Senate Bill sb0204

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    Florida Senate - 2004                                   SB 204

    By Senator Crist





    12-116-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to burial rights; creating s.

  3         497.310, F.S.; providing for the optional

  4         recording of evidence of burial rights;

  5         providing for recording fees; providing an

  6         effective date.

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  8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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10         Section 1.  Section 497.310, Florida Statutes, is

11  created to read:

12         497.310  Recording purchase of burial rights.--

13         (1)  Any person purchasing a burial right, belowground

14  crypt, grave space, mausoleum, columbarium, ossuary, or

15  scattering garden for the interment, entombment, inurnment, or

16  other disposition of human remains may, at the person's

17  option, permanently record the purchase of the burial right,

18  belowground crypt, grave space, mausoleum, columbarium,

19  ossuary, or scattering garden with the clerk of the court in

20  the county where the burial right, belowground crypt, grave

21  space, mausoleum, columbarium, ossuary, or scattering garden

22  is located.

23         (2)  The clerk of the court shall record the evidence

24  of the purchase of a burial right, belowground crypt, grave

25  space, mausoleum, columbarium, ossuary, or scattering garden

26  presented to him or her for recording upon payment of the

27  service charge of $5 for the first page and $2 for each

28  additional page or fraction thereof of the purchase documents.

29         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2004.

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    Florida Senate - 2004                                   SB 204
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      and allows the clerk of the court to assess a service
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