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Florida Statute 871.015 - Full Text and Legal Analysis Florida Statute 871.015 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research
Fla. Stat. § 871.015 (2026) Copy Cite Official Site Syfertize CourtListener Amendments
871.015 Unlawful protests.
(1) As used in this section, the term:
(a) “Funeral or burial” means a service or ceremony offered or provided in connection with the final disposition, memorialization, interment, entombment, or inurnment of human remains or cremated human remains.
(b) “Funeral procession” has the same meaning as provided in s. 316.1974.
(c) “Protest activities” means any action, including picketing, which is undertaken with the intent to interrupt or disturb a funeral or burial.
(2) A person may not knowingly engage in protest activities or knowingly cause protest activities to occur within 500 feet of the property line of a residence, cemetery, funeral home, house of worship, or other location during or within 1 hour before or 1 hour after the conducting of a funeral or burial at that place. This subsection does not prohibit protest activities that occur adjacent to that portion of a funeral procession which extends beyond 500 feet of the property line of the location of the funeral or burial.
(3) A person who violates this section commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
History.s. 1, ch. 2013-19; s. 166, ch. 2014-17.

Arrestable Offenses under F.S. 871.015

M = misdemeanor · F = felony · degree: F=1st S=2nd T=3rd
§871.015(3)DISTURBING PEACEUNLAWFUL PROTEST FUNERAL BURIAL W/ 500 FT PROPM · 1st

Cases Citing F.S. 871.015

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·In Re Stand. Jury Instructions in Crim. Cases—report No. 2014-05, 157 So. 3d 1027 (Fla. 2015).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2015 WL 474161

...This instruction was adopted in 1992 [603 So. 2d 1175] and was amended in 1995 [657 So. 2d 1152], and 2007 [962 So. 2d 310], and 2008 [994 So. 2d 1038], and 2015. 29.16(a) UNLAWFUL PROTESTS § 871.015, Fla....
...location and the protest activities did take place [during] [or] [within one hour before or one hour after] the conducting of a funeral or burial at that location. Give if applicable. § 871.015, Fla....
...1 (2006), for further guidance. It is not a crime for a person to [knowingly engage in] [or] [knowingly cause] protest activities that occur adjacent to that portion of a funeral procession which extends beyond 500 feet of the property line of the location of a funeral or burial. Definitions. §§ 871.015 (1), 316.1974 (1), Fla....
...location at which the funeral service is to be held, in the daylight hours, including a funeral lead vehicle or a funeral escort vehicle. - 21 - Lesser Included Offenses UNLAWFUL PROTESTS — 871.015 CATEGORY ONE CATEGORY TWO FLA....
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