2001 Florida Code
TITLE XXXIII Regulation Of Trade, Commerce, Investments, And Solicitations
Chapter 497 Funeral And Cemetery Services
497.515 Additional prohibited acts.
497.515 Additional prohibited acts.--In addition to the acts set forth elsewhere in this chapter, the following acts are prohibited:
(1) Requiring lot owners or current customers to make unnecessary visits to the cemetery company office for the purpose of solicitation.
(2) Soliciting that overreaches and takes advantage of a customer's ignorance or emotional vulnerability.
(3) Failing to disclose all fees and costs the customer may incur to use the burial rights or merchandise purchased.
(4) Failing to provide a detailed description on the written contract of all burial merchandise purchased.
(5) Failing to honor cancellations and issue refunds as provided by s. 497.419.
(6) Misrepresenting any burial merchandise or service when offered for sale to the public.
(7) Failing to obtain written authorization from the family or next of kin of the deceased prior to disinterment, disentombment, or disinurnment.
History.--s. 81, ch. 93-399.
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