Florida Statutes
Chapter 497 - Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services
Part II - Cemetery Regulation (Ss. 497.260-497.287)

497.260 - Cemeteries; exemption; investigation and mediation. - (1) The provisions of this chapter relating to cemeteries and...

497.261 - Existing companies, effect of this chapter. - History.—s. 6, ch. 59-363; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1,...

497.262 - Duty of care and maintenance of licensed cemetery. - History.—s. 3, ch. 98-268; s. 44, ch. 2004-301; s. 125,...

497.263 - Cemetery companies; license required; licensure requirements and procedures. - (1) LICENSE REQUIRED.—No person may operate a cemetery without first...

497.264 - License not assignable or transferable. - (1) A license issued to operate a cemetery pursuant to...

497.265 - Annual license fees. - (1) The department shall collect from each cemetery company operating...

497.266 - Care and maintenance trust fund; remedy of department for noncompliance. - (1) A cemetery company may not establish a cemetery, or...

497.267 - Disposition of withdrawals from the care and maintenance trust fund; notice to purchasers and depositors. - History.—s. 13, ch. 59-363; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1,...

497.2675 - Withdrawal methods from the care and maintenance trust fund. - (1) The board shall adopt rules, with the approval of...

497.268 - Care and maintenance trust fund, percentage of payments for burial rights to be deposited. - (1) Each cemetery company shall set aside and deposit in...

497.269 - Care and maintenance trust fund; financial reports. - History.—s. 15, ch. 59-363; s. 1, ch. 65-288; ss. 12,...

497.270 - Minimum acreage; sale or disposition of cemetery lands. - (1) No land in a licensed cemetery may be sold,...

497.271 - Standards for construction and significant alteration or renovation of mausoleums and columbaria. - (1) All newly constructed and significantly altered or renovated mausoleums...

497.272 - Construction of mausoleums, columbaria, and belowground crypts; preconstruction trust fund; compliance requirement. - (1) A cemetery company shall start construction of that section...

497.273 - Cemetery companies; authorized functions. - (1) Within the boundaries of the cemetery lands it owns,...

497.274 - Standards for grave spaces. - (1) A standard adult grave space shall measure at least...

497.276 - Records. - (1) A record shall be kept of every burial in...

497.2765 - Recording purchase of burial rights. - (1) Any person purchasing a burial right, belowground crypt, grave...

497.277 - Other charges. - (1) Charges paid for opening and closing a grave and...

497.278 - Monuments; installation fees. - (1) No cemetery company may charge a fee for the...

497.280 - Illegal tying arrangements. - (1) No person authorized to sell grave space may tie...

497.281 - Licensure of brokers of burial rights. - (1)(a) No person shall receive compensation to act as a...

497.282 - Disclosure of information to public. - (1) Provide by telephone, upon request, accurate information regarding the...

497.283 - Prohibition on sale of personal property or services. - (1) This section applies to all cemetery companies licensed pursuant...

497.284 - Abandoned cemeteries; immunity; actions. - (1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a...

497.285 - Inactive cemeteries. - (1) A licensee shall be considered inactive upon the acceptance...

497.286 - Owners to provide addresses; presumption of abandonment; abandonment procedures; sale of abandoned unused burial rights. - (1) For purposes of this section, all owners of burial...

497.287 - Report of identification of exempt cemeteries. - (1) All cemeteries in excess of 5 acres located in...