California Code
DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES
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...