Kentucky Laws- Embalmer and Funeral
Director UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Apprentice - CORRECT ANSWER - Person engaged in learning the practice of
embalming or funeral directing who is under the instruction and personal supervision of a KY
licensed embalmer or KY licensed FD
Board - CORRECT ANSWER - KY Board of Embalmers and FD
Direct Burial - CORRECT ANSWER - The pick up, transport, and interment of a dead
human body or body parts without funeral
Embalming service establishment - CORRECT ANSWER - A place of business where
dead human bodies are embalmed or otherwise prepared or held for burial, including the
transportation of the bodies. shall not arrange or conduct funeral or direct burial. May arrange for
and transport dead human bodies for direct cremation purposes only under the following
circumstances: behalf of full service funeral establishment, behalf of a visitation and ceremonial
funeral establishment, direction of coroner.
Funeral - CORRECT ANSWER - Ceremonies or services related to the final disposition
and interment of a human body or body parts.
Full service funeral establishment - CORRECT ANSWER - A place of business where
dead human bodies may be embalmed or otherwise prepared and held for burial and where
funeral services may be arranged, provided, and conducted.
Funeral Director - CORRECT ANSWER - A person who, for profit, engages in or
represents them self as engaged in the supervision, direction, and arrangement of funeral
services, transportation, burials, and disposals of dead human bodies.
, Funeral Establishment or Establishment - CORRECT ANSWER - A full service funeral
Establishment; an embalming service Establishment; a visitation and ceremonial funeral service
Establishment
Memorial Service - CORRECT ANSWER - a ceremony commemorating the deceased
without the body present (no licensed required)
Person - CORRECT ANSWER - An individual, partnership, firm, association, or
corporation
In use - CORRECT ANSWER - Means that funeral directing or embalming is taking place
in a funeral Establishment
Courtesy card - CORRECT ANSWER - A card that is issued by the board to a funeral
director or an embalmed from another state that gives the director or embalmer permission to
receive and transport a dead human body to and from KY for a funeral and to conduct funeral
services and burials in KY
Supervision - CORRECT ANSWER - Responsibility for the professional activities of the
funeral Establishment that requires a KY licensed FD or embalmer, as appropriate m, to be on
the premises when the funeral Establishment is in use. If the KY licensed FD or embalmer is
unable to be on the premises due to a reasonable circumstance, the the KY licensed FD or
embalmer shall be within a reasonable proximity to the funeral establishment so that upon
contact the FD or embalmer is able to immediately return to the funeral Establishment
Visitation and Ceremonial Funeral Service Establishment - CORRECT ANSWER -
Location from which a funeral Establishment may provide all services except embalming within
either the same or adjoining county as that served by an affiliated full service funeral
Establishment. Shall be owned in whole or in part by the affiliated full service funeral
Establishment, and shall be located sufficiently close to the full service funeral Establishment to
share administration and services in a manner that renders it unnecessary for them to
independently meet the minimum licensure requirements for a full service F. E. (A full service
funeral Establishment may own more than one of these)
Director UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Apprentice - CORRECT ANSWER - Person engaged in learning the practice of
embalming or funeral directing who is under the instruction and personal supervision of a KY
licensed embalmer or KY licensed FD
Board - CORRECT ANSWER - KY Board of Embalmers and FD
Direct Burial - CORRECT ANSWER - The pick up, transport, and interment of a dead
human body or body parts without funeral
Embalming service establishment - CORRECT ANSWER - A place of business where
dead human bodies are embalmed or otherwise prepared or held for burial, including the
transportation of the bodies. shall not arrange or conduct funeral or direct burial. May arrange for
and transport dead human bodies for direct cremation purposes only under the following
circumstances: behalf of full service funeral establishment, behalf of a visitation and ceremonial
funeral establishment, direction of coroner.
Funeral - CORRECT ANSWER - Ceremonies or services related to the final disposition
and interment of a human body or body parts.
Full service funeral establishment - CORRECT ANSWER - A place of business where
dead human bodies may be embalmed or otherwise prepared and held for burial and where
funeral services may be arranged, provided, and conducted.
Funeral Director - CORRECT ANSWER - A person who, for profit, engages in or
represents them self as engaged in the supervision, direction, and arrangement of funeral
services, transportation, burials, and disposals of dead human bodies.
, Funeral Establishment or Establishment - CORRECT ANSWER - A full service funeral
Establishment; an embalming service Establishment; a visitation and ceremonial funeral service
Establishment
Memorial Service - CORRECT ANSWER - a ceremony commemorating the deceased
without the body present (no licensed required)
Person - CORRECT ANSWER - An individual, partnership, firm, association, or
corporation
In use - CORRECT ANSWER - Means that funeral directing or embalming is taking place
in a funeral Establishment
Courtesy card - CORRECT ANSWER - A card that is issued by the board to a funeral
director or an embalmed from another state that gives the director or embalmer permission to
receive and transport a dead human body to and from KY for a funeral and to conduct funeral
services and burials in KY
Supervision - CORRECT ANSWER - Responsibility for the professional activities of the
funeral Establishment that requires a KY licensed FD or embalmer, as appropriate m, to be on
the premises when the funeral Establishment is in use. If the KY licensed FD or embalmer is
unable to be on the premises due to a reasonable circumstance, the the KY licensed FD or
embalmer shall be within a reasonable proximity to the funeral establishment so that upon
contact the FD or embalmer is able to immediately return to the funeral Establishment
Visitation and Ceremonial Funeral Service Establishment - CORRECT ANSWER -
Location from which a funeral Establishment may provide all services except embalming within
either the same or adjoining county as that served by an affiliated full service funeral
Establishment. Shall be owned in whole or in part by the affiliated full service funeral
Establishment, and shall be located sufficiently close to the full service funeral Establishment to
share administration and services in a manner that renders it unnecessary for them to
independently meet the minimum licensure requirements for a full service F. E. (A full service
funeral Establishment may own more than one of these)
