Questions & Answers
Protect the right to make decisions regarding disposition; Protect consumer regarding
purchase of funeral goods & services; Establish minimum standards - CORRECT
ANSWER-Purposes of Chapter 497
Anyone in the funeral business - CORRECT ANSWER-To whom may a refrigeration
facility offer its services?
Care and maintenance of cemetery; right to open & prepare spaces; initial sale of burial
right - CORRECT ANSWER-Which of the following functions can a cemetery require the
consumer to purchase from the cemetery and from no other entity?
None - CORRECT ANSWER-What offense/penalty may a cemetery be subject to if they
charge a $50 transfer fee to transfer the burial rights for a specified space from one
person to another?
No - CORRECT ANSWER-Peaceful Rest Cemetery sets monuments in the cemetery. A
family chose to use Marble Monument to set a marker in Peaceful Rest Cemetery. Can
Peaceful Rest charge Marble Monument a fee for the installation of the monument?
All because it is within 30 days of execution of the contract - CORRECT ANSWER-Mr.
Throby purchases 4 graves spaces from Peaceful Rest Cemetery on August 23. How
much of a refund will Mr. Throby receive if he chooses to cancel the purchase (without
having used the spaces) on September 5th?
2nd degree misdemeanor - CORRECT ANSWER-Peaceful Rest Cemetery refuses to
bury a person in its cemetery because the person is of a certain ethnicity. What
offense/penalty may the cemetery be subject to?
,$455 - CORRECT ANSWER-According to the state board website, what is the amount
of the initial license for a monument establishment?
1.) establish a care & maintenance fund/ deposit of $50K into fund; 2.) certification from
attorney or title co. there are no loans against proposed acreage; 3.) name a GM w/in
90 days prior to intended opening date (w/ 3 years experience w/in 7 yrs of application);
4.) develop 2 acres - CORRECT ANSWER-What steps must be completed after the
State Board gives conditional approval to begin a new cemetery?
only if they are the manufacturers - CORRECT ANSWER-Can a monument dealer
establishment sell pre-need contracts?
30 - CORRECT ANSWER-How many acres of a new cemetery must be developed to
fully license a new cemetery? (see pp. 80 - 81)
50k or 10% of each one - CORRECT ANSWER-Your funeral home buys a cemetery
which has been exempt from regulation in the past. At the time of the purchase, the
cemetery has sold the burial rights on 3,000 grave spaces. How much money must be
placed in the Care and Maintenance Trust fund?
yes - CORRECT ANSWER-If you are a consumer who purchased the burial rights for 4
grave spaces in a cemetery, may you sell the burial rights?
office & display area - CORRECT ANSWER-Beginning January 1, 2006, what must be
present in a monument establishment facility?
$5 - CORRECT ANSWER-What is the amount of the fee imposed upon initial licensure
and each renewal thereof to combat unlicensed activity?
, 10 years - CORRECT ANSWER-How many years prior to an application, must an
applicant have no conviction of guilt of a crime in order for the application to be
considered complete?
No - CORRECT ANSWER-May a person with a limited license engage in preneed
sales?
No - CORRECT ANSWER-May a direct disposer who is working at a funeral
establishment make arrangements for a direct cremation?
The remains must remain covered, explain statute to the family - CORRECT ANSWER-
When transporting a hospice patient, the family requests that the funeral directors
making the removal leave the decedent's head uncovered while in the removal vehicle.
What should be done in this instance, regarding the covering of the head and the
transportation?
A written plan - CORRECT ANSWER-What must cinerator facility personnel have in
place to minimize incidental co-mingling of cremated remains?
$755 (Yr. 1 - odd year), $530 (Yr.2 - even year) - CORRECT ANSWER-Application fee
for centralized embalming facility
$905 - CORRECT ANSWER-Peaceful Rest Cemetery did $356,000 in gross sales this
year. What is the renewal fee for Peaceful Rest Cemetery?
$25 [minimum deposit] - CORRECT ANSWER-How much money must be deposited
into the care and maintenance trust fund for a grave space that cost $200?