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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
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Ans: Corporation, partnership, or natural person licensed and shall mean a
cemetery licensee for purposes of disciplinary action
Crematory Remains Disposer
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employee with a previous license that has been revoked, suspended, on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
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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
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
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California Cemetery Manager Exam Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers (100% Correct Answers) /Already Graded
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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
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Ans: Corporation, partnership, or natural person licensed and shall mean a
cemetery licensee for purposes of disciplinary action
Crematory Remains Disposer
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
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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
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
Approved By:
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