FLORIDA FUNERAL LAWS EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Alternative Container - ANS Unfinished wood box or other nonmetal receptacle or enclosure,
without ornamentation or a fixed interior lining, that is designed for the encasement of human
remains and that is made of fiberboard, pressed wood, composition materials, or like material
At-Need Solicitation - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS Any service offered or provided in connection with the final
disposition, memorialization, interment, entombment, or inurnment of human remains or
cremated remains
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,Care and maintenance - ANS Perpetual process of keeping a cemetery and its lots, graves,
grounds, landscaping, roads, paths, etc in a well-cared-for and dignified condtion
Casket - ANS 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 - ANS A place dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the permanent
interment of human remains or cremated remains
Cemetery Company - ANS Any legal entity that owns or controls cemetery lands or property
Centralized embalming facility - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS A facility where dead human bodies are subjected to cremation
Closed container - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS A group of two or more business entities that share
common ownership in excess of 50 percent
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,Cremated remains - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS The casket or alternative in which the human remains are
transported to and placed in the cremation chamber for a cremation
Cremation interment container - ANS 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 - ANS What Florida department oversees
the Funeral Services issues
Direct disposal establishment - ANS A facility licensed under chapter 382 where a direct
disposer practices direct disposition
Licensee - ANS Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice direct disposition in
Florida
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, Disinterment - ANS The removal of a dead body from earth interment or aboveground
interment
Embalmier - ANS Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice embalming in Florida
Final Disposition - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice funeral directing in
Florida
Funeral Home - ANS A facility licensed under chapter 382 where a funeral director or
embalmer practices funeral directing or embalming
Grave space - ANS A space of ground in a cemetery intended to be used for the interment in
the ground of human remains
Human remains - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS Any product used for identifying a grave site and cemetery memorials of all
types, including monuments, markers, and vases
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Alternative Container - ANS Unfinished wood box or other nonmetal receptacle or enclosure,
without ornamentation or a fixed interior lining, that is designed for the encasement of human
remains and that is made of fiberboard, pressed wood, composition materials, or like material
At-Need Solicitation - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS Any service offered or provided in connection with the final
disposition, memorialization, interment, entombment, or inurnment of human remains or
cremated remains
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,Care and maintenance - ANS Perpetual process of keeping a cemetery and its lots, graves,
grounds, landscaping, roads, paths, etc in a well-cared-for and dignified condtion
Casket - ANS 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 - ANS A place dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the permanent
interment of human remains or cremated remains
Cemetery Company - ANS Any legal entity that owns or controls cemetery lands or property
Centralized embalming facility - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS A facility where dead human bodies are subjected to cremation
Closed container - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS A group of two or more business entities that share
common ownership in excess of 50 percent
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,Cremated remains - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS The casket or alternative in which the human remains are
transported to and placed in the cremation chamber for a cremation
Cremation interment container - ANS 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 - ANS What Florida department oversees
the Funeral Services issues
Direct disposal establishment - ANS A facility licensed under chapter 382 where a direct
disposer practices direct disposition
Licensee - ANS Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice direct disposition in
Florida
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, Disinterment - ANS The removal of a dead body from earth interment or aboveground
interment
Embalmier - ANS Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice embalming in Florida
Final Disposition - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice funeral directing in
Florida
Funeral Home - ANS A facility licensed under chapter 382 where a funeral director or
embalmer practices funeral directing or embalming
Grave space - ANS A space of ground in a cemetery intended to be used for the interment in
the ground of human remains
Human remains - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS Any product used for identifying a grave site and cemetery memorials of all
types, including monuments, markers, and vases
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