OKLAHOMA FUNERAL SERVICE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔If the persons holding the Right of Disposition are two or more persons with the
same degree of kinship to the decedent and cannot by majority vote make a decision
regarding disposition of the remains, any of the persons or funeral director may do
what? - ✔✔File a petition asking the district court to make a determination in the matter
✔✔A funeral director shall have complete authority to control the final disposition and to
proceed under this act to recover reasonable charges for the final disposition when? -
✔✔-the FD has actual knowledge that none of the persons (1-7) exist
-The appropriate public court authority fails to assume responsibility for disposition of
the remains within 36 hours after having been given the written notice of the facts
✔✔Every person upon whom the duty of handling burial of the remains of a deceased
person and who omits to perform that duty within a reasonable time after death is guilty
of what? - ✔✔MISDEMEANOR; may have to pay treble the expenses incurred in civil
action
✔✔No person shall intentionally remove the dead body of a human being from the initial
sire where the body is located for any purpose, remove any part of the dead body of a
human being from any grave or other place where the same has been buried, or willfully
or with malicious intent violate or cause damage to the casket or burial vault holding the
deceased human remains. You will be guilty of..? - ✔✔FELONY; imprisonment of more
than one year and/or a fine up to $5,000
✔✔Tampering with evidence, camouflaging the death of a human, disposing of a dead
human body, impeding or prohibiting the detection, investigation or prosecution of a
crime, altering, inhibiting or concealing the ID of a dead human body, or disrupting any
law enforcement agency or ME in investigating a dead body is..? - ✔✔FELONY; up to 7
years imprisonment and/or a fine up to $8,000
✔✔Whoever purchases or who receives, except for the purpose of burial, any dead
body of a human being is guilty of..? - ✔✔FELONY; up to 5 years imprisonment and/or
fine of up to $500
✔✔Every person who willfully disturbs, interrupts, or disquiets any assemblage of
people met for the purpose of any funeral are guilty of..? - ✔✔MISDEMEANOR
✔✔Anyone who knowingly sells or barters any veteran marker from any war that is
placed on a lot within a cemetery or place of burial is guilty of..? - ✔✔-MISDEMEANOR
if under $5,000
-FELONY if over $5,000
, ✔✔Any person who knowingly buys, sells, or barters for profit human skeletal remains
is guilty of a? - ✔✔FELONY
✔✔Anyone who knowingly displays an open burial ground or skeletal remains for profit
or to aid and abet is guilty of..? - ✔✔MISDEMEANOR
✔✔How long do you have to report the discovery of skeletal human remains to
authorities? - ✔✔48 hours or it's a MISDEMEANOR
✔✔State Statute 63 - ✔✔Board of Medicolegal Investigations
✔✔Members of the Board of Medicolegal Investigations: - ✔✔-Director of the State
Bureau of Investigation
-State Commissioner of Health
-Dean of College of Medicine (OU)
-President or Dean of the OSU Center for Health Sciences
-President of the Oklahoma Osteopathic Association
- President of the Oklahoma State Medical Association
-A Funeral Director
✔✔The office of the chief medical examiner operates under who? - ✔✔The Funeral
Board
✔✔The Board of Medicolegal investigations shall appoint a Chief Medical Examiner
who is? - ✔✔Physician licensed in Oklahoma
✔✔All human deaths of these types will be investigated by the ME: - ✔✔-violent deaths
-deaths under suspicious circumstances
-deaths related to disease with which may cause a threat to public health
-deaths unattended by a licensed medical or osteopathic physician for a fatal or
potentially fatal illness
-deaths of persons after unexplained comas
-deaths that are medically unexplained and that occur in the course of a therapeutic
procedure
-deaths of inmates while incarcerated
-deaths of persons whose bodies are to be cremated
✔✔The scene of a death shall not be disturbed until authorized by who? - ✔✔Medical
Examiner
✔✔How long until a written report is submitted by the ME? - ✔✔Within 36 hours
WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔If the persons holding the Right of Disposition are two or more persons with the
same degree of kinship to the decedent and cannot by majority vote make a decision
regarding disposition of the remains, any of the persons or funeral director may do
what? - ✔✔File a petition asking the district court to make a determination in the matter
✔✔A funeral director shall have complete authority to control the final disposition and to
proceed under this act to recover reasonable charges for the final disposition when? -
✔✔-the FD has actual knowledge that none of the persons (1-7) exist
-The appropriate public court authority fails to assume responsibility for disposition of
the remains within 36 hours after having been given the written notice of the facts
✔✔Every person upon whom the duty of handling burial of the remains of a deceased
person and who omits to perform that duty within a reasonable time after death is guilty
of what? - ✔✔MISDEMEANOR; may have to pay treble the expenses incurred in civil
action
✔✔No person shall intentionally remove the dead body of a human being from the initial
sire where the body is located for any purpose, remove any part of the dead body of a
human being from any grave or other place where the same has been buried, or willfully
or with malicious intent violate or cause damage to the casket or burial vault holding the
deceased human remains. You will be guilty of..? - ✔✔FELONY; imprisonment of more
than one year and/or a fine up to $5,000
✔✔Tampering with evidence, camouflaging the death of a human, disposing of a dead
human body, impeding or prohibiting the detection, investigation or prosecution of a
crime, altering, inhibiting or concealing the ID of a dead human body, or disrupting any
law enforcement agency or ME in investigating a dead body is..? - ✔✔FELONY; up to 7
years imprisonment and/or a fine up to $8,000
✔✔Whoever purchases or who receives, except for the purpose of burial, any dead
body of a human being is guilty of..? - ✔✔FELONY; up to 5 years imprisonment and/or
fine of up to $500
✔✔Every person who willfully disturbs, interrupts, or disquiets any assemblage of
people met for the purpose of any funeral are guilty of..? - ✔✔MISDEMEANOR
✔✔Anyone who knowingly sells or barters any veteran marker from any war that is
placed on a lot within a cemetery or place of burial is guilty of..? - ✔✔-MISDEMEANOR
if under $5,000
-FELONY if over $5,000
, ✔✔Any person who knowingly buys, sells, or barters for profit human skeletal remains
is guilty of a? - ✔✔FELONY
✔✔Anyone who knowingly displays an open burial ground or skeletal remains for profit
or to aid and abet is guilty of..? - ✔✔MISDEMEANOR
✔✔How long do you have to report the discovery of skeletal human remains to
authorities? - ✔✔48 hours or it's a MISDEMEANOR
✔✔State Statute 63 - ✔✔Board of Medicolegal Investigations
✔✔Members of the Board of Medicolegal Investigations: - ✔✔-Director of the State
Bureau of Investigation
-State Commissioner of Health
-Dean of College of Medicine (OU)
-President or Dean of the OSU Center for Health Sciences
-President of the Oklahoma Osteopathic Association
- President of the Oklahoma State Medical Association
-A Funeral Director
✔✔The office of the chief medical examiner operates under who? - ✔✔The Funeral
Board
✔✔The Board of Medicolegal investigations shall appoint a Chief Medical Examiner
who is? - ✔✔Physician licensed in Oklahoma
✔✔All human deaths of these types will be investigated by the ME: - ✔✔-violent deaths
-deaths under suspicious circumstances
-deaths related to disease with which may cause a threat to public health
-deaths unattended by a licensed medical or osteopathic physician for a fatal or
potentially fatal illness
-deaths of persons after unexplained comas
-deaths that are medically unexplained and that occur in the course of a therapeutic
procedure
-deaths of inmates while incarcerated
-deaths of persons whose bodies are to be cremated
✔✔The scene of a death shall not be disturbed until authorized by who? - ✔✔Medical
Examiner
✔✔How long until a written report is submitted by the ME? - ✔✔Within 36 hours
