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GEORGIA STATE BOARD OF
FUNERAL SERVICE EXAM
UPDATED EXAM WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS.
1. Funeral Service Contract - correct answer -A written or oral
agreement between a funeral director or funeral establishment
and a legally authorized person for the embalming, funeral, or
final disposition of a dead human body.
2. Outer Burial Container (OBC) - correct answer -An enclosure
into which a casket is placed, including, but not limited to, a
vault made of concrete, steel, fiberglass, or copper, a sectional
concrete enclosure, a crypt, or a wooden enclosure.
3. Soliciting - correct answer -The making of any uninvited contact
with another person by a funeral director or by a funeral
director's agent, assistant, employer, or employee for the
purpose of the sale of funeral services or merchandise but shall
not mean any advertising which is directed to the public in
general.
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4. Healthcare Agent - correct answer -A person appointed by a
declarant to act for and on behalf of the declarant to make
decisions related to consent, refusal, or withdrawal of any type
of health care and decisions related to autopsy, anatomical
gifts, and final disposition of a declarant's body when a
declarant is unable or chooses not to make health care
decisions for himself or herself
5. Waiting Period for Cessation of Rights - correct answer -Any
person who does not exercise his or her right of disposition
within two days of notification of the death of decedent or within
three days of decedent's death, whichever is earlier.
6. Dispute Regarding the Right of Disposition - correct answer -A
funeral home shall not be liable for refusing to accept the
remains or to inter or otherwise dispose of the remains of the
decedent or complete the arrangements for the final disposition
of the remains until the funeral home receives a court order or
other written agreement signed by the parties in the
disagreement that decides the final disposition of the remains.
7. Information in Good Faith - correct answer -Any person signing
a funeral service agreement, cremation authorization form, or
any other authorization for disposition shall be deemed to
warrant the truthfulness of any facts set forth therein, including
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the identity of the decedent whose remains are to be buried,
cremated, or otherwise disposed of, and the party's authority to
order such disposition.
8. Proper Identification of Human Remains - correct answer -Prior
to the interment or cremation of such dead body, affix on the
ankle or wrist of the deceased a tag of durable, noncorroding
material permanently marked with the name of the deceased,
the date of death, the social security number of the deceased,
the county and state of death, and the serial number of any
prosthesis removed from the dead body by the funeral
establishment or crematory.
9. Who may receive cremated remains from the crematory? -
correct answer -A crematory may deliver or release cremated
remains to a funeral establishment or a legally authorized
person.
10. How many members are on the SBOFS? - correct answer -
Seven
11. How is the SBOFS comprised? - correct answer -Seven
Members who are Appointed by the Governor. Six are funeral
GEORGIA STATE BOARD OF
FUNERAL SERVICE EXAM
UPDATED EXAM WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS.
1. Funeral Service Contract - correct answer -A written or oral
agreement between a funeral director or funeral establishment
and a legally authorized person for the embalming, funeral, or
final disposition of a dead human body.
2. Outer Burial Container (OBC) - correct answer -An enclosure
into which a casket is placed, including, but not limited to, a
vault made of concrete, steel, fiberglass, or copper, a sectional
concrete enclosure, a crypt, or a wooden enclosure.
3. Soliciting - correct answer -The making of any uninvited contact
with another person by a funeral director or by a funeral
director's agent, assistant, employer, or employee for the
purpose of the sale of funeral services or merchandise but shall
not mean any advertising which is directed to the public in
general.
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4. Healthcare Agent - correct answer -A person appointed by a
declarant to act for and on behalf of the declarant to make
decisions related to consent, refusal, or withdrawal of any type
of health care and decisions related to autopsy, anatomical
gifts, and final disposition of a declarant's body when a
declarant is unable or chooses not to make health care
decisions for himself or herself
5. Waiting Period for Cessation of Rights - correct answer -Any
person who does not exercise his or her right of disposition
within two days of notification of the death of decedent or within
three days of decedent's death, whichever is earlier.
6. Dispute Regarding the Right of Disposition - correct answer -A
funeral home shall not be liable for refusing to accept the
remains or to inter or otherwise dispose of the remains of the
decedent or complete the arrangements for the final disposition
of the remains until the funeral home receives a court order or
other written agreement signed by the parties in the
disagreement that decides the final disposition of the remains.
7. Information in Good Faith - correct answer -Any person signing
a funeral service agreement, cremation authorization form, or
any other authorization for disposition shall be deemed to
warrant the truthfulness of any facts set forth therein, including
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the identity of the decedent whose remains are to be buried,
cremated, or otherwise disposed of, and the party's authority to
order such disposition.
8. Proper Identification of Human Remains - correct answer -Prior
to the interment or cremation of such dead body, affix on the
ankle or wrist of the deceased a tag of durable, noncorroding
material permanently marked with the name of the deceased,
the date of death, the social security number of the deceased,
the county and state of death, and the serial number of any
prosthesis removed from the dead body by the funeral
establishment or crematory.
9. Who may receive cremated remains from the crematory? -
correct answer -A crematory may deliver or release cremated
remains to a funeral establishment or a legally authorized
person.
10. How many members are on the SBOFS? - correct answer -
Seven
11. How is the SBOFS comprised? - correct answer -Seven
Members who are Appointed by the Governor. Six are funeral
