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CA Health & Safety Code § 8526 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 2 - Declaration of Intention|Section 8526.

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 which the property is intended.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8550 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 3 - Dedication|Section 8550.

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 other subdivisions; make a good and substantial map or plat showing the sections, plots, avenues, walks or other subdivisions, with descriptive names or numbers. (b)  In case of a mausoleum, or crematory and columbarium it shall make a good and substantial map or plat on which shall be delineated the sections, halls, rooms, corridors, elevations, and other divisions, with descriptive names or numbers. (c)  The maps or plats shall be clearly and legibly drawn, printed, or reproduced by a process guaranteeing a permanent record in black on tracing cloth or polyester base film. If ink is used on a polyester base film, the ink surface shall be coated with a suitable substance to insure permanent legibility. The size of each sheet shall be 18 by 26 inches or as otherwise prescribed by the county recorder or local agency. A marginal line shall be drawn completely around each sheet, leaving an entire blank margin of one inch. The scale of the map shall be large enough to show all details clearly and enough sheets shall be used to accomplish this end. The particular number of the sheets and the total number of sheets comprising the map shall be stated on each of the sheets and its relationship to each adjoining sheet shall be clearly shown. (d)  Upon modification of an existing section after January 1, 1990, or development of a new section after January 1, 1990, the cemetery authority shall amend and file with the county recorder or local agency the maps or plats as described in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c). Within 12 months of the initial sale, the cemetery authority shall file with the county recorder or local agency the map or plat. For purposes of this subdivision, “section” means a burial space, mausoleum, or columbarium. (Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 142, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1998.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8551 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 3 - Dedication|Section 8551.

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. The cemetery authority shall also file for record in the county recorder’s office a written declaration of dedication of the property delineated on the plat or map, dedicating the property exclusively to cemetery purposes.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8552 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 3 - Dedication|Section 8552.

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 authority may authorize, and shall be acknowledged so as to entitle it to be recorded.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8553 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 3 - Dedication|Section 8553.

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 for a cemetery and for cemetery purposes.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8554 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 3 - Dedication|Section 8554.

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 an amended map or plat filed, so long as such change does not disturb the interred remains of any deceased person.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8555 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 3 - Dedication|Section 8555.

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.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8556 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 3 - Dedication|Section 8556.

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 easily be found. The recorder may bind the maps or plats in special books or in his books of maps of subdivisions. The fee for filing and indexing said map or plat shall be the same as provided for subdivided land under Section 27372 of the Government Code.(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1865.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8557 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 3 - Dedication|Section 8557.

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.(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 954.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8558 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 3 - Dedication|Section 8558.

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 nonuser on its part, by alienation of the property, by any incumbrances, by sale under execution, or otherwise except as provided in this chapter.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8559 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 3 - Dedication|Section 8559.

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 expressly permitted and shall be deemed to be in respect for the dead, a provision for the interment of human remains, and a duty to, and for the benefit of, the general public.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8560 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 3 - Dedication|Section 8560.

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 utility shall be laid out, through, over, or across any part of it without the consent of the cemetery authority owning and operating it, or of not less than two-thirds of the owners of interment plots.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8560.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 3 - Dedication|Section 8560.5.

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 cemetery have been had within five years prior thereto, without the consent of the person owning and controlling the cemetery.(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 83.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8561 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 3 - Dedication|Section 8561.

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 individual owner of an interment plot to the extent provided in Section 704.200 of the Code of Civil Procedure.(Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 497, Sec. 123. Operative July 1, 1983, by Sec. 185 of Ch. 497.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8570 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 4 - Sale of Plots|Section 8570.

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 adopted by the cemetery authority, and subject to such other and further limitations, conditions and restrictions as may be inserted in or made a part of the declaration of dedication by reference, or included in the instrument of conveyance of such plot.(Amended by Stats. 1939, Ch. 339.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8571 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 4 - Sale of Plots|Section 8571.

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. (b)  A plot, the use of which has been conveyed by deed or certificate of ownership as a family plot, thereby becomes inalienable and shall be held as a family plot of the owner. (Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 436, Sec. 34. Effective January 1, 2002.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8572 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 4 - Sale of Plots|Section 8572.

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.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8573 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 4 - Sale of Plots|Section 8573.

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 9591 and 9592 shall:(a)  Set forth in each contract a specific period of time within which the building or structure shall be completed. (b)  Set forth in each contract that the purchaser has the right of exchange for similar interment property and, in the event completion is not accomplished as set forth in (a) above, except upon the proclamation of a national emergency, guarantee the refund of the purchase price. (c)  Provide adequate financial provision for the construction cost of the mausoleum or the refund of the sales price to the purchaser until such time as a certificate of occupancy has been received. (Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1635.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8574 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 4 - Sale of Plots|Section 8574.

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 the cemetery authority to the extent deemed necessary to satisfy the cost of construction of the structure or building.(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 568, Sec. 250. Effective January 1, 2001.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8580 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 5 - Removal of Dedication|Section 8580.

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 superior court of the county in which the property is situated, in a proceeding brought by the cemetery authority for that purpose and upon notice of hearing and proof satisfactory to the court:(a)  That no interments were made in or that all interments have been removed from that portion of the property from which dedication is sought to be removed. (b)  That the portion of the property from which dedication is sought to be removed is not being used for interment of human remains. (Amended by Stats. 1939, Ch. 1032.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8581 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 3 - Acquisition, Dedication and Sale|ARTICLE 5 - Removal of Dedication|Section 8581.

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 cemetery is located, and the posting of copies of the notice in three conspicuous places on that portion of the property from which the dedication is to be removed. Said notice shall:(a)  Describe the portion of the cemetery property sought to be removed from dedication. (b)  State that all remains have been removed or that no interments have been made in the portion of the cemetery property sought to be removed from dedication. (c)  Specify the time and place of the hearing. (Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 1032.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8600 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 4 - Property Rights|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 8600.

8600.  All plots conveyed to individuals are presumed to be the sole and separate property of the owner named in the instrument of conveyance.(Amended by Stats. 1939, Ch. 339.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8601 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 4 - Property Rights|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 8601.

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 vested right of interment of his remains in the plot if more than one interment space is unoccupied at the time the person becomes the spouse of the owner.(Amended by Stats. 1939, Ch. 339.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8602 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 4 - Property Rights|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 8602.

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 between them terminates the vested right of interment unless otherwise provided in the decree.(Amended by Stats. 1939, Ch. 339.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8603 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 4 - Property Rights|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 8603.

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 death of the owner, unless he has disposed of the plot either in his will by a specific devise or by a written declaration filed and recorded in the office of the cemetery authority, the plot descends to the heirs at law of the owner subject to the rights of interment of the decedent and his surviving spouse.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8604 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 4 - Property Rights|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 8604.

8604.  Cemetery property passing to an individual by reason of the death of the owner is exempt from all inheritance taxes.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8605 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 4 - Property Rights|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 8605.

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, is complete authorization to the cemetery authority to permit the use of the unoccupied portions of the plot by the person entitled to the use of it.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8625 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 4 - Property Rights|ARTICLE 2 - Joint Tenants|Section 8625.

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.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8626 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 4 - Property Rights|ARTICLE 2 - Joint Tenants|Section 8626.

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.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8627 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 4 - Property Rights|ARTICLE 2 - Joint Tenants|Section 8627.

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 property.(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 201, Sec. 2.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8628 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 4 - Property Rights|ARTICLE 2 - Joint Tenants|Section 8628.

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 plot, when filed with the cemetery authority operating the cemetery in which the plot is located, is complete authorization to the cemetery authority to permit the use of the unoccupied portion of the plot in accordance with the directions of the surviving joint tenants or their successors in interest.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8629 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 4 - Property Rights|ARTICLE 2 - Joint Tenants|Section 8629.

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 authority. In the absence of such notice or of written objection to its so doing, the cemetery authority is not liable to any owner for interring or permitting an interment in the plot upon the request or direction of any coowner of the plot.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8650 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 4 - Property Rights|ARTICLE 3 - Family Interment Plots|Section 8650.

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 certificate of ownership to an individual owner, the plot shall become the family plot of the owner. (b)  If the owner dies without making disposition of the plot either in his or her will by a specific devise, or by a written declaration filed and recorded in the office of the cemetery authority, any unoccupied portions of the plot shall pass according to the laws of intestate succession as set forth in Sections 6400 to 6413, inclusive, of the Probate Code. (c)  As of January 1, 2002, any unoccupied portions of a family plot that became inalienable pursuant to this section as it read on December 31, 2001, shall no longer be inalienable and shall pass according to the laws of intestate succession as set forth in Sections 6400 to 6413, inclusive, of the Probate Code. No sale, transfer, or donation of any unused portion of a family plot made alienable under this subdivision shall be made unless all persons entitled to interment in the family plot under Sections 8651 and 8652 are deceased or have expressly waived in writing the right to be interred in the family plot. (d)  The seller of a cemetery plot shall notify the buyer that unused portions of a family plot may pass through intestate succession unless written disposition is made by the buyer and may be sold, transferred, or donated by the buyer’s heirs. The seller shall notify the buyer of the effect of a future transfer, sale, or donation of the unused portion of a family plot on any endowment for care or maintenance of the plot that the buyer may purchase in conjunction with the purchase of the cemetery plot. (Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 516, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2002.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8650.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 4 - Property Rights|ARTICLE 3 - Family Interment Plots|Section 8650.5.

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 absence of a disposition of the plot by the owner in his or her will by a specific devise, the name of the person or persons who have rights to the plot under the intestate succession laws of the state, and the consent of that person or those persons to the sale of the plot by the cemetery authority, shall constitute complete authorization to the cemetery authority to permit any sale of the unoccupied portions of the plot.(Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 516, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2002.)