CALIFORNIA FUNERAL DIRECTORS EXAM
funeral director
A person engaged in or conducting any of the following: Preparing or
directing the transportation or disposition of human remains.
Maintaining an establishment for the preparation, transportation, or
disposition of human remains. Using the words "Funeral Director",
"Mortician", "Undertaker" or other title implying he/she is engaged
as a funeral director.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
Funeral Establishment
A business in a building that must: Have a specific address or
location. Activities that take place at that location must be incident,
convenient, or related to the care and preparation of remains,
funerals or disposition of human remains and must have an
embalming or storage room. The embalming/storage rooms may be
at a different location from where the business activities take place
and under certain conditions an establishment may share another
establishments embalming/ and or storage room if under common
ownership, or there is a contract between them, and in close
geographic proximity.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
Criteria for being a funeral director
18 years of age or older, Have an AA degree, or equivalent or higher.
Not have committed any acts or been convicted of crimes pursuant
to section 480 of the business and professions code (Crimes or acts .
related to death care activities). Pass the Funeral Directors
Examination given by the cemetery and funeral bureau.
,RESTRICTIONS: Must be employed by a licensed funeral
establishment to engage in activities of a funeral director.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
Funeral Directors Test
Before an individual is granted a funeral directors license, he or she
shall successfully pass an examination upon the following subjects:
(a) Signs of Death (HSC 7180)
(b) Manner of death may be determined (HSC 7182)
(c) The laws governing the preparation, burial and disposition of
human remains, and the shipment of bodies dying from infectious or
contagious diseases.
(d) Local health and sanitary ordinances and regulations relating to
funeral directing and embalming.
Funeral Establishment advertising
No Funeral establishment may use a name style that is: Similar to the
competitors, so as to constitute an unfair method of competition, or
that might tend to mislead the public.
Assignment
Name for the sale of a funeral establishment.
Selling a Funeral Establishment by Assignment
Licenses are assigned only after an audit of the preneed trust funds
and any shortages have been funded. License may be assigned upon
receipt of a signed declaration showing the status of the trust and a
bond equal to 150% of the corpus (balance) of the trust, with
approval from the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau. False or misleading
information may be subject to a fine of up to $5,000.00
Embalming in a funeral establishment
,Can only be done by:
-California licensed embalmers
-Registered apprentices under the supervision of their supervising
embalmer or
-Students enrolled in an accredited program of mortuary science
under supervision of a licensed embalmer.
Removal of Tissue
a licensed embalmer may remove tissue pursuant to the uniform
Anatomical Gift Act, at the request of a licensed physician if the
embalmer has completed a course in tissue removal approved by the
California Medical board.
Arrangement Counselors
Anyone who consults with the family or representatives of the family
of a deceased person for the purpose of arranging for preparation
and disposition of a body must receive, every 3 years, documented
training of all federal and state laws, rules and regulations dealing
with:
-Vital Statistics
-The Coroner
-Anatomical Gifts
-Laws relating to the duties of a funeral director
A Funeral establishment must keep a record of funeral arrangers....
-Outline of the training
-When and where they were trained
-Record of demonstrated knowledge (THE TEST)
Notifying the CFB of previous license violations
Any person employed by or seeking employment with a funeral
establishment IN ANY CAPACITY, who holds or has held a license
issued by the CFB that has been suspended, revoked, placed on
probation, or surrendered within the last 10 years must disclose that
, fact to the designated managing funeral director, on the form
provided by the CFB.
This requirement also includes licensed cemeteries, crematories and
cemetery brokers.
Failure to make the disclosure can result in revocation or denial of
license.
And the DMFD must submit the form to the CFB within 30 days.
Failure to do so results in a warning.
Embalmer
Someone who:
-Disinfects or preserves human remains by injection or external
application of antiseptics, disinfectants or preservative fluids.
-Prepares human remains for transportation that have died from
contagious or infectious disease.
-Uses derma surgery or restorative methods for restoring mutilated
features.
-Is licensed as an embalmer in California.
It is unlawful to embalm in California without a license except by
Apprentices, Students, Instructors of mortuary science.
Qualifications for Embalmers
-18 years of age
-Not committed any crimes or related disqualifying acts (BPC 480)
-High School Diploma or equivalent
-2 year apprenticeship under a qualified licensed embalmer
-Assisted in the embalming of at least 100 cases during the
apprenticeship
-Completed an embalming course in an accredited school of
funeral director
A person engaged in or conducting any of the following: Preparing or
directing the transportation or disposition of human remains.
Maintaining an establishment for the preparation, transportation, or
disposition of human remains. Using the words "Funeral Director",
"Mortician", "Undertaker" or other title implying he/she is engaged
as a funeral director.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
Funeral Establishment
A business in a building that must: Have a specific address or
location. Activities that take place at that location must be incident,
convenient, or related to the care and preparation of remains,
funerals or disposition of human remains and must have an
embalming or storage room. The embalming/storage rooms may be
at a different location from where the business activities take place
and under certain conditions an establishment may share another
establishments embalming/ and or storage room if under common
ownership, or there is a contract between them, and in close
geographic proximity.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
Criteria for being a funeral director
18 years of age or older, Have an AA degree, or equivalent or higher.
Not have committed any acts or been convicted of crimes pursuant
to section 480 of the business and professions code (Crimes or acts .
related to death care activities). Pass the Funeral Directors
Examination given by the cemetery and funeral bureau.
,RESTRICTIONS: Must be employed by a licensed funeral
establishment to engage in activities of a funeral director.
Section 7600 Cemetery and Funeral Act
Section 1 Business and Professions Code
Funeral Directors Test
Before an individual is granted a funeral directors license, he or she
shall successfully pass an examination upon the following subjects:
(a) Signs of Death (HSC 7180)
(b) Manner of death may be determined (HSC 7182)
(c) The laws governing the preparation, burial and disposition of
human remains, and the shipment of bodies dying from infectious or
contagious diseases.
(d) Local health and sanitary ordinances and regulations relating to
funeral directing and embalming.
Funeral Establishment advertising
No Funeral establishment may use a name style that is: Similar to the
competitors, so as to constitute an unfair method of competition, or
that might tend to mislead the public.
Assignment
Name for the sale of a funeral establishment.
Selling a Funeral Establishment by Assignment
Licenses are assigned only after an audit of the preneed trust funds
and any shortages have been funded. License may be assigned upon
receipt of a signed declaration showing the status of the trust and a
bond equal to 150% of the corpus (balance) of the trust, with
approval from the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau. False or misleading
information may be subject to a fine of up to $5,000.00
Embalming in a funeral establishment
,Can only be done by:
-California licensed embalmers
-Registered apprentices under the supervision of their supervising
embalmer or
-Students enrolled in an accredited program of mortuary science
under supervision of a licensed embalmer.
Removal of Tissue
a licensed embalmer may remove tissue pursuant to the uniform
Anatomical Gift Act, at the request of a licensed physician if the
embalmer has completed a course in tissue removal approved by the
California Medical board.
Arrangement Counselors
Anyone who consults with the family or representatives of the family
of a deceased person for the purpose of arranging for preparation
and disposition of a body must receive, every 3 years, documented
training of all federal and state laws, rules and regulations dealing
with:
-Vital Statistics
-The Coroner
-Anatomical Gifts
-Laws relating to the duties of a funeral director
A Funeral establishment must keep a record of funeral arrangers....
-Outline of the training
-When and where they were trained
-Record of demonstrated knowledge (THE TEST)
Notifying the CFB of previous license violations
Any person employed by or seeking employment with a funeral
establishment IN ANY CAPACITY, who holds or has held a license
issued by the CFB that has been suspended, revoked, placed on
probation, or surrendered within the last 10 years must disclose that
, fact to the designated managing funeral director, on the form
provided by the CFB.
This requirement also includes licensed cemeteries, crematories and
cemetery brokers.
Failure to make the disclosure can result in revocation or denial of
license.
And the DMFD must submit the form to the CFB within 30 days.
Failure to do so results in a warning.
Embalmer
Someone who:
-Disinfects or preserves human remains by injection or external
application of antiseptics, disinfectants or preservative fluids.
-Prepares human remains for transportation that have died from
contagious or infectious disease.
-Uses derma surgery or restorative methods for restoring mutilated
features.
-Is licensed as an embalmer in California.
It is unlawful to embalm in California without a license except by
Apprentices, Students, Instructors of mortuary science.
Qualifications for Embalmers
-18 years of age
-Not committed any crimes or related disqualifying acts (BPC 480)
-High School Diploma or equivalent
-2 year apprenticeship under a qualified licensed embalmer
-Assisted in the embalming of at least 100 cases during the
apprenticeship
-Completed an embalming course in an accredited school of
