Florida Statutes
Part II - Cemetery Regulation (Ss. 497.260-497.287)
497.265 - Annual license fees.


(1) The department shall collect from each cemetery company operating under the provisions of this chapter an annual license fee as follows:
(a) For a cemetery with less than $25,000 annual gross sales..........$250.
(b) For a cemetery with at least $25,000 but less than $100,000 annual gross sales..........$350.
(c) For a cemetery with annual gross sales of at least $100,000 but less than $250,000..........$600.
(d) For a cemetery with annual gross sales of at least $250,000 but less than $500,000..........$900.
(e) For a cemetery with annual gross sales of at least $500,000 but less than $750,000..........$1,350.
(f) For a cemetery with annual gross sales of at least $750,000 but less than $1 million..........$2,250.
(g) For a cemetery with annual gross sales of at least $1 million but less than $5 million..........$3,250.
(h) For a cemetery with annual gross sales of $5 million or more..........$4,900.

(2) An application for license renewal shall be submitted, along with the applicable license fee, on or before December 31 each year in the case of an existing cemetery company and before any sale of cemetery property in the case of a new cemetery company or a change of ownership or control pursuant to s. 497.264. If the renewal application and fee are not received by December 31, the department shall collect a penalty in the amount of $200 per month or fraction of a month for each month delinquent. For the purposes of this subsection, a renewal application and fee submitted by mail shall be considered timely submitted and received if postmarked by December 31 of the applicable year.
History.—s. 17, ch. 59-363; s. 3, ch. 63-324; s. 1, ch. 65-288; ss. 12, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; s. 4, ch. 78-369; ss. 25, 39, 40, ch. 80-238; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; s. 6, ch. 85-202; s. 1, ch. 88-227; s. 1, ch. 89-8; ss. 62, 122, ch. 93-399; s. 6, ch. 2000-195; s. 47, ch. 2004-301.
Note.—Former s. 559.46, s. 559.345; s. 497.009; s. 497.213.

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Title XXXIII - Regulation of Trade, Commerce, Investments, and Solicitations

Chapter 497 - Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services

Part II - Cemetery Regulation (Ss. 497.260-497.287)

497.260 - Cemeteries; exemption; investigation and mediation.

497.261 - Existing companies, effect of this chapter.

497.262 - Duty of care and maintenance of licensed cemetery.

497.263 - Cemetery companies; license required; licensure requirements and procedures.

497.264 - License not assignable or transferable.

497.265 - Annual license fees.

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

497.267 - Disposition of withdrawals from the care and maintenance trust fund; notice to purchasers and depositors.

497.2675 - Withdrawal methods from the care and maintenance trust fund.

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

497.269 - Care and maintenance trust fund; financial reports.

497.270 - Minimum acreage; sale or disposition of cemetery lands.

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

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

497.273 - Cemetery companies; authorized functions.

497.274 - Standards for grave spaces.

497.276 - Records.

497.2765 - Recording purchase of burial rights.

497.277 - Other charges.

497.278 - Monuments; installation fees.

497.280 - Illegal tying arrangements.

497.281 - Licensure of brokers of burial rights.

497.282 - Disclosure of information to public.

497.283 - Prohibition on sale of personal property or services.

497.284 - Abandoned cemeteries; immunity; actions.

497.285 - Inactive cemeteries.

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

497.287 - Report of identification of exempt cemeteries.