These rules are being amended to clarify which persons and entities are subject to the rule requirements; remove unnecessary language; change the Department’s website address; revise form numbers; and update the history notes.

 

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES

Division of Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services

RULE NOS.:RULE TITLES:

69K-5.003Application for Registration of a Preneed Sales Agent

69K-5.0031Definition of Good Standing With the Board of Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services

69K-5.004Procedures for Licensing a New Cemetery

69K-5.006Procedure for Licensing Transferred Cemeteries

69K-5.007Conversion Procedures

PURPOSE AND EFFECT: These rules are being amended to clarify which persons and entities are subject to the rule requirements; remove unnecessary language; change the Department’s website address; revise form numbers; and update the history notes.

SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Cemetery Regulation and Preneed Sales.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: 497.103, 497.466(8)(a) FS.

LAW IMPLEMENTED: 497.263, 497.264, 497.265, 497.266, 497.268, 497.2983, 497.466(2) FS.

IF REQUESTED IN WRITING AND NOT DEEMED UNNECESSARY BY THE AGENCY HEAD, A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE SHOWN BELOW:

DATE AND TIME: Thursday, August 27, 2015, 9:30a.m. or at the conclusion of the workshop for Rules 69K-7.009, .011 & .012, F.A.C.

PLACE: 116 Larson Building, 200 East Gaines Street, Tallahassee, Florida

Pursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this workshop/meeting is asked to advise the agency at least 5 days before the workshop/meeting by contacting: Ellen Simon, [e-mail] If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the agency using the Florida Relay Service, 1(800)955-8771 (TDD) or 1(800)955-8770 (Voice).

THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Ellen Simon, Assistant Director, Division of Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services, Department of Financial Services, 200 East Gaines Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0361, [phone], [e-mail]

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE FROM THE CONTACT PERSON LISTED ABOVE.