Florida statute
Fla. Stat. § 871.015 — Unlawful protests
Current through 2025 Florida Statutes
Part of Chapter 871: Disturbing Religious and Other Assemblies, Florida Statutes.
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Full text of Fla. Stat. § 871.015
Statutory text current through the 2025 Florida Statutes. This publication reproduces the official statutory text; it is not the official statutes of the State of Florida.
(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.
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Questions this section answers
Is unlawful protests a felony or a misdemeanor in Florida?
Unlawful protests is a Misdemeanor of the First Degree in Florida under Fla. Stat. § 871.015.
Which Florida statute covers unlawful protests?
Unlawful protests is governed by Fla. Stat. § 871.015 (Unlawful protests).
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