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Four members of the Board of Funeral Service are appointed by the Governor from nominees recommended by: - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-The North Carolina Funeral Directors Association. Every NC Burial association with assets less than $10,000. shall have a secretary or secretary/treasurer that shall have a bond payable to the Board of Funeral Service as trustee for the burial association. This bond shall be in the amount between __________. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-$1,000 and $10,000. A certificate of cremation is not required to have this information; - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-The name of the spouse or the next-of-kin. State funeral law mandates that at least these articles be worn by an embalmer while preparing human remains: - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Smock and protective gloves. Every resident trainee shall work at least _____ hours during their apprenticeship. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔- Any burial association member failing to pay any assessment within ____ after notice shall be in bad standing, and unless and until restored, shall not be entitled to benefits. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Thirty days. If a person dies of a particular disease ( Jacobs-Creutzfeldt, HIV, Hep B, Plague, rabies, smallpox) away from a health care facility, the attending physician is to notify the funeral director or person making a removal to use proper precautions- - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Verbally as soon as the physician becomes aware of the death. "Public publication, dissemination, circulation, or placement...." pertains to: - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔- Advertisement. Of the following violations, which is not prohibited during a continuing education program or seminar? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Talking with a nearby seated neighbor.
When a person or sponsor attempts to gain the Board's approval for a CE (Continuing education) program, is an outline of the event sufficient for approval? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-No. How many Board members are appointed by the General Assembly through a recommendation by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-One. How long should a crematory operator keep all applicable records (authorizations, waivers, statements, and reports) and make them available and subject to the Board's inspection? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔- Three years. When an out-of-state licensee wishes to obtain North Carolina licensure, is it necessary that the person submit a photograph of himself or herself to the Board? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Yes. In computing continuing education (CE) credits, which one of the following may be allowed to generate credit- within certain guidelines? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Question and answer sessions. There is a total of ____ unlicensed personnel on the Board of Funeral Service. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔- Two. Are funeral homes allowed to offer free embalming in their mutual burial association plans to consumers? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-No. Trust accounts shall be carried in the name of the preneed funeral licensee as _____ - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Trustee. The Board members appointed by the General Assembly and recommended by the Speaker of the House ____ be a licensee. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Shall not. In North Carolina, it is a legal requirement that all licenses by signed by- - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-The president and secretary of the Board.
A new crematory is not to be located in which of these sites? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Walnut Street, zoned residential. How long does a funeral director have to file a death certificate with a local registrar? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Five days after the death. All crematories in North Carolina shall have refrigeration facilities that will contain at least ____ adult human body or bodies. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Three. If a preneed funeral contract is funded by a trust deposit or deposits, a preneed licensee may retain, free of the trust, up to ____ % of any payments made on a preneed funeral contract. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Ten. Crematory units in NC shall have this type of pan within them: - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Ash collection. What is the process that is used to reduce cremated human remains to unidentifiable dimensions? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Pulverization. The North Carolina Board of Funeral Service is to have: - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-A president, vice- president, and a secretary. What is the purpose of the Preneed Recovery Fund? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-To reimburse preneed contract purchasers when there has been some wrongdoing by a preneed licensee that effects their preneed funds. A crematory's refrigeration facility must maintain an internal temperature of ____ degrees Farenheit. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Forty. If a preneed contract beneficiary wishes to change funeral homes before the death occurs, the substitution: - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Must be to a preneed licensee.
If, after cremation, the cremated remains will not fit into the temporary container or urn, the excess cremated remains: - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Must be returned to the authorizing agent or representative. The board of directors at a burial association shall consist of ___ members. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔- Seven. What is the number of crematory authority board members that must be present to constitute a quorum for meetings? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Four. When a burial association has its annual meeting, how many members constitute a quorum? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Fifteen. When does one complete a certificate of performance? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Following the death of the preneed contract beneficiary. Sponsors for continuing education (CE) must provide a facility conducive to learning with sufficient space for _________. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Note taking. How many members of the Board of Funeral are affiliated with funeral trade associations? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Six. Members of the Board of Funeral service shall serve: - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-three year staggered terms. How long does a funeral director have to file a notification of death? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-24 hours after taking custody of a body. If a funeral contract beneficiary wishes to change funeral homes after the death has occurred, then: - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-The funeral home need not be a preneed licensee. A cremation container does not have to be this: - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Large enough to contain all of the cremated remains.
Resident trainees are legally required to submit forms to the Board- - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Monthly. _______ credit(s) is/are available for mortuary science courses attended prior to becoming an active licensee of the NC Board of funeral service. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-No credit. What is the length of time that an apprentice has to file their reports with the Board following the reported calendar month? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-10 days after the calendar month. Except for a/an ________, preneed funds shall not be deposited into a funeral home's bank accounts. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Clearing account. A funeral director that first assumes custody of a dead body or fetus of ____ completed weeks gestation or more shall complete and file a notification of death. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Twenty. Is a trainee allowed to have more than one job or vocation? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Yes. Generally speaking, will the Board renew a license if a licensee has not completed the minimal number of continuing education hours? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-No. A person that dies from the following disease is to not be embalmed, but the body shall be placed in a tightly sealed container and not re-opened. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Smallpox. What photographs are allowed to be made of a dead human body? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-None without the consent of the immediate next-of-kin or the spouse or other authorizing agent. The persons making the funeral arrangements for a deceased member shall have ____ from the date of death in which to make demand upon the burial association for the funeral benefits to which such member was entitled. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Thirty days. There is an opening on the inspection staff working with the North Carolina Board of Funeral Service. Mary is a licensed embalmer. Is it possible for her to apply for, and get, this job? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-No.
The North Carolina Board of Funeral Service board members are placed there through a/an ______ process. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Appointment. A certificate of resident traineeship shall be signed by whom? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-The resident trainee. Wendell has already completed his apprenticeship and is ready for his mortuary education. What is the length of time that he must sit for the exam before he must complete another resident traineeship? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Five years. When speaking of burial associations, no benefits will be paid in cases of suicidal death of any member within ___ from the date of the membership certificate. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Twelve months. How many days does an accused licensee have to respond to the accusation after receiving the complaint from the Board? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-15 days. What is the primary difference between a preneed and a prearrangement? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-If it is funded. Skipmore, Inc. wanted to give a continuing education seminar for funeral licensees on how to make more money. Their petition was denied, however; because the Board clearly states that benefits of learning and reviewing skills will be utilized and applied to: - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Assure proper service to the public. A physician or medical officer certifying a decedent's death shall do so no more than: - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-3 days following the death. Unless the death of a person was due to an infectious, contagious or other listed communicable disease, their body shall not be cremated before a period of ____ following their death. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔- Twenty four hours. There is a total of _____ funeral licensees on the Board of Funeral Service. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔- Seven.
What is the purpose of a crematory's processor unit? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-To pulverize cremated remains. Who issues permits for disintemrent-reinterment? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Local registrar. When there has been no representive of the estate appointed following a death, not made payable to the estate, and the amount in the preneed funeral fund is more than $100.00 then the funds are to be made to: - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-The clerk of superior court in the county of probate. A person that wrongfully causes a person to change from one burial association to another burial association shall be guilty of _______. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Class I Misdemeanor When do all funeral licenses, renewals, and duplicates expire each year? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔- December 31st. The North Carolina Board of Funeral Service has _____ members. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Nine. Myrtle and her dog, FiFi, have been together for 16 years. It is Myrtle's wish that, in the event FiFi dies before her, that the dog be preserved and retained until Myrtle's death, and at that time, both shall be cremated together in the same cremation chamber. Is this a lawful practice? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔- No. To be licensed in NC as a funeral director, one must be at least ____ years of age. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔- Funeral homes must permanently mark a dead human body in its care with that person's identification. This marking shall be- - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-The ankle or wrist of the dead human body. Which of the following items is not necessary on an application form for new funeral establishments? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-All full-time and part-time employees of the funeral home.
A burial association shall call a special meeting when petitioned to do so by ____ of the association's members. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-66 and 2/3 percent. What information is mandated by general statute for the application for a burial association member? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Birthdate. The Board is composed in part by TWO members appointed by the Governor from nominees recommended by- - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-The Funeral Directors and Morticians Association of North Carolina. How many NC Board of Funeral Service board members are appointed by the Governor, but do not have any trade association affiliation? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-One. Goerge was on a bus travelling across the state. He started (boarded) the bus in Buncombe County, stopped to eat lunch with a group in Catawba County, died in Rowan County, was discovered and removed from the bus in Mecklenburg County. In which county should the death certificate be filed? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Mecklenburg. When referring to burial associations, each association shall place in a reserve account 5% of the assessments collected from its members and 5% of the investment income of the association. These sums shall continue to be placed in the association's reserve account until the association's reserve account shall equal ______ per member. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-$21. Is it lawful for a North Carolina burial association to merge with an insurance company? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Yes. How many Board members are appointed by the General Assembly through a recommendation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-One. When speaking of burial associations, no benefit will be paid for a natural death occurring within ______ from the date of filing the certificate of membership. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Thirty days. If a resident trainee wishes to renew his or her traineeship, and the fee for the renewal isn't renewed within ____ days, the trainee's certificate traineeship shall be canceled. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Thirty.
The North Carolina Crematory Authority board members are placed there primarily through a/an ______ process. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Election. The individual or organization conducting the continuing education program must pass out sign-up sheets at least ________ of instruction to ensure continued attendance by all particpants. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Once per hour. Murdess has forgotten to renew her funeral directing license. If she fails to do so by ______, she shall surrender or forfeit her license. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-February 1st. If there is a funeral home substitution and the preneed funeral contract was funded by a prearrangement insurance policy, then the insurance company shall- - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Not pay any funds until the death occurs. If a funeral service licensee was licensed before December 31, 2003, and has been licensed for a continuous period of 25 years or more, then he or she: - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-No longer is required to receive their continuing education credits each year. Of the following persons, who is the preneed licensee? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Grant Mortuary, Inc. In the definition of "casket", it means a _____ container that is designed for the encasement of dead human remains. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Rigid. A certificate of cremation is not required to have this information; - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-The name of the spouse or the next-of-kin. How many members constitute a quorum for meetings for the North Carolina Board of Funeral Service?
- VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Five. What is the length of time that a crematory should keep receipts of received cremated human remains?
- VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Three years.
Who is the person that is responsible for the operation and controlling of the crematory? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Crematory manager. When speaking of computations for continuing education (CE) credit, teachers or presenters of the CE credit earn ______________________ for an initial presentation. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Three hours of credit for each 50 minutes presented. The funeral benefit (face amount) for a covered person, age 10 or younger begins at ____. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Fifty dollars. Which of these is not a correct statement? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-A crematory manager and a crematory technician cannot be the same person. The North Carolina Board of Funeral Service shall cause to be established and offered to the licensees, at least ____ hours of continuing education courses each year. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Eight. The person that wishes to offer CE (continuing education) programs to North Carolina's funeral licensees would be referred to as a/an: - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Sponsor. How many members of the Board of Funeral services shall be licensees? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Six. Those persons that wish to take a examination with the NC Board of funeral service shall make application at least _____ days prior to the actual examination date. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Thirty. Within _____ day(s) following the sale of a preneed funeral contract, any person selling the contract shall send a copy of it to the Board, accompanying the required fee. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Ten. When speaking of mutual burial associations, do the provisions of the laws regulate the issuance and sale of insurance policies? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-No. Licensees may not receive credit for more than _____ hours each year on the subject of preneed. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Two.
What is the minimum number of crematory licensees that must sign a petition for a nomination of someone that wishes to serve on the North Carolina Crematory Authority? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔- Three. A person that does not excercise his or her right to dispose of a decedent's body as expressed in the cremation statutes within _____ days of notification or 10 days from the date of death, whichever is earlier, shall lose their right. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Five. Dunham Mortuary, Inc. uses regular non-disposable sheets on their removal stretcher or cot. If the bottom sheet isn't soiled or dampened after a transfer of remains, they will use the sheet again on their stretcher. Is this a legal practice? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-No. How many Board members are appointed by the Governor without recommendation from any other agencies? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-One. Which of the following statements is incorrect? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Mary can perform a funeral service resident traineeship under the guidance of Howard, a licensed funeral director. Minor Mortuary performed 22 funeral services last year. How many apprentices are they allowed to have working at one time? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-None. The cremation authorization form expressly states that if the authorizing agent doesn't take possession of the cremated remains within ____ days, they can be disposed of by the crematory licensee. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Thirty. Of the following, who is authorized to serve papers and subpoenas? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Inspectors. To become a licensed funeral director in the state of North Carolina, one must be a graduate of a funeral director's program having a minimum of ____ semester hours. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔- How many members of the NCFDA are nominated for the Governor to appoint to the Board? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Four.
Every preparation room shall be provided with proper and _______ recepticles for refuse, bandages, cotton, and other waste materials and supplies. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Convenient. In order to be become a crematory technician in North Carolina, one should complete a cremation certificate program that is conducted by- - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-CANA. A new funeral company wishes to offer a continuing education course to licensees for the first time. The Board will mandate that the new company submit an application at least _____ days prior to the course event. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Ninety. The members of the Board of Funeral service are: - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Are not paid and only compensated for expenses in attending. An inflation-proof contract establishes a/an ____ price for funeral services and merchandise. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Fixed. A person that dies from the following disease is to not be embalmed, but the body shall be placed in a tightly sealed container and not re-opened. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Smallpox. In speaking of a funeral home's embalming or preparation room, no ______ or deleterious odors shall be allowed to remain therein nor to enter into any other part of the premises of the funeral establishment or into any adjoining premises. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Obnoxious. If there is to be a substitution of a preneed licensee, is it necessary to draft a new preneed funeral contract between the newer funeral establishment and the person giving notice of the substitution? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Yes. Which of the following exam subjects are not necessary to pass before being granted licensure in NC as a funeral director? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Business management. Which of these is a NC funeral home's embalming room NOT required to have? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔- Instruments and fluids used in the embalming process.
If a funeral home uses the name "crematory" or "crematorium" in its name, then- - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-That funeral home must own a crematory. In speaking of crematories operating in NC, in the event a licensee is in the process of replacing its only crematory technician at the time of license renewal, the licensee may continue to operate the crematory for a reasonable time period not to exceed _____. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-30 days. If there is a change of ownership of 50% or more of a crematory, a new application for a license or permit shall be made to the Board within _____ following the change of ownership. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Thirty days. If any licenses or permits for crematories that remain expired ______ or more require a new application for renewal. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-6 months. Kindle Funeral Home and Crematory performed 370 calls during the previous year. What is the maximum allowable number of apprentices that Kindle can have at one time? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔- Three. How many members are found on the Board of Funeral Service in North Carolina? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Nine. Who is eligible to hold a "preneed sales license'? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Morton Howard, funeral director. The Board of funeral service specifies that, in order to be licensed for the practice of funeral service, one must have completed a minimum of ____ semester hours of instruction. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Sixty. If a person dies of a particular disease ( Jacobs-Creutzfeldt, HIV, Hep B, Plague, rabies, smallpox) while in a hospital, the attending physician is to notify the funeral director or person making a removal to use proper precautions- - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-In writing at the time the removal is made. A funeral home's preneed license must be __________. - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Conspicuously displayed.
North Carolina funeral laws state that one does not have to have conintuing education credit each year to maintain their funeral licensure if they are currently- - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-A member of the general assembly. What is the minimal education requirement for one wishing to become a resident trainee? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-High School graduate or equivalent. Resident trainees send regular forms in to the Board of funeral service - every - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔- Month.
