FLORIDA FUNERAL LAWS Exam – 2026/2027
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
• At-Need Solicitation -✓✓ Any uninvited contact by a licensee or his or her agent for the
purpose of the sale of burial services or merchandise to the family or next of kin of a
person after his or her death has occurred
• Below ground crypts -✓✓ Interment space in preplaced chambers, either side by side
or multiple depth covered by earth and sod and known also as "lawn crypts,"
"westminsters." or "turf-top crypts"
• Funeral goods/burial merchandise -✓✓ Any personal property offered or sold by any
person for use in connection with the final disposition, memorialization, interment,
entombment, or inurnment of human remains or cremated remains
• Burial right -✓✓ THe term which means the right to use a grave space, mausoleum,
columbarium, ossuary, or scattering garden for the interment, entombment, inurnment,
or other disposition of human remains or cremated remains
• Funeral Service -✓✓ Any service offered or provided in connection with the final
disposition, memorialization, interment, entombment, or inurnment of human remains or
cremated remains
• Care and maintenance -✓✓ Perpetual process of keeping a cemetery and its lots,
graves, grounds, landscaping, roads, paths, etc in a well-cared-for and dignified
condtion
• Casket -✓✓ A rigid container that is designed for the encasement of human remains
and that is usually constructed of wood or metal, ornamented, and lined with fabric
• Cemetery -✓✓ A place dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the
permanent interment of human remains or cremated remains
• Cemetery Company -✓✓ Any legal entity that owns or controls cemetery lands or
property
• Centralized embalming facility -✓✓ A facility in which embalming takes place that
operates independently of a funeral establishment licensee and that offers embalming
services to funeral directors for a fee
• Bank of below ground crypts -✓✓ Any construction unit of below ground crypts that is
acceptable to the Department of Financial Services and that a cemetery uses to initiate
its below ground crypt program or to add to existing below ground crypt structures
,• Cinerator -✓✓ A facility where dead human bodies are subjected to cremation
• Closed container -✓✓ Any container in which cremated remains can be placed and
closed in a manner so as to prevent leakage or spillage of the remains
• Columbarium -✓✓ A structure of building that is substantially exposed above the
ground and that is intended to be used for the inurnment of cremated remains
• Common business enterprise -✓✓ A group of two or more business entities that share
common ownership in excess of 50 percent
• Cremated remains -✓✓ All the remains of the human body recovered after the
completing of the cremation process, including processing or pulverization that leaves
only bone fragments reduced to unidentifiable dimensions and may include the residue
of any foreign matter, including the residue of any foreign matter, including casket
material, bridgework, or eyeglasses that were cremated with the human remains
• Cremation -✓✓ Any mechanical or thermal process whereby a dead human body is
reduced to ashes and bone fragments. Also includes any other mechanical or thermal
process whereby human remains are pulverized, burned, recremated, or otherwise
further reduced in size or quantity
• Cremation chamber -✓✓ Enclosed space within which the cremation process takes
place. Anything covered by these procedures shall be used exclusively for the
cremation of human remains
• Cremation container -✓✓ The casket or alternative in which the human remains are
transported to and placed in the cremation chamber for a cremation
• Cremation interment container -✓✓ A rigid outer container, that, subject to a
cemetery's rules and regulations, is composed of concrete, steel, fiberglass, or some
similar material in which an urn is placed prior to being interred in the ground and that is
designed to support the earth above the urn
• Board of funeral, cemetery, and consumer services -✓✓ What Florida department
oversees the Funeral Services issues
• Direct disposal establishment -✓✓ A facility licensed under chapter 382 where a direct
disposer practices direct disposition
• Licensee -✓✓ Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice direct disposition in
Florida
, • Disinterment -✓✓ The removal of a dead body from earth interment or aboveground
interment
• Embalmier -✓✓ Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice embalming in
Florida
• Final Disposition -✓✓ The final disposition of a dead human body by earth interment,
above ground interment, cremation, burial at sea, or delivery to a medical institution for
lawful dissection if the medical institution assumes responsibility for disposal
• Funeral Service -✓✓ The observances, services, or ceremonies held to commemorate
the life of a specific deceased human being at which time the remains are present
• Funeral director -✓✓ Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice funeral
directing in Florida
• Funeral Home -✓✓ A facility licensed under chapter 382 where a funeral director or
embalmer practices funeral directing or embalming
• Grave space -✓✓ A space of ground in a cemetery intended to be used for the
interment in the ground of human remains
• Human remains -✓✓ The body of a deceased human person for which a death
certificate or fetal death certificate is required under chapter 382 and includes the body
in any stage of decomposition
• Mausoleum -✓✓ A structure or building that is substantially exposed above the ground
and that is intended to be used for the entombment of human remains
• Monument -✓✓ Any product used for identifying a grave site and cemetery memorials
of all types, including monuments, markers, and vases
• Monument establishment -✓✓ A facility that operates independently of a cemetery or
funeral establishment and that offers to sell monuments or monument services to the
public placement in a cemetery
• Niche -✓✓ A compartment or cubicle for the memorialization or permanent placement
of a container or urn containing cremated remains
• Ossuary -✓✓ A receptacle used for the communal placement of cremated remains
without benefit of any urn or any other container in which cremated remains may be
commingled with other cremated remains and are nonrecoverable
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
• At-Need Solicitation -✓✓ Any uninvited contact by a licensee or his or her agent for the
purpose of the sale of burial services or merchandise to the family or next of kin of a
person after his or her death has occurred
• Below ground crypts -✓✓ Interment space in preplaced chambers, either side by side
or multiple depth covered by earth and sod and known also as "lawn crypts,"
"westminsters." or "turf-top crypts"
• Funeral goods/burial merchandise -✓✓ Any personal property offered or sold by any
person for use in connection with the final disposition, memorialization, interment,
entombment, or inurnment of human remains or cremated remains
• Burial right -✓✓ THe term which means the right to use a grave space, mausoleum,
columbarium, ossuary, or scattering garden for the interment, entombment, inurnment,
or other disposition of human remains or cremated remains
• Funeral Service -✓✓ Any service offered or provided in connection with the final
disposition, memorialization, interment, entombment, or inurnment of human remains or
cremated remains
• Care and maintenance -✓✓ Perpetual process of keeping a cemetery and its lots,
graves, grounds, landscaping, roads, paths, etc in a well-cared-for and dignified
condtion
• Casket -✓✓ A rigid container that is designed for the encasement of human remains
and that is usually constructed of wood or metal, ornamented, and lined with fabric
• Cemetery -✓✓ A place dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the
permanent interment of human remains or cremated remains
• Cemetery Company -✓✓ Any legal entity that owns or controls cemetery lands or
property
• Centralized embalming facility -✓✓ A facility in which embalming takes place that
operates independently of a funeral establishment licensee and that offers embalming
services to funeral directors for a fee
• Bank of below ground crypts -✓✓ Any construction unit of below ground crypts that is
acceptable to the Department of Financial Services and that a cemetery uses to initiate
its below ground crypt program or to add to existing below ground crypt structures
,• Cinerator -✓✓ A facility where dead human bodies are subjected to cremation
• Closed container -✓✓ Any container in which cremated remains can be placed and
closed in a manner so as to prevent leakage or spillage of the remains
• Columbarium -✓✓ A structure of building that is substantially exposed above the
ground and that is intended to be used for the inurnment of cremated remains
• Common business enterprise -✓✓ A group of two or more business entities that share
common ownership in excess of 50 percent
• Cremated remains -✓✓ All the remains of the human body recovered after the
completing of the cremation process, including processing or pulverization that leaves
only bone fragments reduced to unidentifiable dimensions and may include the residue
of any foreign matter, including the residue of any foreign matter, including casket
material, bridgework, or eyeglasses that were cremated with the human remains
• Cremation -✓✓ Any mechanical or thermal process whereby a dead human body is
reduced to ashes and bone fragments. Also includes any other mechanical or thermal
process whereby human remains are pulverized, burned, recremated, or otherwise
further reduced in size or quantity
• Cremation chamber -✓✓ Enclosed space within which the cremation process takes
place. Anything covered by these procedures shall be used exclusively for the
cremation of human remains
• Cremation container -✓✓ The casket or alternative in which the human remains are
transported to and placed in the cremation chamber for a cremation
• Cremation interment container -✓✓ A rigid outer container, that, subject to a
cemetery's rules and regulations, is composed of concrete, steel, fiberglass, or some
similar material in which an urn is placed prior to being interred in the ground and that is
designed to support the earth above the urn
• Board of funeral, cemetery, and consumer services -✓✓ What Florida department
oversees the Funeral Services issues
• Direct disposal establishment -✓✓ A facility licensed under chapter 382 where a direct
disposer practices direct disposition
• Licensee -✓✓ Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice direct disposition in
Florida
, • Disinterment -✓✓ The removal of a dead body from earth interment or aboveground
interment
• Embalmier -✓✓ Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice embalming in
Florida
• Final Disposition -✓✓ The final disposition of a dead human body by earth interment,
above ground interment, cremation, burial at sea, or delivery to a medical institution for
lawful dissection if the medical institution assumes responsibility for disposal
• Funeral Service -✓✓ The observances, services, or ceremonies held to commemorate
the life of a specific deceased human being at which time the remains are present
• Funeral director -✓✓ Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice funeral
directing in Florida
• Funeral Home -✓✓ A facility licensed under chapter 382 where a funeral director or
embalmer practices funeral directing or embalming
• Grave space -✓✓ A space of ground in a cemetery intended to be used for the
interment in the ground of human remains
• Human remains -✓✓ The body of a deceased human person for which a death
certificate or fetal death certificate is required under chapter 382 and includes the body
in any stage of decomposition
• Mausoleum -✓✓ A structure or building that is substantially exposed above the ground
and that is intended to be used for the entombment of human remains
• Monument -✓✓ Any product used for identifying a grave site and cemetery memorials
of all types, including monuments, markers, and vases
• Monument establishment -✓✓ A facility that operates independently of a cemetery or
funeral establishment and that offers to sell monuments or monument services to the
public placement in a cemetery
• Niche -✓✓ A compartment or cubicle for the memorialization or permanent placement
of a container or urn containing cremated remains
• Ossuary -✓✓ A receptacle used for the communal placement of cremated remains
without benefit of any urn or any other container in which cremated remains may be
commingled with other cremated remains and are nonrecoverable
