CA Embalmer's State Exam Questions with Verified Answers
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California Funeral Association
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California Funeral Association
7640 - Answer-An embalmer is one who is duly qualified to disinfect or preserve human remains by the injection or external application of antiseptics, disinfectants or preservative fluids; to prepare human bodies for transportation which are dead of contagious or infectious diseases; and to use der...
CA Embalmer's State Exam Questions
with Verified Answers
7640 - Answer-An embalmer is one who is duly qualified to disinfect or preserve human
remains by the injection or external application of antiseptics, disinfectants or
preservative fluids; to prepare human bodies for transportation which are dead of
contagious or infectious diseases; and to use derma surgery or plastic art for restoring
mutilated features; and who is duly licensed as an embalmer under the laws of the State
of California.
7641 - Answer-It is unlawful for any person to embalm a body, or engage in, or hold
himself or herself out as engaged in practice as an embalmer, unless he or she is
licensed by the bureau. However, this section shall have no effect on students and
instructors of embalming in mortuary science programs approved by the bureau.
7642 - Answer-An application for an embalmer's license shall be written on a form
provided by the bureau, verified by the applicant, and accompanied by the fee fixed by
this chapter.
7643 - Answer-In order to qualify for a license as an embalmer, the applicant shall
comply with all of the following requirements:
(a) Be over 18 years of age.
(b) Not have committed acts or crimes constituting grounds for denial of licensure under
Section 480.
(c) Have completed at least two years of apprenticeship under an embalmer licensed
and engaged in practice as an embalmer in this state in a funeral establishment which
shall have been approved for apprentices by the bureau and while so apprenticed shall
have assisted in embalming not fewer than 100 human remains; provided, however,
that a person who has been licensed and has practiced as an embalmer for a minimum
of three years within the seven years preceding his or her application in any other state
or country and whose license has never been suspended or revoked for unethical
conduct shall not be required to serve any apprenticeship in this state.
(d) Have graduated from a mortuary science program approved by the bureau and
accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service Education, or its equivalent, as
determined by the bureau, and furnished official transcripts from that program or
equivalent.
7646 - Answer-(a) The bureau shall require the applicant to pass both of the following:
, (1) The sciences section of the national examination administered by the International
Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards, or its equivalent, as determined by
the bureau.
(2) An examination, administered by the bureau, on the state's laws and the rules and
regulations of the bureau, including those sections of the Health and Safety Code which
pertain to the funeral industry.
(b) An applicant who has previously passed the sciences section of the national
examination described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) shall be deemed to be in
compliance with that paragraph.
(c) An applicant who has previously failed the examination administered by the bureau
prior to January 1, 2010, may, until June 30, 2010, retake that examination. If the
applicant passes that examination, he or she shall be deemed to be in compliance with
this section.
7647 - Answer-Examinations shall be administered at times and places determined by
the bureau and the International Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards.
The bureau shall give notice of the time and place of the examination described in
paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 7646.
7647.5 - Answer-Where a hearing is held to determine whether an application for a
license should be granted, the proceeding shall be conducted in accordance with
Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the
Government Code, and the bureau shall have all of the powers granted therein.
7648 - Answer-No embalmer's license is assignable, and only the licensee may engage
in the practice of embalming under the license.
7649 - Answer-Except as provided in Section 102805 of the Health and Safety Code,
whenever the name of any licensed embalmer is subscribed to any certificate, the
purport of which is that he or she has performed any act mentioned in the certificate, the
licensed embalmer shall actually sign his or her name thereto.
7650 - Answer-From time to time, the bureau may examine the requirements for the
issuance of licenses to embalmers in other states of the United States and cause a
record to be kept of those states in which standards are maintained for embalmers, not
lower than those provided in this chapter.
7660 - Answer-An apprentice embalmer is a person engaged in the study of embalming
under the instruction and supervision of a licensed embalmer who has had at least two
years' practical experience as a California licensed embalmer.
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