California · Business and Professions Code - BPC

BPC §7716: Every funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer, or the agents or representatives thereof, who, after a death or while a death is impending, pays, offers to pay or causes to be paid, directl

Misdemeanor

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Funeral establishments, directors, embalmers, and their agents commit a misdemeanor by paying or offering payment to secure funeral business after or near the time of death.

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Every funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer, or the agents or representatives thereof, who, after a death or while a death is impending, pays, offers to pay or causes to be paid, directly or indirectly, any sum of money or other valuable consideration for the securing of business is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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