California Funeral Directors Exam
Questions with Correct Answers
WIC 11158 - Answer-The Legislature recognizes that certain property and rights owned
by a recipient, including a recipient of aid to families with dependent children, are of
negligible value in enabling the recipient to meet his or her present needs, and should
not be classified as available resources of the recipient. It is the purpose of this section
to designate such property and rights.
Resources available to a recipient, including a recipient of aid to families with dependent
children shall not include all of the following:
(a) 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.
(b) 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 by the
funeral director upon the depositor's death.
(c) 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.
(d) Securities issued by a licensed cemetery authority which by their terms are
convertible only into payment for funeral, cremation, or interment expenses.
(e) Other funeral agreements to the extent consistent with federal law.
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:
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(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:
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(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.
