(1) Any person purchasing a burial right, belowground crypt, grave space, mausoleum, columbarium, ossuary, or scattering garden for the interment, entombment, inurnment, or other disposition of human remains may, at the person’s option, permanently record the purchase of the burial right, belowground crypt, grave space, mausoleum, columbarium, ossuary, or scattering garden with the clerk of the court in the county where the burial right, belowground crypt, grave space, mausoleum, columbarium, ossuary, or scattering garden is located. The recordation pursuant to this section is for the purpose of public notification and for the purpose of establishing a permanent record in the official records of the county; however, it does not create any priority of interest or ownership.
(2) The clerk of the court shall record the evidence of the purchase of a burial right, belowground crypt, grave space, mausoleum, columbarium, ossuary, or scattering garden presented to him or her for recording upon payment of the service charge as otherwise provided by law for the recording of the purchase documents in the official records.
History.—s. 1, ch. 2004-24.
Note.—Former s. 497.310.
Structure Florida Statutes
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.
497.2675 - 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.
497.273 - Cemetery companies; authorized functions.
497.274 - Standards for grave spaces.
497.2765 - Recording purchase of burial rights.
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.