Funeral Law Exam Questions

When a pre-need agent is terminated who do you contact and how long do you have to contact them? {Ans: Department of Financial Services. Contact within 30 days}Who CANNOT retrieve an unclaimed body from Anat Board? {Ans: Medical Examiner (others listed are friends and family)}What is NOT a reason for tissue removal by the Medical Examiner {Ans: Profit}An embalmer works in a place where owners unlicensed son signs at-need contracts if owner is away. Embalmer is told to keep him mouth shut. What are potential actions? {Ans: Embalmer is guilty of concealing info. Son is guilty of unlicensed activity.}The cemetery crew buries a body in the wrong space. What do they do? {Ans: Contact the FD (not ignore it, not file for new permit from vitals)}What are the 13 reasons for an autopsy {Ans: (a) When any person dies in the state: 1. Of criminal violence. 2. By accident. 3. By suicide. 4. Suddenly, when in apparent good health. 5. Unattended by a practicing physician or other recognized practitioner. 6. In any prison or penal institution. 7. In police custody. 8. In any suspicious or unusual circumstance. 9. By criminal abortion. 10. By poison.