NYS FUNERAL LAW EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Question and Answer 2026 | Mastery
Review Resource | Grade A+
• Order of priority on disposition -✓✓1 Agent
2. Spouse or domestic partner
3. Children over 18
4. Parents
5. Siblings
• What must be displayed conspicuously in every funeral home? -
✓✓Establishment registration and manager license
• Rental caskets are prohibited from use during a viewing/wake in NYS
-✓✓False
• A person is defined as a natural person after the age of -✓✓18 years
old
• Registration renewal application for a funeral establishment must
include -✓✓-sale or transfer of all funeral firm assets
-sale or transfer of the controlling interest of the firm
-termination of the business entity
,• What doesn't apply to establishments registered prior to 5/1/1974 -
✓✓Requirement of a prep room
• At the very bottom of the priority list for right of disposition is a chief
fiscal officer of a county -✓✓true
• Funeral Homes are prohibited by law from making any profit -
✓✓Common carrier charges
• Which of the titles authorizes the holder to make funeral
arrangements? -✓✓Funeral Director
• What is not required by law? -✓✓-Embalming
-Casket for direct cremation
-Vault not required unless the cemetery says so
-Purchasing goods
• Max rate of interest that may be charged on unpaid balances per year
-✓✓16%
• (non profit cemeteries) Cemeteries to make interments available
through the year 6 days a week excluding legal holidays -✓✓The
Winter Law
, • Documents which have been obtained for or supplies by the customer
must be given to the customer within -✓✓One week of the funeral
• When buying in a cemetery and no one is in charge, the FD must -
✓✓-sign the permit
-write across it "no person in charge"
-file the permit (in the location of the cemetery)
• Funeral establishment must have a minimum of ___ sq feet dedicated
to a chapel or reposing room -✓✓300
• Display of signs -✓✓Lettering infront of Funeral Home must be a
minimum of 1.5 inches.
Casket Showroom lettering minimum .5 inch. Conspicuously displayed.
• 3rd party administration fees for interest and bearing prefunded
accounts may not exceed ___of one percent -✓✓75 hundredths
• Exceptions that remove an individual person from a priority list to
control final disposition -✓✓-Unwilling to serve
-Not reasonable available
-Not competent
Question and Answer 2026 | Mastery
Review Resource | Grade A+
• Order of priority on disposition -✓✓1 Agent
2. Spouse or domestic partner
3. Children over 18
4. Parents
5. Siblings
• What must be displayed conspicuously in every funeral home? -
✓✓Establishment registration and manager license
• Rental caskets are prohibited from use during a viewing/wake in NYS
-✓✓False
• A person is defined as a natural person after the age of -✓✓18 years
old
• Registration renewal application for a funeral establishment must
include -✓✓-sale or transfer of all funeral firm assets
-sale or transfer of the controlling interest of the firm
-termination of the business entity
,• What doesn't apply to establishments registered prior to 5/1/1974 -
✓✓Requirement of a prep room
• At the very bottom of the priority list for right of disposition is a chief
fiscal officer of a county -✓✓true
• Funeral Homes are prohibited by law from making any profit -
✓✓Common carrier charges
• Which of the titles authorizes the holder to make funeral
arrangements? -✓✓Funeral Director
• What is not required by law? -✓✓-Embalming
-Casket for direct cremation
-Vault not required unless the cemetery says so
-Purchasing goods
• Max rate of interest that may be charged on unpaid balances per year
-✓✓16%
• (non profit cemeteries) Cemeteries to make interments available
through the year 6 days a week excluding legal holidays -✓✓The
Winter Law
, • Documents which have been obtained for or supplies by the customer
must be given to the customer within -✓✓One week of the funeral
• When buying in a cemetery and no one is in charge, the FD must -
✓✓-sign the permit
-write across it "no person in charge"
-file the permit (in the location of the cemetery)
• Funeral establishment must have a minimum of ___ sq feet dedicated
to a chapel or reposing room -✓✓300
• Display of signs -✓✓Lettering infront of Funeral Home must be a
minimum of 1.5 inches.
Casket Showroom lettering minimum .5 inch. Conspicuously displayed.
• 3rd party administration fees for interest and bearing prefunded
accounts may not exceed ___of one percent -✓✓75 hundredths
• Exceptions that remove an individual person from a priority list to
control final disposition -✓✓-Unwilling to serve
-Not reasonable available
-Not competent
