the conference- legal and regulatory compliance

a practitioner serves a family and provides both services and merchandise. the state requires the funeral home to pay 4% sales tax on merchandise. prices are as follows services. $2,000 casket. $2,250 vault. $1,600 ----------------------- total. $5,850 how much sales tax does the funeral director pay the state?

$154

which party would be classified as an agent driver for whose actions the funeral home may be liable -a police officer who is on duty escorting a procession -a guest at a funeral who drives his own vehicle in the procession -a part-time funeral home employee who drives the family limousine in the procession -a minister whose honorarium is advanced by the funeral hime that is driving her own car in the procession

a part-time funeral home employee who drives the family limousine in the procession

the funeral practitioner who has physical possession of a dead human body is said to have

actual custody

applying common law, who has the primary right to control final disposition of the deceased? -adult son -cousin -creditor -state

adult son

the next of kin who delivers the personal effects of the deceased to the funeral director is properly termed a

bailor

which of the following terns describes a sale in which the buyer, so long as the buyer is not in default, has a right to possession before payment is made in full?

conditional sale

if there is no will, the property and holdings of a deceased person will be distributed according to law and an administrator/personal representative will be appointed by the

court

a dead human body -is subject to replevin -is not property in a real sense -may be insured -may be held as security

is not property in a real sense

the party who makes an offer is called the

offeror

a contract to keep an offer open for a specified period of time supported by consideration is called an

option

state regulation of funeral services for the health and welfare of citizens is an example of a state's:

police power

in legal terminology, a dead human body is considered what type of property

quasi-property

any rate of interest above the maximum rate allowable by law is

usury

which would be an example of an impractical or burdensome consumer request, allowing the funeral home to require purchase of a particular item? -requiring a clergy vehicle when the family does not want one, it being the practice of the funeral home to always provide transportation for the clergy-person -requiring the consumer to pay a casket handling fee when the consumer wants to use their own casket -requiring embalming when the consumer does not want it, when there will be a weeklong delay between death and funeral and refrigeration is not available

requiring embalming when the consumer does not want it, when there will be a week long delay between death and funeral and refrigeration is not available

a good business technique in funeral arrangements is to: -make representations that embalming will preserve the remains indefinitely -charge a non-declinable fee for insurance assignment processing -specify the reason for embalming on the statement of funeral goods and services -discourage visual identification prior to disposition

specify the reason for embalming on the statement of funeral goods and services