ALABAMA STATE LAW EXAM STUDY
GUIDE WITH QUALIFIED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
accredited school - ANSWER-A school or college approved by the Alabama Board of Funeral Service and
which maintains a course of instruction of not less than 48 calendar weeks or four academic quarters or
college terms and which gives a course of instruction in the fundamental subjects including, but not
limited to, the following:
COLLEGE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE - ANSWER-A school or college approved by the Alabama Board of
Funeral Service and which maintains a course of instruction of not less than 48 calendar weeks or four
academic quarters or college terms and which gives a course of instruction in the fundamental subjects
including, but not limited to, the following:
Fundamental Subjects - ANSWER-a. Mortuary management and administration.
b. Legal medicine and toxicology as it pertains to funeral directing.
c. Public health, hygiene, and sanitary science.
d. Mortuary science, to include embalming technique, in all its aspects; chemistry of embalming, color
harmony; discoloration, its causes, effects, and treatment; treatment of special cases; restorative art;
funeral management; and professional ethics.
e. Anatomy and physiology.
f. Chemistry, organic and inorganic.
g. Pathology.
h. Bacteriology.
i. Sanitation and hygiene.
j. Public health regulations.
k. Other courses of instruction in fundamental subjects as may be prescribed by the Alabama Board of
Funeral Service.
, Alkaline hydrolysis - ANSWER-The technical process that reduces human remains to bone fragments
using heat, water, and chemical agents.
American Board of Funeral Service Education - ANSWER-That funeral service educational organization
which is an agency granted official recognition by the United States Secretary of Education and which is
composed of members representing the American Association of College of Mortuary Science, the
Conference of Funeral Service Examining Board of the United States, Inc., the National Association of
Colleges of Mortuary Science, and the University Mortuary Science Education Association and which has
as its object the furtherance of education in the field of funeral service and in fields necessary to, or
allied with, the field of funeral service, and further to formulate standards of funeral service education
and to grant accreditation to qualified schools and colleges of mortuary science and to do all things
incidental to the foregoing.
Apprentice embalmer - ANSWER-Any person engaged in the study of the art of embalming under the
instructions and supervision of a licensed embalmer practicing in this state.
APPRENTICE FUNERAL DIRECTOR - ANSWER-Any person operating under or in association with a funeral
director for the purpose of learning the business or profession of funeral director, to the end that he or
she may become licensed under this chapter
Authorizing agent - ANSWER-A person at least 18 years of age, except in the case of a surviving spouse
or parent, who is legally entitled to order the cremation or final disposition of particular human remains.
Board - ANSWER-The Alabama Board of Funeral Service.
Cash Advance Items - ANSWER-Any item of service or merchandise described to a purchaser using the
term cash advance, accommodation, cash disbursement, or similar term. A cash advance item is also any
item obtained from a third party and paid for by a funeral provider on behalf of a purchaser.
Cash Advance Items - ANSWER-a. Cemetery or crematory services.
b. Pallbearers.
GUIDE WITH QUALIFIED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
accredited school - ANSWER-A school or college approved by the Alabama Board of Funeral Service and
which maintains a course of instruction of not less than 48 calendar weeks or four academic quarters or
college terms and which gives a course of instruction in the fundamental subjects including, but not
limited to, the following:
COLLEGE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE - ANSWER-A school or college approved by the Alabama Board of
Funeral Service and which maintains a course of instruction of not less than 48 calendar weeks or four
academic quarters or college terms and which gives a course of instruction in the fundamental subjects
including, but not limited to, the following:
Fundamental Subjects - ANSWER-a. Mortuary management and administration.
b. Legal medicine and toxicology as it pertains to funeral directing.
c. Public health, hygiene, and sanitary science.
d. Mortuary science, to include embalming technique, in all its aspects; chemistry of embalming, color
harmony; discoloration, its causes, effects, and treatment; treatment of special cases; restorative art;
funeral management; and professional ethics.
e. Anatomy and physiology.
f. Chemistry, organic and inorganic.
g. Pathology.
h. Bacteriology.
i. Sanitation and hygiene.
j. Public health regulations.
k. Other courses of instruction in fundamental subjects as may be prescribed by the Alabama Board of
Funeral Service.
, Alkaline hydrolysis - ANSWER-The technical process that reduces human remains to bone fragments
using heat, water, and chemical agents.
American Board of Funeral Service Education - ANSWER-That funeral service educational organization
which is an agency granted official recognition by the United States Secretary of Education and which is
composed of members representing the American Association of College of Mortuary Science, the
Conference of Funeral Service Examining Board of the United States, Inc., the National Association of
Colleges of Mortuary Science, and the University Mortuary Science Education Association and which has
as its object the furtherance of education in the field of funeral service and in fields necessary to, or
allied with, the field of funeral service, and further to formulate standards of funeral service education
and to grant accreditation to qualified schools and colleges of mortuary science and to do all things
incidental to the foregoing.
Apprentice embalmer - ANSWER-Any person engaged in the study of the art of embalming under the
instructions and supervision of a licensed embalmer practicing in this state.
APPRENTICE FUNERAL DIRECTOR - ANSWER-Any person operating under or in association with a funeral
director for the purpose of learning the business or profession of funeral director, to the end that he or
she may become licensed under this chapter
Authorizing agent - ANSWER-A person at least 18 years of age, except in the case of a surviving spouse
or parent, who is legally entitled to order the cremation or final disposition of particular human remains.
Board - ANSWER-The Alabama Board of Funeral Service.
Cash Advance Items - ANSWER-Any item of service or merchandise described to a purchaser using the
term cash advance, accommodation, cash disbursement, or similar term. A cash advance item is also any
item obtained from a third party and paid for by a funeral provider on behalf of a purchaser.
Cash Advance Items - ANSWER-a. Cemetery or crematory services.
b. Pallbearers.
