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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XXXIII REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE, INVESTMENTS, AND SOLICITATIONS Chapter 497 FUNERAL, CEMETERY, AND CONSUMER SERVICES View Entire Chapter PART II CEMETERY REGULATION 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.