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.

• § 8394 — Within two hours after a reduction 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 the reduct
• § 8395 — (a) The reduction facility licensee, or its authorized representatives, shall provide instruction to all facility personnel involved in the reduction process.
• § 8396 — This article shall become operative on January 1, 2027.
• § 8500 — Cemetery authorities may take by purchase, donation or devise, property consisting of lands, mausoleums, crematories, and columbariums, or other property within which the interment of the dead may be
• § 8501 — Any cemetery authority which is described in Section 23701c of the Revenue and Taxation Code or is a corporation sole may acquire by eminent domain any property necessary to enlarge and add to an exis
• § 851 — Any board of supervisors may adopt such rules and regulations with regard to keeping and storing of every description of gunpowder, hercules powder, giant powder, or other explosives or combustible ma
• § 8525 — A cemetery authority may execute a declaration acknowledged so as to entitle it to be recorded, describing the property and declaring its intention to use all or part of the property for cemetery purp
• § 8526 — The declaration may be filed for record in the office of the recorder of the county in which the property is situated, and from the date of filing the declaration is constructive notice of the use for
• § 8550 — Every cemetery authority, from time to time as its property may be required for interment purposes, shall: (a) In case of land, survey and subdivide it into sections, blocks, plots, avenues, walks or
• § 8551 — The cemetery authority shall file the map or plat in the office of the recorder of the county in which all or a portion of the property is situated.
• § 8552 — The declaration shall be in such form as the cemetery authority may prescribe, and shall be subscribed by the president or vice president, and the secretary, or other persons whom the cemetery authori
• § 8553 — Upon the filing of the map or plat and the filing of the declaration for record, the dedication is complete for all purposes and thereafter the property shall be held, occupied, and used exclusively f
• § 8554 — When reservation is made in the declaration of dedication, any part or subdivision of the property so mapped and platted may, by order of the directors, be resurveyed and altered in shape and size and
• § 8555 — The filed map or plat and the recorded declaration are constructive notice to all persons of the dedication of the property to cemetery purposes.
• § 8556 — The county recorder of the county in which a map or plat is filed shall index the map or plat in the general index giving reference to date of filing and number or to book and page so that it may easi
• § 8557 — The county recorder of the county in which a declaration of dedication is filed shall record it in the official records of his office and index it in the general index.
• § 8558 — After property is dedicated to cemetery purposes pursuant to this chapter, neither the dedication, nor the title of a plot owner, shall be affected by the dissolution of the cemetery authority, by non
• § 8559 — Dedication to cemetery purposes pursuant to this chapter is not invalid as violating any laws against perpetuities or the suspension of the power of alienation of title to or use of property, but is e
• § 8560 — After dedication pursuant to this chapter, and as long as the property remains dedicated to cemetery purposes, no railroad, street, road, alley, pipe line, pole line, or other public thoroughfare or u
• § 8560.5 — 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 cem
• § 8561 — All property dedicated pursuant to this chapter, including roads, alleys, and walks, is exempt from public improvement assessments and is exempt from enforcement of a money judgment against an individ
• § 8570 — After filing the map or plat and recording the declaration of dedication, a cemetery authority may sell and convey plots subject to such rules and regulations as may be then in effect or thereafter ad
• § 8571 — (a) All plots, the use of which has been conveyed by deed or certificate of ownership as a separate plot, are indivisible except with the consent of the cemetery authority, or as provided by law.
• § 8572 — All conveyances made by a cemetery authority shall be signed by the president or the vice president, and the secretary, or by other officers authorized by the cemetery authority.
• § 8573 — Any cemetery authority or its agents who sell, offer for sale, contract to sell, or negotiate the sale of mausoleum crypts before the receipt of a certificate of occupancy as provided for in Sections
• § 8574 — For a violation of any provision of Section 8573, the bureau may temporarily suspend or permanently revoke the license of any cemetery licensee and may order the reservation or escrowing of assets of
• § 8580 — Property dedicated to cemetery purposes shall be held and used exclusively for cemetery purposes, unless and until the dedication is removed from all or any part of it by an order and decree of the su
• § 8581 — The notice of hearing provided in section 8580 shall be given by publication once a week for at least three consecutive weeks in a daily newspaper of general circulation in the county where said cemet
• § 8585 — (a) Whenever ownership of any cemetery authority is proposed to be transferred, the cemetery authority shall notify the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
• § 8600 — All plots conveyed to individuals are presumed to be the sole and separate property of the owner named in the instrument of conveyance.
• § 8601 — The spouse of an owner of any plot containing more than one interment space has a vested right of interment of his remains in the plot and any person thereafter becoming the spouse of the owner has a
• § 8602 — No conveyance or other action of the owner without the written consent or joinder of the spouse of the owner divests the spouse of a vested right of interment, except that a final decree of divorce be
• § 8603 — If no interment is made in an interment plot which has been transferred by deed or certificate of ownership to an individual owner, or if all remains previously interred are lawfully removed, upon the
• § 8604 — Cemetery property passing to an individual by reason of the death of the owner is exempt from all inheritance taxes.
• § 8605 — An affidavit by a person having knowledge of the facts setting forth the fact of the death of the owner and the name of the person or persons entitled to the use of the plot pursuant to this chapter,
• § 8625 — In a conveyance to two or more persons as joint tenants each joint tenant has a vested right of interment in the plot conveyed.
• § 8626 — Upon the death of a joint tenant, the title to the plot held in joint tenancy immediately vests in the survivors, subject to the vested right of interment of the remains of the deceased joint tenant.
• § 8627 — Cemetery property held in joint tenancy is exempt from the provisions of the Probate Code relating to proceedings for establishing the fact of death of a person whose death affects title to real prope
• § 8628 — An affidavit by any person having knowledge of the facts setting forth the fact of the death of one joint tenant and establishing the identity of the surviving joint tenants named in the deed to any p
• § 8629 — When there are several owners of a plot, or of rights of interment in it, they may designate one or more persons to represent the plot and file written notice of designation with the cemetery authorit
• § 8650 — (a) Whenever an interment of the remains of a member or of a relative of a member of the family of the record owner or of the remains of the record owner is made in a plot transferred by deed or certi
• § 8650.5 — An affidavit executed by a person who is the owner of the plot by virtue of the laws of intestate succession or by his or her attorney-in-fact, setting forth the fact of the death of the owner, the ab
• § 8651 — In a family plot one grave, niche or crypt may be used for the owner’s interment; one for the owner’s surviving spouse, if any, who by law has a vested right of interment in it; and in those remaining
• § 8652 — If no parent or child survives, the right of interment goes in the order of death first, to the spouse of any child of the record owner and second, in the order of death to the next heirs at law of th
• § 8653 — Any surviving spouse, parent, child or heir who has a right of interment in a family plot may waive such right in favor of any other relative, or spouse of a relative of either the deceased owner or o
• § 8675 — A vested right of interment may be waived and is terminated upon the interment elsewhere of the remains of the person in whom vested.
• § 8676 — No vested right of interment gives to any person the right to have his remains interred in any interment space in which the remains of any deceased person having a prior vested right of interment have
• § 8680 — A cemetery authority may take and hold any plot conveyed or devised to it by the plot owner so that it will be inalienable, and interments shall be restricted to the persons designated in the conveyan
• § 8700 — In addition to those cemeteries to which this part does not apply, this article does not apply to abandoned cemeteries nor to cemeteries in which interments are prohibited.
• § 8701 — Whenever a majority of the plots in all or any part of a cemetery established prior to August 14, 1931, has been sold without the owner having made provision for the establishment of an adequate endow
• § 8702 — Application for the alteration or vacation or replatting of all or any portion of an alley, street, avenue, walk, driveway, or park, for plots in the cemetery shall be made to the superior court in th
• § 8703 — The application may be by the cemetery authority owning or operating the cemetery or if there is no cemetery authority operating the cemetery, by twenty or more plot owners.
• § 8704 — The petition shall be verified and shall specify the facts of such ownership and shall state the reasons for the proposed change and what provisions have theretofore been made for the endowment care o
• § 8705 — There shall be presented with the petition a plat of the cemetery and the proposed replat which shall clearly indicate the proposed changes.
• § 8706 — The petition shall be filed with the clerk of the superior court, and the clerk shall fix the time for hearing not less then thirty nor more than sixty days from the date of filing.
• § 8707 — Notice of the hearing shall be given by publishing a copy of the notice in a newspaper of general circulation near the cemetery in the county in which the property is situated, once a week for three c
• § 8708 — Copies of the notice shall be posted in three conspicuous places within the cemetery.
• § 8709 — The notice shall: (a) Be addressed to all persons owning or interested in plots in the cemetery but need not name them.
• § 8710 — At the time fixed for the hearing, the court shall hear and consider any evidence introduced in favor of and all objections to the changes and may allow the proposed changes and replat in whole or in
• § 8711 — The cemetery authority or other person directed by the court shall accept the newly created plots and shall sell and convey them only for interment purposes.
• § 8713 — The vacation of an alley, avenue, roadway, walk, driveway, street, or park adjacent to a privately owned plot does not vest any interest in the owner of the plot to the vacated portion; but the adjace
• § 8714 — In allowing any damages to any plot owner for such vacation, the court shall take into consideration the benefit to be received from endowment care.
• § 8715 — The provisions of this article are hereby declared to be a necessary exercise of the police power of the State in order to preserve and keep existing cemeteries as resting places for the dead and to p
• § 8725 — A cemetery authority that maintains a cemetery may place its cemetery under endowment care and establish, maintain, and operate an endowment care fund.
• § 8726 — (a) The principal of all funds for endowment care shall be invested and the income only may be used for the care, maintenance, and embellishment of the cemetery in accordance with the provisions of la
• § 8726.1 — (a) If a cemetery authority establishes an endowment care fund, the fund shall be subject to a net income distribution method that requires all of the following: (1) The trustee of the endowment care
• § 8726.2 — (a) On or after January 1, 2021, a cemetery authority, its board of trustees, or its corporate trustee may apply to the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau to convert its endowment care fund from a net income
• § 8726.3 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the principal of the trust fund of a cemetery and all income from it shall be exempt from seizure, under any writ, mandate, or process, including bankruptcy, by any
• § 8728 — The cemetery authority may from time to time adopt plans for the general care, maintenance, and embellishment of its cemetery, and charge and collect from all subsequent purchasers of plots such reaso
• § 8729 — Upon payment of the purchase price and the amount fixed as a proportionate contribution for endowment care, there may be included in the deed of conveyance or by separate instrument an agreement to us
• § 8730 — Upon the application of an owner of any plot, and upon the payment by him of the amount fixed as a reasonable and proportionate contribution for endowment care a cemetery authority may enter into an a
• § 8731 — (a) The cemetery authority may appoint a board of trustees of not less than three in number as trustees of its endowment care fund.
• § 8732 — Not more than one member of the board of trustees of an endowment care fund may have a proprietary interest in the cemetery authority.
• § 8732.1 — Each individual trustee of an endowment care fund shall be a resident of this State, and a corporate trustee shall be qualified to do business in this State.
• § 8733 — No sum in excess of 5 percent of the net income derived from an endowment care fund, or special care fund, or both, in any year shall be paid as compensation to the board of trustees for its services
• § 8733.5 — In lieu of the appointment of a board of trustees of its endowment care fund, any cemetery authority may appoint as sole trustee of its endowment care fund any bank or trust company qualified under th
• § 8734 — (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d), the board of trustees or corporate trustee of an endowment care fund or one or more special care funds shall file a fidelity bond executed by
• § 8735 — A cemetery authority which has established an endowment care fund may take, receive, and hold as a part of or incident to the fund any property, real, personal or mixed, bequeathed, devised, granted,
• § 8736 — The endowment care fund and all payments or contributions to it are hereby expressly permitted as and for charitable and eleemosynary purposes.
• § 8737 — No payment, gift, grant, bequest, or other contribution for general endowment care is invalid by reason of any indefiniteness or uncertainty of the persons designated as beneficiaries, nor is the fund
• § 8738 — (a) For purposes of this section, “net price” means the retail price less any discounts the cemetery provides to consumers for the purchase of an interment space.
• § 8738.1 — In addition to the requirements of Section 8738 any endowment care cemetery hereafter established shall also have deposited in its endowment care fund the additional sum of twenty-five thousand dollar
• § 8738.2 — The endowment care fund under the provisions of this code shall be kept separate and apart from all other cemetery funds.
• § 8739 — A nonendowment care cemetery is one that does not have deposited in an endowment care fund the minimum amounts required by law.
• § 8739.1 — Any cemetery established, on or after September 7, 1955, or excluded from the exemption provided in subdivision (c) of Section 8250 by virtue of paragraph (2) of such subdivision, shall be an endowmen
• § 8740 — A cemetery which otherwise complies with Section 8738 may be designated an endowment care cemetery even though it contains a small section which may be sold without endowment care, if the section is s
• § 8741 — Each endowment care cemetery shall post in a conspicuous place at or near the entrance of the cemetery and at its administration building and readily accessible to the public, a legible sign that shal
• § 8743 — Each nonendowment care cemetery or the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau shall post in a conspicuous place in the office or offices where sales are conducted and in a conspicuous place at or near the entran
• § 8744 — There shall be printed at the head of all contracts, agreements, statements, receipts, literature and other publications of nonendowment care cemeteries the following form: “This institution is operat
• § 8745 — All the information appearing on the signs and report filed in the cemetery office shall be revised annually and verified by the president and secretary, or two officers authorized by the cemetery aut
• § 8746 — Any person, partnership, corporation, association, or his, her, or its agents or representatives, who shall violate any of the provisions of this article, except as provided in Section 8785, or make a
• § 8747.5 — Each cemetery shall at all times maintain and keep within the State of California all books, accounts, records, cash and evidences of investments of its general and special care funds.
• § 8748 — Where an endowment care mausoleum or mausoleum-columbarium is operated within an endowment care cemetery and the cemetery corporations or cemetery authorities owning or operating each merge and consol
• § 8750 — Endowment care funds shall not be used for any purpose other than to provide through income only for the reserves authorized by law and for the endowment care of the cemetery in accordance with the re
• § 8751 — The funds shall be invested and reinvested, and kept invested in: (a) Bonds of the United States or this state, or of any county, city and county, or city in this state.
• § 8751.1 — In addition to the requirements of Section 8751, the funds may be invested and reinvested and kept invested in investments of the type and in the manner as provided in Part 4 (commencing with Section
• § 8775 — A cemetery authority which has established an endowment care fund may also take and hold any property bequeathed, granted, or given to it in trust to apply the principal, or proceeds, or income to eit
• § 8776 — The sums paid in or contributed to the fund authorized by this article are hereby expressly permitted as and for a charitable and eleemosynary purpose.
• § 8777 — All money or property received by a cemetery authority for deposit in a special care fund shall be placed in the custody of the trustee or trustees thereof within 30 days after receipt by the cemetery
• § 8778 — The following shall be eligible investments for all special care trusts: (a) Bonds of the United States or this state, or of any county, city, or city and county in this state.
• § 8778.5 — Each special care trust fund established pursuant to this article shall be administered in compliance with the following requirements: (a) (1) The board of trustees shall honor a written request of re
• § 8779 — Nothing in this article shall require liquidation or transmutation of any lawful investment existing on December 31, 1976, but any reinvestment shall be governed by Section 8778, and any interest or o
• § 8779.5 — Each special care fund established pursuant to this article shall be held in trust and managed by either the board of trustees of the cemetery authority’s endowment care fund or by a board of trustees
• § 8780 — No person, partnership, corporation, association, or his, her, or its agents or representatives, shall sell, offer for sale, or advertise any plot under representation that the plot is under endowment
• § 8781 — It shall be unlawful for a cemetery authority, its officers, employees or agents, or a cemetery broker or salesman to represent that an endowment care fund or any other fund set up for maintaining car
• § 8785 — Any person, partnership, or corporation administering, managing, or having responsibility for endowment care or special care funds who violates the provisions of this chapter relating to the collectio
• § 8825 — A city or county having a nonendowment care cemetery within its boundaries which threatens or endangers the health, safety, comfort or welfare of the public may, by resolution of its governing board,
• § 8826 — The resolution for abandonment adopted under the provisions of this chapter shall specify and declare that at any time after the expiration of 60 days after the first publication of notice of declarat
• § 8827 — After the publication mentioned in Section 8826 of this code and after the expiration of the 60 days specified in the notice, the city or county shall remove such copings, improvements, and embellishm
• § 8828 — After the work which the governing body, in its discretion, finds necessary and practicable has been completed, the governing body shall immediately thereafter, by resolution, which shall contain a le
• § 8829 — Thereafter the city or county shall maintain said pioneer memorial park so that it will not endanger the health, safety, comfort, or welfare of the public.
• § 9 — Whenever reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, the reference applies to all amendments and additions now or hereafter made.
• § 900 — There is hereby created the Children’s Environmental Health Center within the Environmental Protection Agency.
• § 9000 — This part shall be known and may be cited as the Public Cemetery District Law.
• § 9001 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) There is a continuing need to provide for the respectful and cost-effective interment of human remains to meet the cultural, economic,
• § 9002 — The definitions in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 7000) of Part 1 of Division 7 apply to this part.
• § 9003 — (a) This part provides the authority for the organization and powers of public cemetery districts.
• § 9004 — This part is necessary to protect the public health, safety, and welfare, and shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.
• § 9005 — If any provision of this part or the application of any provision of this part in any circumstance or to any person, city, county, special district, school district, the state, or any agency or subdiv
• § 9006 — (a) Any action brought to determine the validity of the organization or of any action of a district shall be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Co
• § 9007 — (a) Except as provided in this section, territory, whether incorporated or unincorporated, whether contiguous or noncontiguous, may be included in a district.
• § 901 — (a) As used in this section: (1) “Center” means the Children’s Environmental Health Center established pursuant to Section 900.
• § 9010 — A new district may be formed pursuant to this chapter.
• § 9011 — (a) A proposal to form a new district may be made by petition.
• § 9012 — (a) Before circulating any petition, the proponents shall publish a notice of intention which shall include a written statement not to exceed 500 words in length, setting forth the reasons for forming
• § 9013 — (a) A proposal to form a new district may also be made by the adoption of a resolution of application by the legislative body of any county or city that contains the territory proposed to be included
• § 9014 — (a) Once the proponents have filed a sufficient petition or a legislative body has filed a resolution of application, the local agency formation commission shall proceed pursuant to Part 3 (commencing
• § 9020 — A legislative body of at least three members known as the board of trustees shall govern every district.
• § 9021 — Within 30 days after the effective date of the formation of a district, a board of trustees shall be appointed as follows: (a) In the case of a district that contains territory in a single county, the
• § 9022 — (a) Each person appointed by a board of supervisors to be a member of a board of trustees shall be a voter in the district.
• § 9023 — (a) The initial board of trustees of a district formed on or after January 1, 2004, shall be determined pursuant to this section.
• § 9024 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) of this section, subdivision (c) of Section 9023, and subdivision (d) of Section 9026, the term of office for a member of the board of trustees shall be for a
• § 9025 — (a) A board of trustees may adopt a resolution requesting the board of supervisors of the principal county to increase or decrease the number of members of the board of trustees.
• § 9026 — (a) The board of supervisors of the principal county may appoint itself to be the board of trustees of a district and the board of supervisors may divest itself of that authority, pursuant to this sec
• § 9027 — (a) A local agency formation commission, in approving either a consolidation of districts or the reorganization of two or more districts into a single district, may, pursuant to subdivisions (k) and (
• § 9028 — (a) At the first meeting of the initial board of trustees of a newly formed district, and in the case of an existing district not later than the first meeting of every calendar year, the board of trus
• § 9029 — A board of trustees shall meet at least once every three months.
• § 9030 — (a) A majority of the board of trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
• § 9031 — (a) The board of trustees may provide, by ordinance or resolution, that each of its members may receive compensation in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) for attending each meeting of
• § 9040 — (a) A district may own, operate, improve, and maintain cemeteries and provide interment services within its boundaries.
• § 9041 — A district shall have and may exercise all rights and powers, expressed or implied, necessary to carry out the purposes and intent of this part, including, but not limited to, all of the following pow
• § 9042 — (a) When acquiring, improving, or using any real property, a district shall comply with Article 5 (commencing with Section 53090) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 and Article 7 (commenc
• § 9043 — (a) A district shall have perpetual succession.
• § 9044 — (a) Each district shall adopt policies and procedures, including bidding regulations, governing the purchase of supplies and equipment.
• § 9045 — (a) The Myers-Milias-Brown Act, Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code applies to all districts.
• § 9046 — A board of trustees may require any employee or officer to be bonded.
• § 9047 — A board of trustees may provide for any programs for the benefit of its employees and members of the board of trustees pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 53200) of Part 1 of Division 2 of
• § 9048 — A district may authorize the members of its board of trustees and its employees to attend professional, educational, or vocational meetings, and pay their actual and necessary traveling and incidental
• § 9049 — A district may sell interment rights in its cemeteries, columbariums, and mausoleums, subject to the limitations of this part.
• § 9050 — (a) A district may acquire, construct, improve, maintain, or repair a columbarium for the placement of cremated remains.
• § 9051 — (a) A district may acquire, maintain, or repair a mausoleum for crypt entombment that was completed on or before May 1, 1937.
• § 9052 — (a) A district may require that monuments or markers shall be placed at interment plots.
• § 9053 — A district may sell accessory and replacement objects that are necessary or convenient to interments, including but not limited to burial vaults, liners, and flower vases, but excluding monuments or m
• § 9054 — (a) A district may use or lease land acquired for a future cemetery for an enterprise if all of the following conditions apply: (1) The district has filed with the county recorder a declaration of int
• § 9055 — (a) A district may convey a cemetery owned by the district to any cemetery authority, pursuant to this section.
• § 9056 — (a) A district may dedicate real property or an interest in real property owned by the district to another public agency for use as roads or utility rights-of-way, including but not limited to water,
• § 9060 — (a) A district shall limit interment in a cemetery owned by the district to interment in the ground, in columbariums, and in mausoleums, as provided in this part.
• § 9061 — (a) A district may inter a person who is not a resident of the district or a person who does not pay property taxes on property located in the district in a cemetery owned by the district if all of th
• § 9062 — Notwithstanding Section 9060, the board of trustees may contract with any county in which the district is located to inter persons for whose interment the county is responsible pursuant to Chapter 10
• § 9063 — Notwithstanding Section 9060, the Oroville Cemetery District may use its cemetery on Feather River Boulevard, north of Oro Dam Boulevard for up to a total of 100 interments, for interment in the groun
• § 9063.3 — Notwithstanding Sections 9060 and 9061, the Happy Homestead Cemetery District located in the City of South Lake Tahoe in the County of El Dorado may inter residents of the Nevada communities of Glenbr
• § 9063.5 — Notwithstanding Section 9060, the Elsinore Valley Cemetery District may use the portion of its cemetery formerly known as Home of Peace for up to a total of 536 interments, for interment in the ground
• § 9063.7 — Notwithstanding Section 9060, the Davis Cemetery District may use its cemetery at 820 Pole Line Road, Davis, for up to a total of 500 interments, for interment in the ground of any person who is not a
• § 9063.9 — Notwithstanding Sections 9060 and 9061, the Cottonwood Cemetery District in Shasta County, the Anderson Cemetery District in Shasta County, the Halcumb Cemetery District in Shasta County, the Kern Riv
• § 9064 — (a) The board of trustees shall cause to be prepared and maintained accurate and current records of: (1) The cemeteries owned by the district, showing the location of the sites where persons have acqu
• § 9065 — (a) The board of trustees shall create an endowment care fund.
• § 9066 — The board of trustees shall cause the principal of the endowment care fund to be invested and reinvested in any of the following: (a) Securities and obligations designated by Section 53601 of the Gove
• § 9067 — The board of trustees may cause the funds deposited in the endowment income fund pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 9065 that are not required for the immediate care of the cemeteries owned by the
• § 9068 — (a) The board of trustees shall adopt a schedule of fees for interments in cemeteries owned by the district and for other necessary and convenient services.
• § 9069 — (a) A district may seek the abandonment of an interment plot in a cemetery owned by the district pursuant to this section.
• § 9069.10 — An interment right does not include the right for disinterment of human remains except on consent of the cemetery district and the written consent of the surviving spouse, child, parent, or sibling, i
• § 9069.15 — (a) This chapter does not apply to, or prohibit, the removal of remains from one plot to another in the same cemetery or the removal of remains by a cemetery district upon the written order of any of
• § 9069.20 — (a) An interment right provides a transferable property interest to the person listed as the owner in the records of the cemetery district, subject to any written designation to the contrary signed by
• § 9069.25 — (a) If the owner of an interment right dies without making a valid and enforceable disposition of the interment right by a specific devise in a testamentary device, or by a written designation pursuan
• § 9069.30 — When a public cemetery district acts to transfer ownership rights or make an interment on the basis of the affidavit, given under penalty of perjury pursuant to Section 9069.
• § 9069.35 — A person who purports to be the successor owner of an interment right shall execute a written affidavit declaring, under penalty of perjury, all of the following: (a) He or she is the person entitled
• § 9069.40 — Upon the sale to a person of a plot in a cemetery within a district, the district shall notify the purchaser, in writing, of any interment rights, that this chapter governs the succession of ownership
• § 9070 — (a) On or before August 30 of each year, the board of trustees shall adopt a final budget, which shall conform to the accounting and budgeting procedures for special districts contained in Subchapter
• § 9071 — (a) In its annual budget, the board of trustees may establish one or more restricted reserves.
• § 9072 — (a) On or before July 1 of each year, the board of trustees shall adopt a resolution establishing its appropriations limit and make other necessary determinations for the following fiscal year pursuan
• § 9073 — The auditor of each county in which a district is located shall allocate to the district its share of property tax revenue pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 95) of Part 0.
• § 9074 — (a) A district may accept any grants, goods, money, property, revenue, or services from any federal, state, regional, or local agency or from any person for any lawful purpose of the district.
• § 9075 — All claims for money or damages against a district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940) of Division 3.
• § 9076 — (a) All claims against a district shall be audited, allowed, and paid by the board of trustees by warrants drawn on the county treasurer.
• § 9077 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 9076, a district that has total annual revenues greater than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) may withdraw its funds from the control of the county treasurer pursua
• § 9078 — A district may, by resolution, establish a revolving fund pursuant to Article 15 (commencing with Section 53950) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code.
• § 9079 — (a) The board of trustees shall provide for regular audits of the district’s accounts and records and the district’s endowment care fund pursuant to Section 26909 of the Government Code.
• § 9080 — Whenever a board of trustees determines that the amount of revenues available to the district or any of its zones is inadequate to meet the costs of providing facilities, programs, projects, and servi
• § 9081 — A district may levy special taxes pursuant to either of the following: (a) Article 3.
• § 9082 — (a) Whenever a board of trustees determines that it is necessary to incur a general obligation bond indebtedness for the acquisition or improvement of real property, the board of trustees may proceed
• § 9083 — (a) In addition to the other fees authorized by this part, a board of trustees may charge a fee to cover the cost of any other service that a district provides or the cost of enforcing any regulation
• § 9090 — (a) Whenever a board of trustees determines that it is in the public interest to provide different services, to provide different levels of services, or to raise additional revenues within specific ar
• § 9091 — (a) At the hearing, the board of trustees shall hear and consider any protests to the formation of a zone pursuant to this chapter.
• § 9092 — (a) A board of trustees may change the boundaries of a zone or dissolve a zone by following the procedures in Sections 9090 and 9091.
• § 9093 — (a) As determined by the board of trustees and pursuant to the requirements of this part, a zone may provide any service at any level or levels within its boundaries that the district may provide.
• § 9501 — This part shall be known and may be cited as the Mausoleum and Columbarium Law.
• § 9502 — The purpose of this part is to insure the durability and permanence of mausoleums and columbariums by requiring that they be constructed of such material and workmanship as determined by modern mausol
• § 9503 — Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions set forth in this chapter govern the construction of this part.
• § 9504 — “Mausoleum” includes any building or structure, used or intended to be used, for the interment of human remains.
• § 9504.5 — “Private mausoleum or columbarium” shall be a freestanding structure which: (a) Is constructed for use by the members of any one group, and not for the sale of space therein to any other person.