TN State Law Exam- Funeral
Directing|2023/2024|7 Pages|
Questions with Detailed Answers|
100% Pass Rate
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
Directing|2023/2024|7 Pages|
Questions with Detailed Answers|
100% Pass Rate
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
