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CA Health & Safety Code § 8134 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 2 - PUBLIC CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 8134.

8134.  No streets, alleys, or roads shall be opened or laid out within the boundary lines of any cemetery located in whole or in part within the lines of any city or city and county where burials in the 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 § 8135 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 2 - PUBLIC CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 8135.

8135.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Water Resources may sell plots in any cemetery which is owned by the department on a nonendowment care basis to a relative of the third degree or less of any person buried in such cemetery.(Added by Stats. 1968, Ch. 816.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8136 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 2 - PUBLIC CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 8136.

8136.  Any city, including a chartered city, that owns and operates a cemetery may maintain a proceeding in the superior court of the county in which the cemetery is located to have any plot in the cemetery declared abandoned if the present owner of the plot is unknown to the city and a period of at least 50 years has passed since any portion of the plot has been used for interment purposes. The proceeding shall be initiated and conducted in the same manner as prescribed by Section 9069, except that any reference in that section to a public cemetery district shall be deemed to be a reference to the city for purposes of this section.(Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec. 3.5. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8137 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 2 - PUBLIC CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 8137.

8137.  A cemetery owned and operated by a city, county, or city and county shall not engage in the business of selling monuments or markers, and its officers and employees who manage, operate, or otherwise maintain such cemetery on a day-to-day basis shall not engage in the private business of selling monuments or markers.(Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 161.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8250 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 8250.

8250.  Except as provided in subdivision (c) of this section, the provisions of this part do not apply to any of the following:(a)  Any religious corporation, church, religious society or denomination, a corporation sole administering temporalities of any church or religious society or denomination, or any cemetery organized, controlled, and operated by any of them. (b)  Any public cemetery. (c)  Any private or fraternal burial park not exceeding 10 acres in area, heretofore established; provided, however, (1) that the provisions of Chapter 6 (commencing at Section 8800) and Chapter 7 (commencing at Section 8825) of this part are applicable thereto, and (2) all of the provisions of this part shall apply to any such cemetery that collects a care, maintenance or embellishment deposit or funds for commodities or services. (Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1269.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8250.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 8250.5.

8250.5.  As used in Section 8250 of this code, a public cemetery is a cemetery owned and operated by a city, county, city and county, or public cemetery district.(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 386.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8251 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 8251.

8251.  The provisions of this part do not affect the corporate existence of any cemetery organized under any law then existing prior to August 14, 1931, and as to such cemeteries, and their rights, the laws under which the corporation was organized and existed and under which such rights became vested are applicable.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8252 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 8252.

8252.  It is unlawful for any corporation, copartnership, firm, trust, association, or individual to engage in or transact any of the businesses of a cemetery within this state except by means of a corporation or limited liability company duly organized for these purposes.(Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 114, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2009.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8253 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 8253.

8253.  The powers, privileges, duties and restrictions conferred and imposed upon any corporation, firm, copartnership, association, trust or individual, existing and doing business under the laws of this State, are hereby enlarged or modified as each particular case may require to conform to the provisions of this part notwithstanding anything to the contrary in their respective articles of incorporation, charter or other evidence of organization.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8825 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 7 - Abandonment|Section 8825.

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, if not more than 10 human dead bodies have been interred therein for a period of five years immediately preceding the date of the resolution, declare the abandonment of the cemetery as a place of future interment, but shall permit interment therein of any person who is an owner of a plot in the cemetery on the date of adoption of the resolution or who otherwise has a right of interment in the cemetery which is vested on such date. The resolution may provide for the removal of such copings, improvements, and embellishments which the governing board finds to be a threat or danger to the health, safety, comfort, or welfare of the public.(Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 288.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8826 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 7 - Abandonment|Section 8826.

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 declaration of intended abandonment, the city or county in which the cemetery is located will remove such copings, improvements, and embellishments which are found to be a threat or danger to the health, safety, comfort, or welfare of the public. Notice shall be given to all persons interested therein by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county or city. Publication shall be pursuant to Section 6064 of the Government Code.(Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1241.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8827 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 7 - Abandonment|Section 8827.

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 embellishments which have been found to be a threat or danger to the health, safety, comfort, or welfare of the public.(Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1241.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8828 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 7 - Abandonment|Section 8828.

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 legal description of the cemetery, dedicate such abandoned cemetery as a pioneer memorial park and may cause to be erected a suitable central memorial honoring those who have been interred in the cemetery.Upon recordation of the resolution with the county recorder of the county in which the cemetery is located, fee title to the cemetery shall vest in the city or county as the case may be. The governing body may bring an action to quiet title to the cemetery, and in the absence of fraud the resolution and the fact of recordation shall be conclusive evidence of fee title to the cemetery.Any county or city acquiring fee title to a cemetery under this section shall only use the property for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a pioneer memorial park.(Amended by Stats. 1970, Ch. 543.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 8829 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES|CHAPTER 7 - Abandonment|Section 8829.

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.(Added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 862.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 9000 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 4 - PUBLIC CEMETERY DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 9000.

9000.  This part shall be known and may be cited as the Public Cemetery District Law.(Repealed and added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 9001 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 4 - PUBLIC CEMETERY DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 9001.

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, religious, and social needs of California’s diverse communities. (2)  The Legislature authorized the creation of public cemetery districts in 1909 to assume responsibility for the ownership, improvement, expansion, and operation of cemeteries and the provision of interment services from fraternal, pioneer, religious, social, and other organizations that were unable to provide for those cemeteries. (3)  For nearly a century, public cemetery districts have provided communities with the means to publicly finance the ownership, improvement, expansion, and operation of public cemeteries and the provision of interment services, particularly in rural and formerly rural communities. (4)  Interment customs and practices have changed since the creation of the public cemetery districts but communities continue to need the means to own, improve, expand, and operate public cemeteries that provide respectful and cost-effective interments. (b)  In enacting this part, it is the intent of the Legislature to create and continue a broad statutory authority for a class of special districts that can own, improve, expand, and operate public cemeteries that provide respectful and cost-effective interments. (c)  It is also the intent of the Legislature that local officials adapt the powers and procedures provided by this part to meet the diversity of local conditions and circumstances. (Repealed and added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 9002 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 4 - PUBLIC CEMETERY DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 9002.

9002.  The definitions in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 7000) of Part 1 of Division 7 apply to this part. Further, as used in this part, the following terms have the following meanings:(a) “Active militia” means the active militia as defined by Section 120 of the Military and Veterans Code.(b) “Armed services” means the armed services as defined by Section 18540 of the Government Code.(c) “Board of trustees” means the legislative body of a district.(d) “District” means a public cemetery district created pursuant to this part or any of its statutory predecessors.(e) “Domestic partner” means two adults who have chosen to share one another’s lives in an intimate and committed relationship of mutual caring, and are qualified and registered with the Secretary of State as domestic partners in accordance with Division 2.5 (commencing with Section 297) of the Family Code.(f) “Family member” means any spouse, by marriage or otherwise, domestic partner, child or stepchild, by natural birth or adoption, parent, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, parent-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, nephew, niece, aunt, uncle, first cousin, or any person denoted by the prefix “grand” or “great,” or the spouse of any of these persons.(g) “Firefighter” means a firefighter as defined by Section 1797.182.(h) (1) “Interment right” means the rights held by the owner to use or control the use of a plot authorized by this part, for the interment of human remains, including both of the following rights:(A) To determine the number and identity of any person or persons to be interred in the plot within a cemetery in conformance with all applicable regulations adopted by the cemetery district.(B) To control the placement, design, wording, and removal of memorial markers in compliance with all applicable regulations adopted by the cemetery district.(2) An interment right is a transferable property interest, and is governed by Chapter 5.5 (commencing with Section 9069.10).(i) “Nonresident” means a person who does not reside within a district or does not pay property taxes on property located in a district.(j) “Peace officer” means a peace officer as defined by Section 830 of the Penal Code.(k) “Principal county” means the county having all or the greater portion of the entire assessed value, as shown on the last equalized assessment roll of the county or counties, of all taxable property within a district.(l) “Voter” means a voter as defined by Section 359 of the Elections Code.(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 561, Sec. 110. (AB 1516) Effective January 1, 2018.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 9003 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 4 - PUBLIC CEMETERY DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 9003.

9003.  (a)  This part provides the authority for the organization and powers of public cemetery districts. This part succeeds the former Part 4 (commencing with Section 8890), as added by Chapter 60 of the Statutes of 1939, as subsequently amended, and any of its statutory predecessors. (b)  Any public cemetery district formed pursuant to the former Part 4 or any of its statutory predecessors that was in existence on January 1, 2004, shall remain in existence as if it has been organized pursuant to this part. (c)  Any indebtedness, special tax, benefit assessment, fee, election, ordinance, resolution, regulation, rule, or any other action of a district taken pursuant to the former Part 4 or of any of its statutory predecessors which was taken before January 1, 2004, shall not be voided solely because of any error, omission, informality, misnomer, or failure to comply strictly with this part. (Repealed and added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 9004 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 4 - PUBLIC CEMETERY DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 9004.

9004.  This part is necessary to protect the public health, safety, and welfare, and shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.(Repealed and added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 9005 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 4 - PUBLIC CEMETERY DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 9005.

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 subdivision of the state is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this part that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application of the invalid provision, and to this end the provisions of this part are severable.(Repealed and added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 9006 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 4 - PUBLIC CEMETERY DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 9006.

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 Code of Civil Procedure. (b)  Any judicial review of an action taken pursuant to this part shall be conducted pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1084) of Title 1 of Part 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure. (Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 9007 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 4 - PUBLIC CEMETERY DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions|Section 9007.

9007.  (a)  Except as provided in this section, territory, whether incorporated or unincorporated, whether contiguous or noncontiguous, may be included in a district. Territory that is already within a public cemetery district or another type of special district that provides cemetery facilities and services shall not be included within a public cemetery district. (b)  Except as provided in this part, the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000, Division 3 (commencing with Section 56000) of Title 5 of the Government Code, shall govern any change of organization or reorganization of a district. In the case of any conflict between that division and this part, the provisions of this part shall prevail. (c)  A district shall be deemed an “independent special district,” as defined by Section 56044 of the Government Code, except when a county board of supervisors has appointed itself as the board of trustees. (Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 9010 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 4 - PUBLIC CEMETERY DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Formation|Section 9010.

9010.  A new district may be formed pursuant to this chapter.(Repealed and added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 9011 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 4 - PUBLIC CEMETERY DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Formation|Section 9011.

9011.  (a)  A proposal to form a new district may be made by petition. The petition shall do all of the things required by Section 56700 of the Government Code. In addition, the petition shall: (1)  Set forth the methods by which the district will be financed, including but not limited to special taxes, special benefit assessments, and fees. (2)  Propose a name for the district. (3)  Specify the size of the initial board of trustees and the method of their appointment. (b)  The petitions, the proponents, and the procedures for certifying the sufficiency of the petitions shall comply with Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 56700) of Part 3 of Division 3 of Title 5 of the Government Code. In the case of any conflict between that chapter and this chapter, the provisions of this chapter shall prevail. (c)  The petition shall be signed by not less than 25 percent of the registered voters residing in the area to be included in the district, as determined by the local agency formation commission. (Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 9012 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 4 - PUBLIC CEMETERY DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Formation|Section 9012.

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 the district and the methods by which the district will be financed. The notice shall be published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code in one or more newspapers of general circulation within the territory proposed to be included in the district. If the territory proposed to be included in the district is located in more than one county, publication of the notice shall be made in at least one newspaper of general circulation in each of the counties. (b)  The following shall be signed by a representative of the proponent, and shall be in substantially the following form: “Notice of Intent to Circulate Petition“Notice is hereby given of the intention to circulate a petition proposing to form the __________________ [name of the district]. The reasons for forming the proposed district are: __________________. The method(s) by which the proposed district will be financed are: __________________.” (c)  Within five days after the date of publication, the proponents shall file with the executive officer of the local agency formation commission of the principal county a copy of the notice together with an affidavit made by a representative of the newspaper in which the notice was published certifying to the fact of the publication. (d)  After the filing required pursuant to subdivision (c), the petition may be circulated for signatures. (Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 9013 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES|PART 4 - PUBLIC CEMETERY DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Formation|Section 9013.

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 in the district. Except for the provisions regarding the signers, signatures, and the proponents, a resolution of application shall contain all of the matters specified for a petition in Section 9011. (b)  Before adopting a resolution of application, the legislative body shall hold a public hearing on the resolution. Notice of the hearing shall be published pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code in one or more newspapers of general circulation within the county or city. At least 20 days before the hearing, the legislative body shall give mailed notice of its hearing to the executive officer of the local agency formation commission of the principal county. The notice shall generally describe the proposed formation of the district and the territory proposed to be included in the district. (c)  At the hearing, the legislative body shall give any person an opportunity to present his or her views on the resolution. (d)  The clerk of the legislative body shall file a certified copy of the resolution of application with the executive officer of the local agency formation commission of the principal county. (Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2004.)