California Code
Health and Safety Code - HSC
DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES

PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER 1 - Definitions

Section 8100. - 8100. The definitions set forth in Chapter 1 (commencing with...

CHAPTER 2 - Vandalism

Section 8102. - 8102. Any person violating any provision of this chapter is...

Section 8103. - 8103. The provisions of this chapter do not apply to...

CHAPTER 3 - Records

Section 8110. - 8110. The person in charge of any premises on which...

Section 8111. - 8111. The records shall at all times be open to...

Section 8112. - 8112. Records required to be kept under Division 7 (commencing...

CHAPTER 3.5 - Requirements for Burials

Section 8113. - 8113. (a) This chapter shall apply to all cemeteries, including,...

Section 8113.1. - 8113.1. (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c),...

Section 8113.3. - 8113.3. (a) This chapter shall not apply to mausoleums, crypts,...

Section 8113.4. - 8113.4. Cemeteries shall be liable for the costs of reburial...

Section 8113.5. - 8113.5. (a) Except with the express written permission of the...

Section 8113.6. - 8113.6. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any cemetery that...

Section 8113.7. - 8113.7. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the statute of...

CHAPTER 4 - Local Regulation of Cemeteries

Section 8115. - 8115. The governing body of any city or county, in...

CHAPTER 4.5 - Maintenance of Cemetery Grounds

Section 8117. - 8117. Hose bibs are approved for use at cemeteries supplied...

Section 8118. - 8118. A cemetery supplied with disinfected tertiary treated recycled water...

CHAPTER 5 - Change In Use

Section 8120. - 8120. (a) On or after January 1, 1990, the cemetery...

CHAPTER 6 - Veteran s Commemorative Property

Section 8122. - 8122. For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall...

Section 8123. - 8123. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) and Section...

Section 8124. - 8124. Nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted to prohibit...

PART 2 - PUBLIC CEMETERIES

CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions

Section 8125. - 8125. Incorporated cities, and for unincorporated towns the supervisors of...

Section 8125.5. - 8125.5. The City of Simi Valley may survey, lay out,...

Section 8126. - 8126. The title to lands situated in or near any...

Section 8127. - 8127. The inhabitants of any city may by subscription or...

Section 8128. - 8128. The governing body having control of a public cemetery...

Section 8129. - 8129. The public cemeteries of cities, towns, or neighborhoods or...

Section 8130. - 8130. The general management, conduct, and regulation of burials, the...

Section 8131. - 8131. If not owned by a city or by a...

Section 8132. - 8132. Public cemeteries of fraternal or beneficial associations or societies...

Section 8133. - 8133. The authorities having jurisdiction and control of cemeteries may...

Section 8134. - 8134. No streets, alleys, or roads shall be opened or...

Section 8135. - 8135. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of...

Section 8136. - 8136. Any city, including a chartered city, that owns and...

Section 8137. - 8137. A cemetery owned and operated by a city, county,...

PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES

CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions

Section 8250. - 8250. Except as provided in subdivision (c) of this section,...

Section 8250.5. - 8250.5. As used in Section 8250 of this code, a...

Section 8251. - 8251. The provisions of this part do not affect the...

Section 8252. - 8252. It is unlawful for any corporation, copartnership, firm, trust,...

Section 8253. - 8253. The powers, privileges, duties and restrictions conferred and imposed...

CHAPTER 2 - Operation and Management

ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

Section 8275. - 8275. Any private corporation authorized by its articles so to...

Section 8276. - 8276. Charges made by a cemetery authority for foundations, for...

Section 8277. - 8277. Every contract of a cemetery authority, including contracts executed...

Section 8278. - 8278. In addition to any right of rescission which the...

Section 8279. - 8279. A cemetery authority shall comply with the Mausoleum and...

ARTICLE 2 - Rules and Regulations

Section 8300. - 8300. (a) A cemetery authority may make, adopt, amend, add...

Section 8301.5. - 8301.5. (a) Nothing in Section 8301 shall be construed to...

Section 8309. - 8309. The rules and regulations shall be plainly printed or...

ARTICLE 3 - Police Power

Section 8325. - 8325. Persons designated by a cemetery authority have the powers...

ARTICLE 4 - Records

Section 8330. - 8330. A record shall be kept of every interment showing...

Section 8331. - 8331. A record shall be kept of the ownership of...

ARTICLE 5 - Operation of Crematories

Section 8341. - 8341. All cremated remains not disposed of in accordance with...

Section 8342. - 8342. No crematory shall make or enforce any rules requiring...

Section 8343. - 8343. A crematory shall maintain on its premises, or other...

Section 8344. - 8344. A crematory shall maintain an identification system allowing identification...

Section 8344.5. - 8344.5. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) or (c),...

Section 8344.6. - 8344.6. (a) A crematory that incinerates an American flag or...

Section 8345. - 8345. If a cremated remains container is of insufficient capacity...

Section 8345.5. - 8345.5. A crematory shall not accept human remains for cremation...

Section 8346. - 8346. Within two hours after a crematory licensed by the...

Section 8346.5. - 8346.5. Every crematory operator, or duly authorized representative shall provide...

Section 8347. - 8347. (a) The crematory licensee, or his or her authorized...

ARTICLE 6 - Contract Limitations

Section 8350. - 8350. Unless otherwise limited by the law under which created,...

Section 8351. - 8351. All mortgages, deeds of trust, and other liens of...

ARTICLE 7 - Restrictions on Officers

Section 8360. - 8360. No director or officer of any cemetery authority shall...

Section 8361. - 8361. The office of any director or officer who acts...

Section 8362. - 8362. Every director or officer authorizing or consenting to a...

ARTICLE 8 - Hydrolysis Facilities

Section 8370. - 8370. All hydrolyzed human remains not disposed of in accordance...

Section 8372. - 8372. A hydrolysis facility shall not make or enforce any...

Section 8374. - 8374. (a) A hydrolysis facility shall maintain on its premises,...

Section 8376. - 8376. (a) A hydrolysis facility shall maintain an identification system...

Section 8378. - 8378. Within two hours after a licensed hydrolysis facility takes...

Section 8380. - 8380. (a) The hydrolysis facility licensee, or its authorized representatives,...

Section 8382. - 8382. This article shall become operative on July 1, 2020....

ARTICLE 9 - Reduction Facilities

Section 8390. - 8390. All reduced human remains not disposed of in accordance...

Section 8391. - 8391. A reduction facility shall not make or enforce rules...

Section 8392. - 8392. (a) A reduction facility shall maintain on its premises,...

Section 8393. - 8393. (a) A reduction facility shall maintain an identification system...

Section 8394. - 8394. Within two hours after a reduction facility takes custody...

Section 8395. - 8395. (a) The reduction facility licensee, or its authorized representatives,...

Section 8396. - 8396. This article shall become operative on January 1, 2027....

CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale

ARTICLE 1 - Acquisition of Property

Section 8500. - 8500. Cemetery authorities may take by purchase, donation or devise,...

Section 8501. - 8501. Any cemetery authority which is described in Section 23701c...

ARTICLE 2 - Declaration of Intention

Section 8525. - 8525. A cemetery authority may execute a declaration acknowledged so...

Section 8526. - 8526. The declaration may be filed for record in the...

ARTICLE 3 - Dedication

Section 8550. - 8550. Every cemetery authority, from time to time as its...

Section 8551. - 8551. The cemetery authority shall file the map or plat...

Section 8552. - 8552. The declaration shall be in such form as the...

Section 8553. - 8553. Upon the filing of the map or plat and...

Section 8554. - 8554. When reservation is made in the declaration of dedication,...

Section 8555. - 8555. The filed map or plat and the recorded declaration...

Section 8556. - 8556. The county recorder of the county in which a...

Section 8557. - 8557. The county recorder of the county in which a...

Section 8558. - 8558. After property is dedicated to cemetery purposes pursuant to...

Section 8559. - 8559. Dedication to cemetery purposes pursuant to this chapter is...

Section 8560. - 8560. After dedication pursuant to this chapter, and as long...

Section 8560.5. - 8560.5. No streets, alleys, or roads shall be opened or...

Section 8561. - 8561. All property dedicated pursuant to this chapter, including roads,...

ARTICLE 4 - Sale of Plots

Section 8570. - 8570. After filing the map or plat and recording the...

Section 8571. - 8571. (a) All plots, the use of which has been...

Section 8572. - 8572. All conveyances made by a cemetery authority shall be...

Section 8573. - 8573. Any cemetery authority or its agents who sell, offer...

Section 8574. - 8574. For a violation of any provision of Section 8573,...

ARTICLE 5 - Removal of Dedication

Section 8580. - 8580. Property dedicated to cemetery purposes shall be held and...

Section 8581. - 8581. The notice of hearing provided in section 8580 shall...

ARTICLE 6 - Transfer of Cemetery Ownership

Section 8585. - 8585. (a) Whenever ownership of any cemetery authority is proposed...

CHAPTER 4 - Property Rights

ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

Section 8600. - 8600. All plots conveyed to individuals are presumed to be...

Section 8601. - 8601. The spouse of an owner of any plot containing...

Section 8602. - 8602. No conveyance or other action of the owner without...

Section 8603. - 8603. If no interment is made in an interment plot...

Section 8604. - 8604. Cemetery property passing to an individual by reason of...

Section 8605. - 8605. An affidavit by a person having knowledge of the...

ARTICLE 2 - Joint Tenants

Section 8625. - 8625. In a conveyance to two or more persons as...

Section 8626. - 8626. Upon the death of a joint tenant, the title...

Section 8627. - 8627. Cemetery property held in joint tenancy is exempt from...

Section 8628. - 8628. An affidavit by any person having knowledge of the...

Section 8629. - 8629. When there are several owners of a plot, or...

ARTICLE 3 - Family Interment Plots

Section 8650. - 8650. (a) Whenever an interment of the remains of a...

Section 8650.5. - 8650.5. An affidavit executed by a person who is the...

Section 8651. - 8651. In a family plot one grave, niche or crypt...

Section 8652. - 8652. If no parent or child survives, the right of...

Section 8653. - 8653. Any surviving spouse, parent, child or heir who has...

ARTICLE 4 - Vested Right of Interment

Section 8675. - 8675. A vested right of interment may be waived and...

Section 8676. - 8676. No vested right of interment gives to any person...

ARTICLE 5 - Voluntary Establishment of Inalienability

Section 8680. - 8680. A cemetery authority may take and hold any plot...

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...

CHAPTER 7 - Abandonment

Section 8825. - 8825. A city or county having a nonendowment care cemetery...

Section 8826. - 8826. The resolution for abandonment adopted under the provisions of...

Section 8827. - 8827. After the publication mentioned in Section 8826 of this...

Section 8828. - 8828. After the work which the governing body, in its...

Section 8829. - 8829. Thereafter the city or county shall maintain said pioneer...

PART 4 - PUBLIC CEMETERY DISTRICTS

CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions

Section 9000. - 9000. This part shall be known and may be cited...

Section 9001. - 9001. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the...

Section 9002. - 9002. The definitions in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 7000)...

Section 9003. - 9003. (a) This part provides the authority for the organization...

Section 9004. - 9004. This part is necessary to protect the public health,...

Section 9005. - 9005. If any provision of this part or the application...

Section 9006. - 9006. (a) Any action brought to determine the validity of...

Section 9007. - 9007. (a) Except as provided in this section, territory, whether...

CHAPTER 2 - Formation

Section 9010. - 9010. A new district may be formed pursuant to this...

Section 9011. - 9011. (a) A proposal to form a new district may...

Section 9012. - 9012. (a) Before circulating any petition, the proponents shall publish...

Section 9013. - 9013. (a) A proposal to form a new district may...

Section 9014. - 9014. (a) Once the proponents have filed a sufficient petition...

CHAPTER 3 - Board of Trustees

Section 9020. - 9020. A legislative body of at least three members known...

Section 9021. - 9021. Within 30 days after the effective date of the...

Section 9022. - 9022. (a) Each person appointed by a board of supervisors...

Section 9023. - 9023. (a) The initial board of trustees of a district...

Section 9024. - 9024. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) of this...

Section 9025. - 9025. (a) A board of trustees may adopt a resolution...

Section 9026. - 9026. (a) The board of supervisors of the principal county...

Section 9027. - 9027. (a) A local agency formation commission, in approving either...

Section 9028. - 9028. (a) At the first meeting of the initial board...

Section 9029. - 9029. A board of trustees shall meet at least once...

Section 9030. - 9030. (a) A majority of the board of trustees shall...

Section 9031. - 9031. (a) The board of trustees may provide, by ordinance...

CHAPTER 4 - Powers

Section 9040. - 9040. (a) A district may own, operate, improve, and maintain...

Section 9041. - 9041. A district shall have and may exercise all rights...

Section 9042. - 9042. (a) When acquiring, improving, or using any real property,...

Section 9043. - 9043. (a) A district shall have perpetual succession. (b) A...

Section 9044. - 9044. (a) Each district shall adopt policies and procedures, including...

Section 9045. - 9045. (a) The Myers-Milias-Brown Act, Chapter 10 (commencing with Section...

Section 9046. - 9046. A board of trustees may require any employee or...

Section 9047. - 9047. A board of trustees may provide for any programs...

Section 9048. - 9048. A district may authorize the members of its board...

Section 9049. - 9049. A district may sell interment rights in its cemeteries,...

Section 9050. - 9050. (a) A district may acquire, construct, improve, maintain, or...

Section 9051. - 9051. (a) A district may acquire, maintain, or repair a...

Section 9052. - 9052. (a) A district may require that monuments or markers...

Section 9053. - 9053. A district may sell accessory and replacement objects that...

Section 9054. - 9054. (a) A district may use or lease land acquired...

Section 9055. - 9055. (a) A district may convey a cemetery owned by...

Section 9056. - 9056. (a) A district may dedicate real property or an...

CHAPTER 5 - Interments

Section 9060. - 9060. (a) A district shall limit interment in a cemetery...

Section 9061. - 9061. (a) A district may inter a person who is...

Section 9062. - 9062. Notwithstanding Section 9060, the board of trustees may contract...

Section 9063. - 9063. Notwithstanding Section 9060, the Oroville Cemetery District may use...

Section 9063.3. - 9063.3. Notwithstanding Sections 9060 and 9061, the Happy Homestead Cemetery...

Section 9063.5. - 9063.5. Notwithstanding Section 9060, the Elsinore Valley Cemetery District may...

Section 9063.7. - 9063.7. Notwithstanding Section 9060, the Davis Cemetery District may use...

Section 9063.9. - 9063.9. Notwithstanding Sections 9060 and 9061, the Cottonwood Cemetery District...

Section 9064. - 9064. (a) The board of trustees shall cause to be...

Section 9065. - 9065. (a) The board of trustees shall create an endowment...

Section 9066. - 9066. The board of trustees shall cause the principal of...

Section 9067. - 9067. The board of trustees may cause the funds deposited...

Section 9068. - 9068. (a) The board of trustees shall adopt a schedule...

Section 9069. - 9069. (a) A district may seek the abandonment of an...

CHAPTER 5.5 - Interment Rights

Section 9069.10. - 9069.10. An interment right does not include the right for...

Section 9069.15. - 9069.15. (a) This chapter does not apply to, or prohibit,...

Section 9069.20. - 9069.20. (a) An interment right provides a transferable property interest...

Section 9069.25. - 9069.25. (a) If the owner of an interment right dies...

Section 9069.30. - 9069.30. When a public cemetery district acts to transfer ownership...

Section 9069.35. - 9069.35. A person who purports to be the successor owner...

Section 9069.40. - 9069.40. Upon the sale to a person of a plot...

CHAPTER 6 - Finances

Section 9070. - 9070. (a) On or before August 30 of each year,...

Section 9071. - 9071. (a) In its annual budget, the board of trustees...

Section 9072. - 9072. (a) On or before July 1 of each year,...

Section 9073. - 9073. The auditor of each county in which a district...

Section 9074. - 9074. (a) A district may accept any grants, goods, money,...

Section 9075. - 9075. All claims for money or damages against a district...

Section 9076. - 9076. (a) All claims against a district shall be audited,...

Section 9077. - 9077. (a) Notwithstanding Section 9076, a district that has total...

Section 9078. - 9078. A district may, by resolution, establish a revolving fund...

Section 9079. - 9079. (a) The board of trustees shall provide for regular...

CHAPTER 7 - Alternative Revenues

Section 9080. - 9080. Whenever a board of trustees determines that the amount...

Section 9081. - 9081. A district may levy special taxes pursuant to either...

Section 9082. - 9082. (a) Whenever a board of trustees determines that it...

Section 9083. - 9083. (a) In addition to the other fees authorized by...

CHAPTER 8 - Zones

Section 9090. - 9090. (a) Whenever a board of trustees determines that it...

Section 9091. - 9091. (a) At the hearing, the board of trustees shall...

Section 9092. - 9092. (a) A board of trustees may change the boundaries...

Section 9093. - 9093. (a) As determined by the board of trustees and...

PART 5 - MAUSOLEUMS AND COLUMBARIUMS

CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions

Section 9501. - 9501. This part shall be known and may be cited...

Section 9502. - 9502. The purpose of this part is to insure the...

Section 9503. - 9503. Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, the...

Section 9504. - 9504. “Mausoleum” includes any building or structure, used or intended...

Section 9504.5. - 9504.5. “Private mausoleum or columbarium” shall be a freestanding structure...

Section 9505. - 9505. “Companion crypts” or “nest of crypts” means two or...

Section 9506. - 9506. “Columbarium” includes any building or structure, used or intended...

Section 9507. - 9507. “Uniform Building Code” means the 1991 Edition of the...

Section 9508. - 9508. “The Uniform Plumbing Code” means the 1991 Edition of...

Section 9509. - 9509. “National Electrical Code” means the 1990 Edition of the...

Section 9510. - 9510. “Incombustible Material” means and includes any material having an...

Section 9511. - 9511. “Type I Construction” includes the type of construction designated...

Section 9512. - 9512. The provisions of this part shall not apply to...

Section 9513. - 9513. (a) The provisions of this part shall apply to...

CHAPTER 2 - Enforcement

Section 9525. - 9525. The building department of every city or city and...

Section 9526. - 9526. The department, officer or officers of a county who...

Section 9527. - 9527. Any city or county may, by ordinance, designate any...

Section 9528. - 9528. In any city where there is no department or...

CHAPTER 3 - Permits and Plans

ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

Section 9550. - 9550. It is unlawful for any person to construct, or...

ARTICLE 2 - Application, Permit and Certificate of Occupancy

Section 9560. - 9560. A person desiring a permit shall file a written...

Section 9561. - 9561. The application shall be accompanied by: (a) Two full,...

Section 9562. - 9562. The department shall cause all plans, specifications, and statements...

Section 9563. - 9563. The department may, from time to time, approve changes...

Section 9564. - 9564. The issuance or granting of a permit or approval...

Section 9565. - 9565. A true copy of the plans, specifications, and other...

ARTICLE 3 - Cancellation of Permit

Section 9575. - 9575. In the case of any refusal, or neglect of...

ARTICLE 4 - Expiration of Permit

Section 9580. - 9580. Every permit or approval under which no work is...

CHAPTER 4 - Inspection and Approval

Section 9590. - 9590. When the work is completed in accordance with plans,...

Section 9591. - 9591. The department shall inspect or cause the work to...

Section 9592. - 9592. When it is found that the building or structure...

CHAPTER 5 - Construction

ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

Section 9600. - 9600. No mausoleum or columbarium shall be constructed and no...

Section 9600.5. - 9600.5. The Cemetery and Funeral Bureau may, in addition to...

Section 9600.6. - 9600.6. Private mausoleums or columbariums may be constructed in conformance...

Section 9601. - 9601. All mausoleums or columbariums shall be of Type I...

Section 9602. - 9602. Plumbing in all mausoleums or columbariums shall conform to...

Section 9603. - 9603. Electrical work in all mausoleums or columbariums shall conform...

ARTICLE 2 - Structural and Material Requirements of Community Mausoleums and Columbariums

Section 9625. - 9625. Every mausoleum or columbarium shall be designed and constructed...

Section 9626. - 9626. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all materials...

Section 9627. - 9627. All structural framework shall be of cast-in-place reinforced concrete,...

Section 9628. - 9628. All floors shall be designed and constructed for a...

Section 9629. - 9629. Footings shall be designed and constructed to conform to...

Section 9630. - 9630. Floor slabs placed on earth shall be constructed of...

Section 9631. - 9631. Where any wall is constructed against a bank of...

Section 9632. - 9632. Except as provided in Section 9633, all crypt walls...

Section 9633. - 9633. Horizontal and vertical partitions separating crypts comprising companion crypts...

Section 9634. - 9634. Each crypt, including each crypt in a companion crypt...

Section 9635. - 9635. (a) All individual crypt openings shall be sealed with...

Section 9636. - 9636. All marble floors shall be constructed on a bed...

Section 9637. - 9637. All interior or exterior veneers shall be of stone,...

Section 9638. - 9638. Material for exterior trim, including exterior crypt and niche...

Section 9639. - 9639. Joints shall be of uniform thickness and when mortar...

Section 9640. - 9640. Grout used for joints and pointing shall conform with...

Section 9641. - 9641. Masonry veneer shall be attached to the supporting wall...

Section 9642. - 9642. All base, architraves, wainscoting and all other vertical work...

Section 9643. - 9643. All interior and exterior fastenings for hangers, clips, doors,...

Section 9644. - 9644. All exterior materials used for doors, window frames, skylights,...

Section 9645. - 9645. In the event that during a national emergency, as...

Section 9646. - 9646. Roofs shall be constructed of cast-in-place reinforced concrete, and...

Section 9647. - 9647. All skylight frames shall be fabricated in conformance with...

CHAPTER 6 - Penalties

Section 9675. - 9675. Every person who violates any provision of this part...

Section 9676. - 9676. Every owner or operator of a mausoleum or columbarium...

Section 9677. - 9677. The penalties of this chapter shall not apply as...

PART 6 - PET CEMETERIES

Section 9700. - 9700. The owner of property may dedicate the property to...

Section 9701. - 9701. All mortgages, deeds of trust, and other liens of...

Section 9702. - 9702. If a dedication is made pursuant to Section 9700,...

Section 9703. - 9703. (a) A pet cemetery owner may dispose of the...