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QUESTION: What is the maximum fine the board can impose for an administrative violation of unlicensed activity or aiding/abetting unlicensed activity? - ANSWER-$5000/incident QUESTION: If your license if suspended, must you complete continuing education hours? - ANSWER-Yes QUESTION: What is the crime committed if a person circulates unauthorized pre-licensure examination information? - ANSWER-3rd degree felony QUESTION: What is the crime committed if a person knowingly gives false information in applying for licensure? - ANSWER-3rd degree felony QUESTION: What is the crime committed if a person willfully obstructs the department in investigations? - ANSWER-2nd degree misdemeanor
QUESTION: What is the crime committed if a person fails to deposit trust funds required under chapter 497? - ANSWER-3rd degree felony QUESTION: What is the crime committed if a cemetery discriminates on the basis of race? - ANSWER-2nd degree misdemeanor 5 standards which a cremation container must meet - ANSWER-Readily combustible, able to be completely closed, leak & spill resistant, rigid enough to be handled with ease, provide protection for crematory operator QUESTION: List the priority by which persons may be the legally authorized person to decide disposition - ANSWER-Decedent prior to death, person named by decedent, spouse, children, parents, siblings, grandchild, grandparent, next degree of kinship QUESTION: If a decedent had 5 children and no surviving spouse, how many of the children are required by law to sign a cremation authorization form? - ANSWER-All 5
QUESTION: Who may temporarily suspend a Board member for malfeasance, etc? - ANSWER- Governor QUESTION: Who may permanently remove a Board member? - ANSWER-Senate QUESTION: Can a hospital or nursing home operate a direct disposal establishment? - ANSWER- No QUESTION: How many years prior to an application, must an applicant have no conviction of guilt of a crime in order for the application to be considered complete? - ANSWER-10 years QUESTION: What convictions must be disclosed to the Board during the application for licensure? - ANSWER-Any relating to the industry, any felonies for the last 20 years, any misdemeanors for the last 5 years QUESTION: Who may apply for a limited license? - ANSWER-Retirees (in a state of emergency or to serve the indigent, underserved or critical need populations of this state) or an active licensee in another jurisdiction (of the US for 10 years)
QUESTION: When can a limited licensee provide services? - ANSWER-In a time of critical need QUESTION: If you have an address change, how long do you have to notify the Board? - ANSWER-30 Days QUESTION: What is the maximum number of hours of continuing education a licensee may receive for attending a state board meeting? - ANSWER- 5 QUESTION: May a direct disposer engage in direct burial? - ANSWER-No QUESTION: Can a person who is not applying for or is a recipient of Supplemental Security Income or Aid complete an irrevocable preneed contract? - ANSWER-Yes QUESTION: What casket must be displayed if caskets are displayed? - ANSWER-Least expensive QUESTION: How many people must serve on a probable cause panel? - ANSWER-At least 2
QUESTION: May a direct disposer who is working at a funeral establishment make arrangements for a direct cremation? - ANSWER-No QUESTION: Can the owner of a funeral establishment be unlicensed - ANSWER-Yes QUESTION: Compare a visitation at a funeral establishment, a visitation at a visitation chapel, and a visitation at a direct disposal establishment - ANSWER-Visitation at funeral home can also be a place to make arrangements, visitation chapel can only be used for visitation, direct disposal establishment cannot have a visitation QUESTION: Can a direct disposer make a removal for a funeral establishment - ANSWER-Yes QUESTION: Who can make arrangements at a Visitation Chapel? - ANSWER-No one QUESTION: A funeral establishment has a retort which is licensed as a cinerator facility. The funeral home owner is a funeral director in charge of the funeral establishment. May this
owner also be the individual in charge of the cinerator facility? - ANSWER-No, each licensed person can only be in charge of one facility QUESTION: If a person dies at Restin Peace Nursing Home at 2 am on October 2. By when must the funeral director / embalmer must embalm or refrigerate the body by? - ANSWER-Within 24 hours of death QUESTION: 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 the embalming? Why or why not? - ANSWER-No, only a funeral establishment may use a central embalming facility & if a body is embalmed it no longer qualifies under direct disposal. QUESTION: Can a funeral establishment and a direct disposal establishment be located at the same street address? - ANSWER-Only if they have been co-located since July 1, 2000 QUESTION: Can the secretary of the funeral home call the minister at the local church to see if she is available to do a service for a family? - ANSWER-No, this qualifies as arranging services
QUESTION: Who may obtain the vital statistical information needed to complete a death certificate at a direct disposal establishment? - ANSWER-Licensed direct disposer or LFD QUESTION: Can a funeral director arrange an identification viewing at a Direct Disposal Establishment? - ANSWER-No QUESTION: What duties can a FD conduct while working at a direct disposal establishment? - ANSWER-Make removals and store dead body, get vitals, obtain permits, place obits, refrigerate remains and transport to disposal facility, contract with removal service to make removals QUESTION: Is it legal for a direct disposer to arrange a Memorial Service for the decedent 2 weeks after the death? - ANSWER-Yes QUESTION: Can a funeral director working at a direct disposal establishment arrange for a visitation? - ANSWER-No
QUESTION: Who may receive a license by endorsement? - ANSWER-Anyone who is licensed in another state QUESTION: Must a licensee by endorsement take a state law exam? - ANSWER-Yes QUESTION: What kind of supervision is required for a temporary licensee? - ANSWER-General QUESTION: How long is the apprentice program? - ANSWER-3 years, can be extended to 5 QUESTION: Who may phone in an obituary for a funeral establishment? - ANSWER-Anyone QUESTION: At what age can an FD stop taking CE? - ANSWER- 75 QUESTION: Minimum square footage of a funeral establishment - ANSWER- 1250
QUESTION: Who may sell a casket? - ANSWER-Anyone QUESTION: Can a direct disposer put an obit in a newspaper? - ANSWER-Yes QUESTION: Education requirements for direct disposer - ANSWER-College courses in mortuary law and ethics QUESTION: If a direct disposer establishment is granted a probationary period, what is the max. length of time of the period - ANSWER-24 months QUESTION: Min. square footage of a direct disposal establishment - ANSWER- 65 QUESTION: How long must a direct disposal establishment keep contracts? - ANSWER-2 years QUESTION: When contracting with a family, a direct disposer specifies that cremation will occur on Feb 5 th. During what time frame must the cremation occur? - ANSWER-48 hours after agreed upon time
QUESTION: Must a family be notified in writing the time of the cremation - ANSWER-Yes QUESTION: How often is a centralized embalming facility license renewed? - ANSWER-Biennially QUESTION: When are cinerator facilities inspected? - ANSWER-Prior to license, annually, change of ownership QUESTION: When are direct disposal facilities inspected? - ANSWER-Prior to license, annually, move to new location, change in ownership QUESTION: When are funeral establishments inspected? - ANSWER-Prior to license, annually, major modifications to establishment, change in ownership QUESTION: CE credits for FD - ANSWER- 12 QUESTION: CE credits for direct disposer - ANSWER- 6
QUESTION: Mr. and Mrs. Johnson purchased 2 grave spaces for $650 each on March 4th. By when must the Cemtery company make the deposit into the care and maintenance trust fund?
- ANSWER-30 days after the end of month that the contract was sold in QUESTION: On September 3, 2005, Peaceful Rest Cemetery sold the first space in the yet to be constructed PR Mausoleum. The Mausoleum is to house 200 caskets. The 100th space was sold on April 10, 2007. By what date must construction begin on the new mausoleum? By what date must the construction be completed? - ANSWER-Either within 4 years of the date of the first sale or when 50% of the spaces have been sold. Must be completed within 5 years of date of first sale. QUESTION: Which of the following functions can a cemetery require the consumer to purchase from the cemetery and from no other entity? - ANSWER-Care and maintenance of cemetery; right to open & prepare spaces, initial sale of burial right QUESTION: What offense/penalty may a cemetery be subject to is they charge a $50 transfer fee to transfer the burial rights for a specified space from one person to another - ANSWER- None
QUESTION: What cemeteries are exempt from 497? - ANSWER-Family, religious, county, nonprofit, fraternal organizations QUESTION: Peaceful Rest Cemetery sets monuments in the cemetery. A family chose to use Marble Monument to set a marker in Peaceful Rest Cemetery. Can Peaceful Rest charge Marble Monument a fee for the installation of the monument? - ANSWER-No & no QUESTION: Mr. Throby purchases 4 graves spaces from Peaceful Rest Cemetery on August 23. How much of a refund will Mr. Throby receive if he chooses to cancel the purchase (without having used the spaces) on September 5th? - ANSWER-All because it is within 30 days of execution of the contract QUESTION: Peaceful Rest Cemetery refuses to bury a person in its cemetery because the person is of a certain ethnicity. What offense/penalty may the cemetery be subject to? - ANSWER-2nd degree misdemeanor QUESTION: How often are monument establishment licenses renewed? - ANSWER-Biannually
QUESTION: How many years of cemetery experience are needed for the general manager of a new cemetery? - ANSWER- 3 QUESTION: How many acres of a new cemetery must be developed to fully license a new cemetery? (see pp. 80 - 81) - ANSWER- 30 QUESTION: Your funeral home buys a cemetery which has been exempt from regulation in the past. At the time of the purchase, the cemetery has sold the burial rights on 3000 grave spaces. How much money must be placed in the Care and Maintenance Trust fund? - ANSWER-50k or 10% of each one QUESTION: By what date must a cemetery submit to the state board the annual financial reports for a cemetery Care and Maintenance Trust Fund? - ANSWER-April 1 QUESTION: If you are a consumer who purchased the burial rights for 4 grave spaces in a cemetery, may you sell the burial rights? - ANSWER-yes
QUESTION: If you are a consumer who purchased the burial rights for 4 grave spaces in a cemetery, do you own the land of those spaces? - ANSWER-no QUESTION: What is the minimum size of a grave space? - ANSWER-42 in. (width) x 96 in. (or divided by 12, 8ft. - length) QUESTION: What is the minimum amount of top soil that must cover an outer burial container?
- ANSWER-12 inches QUESTION: May a person who is not licensed as a broker of burial rights receive compensation for the sale of burial rights of 5 grave spaces? - ANSWER-No, only up to 3 QUESTION: When is a cemetery considered to be abandoned? - ANSWER-not maintained after 6 months QUESTION: When is a cemetery grave space burial rights considered to be abandoned? - ANSWER-After 50 years and no change of address is received
