California

Health and Safety Code - HSC

17,661 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 8017 — If there is a committee or group of California Indian tribes authorized by their respective tribal governments to accept repatriation of human remains and cultural items originating from their state a
• § 8018 — An agency or museum that repatriates human remains and cultural items in good faith pursuant to this chapter is not liable for claims by an aggrieved party or for claims of breach of a fiduciary duty
• § 8019 — Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the governing body of a California Indian tribe or group authorized by Section 8017 from expressly relinquishing control over any human remains o
• § 8020 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and upon the request of any party or an intervenor, the commission or designated mediator may close part of a mediation session to the public if the commiss
• § 80200 — For purposes of this chapter, the definitions contained in this article shall apply.
• § 80205 — “Account” means the Cleanup Loans and Environmental Assistance to Neighborhoods Account established pursuant to Section 80350.
• § 8021 — The filing of an appeal by either party automatically stays an order of the commission or a designated mediator on repatriation of human remains and cultural items.
• § 80210 — (a) “Brownfield” means property that meets all of the following conditions: (1) It is located in an urban area.
• § 80215 — “Cleanup and abatement order” means an order issued by a regional board pursuant to Section 13304 of the Water Code.
• § 80220 — “Cleanup Loans and Environmental Assistance to Neighborhoods Program” or “CLEAN” means the loan program established by the department pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 80450), to finance
• § 80225 — “Economic activity” means a governmental activity, a commercial, agricultural, industrial, or not-for-profit enterprise, or other economic or business concern.
• § 80230 — (a) “Eligible property” means a site that is any of the following: (1) A brownfield.
• § 80235 — (a) “Hazardous material” means a substance or waste that, because of its physical, chemical, or other characteristics, may pose a risk of endangering human health or safety or of degrading the environ
• § 8024 — For purposes of this article, “consultation” has the same meaning as defined in Section 65352.
• § 80240 — “Investigating site contamination program” means the loan program established by the department pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 80400) to conduct a preliminary endangerment assessment o
• § 80245 — “Leaking underground fuel tank” has the same meaning as “tank,” as defined in Section 25299.
• § 8025 — (a) In order to better implement the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (25 U.
• § 80250 — “No longer in operation” means an economic activity that is, or previously was, located on a property that is not conducting operations on the property of the type usually associated with the economic
• § 80255 — “Project” means any response action, and the planned future development, included in an application for a loan pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 80450).
• § 8026 — (a) (1) As a condition for using state funds to handle and maintain Native American human remains and cultural items, the Regents of the University of California shall establish a systemwide Native Am
• § 80260 — “Property” means real property, as defined in Section 658 of the Civil Code.
• § 80265 — “Small business” means an independently owned and operated business, that is not dominant in its field of operation, that, together with affiliates, has 100 or fewer employees, and that has average an
• § 8027 — The Regents of the University of California may delegate responsibilities pursuant to this article to the President of the University of California or another person determined to be appropriate.
• § 80275 — “Underutilized property” means property that meets all of the following conditions: (a) It is located in an urban area.
• § 8028 — The California State Auditor, in accordance with Chapter 6.
• § 8028.5 — The provisions of this article are severable.
• § 8028.7 — (a) In order to better implement the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (25 U.
• § 8028.71 — (a) (1) In order to better implement the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (25 U.
• § 8028.72 — To ensure that each California State University campus has the funding necessary to comply with this chapter, the California State University shall do all of the following: (a) Require each campus wit
• § 8028.73 — In alignment with the policy established pursuant to Section 8028.
• § 80280 — “Urban area” means either of the following: (a) The central portion of a city or a group of contiguous cities with a population of 50,000 or more, together with adjacent densely populated areas having
• § 8029 — (a) Any agency or museum that fails to comply with the requirements of this chapter may be assessed a civil penalty by the commission, not to exceed twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for each violatio
• § 8030 — The provisions of this chapter are severable.
• § 80300 — Except as provided in Sections 80570 and 80575, any response action carried out under this chapter shall be conducted in accordance with the requirements of this part and Chapter 6.
• § 80305 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 80300, for purposes of Section 25262, the administering agency for any site that is the subject of a loan under this chapter shall either be the department pursuant to
• § 80310 — For sites that are the subject of a loan under this chapter, all references in this part to a hazardous substance shall be deemed to be a reference to a hazardous material.
• § 80315 — Except as provided in Sections 80570 and 80575, this part shall apply to a site that is the subject of a loan under this chapter, regardless of whether the site is on the list created pursuant to Arti
• § 80320 — (a) Except as provided in Section 25264, this chapter shall not be construed to limit the authority of the department, the regional board, or the state board to take any action otherwise authorized un
• § 80325 — (a) (1) The department shall post, and update at least monthly, a list of loan applications received pursuant to this chapter on the department’s internet website.
• § 80350 — The Cleanup Loans and Environmental Assistance to Neighborhoods Account is hereby established in the General Fund to provide low-interest loans to qualified applicants for the purpose of funding preli
• § 80355 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the money in the account is continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the departmen
• § 80370 — The following persons are not eligible to apply for a loan under this chapter: (a) A person who has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor involving the regulation of hazardous materials, including
• § 80375 — The rate of interest to be applied to loans made pursuant to this chapter shall be the same rate earned on investments in the Surplus Money Investment Fund during the loan repayment period.
• § 80380 — On or before January 10 of each year when a loan under this chapter is made or repaid during the previous fiscal year, the secretary shall report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and to the c
• § 80400 — The department, with the approval of the secretary, shall establish an Investigating Site Contamination Program to provide loans to eligible persons to conduct preliminary endangerment assessments of
• § 80405 — The department shall develop a loan application form for an investigating site contamination program loan and shall include, in the form, any provisions that the department considers to be appropriate
• § 80410 — The department shall determine whether to approve a loan application pursuant to this article based upon the information submitted pursuant to Section 80405.
• § 80415 — The maximum amount of a loan granted pursuant to this article shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).
• § 80420 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) and in Section 80425, upon approval of the loan application by the department, the loan recipient shall execute an agreement with the department to repay the
• § 80425 — If a loan recipient who is not the owner of the property and the department determine, after the completion of the preliminary endangerment assessment, that the sum of the cost of remediation and the
• § 80430 — Upon approval of a loan, the recipient shall enter into an agreement with the department for the department to provide regulatory oversight of the preparation and approval of the preliminary endangerm
• § 80435 — Notwithstanding any requirement of Division 20 (commencing with Section 24000) or this part regarding cost recovery or reimbursement for oversight costs, a loan recipient is not liable for paying the
• § 80450 — The department, with the approval of the secretary, shall establish a Cleanup Loans and Environmental Assistance to Neighborhoods Program to provide loans to finance the performance of any action nece
• § 80455 — The department shall develop an application form for a loan under the CLEAN program and shall include, in the form, any provisions that the department determines to be appropriate to carry out the CLE
• § 80460 — (a) A recipient of a loan to perform an action to respond to a release or threatened release of a hazardous material at an eligible property that is granted pursuant to this article may also use the l
• § 80465 — The department shall take those necessary actions to promote the use of loans under the CLEAN program by local governments.
• § 80480 — (a) The department, after consultation with the secretary, the Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing, and the Director of the Office of Planning and Research, may approve loan applications
• § 80485 — If the department determines, based on estimates of the number of loan requests that will be submitted in any fiscal year and the amount of loan funds that will be available during that fiscal year, t
• § 80490 — The system for ranking loan applications pursuant to Section 80485 shall establish priority scores for projects that are the subjects of the loan applications using scales that measure all of the foll
• § 80500 — The department may approve all, or part of, a loan request pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 80480), except the maximum amount of a loan approved pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Se
• § 80505 — The department shall not approve a loan pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 80480) if the total debt against the eligible property subject to the release or threatened release of a hazardou
• § 80520 — Upon the approval of a loan pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 80480), the loan recipient shall do all of the following: (a) Enter into an agreement with the department to repay the loan o
• § 80540 — (a) A loan approved pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 80480) shall be secured by the property subject to the release or threatened release of the hazardous material on which the response
• § 80545 — (a) The state, the secretary, the department, and the account are not liable under any state or local statute, regulation, or ordinance because the department holds the security interest identified in
• § 80550 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no approval or review shall be required from the Department of General Services to obtain any security interest or exercise any rights, including, but n
• § 80570 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) and Section 80575, upon the request of a regional board or the state board, the administering agency for any site that is the subject of a loan approved under
• § 80575 — (a) Upon the request of a regional board, the regional board shall be the administering agency for a property specified in Section 80570, if the site is subject to one or more of the following orders
• § 80580 — Notwithstanding Sections 80570 and 80575, the regional board and the state board, in consultation with the department, may request the department to be the administering agency for a property subject
• § 80585 — Notwithstanding Section 80575, if a regional board has issued a cleanup order or entered into a written voluntary agreement under Division 7 (commencing with Section 13000) of the Water Code for a sit
• § 80590 — The department shall provide a written notice of the receipt of a loan application under Article 6 (commencing with Section 80450), including the name and address of the loan applicant and the locatio
• § 80595 — The regional board or state board shall respond with a written notice to the department within 20 working days after receipt of the notice or information provided pursuant to Section 80590 indicating
• § 80600 — (a) If a regional board or a local oversight program agency under contract with the state board oversees a response action pursuant to this article, the department shall reimburse the regional board o
• § 80605 — If the regional board or a local oversight program agency under contract with the state board serves as the administering agency pursuant to this article, the regional board or the state board shall d
• § 80610 — This article does not apply to any site subject to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17210) of Part 10.
• § 80620 — (a) The department may adopt regulations to implement this chapter as emergency regulations.
• § 80625 — (a) The department may adopt emergency regulations to implement the changes made by Chapter 548 of the Statutes of 2001.
• § 80680 — For purposes of this chapter, the definitions contained in this article shall apply.
• § 80685 — “CLEAN Program” means the Cleanup Loans and Environmental Assistance to Neighborhoods Program established pursuant to Section 80450.
• § 80690 — (a) “Cost overrun insurance” means insurance that covers some, or all, of the response costs caused by a known pollution condition at a site, that exceed the estimated response action costs that have
• § 80695 — “Eligible property” has the same meaning as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 80230.
• § 80700 — “Environmental insurance” means insurance intended to limit the liability associated with the discovery and cleanup of a hazardous material release, including secured creditor insurance, pollution lia
• § 80705 — “Estimated response action costs” means the projected costs of taking a response action in implementing an approved removal action work plan or remedial action plan prepared to address a pollution con
• § 80710 — “Hazardous material” means a substance or waste that, because of its physical, chemical, or other characteristics, may pose a risk of endangering human health or safety or of degrading the environment
• § 80715 — “Insurance company” means an insurance company authorized in California to offer environmental insurance and that has an A.
• § 80720 — “Pollution condition” means a release or threatened release of a hazardous material and any resulting impact upon the environment.
• § 80725 — (a) “Pollution liability insurance” means insurance that covers damages caused by a pollution condition from, or at, a site that is preexisting and unknown, or was otherwise unknown at the time the in
• § 80730 — “Secured creditor insurance” means insurance made available to an insured that covers all of the following: (a) Response costs at a site incurred by the lender after a default by the borrower or forec
• § 80735 — “Self-insured retention amount” means response action costs in excess of the estimated response action costs that have been accepted and approved by the insurer that the insured is obligated to pay be
• § 80750 — (a) The secretary shall solicit proposals for a package of environmental insurance products from insurance companies through a competitive bidding process.
• § 80755 — The secretary shall evaluate the extent to which each proposal submitted pursuant to Section 80750 meets the objectives of the request for proposal and shall also evaluate each proposal and interested
• § 80760 — (a) The secretary shall select one or more insurance companies that have submitted a proposal pursuant to Section 80750 to be the exclusive state-designated provider of environmental insurance under t
• § 80765 — Every three years, the secretary shall repeat the competitive bidding process specified in this article.
• § 80770 — (a) An insurance company selected to provide prenegotiated environmental insurance products pursuant to Section 80760 shall offer this prenegotiated package of insurance products to any interested rec
• § 80775 — The secretary shall implement this article in consultation with representatives of other appropriate state agencies, including the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, the Office of Planning a
• § 80780 — The secretary shall implement this article in a manner that is consistent with the requirements for state procurement of services set forth in Article 4 (commencing with Section 10335) of Chapter 2 of
• § 80800 — The secretary shall expend the funds from the Cleanup Loans and Environmental Assistance to Neighborhoods Account established pursuant to Section 80350 that are made available in the annual Budget Act
• § 80805 — The secretary shall provide the following subsidies, in accordance with the application process specified in this article, from the funds made available pursuant to Section 80800: (a) Up to 50 percent
• § 80810 — (a) Any person who is conducting a response action at an eligible property under the oversight of the department or a regional board and who purchases the prenegotiated environmental insurance product
• § 80815 — An applicant for a subsidy made available pursuant to this article shall provide the secretary with all information necessary to demonstrate to the secretary that the applicant is eligible to receive
• § 80820 — The state and the Cleanup Loans and Environmental Assistance to Neighborhoods Account do not have any obligation to provide funds to any person that applies for a subsidy pursuant to this chapter.
• § 80825 — The secretary shall provide an applicant with a subsidy only to the extent that money in the Cleanup Loans and Environmental Assistance to Neighborhoods Account established pursuant to Section 80350 h
• § 80840 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the agency, the secretary, the state, their respective employees and agents, and any of the state’s other political subdivisions or their employees, shall n
• § 80845 — The immunity from liability set forth in Section 80840 specifically includes, but is not limited to, immunity if an insurance company selected to provide prenegotiated environmental insurance products
• § 80850 — The immunity set forth in this article is in addition to other immunities and defenses otherwise available to the agency, the secretary, the state, their respective employees and agents, and any of th
• § 80855 — In implementing this chapter, the agency, the secretary, the state, their respective employees and agents, and any of the state’s other political subdivisions and employees thereof, may not: (a) Be co
• § 80870 — (a) The agency may adopt regulations to implement this chapter pursuant to this section.
• § 80900 — (a) Claims approved by the Department of General Services pursuant to this chapter shall be paid from the state account.
• § 80905 — The Department of General Services may expend from the state account those sums of money as are reasonably necessary to administer and carry out this chapter.
• § 80920 — Any person may apply to the Department of General Services, pursuant to Section 80925, for compensation of a loss caused by the release, in California, of a hazardous substance if any of the following
• § 80925 — (a) The Department of General Services shall prescribe appropriate forms and procedures for claims filed pursuant to this chapter, which shall include, as a minimum, all of the following: (1) A provis
• § 80930 — No claim may be presented to the Department of General Services pursuant to this chapter later than three years from the date of discovery of the loss or from January 1, 1982, whichever is later.
• § 80940 — If the Department of General Services makes the determination, specified in Section 80945, that losses resulted from the claimant’s damages, injury, or disease, only the following losses are compensab
• § 80945 — A loss specified in Section 80940 is compensable if the Department of General Services makes all of the following findings, based upon a preponderance of the evidence: (a) A release of a hazardous sub
• § 80950 — No money shall be used for the payment of any claim authorized by this part, where the claim is the result of long-term exposure to ambient concentrations of air pollutants.
• § 80970 — (a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), the procedures specified in Article 8 (commencing with Section 11435.
• § 80975 — (a) All decisions rendered by the Department of General Services shall be in writing, with notification to all appropriate parties, and shall be rendered within 90 days of submission of a claim to the
• § 80990 — Nothing in this chapter shall require, or be deemed to require, pursuit of any claim against the Department of General Services as a condition precedent to any other remedy.
• § 80995 — (a) Compensation of any loss pursuant to this chapter shall preclude indemnification or reimbursement from any other source for the identical loss, and indemnification or reimbursement from any other
• § 8100 — The definitions set forth in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 7000) of Part 1 of Division 7 shall be applicable to this division.
• § 81010 — (a) The following evidence is not admissible as evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding, including a subrogation action by the state pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 81030), to esta
• § 8102 — Any person violating any provision of this chapter is liable, in a civil action by and in the name of the cemetery authority, to pay all damages occasioned by his unlawful acts.
• § 8103 — The provisions of this chapter do not apply to the removal or unavoidable breakage or injury, by a cemetery authority, of any thing placed in or upon any portion of its cemetery in violation of any of
• § 81030 — Compensation of any loss pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to the state’s acquiring, by subrogation, all rights of the claimant to recover the loss from the party determined to be liable for t
• § 81035 — Upon the request of the Department of General Services, the Attorney General shall commence an action in the name of the people of the State of California to recover any amount paid in compensation fo
• § 81040 — Moneys recovered pursuant to this article shall be deposited in the state account.
• § 81050 — The Department of General Services shall, in consultation with the department, adopt, and revise when appropriate, all rules and regulations necessary to implement this chapter, including methods that
• § 8110 — The person in charge of any premises on which interments or cremations are made shall keep a record of all remains interred or cremated and of the interment of remains on the premises under his charge
• § 8111 — The records shall at all times be open to official inspection.
• § 8112 — Records required to be kept under Division 7 (commencing with Section 7000) or this division may be kept in original form or by photocopy, microfilm, microfiche, laser disc, or any other method that c
• § 8113 — (a) This chapter shall apply to all cemeteries, including, but not limited to, public cemeteries, private cemeteries, and cemeteries operated by religious organizations, or fraternal or beneficial ass
• § 8113.1 — (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), there shall be no less than 18 inches of dirt or turf on top of all vaults or caskets as measured at the time of burial.
• § 8113.3 — (a) This chapter shall not apply to mausoleums, crypts, vaults, or other burial structures designed and constructed to be installed without an earthen cover.
• § 8113.4 — Cemeteries shall be liable for the costs of reburial of any remains improperly interred in already occupied graves or interred with less than the amount of turf, dirt, or other covering, as required b
• § 8113.5 — (a) Except with the express written permission of the person entitled to control the disposition of the remains, or in the case of a double burial consented to by both parties, no person shall knowing
• § 8113.6 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any cemetery that violates any of the requirements of this chapter shall be subject to disciplinary action by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau.
• § 8113.7 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the statute of limitations for any individual’s criminal violation of Section 8113.
• § 8115 — The governing body of any city or county, in the exercise of its police power, may by ordinance prescribe such standards governing burial, inurnment, and entombment and such standards of maintenance f
• § 8117 — Hose bibs are approved for use at cemeteries supplied with disinfected tertiary treated recycled water.
• § 8118 — A cemetery supplied with disinfected tertiary treated recycled water that installs a hose bib in an area subject to access by the general public shall post signage and labeling visible to the general
• § 8120 — (a) On or after January 1, 1990, the cemetery authority shall provide written notice to each person who purchases or agrees to purchase interment rights in the cemetery of that person’s ability to rec
• § 8122 — For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Veteran” means a living or deceased person who meets all of the following conditions: (1) Either served in the active military
• § 8123 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) and Section 8124, no person or entity shall sell, trade, or transfer veteran’s commemorative property.
• § 8124 — Nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted to prohibit a cemetery corporation or funeral establishment from selling new veteran’s commemorative property on either an at-need or pre-need basis.
• § 8125 — Incorporated cities, and for unincorporated towns the supervisors of the county, may survey, lay out, and dedicate for burial purposes not exceeding five acres of public lands situated in or near the
• § 8125.5 — The City of Simi Valley may survey, lay out, dedicate, own, and operate for burial purposes, or may purchase, or receive by gift or donation, five acres or more of public lands to be used as a public
• § 8126 — The title to lands situated in or near any city and used by the inhabitants without interruption as a cemetery for five years is vested in the inhabitants of the city and the lands shall not be used e
• § 8127 — The inhabitants of any city may by subscription or otherwise purchase or receive by gift or donation, lands not exceeding five acres to be used as a cemetery, the title to be vested in the inhabitants
• § 8128 — The governing body having control of a public cemetery shall require a register of name, age, birthplace, date of death, and burial of every body interred therein, to be kept by the sexton or other of
• § 8129 — The public cemeteries of cities, towns, or neighborhoods or of fraternal or beneficial associations or societies shall be inclosed and laid off into plots.
• § 8130 — The general management, conduct, and regulation of burials, the disposition of plots, and keeping the plots in order, are under the jurisdiction and control of the city owning the cemetery.
• § 8131 — If not owned by a city or by a fraternal or beneficial association or society, public cemeteries are under the jurisdiction and control of the board of supervisors of the county in which they are situ
• § 8132 — Public cemeteries of fraternal or beneficial associations or societies are under the jurisdiction of and controlled and managed by the associations or societies or by trustees appointed by them.
• § 8133 — The authorities having jurisdiction and control of cemeteries may make and enforce general rules and regulations, and appoint sextons or other officers to enforce obedience to the rules and regulation
• § 8134 — No streets, alleys, or roads shall be opened or laid out within the boundary lines of any cemetery located in whole or in part within the lines of any city or city and county where burials in the ceme
• § 8135 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Water Resources may sell plots in any cemetery which is owned by the department on a nonendowment care basis to a relative of the third de
• § 8136 — Any city, including a chartered city, that owns and operates a cemetery may maintain a proceeding in the superior court of the county in which the cemetery is located to have any plot in the cemetery
• § 8137 — A cemetery owned and operated by a city, county, or city and county shall not engage in the business of selling monuments or markers, and its officers and employees who manage, operate, or otherwise m
• § 8250 — Except as provided in subdivision (c) of this section, the provisions of this part do not apply to any of the following: (a) Any religious corporation, church, religious society or denomination, a cor
• § 8250.5 — As used in Section 8250 of this code, a public cemetery is a cemetery owned and operated by a city, county, city and county, or public cemetery district.
• § 8251 — The provisions of this part do not affect the corporate existence of any cemetery organized under any law then existing prior to August 14, 1931, and as to such cemeteries, and their rights, the laws
• § 8252 — It is unlawful for any corporation, copartnership, firm, trust, association, or individual to engage in or transact any of the businesses of a cemetery within this state except by means of a corporati
• § 8253 — The powers, privileges, duties and restrictions conferred and imposed upon any corporation, firm, copartnership, association, trust or individual, existing and doing business under the laws of this St
• § 8275 — Any private corporation authorized by its articles so to do, may establish, maintain, manage, improve, or operate a cemetery, and conduct any or all of the businesses of a cemetery, either for or with
• § 8276 — Charges made by a cemetery authority for foundations, for setting of or permitting the setting of, or for endowment care of, grave markers or monuments, shall be uniform whether the marker or monument
• § 8277 — Every contract of a cemetery authority, including contracts executed in behalf thereof by a cemetery broker or salesperson, which provides for the sale by the cemetery authority of an interment plot o
• § 8278 — In addition to any right of rescission which the purchaser may have under law, a purchaser entering into a contract with a cemetery broker, salesman, or authority for the provision of an interment plo
• § 8279 — A cemetery authority shall comply with the Mausoleum and Columbarium Law (Part 5 (commencing with Section 9501)).
• § 8300 — (a) A cemetery authority may make, adopt, amend, add to, revise, or modify, and enforce rules and regulations for the use, care, control, management, restriction and protection of all or any part of i
• § 8301.5 — (a) Nothing in Section 8301 shall be construed to permit a cemetery authority to discriminate against any person based upon race or gender regarding the use of any property within the cemetery.
• § 8309 — The rules and regulations shall be plainly printed or typewritten and maintained subject to inspection in the office of the cemetery authority or in such place or places within the cemetery as the cem
• § 8325 — Persons designated by a cemetery authority have the powers of arrest as provided in Section 830.
• § 8330 — A record shall be kept of every interment showing the date the human remains were received, the date of interment, the name and age of the person interred, when these particulars can be conveniently o
• § 8331 — A record shall be kept of the ownership of all plots in the cemetery which have been conveyed by the cemetery authority and of all transfers of plots in the cemetery.
• § 8341 — All cremated remains not disposed of in accordance with this chapter, within one year, shall be interred.
• § 8342 — No crematory shall make or enforce any rules requiring that human remains be placed in a casket before cremation or that human remains be cremated in a casket, nor shall a crematory refuse to accept h
• § 8343 — A crematory shall maintain on its premises, or other business location within the State of California, an accurate record of all cremations performed, including all of the following information: (a) N
• § 8344 — A crematory shall maintain an identification system allowing identification of each decedent beginning from the time the crematory accepts delivery of human remains until the point at which it release
• § 8344.5 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) or (c), a crematory regulated by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau shall knowingly cremate only human remains in cremation chambers, along with the cremation co
• § 8344.6 — (a) A crematory that incinerates an American flag or flags pursuant to Section 8344.
• § 8345 — If a cremated remains container is of insufficient capacity to accommodate all cremated remains of a given deceased, the crematory shall provide a larger cremated remains container at no additional co
• § 8345.5 — A crematory shall not accept human remains for cremation unless the remains meet all of the following requirements: (a) The remains shall be in a cremation container, as defined.
• § 8346 — Within two hours after a crematory licensed by the State of California takes custody of a body that has not been embalmed, it shall refrigerate the body at a temperature not greater than 50 degrees Fa
• § 8346.5 — Every crematory operator, or duly authorized representative shall provide to any person who inquires in person, a written, or printed list of prices for cremation and storage, cremation containers, cr
• § 8347 — (a) The crematory licensee, or his or her authorized representative shall provide instruction to all crematory personnel involved in the cremation process.
• § 8350 — Unless otherwise limited by the law under which created, cemetery authorities shall in the conduct of their business have the same powers granted by law to corporations in general, including the right
• § 8351 — All mortgages, deeds of trust, and other liens of any nature, hereafter contracted, placed or incurred upon property which has been and was at the time of the creation or placing of the lien, dedicate
• § 8360 — No director or officer of any cemetery authority shall directly or indirectly, for himself or as the partner or agent of others, borrow any funds of the corporation or association, nor may he become a
• § 8361 — The office of any director or officer who acts or permits action contrary to this article immediately thereupon becomes vacant.
• § 8362 — Every director or officer authorizing or consenting to a loan, and the person who receives a loan, in violation of this article are severally guilty of a misdemeanor.
• § 8370 — All hydrolyzed human remains not disposed of in accordance with this chapter, within one year, shall be interred.
• § 8372 — A hydrolysis facility shall not make or enforce any rules requiring that human remains be placed in a casket before hydrolysis or that human remains be hydrolyzed in a casket, nor shall a hydrolysis f
• § 8374 — (a) A hydrolysis facility shall maintain on its premises, or other business location within the state, an accurate record of all hydrolyses performed, including all of the following information: (1) N
• § 8376 — (a) A hydrolysis facility shall maintain an identification system allowing identification of each decedent beginning from the time the hydrolysis facility accepts delivery of human remains until the p
• § 8378 — Within two hours after a licensed hydrolysis facility takes custody of a body that has not been embalmed, it shall refrigerate the body at a temperature not greater than 50 degrees Fahrenheit, unless
• § 8380 — (a) The hydrolysis facility licensee, or its authorized representatives, shall provide instruction to all hydrolysis facility personnel involved in the hydrolysis process.
• § 8382 — This article shall become operative on July 1, 2020.
• § 8390 — All reduced human remains not disposed of in accordance with this chapter shall be disposed of pursuant to Section 7714.
• § 8391 — A reduction facility shall not make or enforce rules requiring that human remains be placed in a casket before reduction, nor shall a reduction facility refuse to accept human remains for reduction fo
• § 8392 — (a) A reduction facility shall maintain on its premises, or other business location within the state, an accurate record of all reductions performed, including all of the following information: (1) Na
• § 8393 — (a) A reduction facility shall maintain an identification system allowing identification of each decedent beginning from the time the reduction facility accepts delivery of human remains until the poi