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2012 Florida Statutes

Title XXXIII REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE, INVESTMENTS, AND SOLICITATIONS	Chapter 497 FUNERAL, CEMETERY, AND CONSUMER SERVICES	View Entire Chapter

CHAPTER 497

CEMETERY REGULATION

Cemeteries; exemption; investigation and mediation.

Existing companies, effect of this chapter.

Duty of care and maintenance of licensed cemetery.

Cemetery companies; license required; licensure requirements and procedures.

License not assignable or transferable.

Annual license fees.

Care and maintenance trust fund; remedy of department for noncompliance.

Disposition of income of care and maintenance trust fund; notice to purchasers and depositors.

Care and maintenance trust fund, percentage of payments for burial rights to be deposited.

Care and maintenance trust fund; financial reports.

Minimum acreage; sale or disposition of cemetery lands.

Standards for construction and significant alteration or renovation of mausoleums and columbaria.

Construction of mausoleums, columbaria, and belowground crypts; preconstruction trust fund; compliance requirement.

Cemetery companies; authorized functions.

Standards for grave spaces.

Records.

Recording purchase of burial rights.

Other charges.

Monuments; installation fees.

Illegal tying arrangements.

Licensure of brokers of burial rights.

Disclosure of information to public.

Prohibition on sale of personal property or services.

Abandoned cemeteries; immunity; actions.

Inactive cemeteries.

Owners to provide addresses; presumption of abandonment; abandonment procedures; sale of abandoned unused burial rights.

Report of identification of exempt cemeteries.

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