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CA Health & Safety Code § 8736 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries|Section 8736.

8736.  The endowment care fund and all payments or contributions to it are hereby expressly permitted as and for charitable and eleemosynary purposes. Endowment care is a provision for the discharge of a duty due from the persons contributing to the persons interred and to be interred in the cemetery and a provision for the benefit and protection of the public by preserving and keeping cemeteries from becoming unkept and places of reproach and desolation in the communities in which they are situated.(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 176.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8737 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries|Section 8737.

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 or any contribution to it invalid as violating any law against perpetuities or the suspension of the power of alienation of title to property.(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 176.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8738 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries|Section 8738.

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.(b) An endowment care cemetery is one which has deposited in its endowment care fund the minimum amounts heretofore required by law and shall hereafter have deposited in its endowment care fund at the time of or not later than completion of the initial sale not less than the following amounts for plots sold or disposed of:(1) Either 3 percent of net price or one hundred fifty dollars ($150), whichever is greater, with a required deposit not to exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000), for each grave.(2) Either 3 percent of net price or seventy-five dollars ($75), whichever is greater, with a required deposit not to exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000), for each niche. (3) Either 3 percent of net price or one hundred fifty dollars ($150), whichever is greater, with a required deposit not to exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000), for each crypt. (4) Either 3 percent of net price or seventy-five dollars ($75), whichever is greater, for the cremated or hydrolyzed remains of each deceased person scattered in the cemetery at a garden or designated open area that is not an interment site subject to paragraph (1).(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2023, and as of that date is repealed.(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 442, Sec. 5. (AB 651) Effective January 1, 2022. Repealed as of January 1, 2023, by its own provisions. See later operative version added by Sec. 6 of Stats. 2021, Ch. 442.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8738 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries|Section 8738.

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. (b) An endowment care cemetery is one which has deposited in its endowment care fund the minimum amounts heretofore required by law and shall hereafter have deposited in its endowment care fund at the time of or not later than completion of the initial sale not less than the following amounts for plots sold or disposed of:(1) Either 6 percent of net price or two hundred dollars ($200), whichever is greater, with a required deposit not to exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000), for each grave.(2) Either 6 percent of net price or one hundred dollars ($100), whichever is greater, with a required deposit not to exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000), for each niche.(3) Either 6 percent of net price or two hundred dollars ($200), whichever is greater, with a required deposit not to exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000), for each crypt. (4) Either 6 percent of net price or one hundred dollars ($100), whichever is greater, for the cremated or hydrolyzed remains of each deceased person scattered in the cemetery at a garden or designated open area that is not an interment site subject to paragraph (1).(c) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2023.(d) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2024, and as of that date is repealed.(Repealed (in Sec. 5) and added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 442, Sec. 6. (AB 651) Effective January 1, 2022. Operative January 1, 2023, by its own provisions. Repealed as of January 1, 2024, by its own provisions. See later operative version added by Sec. 7 of Stats. 2021, Ch. 442.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8738 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries|Section 8738.

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. (b) An endowment care cemetery is one which has deposited in its endowment care fund the minimum amounts heretofore required by law and shall hereafter have deposited in its endowment care fund at the time of or not later than completion of the initial sale not less than the following amounts for plots sold or disposed of:(1) Either 10 percent of net price or two hundred fifty dollars ($250), whichever is greater, with a required deposit not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000), for each grave.(2) Either 10 percent of net price or one hundred fifty dollars ($150), whichever is greater, with a required deposit not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000), for each niche.(3) Either 10 percent of net price or two hundred fifty dollars ($250), whichever is greater, with a required deposit not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000), for each crypt.(4) Either 10 percent of net price or one hundred fifty dollars ($150), whichever is greater, for the cremated or hydrolyzed remains of each deceased person scattered in the cemetery at a garden or designated open area that is not an interment site subject to paragraph (1).(c) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2024.(Repealed (in Sec. 6) and added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 442, Sec. 7. (AB 651) Effective January 1, 2022. Operative January 1, 2024, by its own provisions.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8738.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries|Section 8738.1.

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 dollars ($25,000), or thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) if established on or after January 1, 1977, before disposing of any plot or making any sale thereof.(Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 525.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8738.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries|Section 8738.2.

8738.2.  The endowment care fund under the provisions of this code shall be kept separate and apart from all other cemetery funds. Separate records and books shall be kept of the endowment care fund. The amount to be deposited in the endowment care fund shall be separately shown on the original purchase agreement and a copy delivered to the purchaser. In the sale of cemetery property, no commission shall be paid a broker or salesman on the amount deposited by the purchaser in the fund.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 595.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8739 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries|Section 8739.

8739.  A nonendowment care cemetery is one that does not have deposited in an endowment care fund the minimum amounts required by law.(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 176.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8739.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries|Section 8739.1.

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 endowment care cemetery.(Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1269.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8740 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries|Section 8740.

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 separately set off from the remainder of the cemetery and if signs are kept prominently placed around the section designating the same as a “nonendowment care section” in legible black lettering at least four inches high. There shall be printed at the head of all contracts, agreements, statements, receipts and certificates of ownership or deeds referring to plots in the section the phrase “nonendowment care” in lettering of a size and style to be approved by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau.No new “nonendowment care” sections shall be established, nor an existing one enlarged in an endowment care cemetery.(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 568, Sec. 254. Effective January 1, 2001.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8741 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries|Section 8741.

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 shall contain the following information in the order and manner set forth below:(a) A heading containing the words “endowment care”—which shall appear in a minimum of one-inch letters.(b) The statement, “This is an endowment care interment property.”(Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 124, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2007.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8743 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries|Section 8743.

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 entrance of the cemetery or its administration building and readily accessible to the public, a legible sign with lettering of a size and style to be approved by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau that shall contain the following information in the order and manner set forth below:(a)  A heading containing the words “nonendowment care.” (b)  This is a nonendowment care interment property. (Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 568, Sec. 255. Effective January 1, 2001.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8744 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries|Section 8744.

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 operated as a ‛nonendowment care’ interment property.”The phrase “nonendowment care” shall be of a size and style to be approved by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau.(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 568, Sec. 256. Effective January 1, 2001.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8745 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries|Section 8745.

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 authority.(Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 339.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8746 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries|Section 8746.

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 any willful or false statement appearing on a sign, contract, agreement, receipt, statement, literature or other publication shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.(Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 897, Sec. 1.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8747.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries|Section 8747.5.

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. They shall be readily available for inspection and examination by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau in accordance with the provisions of the Business and Professions Code.(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 568, Sec. 257. Effective January 1, 2001.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8748 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 2 - Care of Active Cemeteries|Section 8748.

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 consolidate into one cemetery authority or corporation, the endowment care funds established by each may be consolidated and merged into one endowment care fund. Such merger shall be accomplished by the execution of a declaration of trust by the successor cemetery authority or corporation, which declaration shall provide:(a)  That the assets of each endowment care fund shall be merged and consolidated into one endowment care fund which shall be held and administered by the directors of the successor cemetery authority or the trustees appointed by them for the care, maintenance, and embellishment of both cemeteries in accordance with the provisions of this code. (b)  That the income from such endowment care funds shall be used for the general care, maintenance, and embellishment for the cemetery as a whole, or, if the income from such consolidated fund is to be divided between such mausoleum or mausoleum-columbarium and cemetery, the proportion or manner in which it is to be divided. (c)  That it accepts and will administer all special care funds for the purpose for which they were established and in accordance with the provisions of this code. The declaration of trust shall be approved by all of the trustees of each endowment care fund and by the directors of the cemetery authority or corporation appointing such trustees, which approval shall be endorsed upon such declaration of trust. The declaration of trust shall not be effective unless and until approved by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau.An executed copy of such declaration of trust so approved shall be filed with the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau and in the office of the cemetery authority or corporation owning or operating such cemetery, where it shall be available for inspection by any owner of property therein.Upon approval of the declaration of trust by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau, the assets and liabilities of such endowment care funds shall be deemed merged and consolidated into one endowment care fund, and the trustees of, or appointed by, the cemetery authority or corporation handling such funds shall be immediately vested with the title to all of the assets and subject to all of the liabilities thereof. The trustees of the endowment care funds which have been thus merged or consolidated shall be relieved of any obligations or duties arising subsequent to such merger or consolidation.(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 568, Sec. 258. Effective January 1, 2001.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8750 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 3 - Investment of Endowment Funds|Section 8750.

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 resolutions, by-laws, rules and regulations or other actions or instruments of the cemetery authority.(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 176.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8751 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 3 - Investment of Endowment Funds|Section 8751.

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. (b)  Bonds legal for investment for savings banks in this state. (c)  First mortgages or first trust deeds on improved real estate. (d)  Income producing improved real estate in any city or city and county in this state. (e)  Investment certificates in any savings and loan association organized, existing and doing business under the laws of this state. (f)  Investments of the type enumerated for domestic incorporated insurers in Article 3, Chapter 2, Part 2, of Division 1 of the Insurance Code of this state. (g)  By deposit in a bank which is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. (h)  Shares of a duly chartered and insured federal savings and loan association. (Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 496.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8751.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 3 - Investment of Endowment Funds|Section 8751.1.

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 16000) of Division 9 of the Probate Code.(Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 79, Sec. 12.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8775 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 4 - Special Care|Section 8775.

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 either or all of the following purposes:(a)  Improvement or embellishment of all or any part of the cemetery or any lot in it. (b)  Erection, renewal, repair, or preservation of any monument, fence, building, or other structure in the cemetery. (c)  Planting or cultivation of trees, shrubs, or plants in or around any part of the cemetery. (d)  Special care or ornamenting of any part of any plot, section, or building in the cemetery. (e)  Any purpose or use not inconsistent with the purpose for which the cemetery was established or is maintained. (Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 176.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8776 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 4 - Special Care|Section 8776.

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. Such contributions are a provision for the discharge of a duty due from the persons contributing to the person or persons interred or to be interred in the cemetery and likewise a provision for the benefit and protection of the public by preserving, beautifying, and keeping cemeteries from becoming unkept and places of reproach and desolation in the communities in which they are situated. No payment, gift, grant, bequest, or other contribution for such purpose is invalid by reason of any indefiniteness or uncertainty of the persons designated as beneficiaries in the instruments creating the fund, nor is the fund or any contribution to it invalid as violating any law against perpetuities or the suspension of the power of alienation of title to property.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8777 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 4 - Special Care|Section 8777.

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 authority. The corpus of special care trusts shall be invested and reinvested and kept invested as authorized by Section 8778.(Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 729.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8778 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 5 - Endowment and Special Care|ARTICLE 4 - Special Care|Section 8778.

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.(b) Bonds that are legal investments for commercial banks in this state.(c) Certificates of deposit or other interest-bearing accounts in any bank in this state insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.(d) Investment certificates or shares in any state or federally chartered savings and loan association insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation.(e) Investments in first trust deeds on improved real estate, provided that the loans require monthly amortization of principal and interest and are fully amortized within 30 years or the term of the loan, whichever comes first. No loan shall be made to the cemetery authority, to the director, officer, or stockholder of a cemetery authority, or trustees of the special care funds, or to partners, relatives, agents, or employees thereof.(f) Any investment that is lawful for endowment care funds under Sections 8751 and 8751.1.(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 307, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2008.)