South Carolina Funeral Law [2026/2027] |
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Frequently Tested Questions
• Agent -✓✓ means a person legally entitled under this chapter to order the
cremation and final disposition of specific remains
• Body Parts -✓✓ means limbs or other portions of the anatomy that are removed
from a person or human remains for medical purposes during treatment, surgery,
biopsy, autopsy , or medical research; or human bodies or portion of bodies that
have been donated to science for medical research purpose
• Board -✓✓ means South Carolina Board of Funeral Service
• Burial Transit Permit -✓✓ means a permit for dispostion of a dead human body
as required by law
• Casket -✓✓ means a rigid container that is designed for the encasement of human
remains
• Change of Ownership -✓✓ means a transfer of more than fifty percent of the
stock or assets of crematory authority
• Cremated remains -✓✓ means all human remains recovered after the completion
of cremation
• Cremation -✓✓ means the technical process using heat and flame that reduces
human remains to bone fragments and which may include the pulveration of the
bone fragement
, • Cremation Casket -✓✓ means a rigid wooden, corrugated, fiberboard, or metal
container that is designated that is designed for the encasement of human remains
• Cremation Certificate -✓✓ means a document certifying that a decedent has been
cremated and which includes the name of the decedent, the identification number,
the date of cremation, the name, address, and phone numner of the crematory, and
the signature of the crematory authority
• Cremation Chamber -✓✓ The enclosed space within which the cremation process
takes place. Cremation chambers covered by these procedures shall be used
exclusively for the cremation of human remains.
• Cremation Internment Container -✓✓ means a rigid outer container composed of
concrete, steel, bronze, fiberglass or some similar material in which an urnis placed
before being interred in the ground and which is designated to withstand prolonged
exposure to the elements and to support the earth above the urn
• Cremation Room -✓✓ meanns the room in which a cremation chamber is located
• Crematory -✓✓ means the building that houses the cremation room of the
holding facility or both
• Crematory authority -✓✓ The legal entity, or the authorized representative of the
legal entity, that is licensed by the state to operate a crematory and perform
cremation.
• Department -✓✓ means the South Carolina Department of Health of
Environmental Control
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Question and Answer |
Frequently Tested Questions
• Agent -✓✓ means a person legally entitled under this chapter to order the
cremation and final disposition of specific remains
• Body Parts -✓✓ means limbs or other portions of the anatomy that are removed
from a person or human remains for medical purposes during treatment, surgery,
biopsy, autopsy , or medical research; or human bodies or portion of bodies that
have been donated to science for medical research purpose
• Board -✓✓ means South Carolina Board of Funeral Service
• Burial Transit Permit -✓✓ means a permit for dispostion of a dead human body
as required by law
• Casket -✓✓ means a rigid container that is designed for the encasement of human
remains
• Change of Ownership -✓✓ means a transfer of more than fifty percent of the
stock or assets of crematory authority
• Cremated remains -✓✓ means all human remains recovered after the completion
of cremation
• Cremation -✓✓ means the technical process using heat and flame that reduces
human remains to bone fragments and which may include the pulveration of the
bone fragement
, • Cremation Casket -✓✓ means a rigid wooden, corrugated, fiberboard, or metal
container that is designated that is designed for the encasement of human remains
• Cremation Certificate -✓✓ means a document certifying that a decedent has been
cremated and which includes the name of the decedent, the identification number,
the date of cremation, the name, address, and phone numner of the crematory, and
the signature of the crematory authority
• Cremation Chamber -✓✓ The enclosed space within which the cremation process
takes place. Cremation chambers covered by these procedures shall be used
exclusively for the cremation of human remains.
• Cremation Internment Container -✓✓ means a rigid outer container composed of
concrete, steel, bronze, fiberglass or some similar material in which an urnis placed
before being interred in the ground and which is designated to withstand prolonged
exposure to the elements and to support the earth above the urn
• Cremation Room -✓✓ meanns the room in which a cremation chamber is located
• Crematory -✓✓ means the building that houses the cremation room of the
holding facility or both
• Crematory authority -✓✓ The legal entity, or the authorized representative of the
legal entity, that is licensed by the state to operate a crematory and perform
cremation.
• Department -✓✓ means the South Carolina Department of Health of
Environmental Control
