The Florida Senate

470.003  Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers; membership; appointment; terms.--

(1)  The Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers is created within the Department of Business and Professional Regulation and shall consist of seven members appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate.

(2)  Five members of the board must be funeral directors licensed under this chapter, no more than two of whom may be associated with a cemetery company through ownership interests or through employment with a company which has an ownership interest in a cemetery. The remaining two members must be residents of the state who have never been licensed as funeral directors or embalmers and who are in no way connected with a cemetery, the death care industry, or the practice of embalming, funeral directing, or direct disposition. At least one consumer member of the board must be 60 years of age or older. No licensee on the board may be associated by employment or ownership with a funeral establishment or cemetery which is owned partly or wholly by a person, business, corporation, or other entity which is associated with another licensee on the board.

(3)  The Governor shall appoint members for terms of 4 years, and such members shall serve until their successors are appointed.

(4)  All provisions of chapter 455 and s. 20.165 relating to activities of regulatory boards shall apply.

History.--ss. 1, 5, ch. 79-231; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; s. 20, ch. 87-172; s. 1, ch. 89-8; ss. 3, 122, ch. 93-399; s. 107, ch. 98-166; s. 168, ch. 2000-160.