Florida Funeral Law II exam WITH
CORRECT 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?
$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?
$60 [because 10% of the funds collected must be deposited or a minimum of $25.00] - correct answer -
How much money must be deposited into the Care and maintenance trust fund for a $600 grave space?
All of it [because 100% of special endowment funds must be deposited into a separate trust account or
into the Care & Maintenance Trust Fund] - correct answer -Mrs. Jennifer George has left a generous
endowment of $10,000 to Peaceful Rest Cemetery. How much must be placed into the Care and
Maintenance Trust Fund?
30 days after the end of month that the contract was sold in - correct answer -Mr. and Mrs. Johnson
purchased 2 grave spaces for $650 each on March 4th. By when must the cemetery company make the
deposit into the care and maintenance trust fund?
Either within 4 years of the date of the first sale or when 50% of the spaces have been sold. [In this case,
right away because although it hasn't been 4 years since the 1st sale, 50% of the spaces have been sold.]
Must be completed within 5 years of date of first sale. [In this case, Sept. 3, 2010] - correct answer -On
September 3, 2005, Peaceful Rest Cemetery sold the first space in the yet to be constructed PR
Mausoleum. The Mausoleum is to house 200 caskets. The 100th space was sold on April 10, 2007. By
what date must construction begin on the new mausoleum? By what date must the construction be
completed?
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?
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