FSE2080 Funeral Law Study Guide 3.2
Final Exam All Answered Correct
Graded A+.
What is the time requirement for a funeral director internship? - Answer 1 year.
Provisional license - Answer Any applicant who has completed the required 1-year internship
and has been approved for examination as an embalmer may qualify for this license to work in a
licensed funeral establishment under the *direct* supervision of a licensed embalmer for a
limited period of 6 months as provided by rule of the licensing authority.
Temporary license - Answer This kind of licensed embalmer may work as an embalmer in a
licensed funeral establishment under the *general* supervision of a licensed embalmer. Such
license shall expire 60 days after the date of the next available examination required under
subsection (4); however, the license may be renewed one time under the same conditions as
initial issuance.
What is the time requirement for an embalmer internship? - Answer 1 year.
When must the Report of Cases Embalmed or Bodies Handled be returned to the
Board/Department? - Answer By the 20th day of each subsequent month.
Is it legal for your funeral home to give an honorarium to a nurse at a hospital if, after a death
occurs, she/he asks the family to use your funeral establishment? Why or why not? - Answer
No.
A certain funeral home has 2 funeral establishments. What is the minimum number of Funeral
Directors this firm could employ? - Answer 2. One FD in charge for each establishment.
Must a funeral establishment have an embalming room in the facility or on the premises? Why
or why not? - Answer No. It can have a centralized embalming facility.
Who may obtain the vital statistical information needed to complete a death certificate at a
funeral establishment? - Answer A licensed funeral director.
, May a pre-need sales agent who is registered under a funeral establishment arrange a funeral
service on an at-need basis for the firm? - Answer No. Only a licensed FD.
Can the owner of a funeral establishment be unlicensed? - Answer Yes.
Can a funeral director arrange for an identification viewing at a funeral establishment? - Answer
Yes.
Can an unlicensed person furnish a standard printed price list to the public who inquire in
person? - Answer Yes.
Compare a visitation at a funeral establishment, a visitation at a visitation chapel and a visitation
at a direct disposal establishment. - Answer Funeral Establishment - Can also be a place to
make arrangements. *Must be at least 1,250 sq. ft. in size.*
Visitation Chapel - Can only be used for visitation. *Must be between 500-700 sq. ft. in size.*
Direct Disposal Establishment - Cannot have a visitation.
Can a direct disposer make a removal for a funeral establishment? - Answer Yes.
Who can make funeral arrangements at a visitation chapel? - Answer No one. Funeral
arrangements must be made at a funeral establishment.
What information must be displayed at the front entrance of a funeral establishment? - Answer
The name of the FH and the funeral director in charge.
A funeral establishment has a retort which is licensed as a cinerator facility. The funeral home
owner is the funeral director in charge of the funeral establishment. May this owner also be the
individual in charge of the cinerator facility? Why or why not? - Answer No. Each licensed
person can only be in charge of 1 facility.
If a person dies at Restin Peace Nursing Home at 2 am on October 2. By when must the funeral
director / embalmer embalm or refrigerate the body by? - Answer Within 24 hours.
If Federal Cremation Society, a direct disposal establishment, has a family that wants the
deceased embalmed prior to cremation, may Federal contact a central embalming facility for
Final Exam All Answered Correct
Graded A+.
What is the time requirement for a funeral director internship? - Answer 1 year.
Provisional license - Answer Any applicant who has completed the required 1-year internship
and has been approved for examination as an embalmer may qualify for this license to work in a
licensed funeral establishment under the *direct* supervision of a licensed embalmer for a
limited period of 6 months as provided by rule of the licensing authority.
Temporary license - Answer This kind of licensed embalmer may work as an embalmer in a
licensed funeral establishment under the *general* supervision of a licensed embalmer. Such
license shall expire 60 days after the date of the next available examination required under
subsection (4); however, the license may be renewed one time under the same conditions as
initial issuance.
What is the time requirement for an embalmer internship? - Answer 1 year.
When must the Report of Cases Embalmed or Bodies Handled be returned to the
Board/Department? - Answer By the 20th day of each subsequent month.
Is it legal for your funeral home to give an honorarium to a nurse at a hospital if, after a death
occurs, she/he asks the family to use your funeral establishment? Why or why not? - Answer
No.
A certain funeral home has 2 funeral establishments. What is the minimum number of Funeral
Directors this firm could employ? - Answer 2. One FD in charge for each establishment.
Must a funeral establishment have an embalming room in the facility or on the premises? Why
or why not? - Answer No. It can have a centralized embalming facility.
Who may obtain the vital statistical information needed to complete a death certificate at a
funeral establishment? - Answer A licensed funeral director.
, May a pre-need sales agent who is registered under a funeral establishment arrange a funeral
service on an at-need basis for the firm? - Answer No. Only a licensed FD.
Can the owner of a funeral establishment be unlicensed? - Answer Yes.
Can a funeral director arrange for an identification viewing at a funeral establishment? - Answer
Yes.
Can an unlicensed person furnish a standard printed price list to the public who inquire in
person? - Answer Yes.
Compare a visitation at a funeral establishment, a visitation at a visitation chapel and a visitation
at a direct disposal establishment. - Answer Funeral Establishment - Can also be a place to
make arrangements. *Must be at least 1,250 sq. ft. in size.*
Visitation Chapel - Can only be used for visitation. *Must be between 500-700 sq. ft. in size.*
Direct Disposal Establishment - Cannot have a visitation.
Can a direct disposer make a removal for a funeral establishment? - Answer Yes.
Who can make funeral arrangements at a visitation chapel? - Answer No one. Funeral
arrangements must be made at a funeral establishment.
What information must be displayed at the front entrance of a funeral establishment? - Answer
The name of the FH and the funeral director in charge.
A funeral establishment has a retort which is licensed as a cinerator facility. The funeral home
owner is the funeral director in charge of the funeral establishment. May this owner also be the
individual in charge of the cinerator facility? Why or why not? - Answer No. Each licensed
person can only be in charge of 1 facility.
If a person dies at Restin Peace Nursing Home at 2 am on October 2. By when must the funeral
director / embalmer embalm or refrigerate the body by? - Answer Within 24 hours.
If Federal Cremation Society, a direct disposal establishment, has a family that wants the
deceased embalmed prior to cremation, may Federal contact a central embalming facility for
