SOUTH CAROLINA FUNERAL LAW QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔30 days of receipt - ✔✔All trust funds must be deposited within
✔✔Six months - ✔✔The purchaser has this amount of time to transfer pre-need funds to
a new funeral service provider.
✔✔60 days - ✔✔Pre-need contracts must be submitted to consumer affairs within
_________ of the last day of the month in which the contract was written.
✔✔Preneed Funeral Loss Prevention Fund - ✔✔Funds used to reimburse a purchaser
or beneficiary where a funeral home committed fraud, misfeasance, default, failure, or
insolvency.
✔✔Fine of 1000 and/or 30 days prison - ✔✔Soliciting $200 or less preneed
arrangements
✔✔Court Fine and/or 5 years prison - ✔✔Preneed solicitation of $2000-$10000
✔✔Court Fine and/or 10 years - ✔✔Preneed solicitation of 10000 or more
✔✔Administrative Law Court - ✔✔Court that hears a contested case involving preneed
funeral contracts
✔✔Post-mortem examination - ✔✔examination after death that does not include
dissection of the body for any purpose
✔✔Inquest - ✔✔Official judicial inquiry before a coroner and coroner's jury for the
purpose of determining the manner of death
✔✔Manner of death - ✔✔natural; accident; homicide; suicide; undetermined
✔✔$2000 - ✔✔Posted penal sum for coroner
✔✔Governor - ✔✔Government agent who commissions the coroner
✔✔4 years - ✔✔Coroner's term of office
✔✔Chief Magistrate - ✔✔Official who acts as coroner until the suspended coroner is
reinstated or a new coroner is elected
✔✔Circuit Court Judge - ✔✔Approves deputy coroners and medical investigators
ANSWERS 2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔30 days of receipt - ✔✔All trust funds must be deposited within
✔✔Six months - ✔✔The purchaser has this amount of time to transfer pre-need funds to
a new funeral service provider.
✔✔60 days - ✔✔Pre-need contracts must be submitted to consumer affairs within
_________ of the last day of the month in which the contract was written.
✔✔Preneed Funeral Loss Prevention Fund - ✔✔Funds used to reimburse a purchaser
or beneficiary where a funeral home committed fraud, misfeasance, default, failure, or
insolvency.
✔✔Fine of 1000 and/or 30 days prison - ✔✔Soliciting $200 or less preneed
arrangements
✔✔Court Fine and/or 5 years prison - ✔✔Preneed solicitation of $2000-$10000
✔✔Court Fine and/or 10 years - ✔✔Preneed solicitation of 10000 or more
✔✔Administrative Law Court - ✔✔Court that hears a contested case involving preneed
funeral contracts
✔✔Post-mortem examination - ✔✔examination after death that does not include
dissection of the body for any purpose
✔✔Inquest - ✔✔Official judicial inquiry before a coroner and coroner's jury for the
purpose of determining the manner of death
✔✔Manner of death - ✔✔natural; accident; homicide; suicide; undetermined
✔✔$2000 - ✔✔Posted penal sum for coroner
✔✔Governor - ✔✔Government agent who commissions the coroner
✔✔4 years - ✔✔Coroner's term of office
✔✔Chief Magistrate - ✔✔Official who acts as coroner until the suspended coroner is
reinstated or a new coroner is elected
✔✔Circuit Court Judge - ✔✔Approves deputy coroners and medical investigators
