Title BPC, California Bus. & Prof. Code

The provisions of this chapter shall not prohibit an acupuncturist from another state or country, who is not a licensed acupuncturist in this state, who is the invited guest of a professional acupuncture association or scientific acupuncture foundation, an approved educational an…

A funeral director is a person engaged in or conducting, or holding himself or herself out as engaged in any of the following: (a) Preparing for the transportation or burial or disposal, or directing and supervising for transportation or burial or disposal of human remains. (b) M…

(a) A licensed funeral establishment is a place of business conducted in a building or separate portion of a building having a specific street address or location and devoted exclusively to those activities as are incident, convenient, or related to the preparation and arrangemen…

A licensed funeral establishment shall at all times employ a licensed funeral director to manage, direct, or control its business or profession. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, licensed funeral establishments within close geographical proximity of each other…

The business of a licensed funeral establishment shall be conducted and engaged in at a fixed place or facility. No person, partnership, association, corporation, or other organization shall open or maintain a place or establishment at which to engage in or conduct, or hold himse…

The applicant for a funeral establishment license, or in the case the applicant is an association, partnership, or corporation, all officers of the corporation or association or all general partners of the partnership shall be at least 18 years of age and shall not have committed…

An application for a funeral director’s license shall be written on a form provided by the bureau, verified by the applicant, accompanied by the fee fixed by this chapter and filed at its Sacramento office. (Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 568, Sec. 104. Effective January 1, 2001.)

The applicant for a funeral director’s license shall be at least 18 years of age, possess an associate of arts or science degree, or the equivalent, or a higher level of education as recognized by the Western Association of Colleges and Universities, or any other nationally recog…

No licensed funeral director shall engage in or conduct, or hold himself or herself out as engaging in or conducting, the activities of a funeral director without being employed by, or without being a sole proprietor of, a licensed funeral establishment. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch…

Before an individual is granted a funeral director’s license, he or she shall successfully pass an examination upon the following subjects: (a) The signs of death. (b) The manner by which death may be determined. (c) The laws governing the preparation, burial and disposal of huma…

A person shall not open or maintain a place or establishment at which to engage in or conduct, or hold himself, herself, or itself out as engaging in or conducting, the activities of a funeral director without a license. (Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 395, Sec. 17. (AB 180) Effecti…

An applicant for examination under Section 7622 shall pay the funeral director’s examination fee fixed by this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1338.)

If an applicant for a funeral establishment license proposes to engage in or conduct more than one funeral establishment, the applicant shall make a separate application and procure a separate license for each separate establishment. (Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 305, Sec. 2. Effe…

Not more than one person, partnership, association, corporation, or other organization engaged in business as a funeral establishment shall transact business in one specific funeral facility. (Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1151, Sec. 12. Effective January 1, 1997.)

Upon receipt of an application for a license, the bureau shall cause an investigation to be made of the physical status or plans and specifications of the proposed funeral establishment, and of the other qualifications required of the applicant under this chapter, and for this pu…

The bureau shall examine and pass upon the qualifications of the applicant as to ability and experience before passing upon the physical status or plans and specifications of the proposed funeral establishment. (Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 568, Sec. 108. Effective January 1, 2001…

Where a hearing is held to determine whether an application for a license should be granted, the proceeding shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, and the bureau shall have all of the powers granted therein. (Ame…

Every application for a funeral director’s license under this article shall be granted or refused within ninety days from the date of the filing of the application or within thirty days after the close of the hearing upon the application, in case a hearing is held. (Added by Stat…

Any person, partnership, association, corporation, or other organization desiring to change the location of a licensed funeral establishment shall apply therefor on forms furnished by the bureau and shall include a fee fixed by this chapter. The application shall be granted by th…

No funeral establishment shall be conducted or held forth as being conducted or advertised as being conducted under any name which might tend to mislead the public or which would be sufficiently like the name of any other licensed funeral establishment so as to constitute an unfa…

(a) A funeral establishment’s license may be assigned upon payment of the fee fixed by this chapter, the filing of a completed application, and upon submission of an audit report prepared and signed by an independent certified public accountant or public accountant currently lice…

In case of the death of a licensed funeral director who leaves a funeral establishment as part or all of the assets of his or her estate, the bureau may issue a temporary license to his or her legal representative, unless the legal representative has committed acts or crimes cons…

A funeral director shall cause all human remains embalmed in or at the direction of his or her funeral establishment to be embalmed by a licensed embalmer, by an apprentice embalmer under the supervision of his or her licensed supervising embalmer, or by a student in a program ac…

No funeral director shall charge a fee for filing a certificate of death or for providing copies thereof in excess of fees set by statute for filing and providing certified copies of such certificates. (Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 557.)

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a licensed embalmer, at the request of a licensed physician, may remove tissue from human remains for transplant, or therapeutic, or scientific purposes specified in, and pursuant to, the provisions of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (C…

(a) Any person employed by, or an agent of, a licensed funeral establishment, who consults with the family or representatives of a family of a deceased person for the purpose of arranging for services as set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 7615, shall receive documented train…

(a) (1) Any person who holds or has held, or was named on, any license or registration under the jurisdiction of the bureau that has been, within the immediately preceding 10 years, revoked, suspended, placed on probation, or surrendered under a stipulated decision, and who is em…

The provisions of this article shall apply exclusively to gold and to its alloys. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 319.)

As used in this article “quality mark” means any mark indicating or purporting to indicate that any article is composed of gold or of any of its alloys or indicating or purporting to indicate the quality, fineness, quantity, weight or kind of gold or its alloys in an article. (Ad…

A quality mark need not be applied to any article, but if a quality mark is applied to any article it shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of this article. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 319.)

A quality mark applied to any article shall indicate the number of twenty-fourth parts by weight of pure gold or its alloy contained in the article. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 319.)

The variation between the actual fineness of the gold or its alloy contained in any article and that indicated by the quality mark applied to such article shall not exceed the tolerances for fineness prescribed for articles made of gold and its alloys which are to be moved in int…

Any person who applies or causes any quality mark to be applied to any article which is made in whole or in part of gold or of any of its alloys shall also apply a trade-mark duly applied for or registered to him under the laws of the United States or of this State to such articl…

Any person or any officer, director, employee or agent of any person who makes, sells or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article to which is applied any quality mark which does not conform to all the provisions of this…

An embalmer is one who is duly qualified to disinfect or preserve human remains by the injection or external application of antiseptics, disinfectants or preservative fluids; to prepare human bodies for transportation which are dead of contagious or infectious diseases; and to us…

It is unlawful for any person to embalm a body, or engage in, or hold himself or herself out as engaged in practice as an embalmer, unless he or she is licensed by the bureau. However, this section shall have no effect on students and instructors of embalming in mortuary science …

An application for an embalmer’s license shall be written on a form provided by the bureau, verified by the applicant, and accompanied by the fee fixed by this chapter. (Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 568, Sec. 115. Effective January 1, 2001.)

In order to qualify for a license as an embalmer, the applicant shall comply with all of the following requirements: (a) Be over 18 years of age. (b) Not have committed acts or crimes constituting grounds for denial of licensure under Section 480. (c) Have completed at least two …

(a) The bureau shall require the applicant to pass both of the following: (1) The sciences section of the national examination administered by the International Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards, or its equivalent, as determined by the bureau. (2) An examination, adm…

Examinations shall be administered at times and places determined by the bureau and the International Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards. The bureau shall give notice of the time and place of the examination described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 764…

Where a hearing is held to determine whether an application for a license should be granted, the proceeding shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, and the bureau shall have all of …

No embalmer’s license is assignable, and only the licensee may engage in the practice of embalming under the license. (Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 39.)

Except as provided in Section 102805 of the Health and Safety Code, whenever the name of any licensed embalmer is subscribed to any certificate, the purport of which is that he or she has performed any act mentioned in the certificate, the licensed embalmer shall actually sign hi…

The bureau may examine the requirements for the issuance of licenses to embalmers in other states of the United States and cause a record to be kept of those states in which standards are maintained for embalmers, not lower than those provided in this chapter. (Amended by Stats. …

The board may deny, suspend, or revoke, or impose probationary conditions upon, the license of any acupuncturist who is guilty of unprofessional conduct. Unprofessional conduct shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) Using or possessing any controlled substance, …

The board may deny, suspend, revoke, or impose probationary conditions upon the license of any acupuncturist if he or she is guilty of committing a fraudulent act including, but not be limited to, any of the following: (a) Securing a license by fraud or deceit. (b) Committing a f…