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California Cemetery Manager Exam Questions and
Verified Answers
Cemetery Broker
Ans: A person who, other than in reference to an occasional sale, sells, or
offers for sale, buys or offers to buy, lists, leases or offers to lease, or solicits,
or negotiates the purchase or sale, lease or exchange of cemetery property or
interment services, or interest therein, for his or her own account or for
another
Cemetery Salesperson
Ans: Natural person who, other than in reference to an occasional sale, is
employed by a cemetery broker to sell, or offer for sale, list or offer to list, or
to buy, or to offer to buy, or to lease, or to solicit, or to negotiate the
purchase or sale or lease or exchange of cemetery property or interment
services, or any interest therein, for his or her own account or for another
Cemetery Manager
Ans: Person engaged in or conducting, or holding himself or herself out as
engaged in those activities involved in, or incidental to, the maintaining,
operating or improving a cemetery, interment of human remains, and the
care, preservation, and embellishment of cemetery property
Crematory Manager
Ans: Person engaged in or conducting, or holding himself or herself out as
engaged in those activities involved in, or incidental to, the maintaining, or
operating a crematory
Cemetery Licensee
Ans: Any cemetery broker, cemetery salesperson, or cemetery manager
Crematory Licensee
Ans: Corporation, partnership, or natural person licensed and shall mean a
cemetery licensee for purposes of disciplinary action
Crematory Remains Disposer
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Ans: Person who, for his or her own account or for another, disposes of, or
offers to dispose of, cremated human remains by scattering over or on land
or sea
Public Cemetery
Ans: Cemetery owned and operated by a city, county, city and county, or
public cemetery district
Non Applicable Cemeteries
Ans: Religious, public, and any private or fraternal burial park under 10
acres established prior to Sept 19, 19392
Cemetery Information Disclosed
Ans: Owner of each cemetery, the name of the cemetery, the business
address of the cemetery owner, and the physical address of the cemetery
Employees with License Issues
Ans: Manager shall inform bureau within 30 days of being informed of any
employee with a previous license that has been revoked, suspended, on
probation, or surrendered
Annual Cemetery Report
Ans: On or before June 1, or within five months after close of their fiscal
year including number of square feet of grave space and the number of
crypts and niches sold or disposed of under endowment care, amount
deposited in endowment care fund, statement showing separately the total
amount of general and special endowment care funds, and use of
endowment care funds
Annual Audit Report
Ans: Signed by CPA or public accountant, includes inspection, review, and
audit of the general purpose financial statements of the endowment care
fund and special care fund, which shall include the balance sheet, the
statement of revenues, expenditures, and changes in fund balance. 30 day
extension possible. Change in trustee must be reports within 30 days.
Change from calendar to fiscal reporting as long as reporting period does not
exceed one year. Filed with county clerk.
Annual Audit Penalties
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Ans: $400 fine per month (up to 5 months) for a late report. Failure to pay
within 15 days shall be cause for disciplinary action.
Endowment Care Examination
Ans: At least once every five years and as deemed necessary, when cemetery
authority fails to file report required, when the accountant or auditor
qualifies his or her certification of the report. Examination paid for by
cemetery authority or face revocation.
Examination Details
Ans: Bureau shall have free access to the books and records relating to
trust funds and expenditures of the funds
Limited Liability Company
Ans: No licensee shall have ownership interest as a member in a limited
liability company certificated as a cemetery authority.
Endowment Care Control
Ans: Bureau may administer oaths, inadequate funds may require bureau
to enforce rules, reinvest funds in conformity with code. Superior court of
the county of principal office shall force receivership (may be due to embeled
or wrongfully diverted fund). Costs of any actions can be taken from
available income from any endowment care fund. Bureau to become
custodian of fundszz
Preneed Disclosure
Ans: Every cemetery authority shall present to the survivor of the deceased
who is handling the burial or cremation arrangements or the responsible
party a copy of any preneed agreement that has been signed and paid in
full, or in part, by or on behalf of the deceased and is in the possession of
the cemetery authority. Penalty three times the cost of the preneed of
$1,000, whichever is greater.
Contract Requirements
Ans: Must have Bureau contact info on first page of any sale contract in 8-
point boldface type
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California Cemetery Manager Exam Questions and
Verified Answers
Cemetery Broker
Ans: A person who, other than in reference to an occasional sale, sells, or
offers for sale, buys or offers to buy, lists, leases or offers to lease, or solicits,
or negotiates the purchase or sale, lease or exchange of cemetery property or
interment services, or interest therein, for his or her own account or for
another
Cemetery Salesperson
Ans: Natural person who, other than in reference to an occasional sale, is
employed by a cemetery broker to sell, or offer for sale, list or offer to list, or
to buy, or to offer to buy, or to lease, or to solicit, or to negotiate the
purchase or sale or lease or exchange of cemetery property or interment
services, or any interest therein, for his or her own account or for another
Cemetery Manager
Ans: Person engaged in or conducting, or holding himself or herself out as
engaged in those activities involved in, or incidental to, the maintaining,
operating or improving a cemetery, interment of human remains, and the
care, preservation, and embellishment of cemetery property
Crematory Manager
Ans: Person engaged in or conducting, or holding himself or herself out as
engaged in those activities involved in, or incidental to, the maintaining, or
operating a crematory
Cemetery Licensee
Ans: Any cemetery broker, cemetery salesperson, or cemetery manager
Crematory Licensee
Ans: Corporation, partnership, or natural person licensed and shall mean a
cemetery licensee for purposes of disciplinary action
Crematory Remains Disposer
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Ans: Person who, for his or her own account or for another, disposes of, or
offers to dispose of, cremated human remains by scattering over or on land
or sea
Public Cemetery
Ans: Cemetery owned and operated by a city, county, city and county, or
public cemetery district
Non Applicable Cemeteries
Ans: Religious, public, and any private or fraternal burial park under 10
acres established prior to Sept 19, 19392
Cemetery Information Disclosed
Ans: Owner of each cemetery, the name of the cemetery, the business
address of the cemetery owner, and the physical address of the cemetery
Employees with License Issues
Ans: Manager shall inform bureau within 30 days of being informed of any
employee with a previous license that has been revoked, suspended, on
probation, or surrendered
Annual Cemetery Report
Ans: On or before June 1, or within five months after close of their fiscal
year including number of square feet of grave space and the number of
crypts and niches sold or disposed of under endowment care, amount
deposited in endowment care fund, statement showing separately the total
amount of general and special endowment care funds, and use of
endowment care funds
Annual Audit Report
Ans: Signed by CPA or public accountant, includes inspection, review, and
audit of the general purpose financial statements of the endowment care
fund and special care fund, which shall include the balance sheet, the
statement of revenues, expenditures, and changes in fund balance. 30 day
extension possible. Change in trustee must be reports within 30 days.
Change from calendar to fiscal reporting as long as reporting period does not
exceed one year. Filed with county clerk.
Annual Audit Penalties
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Ans: $400 fine per month (up to 5 months) for a late report. Failure to pay
within 15 days shall be cause for disciplinary action.
Endowment Care Examination
Ans: At least once every five years and as deemed necessary, when cemetery
authority fails to file report required, when the accountant or auditor
qualifies his or her certification of the report. Examination paid for by
cemetery authority or face revocation.
Examination Details
Ans: Bureau shall have free access to the books and records relating to
trust funds and expenditures of the funds
Limited Liability Company
Ans: No licensee shall have ownership interest as a member in a limited
liability company certificated as a cemetery authority.
Endowment Care Control
Ans: Bureau may administer oaths, inadequate funds may require bureau
to enforce rules, reinvest funds in conformity with code. Superior court of
the county of principal office shall force receivership (may be due to embeled
or wrongfully diverted fund). Costs of any actions can be taken from
available income from any endowment care fund. Bureau to become
custodian of fundszz
Preneed Disclosure
Ans: Every cemetery authority shall present to the survivor of the deceased
who is handling the burial or cremation arrangements or the responsible
party a copy of any preneed agreement that has been signed and paid in
full, or in part, by or on behalf of the deceased and is in the possession of
the cemetery authority. Penalty three times the cost of the preneed of
$1,000, whichever is greater.
Contract Requirements
Ans: Must have Bureau contact info on first page of any sale contract in 8-
point boldface type
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