497.001  Short title.

497.002  Purpose and intent.

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 of Banking and Finance; 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.

497.201  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.

497.301  Toll-free telephone number for complaints.

497.305  Cemetery companies; authorized functions.

497.309  Records.

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.

497.401  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.