Funeral Regulatory Compliance Questions

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?

$154.00

The funeral director who has physical possession of a dead human body is said to have:

Actual Custody.

The person appointed by a court to oversee an estate is the:

Administrator

In a cortege, drivers who are under the control of the funeral director are legally referred to as:

Agent drivers

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

Bailor

The doctrine of Stare Decisis is concerned with:

Case Law

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

Conditional Sale

Although a dead body is in one mortuary, the mortuary which has control of the final disposition is said to have:

Constructive Custody

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

The party who is sued in a civil suit is known as the:

Defendant

The method of removing one's free will in making a decision by threats to do physical harm to the person, his family, or property is:

Duress

False statements made in writing for the purpose of injuring the reputation of another constitute:

Libel

The branch of the law which deals with the rules of conduct and actions governing a mortician during his legal relations with the public is:

Mortuary Law

Unauthorized embalming may be viewed by the courts as which type of violation?

Mutilation

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:

Quasi-property

A business that is owned by one person is classified as a:

Sole Proprietorship

A notice of complaint given to a defendant defining the complaint and a time frame in which an answer must be received is a:

Summons

A private or civil wrong whose cause is intentional or caused by negligence for which there may be action or damages is a:

Tort

As a funeral director, the only people you should inform, even if asked, that the deceased has an infectious disease are appropriate members of:

Your Staff.

Personal property permanently attached to land is known as a:

fixture

A dead human body:

is not property in a real sense.

Any rate of interest above the maximum rate allowable by law is:

usury

An intoxicated person makes a contract. It is:

voidable.

The term that is used when all the terms of a contract have been fully performed by the contracting parties is:

Executed.

In law, a relationship of trust is expressed by the term:

Fiduciary

An intentional statement of false facts upon which an injured party relied in a decision to enter into a contract, to their detriment is:

Fraud

A good business technique in funeral arrangements is to:

Have a written contract