The Funeral Rule- 1-4 Flashcards
When the Funeral Rule went into effect.
April 30, 1984
The commission revised the Rule early in ____, revisions became effective later that year.
1994
Give customers accurate, itemized price information and various other disclosures about funeral goods and services.
The Requirement of The Funeral Rule
- Misrepresenting legal, crematory, and cemetery requirements.
- Embalming for a fee without permission.
- Requiring the purchase of a casket for direct cremation.
- Requiring customers to buy certain funeral goods or services as a condition for furnishing other funeral goods and services.
- Engaging in other deceptive or unfair practices.
The Funeral Rule Prohibits:
If you violate the funeral rule, you may be subject to penalties of up to ______ per violation.
$16,000
They explain the requirements of the revised Funeral Rule and discuss how to prepare documents required by the Rule:
* The general price list
* The casket price list
* The outer burial container price list
* The statement of funeral goods and services selected.
The Guidelines of the Funeral Rule do not Amend or Modify the Rule
People who must comply with the Rule.
All Funeral Providers
You are one of these if you sell or offer to sell both funeral goods and funeral services to the public.
Funeral Provider
All products sold directly to the public in connection with funeral services.
Funeral Goods
- Services used to care and prepare bodies for burial, cremation, or other final disposition.
- Services used to arrange, supervise, or conduct the funeral ceremony or final disposition of human remains.
Funeral Services
- If you sell or offer to sell funeral goods and both types of funeral service.
- Do not have to be a licensed funeral director
- Your business does not have to be a licensed funeral home (Cemeteries, creamatories, and other businesses).
You are a Funeral Provider if:
You are not covered by the Funeral Rule if you only sell ____ ____, but not services relating to the disposition of remains.
Funeral Goods
- Even if a particular customer buys only goods or only funeral services, but not both.
- If you organize your business to sell goods through one company and services through another.
- Funeral providers
You must Comply with the Funeral Rule
- Must comply with the Rule requirements at the time funeral arrangements are pre-planned.
- After the death of the individual who made pre-need arrangements.
- If the survivors inquire about goods or services, alter the pre-planned arrangements, or are required to pay additional sums of money, ypu must give them all relevent disclosures and price lists.
- Sell pre-need contracts on behalf of one or more funeral homes, but do not yourself provide funeral goods and services.
Pre-Need Situations
The Rule does not apply to pre-need contracts entered into before the Rule went into effect in ____. However, if a pre-need contract signed before ____ is modified after ____, the modification triggers all of the Rule’s requirements.
1984