Florida Funeral Laws -(SPC FSE2080
review final exam) with correct answers
Alternative Container - correct answer -Unfinished wood box or other nonmetal receptacle or enclosure,
without ornamentation or a fixed interior lining, that is designed for the encasement of human remains
and that is made of fiberboard, pressed wood, composition materials, or like material
At-Need Solicitation - correct answer -Any uninvited contact by a licensee or his or her agent for the
purpose of the sale of burial services or merchandise to the family or next of kin of a person after his or
her death has occurred
Below ground crypts - correct answer -Interment space in preplaced chambers, either side by side or
multiple depth covered by earth and sod and known also as "lawn crypts," "westminsters." or "turf-top
crypts"
Funeral goods/burial merchandise - correct answer -Any personal property offered or sold by any person
for use in connection with the final disposition, memorialization, interment, entombment, or inurnment
of human remains or cremated remains
Burial right - correct answer -THe term which means the right to use a grave space, mausoleum,
columbarium, ossuary, or scattering garden for the interment, entombment, inurnment, or other
disposition of human remains or cremated remains
Funeral Service - correct answer -Any service offered or provided in connection with the final
disposition, memorialization, interment, entombment, or inurnment of human remains or cremated
remains
Care and maintenance - correct answer -Perpetual process of keeping a cemetery and its lots, graves,
grounds, landscaping, roads, paths, etc in a well-cared-for and dignified condtion
Casket - correct answer -A rigid container that is designed for the encasement of human remains and
that is usually constructed of wood or metal, ornamented, and lined with fabric
,Cemetery - correct answer -A place dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the permanent
interment of human remains or cremated remains
Cemetery Company - correct answer -Any legal entity that owns or controls cemetery lands or property
Centralized embalming facility - correct answer -A facility in which embalming takes place that operates
independently of a funeral establishment licensee and that offers embalming services to funeral
directors for a fee
Bank of below ground crypts - correct answer -Any construction unit of below ground crypts that is
acceptable to the Department of Financial Services and that a cemetery uses to initiate its below ground
crypt program or to add to existing below ground crypt structures
Cinerator - correct answer -A facility where dead human bodies are subjected to cremation
Closed container - correct answer -Any container in which cremated remains can be placed and closed in
a manner so as to prevent leakage or spillage of the remains
Columbarium - correct answer -A structure of building that is substantially exposed above the ground
and that is intended to be used for the inurnment of cremated remains
Common business enterprise - correct answer -A group of two or more business entities that share
common ownership in excess of 50 percent
Cremated remains - correct answer -All the remains of the human body recovered after the completing
of the cremation process, including processing or pulverization that leaves only bone fragments reduced
to unidentifiable dimensions and may include the residue of any foreign matter, including the residue of
any foreign matter, including casket material, bridgework, or eyeglasses that were cremated with the
human remains
Cremation - correct answer -Any mechanical or thermal process whereby a dead human body is reduced
to ashes and bone fragments. Also includes any other mechanical or thermal process whereby human
remains are pulverized, burned, recremated, or otherwise further reduced in size or quantity
,Cremation chamber - correct answer -Enclosed space within which the cremation process takes place.
Anything covered by these procedures shall be used exclusively for the cremation of human remains
Cremation container - correct answer -The casket or alternative in which the human remains are
transported to and placed in the cremation chamber for a cremation
Cremation interment container - correct answer -A rigid outer container, that, subject to a cemetery's
rules and regulations, is composed of concrete, steel, fiberglass, or some similar material in which an urn
is placed prior to being interred in the ground and that is designed to support the earth above the urn
Board of funeral, cemetery, and consumer services - correct answer -What Florida department oversees
the Funeral Services issues
Direct disposal establishment - correct answer -A facility licensed under chapter 382 where a direct
disposer practices direct disposition
Licensee - correct answer -Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice direct disposition in
Florida
Disinterment - correct answer -The removal of a dead body from earth interment or aboveground
interment
Embalmier - correct answer -Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice embalming in Florida
Final Disposition - correct answer -The final disposition of a dead human body by earth interment, above
ground interment, cremation, burial at sea, or delivery to a medical institution for lawful dissection if the
medical institution assumes responsibility for disposal
Funeral Service - correct answer -The observances, services, or ceremonies held to commemorate the
life of a specific deceased human being at which time the remains are present
Funeral director - correct answer -Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice funeral directing in
Florida
, Funeral Home - correct answer -A facility licensed under chapter 382 where a funeral director or
embalmer practices funeral directing or embalming
Grave space - correct answer -A space of ground in a cemetery intended to be used for the interment in
the ground of human remains
Human remains - correct answer -The body of a deceased human person for which a death certificate or
fetal death certificate is required under chapter 382 and includes the body in any stage of
decomposition
Mausoleum - correct answer -A structure or building that is substantially exposed above the ground and
that is intended to be used for the entombment of human remains
Monument - correct answer -Any product used for identifying a grave site and cemetery memorials of all
types, including monuments, markers, and vases
Monument establishment - correct answer -A facility that operates independently of a cemetery or
funeral establishment and that offers to sell monuments or monument services to the public placement
in a cemetery
Niche - correct answer -A compartment or cubicle for the memorialization or permanent placement of a
container or urn containing cremated remains
Ossuary - correct answer -A receptacle used for the communal placement of cremated remains without
benefit of any urn or any other container in which cremated remains may be commingled with other
cremated remains and are nonrecoverable
Outer burial container - correct answer -An enclosure into which a casket is placed and includes, but is
not limited to, vaults made out of concrete, steel, fiberglass, or copper; sectional concrete enclosures;
crypts; and wooded enclosure
Personal residence - correct answer -Any residential building in which one temporarily or permanently
maintains his or her abode