Florida Code — 497
Browse 131 sections in division 497 of the Florida code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 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.
- § 497.1411. Disqualification of applicants and licenses; penalties against licensees; rulemaking.
- § 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.
- § 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.
- § 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. Combination funeral director and embalmer 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; disposal permitted after 90 days where no direction provided.
- § 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.
- § 497.393. Licensure; military-issued credentials for licensure.
- § 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; required notice.
- § 497.460. Payment of funds upon death of named beneficiary.
- § 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.
- § 497.469. Fulfillment of preneed contracts.
- § 497.550. Licensure of monument establishments required; procedures and criteria.
- § 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.
- § 497.601. 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; disposal permitted after 90 days where no direction provided.
- § 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.