Fla. Stat. 497.269
Care and maintenance trust fund; financial reports

On or before April 1 of each year, the trustee shall furnish adequate financial reports that record the fair market value with respect to the care and maintenance trust fund utilizing forms and procedures specified by rule. However, the department may require the trustee to make such additional financial reports as it deems necessary. In order to ensure that the proper deposits to the trust fund have been made, the department shall examine the status of the trust fund of the company on a semiannual basis for the first 2 years of the trust fund’s existence.

Source: Section 497.269 — Care and maintenance trust fund; financial reports, https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/0497.269 (accessed Aug. 7, 2025).

497.260
Cemeteries 497.261
Existing companies, effect of this chapter 497.262
Duty of care and maintenance of licensed cemetery 497.263
Cemetery companies 497.264
License not assignable or transferable 497.265
Annual license fees 497.266
Care and maintenance trust fund 497.267
Disposition of withdrawals 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 497.270
Minimum acreage 497.271
Standards for construction and significant alteration or renovation of mausoleums and columbaria 497.272
Construction of mausoleums, columbaria, and belowground crypts 497.273
Cemetery companies 497.274
Standards for grave spaces 497.276
Records 497.277
Other charges 497.278
Monuments 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 497.285
Inactive cemeteries 497.286
Owners to provide addresses 497.287
Report of identification of exempt cemeteries 497.2675
Withdrawal methods from the care and maintenance trust fund 497.2765
Recording purchase of burial rights

Current through Fall 2025

§ 497.269. Care & maintenance trust fund; financial reports's source at flsenate.gov

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Location: https://florida.public.law/statutes/fla._stat._497.269

Original Source: Section 497.269 — Care and maintenance trust fund; financial reports, https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/0497.269 (last accessed Aug. 7, 2025).