The Florida Senate

470.016  Inactive status.--

(1)  A funeral director or embalmer license that has become inactive may be reactivated under s. 470.015 upon application to the department. The board shall prescribe by rule continuing education requirements as a condition of reactivating a license. The continuing education requirements for reactivating a license may not exceed 12 classroom hours, and the board may by rule establish criteria for accepting alternative nonclassroom continuing education on an hour-for-hour basis, in addition to a board-approved course on communicable diseases, for each year the license was inactive.

(2)  The board shall prescribe by rule an application fee for inactive status, a renewal fee for inactive status, a delinquency fee, and a fee for reactivation of a license. None of these fees may exceed the biennial renewal fee established by the board for an active license.

(3)  The department may not reactivate a license unless the inactive or delinquent licensee has paid any applicable biennial renewal or delinquency fee, or both, and a reactivation fee.

History.--ss. 1, 5, ch. 79-231; s. 337, ch. 81-259; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; s. 103, ch. 83-329; s. 1, ch. 89-8; ss. 14, 122, ch. 93-399; s. 210, ch. 94-119; s. 25, ch. 2000-356; s. 1, ch. 2001-63.