California Code
DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES
PART 2 - DISINTERMENT AND REMOVAL

CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions

ARTICLE 1 - Permits

Section 7500. - 7500. No remains of any deceased person shall be removed...

Section 7501. - 7501. A cemetery authority shall not remove or permit the...

Section 7502. - 7502. In the disinterment, transportation and removal of human remains...

ARTICLE 2 - Consent to Removal

Section 7525. - 7525. The remains of a deceased person may be removed...

Section 7526. - 7526. If the required consent can not be obtained, permission...

Section 7527. - 7527. Notice of application to the court for such permission...

Section 7528. - 7528. This article does not apply to or prohibit the...

CHAPTER 3 - Removal of All Remains: Cities of 1500 100,000

Section 7600. - 7600. The governing body of any city having a population...

CHAPTER 4 - Removal of All Remains: Cities and Cities and Counties Over 100,000

ARTICLE 1 - Power of Municipality

Section 7700. - 7700. The governing body of any city or city and...

Section 7701. - 7701. The governing body of such city or city and...

ARTICLE 2 - Declaration of Intention by Cemetery Authority

Section 7725. - 7725. The cemetery authority of any cemetery from which human...

Section 7726. - 7726. Any resolution or declaration of intention to disinter and...

ARTICLE 3 - Notice of Intention

Section 7735. - 7735. Notice of a declaration of intention to remove the...

Section 7736. - 7736. The notice shall be entitled “Notice of Declaration of...

Section 7737. - 7737. Copies of the notice shall within ten days after...

Section 7738. - 7738. A copy of the notice shall be mailed to...

Section 7739. - 7739. The notice shall also be mailed to each known...

ARTICLE 4 - Special Notice to Relative or Friend

Section 7750. - 7750. At any time before the date fixed for the...

Section 7751. - 7751. The notice to the cemetery authority shall specify: (a)...

Section 7752. - 7752. The notice may be delivered, or forwarded by registered...

Section 7753. - 7753. After receipt of such notice before the date fixed...

Section 7754. - 7754. Whenever a request of notice is given by a...

ARTICLE 5 - Removals by Relatives or Friends

Section 7800. - 7800. At any time prior to the removal by a...

Section 7801. - 7801. The person desiring to cause the removal shall, prior...

Section 7802. - 7802. Removal of all remains in a plot without the...

Section 7803. - 7803. If the right, title or interest of any grantee...

Section 7804. - 7804. Whenever remains are removed by a relative or friend...

Section 7805. - 7805. If such appurtenances remain on the plot for more...

ARTICLE 6 - Removal by Cemetery Authority

Section 7850. - 7850. After the completion of notice, and after the expiration...

Section 7851. - 7851. Whenever any remains are removed from any cemetery or...

Section 7852. - 7852. The remains of each person reinterred shall be placed...

ARTICLE 7 - Disposal of Lands

Section 7900. - 7900. Whenever human remains have been ordered removed under this...

Section 7901. - 7901. No order of any court shall be required prior...

Section 7902. - 7902. Petitions for confirmation of sales shall be made to...

Section 7903. - 7903. If prior to the adoption of an ordinance pursuant...

Section 7904. - 7904. After the removal of all human remains interred in...

Section 7905. - 7905. With the approval of the governing body of the...

Section 7906. - 7906. After all remains have been removed from a cemetery...

ARTICLE 8 - Use of Funds

Section 7925. - 7925. Money payable or to become payable as the purchase...

Section 7926. - 7926. Whenever any cemetery corporation or association has declared for...

Section 7927. - 7927. From the money remaining in the treasury of the...

Section 7928. - 7928. After making provisions for an endowment care fund to...

Section 7929. - 7929. Any balance remaining in the fund may be used...

Section 7930. - 7930. Whenever any cemetery corporation or association having a governing...

Section 7931. - 7931. In lieu of itself investing, using or applying the...

Section 7932. - 7932. Before any such transfer of funds is made, the...

Section 7933. - 7933. The order shall be obtained upon petition of the...

ARTICLE 9 - New Land, Mausoleum or Columbarium

Section 7950. - 7950. Whenever any cemetery authority owning or controlling cemetery lands...

Section 7951. - 7951. Plots, crypts, or niches may be sold to persons...

Section 7952. - 7952. The governing body of any cemetery corporation or association...

Section 7953. - 7953. After the removal and reinterment of remains disinterred from...

Section 7954. - 7954. The cemetery authority shall prepare a complete map or...

Section 7955. - 7955. The map or plan shall be kept on file...

ARTICLE 10 - Taxation

Section 7975. - 7975. When any law or ordinance requires that the remains...

ARTICLE 11 - Religious Observances

Section 7980. - 7980. The heirs, relatives or friends of any decedent whose...

ARTICLE 12 - Removal by Counties

Section 8000. - 8000. If it appears to the board of supervisors of...

Section 8001. - 8001. Any resolution or declaration for abandonment adopted and made...

Section 8002. - 8002. At any time before the date fixed for the...

Section 8003. - 8003. After the publication and mailing of the notice mentioned...

Section 8004. - 8004. Whenever the remains of any person shall be removed...

Section 8005. - 8005. After the removal of all human remains the property...

CHAPTER 5 - California Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation

ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

Section 8010. - 8010. This chapter shall be known, and may be cited...

Section 8011. - 8011. It is the intent of the Legislature to do...

ARTICLE 2 - State Cultural Affiliation and Repatriation

Section 8012. - 8012. Terms used in this chapter have the same meaning...

Section 8013. - 8013. (a) On or before January 1, 2021, the commission...

Section 8014. - 8014. (a) A lineal descendent claiming a relationship with, and...

Section 8015. - 8015. (a) Upon receiving a written request for repatriation of...

Section 8016. - 8016. (a) An agency or museum receiving a repatriation request...

Section 8017. - 8017. If there is a committee or group of California...

Section 8018. - 8018. An agency or museum that repatriates human remains and...

Section 8019. - 8019. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit...

Section 8020. - 8020. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and upon the...

Section 8021. - 8021. The filing of an appeal by either party automatically...

ARTICLE 3 - Conditions on the Use of State Funds for the Handling or Maintenance of Native American Human Remains and Cultural Items

Section 8024. - 8024. For purposes of this article, “consultation” has the same...

Section 8025. - 8025. (a) In order to better implement the federal Native...

Section 8026. - 8026. (a) (1) As a condition for using state funds...

Section 8027. - 8027. The Regents of the University of California may delegate...

Section 8028. - 8028. The California State Auditor, in accordance with Chapter 6.5...

Section 8028.5. - 8028.5. The provisions of this article are severable. If any...

ARTICLE 4 - Penalties and Enforcement Procedures

Section 8029. - 8029. (a) Any agency or museum that fails to comply...

Section 8030. - 8030. The provisions of this chapter are severable. If any...