QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Funeral purchase agreement / contract: - ✔✔must be written, must contain an
itemized list of all fees and costs associated with services and merchandise selected by
the customer, must contain the name, address, phone number and funeral
establishment, cemetery, and crematory.
✔✔Retail Price List must be - ✔✔presented before viewing or selecting merchandise.
Must contain several disclosure. Must contain the effective date of prices and a list of all
the retail prices, items and services provided by the FE.
✔✔GPL / Retail Price List - ✔✔a list of retail prices & services provided by FE must be
presented before viewing and selecting merchandise.
✔✔How many provisional licensees receive credit for working on a body? - ✔✔two
✔✔Least expensive casket - ✔✔must be displayed in the same manner as the the other
caskets.
✔✔Licensing and enforcement specific and substantive rules are found in Chapter -
✔✔203
, ✔✔Mission of Texas Funeral Service Commission: - ✔✔Protect the public from
deceptive practices by granting compliance with the law of the state of Texas and the
rules of the Commission through impartial enforcement.
✔✔Mortuary Science - ✔✔the scientific professional and practical aspects with
consideration given to accepted practices of the care and preparation for burial or
transportation of a dead human body; include the preservation and sanitation of a dead
human body ad restorative arts.
✔✔Must have a burial transit permit of: - ✔✔body or fetus is to be removed from state,
transported by common carrier with state or cremated.
✔✔Number of case to compete for provisional license is: - ✔✔60
✔✔FDIC - ✔✔Can be an FDIC of more than 1 FE if
1. Operated as as a branch or satellite of primary facility
2. Under the same management and ownership
3. No more than 50 miles from primary facility
✔✔Embalming - ✔✔1. is NOT required by state law
2. must be approved to embalm
3. if approval is oral, must maintain name of person authorizing, embalming, relationship
to deceased, and time permission received
4. If approval is not available, must exercise due dilligence / documentation of efforts
over a 3 hour period to contact an authorized person;
5. Must maintain records for a minimum of two years
✔✔Embalming - ✔✔requires a consent for if students will be performing the embalming
- most standard embalming forms have this verbage.
✔✔To own a funeral establishment you - - ✔✔are required to have a FDIC only.
✔✔In order to supervise a provisional licensee, the sponsor must have been licensed in
Texas for a - ✔✔minimum of 2 years.
✔✔To sign an at-need purchase agreement regarding funeral services and
merchandise - ✔✔you must be a licensed funeral director.
✔✔A regular certificate of death shall be - ✔✔filed with the local registrar no later than
TEN days form the date of death.
✔✔Minimum Requirements for a Prep Room - ✔✔1. An injection / embalming machine
2. Sufficient supplies & equipment for sufficent operations