Regulatory Compliance: Professional Expectations Flashcards
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Regulatory compliance professional expectations
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- Mortuary law
- Probate law
- Compliance with OSHA regulatory standards
- Compliance with the Federal Trade Commission Funeral Rule
- Law and its enforcement
- Contracts
- Sales
- Commercial paper
- Agency and employment
- Business organization
- Property
- Torts
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Mortuary law professional expectations
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- Definition, purposes and significance
- Sources of mortuary law
- Civil and criminal law
- The dead human body must reflect three main conditions
- Property and property rights in a dead human body
- Obligations of funeral disposition
- Right to control final disposition
- Disinterment
- Postmortem examination
- Torts involving the dead human body, liability for funeral expenses
- The funeral establishment
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Sources of mortuary law
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- Common law
- Case law
- Statutory law
- Administrative law
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Civil and criminal law professional expectations
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- Torts
- Crimes
- Actions at law
- Actions in equity
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Main conditions reflected in a dead human body
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- Must be dead
- Must be human
- Must not be totally disintegrated
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Probate law professional expectatoins
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- Wills
- Intestacy
- Administration of the estate
7
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Wills professional expectations
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- Requirements
- Relocations
- Distribution under
- Testator provisions possible
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Intestacy professional expectations
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- Order of distribution
* Method of distribution
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Administration of the estate professional expectations
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- Appointment of personal representative
- Differences between executor and administrator
- Priority of claims
- Insolvent estate
- Tests for reasonableness of funeral bill
- Allowable cost items of funeral
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Compliance with OSHA regulatory standards professional expectations
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- OSHA compliance
- General Industry Standard
- The Hazard Communications Standard
- The Formaldehyde Exposure Control Standard
- The Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Control Standard
- Personal Protective Equipment Standard
- Respiratory Protection Standard
- All other regulatory standards which apply to the funeral service profession and operations of funeral homes
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Compliance with the Federal Trade Commission Funeral Rule professional expectations
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- Compliance with Funeral Rule
- Understanding and communicating the requirements of the Statement of Funeral Goods and Services Selected
- The General Price List
- The Casket Price List
- The Outer Burial Container Price List
- The Authorization for Embalming and Removal
- The Mandatory Disclosures
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Law and its enforcement professional expectations
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- Definition of law, types of law
- Judicial process
- Federal and State Courts
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Contracts professional expectations
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- Nature and classes, definition of contract
- Offer and acceptance
- Defective agreement
- Competency of parties
- Consideration
- Illegal contracts
- Forms of contracts
- Contract assignments
- Termination of contracts
- Remedies for Breach of Contract
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Sales professional expectations
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- Personal property
- Formalities of a sale
- Transfer of title and risk
- Warranties of seller, bulk sales law
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Commercial paper professional expectations
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- Nature, promissory notes, drafts
- Checks
- Liabilities of the parties
- Essentials of negotiability
- Negotiation and discharge
- Holders in due course
- Defenses
