California · Business and Professions Code - BPC

BPC §7717: Every person, who pays or causes to be paid or offers to pay to any funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer, or to the agent, assistant or employee of either, any commission or bonus or re

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

It is illegal to pay or offer payment to funeral directors or establishments as an incentive for them to recommend or direct human remains to specific cremation, mausoleum, or cemetery facilities.

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Every person, who pays or causes to be paid or offers to pay to any funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer, or to the agent, assistant or employee of either, any commission or bonus or rebate or other thing of value in consideration of the funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer recommending or causing human remains to be disposed of in any crematory, mausoleum or cemetery, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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