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South Carolina State Board of Funeral Service consists of - Answer: 11 members
Of the 11 members on the South Carolina State Board - Answer: Two must be from the
general public and not connected with a funeral service establishment and the
remaining members must have been licensed as a funeral director and embalmer for at
least five years and residents of SC for five.
The South Carolina Funeral Directors Association may recommend this many board
members - Answer: six
The South Carolina Morticians Association may recommend this many board members -
Answer: three
All recommendations to the South Carolina Board of Funeral Service must be made to
the Governor by this date - Answer: The second of July in each year the term of office of
a member expires.
Appointments to the South Carolina Board of Funeral Service are effective on this date -
Answer: August fifteenth
All business conducted by the board must be by a positive majority vote which means -
Answer: a majority vote of the entire membership of the board reduced by any
vacancies existing at the time.
Advertisement does not include - Answer: funeral or death notices and obituaries
Apprentice - Answer: a person who is preparing to become licensed for the practice of
embalming and funeral directing under the supervision and instruction of a person
licensed for the practice in this state
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, Board - Answer: South Carolina State Board of Funeral Service
Branch Funeral Home - Answer: an establishment separate and apart from the licensed
parent funeral home that has embalming facilities, a chapel, lay-out room, or a sales
room, or any combination of these.
Cremation - Answer: The reduction of the dead body by intense heat to residue.
Crematory - Answer: Establishment in which the dead body is reduced to residue by
intense heat.
Disposition - Answer: Final disposal of the body by earth interment, aboveground burial,
cremation, burial at sea, or donation, or removal from the State pursuant to obtaining a
burial transit permit.
Embalmer - Answer: licensed by the board to disinfect and preserve or attempt to
disinfect and preserve the dead human body, through application of chemicals, fluids, or
gasses, externally or internally and the restoration or attempted restoration of the
appearance of the deceased.
Funeral Director - Answer: Licensed by the board to engage for hire or profit in the
profession of arranging, direction, or supervising funerals.
Funeral Home, Funeral Establishment, Mortuary - Answer: establishment where the
practice of funeral service and embalming is practiced.
A funeral home must include - Answer: chapel or parlor, prep room, six adult caskets,
and one motor hearse for transporting casketed human remains.
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