A funeral service establishment's refrigeration room must hold a temperature of not more than how many degrees Fahrenheit?Answer: 40. Source: Utah Code 58-9-302
A licensed funeral service director dies and the establishment passes to the estate. For how long may the personal representative operate it under the license?Answer: Not more than two years. Source: Utah Code 58-9-303
A person has held one funeral service intern license and has not yet qualified as a director. What further intern licensing does the Act allow?Answer: One additional two-year term, with specific approval. Source: Utah Code 58-9-303
A shop sells a headstone without a funeral license. The sale is exempt from licensure if the headstone is delivered within what time?Answer: 90 days after the sale. Source: Utah Code 58-9-305
"Direct disposition" is disposition as quickly as law allows, without embalming, and without what else?Answer: An attendant funeral service or graveside service. Source: Utah Code 58-9-102
The funeral service director of a licensed establishment quits. How long does the establishment have to hire a new licensed director before action may be taken against its license?Answer: 90 days. Source: Utah Code 58-9-303
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Definitions, the Board and licenses, continued
How does the Funeral Services Licensing Act define "embalming"?Answer: Replacing body fluids with preserving and disinfecting chemicals. Source: Utah Code 58-9-102
How many embalmings must a funeral service intern complete to qualify for a funeral service director license?Answer: 50. Source: Utah Code 58-9-302
How many funeral service interns may one licensed funeral service director supervise at one time under the Act?Answer: One. Source: Utah Code 58-9-307
How many hours of continuing professional education must a funeral service director complete in each two-year licensure cycle?Answer: 20. Source: Utah Code 58-9-304
How many hours of training as a licensed funeral service intern must an applicant for a funeral service director license complete?Answer: Not less than 2,000. Source: Utah Code 58-9-302
How many members sit on the Utah Board of Funeral Service?Answer: Seven. Source: Utah Code 58-9-201
To be licensed by endorsement, how much lawful and active practice as a licensed funeral service director and embalmer must an applicant show?Answer: Five years within the last 10. Source: Utah Code 58-9-306
What score does the rule require on the Utah law and rule examination for funeral service?Answer: At least 75%. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-9-302a
When supervision of a funeral service intern ends, how soon must the director send the Division a report of the intern's performance?Answer: Within 30 days. Source: Utah Code 58-9-307
Which of these is NOT "funeral merchandise" as the Act defines it?Answer: A columbarium niche. Source: Utah Code 58-9-102
Which of these is NOT a license classification issued under the Act?Answer: Embalmer. Source: Utah Code 58-9-301
Which term does the Act use for a service held with respect to a death "without the body of the deceased present"?Answer: Memorial service. Source: Utah Code 58-9-102
Conduct, facilities and supervision 11
A licensee must disclose information according to Division rules and the regulations of which federal agency?Answer: The Federal Trade Commission. Source: Utah Code 58-9-505
A preneed sales agent starts work with a funeral service establishment. How soon must the Division be notified?Answer: Within ten days. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-9-402
After a preneed funeral arrangement is sold, an approved contract must be executed within what time to avoid unprofessional conduct?Answer: Ten working days. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-9-502
An unlicensed employee of an establishment arranges a funeral service with a family. What makes that lawful under the Act's exemptions?Answer: A licensed director reviews, approves and signs the contract. Source: Utah Code 58-9-305
Besides the embalmer, intern, staff and public officials on duty, who may be in the embalming room while a body is being embalmed?Answer: Members of the immediate family, upon request. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-9-401
Failing to keep certain information current with the Division is unprofessional conduct. Which item is NOT on that list in Section 58-9-502?Answer: The establishment's general price list. Source: Utah Code 58-9-502
Under which law may a person be prosecuted for failing to place preneed payments in trust as Section 58-9-702 requires?Answer: The theft provisions of the criminal code. Source: Utah Code 58-9-503
What floor does the rule require in a preparation room?Answer: Tile, cement, or composition. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-9-401
Which of these is unprofessional conduct under Section 58-9-502?Answer: Knowingly soliciting a funeral sale for a person whose death was imminent. Source: Utah Code 58-9-502
Who may embalm a dead human body in Utah without committing unlawful conduct?Answer: A licensed funeral service director or funeral service intern. Source: Utah Code 58-9-501
Who may inspect a licensed funeral service establishment during normal business hours?Answer: An authorized representative of the Division or of a local or state health department. Source: Utah Code 58-9-506
Control of disposition 10
A cousin offers to pay the whole funeral bill. What does paying do to the cousin's place in the order of the right of disposition?Answer: Nothing by itself, though a court may weigh it in a dispute. Source: Utah Code 58-9-605
A funeral service director holds remains while relatives dispute the disposition. What may the director do with the body in the meantime?Answer: Embalm or refrigerate and shelter it, and add the cost to the final bill. Source: Utah Code 58-9-605
A funeral service director must carry out a decedent's written directions to the extent they are lawful and what else?Answer: The decedent provided resources to carry them out. Source: Utah Code 58-9-601
A person with the right of disposition does nothing. After what time is the right forfeited to the next person in order?Answer: Three days after notification or five days after the death, whichever is earlier. Source: Utah Code 58-9-603
How old must a person be to hold the right to control the disposition of a deceased person?Answer: At least 18. Source: Utah Code 58-9-602
In the order of the right to control disposition, who comes directly after the surviving spouse?Answer: The person nominated as personal representative in a will. Source: Utah Code 58-9-602
No relative can be found, and the public official charged with dispositions has written notice. After how long without action may the funeral service director control the disposition?Answer: 36 hours. Source: Utah Code 58-9-604
Two people share the right of disposition and cannot agree. Who may decide?Answer: The probate court for the county where the decedent resided. Source: Utah Code 58-9-605
What makes a person's written directions for their own disposition valid under Section 58-9-601?Answer: Acknowledgment before a notary public or the formalities of a will. Source: Utah Code 58-9-601
Who stands first in the order of the right to control disposition?Answer: A person the decedent designated in a notarized writing. Source: Utah Code 58-9-602
Cremation and alkaline hydrolysis 12
A worker removes jewelry from human remains without written permission, in circumstances that do not amount to theft. What is the offense?Answer: A class B misdemeanor. Source: Utah Code 58-9-607
An establishment may dispose of unclaimed cremated remains in any manner permitted by law except which?Answer: Scattering them. Source: Utah Code 58-9-611
An establishment need not obtain a death certificate or fetal death certificate to cremate fetal remains below what gestational age?Answer: 20 weeks. Source: Utah Code 58-9-619
Before cremating, an establishment needs a signed cremation authorization form, any other required documents and which permit?Answer: A completed and executed burial transit permit. Source: Utah Code 58-9-607
Cremated remains go unclaimed and no one has said what to do with them. After how many days from the cremation may the establishment dispose of them?Answer: 60. Source: Utah Code 58-9-611
For how long must an establishment keep its copy of the receipt for remains delivered for cremation?Answer: Seven years. Source: Utah Code 58-9-608
May the remains of two people undergo alkaline hydrolysis in one chamber at the same time?Answer: No; the Act gives no exception. Source: Utah Code 58-9-616
Remains arrive for cremation in a cremation container and not a casket. What does the Act say?Answer: The establishment may not refuse them for that reason. Source: Utah Code 58-9-609
To be scattered over public land or on private property, cremated remains must be reduced to what particle size?Answer: One-eighth inch or less. Source: Utah Code 58-9-611
When may the remains of two people be cremated in the same chamber at the same time?Answer: With specific written authorization from the authorizing agent of each person. Source: Utah Code 58-9-610
Where does the metal identification tag stay while a cremation is under way?Answer: Near the cremation chamber control. Source: Utah Code 58-9-610
Who is responsible for telling the establishment in writing that remains to be cremated contain a pacemaker?Answer: The authorizing agent. Source: Utah Code 58-9-610
Preneed contracts and trusts 12
A buyer pays cash on a preneed funeral arrangement. By when must the provider or sales agent deposit it in trust?Answer: Within 10 business days. Source: Utah Code 58-9-702
A buyer pays on a preneed funeral arrangement with a negotiable instrument. By when must it be deposited in trust?Answer: Within 35 calendar days. Source: Utah Code 58-9-702
A buyer revokes a guaranteed preneed contract. What is the largest revocation fee the establishment may keep, if the contract clearly identifies the fee?Answer: 25% of the amount received and its trust earnings. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-9-616
The beneficiary of a preneed contract dies. Besides a request for payment, what must the provider give the trustee to be paid from the trust?Answer: A certified copy of the death certificate. Source: Utah Code 58-9-705
Earnings of an individual trust account may pay the establishment's other authorized expenses up to what share of the contract's sales amount?Answer: 30%. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-9-613
Every preneed contract must carry a notice that revoking the contract may affect eligibility for which benefit?Answer: Medicaid. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-9-608
For a preneed contract funded by money and sold after April 28, 1991, what share of the money must be kept in the trust account in the buyer's name?Answer: 100%. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-9-615
How long must a funeral service establishment keep its copy of a preneed contract?Answer: Five years after all of its obligations under the contract have been executed. Source: Utah Code 58-9-701
How must a preneed funeral arrangement sold in Utah be evidenced?Answer: By a written contract. Source: Utah Code 58-9-701
Trust earnings may pay reasonable trustee expenses up to the lesser of the remaining earnings or what share of the entire trust account, plus taxes?Answer: 1%. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-9-613
Unless the Division sets another period, the annual report of preneed trust funds shows the amount on deposit as of what date?Answer: December 31 of the preceding year. Source: Utah Code 58-9-706
Who must be named as trustee of the account that holds preneed payments?Answer: A Utah financial institution authorized to engage in the trust business. Source: Utah Code 58-9-702
Division licensing law (Chapter 1, R156-1) 9
A licensee knowingly employs an unlicensed person to practice a profession that requires a Title 58 license. What is that under Section 58-1-501?Answer: Unlawful conduct. Source: Utah Code 58-1-501
A person served with a Division citation wants a hearing. Within how many calendar days of service must the person notify the Division in writing?Answer: 20. Source: Utah Code 58-1-502
After the Division acts against a license under Section 58-1-401, how soon may the license be reinstated if no other conditions are imposed?Answer: Not within 90 days. Source: Utah Code 58-1-403
An expired license is reinstated retroactively to the day it expired if it is reinstated no later than how many days after expiring?Answer: 120. Source: Utah Code 58-1-308
In the Division's general rule, what does "direct supervision" require of the supervising licensee?Answer: To be present and available for face-to-face communication where the services are provided. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-1-102a
On what date do funeral service director licenses come up for renewal under the Division's renewal schedule?Answer: May 31 of even years. Source: Utah Admin. Code R156-1-308a
Unless a chapter of Title 58 says otherwise, a person who violates its unlawful conduct provisions is guilty of what?Answer: A class A misdemeanor. Source: Utah Code 58-1-502
Where Title 58 names no other amount, how large an administrative fine may the director assess for each instance of unprofessional or unlawful conduct?Answer: Up to $1,000. Source: Utah Code 58-1-502
Within how many business days must a licensee tell the Division of Professional Licensing about a change of mailing or email address?Answer: 10. Source: Utah Code 58-1-301.7
How this list was compiled: Utah Code Title 58, Chapter 9, Funeral Services Licensing Act (https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title58/Chapter9/58-9.html) and Chapter 1, Division of Professional Licensing Act (https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title58/Chapter1/58-1.html), read on October 15, 2026 on the Utah Legislature's site; Utah Administrative Code R156-9, Funeral Service Licensing Act Rule (last change July 23, 2025) and R156-1, General Rule of the Division of Professional Licensing, read the same day on the Office of Administrative Rules' site (https://adminrules.utah.gov/public/rule/R156-9/Current%20Rules). The split of questions follows the content outline of the UT Funeral Services Law and Rule examination in the candidate information bulletin the Division of Professional Licensing links to (https://commerce.utah.gov/dopl/funeral-service/exam-information/). Each question names its section. Licence: Own work. Every question, every wrong choice and every explanation was written for this site from the text of the section it cites. Short quoted phrases are from the Utah Code and the Utah Administrative Code, which are public. Nothing is taken from the state's examination, from the examination vendor or from any study guide or other practice test.
How it works
This unofficial practice test for Utah funeral directors asks 72 of our own questions on the law behind the UT Funeral Services Law and Rule examination. Not affiliated with the Utah Division of Professional Licensing or its examination vendor.
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What is here, and what is not
Six topics: definitions and licenses, conduct and facilities, control of disposition, cremation and alkaline hydrolysis, preneed contracts and trusts, and the Division's general licensing law. The bulletin also lists the federal Funeral Rule as a reference; it is not asked here.
An intern needs 2,000 hours and 50 embalmings before a director license (Utah Code 58-9-302).
Preneed cash goes into trust within 10 business days, a negotiable instrument within 35 calendar days (58-9-702).
Unclaimed cremated remains may be disposed of after 60 days, in any lawful way except scattering (58-9-611).
Questions and answers
Are there practice tests for funeral directors for Utah?
This page is one: 72 unofficial questions on Utah Code Title 58, Chapters 1 and 9, and Rules R156-1 and R156-9, each naming its section.
How many questions are on the Utah funeral law and rule exam?
The candidate bulletin, as read on October 15, 2026, gives 35 questions in 60 minutes with 75% to pass: 5 on Chapter 1 and Rule R156-1, and 30 on Chapter 9 and Rule R156-9.
What exams does a Utah funeral service director need to pass?
Rule R156-9-302a requires the National Board Examinations, science and art sections, and the Utah law and rule examination with a score of at least 75%. A funeral service intern takes the law and rule examination only.
Is the Utah funeral law exam open book?
The bulletin marks it open book: the same two chapters and two rules, and the Federal Trade Commission's Funeral Rule, may be used during the examination.