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NVLRR COMPREHENSIVE UPDATED EXAM QUESTIONS
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✔✔D. A decision that orders immediate suspension of a license, permit, or certificate. - ✔✔A person may seek judicial review of any decision by the Board in all of the following scenarios except: A. A decision that requires payment of a late fee. B. A temporary decision that requires the procurment of additional information by the Board. C. A decision that is deemed "final" by the Board. D. A decision that orders immediate suspension of a license, permit, or certificate. ✔✔False - ✔✔T/F When an agency or officer elects to take a particular action or pursue a particular remedy authorized by this chapter or another statute, that election is exclusive and precludes the agency or officer or another agency or officer from taking any other actions or pursuing any other remedy. ✔✔C. Advertising by a direct cremation facility that describes that services are limited to direct cremation. - ✔✔All of the following would be examples of prohibited acts except... A. Admittance of unauthorized persons into the care center while a body is being embalmed. B. Internet sale of cremation services by a person who does not own a funeral establishment, crematory, or direct cremation facility in the State of Nevada. C. Advertising by a direct cremation facility that describes that services are limited to direct cremation. D. Embalming without a license. ✔✔Direct permission by the immediate family. - ✔✔NVLRR describes "unauthorized persons" who cannot enter rooms in the mortuary where decedents are being embalmed. No one may enter these rooms except licensed embalmers and their assistants, funeral directors, funeral arrangers, public officers in the discharge of their official duties, and attending physicians and their assistants. What is the one way an unauthorized person can obtain authorization to enter these rooms? ✔✔$500 per offense - ✔✔What is the penalty for practicing embalming without a license? ✔✔$500; Is - ✔✔Any funeral director or funeral arranger or person who engages in the practice of disposition of dead human bodies or funeral arranging without a license, without complying with the provisions of this chapter or continuing to practice after his/her license has been revoked shall be fined not more than _________. Each day this person is engaged in this practice (Is/Is not) considered a seperate offense.
✔✔$500; Is - ✔✔Any owner of a funeral establishment or direct cremation facility who operates or allows another person to operate the funeral establishment or direct cremation facility without having complied with the provisions of this chapter, or who continues to operate or allow another person to operate the funeral establishment or direct cremation facility after his or her permit to operate the funeral establishment or direct cremation facility has been revoked shall be fined not more than _____________. Each day that person engages in this practice (Is/Is not) considered a seperate offense. ✔✔A Misdemeanor - ✔✔Any licensee who accepts money or anything of value as commission for the securing of a business by another licensee is guilty of __________________. ✔✔Human Remains - ✔✔The body of a deceased person, including the body in any stage of decomposition and the cremated remains of a body. ✔✔Circulatory and respiratory functions or all functions of the person's entire brain; Uniform Determination of Death - ✔✔For legal and medical purposes, a person is dead if they have sustained an irreversible cessation of __________________________________________ and this determination must be made in accordance with the _____________ _________________ ___ _____________ Act. ✔✔A gross misdemeanor - ✔✔Any person who makes, causes, or procures to be made any dissection of the body of a human being except where specially provided by statute, the direction of a will, where a coroner is authorized or an ordinance enacted to hold an inquest, or authorized by the next of kin is guilty of ___________________________. ✔✔$250 - $5000 - ✔✔Any person who uses or makes available for the use of another the remains of an aborted embryo or fetus for any commercial purpose shall be fined between ________ - __________. ✔✔Must be done within a "reasonable time after death" - ✔✔What does NRS say about the time-frame for burial or cremation. ✔✔Surviving spouse or parent of unemancipated minor - ✔✔Who has the primary authority to authorize the burial or cremation of a deceased child? ✔✔(a) A person designated as the person with authority to order the burial or cremation of the human remains of the decedent in a legally valid document or in an affidavit executed in accordance with subsection 9; (b) If the decedent was, at the time of death, on active duty as a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, a reserve component thereof or the National Guard, a person designated by the decedent in the United States Department of Defense Record of Emergency Data, DD Form 93, or its successor form, as the person authorized to direct disposition of the human remains of the decedent; (c) The spouse of the decedent; (d) An adult son or daughter of the
✔✔True - ✔✔If the governing body of any county, city or town within the State of Nevada must arrange for and order the decent burial of any person dying within such county, city or town, leaving a husband or wife or parent in whose custody such person remained at the time he or she died, which husband or wife or parent is not indigent and not otherwise eligible for assistance as a poor person and expenses for a decent burial have been paid out of public funds pursuant to such an order, the county, city or town must be reimbursed for its expenses of burial of the dead body of such person by the husband, wife or parent charged by law with the duty of burial. ✔✔A Category D Felony - ✔✔A person who removes the dead body of a human being, or any part thereof, from a grave, vault or other place where it has been buried or deposited awaiting burial or cremation, without authority of law, with the intent to sell it, or for the purpose of securing a reward for its return, or for dissection, or from malice or wantonness, is guilty of ✔✔A Category D felony - ✔✔A person who purchases or receives, except for burial or cremation, any such dead body, or any part thereof, knowing that it has been removed contrary to the provisions of subsection 1, is ✔✔A Category D Felony - ✔✔A person who opens a grave or other place of interment, temporary or otherwise, or a building where such a dead body is deposited while awaiting burial or cremation, without authority of law, with the intent to remove the body or any part thereof, for the purpose of selling or demanding money for it, for dissection, from malice or wantonness, or with the intent to sell or remove the coffin or any part thereof or anything attached thereto, or any vestment or other article interred or intended to be interred with the body, is guilty of ✔✔No it is illegal; classified as a misdemeanor for arresting a dead body upon a debt. - ✔✔Can the funeral arranger demand payment in full of an outstanding balance prior to the release of a decedent's remains? ✔✔Guilty of a misdemeanor - ✔✔Any person who without lawful authority obstructs or detains a person engaged in carrying or accompanying a dead body to a place of burial or cremation is..... ✔✔Permit; misdemeanor; is not - ✔✔A person in charge of a cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium or other place of burial shall not disinter or remove or permit disinterment or removal of human remains unless the person has received a copy of a _________ A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a _____________ A county coroner (Is/Is not) required to obtain a permit from the local health officer for the disinterment, removal or transportation of human remains while carrying out his or her duties as the county coroner ✔✔the public health will not be endangered; died from or with a contagious or loathsome disease - ✔✔The boards of county commissioners of the several counties in
which human remains are buried or interred are authorized to grant and to issue written permits for the disinterment and removal of any such human remains whenever in their judgment the _________________________ by such disinterment and removal; but no such permit shall be granted or issued under any circumstances or at any time where the person or persons buried or interred have______________________________. ✔✔$250 - ✔✔Any transportation company or common carrier transporting or carrying, or accepting through its agents or employees for transportation or carriage, the body of any deceased person, without an accompanying permit issued in accordance with law, shall be punished by a fine of not more than ________________. ✔✔$500 - ✔✔Any railroad, transportation or express company which receives for transportation and shipment any dead human body, unless the body has been prepared by a regularly licensed embalmer of the State of Nevada, with the removal permit, his or her name and the number of the embalmer's license attached thereon, and unless the body shall reach its destination within the boundaries of this state and within 30 hours from time of death, shall be punished by a fine of not more than ✔✔72; to notify a member of the family or authorized person to obtain approval; the family or authorized person does not wish to have the body embalmed; a misdemeanor
- ✔✔If embalming is not required by the State Board of Health the Nevada Funeral and Cemetery Services Board may authorize the embalming of a body if it determines that it is necessary to preserve the body and the crematory, funeral home, cemetery or other place that accepts human remains for disposition: (a) Has held the body for at least ______ hours; (b) Is unable ________________________ (c) Has no reason to believe that _______________________________. Any person who violates this section is guillty of ___________________________. ✔✔55,000; Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services - ✔✔The board of county commissioners of a county whose population is less than ___________________ may adopt an ordinance allowing one or more natural persons to designate as a family cemetery an area of land owned by any of those persons for the interment in that area without charge of any member of the family of any of them or any other person. Before the first interment in a family cemetery designated in accordance with an ordinance adopted, a member of the family or a representative of the family shall notify the ______________________________________________ of the designation of the family cemetery and its specific location on the land owned by the family. ✔✔Cemetery Authority - ✔✔Any natural person, partnership, association, corporation or public entity, including the Nevada System of Higher Education or any cemetery district, owning or leasing the land or other property of a cemetery or operating a cemetery as a business in this State.
✔✔Yes - ✔✔Must a cemetery or governmental authority comply with the rules and regulations set forth by a religious institution who governs a religious cemetery when disinterring human remains from that cemetery? ✔✔Nevada System of Higher Education; 1. licensed physician 2. osteopathic physician
- dentist 4. pathologist 5. faculty member appointed by the president of University of Nevada, Reno 6. faculty member appointed by the president ofUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas 7. faculty member appointed by the president of Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Nevada 8. Chief Medical Officer or designee 9. appointee from the Nevada Funeral Service Association; Faculty member of UNLV or UNR elected as Chair and a Secretary from among the committee members; Chair and Secretary will hold office for a term of 1 year; At least twice annually ; No, they serve without salary - ✔✔Who establishes the Committee on Anatomical Dissection? How many members are there on the Committee and what is their qualifications? What are the offices within the members of the committee and how long is their term in office? How often must they meet? Are they compensated? ✔✔Notify the Committee on Anatomical Dissection; delivery body at no charge; 30 days
- ✔✔Any person in charge of any hospital, morgue, prison, funeral parlor, or mortuary shall________________________________ of a body which is unclaimed and requires burial at public expense. Any person who comes into possession, charge, or control of said body will, upon request, ________________________. The Committee will hold a body for a period of not less than ______________ before approving the body's use for medical research or deciding it is unfit for use. ✔✔Anatomical Gift - ✔✔a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research or education. ✔✔Disinterested Witness - ✔✔a witness other than the spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandchild, grandparent or guardian of the natural person who makes, amends, revokes or refuses to make an anatomical gift, or another adult who exhibited special care and concern for the natural person. The term does not include a person to which an anatomical gift could pass ✔✔Document of Gift - ✔✔a donor card or other record used to make an anatomical gift. The term includes a statement or symbol on a driver's license, identification card or donor registry. ✔✔Donor Registry - ✔✔means a database that contains records of anatomical gifts and amendments to or revocations of anatomical gifts. The term includes, without limitation, a donor registry that has entered into a contract with the Department of Motor Vehicle ✔✔Eye Bank - ✔✔a person that is licensed, accredited or regulated under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage or distribution of human eyes or portions of human eyes.
✔✔Guardian - ✔✔a person appointed by a court to make decisions regarding the support, care, education, health or welfare of a natural person. ✔✔Person - ✔✔a natural person, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited-liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. ✔✔Prospective Donor - ✔✔a natural person who is dead or near death and has been determined by a procurement organization to have a part that could be medically suitable for transplantation, therapy, research or education. The term does not include a natural person who has made a refusal. ✔✔Reasonably Available - ✔✔able to be contacted by a procurement organization without undue effort and willing and able to act in a timely manner consistent with existing medical criteria necessary for the making of an anatomical gift. ✔✔Recipient - ✔✔a natural person into whose body a decedent's part has been or is intended to be transplanted. ✔✔Record - ✔✔information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. ✔✔Refusal - ✔✔a record that expressly States and intent to bar other persons from making an Anatomical Gift ✔✔Sign - ✔✔Present intent to authenticate or adopt a record to execute or adopt a tangible symbol or to attach two or logically associate with the record and electronic symbol sound or process ✔✔Technician - ✔✔a natural person determined to be qualified to remove or process Parts by an appropriate organization that is licensed, accredited or regulated under federal or state law ✔✔Tissue - ✔✔Of the human body other than an organ or an eye. This term does not include blood unless the blood is donated for the purpose of research or education. ✔✔Tissue Bank - ✔✔Accredited or regulated under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage or distribution of tissue ✔✔Transplant hospital - ✔✔A hospital that furnishes organ transplants and other medical and Surgical Specialty Services required for the care of transplant patients
natural person during his or her terminal illness or injury addressed to at least two adults one of whom is a disinterested Witness - ✔✔How does one refuse to make an Anatomical Gift? ✔✔No - ✔✔Is a revocation or Amendment considered a refusal of an Anatomical Gift that would bar another natural person from making an Anatomical Gift after the death of the prospective donor? ✔✔1. An agent of the decedent at the time of death who could have made an Anatomical Gift immediately before the decedent's death 2. The spouse of the decedent
- Adult children of the decedent 4. Parents of the decedent 5. Adult siblings of the decedent 6. Adult grandchildren of the decedent 7. Grandparents of the decedent 8. An adult who exhibited special care and concern for the decedent 9. the persons who were acting as Guardians of the decedent at the time of death 10. Any other person having the authority to dispose of the decedent's body - ✔✔List the order of priority of persons authorized to make an Anatomical Gift of the body or part of a decedent ✔✔a majority of the members of the class who are reasonably available - ✔✔If there is an objection by one member of a class of persons who are authorized to make an Anatomical Gift of a decedent's part or body, who has the authorization to make that gift? ✔✔Category C felony; $50,000 - ✔✔A person shall not knowingly for valuable consideration purchase or sell a part of a natural person for transplantation or therapy if removal of the part from the natural person is or was intended to occur after the natural person's death. Anyone who violates this section is guilty of ___________________________________ and maybe subject to a fine of not more than _____________________________. ✔✔Category C felony; $50,000 - ✔✔Anyone who, in order to obtain a financial gain, intentionally falsifies, forges, conceals, defaces or obliterates a document of an Anatomical Gift, and Amendment or revocation of a document of gift or a refusal is guilty of __________ and may be subject to a fine of no more than ________. ✔✔Agent - ✔✔with respect to a particular deceased person, a person who is authorized to order The Cremation of his or her human remains ✔✔Container - ✔✔a vessel, whether or not a casket, in which human remains are placed for cremation ✔✔Operator - ✔✔the person licensed to conduct the business of a Crematory ✔✔Urn - ✔✔a vessel in which cremated remains can be placed and which can be closed to prevent leaking or spilling of the remains or the entrance of foreign material
✔✔Mixed, commercial or industrial use; 1500 feet - ✔✔The board shall not issue a license to an applicant applying for a license to operate a Crematory unless the proposed location for all structures associated with the Crematory are in an area which is zoned for_________________ and is at least________________________ from the boundary line of any parcel zoned for residential use. ✔✔ 30 - ✔✔If the ownership of a Crematory is to be changed the proposed operator shall apply for licensing at least _________ days before the change. ✔✔True - ✔✔T/F A prepaid contract for services to be rendered upon the death of a beneficiary which includes cremation must specify the disposition of the cremated remains. ✔✔True - ✔✔T/F A person may order his or her own cremation and the disposition of his or her own cremated remains. The order must be signed by the person and by two witnesses ✔✔a death certificate has been signed and without first receiving a written authorization signed by the agent - ✔✔The operator of a Crematory shall not cremated human remains until ... ✔✔Identify the deceased person, state whether or not the death occurred from a communicable or dangerous disease, state the name and address of the agent and the Agents relationship, represent that the agent is aware of no objection to cremation by any person who has a right to control the disposition, State the name of the person authorized to claim the cremated remains or the name of the - ✔✔There are five criteria to validate a written authorization to cremate. List these five criteria: ✔✔each authorization received, the name of each person whose human remains are received, the date and time of receipt and the description of the container in which received, the date of cremation, the final disposition of the cremated remains - ✔✔in terms of maintaining records the operator of a Crematory, funeral establishment or direct cremation facility shall keep a record of five things. list these 5 things: ✔✔False - ✔✔T/F a Crematory operator may require that human remains be placed in a casket or refuse to accept human remains for cremation because they are not in a casket ✔✔consist of readily combustible materials, cover the human remains completely when closed, resist leaking or spilling, be rigid enough for easy handling, protect the health and safety of employees of the operator - ✔✔The container used for cremation of human remains must...
friends or members of the same family and the urn is designed for the remains of more than one person. 2. Cremated remains may be scattered at sea or over a public waterway, or by air, from individual closed vessels, or scattered in an area of a dedicated cemetery from which there is no means of location or recovery and which is used exclusively for this purpose. 3. Cremated remains may be disposed of in any manner upon private property if the agent who ordered the cremation so directs and the owner of the property consents in writing. 4. Cremated remains for disposition pursuant to subsec - ✔✔List the four NRS guidelines regarding disposition of cremated remains: ✔✔The signer - ✔✔Who is personally liable for any damages resulting from the falsity of a warranted fact or from lack of authority to order The Cremation of human remains? ✔✔False - ✔✔T/F: If the signer of an order for The Cremation of human remains remits that order to the Crematory operator without proper authority to authorize The Cremation, the Crematory operator may be held liable. ✔✔False - ✔✔T/F: The operator of a crematory is liable for the accidental cremation of an article of value delivered with human remains. ✔✔True - ✔✔T/F The operator of a crematory may refuse to accept or to cremate a human remains until the operator receives a court order or other suitable confirmation that a dispute about The Cremation itself or the release of cremated remains has been settled. ✔✔A public nuisance - ✔✔a Crematory that is operated in the state of Nevada in violation of any provisions of NRS, any regulation, or any order of the Nevada funeral and Cemetery Services Board, the Crematory shall be deemed a __________________. ✔✔Live Birth - ✔✔a birth in which the child shows evidence of life after complete birth. A birth that is complete when the child is entirely outside the mother even if the cord is uncut and the placenta still attached. ✔✔Person in charge of interment - ✔✔Any person who places, or causes to be placed, a deceased stillborn child, or dead body, or, after cremation, the ashes thereof, in the earth, a grave, tomb, Vault, urn or other receptacle, either in a cemetery or at any other place, or otherwise disposes thereof. ✔✔Stillbirth - ✔✔a birth after at least 20 weeks of gestation, in which the child shows no evidence of life after complete birth ✔✔Vital statistics - ✔✔Records of birth, legitimation of birth, death, fetal death, marriage, annulment of marriage, divorce and data incidental thereto.
✔✔125;50 - ✔✔the State Registrar May release information relating to vital statistics of a certificate of birth _____ years after the date of birth and of a certificate of death ____ years after the date of death. ✔✔$1 - ✔✔What is the fee for blank certificates? ✔✔Court order - ✔✔If the State Registrar dismisses an application for the registration of an altered certificate, what must the applicants secure in order to register a certificate with an alteration? ✔✔Homeless person or person released from prison in the previous 90 days - ✔✔A person or governmental organization which issues certified or original copies of certificates shall not charge a fee to what two types of people? ✔✔call attention to the defects in the return and withhold issuing the burial or removal permit until the defects are corrected - ✔✔If any certificate of death is or unsatisfactory, the local Health officer will.... ✔✔ 5 - ✔✔Within how many days after receipt of the original death certificates will the county health officer file with the public administrator a written list of the names and Social Security numbers of all deceased persons and the names of their next of kin as those names appear on the certificates? ✔✔10th - ✔✔On the ___ day of each month the local Health officer shall transmit to the State Registrar all original certificates registered by him or her during the preceding month. ✔✔Funeral Director/Crematory Operator - ✔✔the statement of facts concerning the disposition of the body must be signed by the... ✔✔The Physician last in attendance on the deceased, the attending physicians associate, the chief medical officer, or the pathologist who performed an autopsy - ✔✔Who may sign the medical certificate of death? ✔✔The physician in attendance at the stillbirth - ✔✔A certificate of stillbirth must be presented by the funeral director to whom? ✔✔False - ✔✔T/F: Symptoms of a disease or conditions resulting from a disease will be held sufficient for the issuing of a burial or removal permit. ✔✔True - ✔✔T/F a physician who anticipates the death of a patient because of an illness, infirmity or disease May authorize a specific registered nurse or physician assistant or the registered nurses or physician assistants employed by a medical facility
security number, and cause of death of the decedent - ✔✔The burial or removal permit must indicate.... ✔✔Must be delivered to the sexton or person in charge of the place of burial, the Crematory operator, or attached to the Box containing the body when shipped by any transportation company - ✔✔What is the disposition of the burial or removal permit? ✔✔ 72 - ✔✔the body of any person whose death occurs in this state shall not be interred, deposited in a vault or tomb, cremated or otherwise disposed of, removed from or into any registration District, or be held temporarily pending a further disposition more than _______ hours after death, until a permit for burial or removal or other disposition thereof has been properly issued by the local Health officer of the registration District in which the death occurred. ✔✔Consent of the person who certifies the cause of death - ✔✔A body may be moved from the place of death into another registration District to be prepared for final disposition pending.... ✔✔True - ✔✔T/F when a body is transported by a common carrier into the local health district in Nevada for burial, the transit and removal permit, issued in accordance with the law and health regulations of the place where the death occurred, shall be accepted by the local Health officer of the district into which the body has been transported for burial or other disposition ✔✔10 days - ✔✔How long does the sexton or uhperson in charge of any burial ground have to endorse upon the permit the date of internment over his or her signature and return the permit so endorsed to the local Health officer of his or her District? ✔✔Prima facie evidence - ✔✔any copy of the record of a birth or death when properly certified by the state registrar to be a true copy thereof shall be _______________________________ in all courts and places of the facts therein stated. ✔✔the United States Bureau of the Census - ✔✔What federal agency may obtain without expense to the state transcripts or certified copies of births and deaths without payment of a fee? ✔✔$0 - ✔✔What is the fee the local Health officer may require from Funeral Directors for the issuance of burial or removal permits? ✔✔$250 - ✔✔What is the fine for any physician who was in medical attendance upon any deceased person's death and neglect or refuses to make out and deliver to the funeral director or person in charge of internment the medical certificate of the cause of death?
✔✔$250 - ✔✔If any physician knowingly makes a false certification of the cause of death in any case, The Physician shall be punished by a fine of not more than..... ✔✔$250 - ✔✔what is the fine for any funeral director, Sexton or other person in charge of the disposal who enters, removes or otherwise disposes of the body of any deceased person without having received a burial or removal permit? ✔✔A misdemeanor - ✔✔Any person who shall willfully alter any certificate of death or the copy of any certificate of death on file in the office of the local or State Board of Health shall be guilty of... ✔✔$250 - ✔✔Any person who furnishes false information to the funeral director or informant for the purpose of making incorrect certification of a death shall be punished by a fine of not more than.... ✔✔48 hours - ✔✔The person who is required to certify the cause of death shall complete the portions of the death certificate pertaining to the cause of death in the certification of death and return the certificate to the Undertaker who presented it to him or her within ___________after such presentation? ✔✔ - ✔✔What is the fee for registration of a birth or death in its District? ✔✔
