California Code
PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES
CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care

ARTICLE 1 - Care of Old Cemeteries

Section 8700. - 8700. In addition to those cemeteries to which this part...

Section 8701. - 8701. Whenever a majority of the plots in all or...

Section 8702. - 8702. Application for the alteration or vacation or replatting of...

Section 8703. - 8703. The application may be by the cemetery authority owning...

Section 8704. - 8704. The petition shall be verified and shall specify the...

Section 8705. - 8705. There shall be presented with the petition a plat...

Section 8706. - 8706. The petition shall be filed with the clerk of...

Section 8707. - 8707. Notice of the hearing shall be given by publishing...

Section 8708. - 8708. Copies of the notice shall be posted in three...

Section 8709. - 8709. The notice shall: (a) Be addressed to all persons...

Section 8710. - 8710. At the time fixed for the hearing, the court...

Section 8711. - 8711. The cemetery authority or other person directed by the...

Section 8713. - 8713. The vacation of an alley, avenue, roadway, walk, driveway,...

Section 8714. - 8714. In allowing any damages to any plot owner for...

Section 8715. - 8715. The provisions of this article are hereby declared to...

ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries

Section 8725. - 8725. A cemetery authority that maintains a cemetery may place...

Section 8726. - 8726. (a) The principal of all funds for endowment care...

Section 8726.1. - 8726.1. (a) If a cemetery authority establishes an endowment care...

Section 8726.2. - 8726.2. (a) On or after January 1, 2021, a cemetery...

Section 8726.3. - 8726.3. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the principal of the...

Section 8728. - 8728. The cemetery authority may from time to time adopt...

Section 8729. - 8729. Upon payment of the purchase price and the amount...

Section 8730. - 8730. Upon the application of an owner of any plot,...

Section 8731. - 8731. (a) The cemetery authority may appoint a board of...

Section 8732. - 8732. Not more than one member of the board of...

Section 8732.1. - 8732.1. Each individual trustee of an endowment care fund shall...

Section 8733. - 8733. No sum in excess of 5 percent of the...

Section 8733.5. - 8733.5. In lieu of the appointment of a board of...

Section 8734. - 8734. (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and...

Section 8735. - 8735. A cemetery authority which has established an endowment care...

Section 8736. - 8736. The endowment care fund and all payments or contributions...

Section 8737. - 8737. No payment, gift, grant, bequest, or other contribution for...

Section 8738. - 8738. (a) For purposes of this section, “net price” means...

Section 8738. - 8738. (a) For purposes of this section, “net price” means...

Section 8738.1. - 8738.1. In addition to the requirements of Section 8738 any...

Section 8738.2. - 8738.2. The endowment care fund under the provisions of this...

Section 8739. - 8739. A nonendowment care cemetery is one that does not...

Section 8739.1. - 8739.1. Any cemetery established, on or after September 7, 1955,...

Section 8740. - 8740. A cemetery which otherwise complies with Section 8738 may...

Section 8741. - 8741. Each endowment care cemetery shall post in a conspicuous...

Section 8743. - 8743. Each nonendowment care cemetery or the Cemetery and Funeral...

Section 8744. - 8744. There shall be printed at the head of all...

Section 8745. - 8745. All the information appearing on the signs and report...

Section 8746. - 8746. Any person, partnership, corporation, association, or his, her, or...

Section 8747.5. - 8747.5. Each cemetery shall at all times maintain and keep...

Section 8748. - 8748. Where an endowment care mausoleum or mausoleum-columbarium is operated...

ARTICLE 3 - Investment of Endowment Funds

Section 8750. - 8750. Endowment care funds shall not be used for any...

Section 8751. - 8751. The funds shall be invested and reinvested, and kept...

Section 8751.1. - 8751.1. In addition to the requirements of Section 8751, the...

ARTICLE 4 - Special Care

Section 8775. - 8775. A cemetery authority which has established an endowment care...

Section 8776. - 8776. The sums paid in or contributed to the fund...

Section 8777. - 8777. All money or property received by a cemetery authority...

Section 8778. - 8778. The following shall be eligible investments for all special...

Section 8778.5. - 8778.5. Each special care trust fund established pursuant to this...

Section 8779. - 8779. Nothing in this article shall require liquidation or transmutation...

Section 8779.5. - 8779.5. Each special care fund established pursuant to this article...

ARTICLE 5 - Misrepresentation as to Endowment

Section 8780. - 8780. No person, partnership, corporation, association, or his, her, or...

Section 8781. - 8781. It shall be unlawful for a cemetery authority, its...

ARTICLE 6 - Penalties

Section 8785. - 8785. Any person, partnership, or corporation administering, managing, or having...