Florida Funeral Laws -(SPC FSE2080
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Alternative Container - ANSWER Unfinished wood box or other nonmetal receptacle or enclosure,
without ornamentation or a fixed interior lining, that is designed for the encasement of human remains
and that is made of fiberboard, pressed wood, composition materials, or like material
At-Need Solicitation - ANSWER Any uninvited contact by a licensee or his or her agent for the purpose of
the sale of burial services or merchandise to the family or next of kin of a person after his or her death
has occurred
Below ground crypts - ANSWER Interment space in preplaced chambers, either side by side or multiple
depth covered by earth and sod and known also as "lawn crypts," "westminsters." or "turf-top crypts"
Funeral goods/burial merchandise - ANSWER Any personal property offered or sold by any person for
use in connection with the final disposition, memorialization, interment, entombment, or inurnment of
human remains or cremated remains
Burial right - ANSWER THe term which means the right to use a grave space, mausoleum, columbarium,
ossuary, or scattering garden for the interment, entombment, inurnment, or other disposition of human
remains or cremated remains
Funeral Service - ANSWER Any service offered or provided in connection with the final disposition,
memorialization, interment, entombment, or inurnment of human remains or cremated remains
Care and maintenance - ANSWER Perpetual process of keeping a cemetery and its lots, graves, grounds,
landscaping, roads, paths, etc in a well-cared-for and dignified condtion
Casket - ANSWER A rigid container that is designed for the encasement of human remains and that is
usually constructed of wood or metal, ornamented, and lined with fabric
,Cemetery - ANSWER A place dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the permanent interment
of human remains or cremated remains
Cemetery Company - ANSWER Any legal entity that owns or controls cemetery lands or property
Cremation interment container - ANSWER A rigid outer container, that, subject to a cemetery's rules and
regulations, is composed of concrete, steel, fiberglass, or some similar material in which an urn is placed
prior to being interred in the ground and that is designed to support the earth above the urn
Board of funeral, cemetery, and consumer services - ANSWER What Florida department oversees the
Funeral Services issues
Direct disposal establishment - ANSWER A facility licensed under chapter 382 where a direct disposer
practices direct disposition
Licensee - ANSWER Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice direct disposition in Florida
Disinterment - ANSWER The removal of a dead body from earth interment or aboveground interment
Embalmier - ANSWER Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice embalming in Florida
Final Disposition - ANSWER The final disposition of a dead human body by earth interment, above
ground interment, cremation, burial at sea, or delivery to a medical institution for lawful dissection if the
medical institution assumes responsibility for disposal
Funeral Service - ANSWER The observances, services, or ceremonies held to commemorate the life of a
specific deceased human being at which time the remains are present
Funeral director - ANSWER Any person licensed under chapter 382 to practice funeral directing in Florida
, Funeral Home - ANSWER A facility licensed under chapter 382 where a funeral director or embalmer
practices funeral directing or embalming
Grave space - ANSWER A space of ground in a cemetery intended to be used for the interment in the
ground of human remains
Human remains - ANSWER The body of a deceased human person for which a death certificate or fetal
death certificate is required under chapter 382 and includes the body in any stage of decomposition
Mausoleum - ANSWER A structure or building that is substantially exposed above the ground and that is
intended to be used for the entombment of human remains
Monument - ANSWER Any product used for identifying a grave site and cemetery memorials of all types,
including monuments, markers, and vases
Monument establishment - ANSWER A facility that operates independently of a cemetery or funeral
establishment and that offers to sell monuments or monument services to the public placement in a
cemetery
Niche - ANSWER A compartment or cubicle for the memorialization or permanent placement of a
container or urn containing cremated remains
Ossuary - ANSWER A receptacle used for the communal placement of cremated remains without benefit
of any urn or any other container in which cremated remains may be commingled with other cremated
remains and are nonrecoverable
Outer burial container - ANSWER An enclosure into which a casket is placed and includes, but is not
limited to, vaults made out of concrete, steel, fiberglass, or copper; sectional concrete enclosures;
crypts; and wooded enclosure
Personal residence - ANSWER Any residential building in which one temporarily or permanently
maintains his or her abode
, Direct disposition - ANSWER The cremation of human remains without preparation of the human
remains by embalming and without any attendant services or rites such as funeral or graveside services
or the making of arrangements for such final disposition
Embalming - ANSWER Disinfecting or preserving or attempting to disinfect or preserve dead human
bodies by replacing certain body fluids with preserving and disinfecting chemicals
Practice of funeral directing - ANSWER The performance by a licensed funeral director of any functions
authorized by s. 497.372
Pre-need contract - ANSWER Any arrangement or method, of which the provider of funeral merchandise
or services has actual knowledge, whereby any person agrees to furnish funeral merchandise or service
in the future
Preneed sales agent - ANSWER Any person who is licensed under chapter 487 to sell preneed burial or
funeral service and merchandise contracts or direct disposition contracts in Florida
Processing - ANSWER The reduction of identifiable bone fragments after the completion of the
cremation and processing to unidentifiable bone fragments by manual means
Pulverization - ANSWER The reduction of identifiable bone fragments after the completion of the
cremation and processing to granulated particles by manual or mechanical means
Refrigeration facility - ANSWER A facility that is operated independently of a funeral establishment,
crematory, or direct disposal establishment that maintains space and equipment for the storage and
refrigeration of dead human bodies
Removal services - ANSWER Any service that operates independently of a funeral establishment or a
direct disposal , that handles the initial removal of dead human bodies, and that offers its service to
funeral establishments and direct disposal establishments for a fee
Scattering garden - ANSWER A location set aside, within a cemetery, that is used for the spreading of
broadcasting of cremated remain that have been removed from their container and can be mixed with or
