South Carolina Funeral Law Exam Practice Test
Questions and Answers (2026/2027) | Detailed
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• The South Carolina State Board of Funeral Service consists of how many
members appointed by the governor? -✓✓Eleven
• Of the eleven members of the South Carolina State Board of Funeral Service,
how many must be members from the general public not connected with a funeral
service establishment? -✓✓Two
• Of the eleven members of the South Carolina State Board of Funeral Service,
how many members can the South Carolina Funeral Directors Association
recommend? -✓✓Six
• Of the eleven members of the South Carolina State Board of Funeral Service,
how many members can the South Carolina Morticians Association recommend? -
✓✓Three
• Nine of the eleven members of the South Carolina State Board must have been
licensed as funeral directors and embalmers for at least how many years? -✓✓Five
Years
• Any business conducted by the board must be by _________. -✓✓positive
majority vote
• In order to be classified a funeral home, how many caskets must be displayed? -
✓✓Six Adult Caskets
• To be a funeral home manager, how long must a licensed funeral director be
licensed in South Carolina? -✓✓One Year
• No permit to operate a funeral home may be issued to a corporation, partnership,
or individual when what occurs? This does not apply to established funeral homes
existing prior to July 1, 1969. -✓✓The name of an unlicensed person appears in
the name of the corporation, partnership, or individually owned business.
,• The board shall employ an inspector who must be a licensed embalmer and
funeral director with not fewer than _______ consecutive years' experience as a
licensee. -✓✓five
• How many months of of service must an apprentice finish under the direct
supervision of a licensed funeral director to be eligible to become a licensed
funeral director and or embalmer? -✓✓Twenty-Four Months
• No license may be issued or renewed for a period exceeding how many years? -
✓✓Two Years
• All licenses and renewals expire on what date? -✓✓June 30th each even year
• A person holding a license under this chapter may have the license renewed for a
two-year period by applying within how many days preceding or following the
expiration of his license? -✓✓30 days
• A permit for a crematory or permit for a funeral establishment which operated a
crematory may be renewed for how many years by applying within thirty days
preceding or following the expiration of the permit, upon forms provided by the
board. -✓✓Two Years
• How many apprentices are permitted to register under any one person licensed as
a funeral director or embalmer? -✓✓Two
• Each licensee must attend a minimum of how many credit hours annually? -
✓✓Three
• The continuing education requirement does not apply to whom? -✓✓A person
who is not a manager of record of a funeral home, funeral establishment, or
mortuary if the person has been licensed for thirty years or more or is sixty years
old or older.
• A licensed funeral director shall make arrangements with clients and must be at
the place of the . . . . -✓✓funeral and committal services
• The board must be notified within how many days upon the death, resignation, or
incapacity of the manager of a funeral establishment or crematory. -✓✓30 days
,• When more than one person proposed to engage in the operation of a funeral
establishment or crematory as a partnership or a corporation, one of the partners or
corporation officers must be what and, if not, they must employ whom? -
✓✓Licensed Funeral Director or Full-Time Manager
• No person licensed as a funeral director or embalmer shall remove or embalm a
dead human body when the person has information indicating what has taken
place? -✓✓Crime or Violence of any sort in connection with the cause of death
until permission first has been obtained from the coroner or medical examiner or
some other qualified person acting in this capacity.
• The continuing education completed must represent an in-depth study of how
many different topics and be gained through participation in formal instruction,
seminars, or workshops approved by the Board. -✓✓Three different topics
• If a retort is unavailable for any period exceeding 24 hours, the crematory shall
do what? -✓✓Refuse to accept any body until such time as the retort is working,
unless that body can be maintained under appropriate refrigeration.
• If the crematory provides a refrigeration unit for the holding of human remains in
its custody for twenty-four hours or more, it must be capable of maintaining
interior temperatures of what? -✓✓40 Degrees Fahrenheit
• An embalming room must be at least how many feet working space excluding
tables, cabinets, and other equipment? -✓✓100 Sq. Feet
• An embalming room must have what to pass inspection? -✓✓Sanitary flooring
and necessary drainage, ventilation, approved tables, hot and cold running water
and a sink separate from table drainage, an OSHA approved shower and eye wash
station, hydro or electric aspirator, embalming machine, or gravity bottle or bulb or
hand pump, at least one scalpel, two aneurysm needles, assorted canulae, suture
needles, trocar, antiseptic soap, twelve (12) bottles or arterial fluid, and two bottles
of cavity fluid.
• A prep room must have a ventilating system that is screened and has an air
exchange of how many times per hour to the outside? -✓✓12 times
, • How many caskets must be displayed to pass inspection? -✓✓Six adult caskets
on the premises displayed or available for display in conjunction with the display
of cut-away caskets, an online kiosk or other means of funeral merchandise
display.
• Common Trust Fund -✓✓A trust in which the proceeds of more than one funeral
contract may be held by the trustee.
• Preneed Funeral Contract -✓✓A contract which has for its purpose the
furnishings or performance of funeral services or the furnishing or delivery of
personal property, merchandise, or services of any nature in connection with the
final disposition of a dead human body to be furnished or delivered at a time
determinable by the death of the person whose body is to be disposed of, but does
not mean the furnishing of a cemetery lot, crypt, niche, mausoleum, grave marker
or monument.
• Trust Account -✓✓A federally insured account where the funds shall be paid to a
provider only when the provider furnishes the financial institution with a certified
certificate of death and a certified statement that the services have been performed
and the merchandise has been delivered.
• Selling a vault preneed -✓✓One hundred percent of funds received by the seller
at the time of payment must be held as trust funds and deposited in a financial
institution. All of the interest, dividends, increases, or accretions of whatever
nature earned by the funds deposited in a trust account must remain with the
principal of the account and become part of it.
• Preneed Trust Fund After Death -✓✓The principal and all accrued earnings must
be applied to the cost in effect at the time of death of the services and merchandise
specified in the contract. A shortfall in the funds must be paid by the next of kin or
the estate of the beneficiary and any excess must be refunded to the estate of the
beneficiary.
• Guaranteed Preneed Contract -✓✓The provider may enter into a contract and
guarantee to provide services and merchandise in accordance with a preneed
funeral contract in the future at no additional cost to the purchaser when the full
contract price amount is paid to the provider. After the death of the beneficiary of a
guaranteed-price contract, the principal and all accrued earnings must be paid to
Questions and Answers (2026/2027) | Detailed
Study Guide | A+
• The South Carolina State Board of Funeral Service consists of how many
members appointed by the governor? -✓✓Eleven
• Of the eleven members of the South Carolina State Board of Funeral Service,
how many must be members from the general public not connected with a funeral
service establishment? -✓✓Two
• Of the eleven members of the South Carolina State Board of Funeral Service,
how many members can the South Carolina Funeral Directors Association
recommend? -✓✓Six
• Of the eleven members of the South Carolina State Board of Funeral Service,
how many members can the South Carolina Morticians Association recommend? -
✓✓Three
• Nine of the eleven members of the South Carolina State Board must have been
licensed as funeral directors and embalmers for at least how many years? -✓✓Five
Years
• Any business conducted by the board must be by _________. -✓✓positive
majority vote
• In order to be classified a funeral home, how many caskets must be displayed? -
✓✓Six Adult Caskets
• To be a funeral home manager, how long must a licensed funeral director be
licensed in South Carolina? -✓✓One Year
• No permit to operate a funeral home may be issued to a corporation, partnership,
or individual when what occurs? This does not apply to established funeral homes
existing prior to July 1, 1969. -✓✓The name of an unlicensed person appears in
the name of the corporation, partnership, or individually owned business.
,• The board shall employ an inspector who must be a licensed embalmer and
funeral director with not fewer than _______ consecutive years' experience as a
licensee. -✓✓five
• How many months of of service must an apprentice finish under the direct
supervision of a licensed funeral director to be eligible to become a licensed
funeral director and or embalmer? -✓✓Twenty-Four Months
• No license may be issued or renewed for a period exceeding how many years? -
✓✓Two Years
• All licenses and renewals expire on what date? -✓✓June 30th each even year
• A person holding a license under this chapter may have the license renewed for a
two-year period by applying within how many days preceding or following the
expiration of his license? -✓✓30 days
• A permit for a crematory or permit for a funeral establishment which operated a
crematory may be renewed for how many years by applying within thirty days
preceding or following the expiration of the permit, upon forms provided by the
board. -✓✓Two Years
• How many apprentices are permitted to register under any one person licensed as
a funeral director or embalmer? -✓✓Two
• Each licensee must attend a minimum of how many credit hours annually? -
✓✓Three
• The continuing education requirement does not apply to whom? -✓✓A person
who is not a manager of record of a funeral home, funeral establishment, or
mortuary if the person has been licensed for thirty years or more or is sixty years
old or older.
• A licensed funeral director shall make arrangements with clients and must be at
the place of the . . . . -✓✓funeral and committal services
• The board must be notified within how many days upon the death, resignation, or
incapacity of the manager of a funeral establishment or crematory. -✓✓30 days
,• When more than one person proposed to engage in the operation of a funeral
establishment or crematory as a partnership or a corporation, one of the partners or
corporation officers must be what and, if not, they must employ whom? -
✓✓Licensed Funeral Director or Full-Time Manager
• No person licensed as a funeral director or embalmer shall remove or embalm a
dead human body when the person has information indicating what has taken
place? -✓✓Crime or Violence of any sort in connection with the cause of death
until permission first has been obtained from the coroner or medical examiner or
some other qualified person acting in this capacity.
• The continuing education completed must represent an in-depth study of how
many different topics and be gained through participation in formal instruction,
seminars, or workshops approved by the Board. -✓✓Three different topics
• If a retort is unavailable for any period exceeding 24 hours, the crematory shall
do what? -✓✓Refuse to accept any body until such time as the retort is working,
unless that body can be maintained under appropriate refrigeration.
• If the crematory provides a refrigeration unit for the holding of human remains in
its custody for twenty-four hours or more, it must be capable of maintaining
interior temperatures of what? -✓✓40 Degrees Fahrenheit
• An embalming room must be at least how many feet working space excluding
tables, cabinets, and other equipment? -✓✓100 Sq. Feet
• An embalming room must have what to pass inspection? -✓✓Sanitary flooring
and necessary drainage, ventilation, approved tables, hot and cold running water
and a sink separate from table drainage, an OSHA approved shower and eye wash
station, hydro or electric aspirator, embalming machine, or gravity bottle or bulb or
hand pump, at least one scalpel, two aneurysm needles, assorted canulae, suture
needles, trocar, antiseptic soap, twelve (12) bottles or arterial fluid, and two bottles
of cavity fluid.
• A prep room must have a ventilating system that is screened and has an air
exchange of how many times per hour to the outside? -✓✓12 times
, • How many caskets must be displayed to pass inspection? -✓✓Six adult caskets
on the premises displayed or available for display in conjunction with the display
of cut-away caskets, an online kiosk or other means of funeral merchandise
display.
• Common Trust Fund -✓✓A trust in which the proceeds of more than one funeral
contract may be held by the trustee.
• Preneed Funeral Contract -✓✓A contract which has for its purpose the
furnishings or performance of funeral services or the furnishing or delivery of
personal property, merchandise, or services of any nature in connection with the
final disposition of a dead human body to be furnished or delivered at a time
determinable by the death of the person whose body is to be disposed of, but does
not mean the furnishing of a cemetery lot, crypt, niche, mausoleum, grave marker
or monument.
• Trust Account -✓✓A federally insured account where the funds shall be paid to a
provider only when the provider furnishes the financial institution with a certified
certificate of death and a certified statement that the services have been performed
and the merchandise has been delivered.
• Selling a vault preneed -✓✓One hundred percent of funds received by the seller
at the time of payment must be held as trust funds and deposited in a financial
institution. All of the interest, dividends, increases, or accretions of whatever
nature earned by the funds deposited in a trust account must remain with the
principal of the account and become part of it.
• Preneed Trust Fund After Death -✓✓The principal and all accrued earnings must
be applied to the cost in effect at the time of death of the services and merchandise
specified in the contract. A shortfall in the funds must be paid by the next of kin or
the estate of the beneficiary and any excess must be refunded to the estate of the
beneficiary.
• Guaranteed Preneed Contract -✓✓The provider may enter into a contract and
guarantee to provide services and merchandise in accordance with a preneed
funeral contract in the future at no additional cost to the purchaser when the full
contract price amount is paid to the provider. After the death of the beneficiary of a
guaranteed-price contract, the principal and all accrued earnings must be paid to
