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California Cemetery Manager Exam
Questions And Answers. Verified And
Updated.
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
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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informed of any employee with a previous license that has been revoked, suspended, on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
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California Cemetery Manager Exam
Questions And Answers. Verified And
Updated.
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
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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
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