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2004 Florida Code
TITLE XXXIII REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE, INVESTMENTS, AND SOLICITATIONS
Chapter 497 FUNERAL AND CEMETERY SERVICES
497.001 Short title.497.002 Purpose and intent.
497.0021 Applicability of parts.
497.003 Cemeteries; exemption; investigation and mediation.
497.004 Existing companies, effect of this chapter.
497.005 Definitions.
497.025 Liability.
497.0255 Duty of care and maintenance of licensed cemetery.
497.101 Board of Funeral and Cemetery Services; membership; appointment; terms.
497.103 Rulemaking authority of board and department.
497.105 Department; powers and duties.
497.107 Headquarters.
497.109 Board of Funeral and Cemetery Services; membership.
497.111 Publication of information.
497.113 Accountability and liability of board members.
497.115 Board rules; final agency action; challenges.
497.117 Legal and investigative services.
497.119 Mediation.
497.121 Authority to issue citations.
497.123 Powers to administer oaths and issue subpoenas.
497.125 Evidence; examiner's worksheets, investigative reports, other related documents.
497.127 Injunction to restrain violations.
497.129 Cease and desist order; civil penalty; enforcement.
497.131 Disciplinary proceedings.
497.133 Disciplinary guidelines.
497.135 Penalty for giving false information.
497.137 Unlicensed activity; emergency cease and desist order; administrative penalty; civil penalty; enforcement; attorney's fees and costs.
497.141 Licensing; general application procedures.
497.142 Licensing; fingerprinting and criminal background checks.
497.143 Licensing; limited licenses for retired professionals.
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.
497.156 Emergency action against licensees.
497.157 Unlicensed practice; remedies concerning violations by unlicensed persons.
497.159 Crimes.
497.161 Other rulemaking provisions.
497.163 Restriction on requirement of citizenship.
497.166 Preneed sales.
497.167 Administrative matters.
497.168 Members of Armed Forces in good standing with administrative boards.
497.201 Cemetery companies; license; application; fee.
497.205 License not assignable or transferable.
497.209 Application for change of control among existing stockholders or partners; investigation fee.
497.213 Annual license fees.
497.217 Department rules; challenges.
497.221 Cease and desist orders.
497.225 Civil penalty.
497.229 Courts; powers; abatement of nuisances.
497.233 Disciplinary proceedings.
497.237 Care and maintenance trust fund; remedy of department for noncompliance.
497.241 Disposition of income of care and maintenance trust fund; notice to purchasers and depositors.
497.245 Care and maintenance trust fund, percentage of payments for burial rights to be deposited.
497.249 Care and maintenance trust fund; financial reports.
497.253 Minimum acreage; sale or disposition of cemetery lands.
497.255 Standards for construction and significant alteration or renovation of mausoleums and columbaria.
497.257 Construction of mausoleums, columbaria, and belowground crypts; preconstruction trust fund; compliance requirement.
497.274 Standards for grave spaces.
497.275 Identification of human remains in licensed cemeteries.
497.301 Toll-free telephone number for complaints.
497.305 Cemetery companies; authorized functions.
497.309 Records.
497.310 Recording purchase of burial rights.
497.313 Other charges.
497.317 Monuments; installation fees.
497.321 Solicitation of goods or services.
497.325 Illegal tying arrangements.
497.329 Registration of brokers of burial rights.
497.333 Disclosure of information to public.
497.337 Prohibition on sale of personal property or services.
497.341 Burial without regard to race or color.
497.345 Abandoned cemeteries; immunity; actions.
497.349 Inactive cemeteries.
497.353 Owners to provide addresses; presumption of abandonment; abandonment procedures; sale of abandoned unused burial rights.
497.357 Report of identification of exempt cemeteries.
497.361 Registration of monument establishments.
497.365 Licensure; inactive and delinquent status.
497.366 Licensure; renewal and cancellation notices.
497.367 Instruction on HIV and AIDS, funeral directors and embalmers.
497.401 Preneed sales; chapter exclusive; applicability of other laws.
497.403 Insurance business not authorized.
497.405 Certificate of authority required.
497.407 Certificate of authority; annual statement; renewal; transfer.
497.409 Approval of forms.
497.411 Nonconforming contracts.
497.413 Preneed Funeral Contract Consumer Protection Trust Fund.
497.415 Ownership of proceeds received on contracts.
497.417 Disposition of proceeds received on contracts.
497.419 Cancellation of, or default on, preneed contracts.
497.421 Payment of funds upon death of named beneficiary.
497.423 Evidence of financial responsibility as alternative to trust deposit.
497.425 Alternatives to deposits under s. 497.417.
497.427 Existing merchandise trust funds; proof of compliance with law.
497.429 Alternative preneed contracts.
497.431 Examinations and investigations.
497.435 Administrative fine in lieu of revocation or suspension of certificate of authority.
497.436 Inactive and revoked certificateholders.
497.437 Dissolution or liquidation.
497.439 Preneed sales agents.
497.441 Acceptability of funeral and burial merchandise.
497.443 Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices prohibited.
497.445 Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices defined.
497.447 Prohibited practices; hearings, witnesses, appearances, production of books, and service of process.
497.515 Additional prohibited acts.
497.517 Attorney's fees.
497.519 Penalties.
497.525 Disposition of fees and penalties.
497.527 Civil remedies.
497.529 Civil liability.
497.531 Unauthorized arrangements.
497.551 Renewal of monument establishment licensure.
497.552 Required facilities.
497.553 Regulation of monument establishments.
497.554 Monument establishment sales representatives.
497.555 Required rules.
497.556 Requirements relating to monument establishments.
497.608 Liability for unintentional commingling of the residue of the cremation process.
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