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Fla. Stat. ch. 497, pt. II — CEMETERY REGULATION · BenchPath

The Florida Statutes

Part II. CEMETERY REGULATION

2026 Florida Statutes. Published by The Florida Legislature (Online Sunshine).

Florida
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The Florida Statutes
Title XXXIII
Chapter 497
Part II

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Contents

§ 497.260Cemeteries; exemption; investigation and mediation.
§ 497.261Existing companies, effect of this chapter.
§ 497.262Duty of care and maintenance of licensed cemetery.
§ 497.263Cemetery companies; license required; licensure requirements and procedures.
§ 497.264License not assignable or transferable.
§ 497.265Annual license fees.
§ 497.266Care and maintenance trust fund; remedy of department for noncompliance.
§ 497.267Disposition of withdrawals from the care and maintenance trust fund; notice to purchasers and depositors.
§ 497.2675Withdrawal methods from the care and maintenance trust fund.
§ 497.268Care and maintenance trust fund, percentage of payments for burial rights to be deposited.
§ 497.269Care and maintenance trust fund; financial reports.
§ 497.270Minimum acreage; sale or disposition of cemetery lands.
§ 497.271Standards for construction and significant alteration or renovation of mausoleums and columbaria.
§ 497.272Construction of mausoleums, columbaria, and belowground crypts; preconstruction trust fund; compliance requirement.
§ 497.273Cemetery companies; authorized functions.
§ 497.274Standards for grave spaces.
§ 497.276Records.
§ 497.2765Recording purchase of burial rights.
§ 497.277Other charges.
§ 497.278Monuments; installation fees.
§ 497.280Illegal tying arrangements.
§ 497.281Licensure of brokers of burial rights.
§ 497.282Disclosure of information to public.
§ 497.283Prohibition on sale of personal property or services.
§ 497.284Abandoned cemeteries; immunity; actions.
§ 497.285Inactive cemeteries.
§ 497.286Owners to provide addresses; presumption of abandonment; abandonment procedures; sale of abandoned unused burial rights.
§ 497.287Report of identification of exempt cemeteries.

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