California Cemetery Manager Exam Questions and
Answers
/Cemetery Broker - Answer-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 - Answer-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 - Answer-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 - Answer-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 - Answer-Any cemetery broker, cemetery salesperson, or
cemetery manager
/.Crematory Licensee - Answer-Corporation, partnership, or natural person licensed and
shall mean a cemetery licensee for purposes of disciplinary action
/.Crematory Remains Disposer - Answer-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 - Answer-Cemetery owned and operated by a city, county, city and
county, or public cemetery district
/.Non Applicable Cemeteries - Answer-Religious, public, and any private or fraternal
burial park under 10 acres established prior to Sept 19, 19392
/.Cemetery Information Disclosed - Answer-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 - Answer-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of being informed of any employee with a previous license that has been revoked,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 - Answer-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 - Answer-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 - Answer-$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 - Answer-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 - Answer-Bureau shall have free access to the books and records
relating to trust funds and expenditures of the funds
/.Limited Liability Company - Answer-No licensee shall have ownership interest as a
member in a limited liability company certificated as a cemetery authority.
/.Endowment Care Control - Answer-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 embezzled
or wrongfully diverted fund). Costs of any actions can be taken from available income
from any endowment care fund. Bureau to become custodian of funds
/.Preneed Disclosure - Answer-Every cemetery authority shall present to the survivor of
the deceased who is handling the burial or cremation arrangements or the responsible
party a copy of any preneed agreement that has been signed and paid in full, or in part,
by or on behalf of the deceased and is in the possession of the cemetery authority.
Penalty three times the cost of the preneed of $1,000, whichever is greater.
/.Contract Requirements - Answer-Must have Bureau contact info on first page of any
sale contract in 8-point boldface type
Answers
/Cemetery Broker - Answer-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 - Answer-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 - Answer-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 - Answer-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 - Answer-Any cemetery broker, cemetery salesperson, or
cemetery manager
/.Crematory Licensee - Answer-Corporation, partnership, or natural person licensed and
shall mean a cemetery licensee for purposes of disciplinary action
/.Crematory Remains Disposer - Answer-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 - Answer-Cemetery owned and operated by a city, county, city and
county, or public cemetery district
/.Non Applicable Cemeteries - Answer-Religious, public, and any private or fraternal
burial park under 10 acres established prior to Sept 19, 19392
/.Cemetery Information Disclosed - Answer-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 - Answer-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 - Answer-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 - Answer-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 - Answer-$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 - Answer-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 - Answer-Bureau shall have free access to the books and records
relating to trust funds and expenditures of the funds
/.Limited Liability Company - Answer-No licensee shall have ownership interest as a
member in a limited liability company certificated as a cemetery authority.
/.Endowment Care Control - Answer-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 embezzled
or wrongfully diverted fund). Costs of any actions can be taken from available income
from any endowment care fund. Bureau to become custodian of funds
/.Preneed Disclosure - Answer-Every cemetery authority shall present to the survivor of
the deceased who is handling the burial or cremation arrangements or the responsible
party a copy of any preneed agreement that has been signed and paid in full, or in part,
by or on behalf of the deceased and is in the possession of the cemetery authority.
Penalty three times the cost of the preneed of $1,000, whichever is greater.
/.Contract Requirements - Answer-Must have Bureau contact info on first page of any
sale contract in 8-point boldface type
