NYS FUNERAL LAW EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Questions and Answers 2026 | Final
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• Funeral directing advisory board -✓✓3 members from consumer
interest group, 6 licensed funeral directors & 1 cemetery person
• Max time to register a death -✓✓72 Hours
• Do you have to be a licensed funeral director and does your business
have to be a licensed funeral home to be covered by the rule? -✓✓No.
Cemeteries, crematories, and other businesses can also be "funeral
providers" if they market both funeral goods and services.
• When should the GPL be offered? -✓✓When you begin to discuss any
of the following:1. The type of funeral or disposition that you can
arrange2. The specific goods and services that you offer, or3. The prices
of your goods and services
• What year did the funeral rule go into effect -✓✓1984
• When you request authorization to embalm you must -✓✓Disclose
that embalming is not required by law (except in special cases, if
, relevant) and refrain from further discussion about prices or the
selection of funeral goods or services while you remove the deceased.
• Required disclosures on GPL -✓✓1. Consumers right of selection2.
Embalming3. Alternative Containers4. Basic service fee5. Casket Price
List6. Outer Burial Container Price List
• Who has to inform the NYS Bureau of Funeral Directing upon the sale
or transfer of Funeral Home? -✓✓Both new owner and former owner
of a funeral home MUST notify the NYS Bureau of Funeral Directing in
writing within 30 days.
• What article of the NYS Public Health Law is solely concerned with
business and practice of funeral directing? -✓✓Article 34 of NYS Public
Health Law.
• What 3 laws make up most of the funeral directing laws? -✓✓Three
laws that comprise MOST of NYS Funeral Director Law are: 1) Article 34
NYS Public Health Law, 2) NYS Sanitary Codes and 3) NYS Vital Statistics
Laws.
• "As registered with department of health =" -✓✓All paperwork from
funeral should have the same exact format of information (name,
address and phone number)
Questions and Answers 2026 | Final
Revision Guide with Explanations | A+
Verified
• Funeral directing advisory board -✓✓3 members from consumer
interest group, 6 licensed funeral directors & 1 cemetery person
• Max time to register a death -✓✓72 Hours
• Do you have to be a licensed funeral director and does your business
have to be a licensed funeral home to be covered by the rule? -✓✓No.
Cemeteries, crematories, and other businesses can also be "funeral
providers" if they market both funeral goods and services.
• When should the GPL be offered? -✓✓When you begin to discuss any
of the following:1. The type of funeral or disposition that you can
arrange2. The specific goods and services that you offer, or3. The prices
of your goods and services
• What year did the funeral rule go into effect -✓✓1984
• When you request authorization to embalm you must -✓✓Disclose
that embalming is not required by law (except in special cases, if
, relevant) and refrain from further discussion about prices or the
selection of funeral goods or services while you remove the deceased.
• Required disclosures on GPL -✓✓1. Consumers right of selection2.
Embalming3. Alternative Containers4. Basic service fee5. Casket Price
List6. Outer Burial Container Price List
• Who has to inform the NYS Bureau of Funeral Directing upon the sale
or transfer of Funeral Home? -✓✓Both new owner and former owner
of a funeral home MUST notify the NYS Bureau of Funeral Directing in
writing within 30 days.
• What article of the NYS Public Health Law is solely concerned with
business and practice of funeral directing? -✓✓Article 34 of NYS Public
Health Law.
• What 3 laws make up most of the funeral directing laws? -✓✓Three
laws that comprise MOST of NYS Funeral Director Law are: 1) Article 34
NYS Public Health Law, 2) NYS Sanitary Codes and 3) NYS Vital Statistics
Laws.
• "As registered with department of health =" -✓✓All paperwork from
funeral should have the same exact format of information (name,
address and phone number)
