NYS Funeral Law Updated Questions and
Answers (2026/2027) | Practice Review |
A+ Verified
• Order of priority on disposition -✓✓1 Agent
2. Spouse or domestic partner
3. Children over 18
4. Parents
5. Siblings
• What must be displayed conspicuously in every funeral home? -
✓✓Establishment registration and manager license
• Rental caskets are prohibited from use during a viewing/wake in NYS -✓✓False
• A person is defined as a natural person after the age of -✓✓18 years old
• Registration renewal application for a funeral establishment must include -✓✓-
sale or transfer of all funeral firm assets
-sale or transfer of the controlling interest of the firm
-termination of the business entity
• What doesn't apply to establishments registered prior to 5/1/1974 -
✓✓Requirement of a prep room
,• At the very bottom of the priority list for right of disposition is a chief fiscal
officer of a county -✓✓true
• Funeral Homes are prohibited by law from making any profit -✓✓Common
carrier charges
• Which of the titles authorizes the holder to make funeral arrangements? -
✓✓Funeral Director
• What is not required by law? -✓✓-Embalming
-Casket for direct cremation
-Vault not required unless the cemetery says so
-Purchasing goods
• Max rate of interest that may be charged on unpaid balances per year -✓✓16%
• (non profit cemeteries) Cemeteries to make interments available through the year
6 days a week excluding legal holidays -✓✓The Winter Law
• Documents which have been obtained for or supplies by the customer must be
given to the customer within -✓✓One week of the funeral
• When buying in a cemetery and no one is in charge, the FD must -✓✓-sign the
permit
-write across it "no person in charge"
-file the permit (in the location of the cemetery)
, • Funeral establishment must have a minimum of ___ sq feet dedicated to a chapel
or reposing room -✓✓300
• Display of signs -✓✓Lettering infront of Funeral Home must be a minimum of
1.5 inches.
Casket Showroom lettering minimum .5 inch. Conspicuously displayed.
• 3rd party administration fees for interest and bearing prefunded accounts may not
exceed ___of one percent -✓✓75 hundredths
• Exceptions that remove an individual person from a priority list to control final
disposition -✓✓-Unwilling to serve
-Not reasonable available
-Not competent
• The care, disposal, transportation, burial or cremation by any means other than
embalming is the definition of... -✓✓Undertaking
• Person appointed in a written instrument -✓✓Agent
• A funeral director takes "___ of fetal death" to a local registrar to obtain a permit
for the disposition -✓✓Report
• How many "packages" must be offered for a direct burial on a GPL? -✓✓2
Answers (2026/2027) | Practice Review |
A+ Verified
• Order of priority on disposition -✓✓1 Agent
2. Spouse or domestic partner
3. Children over 18
4. Parents
5. Siblings
• What must be displayed conspicuously in every funeral home? -
✓✓Establishment registration and manager license
• Rental caskets are prohibited from use during a viewing/wake in NYS -✓✓False
• A person is defined as a natural person after the age of -✓✓18 years old
• Registration renewal application for a funeral establishment must include -✓✓-
sale or transfer of all funeral firm assets
-sale or transfer of the controlling interest of the firm
-termination of the business entity
• What doesn't apply to establishments registered prior to 5/1/1974 -
✓✓Requirement of a prep room
,• At the very bottom of the priority list for right of disposition is a chief fiscal
officer of a county -✓✓true
• Funeral Homes are prohibited by law from making any profit -✓✓Common
carrier charges
• Which of the titles authorizes the holder to make funeral arrangements? -
✓✓Funeral Director
• What is not required by law? -✓✓-Embalming
-Casket for direct cremation
-Vault not required unless the cemetery says so
-Purchasing goods
• Max rate of interest that may be charged on unpaid balances per year -✓✓16%
• (non profit cemeteries) Cemeteries to make interments available through the year
6 days a week excluding legal holidays -✓✓The Winter Law
• Documents which have been obtained for or supplies by the customer must be
given to the customer within -✓✓One week of the funeral
• When buying in a cemetery and no one is in charge, the FD must -✓✓-sign the
permit
-write across it "no person in charge"
-file the permit (in the location of the cemetery)
, • Funeral establishment must have a minimum of ___ sq feet dedicated to a chapel
or reposing room -✓✓300
• Display of signs -✓✓Lettering infront of Funeral Home must be a minimum of
1.5 inches.
Casket Showroom lettering minimum .5 inch. Conspicuously displayed.
• 3rd party administration fees for interest and bearing prefunded accounts may not
exceed ___of one percent -✓✓75 hundredths
• Exceptions that remove an individual person from a priority list to control final
disposition -✓✓-Unwilling to serve
-Not reasonable available
-Not competent
• The care, disposal, transportation, burial or cremation by any means other than
embalming is the definition of... -✓✓Undertaking
• Person appointed in a written instrument -✓✓Agent
• A funeral director takes "___ of fetal death" to a local registrar to obtain a permit
for the disposition -✓✓Report
• How many "packages" must be offered for a direct burial on a GPL? -✓✓2
