
to issue written permits for the disinterment and removal of any such
human remains whenever in their judgment the
_________________________ by such disinterment and removal; but
no such permit shall be granted or issued under any circumstances or at
any time where the person or persons buried or interred
have______________________________.
⩥ $250.
Answer: Any transportation company or common carrier transporting or
carrying, or accepting through its agents or employees for transportation
or carriage, the body of any deceased person, without an accompanying
STUDY GUIDE 2026 FINAL PAPER
PRACTICE QUESTIONS VERIFIED ANSWERS
PROFESSIONAL PREP SET GRADED A+
⩥ Yes; "authorizing agent".
Answer: May a person in the State of Nevada, while still living, order
the burial or cremation of his/her own body after death? If so, what is the
legal name of a person acting pursuant to his or her instructions?
⩥ Must complete an affidavit before a notary public using the
appropriate language; Yes.
Answer: What is the requirement for someone to authorize another
person to order the burial or cremation of his or her remains in the event
of his/her death? Does fulfilling this requirement supercede the order of
priority?
⩥ Passes to the next person or category of persons in the order of
priorty; 30.
Answer: What happens if the person with authority is not reasonably
available? The presumption is that a person is not availble after due
diligence has been exercised and the establishment has not received
contact within _______ days after initial contact or attempt to contact
was made.
,⩥ The person with the higher authorization priority.
Answer: If a person of a lower authorization authority is the person
authorized to order the burial or cremation of a decedent and at the time
of death, another person of a higher authorization priority makes intial
contact with the funeral estalbishment and is available to perform the
duties of an authorized person, who is the authorized person to order the
burial or cremation at the time of death?
⩥ True.
Answer: If the governing body of any county, city or town within the
State of Nevada must arrange for and order the decent burial of any
person dying within such county, city or town, leaving a husband or wife
or parent in whose custody such person remained at the time he or she
died, which husband or wife or parent is not indigent and not otherwise
eligible for assistance as a poor person and expenses for a decent burial
have been paid out of public funds pursuant to such an order, the county,
city or town must be reimbursed for its expenses of burial of the dead
body of such person by the husband, wife or parent charged by law with
the duty of burial.
⩥ A Category D Felony.
Answer: A person who removes the dead body of a human being, or any
part thereof, from a grave, vault or other place where it has been buried
or deposited awaiting burial or cremation, without authority of law, with
the intent to sell it, or for the purpose of securing a reward for its return,
or for dissection, or from malice or wantonness, is guilty of
,⩥ A Category D felony.
Answer: A person who purchases or receives, except for burial or
cremation, any such dead body, or any part thereof, knowing that it has
been removed contrary to the provisions of subsection 1, is
⩥ A Category D Felony.
Answer: A person who opens a grave or other place of interment,
temporary or otherwise, or a building where such a dead body is
deposited while awaiting burial or cremation, without authority of law,
with the intent to remove the body or any part thereof, for the purpose of
selling or demanding money for it, for dissection, from malice or
wantonness, or with the intent to sell or remove the coffin or any part
thereof or anything attached thereto, or any vestment or other article
interred or intended to be interred with the body, is guilty of
⩥ No it is illegal; classified as a misdemeanor for arresting a dead body
upon a debt..
Answer: Can the funeral arranger demand payment in full of an
outstanding balance prior to the release of a decedent's remains?
⩥ Guilty of a misdemeanor.
Answer: Any person who without lawful authority obstructs or detains a
person engaged in carrying or accompanying a dead body to a place of
burial or cremation is.....
, ⩥ Permit; misdemeanor; is not.
Answer: A person in charge of a cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium or
other place of burial shall not disinter or remove or permit disinterment
or removal of human remains unless the person has received a copy of a
_________ A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty
of a _____________ A county coroner (Is/Is not) required to obtain a
permit from the local health officer for the disinterment, removal or
transportation of human remains while carrying out his or her duties as
the county coroner
⩥ the public health will not be endangered; died from or with a
contagious or loathsome disease.
Answer: The boards of county commissioners of the several counties in
which human remains are buried or interred are authorized to grant and
to issue written permits for the disinterment and removal of any such
human remains whenever in their judgment the
_________________________ by such disinterment and removal; but
no such permit shall be granted or issued under any circumstances or at
any time where the person or persons buried or interred
have______________________________.
⩥ $250.
Answer: Any transportation company or common carrier transporting or
carrying, or accepting through its agents or employees for transportation
or carriage, the body of any deceased person, without an accompanying
