CALIFORNIA FUNERAL DIRECTORS
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100%
CORRECT RATED A+ ||NEWLY
UPDATED 2025
WIC 11158 – Overview
✔✔ California law recognizes that certain assets owned by public assistance
recipients—such as those receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children
(AFDC)—are of little value when it comes to meeting immediate needs. This
section exists to define and exclude specific funeral-related assets from being
counted as available resources.
Under WIC 11158, the following funeral-related assets are not considered
available resources for public assistance eligibility:
(a)
✔✔ Funds or investments held in an irrevocable trust for funeral,
cremation, or burial purposes, established with trustees allowed under:
Business & Professions Code § 7736
Health & Safety Code § 8775
(b)
✔✔ Deposits made by an individual in an insured savings account, in their
own name as trustee, specifically designated for a funeral director to pay for
funeral services upon the individual’s death. This trust must be irrevocable.
(c)
✔✔ Life insurance or burial insurance purchased for funeral-related costs
that meets one of the following:
Is placed in an irrevocable trust,
Has no cash value (loan or surrender value) accessible to the
beneficiary.
,(d)
✔✔ Cemetery-issued securities (like prepaid burial contracts) that can only
be redeemed for funeral, cremation, or interment services and not for cash.
(e)
✔✔ Other types of funeral service agreements, provided they comply with
federal law on what can be excluded from available resources.
For the purposes of evaluating the personal property of a recipient, interment
plots as defined in Section 7022 of the Health and Safety Code shall be
deemed to have no value.
WIC 12152 - ANSWER✔✔In determining eligibility of any individual for the
state supplementary payment administered by the federal government, in
addition to any other income or resources disregarded by the secretary, the
following additional amounts of income or resources of the individual shall be
disregarded:
...
(e) The value of the following items in the aggregate except that any amount
paid in excess of one thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800) or the dollar
limit imposed by federal law, whichever is lower, shall not be disregarded:
(1) Money or securities placed in an irrevocable trust for funeral, cremation, or
interment expenses with any of the trustees mentioned in Section 7736 of the
Business and Professions Code or Section 8775 of the Health and Safety Code.
(2) Money or securities placed in an irrevocable trust created by a deposit in an
insured savings institution made by one person of his or her own money in his
or her own name as trustee for a funeral director to provide payment for
funeral services rendered the funeral director upon the depositor's death.
(3) Life or burial insurance purchased specifically for funeral, cremation, or
interment expense, which is placed in an irrevocable trust or which has no loan
or surrender value available to the recipient.
(4) Securities issued by a licensed cemetery authority which by their terms are
convertible into payment for funeral, cremation, or interment expenses.
(f) Interment plots as defined in Section 7022 of the Health and Safety Code.
,WIC 17409 - ANSWER✔✔There shall be exempt from the transfers and
grants authorized by Section 17109 and from execution on claims under
Section 17403 against property acquired by persons for the support of whom
public moneys have been expended all of the following property:
...
(d) Funds placed in trust for funeral or burial expenses not exceeding one
thousand dollars ($1,000).
BPC 7615 - ANSWER✔✔A funeral director is a person engaged in or
conducting, or holding himself or herself out as engaged in any of the
following:
(a) Preparing for the transportation or burial or disposal, or directing and
supervising for transportation or burial or disposal of human remains.
(b) Maintaining an establishment for the preparation for the transportation or
disposition or for the care of human remains.
(c) Using, in connection with his or her name, the words "funeral director," or
"undertaker," or "mortician," or any other title implying that he or she is
engaged as a funeral director.
BPC 7616 - ANSWER✔✔(a) A licensed funeral establishment is a place of
business conducted in a building or separate portion of a building having a
specific street address or location and devoted exclusively to those activities as
are incident, convenient, or related to the preparation and arrangements,
financial and otherwise, for the funeral, transportation, burial or other
disposition of human remains and including, but not limited to, either of the
following:
(1) A suitable room for the storage of human remains.
(2) A preparation room equipped with a sanitary flooring and necessary
drainage and ventilation and containing necessary instruments and supplies for
the preparation, sanitation, or embalming of human remains for burial or
transportation.
(b) Licensed funeral establishments under common ownership or by
contractual agreement within close geographical proximity of each other shall
, be deemed to be in compliance with the requirements of paragraph (1) or (2) of
subdivision (a) if at least one of the establishments has a room described in
those paragraphs.
(c) Except as provided in Section 7609, and except accredited mortuary
science programs engaged in teaching students the art of embalming, no
person shall operate or maintain or hold himself or herself out as operating or
maintaining any of the facilities specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a),
unless he or she is licensed as a funeral director.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a funeral establishment
to conduct its business or financial transactions at the same location as its
preparation or storage of human remains.
(e) Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to render unlawful the conduct of
any ambulance service from the same premises as those on which a licensed
funeral establishment is conducted, including the maintenance in connection
wi
BPC 7616.2 - ANSWER✔✔A licensed funeral establishment shall at all times
employ a licensed funeral director to manage, direct, or control its business or
profession. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, licensed
funeral establishments within close geographical proximity of each other, may
request the bureau to allow a licensed funeral director to manage, direct, or
control the business or profession of more than one facility.
BPC 7617 - ANSWER✔✔The business of a licensed funeral establishment
shall be conducted and engaged in at a fixed place or facility.
No person, partnership, association, corporation, or other organization shall
open or maintain a place or establishment at which to engage in or conduct, or
hold himself or herself or itself out as engaging in or conducting, the business
of a funeral establishment without a license.
BPC 7617.1 - ANSWER✔✔The applicant for a funeral establishment license,
or in the case the applicant is an association, partnership, or corporation, all
officers of the corporation or association or all general partners of the
partnership shall be at least 18 years of age and shall not have committed acts
or crimes constituting grounds for denial of licensure under Section 480.
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100%
CORRECT RATED A+ ||NEWLY
UPDATED 2025
WIC 11158 – Overview
✔✔ California law recognizes that certain assets owned by public assistance
recipients—such as those receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children
(AFDC)—are of little value when it comes to meeting immediate needs. This
section exists to define and exclude specific funeral-related assets from being
counted as available resources.
Under WIC 11158, the following funeral-related assets are not considered
available resources for public assistance eligibility:
(a)
✔✔ Funds or investments held in an irrevocable trust for funeral,
cremation, or burial purposes, established with trustees allowed under:
Business & Professions Code § 7736
Health & Safety Code § 8775
(b)
✔✔ Deposits made by an individual in an insured savings account, in their
own name as trustee, specifically designated for a funeral director to pay for
funeral services upon the individual’s death. This trust must be irrevocable.
(c)
✔✔ Life insurance or burial insurance purchased for funeral-related costs
that meets one of the following:
Is placed in an irrevocable trust,
Has no cash value (loan or surrender value) accessible to the
beneficiary.
,(d)
✔✔ Cemetery-issued securities (like prepaid burial contracts) that can only
be redeemed for funeral, cremation, or interment services and not for cash.
(e)
✔✔ Other types of funeral service agreements, provided they comply with
federal law on what can be excluded from available resources.
For the purposes of evaluating the personal property of a recipient, interment
plots as defined in Section 7022 of the Health and Safety Code shall be
deemed to have no value.
WIC 12152 - ANSWER✔✔In determining eligibility of any individual for the
state supplementary payment administered by the federal government, in
addition to any other income or resources disregarded by the secretary, the
following additional amounts of income or resources of the individual shall be
disregarded:
...
(e) The value of the following items in the aggregate except that any amount
paid in excess of one thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800) or the dollar
limit imposed by federal law, whichever is lower, shall not be disregarded:
(1) Money or securities placed in an irrevocable trust for funeral, cremation, or
interment expenses with any of the trustees mentioned in Section 7736 of the
Business and Professions Code or Section 8775 of the Health and Safety Code.
(2) Money or securities placed in an irrevocable trust created by a deposit in an
insured savings institution made by one person of his or her own money in his
or her own name as trustee for a funeral director to provide payment for
funeral services rendered the funeral director upon the depositor's death.
(3) Life or burial insurance purchased specifically for funeral, cremation, or
interment expense, which is placed in an irrevocable trust or which has no loan
or surrender value available to the recipient.
(4) Securities issued by a licensed cemetery authority which by their terms are
convertible into payment for funeral, cremation, or interment expenses.
(f) Interment plots as defined in Section 7022 of the Health and Safety Code.
,WIC 17409 - ANSWER✔✔There shall be exempt from the transfers and
grants authorized by Section 17109 and from execution on claims under
Section 17403 against property acquired by persons for the support of whom
public moneys have been expended all of the following property:
...
(d) Funds placed in trust for funeral or burial expenses not exceeding one
thousand dollars ($1,000).
BPC 7615 - ANSWER✔✔A funeral director is a person engaged in or
conducting, or holding himself or herself out as engaged in any of the
following:
(a) Preparing for the transportation or burial or disposal, or directing and
supervising for transportation or burial or disposal of human remains.
(b) Maintaining an establishment for the preparation for the transportation or
disposition or for the care of human remains.
(c) Using, in connection with his or her name, the words "funeral director," or
"undertaker," or "mortician," or any other title implying that he or she is
engaged as a funeral director.
BPC 7616 - ANSWER✔✔(a) A licensed funeral establishment is a place of
business conducted in a building or separate portion of a building having a
specific street address or location and devoted exclusively to those activities as
are incident, convenient, or related to the preparation and arrangements,
financial and otherwise, for the funeral, transportation, burial or other
disposition of human remains and including, but not limited to, either of the
following:
(1) A suitable room for the storage of human remains.
(2) A preparation room equipped with a sanitary flooring and necessary
drainage and ventilation and containing necessary instruments and supplies for
the preparation, sanitation, or embalming of human remains for burial or
transportation.
(b) Licensed funeral establishments under common ownership or by
contractual agreement within close geographical proximity of each other shall
, be deemed to be in compliance with the requirements of paragraph (1) or (2) of
subdivision (a) if at least one of the establishments has a room described in
those paragraphs.
(c) Except as provided in Section 7609, and except accredited mortuary
science programs engaged in teaching students the art of embalming, no
person shall operate or maintain or hold himself or herself out as operating or
maintaining any of the facilities specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a),
unless he or she is licensed as a funeral director.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a funeral establishment
to conduct its business or financial transactions at the same location as its
preparation or storage of human remains.
(e) Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to render unlawful the conduct of
any ambulance service from the same premises as those on which a licensed
funeral establishment is conducted, including the maintenance in connection
wi
BPC 7616.2 - ANSWER✔✔A licensed funeral establishment shall at all times
employ a licensed funeral director to manage, direct, or control its business or
profession. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, licensed
funeral establishments within close geographical proximity of each other, may
request the bureau to allow a licensed funeral director to manage, direct, or
control the business or profession of more than one facility.
BPC 7617 - ANSWER✔✔The business of a licensed funeral establishment
shall be conducted and engaged in at a fixed place or facility.
No person, partnership, association, corporation, or other organization shall
open or maintain a place or establishment at which to engage in or conduct, or
hold himself or herself or itself out as engaging in or conducting, the business
of a funeral establishment without a license.
BPC 7617.1 - ANSWER✔✔The applicant for a funeral establishment license,
or in the case the applicant is an association, partnership, or corporation, all
officers of the corporation or association or all general partners of the
partnership shall be at least 18 years of age and shall not have committed acts
or crimes constituting grounds for denial of licensure under Section 480.
