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CA Health & Safety Code § 7054.8 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 2 - General Provisions|Section 7054.8.

7054.8.  (a) Except with the express written permission of the person entitled to control the disposition of the remains, no person shall do any of the following:(1) Hydrolyze the remains of more than one person at the same time in the same hydrolysis chamber, or introduce the remains of a second person into a hydrolysis chamber until dissolution of any preceding remains has been terminated and reasonable efforts have been employed to remove all fragments of the preceding remains. The fact that there is residue in the hydrolysis chamber or other equipment or any container used in a prior hydrolysis is not a violation of this section.(2) Dispose of or scatter hydrolyzed human remains in a manner or in such a location that the remains are commingled with those of another person. This paragraph shall not apply to the scattering of hydrolyzed human remains at sea from individual containers or to the disposal in a dedicated cemetery of accumulated residue removed from processing equipment.(3) Place hydrolyzed human remains or other remains of more than one person in the same container or the same interment space. This paragraph shall not apply to the following:(A) Interment of members of the same family in a common container designed for the hydrolyzed human remains of more than one person.(B) Interment in a space or container that has been previously designated at the time of sale as being intended for the interment of remains of more than one person.(C) Disposal in a dedicated cemetery of residue removed from processing equipment.(b) Written acknowledgment from the person entitled to control the disposition of the hydrolyzed human remains shall be obtained by the person with whom arrangements are made for disposition of the remains on a form that includes, but is not limited to, the following information: “The human body is hydrolyzed with organic protein-based material such as wool, silk, cotton, or other protein-based material in the hydrolysis chamber. Bone fragments are not hydrolyzable and, as a result, remain in the chamber. The hydrolyzed remains will be dried and crushed, pulverized, or ground to facilitate inurnment or scattering.” The acknowledgment shall be filed and retained, for at least five years, by the person who disposes of or inters the remains.(c) A person, including any corporation or partnership, that violates any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.(d) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2020.(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 846, Sec. 62. (AB 967) Effective January 1, 2018. Section operative July 1, 2020, by its own provisions.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7055 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 2 - General Provisions|Section 7055.

7055.  (a) Every person, who for himself or herself or for another person, inters, cremates, or hydrolyzes a body or permits the same to be done, or removes any remains, other than cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains, from the primary registration district in which the death, cremation, or hydrolysis occurred or the body was found, except a removal by a funeral director in a funeral director’s conveyance or an officer of a duly accredited medical college engaged in official duties with respect to the body of a decedent who has willfully donated his or her body to the medical college from that registration district or county to another registration district or county, or within the same registration district or county, without the authority of a burial or removal permit issued by the local registrar of the district in which the death occurred or in which the body was found; or removes interred human remains from the cemetery in which the interment occurred, removes cremated remains from the premises on which the cremation occurred, or removes hydrolyzed human remains from the premises on which the hydrolysis occurred without the authority of a removal permit is guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable as follows:(1) For the first offense, by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500).(2) For each subsequent offense, by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 60 days, or by both.(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a funeral director of a licensed out-of-state funeral establishment may transport human remains out of this state without a removal permit when he or she is acting within the requirements specified in subdivision (b) of Section 103050.(c) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2020.(Repealed (in Sec. 63) and added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 846, Sec. 64. (AB 967) Effective January 1, 2018. Section operative July 1, 2020, by its own provisions.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7100.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7100.1.

7100.1.  (a)  A decedent, prior to death, may direct, in writing, the disposition of his or her remains and specify funeral goods and services to be provided. Unless there is a statement to the contrary that is signed and dated by the decedent, the directions may not be altered, changed, or otherwise amended in any material way, except as may be required by law, and shall be faithfully carried out upon his or her death, provided both of the following requirements are met: (1) the directions set forth clearly and completely the final wishes of the decedent in sufficient detail so as to preclude any material ambiguity with regard to the instructions; and, (2) arrangements for payment through trusts, insurance, commitments by others, or any other effective and binding means, have been made, so as to preclude the payment of any funds by the survivor or survivors of the deceased that might otherwise retain the right to control the disposition. (b)  In the event arrangements for only one of either the cost of interment or the cost of the funeral goods and services are made pursuant to this section, the remaining wishes of the decedent shall be carried out only to the extent that the decedent has sufficient assets to do so, unless the person or persons that otherwise have the right to control the disposition and arrange for funeral goods and services agree to assume the cost. All other provisions of the directions shall be carried out. (c)  If the directions are contained in a will, they shall be immediately carried out, regardless of the validity of the will in other respects or of the fact that the will may not be offered for or admitted to probate until a later date. (Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 253, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1999.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7101 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7101.

7101.  When any decedent leaves an estate in this state, the reasonable cost of interment and an interment plot of sufficient size to constitute a family plot and memorial including reasonable sums for either, or both, general and special endowment care of the plot proportionate to the value of the estate and in keeping with the standard of living adopted by the decedent prior to his demise, together with interest thereon from 60 days after the date of death, shall be considered as a part of the funeral expenses of the decedent and shall be paid as a preferred charge against his estate as provided in the Probate Code.Reasonable costs of funeral services, together with interest thereon from 60 days after the date of death, shall be considered as a part of the funeral expenses of the decedent and shall be paid as a preferred charge against his estate as provided in the Probate Code.If a claim for mortuary and funeral services, an interment plot or memorial is rejected the burden of proving that the cost of the funeral service, interment plot or memorial is disproportionate to the value of the estate and the standard of living adopted by the decedent while living shall be upon the executor or administrator rejecting the claim. This chapter does not prohibit any relative or friend of a decedent from assuming the duty or paying the expense of interment or the funeral services.(Amended by Stats. 1968, Ch. 267.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7102 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7102.

7102.  When a person is charged by law with the duty of interment he is entitled to the custody of the remains for the purpose of interment or, with respect to cremated remains, for the purpose of burial at sea in accordance with the provisions of this division; except that in any case where a coroner is required by law to investigate the cause of death, the coroner is entitled to the custody of the remains of the person whose death is the subject of investigation until the conclusion of the autopsy or medical investigation by the coroner. Any person in whose possession such remains are found, shall, upon demand by the coroner, surrender such remains to him.(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1421.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7103 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7103.

7103.  (a) Every person, upon whom the duty of interment is imposed by law, who omits to perform that duty within a reasonable time is guilty of a misdemeanor.(b) Every licensee or registrant pursuant to Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 7600) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code, and the agents and employees of the licensee or registrant, or any unlicensed person acting in a capacity in which a license from the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau is required, upon whom the duty of interment is imposed by law, who omits to perform that duty within a reasonable time is guilty of a misdemeanor that shall be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or both that imprisonment and fine.(c) In addition, any person, registrant, or licensee described in subdivision (a) or (b) is liable to pay the person performing the duty in his or her stead treble the expenses incurred by the latter in making the interment, to be recovered in a civil action.(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 571, Sec. 32. (SB 1480) Effective January 1, 2019.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7104 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7104.

7104.  (a)  When no provision is made by the decedent, or where the estate is insufficient to provide for interment and the duty of interment does not devolve upon any other person residing in the state or if such person can not after reasonable diligence be found within the state the person who has custody of the remains may require the coroner of the county where the decedent resided at time of death to take possession of the remains and the coroner shall inter the remains in the manner provided for the interment of indigent dead. (b)  A county exercising jurisdiction over the death of an individual pursuant to Section 27491, or who assumes jurisdiction pursuant to Section 27491.55 of the Government Code, shall be responsible for the disposition of the remains of that decedent. If the decedent is an indigent, the costs associated with disposition of the remains shall be borne by the county exercising jurisdiction. (Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 1139, Sec. 2.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7104.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7104.1.

7104.1.  If, within 30 days after the coroner notifies or diligently attempts to notify the person responsible for the interment of a decedent’s remains which are in the possession of the coroner, the person fails, refuses, or neglects to inter the remains, the coroner may inter the remains. The coroner may recover any expenses of the interment from the responsible person.(Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 436, Sec. 18. Effective January 1, 2002.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7106 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7106.

7106.  A cemetery authority may seek an order providing for the interment of the remains of one or more decedents. Where a proceeding is commenced involving the remains of more than one decedent the allegations of the petition shall separately state the facts as to each, and the court may make a separate order as to each.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7107 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7107.

7107.  Notice of the time and place of the hearing on the petition shall be given as the court may direct. Upon the hearing the court shall make its order providing for the interment of the remains in such manner, at such time, and at such place as the court may determine to be just and proper, and for the best interests of the public health.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7108 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7108.

7108.  If the coroner is directed to make such interment he shall make it in the manner provided by law for the interment of the indigent dead.(Amended by Stats. 1939, Ch. 339.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7109 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7109.

7109.  The court shall allow costs and reasonable attorney’s fees to a prevailing plaintiff against all defendants, other than the coroner.(Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 436, Sec. 19. Effective January 1, 2002.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7110 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7110.

7110.  Any person signing any authorization for the interment or cremation of any remains warrants the truthfulness of any fact set forth in the authorization, the identity of the person whose remains are sought to be interred or cremated, and his or her authority to order interment or cremation. He or she is personally liable for all damage occasioned by or resulting from breach of such warranty.(Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 1232, Sec. 23. Effective January 1, 1994.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7111 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7111.

7111.  A cemetery authority or crematory may make an interment or cremation of any remains upon the receipt of a written authorization of a person representing himself or herself to be a person having the right to control the disposition of the remains pursuant to Section 7100.A cemetery authority or crematory is not liable for cremating, making an interment, or for other disposition of remains permitted by law, pursuant to that authorization, unless it has actual notice that the representation is untrue.(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 819, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 2003.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7112 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7112.

7112.  No action shall lie against any cemetery authority relating to the cremated remains of any person which have been left in its possession for a period of one year, unless a written contract has been entered into with the cemetery authority for their care or unless permanent interment has been made.No licensed funeral director shall be liable in damages for the lawful disposition of any cremated human remains.(Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 1232, Sec. 25. Effective January 1, 1994.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7113 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7113.

7113.  A cemetery authority or licensed funeral director or a licensed hospital or its authorized personnel may permit or assist, and a physician may perform, an autopsy of any remains in its or his custody if the decedent, prior to his death, authorizes an autopsy in his will or other written instrument, or upon the receipt of a written authorization, telegram, or a verbal authorization obtained by telephone and recorded on tape or other recording device, from a person representing himself to be any of the following:(a) The surviving spouse; (b) a surviving child or parent; (c) a surviving brother or sister; (d) any other kin or person who has acquired the right to control the disposition of the remains; (e) a public administrator; (f) a coroner or any other duly authorized public officer. A cemetery authority or a licensed funeral director or a licensed hospital or its authorized personnel is not liable for permitting or assisting, and a physician is not liable for performing, an autopsy pursuant to such authorization unless he or it has actual notice that such representation is untrue at the time the autopsy is performed. If such authorization is contained in a will, the autopsy may be performed regardless of the validity of the will in other respects or of the fact that the will may not be offered for or admitted to probate until a later date.This section shall not authorize the obtaining of a verbal authorization by telephone and recorded on tape or other recording device for an autopsy of a deceased person if it is made known to the physician who is to perform the autopsy that the deceased was, at the time of his death, a member of a religion, church, or denomination which relies solely upon prayer for the healing of disease.(Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 99.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7114 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7114.

7114.  Any person who performs, permits or assists at, an autopsy on a dead body without having first obtained (a) the authorization of the deceased in writing, including, but not limited to, the last will of the deceased; or (b) the authorization in writing of the person designated by Section 7100 of this code as having the right to control the disposition of the remains of the deceased; or (c) in the case of a cemetery authority or a licensed funeral director or a licensed hospital or its agents or a physician, the written or verbal authorization described in Section 7113 or 7151.6 of this code, is guilty of a misdemeanor, except that this section shall not be applicable to the performance of an autopsy by the coroner or other officer authorized by law to perform autopsies.(Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1048.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7116 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7116.

7116.  (a) Cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains may be scattered in areas where no local prohibition exists, provided that the cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains are not distinguishable to the public, are not in a container, and that the person who has control over disposition of the cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains has obtained written permission of the property owner or governing agency to scatter on the property. A state or local agency may adopt an ordinance, regulation, or policy, as appropriate, authorizing, consistent with this section, or specifically prohibiting, the scattering of cremated human remains or hydrolyzed human remains on lands under the agency’s jurisdiction. The scattering of the cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains of more than one person in one location pursuant to this section shall not create a cemetery pursuant to Section 7003 or any other provision of law.(b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2020.(Repealed (in Sec. 65) and added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 846, Sec. 66. (AB 967) Effective January 1, 2018. Section operative July 1, 2020, by its own provisions.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7117 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7117.

7117.  (a) Cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains may be taken by boat from any harbor in this state, or by air, and scattered at sea. Cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains shall be removed from their container before the remains are scattered at sea.(b) Any person who scatters at sea, either from a boat or from the air, any cremated human remains or hydrolyzed human remains shall file with the local registrar of births and deaths in the county nearest the point where the remains were scattered, a verified statement containing the name of the deceased person, the time and place of death, the place at which the cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains were scattered, and any other information that the local registrar of births and deaths may require. The first copy of the endorsed permit shall be filed with the local registrar of births and deaths within 10 days of disposition. The third copy shall be returned to the office of issuance.(c) For purposes of this section, the phrase “at sea” includes the inland navigable waters of this state, exclusive of lakes and streams, provided that no such scattering may take place within 500 yards of the shoreline. This section does not allow the scattering of cremated human remains or hydrolyzed human remains from a bridge or pier.(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains of a deceased person may be scattered at sea as provided in this section and Section 103060.(e) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2020.(Amended (as added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 846, Sec. 68) by Stats. 2018, Ch. 92, Sec. 139. (SB 1289) Effective January 1, 2019.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7117.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment|Section 7117.1.

7117.1.  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 7117, cremated remains may be transferred from a durable container into a scattering urn no more than seven days before scattering the cremated remains at sea from a boat. For purposes of this section, “scattering urn” means a closed container containing cremated remains that will dissolve and release its contents within four hours of being placed at sea.(b) This section shall not be construed to allow the use of a scattering urn when the cremated remains are to be scattered by a plane over land or at sea.(Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 79, Sec. 1. (AB 1777) Effective January 1, 2013.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 7150 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 7 - DEAD BODIES|PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS|CHAPTER 3.5 - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 7150.

7150.  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.(Repealed and added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 629, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2008.)