Florida Administrative Code
69 - DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES
69K - Division of Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services
Chapter 69K-13 - FLORIDA MAUSOLEUM CONSTRUCTION
Section 69K-13.001 - General Provisions

(1) These rules shall establish minimum standards for all newly constructed and significantly altered or renovated mausolea and columbaria.

(2) These rules are intended to insure that no new structure shall be built or significantly altered for use for interment, entombment or inurnment purposes, unless such new structure or new alteration or new renovation is constructed of such materials as will ensure its durability and permanence, as well as the safety, convenience, comfort and health of the community in which it is located.

(3) Such structures must be so arranged that any niche or crypt may be readily examined at any time by any person authorized by law to do so. Such a person would be a specific representative of the Department of Financial Services or the Board of Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services, or local government inspection personnel.

(4) A columbarium may be built within a mausoleum or as a separate structure, but for purposes of these rules shall be considered a mausoleum for construction purposes.

(5) There are four (4) classes of Mausolea: "Class A" or chapel mausoleum, "Class B" or garden mausoleum, "Class C" or family mausoleum, and "Class D" or non-visitation crypt mausoleum.