Funeral Law Midterm Review FSE2080 Practice Questions
And Correct Answers 2024/2025 (GRADED A+)
1. List 3 Federal agencies which have enacted administrative rules and regu-
lations that pertain to Funeral Services.: -FTC
-OSHA
-EPA
2. Zoning laws fall under which source of funeral service law?: Local Ordi-
nances
3. Preemption: dictates that if a dispute exists between states and federal law,
federal law is enacted
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4. Define police powers as it refers to statutory law.: licensure, health standards,
and business operations
5. Ordinance: includes zoning laws, building codes, and any laws enacted by local
government
6. Statutory Law: laws created as statutes (local and state) that are enacted by
legislative bodies
7. Define property theory as it relates to dead bodies: the dead body is the
personal property of the NOK and therefore, the NOK could sell the body if desired.
This has never been held as a valid property law
8. Define the non-property theory as it relates to dead bodies: death was a
spiritual matter, the church took possession of a dead body and directed the
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disposition
9. Define the Quasi-property theory as it relates to dead bodies: states that
though there is no personal property in the body, there are certain rights that a
NOKor POA has the right to direct the disposition, but may not sell the boy for
profit
10. What property theory is currently the only accepted theory relative to the
treatment of dead bodies?: Quasi-property theory
11. List the 5 modes (methods) of disposition: 1. Earth burial
2. Entombment
3. Cremation
4. Burial at Sea
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5. Donation of body to medical science
12. According to EPA, what is the required water depth to bury a body at
sea?: 600 feet
13. Give an example of an implied oral contract that is binding relative to
funeral services: the person with the paramount right giving the funeral home
permission to remove their loved one from the hospital or place of death back to
the funeral home. The implied oral contract would be that the family would
assumethe funeral home will take proper care and necessary steps in taking care
of their loved ones to the best of their abilities
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