The Florida Senate

470.017  Registration as a direct disposer.--

(1)  Any person who is not a licensed funeral director and who engages in the practice of direct disposition shall be registered pursuant to this section as a direct disposer.

(2)  Any person who desires to be registered as a direct disposer shall file an application with the department on a form furnished by the department. The department shall register each applicant who has remitted a registration fee set by the department, not to exceed $200; has completed the application form and remitted a nonrefundable application fee set by the department, not to exceed $50; and meets the following requirements:

(a)  Is at least 18 years of age.

(b)  Is a high school graduate or equivalent.

(c)  Has no conviction or finding of guilt, and has never entered a plea of nolo contendere, regardless of adjudication, for a crime which directly relates to the functions and duties of a direct disposer or the practice of direct disposition.

(d)  Has received a passing grade in a college credit course in Florida mortuary law.

(e)  Has completed a board-approved course on communicable diseases.

(f)  Has passed an examination prepared by the department on the local, state, and federal laws and rules relating to the disposition of dead human bodies.

(3)  The board shall adopt rules which require each registration issued under this section to be displayed in such a manner as to make it visible to the public and to facilitate inspection by the department. However, each registrant shall permanently affix a recent photograph of the registrant to each displayed registration issued to that registrant as a direct disposer.

(4)  Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2)(b), any person may be registered as a direct disposer who has attained at least 5 years of continuous experience as a cinerator facility operator, applied to the board by October 1, 1994, and has otherwise met the requirements of subsection (2). Proof of the necessary experience may be required by the board by rule.

History.--ss. 1, 5, ch. 79-231; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; s. 1, ch. 89-8; ss. 16, 122, ch. 93-399; s. 68, ch. 94-119.