Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

(a) A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with any of the following: (1) This chapter. (2) The laws of the state or country where it was executed. (3) The laws of the state or country where the person making the anatomical gift was domiciled, has a place of reside…

(a) The California organ procurement organizations designated pursuant to Section 273 and following of Title 42 of the United States Code, are hereby authorized to establish a not-for-profit entity that shall be designated the California Organ and Tissue Donor Registrar, which sh…

(a) As used in this section the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Advance health care directive” means a power of attorney for health care or a record signed by a prospective donor containing the prospective donor’s direction concerning a health care decision for …

(a) A county coroner shall cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. (b) If a county coroner receives notice from a procurement organization that an anatomi…

(a) On request from a qualified procurement organization, the county coroner may permit the removal of organs that constitute an anatomical gift from a decedent who died under circumstances requiring an inquest by the coroner. (b) If no autopsy is required, the organs to be remov…

In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration shall be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it. (Added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 629, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2008.)

This act modifies, limits, and supersedes the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 7001 et seq.), but does not modify, limit or supersede Section 101(a) of that act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 7001), or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices …

(a) No hospital, physician and surgeon, procurement organization, or other person shall determine the ultimate recipient of an anatomical gift based upon a potential recipient’s physical or mental disability, except to the extent that the physical or mental disability has been fo…

(a) A hospital, physician and surgeon, procurement organization, or other person shall not determine the ultimate recipient of an anatomical gift based solely upon a potential recipient’s status as a qualified patient, as defined in Section 11362.7, or based solely upon a positiv…

(a) If there has been an anatomical gift, a technician may remove any donated parts and an enucleator may remove any donated eyes or parts of eyes, after determination of death by a physician and surgeon. (b) Following the final disposition of the remains of the donor, upon reque…

(a) This chapter shall apply to all cemeteries, including, but not limited to, public cemeteries, private cemeteries, and cemeteries operated by religious organizations, or fraternal or beneficial associations or societies. (b) This chapter shall supersede any conflicting rules o…

(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), there shall be no less than 18 inches of dirt or turf on top of all vaults or caskets as measured at the time of burial. (b) Cremated remains placed in an urn or urn vault and covered with at least three-quarters of an inch of c…

(a) This chapter shall not apply to mausoleums, crypts, vaults, or other burial structures designed and constructed to be installed without an earthen cover. (b) Preexisting and presold vaults and lawn crypts that were in place on January 1, 1993, or for which sales agreements ha…

Cemeteries shall be liable for the costs of reburial of any remains improperly interred in already occupied graves or interred with less than the amount of turf, dirt, or other covering, as required by this chapter, for burials occurring after January 1, 1993. (Added by Stats. 19…

(a) Except with the express written permission of the person entitled to control the disposition of the remains, or in the case of a double burial consented to by both parties, no person shall knowingly or willfully inter the remains of more than one body in a single plot, or pla…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any cemetery that violates any of the requirements of this chapter shall be subject to disciplinary action by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau. (Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 568, Sec. 244. Effective January 1, 2001.)

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the statute of limitations for any individual’s criminal violation of Section 8113.5 shall begin to run at the time the violation is discovered. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 371, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1997.)