MICHIGAN MORTUARY SCIENCE EXAM TERMINOLOGIES #5
Board - correct answer in each article which deals with a specific occupation, the agency created in that article composed principally of members of the regulated occupation.
Censure - correct answer an expression of disapproval of a licensee's or registrant's professional conduct
Competence - correct answer a degree of expertise which enables a person to engage in an occupation at a level which meets or exceeds minimal standards of acceptable practice
Complaint - correct answer an oral or written grievance
Licensee - correct answer a person that is licensed or required to be licensed
Limitation - correct answer some factor that restricts the scope of activity or accomplishment.
Registrant - correct answer a person that is registered
Registration - correct answer the document issued to a person that enables the person to use a designated title, which use would be otherwise prohibited
Reinstatement - correct answer the granting of a license or registration, with or without limitations or conditions, to a person whose license or registration has been revoked.
Relicensure - correct answer the granting of a license to a person whose license has lapsed for failure to renew the license within 60 days after the expiration date.
Reregistration - correct answer the granting of a registration to a person whose registration has lapsed for failure to renew the registration within 60 days after the expiration date.
Burial right - correct answer the right of earth interment
Casket - correct answer rigid container which is designed for the encasement of human remains and which is usually constructed of wood, metal, fiberglass, plastic, or like material, and ornamented and lined with fabric.
Catafalque - correct answer an ornamental or decorative object or structure placed beneath, over, or around a casket, vault, or a dead human body before final disposition of the dead human body. Columbarium - correct answer a building or other aboveground structure that is affixed to land and is a permanent repository for cremated human remains.
Contract price - correct answer money and other property to be paid as total compensation to a contract seller or provider for the funeral or cemetery services or merchandise, or both, to be performed or furnished under a prepaid contract, late payment penalties, payments required to be made to a governmental agency at the time
the contract is entered into, and income earned on the funds.
Contract beneficiary - correct answer an individual specified or implied in a prepaid contract for whom the funeral or cemetery services or merchandise shall be performed or furnished after death.
Contract buyer - correct answer an individual, including a contract beneficiary, who purchases merchandise or funeral or cemetery services pursuant to a prepaid contract.
Contract seller - correct answer a person who sells, makes available, or provides prepaid contracts.
Depository - correct answer a state or nationally chartered bank or state or federally chartered savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union whose deposits are insured by an agency of the united states government under the laws of this state or
the united states.
Escrow agent - correct answer a person who holds, invests, and disburses principal and
income from the funds received under a prepaid contract.
Funds - correct answer means all money or other consideration actually received from a
contract buyer by a contract seller or provider or an assignee from the contract buyer in connection with any aspect of the sale of a prepaid contract, including finance charges
Funeral services - correct answer services customarily performed by a mortuary science
licensee who is licensed pursuant to article 18 of the occupational code, 1980 pa 299, mcl 339.1801 to 339.1812.
Guaranteed price contract - correct answer a prepaid contract under which funds received are held pursuant to an escrow agreement.
Nonguaranteed price contract - correct answer a prepaid contract under which funds received are held pursuant to an escrow agreement between a contract seller or provider and a contract buyer and are applied to the cost of the merchandise or funeral or cemetery services
Anitomical gift - correct answer a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education.
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