CALIFORNIA CEMETERY MANAGER EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Unlicensed Activity - ✔✔Must have a license to act as broker/salesperson. Cannot
sue for payment unless you are licensed. Cannot pay other to perform unless they are
license. Unlicensed activity is a misdemeanor up to $5,000
✔✔Speculation - ✔✔Salesperson cannot guarantee or represent financial profit of
reselling property. Broker may be punished if they had knowledge
✔✔Advertising - ✔✔All advertising to include statement that they are acting as a
broker/salesperson
✔✔Broker Requirements - ✔✔Filled out application, pass test, be a resident of the
state, has been salesperson for 2 years, surety bond of $10,000, have and maintain
definite place of business, must display sign in conspicuous place that they are a
licensed broker (5 1/2" high x 8 1/2" wide)
✔✔Salesperson Requirements - ✔✔Fill out application, no exam, properly qualified, no
against public interest, intends to carry on business, actually engaging in business
✔✔Displaying License - ✔✔Licenses for broker/salesperson must be prominently
displayed in the office of the broker. Once salesperson leave employ of broker,
salesperson's license goes back to bureau.
✔✔Certificate of Authority Application - ✔✔Fill out application and pay fee, must have
licensed cemetery manager, investigation to be made of physical status, plans, specs
and financing
Application shall include (among others):
- Application to planning commission for a cemetery use permit
- Declaration of dedication to cemetery purposes certified by county recorder
- Endowment care trust agreement executed by the board of directors of cemetery
authority
✔✔Cemetery Inspections - ✔✔Bureau shall inspect books, records and premises. All
areas shall be made available to bureau during regular office hours. No prior notification
is required. Minimum one inspection per year.
✔✔Cemetery Manager Designation - ✔✔A cemetery manager shall be designated at all
times. Cemetery must notify bureau of change in designation within 10 days of effective
date. Manager must hold a current, unexpired license.
✔✔Cremated Remains Disposer - ✔✔A copy of boating and/or pilots license must be
posted if disposer is a captain and/or pilot performing the scattering. Must post, at the
, place of business, the address of the location where cremated remains are stored.
Unlicensed scattering is a misdemeanor, each count charged separately
✔✔Cemetery Regulatory Charge - ✔✔Yearly charge of $400. $8.50 for each burial,
entombment, or inurnment made during the preceding quarter she be paid to the bureau
and charges go in the Cemetery Fund
✔✔Unlicensed Operation - ✔✔Making interments without a valid unexpired certificate of
authority is a misdemeanor and each interment shall be a separate violation
✔✔Crematory Operations - ✔✔No crematory shall conduct any cremations: without a
written contract, of remains more than 24 hours after delivery (unless embalmed or
refrigerated), without contractual relationship with a licensed cemetery authority to
dispose of remains not claimed within 90 days.
✔✔Sharing Cemetery Manager Conditions - ✔✔- Common Ownership
- One cemetery designated as Main Office
- Other cemetery is within 60 miles of Main Office
- Fill out application, pay fee
- Undergo inspection
Bureau will notify applicant within 14 days of receipt whether the application is complete
and acceptable and shall make a decision within 30 days after application is deemed
complete
✔✔Cemetery Maintenance Standards - ✔✔Every endowment care cemetery shall have
maintenance standards to ensure the property is kept in a condition so as to prevent the
cemetery's offensive deterioration, clear delineation of undeveloped cemetery property,
may establish written rules and regulations, shall include statement notifying consumers
that standards are available for inspection in cemetery office
✔✔Non-endowment Care Signs - ✔✔- 16" high and 24" wide
- Mounted upright
- Black Letters
- Heading: NONENDOWMENT CARE SECTION (4" high"
- Phrase: This section is nonendowment care interment property (1 1/4" high)
✔✔Non-endowment Care Contracts - ✔✔At the head of all contracts shall be printed
"The property described herein is NONENDOWMENT CARE Interment Property" in
minimum 10-point type with NONENDOWMENT CARE in caps
✔✔Non-endowment Care Office Signs - ✔✔- Posted in office where sale is conducted
- 8" high and 12" wide
- NONENDOWMENT CARE heading in black at least 2" high
- "This is a nonendowment care interment property" in black at least 3/4" high
WITH ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Unlicensed Activity - ✔✔Must have a license to act as broker/salesperson. Cannot
sue for payment unless you are licensed. Cannot pay other to perform unless they are
license. Unlicensed activity is a misdemeanor up to $5,000
✔✔Speculation - ✔✔Salesperson cannot guarantee or represent financial profit of
reselling property. Broker may be punished if they had knowledge
✔✔Advertising - ✔✔All advertising to include statement that they are acting as a
broker/salesperson
✔✔Broker Requirements - ✔✔Filled out application, pass test, be a resident of the
state, has been salesperson for 2 years, surety bond of $10,000, have and maintain
definite place of business, must display sign in conspicuous place that they are a
licensed broker (5 1/2" high x 8 1/2" wide)
✔✔Salesperson Requirements - ✔✔Fill out application, no exam, properly qualified, no
against public interest, intends to carry on business, actually engaging in business
✔✔Displaying License - ✔✔Licenses for broker/salesperson must be prominently
displayed in the office of the broker. Once salesperson leave employ of broker,
salesperson's license goes back to bureau.
✔✔Certificate of Authority Application - ✔✔Fill out application and pay fee, must have
licensed cemetery manager, investigation to be made of physical status, plans, specs
and financing
Application shall include (among others):
- Application to planning commission for a cemetery use permit
- Declaration of dedication to cemetery purposes certified by county recorder
- Endowment care trust agreement executed by the board of directors of cemetery
authority
✔✔Cemetery Inspections - ✔✔Bureau shall inspect books, records and premises. All
areas shall be made available to bureau during regular office hours. No prior notification
is required. Minimum one inspection per year.
✔✔Cemetery Manager Designation - ✔✔A cemetery manager shall be designated at all
times. Cemetery must notify bureau of change in designation within 10 days of effective
date. Manager must hold a current, unexpired license.
✔✔Cremated Remains Disposer - ✔✔A copy of boating and/or pilots license must be
posted if disposer is a captain and/or pilot performing the scattering. Must post, at the
, place of business, the address of the location where cremated remains are stored.
Unlicensed scattering is a misdemeanor, each count charged separately
✔✔Cemetery Regulatory Charge - ✔✔Yearly charge of $400. $8.50 for each burial,
entombment, or inurnment made during the preceding quarter she be paid to the bureau
and charges go in the Cemetery Fund
✔✔Unlicensed Operation - ✔✔Making interments without a valid unexpired certificate of
authority is a misdemeanor and each interment shall be a separate violation
✔✔Crematory Operations - ✔✔No crematory shall conduct any cremations: without a
written contract, of remains more than 24 hours after delivery (unless embalmed or
refrigerated), without contractual relationship with a licensed cemetery authority to
dispose of remains not claimed within 90 days.
✔✔Sharing Cemetery Manager Conditions - ✔✔- Common Ownership
- One cemetery designated as Main Office
- Other cemetery is within 60 miles of Main Office
- Fill out application, pay fee
- Undergo inspection
Bureau will notify applicant within 14 days of receipt whether the application is complete
and acceptable and shall make a decision within 30 days after application is deemed
complete
✔✔Cemetery Maintenance Standards - ✔✔Every endowment care cemetery shall have
maintenance standards to ensure the property is kept in a condition so as to prevent the
cemetery's offensive deterioration, clear delineation of undeveloped cemetery property,
may establish written rules and regulations, shall include statement notifying consumers
that standards are available for inspection in cemetery office
✔✔Non-endowment Care Signs - ✔✔- 16" high and 24" wide
- Mounted upright
- Black Letters
- Heading: NONENDOWMENT CARE SECTION (4" high"
- Phrase: This section is nonendowment care interment property (1 1/4" high)
✔✔Non-endowment Care Contracts - ✔✔At the head of all contracts shall be printed
"The property described herein is NONENDOWMENT CARE Interment Property" in
minimum 10-point type with NONENDOWMENT CARE in caps
✔✔Non-endowment Care Office Signs - ✔✔- Posted in office where sale is conducted
- 8" high and 12" wide
- NONENDOWMENT CARE heading in black at least 2" high
- "This is a nonendowment care interment property" in black at least 3/4" high
