FLORIDA FUNERAL LAWS Exam (2026/2027)
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED 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.
Any person who aids and abets the unlicensed activity. -✓✓ Any person who is not
licensed by the department or the board and has violated any provision or rule will be
presented with what?
In addition, who else could receive this punishment?
• Between $500 and $5,000 for each offense -✓✓ If you are presented with "An
emergency order to cease and desist," what are the costs associated if it goes to the
circuit court?
• $25.00 -✓✓ If a duplicate license is required by the licensee, what is the maximum
cost?
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED 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.
Any person who aids and abets the unlicensed activity. -✓✓ Any person who is not
licensed by the department or the board and has violated any provision or rule will be
presented with what?
In addition, who else could receive this punishment?
• Between $500 and $5,000 for each offense -✓✓ If you are presented with "An
emergency order to cease and desist," what are the costs associated if it goes to the
circuit court?
• $25.00 -✓✓ If a duplicate license is required by the licensee, what is the maximum
cost?
