TN State Law Exam- Funeral Directing 2022 Questions
and Answers
This is the person who is legally entitled to authorize cremation, funeral service,
and dispositions:
authorizing agent
Can a licensed funeral director authorize a cremation?
NO
This is the heating process where a body is reduced to bone fragments by
combustion or evaporation?
cremation
This is the building that houses one or more cremation chambers this also
includes the term "crematorium":
crematory
This is the preservation, disinfection, restoration, or attempted preservation by
chemicals externally or internally applied?
embalming
This is the directing/supervising or preparing the dead for disposition other than
embalming?
funeral directing
This is the making of funeral arrangements, providing funeral services, selling
merchandise, making financial arrangements, and rendering services?
funeral directing
This is providing a place for the preparation of the dead?
funeral directing
This is the use of the terms funeral director, undertaker, mortician, funeral parlor,
or funeral chapel?
funeral directing
Is it against the law to hold oneself out as a funeral director?
yes
What is exempted from the definition of funeral directing?
The sale, maintenance, beautification of graves, the installation of markers,
opening/closing of graves, of crypts, providing equipment for final
interment/entombment of casketed remains/cremains. The sale and maintenance of
crypts and above ground mausoleum crypts
What is a funeral establishment?
It is a business, proprietorship, partnership, firm, establishment, association, corporation
engaged in arranging, directing, supervising funerals for profit. Preparation for burial,
disposition of the dead, and provide a place for preparation or care of the dead
What is the license?
funeral director or embalmer issued by the state board
What is a trainee/apprentice?
person who is learning to practice funeral directing/embalming under the personal
supervision and instruction of a licensed funeral director in Tennessee
What are the 2 major state associations?
, Tennessee Funeral Directors Association and the Tennessee Funeral Directors &
Morticians Association
What about religious exemptions for the funeral law?
No one can interfere with a group or committee or denomination in the preparation of
their dead if and when the group or committee does not make a charge
Who prosecutes funeral law violations?
duty of the district attorney general
What is required to be on all funeral merchandise?
In a conspicuous place a description of the casket, gauge, and materials
What is the penalty for having no description on a casket?
Not less than $100 or more than $500 or imprisoned for not less than 10 days or not
more than 90 days
Can a business injunction be brought against a funeral home for violations of the
casket description law?
yes
What act oversees and governs funeral service hearing judicial reviews?
Uniform Administration Procedures Act
Describe the law concerning funeral homes using special price advertising?
somewhere in the ad the list of itemized services and prices for these services must be
listed individually
How does the board view noncompliance with the price advertising issue?
It is viewed as fraud and misrepresentation
Can a funeral director in Tennessee use an unlicensed crematory?
NO
Must all Tennessee Crematories be licensed?
yes, and by the state board and out of state crematories used by Tennessee LFD's
What steps must any funeral director take before using a crematory?
Determine its license, determine any out of state license, obtain a copy of the current
license, obtain a copy of their current inspection by the state where the crematory is
located
What document must be given to all authorizing agents concerning cremation?
Written disclosures
What must the cremation disclosure contain?
name, phone, address of crematory/funeral home in or out of state, specific consent of
authorizing agency, signed and dated by the authorizing agent and funeral director. This
document is for retention by funeral director, the funeral establishment, and authorizing
agent
What about funeral director liability in cremation- the funeral director is not liable
for errors, inaccuracies, omissions of information if the:
error based on inaccurate and omitted information provided by any public agencies or
individuals of the funeral director was not grossly negligent in obtaining information from
3rd party
What is an affirmative defense for funeral directors concerning cremation?
When and if the funeral director has complied with all requirements (signed consent,
copy of crematory inspections both in & out of state)
and Answers
This is the person who is legally entitled to authorize cremation, funeral service,
and dispositions:
authorizing agent
Can a licensed funeral director authorize a cremation?
NO
This is the heating process where a body is reduced to bone fragments by
combustion or evaporation?
cremation
This is the building that houses one or more cremation chambers this also
includes the term "crematorium":
crematory
This is the preservation, disinfection, restoration, or attempted preservation by
chemicals externally or internally applied?
embalming
This is the directing/supervising or preparing the dead for disposition other than
embalming?
funeral directing
This is the making of funeral arrangements, providing funeral services, selling
merchandise, making financial arrangements, and rendering services?
funeral directing
This is providing a place for the preparation of the dead?
funeral directing
This is the use of the terms funeral director, undertaker, mortician, funeral parlor,
or funeral chapel?
funeral directing
Is it against the law to hold oneself out as a funeral director?
yes
What is exempted from the definition of funeral directing?
The sale, maintenance, beautification of graves, the installation of markers,
opening/closing of graves, of crypts, providing equipment for final
interment/entombment of casketed remains/cremains. The sale and maintenance of
crypts and above ground mausoleum crypts
What is a funeral establishment?
It is a business, proprietorship, partnership, firm, establishment, association, corporation
engaged in arranging, directing, supervising funerals for profit. Preparation for burial,
disposition of the dead, and provide a place for preparation or care of the dead
What is the license?
funeral director or embalmer issued by the state board
What is a trainee/apprentice?
person who is learning to practice funeral directing/embalming under the personal
supervision and instruction of a licensed funeral director in Tennessee
What are the 2 major state associations?
, Tennessee Funeral Directors Association and the Tennessee Funeral Directors &
Morticians Association
What about religious exemptions for the funeral law?
No one can interfere with a group or committee or denomination in the preparation of
their dead if and when the group or committee does not make a charge
Who prosecutes funeral law violations?
duty of the district attorney general
What is required to be on all funeral merchandise?
In a conspicuous place a description of the casket, gauge, and materials
What is the penalty for having no description on a casket?
Not less than $100 or more than $500 or imprisoned for not less than 10 days or not
more than 90 days
Can a business injunction be brought against a funeral home for violations of the
casket description law?
yes
What act oversees and governs funeral service hearing judicial reviews?
Uniform Administration Procedures Act
Describe the law concerning funeral homes using special price advertising?
somewhere in the ad the list of itemized services and prices for these services must be
listed individually
How does the board view noncompliance with the price advertising issue?
It is viewed as fraud and misrepresentation
Can a funeral director in Tennessee use an unlicensed crematory?
NO
Must all Tennessee Crematories be licensed?
yes, and by the state board and out of state crematories used by Tennessee LFD's
What steps must any funeral director take before using a crematory?
Determine its license, determine any out of state license, obtain a copy of the current
license, obtain a copy of their current inspection by the state where the crematory is
located
What document must be given to all authorizing agents concerning cremation?
Written disclosures
What must the cremation disclosure contain?
name, phone, address of crematory/funeral home in or out of state, specific consent of
authorizing agency, signed and dated by the authorizing agent and funeral director. This
document is for retention by funeral director, the funeral establishment, and authorizing
agent
What about funeral director liability in cremation- the funeral director is not liable
for errors, inaccuracies, omissions of information if the:
error based on inaccurate and omitted information provided by any public agencies or
individuals of the funeral director was not grossly negligent in obtaining information from
3rd party
What is an affirmative defense for funeral directors concerning cremation?
When and if the funeral director has complied with all requirements (signed consent,
copy of crematory inspections both in & out of state)
