Florida Funeral Law Exam Updated Actual
Exam Question and Answer (2026/2027) |
Grade A+
• The County Commissioner -✓✓ Who is responsible for the identification of a
deceased and notifying relatives of the death?
• The Direct Disposer -✓✓ Who is responsible for filling out the DC when death is
under the jurisdiction of the ME?
• 10 Days Prior to moving -✓✓ When must a funeral establishment notify the state
regulatory agency, when they are moving?
• $5,000.00 -✓✓ What is the maximum fine presented for a violation of revocation
or suspension of a preneed license?
• 2 years -✓✓ The photo on a license must be no older than how many years?
• An Auto Clave -✓✓ When inspecting a prep room, inspectors would not find
this...
• loco parentis -✓✓ term used for "in place of a parent."
• Within 5 days -✓✓ If the place of death is unknown, it shall be registered in the
district in which the dead body was found within how many days?
• 1. An autopsy is pending
2. Toxicology, laboratory or other reports have not been completed
3. The identity of the dead is unknown -✓✓ Under what circumstances would the
local registrar grant an extension of time for a death certificate to be filed?
• 72 Hours -✓✓ How much time does the Medical Examiner have to sign a DC?
• 3 years -✓✓ How long is a district medical examiner in office?
, • The board of county commissioners in the respective districts -✓✓ Who
establishes the salary and fees for a district medical examiner?
• The board of county commissioners -✓✓ The district medical examiner submits
an annual budget to who?
• The county in which the death occurred. -✓✓ When a body is transported by the
district ME, who pays for the transportation?
• Receiving Vaults - for at least 48 hours. -✓✓ All bodies received by the
anatomical board should be stored in what? And for how long?
• Third Degree Felony -✓✓ If an employee of the vital stats office knowingly
furnishes a death certificate in deception is committing what?
• Second Degree Felony -✓✓ Purchase or sale of human organs for valuable
consideration is guilty of what?
• First Degree Misdemeanor -✓✓ Any person who sells or buys body parts that is
not allowed to do so, is committing what?
• Second Degree Felony -✓✓ Purchase or sale of human embroyos for valuable
consideration is guilty of what?
• Third Degree Felony -✓✓ If you willfully and knowingly destroy, mutilate,
deface, injure, or remove any tomb, monument, gravestone or burial mound you
are committing what?
• Second Degree Felony -✓✓ A person who mutilates, commits sexual abuse, or
other grossly abuses to a dead human body is committing what?
• Second Degree Felony -✓✓ If you knowingly and willfully disturb the contents
of a tomb, you are committing what?
• Third Degree Felony -✓✓ If a person knowingly gives false information in regard
to licensing they are committing what?
• An emergency order to cease and desist.
Exam Question and Answer (2026/2027) |
Grade A+
• The County Commissioner -✓✓ Who is responsible for the identification of a
deceased and notifying relatives of the death?
• The Direct Disposer -✓✓ Who is responsible for filling out the DC when death is
under the jurisdiction of the ME?
• 10 Days Prior to moving -✓✓ When must a funeral establishment notify the state
regulatory agency, when they are moving?
• $5,000.00 -✓✓ What is the maximum fine presented for a violation of revocation
or suspension of a preneed license?
• 2 years -✓✓ The photo on a license must be no older than how many years?
• An Auto Clave -✓✓ When inspecting a prep room, inspectors would not find
this...
• loco parentis -✓✓ term used for "in place of a parent."
• Within 5 days -✓✓ If the place of death is unknown, it shall be registered in the
district in which the dead body was found within how many days?
• 1. An autopsy is pending
2. Toxicology, laboratory or other reports have not been completed
3. The identity of the dead is unknown -✓✓ Under what circumstances would the
local registrar grant an extension of time for a death certificate to be filed?
• 72 Hours -✓✓ How much time does the Medical Examiner have to sign a DC?
• 3 years -✓✓ How long is a district medical examiner in office?
, • The board of county commissioners in the respective districts -✓✓ Who
establishes the salary and fees for a district medical examiner?
• The board of county commissioners -✓✓ The district medical examiner submits
an annual budget to who?
• The county in which the death occurred. -✓✓ When a body is transported by the
district ME, who pays for the transportation?
• Receiving Vaults - for at least 48 hours. -✓✓ All bodies received by the
anatomical board should be stored in what? And for how long?
• Third Degree Felony -✓✓ If an employee of the vital stats office knowingly
furnishes a death certificate in deception is committing what?
• Second Degree Felony -✓✓ Purchase or sale of human organs for valuable
consideration is guilty of what?
• First Degree Misdemeanor -✓✓ Any person who sells or buys body parts that is
not allowed to do so, is committing what?
• Second Degree Felony -✓✓ Purchase or sale of human embroyos for valuable
consideration is guilty of what?
• Third Degree Felony -✓✓ If you willfully and knowingly destroy, mutilate,
deface, injure, or remove any tomb, monument, gravestone or burial mound you
are committing what?
• Second Degree Felony -✓✓ A person who mutilates, commits sexual abuse, or
other grossly abuses to a dead human body is committing what?
• Second Degree Felony -✓✓ If you knowingly and willfully disturb the contents
of a tomb, you are committing what?
• Third Degree Felony -✓✓ If a person knowingly gives false information in regard
to licensing they are committing what?
• An emergency order to cease and desist.
