NVLRR COMPREHENSIVE UPDATED EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔D. A decision that orders immediate suspension of a license, permit, or certificate. -
✔✔A person may seek judicial review of any decision by the Board in all of the following
scenarios except:
A. A decision that requires payment of a late fee.
B. A temporary decision that requires the procurment of additional information by the
Board.
C. A decision that is deemed "final" by the Board.
D. A decision that orders immediate suspension of a license, permit, or certificate.
✔✔False - ✔✔T/F When an agency or officer elects to take a particular action or pursue
a particular remedy authorized by this chapter or another statute, that election is
exclusive and precludes the agency or officer or another agency or officer from taking
any other actions or pursuing any other remedy.
✔✔C. Advertising by a direct cremation facility that describes that services are limited to
direct cremation. - ✔✔All of the following would be examples of prohibited acts except...
A. Admittance of unauthorized persons into the care center while a body is being
embalmed.
B. Internet sale of cremation services by a person who does not own a funeral
establishment, crematory, or direct cremation facility in the State of Nevada.
C. Advertising by a direct cremation facility that describes that services are limited to
direct cremation.
D. Embalming without a license.
✔✔Direct permission by the immediate family. - ✔✔NVLRR describes "unauthorized
persons" who cannot enter rooms in the mortuary where decedents are being
embalmed. No one may enter these rooms except licensed embalmers and their
assistants, funeral directors, funeral arrangers, public officers in the discharge of their
official duties, and attending physicians and their assistants. What is the one way an
unauthorized person can obtain authorization to enter these rooms?
✔✔$500 per offense - ✔✔What is the penalty for practicing embalming without a
license?
✔✔$500; Is - ✔✔Any funeral director or funeral arranger or person who engages in the
practice of disposition of dead human bodies or funeral arranging without a license,
without complying with the provisions of this chapter or continuing to practice after
his/her license has been revoked shall be fined not more than _________. Each day
this person is engaged in this practice (Is/Is not) considered a seperate offense.
,✔✔$500; Is - ✔✔Any owner of a funeral establishment or direct cremation facility who
operates or allows another person to operate the funeral establishment or direct
cremation facility without having complied with the provisions of this chapter, or who
continues to operate or allow another person to operate the funeral establishment or
direct cremation facility after his or her permit to operate the funeral establishment or
direct cremation facility has been revoked shall be fined not more than _____________.
Each day that person engages in this practice (Is/Is not) considered a seperate offense.
✔✔A Misdemeanor - ✔✔Any licensee who accepts money or anything of value as
commission for the securing of a business by another licensee is guilty of
__________________.
✔✔Human Remains - ✔✔The body of a deceased person, including the body in any
stage of decomposition and the cremated remains of a body.
✔✔Circulatory and respiratory functions or all functions of the person's entire brain;
Uniform Determination of Death - ✔✔For legal and medical purposes, a person is dead
if they have sustained an irreversible cessation of
__________________________________________ and this determination must be
made in accordance with the _____________ _________________ ___
_____________ Act.
✔✔A gross misdemeanor - ✔✔Any person who makes, causes, or procures to be made
any dissection of the body of a human being except where specially provided by statute,
the direction of a will, where a coroner is authorized or an ordinance enacted to hold an
inquest, or authorized by the next of kin is guilty of ___________________________.
✔✔$250 - $5000 - ✔✔Any person who uses or makes available for the use of another
the remains of an aborted embryo or fetus for any commercial purpose shall be fined
between ________ - __________.
✔✔Must be done within a "reasonable time after death" - ✔✔What does NRS say about
the time-frame for burial or cremation.
✔✔Surviving spouse or parent of unemancipated minor - ✔✔Who has the primary
authority to authorize the burial or cremation of a deceased child?
✔✔(a) A person designated as the person with authority to order the burial or cremation
of the human remains of the decedent in a legally valid document or in an affidavit
executed in accordance with subsection 9; (b) If the decedent was, at the time of death,
on active duty as a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, a reserve
component thereof or the National Guard, a person designated by the decedent in the
United States Department of Defense Record of Emergency Data, DD Form 93, or its
successor form, as the person authorized to direct disposition of the human remains of
the decedent; (c) The spouse of the decedent; (d) An adult son or daughter of the
, decedent; (e) Either parent of the decedent; (f) An adult brother or sister of the
decedent; (g) A grandparent of the decedent; (h) A guardian of the person of the
decedent at the time of death; and (i) A person who meets the requirements of
subsection 2. 2. - ✔✔List the order of priority of persons who can order the burial or
cremation of a deceased person according to NRS.
✔✔Authority is relinquished and granted to the next person in the order of priority -
✔✔What happens if the person of authority with the right of disposition of the deceased
is arrested for or charged with the murder or manslaughter of the deceased?
✔✔Funeral establishment may required a majority of the members to agree - ✔✔What
may the funeral establishment do in a case where the authority to authorize belongs
with multiple members of a class e.g. several children of the deceased?
✔✔No - ✔✔Does a person who accepts legal and financial responsibility for the burial
or cremation of the human remains of a deceased person have a claim against the
estate or any other person for the cost of the burial or cremation?
✔✔The State - ✔✔Who has the authority to authorize disposition of the human remains
of a person who is indigent?
✔✔Yes; "authorizing agent" - ✔✔May a person in the State of Nevada, while still living,
order the burial or cremation of his/her own body after death? If so, what is the legal
name of a person acting pursuant to his or her instructions?
✔✔Must complete an affidavit before a notary public using the appropriate language;
Yes - ✔✔What is the requirement for someone to authorize another person to order the
burial or cremation of his or her remains in the event of his/her death? Does fulfilling this
requirement supercede the order of priority?
✔✔Passes to the next person or category of persons in the order of priorty; 30 -
✔✔What happens if the person with authority is not reasonably available? The
presumption is that a person is not availble after due diligence has been exercised and
the establishment has not received contact within _______ days after initial contact or
attempt to contact was made.
✔✔The person with the higher authorization priority - ✔✔If a person of a lower
authorization authority is the person authorized to order the burial or cremation of a
decedent and at the time of death, another person of a higher authorization priority
makes intial contact with the funeral estalbishment and is available to perform the duties
of an authorized person, who is the authorized person to order the burial or cremation at
the time of death?
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔D. A decision that orders immediate suspension of a license, permit, or certificate. -
✔✔A person may seek judicial review of any decision by the Board in all of the following
scenarios except:
A. A decision that requires payment of a late fee.
B. A temporary decision that requires the procurment of additional information by the
Board.
C. A decision that is deemed "final" by the Board.
D. A decision that orders immediate suspension of a license, permit, or certificate.
✔✔False - ✔✔T/F When an agency or officer elects to take a particular action or pursue
a particular remedy authorized by this chapter or another statute, that election is
exclusive and precludes the agency or officer or another agency or officer from taking
any other actions or pursuing any other remedy.
✔✔C. Advertising by a direct cremation facility that describes that services are limited to
direct cremation. - ✔✔All of the following would be examples of prohibited acts except...
A. Admittance of unauthorized persons into the care center while a body is being
embalmed.
B. Internet sale of cremation services by a person who does not own a funeral
establishment, crematory, or direct cremation facility in the State of Nevada.
C. Advertising by a direct cremation facility that describes that services are limited to
direct cremation.
D. Embalming without a license.
✔✔Direct permission by the immediate family. - ✔✔NVLRR describes "unauthorized
persons" who cannot enter rooms in the mortuary where decedents are being
embalmed. No one may enter these rooms except licensed embalmers and their
assistants, funeral directors, funeral arrangers, public officers in the discharge of their
official duties, and attending physicians and their assistants. What is the one way an
unauthorized person can obtain authorization to enter these rooms?
✔✔$500 per offense - ✔✔What is the penalty for practicing embalming without a
license?
✔✔$500; Is - ✔✔Any funeral director or funeral arranger or person who engages in the
practice of disposition of dead human bodies or funeral arranging without a license,
without complying with the provisions of this chapter or continuing to practice after
his/her license has been revoked shall be fined not more than _________. Each day
this person is engaged in this practice (Is/Is not) considered a seperate offense.
,✔✔$500; Is - ✔✔Any owner of a funeral establishment or direct cremation facility who
operates or allows another person to operate the funeral establishment or direct
cremation facility without having complied with the provisions of this chapter, or who
continues to operate or allow another person to operate the funeral establishment or
direct cremation facility after his or her permit to operate the funeral establishment or
direct cremation facility has been revoked shall be fined not more than _____________.
Each day that person engages in this practice (Is/Is not) considered a seperate offense.
✔✔A Misdemeanor - ✔✔Any licensee who accepts money or anything of value as
commission for the securing of a business by another licensee is guilty of
__________________.
✔✔Human Remains - ✔✔The body of a deceased person, including the body in any
stage of decomposition and the cremated remains of a body.
✔✔Circulatory and respiratory functions or all functions of the person's entire brain;
Uniform Determination of Death - ✔✔For legal and medical purposes, a person is dead
if they have sustained an irreversible cessation of
__________________________________________ and this determination must be
made in accordance with the _____________ _________________ ___
_____________ Act.
✔✔A gross misdemeanor - ✔✔Any person who makes, causes, or procures to be made
any dissection of the body of a human being except where specially provided by statute,
the direction of a will, where a coroner is authorized or an ordinance enacted to hold an
inquest, or authorized by the next of kin is guilty of ___________________________.
✔✔$250 - $5000 - ✔✔Any person who uses or makes available for the use of another
the remains of an aborted embryo or fetus for any commercial purpose shall be fined
between ________ - __________.
✔✔Must be done within a "reasonable time after death" - ✔✔What does NRS say about
the time-frame for burial or cremation.
✔✔Surviving spouse or parent of unemancipated minor - ✔✔Who has the primary
authority to authorize the burial or cremation of a deceased child?
✔✔(a) A person designated as the person with authority to order the burial or cremation
of the human remains of the decedent in a legally valid document or in an affidavit
executed in accordance with subsection 9; (b) If the decedent was, at the time of death,
on active duty as a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, a reserve
component thereof or the National Guard, a person designated by the decedent in the
United States Department of Defense Record of Emergency Data, DD Form 93, or its
successor form, as the person authorized to direct disposition of the human remains of
the decedent; (c) The spouse of the decedent; (d) An adult son or daughter of the
, decedent; (e) Either parent of the decedent; (f) An adult brother or sister of the
decedent; (g) A grandparent of the decedent; (h) A guardian of the person of the
decedent at the time of death; and (i) A person who meets the requirements of
subsection 2. 2. - ✔✔List the order of priority of persons who can order the burial or
cremation of a deceased person according to NRS.
✔✔Authority is relinquished and granted to the next person in the order of priority -
✔✔What happens if the person of authority with the right of disposition of the deceased
is arrested for or charged with the murder or manslaughter of the deceased?
✔✔Funeral establishment may required a majority of the members to agree - ✔✔What
may the funeral establishment do in a case where the authority to authorize belongs
with multiple members of a class e.g. several children of the deceased?
✔✔No - ✔✔Does a person who accepts legal and financial responsibility for the burial
or cremation of the human remains of a deceased person have a claim against the
estate or any other person for the cost of the burial or cremation?
✔✔The State - ✔✔Who has the authority to authorize disposition of the human remains
of a person who is indigent?
✔✔Yes; "authorizing agent" - ✔✔May a person in the State of Nevada, while still living,
order the burial or cremation of his/her own body after death? If so, what is the legal
name of a person acting pursuant to his or her instructions?
✔✔Must complete an affidavit before a notary public using the appropriate language;
Yes - ✔✔What is the requirement for someone to authorize another person to order the
burial or cremation of his or her remains in the event of his/her death? Does fulfilling this
requirement supercede the order of priority?
✔✔Passes to the next person or category of persons in the order of priorty; 30 -
✔✔What happens if the person with authority is not reasonably available? The
presumption is that a person is not availble after due diligence has been exercised and
the establishment has not received contact within _______ days after initial contact or
attempt to contact was made.
✔✔The person with the higher authorization priority - ✔✔If a person of a lower
authorization authority is the person authorized to order the burial or cremation of a
decedent and at the time of death, another person of a higher authorization priority
makes intial contact with the funeral estalbishment and is available to perform the duties
of an authorized person, who is the authorized person to order the burial or cremation at
the time of death?
