OKLAHOMA STATE FUNERAL SERVICE LAW FINAL PAPER
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Any arrangement whereby property is transferred from one person to another for the
benefit of a third party - ✔✔Trust
✔✔According to statute, an Oklahoma permit for disposal is provided by - ✔✔OCME
✔✔According to board rules, which of the following is true regarding minimum
requirements of the funeral service establishment - ✔✔It must have a specific street
address or location
✔✔True or False
To insure the integrity of vital statistics records, death certificates are to be held strictly
confidential. - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔True or False
The treasurer of a burial association must be bonded by an insurance company. -
✔✔TRUE
✔✔True or False
Pituitary glands may be removed by the medical examiner without permission from the
next of kin, assuming a cranial autopsy is going to be performed. - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Upon an adverse ruling by the Oklahoma Funeral Board a licensee whose license
was suspended may appeal directly from such board action - ✔✔To the district court of
the county where the licensee practiced
✔✔True or False
A death for which the decedent was being treated by physician within 14 days of the
death does not have to be investigated by the medical examiner. - ✔✔True
✔✔True or False
Burial association funds may be deposited in a cash deposit in an Oklahoma bank. -
✔✔TRUE
✔✔Burial associations may invest its trust funds in - ✔✔State and National Banks
✔✔All licenses granted by the Oklahoma Funeral Board automatically terminate if
renewal fees are not paid by - ✔✔April 30
✔✔True or False
, In the event that death occurs beyond a distance of 50 miles, the burial association,
may, in lieu of complete service, deliver $60.00 to the policy holder. - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔True or False
A cemetery sexton may not inter any body or fetus unless it is accompanied by a death
certificate: - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔The authority necessary to allow a person to sell a preneed funeral is called: -
✔✔Permit issued pursuant to title 36 of okla. Statutes
✔✔Records of the chief medical examiner's office as well as testimony from the chief
medical examiner, any medical examiner or assistant are - ✔✔Admissable in criminal
actions
✔✔True or False
A death certificate may be filed a week after the death if the statutorily prescribed period
results in undue hardship. - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔Which of the following may be appointed to oversee vital statistics for a given
registration district? (this person would transmit the certificate filed with him/her to the
state registrar of vital statistics.) - ✔✔Local Registrar
✔✔True or False
When disinterring remains dead of small pox, extra precautions shall be exercised by
those charged with disinterment, regardless of the length of time of death. - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔True or False
A burial association may issue a burial agreement containing burial benefits not
exceeding twice the burial benefits provided in the articles of agreement of the burial
association act. - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔True or False
A penalty of $1000.00 shall be assessed to all establishment renewals submitted after
the thirtyfirst of january in the year following the renewal - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔According to Oklahoma statute, which of the following does not require an
Oklahoma permit for disposal? - ✔✔A body shipped in Oklahoma to be cremated
✔✔Any person who negligently discloses epidemiological information classified as
confidential, upon conviction, is guilty of - ✔✔Misdemeanor
✔✔ True or False
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Any arrangement whereby property is transferred from one person to another for the
benefit of a third party - ✔✔Trust
✔✔According to statute, an Oklahoma permit for disposal is provided by - ✔✔OCME
✔✔According to board rules, which of the following is true regarding minimum
requirements of the funeral service establishment - ✔✔It must have a specific street
address or location
✔✔True or False
To insure the integrity of vital statistics records, death certificates are to be held strictly
confidential. - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔True or False
The treasurer of a burial association must be bonded by an insurance company. -
✔✔TRUE
✔✔True or False
Pituitary glands may be removed by the medical examiner without permission from the
next of kin, assuming a cranial autopsy is going to be performed. - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Upon an adverse ruling by the Oklahoma Funeral Board a licensee whose license
was suspended may appeal directly from such board action - ✔✔To the district court of
the county where the licensee practiced
✔✔True or False
A death for which the decedent was being treated by physician within 14 days of the
death does not have to be investigated by the medical examiner. - ✔✔True
✔✔True or False
Burial association funds may be deposited in a cash deposit in an Oklahoma bank. -
✔✔TRUE
✔✔Burial associations may invest its trust funds in - ✔✔State and National Banks
✔✔All licenses granted by the Oklahoma Funeral Board automatically terminate if
renewal fees are not paid by - ✔✔April 30
✔✔True or False
, In the event that death occurs beyond a distance of 50 miles, the burial association,
may, in lieu of complete service, deliver $60.00 to the policy holder. - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔True or False
A cemetery sexton may not inter any body or fetus unless it is accompanied by a death
certificate: - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔The authority necessary to allow a person to sell a preneed funeral is called: -
✔✔Permit issued pursuant to title 36 of okla. Statutes
✔✔Records of the chief medical examiner's office as well as testimony from the chief
medical examiner, any medical examiner or assistant are - ✔✔Admissable in criminal
actions
✔✔True or False
A death certificate may be filed a week after the death if the statutorily prescribed period
results in undue hardship. - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔Which of the following may be appointed to oversee vital statistics for a given
registration district? (this person would transmit the certificate filed with him/her to the
state registrar of vital statistics.) - ✔✔Local Registrar
✔✔True or False
When disinterring remains dead of small pox, extra precautions shall be exercised by
those charged with disinterment, regardless of the length of time of death. - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔True or False
A burial association may issue a burial agreement containing burial benefits not
exceeding twice the burial benefits provided in the articles of agreement of the burial
association act. - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔True or False
A penalty of $1000.00 shall be assessed to all establishment renewals submitted after
the thirtyfirst of january in the year following the renewal - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔According to Oklahoma statute, which of the following does not require an
Oklahoma permit for disposal? - ✔✔A body shipped in Oklahoma to be cremated
✔✔Any person who negligently discloses epidemiological information classified as
confidential, upon conviction, is guilty of - ✔✔Misdemeanor
✔✔ True or False
