Chapter 497 FUNERAL, CEMETERY, AND CONSUMER SERVICES
- PART I GENERAL PROVISIONS(ss. 497.001-497.172)
- 497.001 Short title.
- 497.002 Purpose and intent.
- 497.0021 Applicability of parts.
- 497.005 Definitions.
- 497.101 Board of Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services; membership; appointment; terms.
- 497.103 Authority of board and department; Chief Financial Officer recommendations.
- 497.107 Headquarters.
- 497.140 Fees.
- 497.141 Licensing; general application procedures.
- 497.142 Licensing; fingerprinting and criminal background checks.
- 497.143 Licensing; limited licenses for times of critical need.
- 497.144 Licensing; examinations, general provisions.
- 497.145 Licensing; use of professional testing services.
- 497.146 Licensing; address of record; changes; licensee responsibility.
- 497.147 Continuing education; general provisions.
- 497.148 Continuing education; monitoring of compliance.
- 497.149 Investigations, hearings, and inspections.
- 497.150 Compliance examinations of existing licensees.
- 497.151 Complaints; logs; procedures.
- 497.152 Disciplinary grounds.
- 497.153 Disciplinary procedures and penalties.
- 497.154 Disciplinary guidelines.
- 497.155 Disciplinary citations and minor violations.
- 497.156 Emergency action against licensees.
- 497.157 Unlicensed practice; remedies concerning violations by unlicensed persons.
- 497.158 Court enforcement actions; powers; abatement of nuisances.
- 497.159 Crimes.
- 497.160 Receivership proceedings.
- 497.161 Other rulemaking provisions.
- 497.162 Health and safety education.
- 497.163 Restriction on requirement of citizenship.
- 497.164 Solicitation of goods or services.
- 497.165 Liability of owners, directors, and officers regarding trust funds.
- 497.166 Preneed sales.
- 497.167 Administrative matters.
- 497.168 Members of Armed Forces in good standing with administrative boards.
- 497.169 Private actions; actions on behalf of consumers; attorney’s fee.
- 497.170 Unauthorized arrangements.
- 497.171 Identification of human remains.
- 497.172 Public records exemptions; public meetings exemptions.
- 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 income of care and maintenance trust fund; notice to purchasers and depositors.
- 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.
- PART III FUNERAL DIRECTING, EMBALMING, AND RELATED SERVICES(ss. 497.365-497.392)
- 497.365 Licensure; inactive and delinquent status.
- 497.366 Licensure; renewal and cancellation notices.
- 497.368 Embalmers; licensure as an embalmer by examination; provisional license.
- 497.369 Embalmers; licensure as an embalmer by endorsement; licensure of a temporary embalmer.
- 497.370 Embalmers; licensure of an embalmer intern.
- 497.371 Embalmers; establishment of embalmer apprentice program.
- 497.372 Funeral directing; conduct constituting practice of funeral directing.
- 497.373 Funeral directing; licensure as a funeral director by examination; provisional license.
- 497.374 Funeral directing; licensure as a funeral director by endorsement; licensure of a temporary funeral director.
- 497.375 Funeral directing; licensure of a funeral director intern.
- 497.376 License as funeral director and embalmer permitted.
- 497.377 Concurrent internships.
- 497.378 Renewal of funeral director and embalmer licenses.
- 497.379 Inactive status.
- 497.380 Funeral establishment; licensure; display of license.
- 497.381 Solicitation of goods or services.
- 497.382 Reports of cases embalmed and bodies handled.
- 497.383 Additional rights of legally authorized persons.
- 497.384 Disinterment; transportation; authorization and notification.
- 497.385 Removal services; refrigeration facilities; centralized embalming facilities.
- 497.386 Storage, preservation, and transportation of human remains.
- 497.387 Unlawful to remove or embalm body without consent of proper official when crime is suspected.
- 497.389 Funeral establishments; cash advance accounts; escrow refund accounts.
- 497.390 Reciprocity.
- 497.391 Exceptions.
- 497.392 Branch chapels.
- PART IV PRENEED SALES(ss. 497.450-497.468)
- 497.450 Preneed sales; chapter exclusive; applicability of other laws.
- 497.451 Insurance business not authorized.
- 497.452 Preneed license required.
- 497.453 Application for preneed license, procedures and criteria; renewal; reports.
- 497.454 Approval of preneed contract and related forms.
- 497.455 Nonconforming contracts.
- 497.4555 Charges for preneed contract.
- 497.456 Preneed Funeral Contract Consumer Protection Trust Fund.
- 497.457 Ownership of proceeds received on contracts.
- 497.458 Disposition of proceeds received on contracts.
- 497.459 Cancellation of, or default on, preneed contracts.
- 497.460 Payment of funds upon death of named beneficiary.
- 497.461 Surety bonding as alternative to trust deposit.
- 497.462 Other alternatives to deposits under s. 497.458.
- 497.463 Existing merchandise trust funds; proof of compliance with law.
- 497.464 Alternative preneed contracts.
- 497.465 Inactive, surrendered, and revoked preneed licensees.
- 497.466 Preneed sales agents, license required; application procedures and criteria; appointment of agents; responsibility of preneed licensee.
- 497.467 Acceptability of funeral and burial merchandise.
- 497.468 Disclosure of information to the public.
- PART V MONUMENT ESTABLISHMENTS(ss. 497.550-497.555)
- PART VI CREMATION, CREMATORIES, AND DIRECT DISPOSITION(ss. 497.601-497.609)
- 497.601 Direct disposition; duties.
- 497.602 Direct disposers, license required; licensing procedures and criteria; regulation.
- 497.603 Direct disposers, renewal of license.
- 497.604 Direct disposal establishments, license required; licensing procedures and criteria; license renewal; regulation; display of license.
- 497.605 Direct disposition not funeral directing.
- 497.606 Cinerator facility, licensure required; licensing procedures and criteria; license renewal; regulation.
- 497.607 Cremation; procedure required.
- 497.608 Liability for unintentional commingling of the residue of the cremation process.
- 497.609 Liability of direct disposers, direct disposal establishments, funeral directors, funeral establishments, and cinerator facilities regarding cremation.