NC Funeral Juris study plan

Map the structure of NC General Statutes Chapter 90, Article 13 (funeral service) and Article 13A (preneed), noting which sections govern licensure, practice, and discipline.

List the categories of licensed personnel and establishments the Board regulates, and state the scope of practice for each.

Draft a one-page glossary of statutory terms of art (e.g., funeral director, embalmer, funeral establishment, preneed) using only statute and rule language.

Build a citation index that pairs each major Board rule with the statute section it implements.

Summarize the licensure pathways (apprenticeship, examination, reciprocity/endorsement) and the renewal and continuing-education obligations attached to each license type.

Explain the grounds for disciplinary action and the complaint-to-hearing process, including the licensee's procedural rights.

Distinguish the licensing requirements for a funeral establishment from those for a crematory or hydrolysis facility, including inspection authority.

Identify the recordkeeping, signage, and price-disclosure duties that attach to an establishment license.

Sequence the steps of an at-need arrangement conference from first contact through authorization to embalm, and identify the documents each step produces.

Explain the legal effect of the written statement of goods and services selected and the itemization requirements that apply.

Describe the funeral director's duties regarding disposition authorization, next-of-kin priority, and handling of unclaimed remains.

Outline the transfer-of-custody chain and the documentation required at each handoff.

Analyze how establishment-level compliance failures (records, retention, facility standards) translate into practice-level violations for the individual licensee.

Draft responses to three scenario prompts involving conflicting family instructions, disputed disposition authority, and a request outside the licensee's scope.

Explain the requirements for maintaining and retaining case records, including who may inspect them and for how long.

Explain the purpose, sequence, and required documentation of the embalming authorization and the handling of cases that must not be embalmed without specific consent.

Describe the vascular injection and drainage principles that govern solution selection, distribution, and drainage site choice.

Identify the OSHA bloodborne-pathogen and formaldehyde exposure controls that apply in the preparation room, and state the required written program elements.

Explain the embalmer's duties regarding restoration, unembalmed remains, and communication of results to the arranging director.

Compare the legal and technical requirements for cremation authorization with those for embalming authorization, noting where consent, waiting periods, and identification steps diverge.

Explain the crematory operator's duties for identification, commingling prevention, processing, and container handling.

Describe hydrolysis (alkaline hydrolysis) as a disposition method and how its authorization, facility, and effluent-handling requirements differ from cremation.

Identify the records a crematory or hydrolysis facility must create and retain for each case.

Explain what makes a contract a preneed contract, and distinguish preneed from at-need and from burial-insurance funding arrangements.

Describe the required disclosures, cancellation and refund rights, and the consequences of contract transfer or provider failure.

Outline the preneed licensee's obligations for trust funding, periodic reporting, and record maintenance, and explain how preneed funds are protected.

Identify the enforcement mechanisms available when a preneed licensee fails to fund or report.

Re-take timed practice sets for each domain and log every missed item by domain and by root cause (misread, unknown rule, calculation, or recall).

Re-read only the statute and rule sections tied to logged misses, and rewrite each in your own words.

Rehearse the highest-frequency cross-domain scenarios (disposition authority, preneed refund, cremation authorization) under time pressure.

Build a one-page final-review sheet of numbers, deadlines, and priority lists that you will re-read on exam day.