Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The projected budget deficit for the 2003–04 fiscal year represents the largest fiscal imbalance in California history. This imbalance necessitates drastic actions not ordinarily contemplated in usual budget years. …

Every head of a public institution, city or county undertaker, or state, county, or city officer having charge or control of remains to be interred at public expense shall use due diligence to notify the relatives of the decedent. In the absence of any known relative of the deced…

The person in charge of a public institution in which the decedent was an inmate shall transmit upon request, to the state department or to any person designated by it, a brief medical history of the unclaimed dead for purpose of identification and permanent record, which records…

The unclaimed dead retained by the State department for scientific or educational purposes shall be embalmed and disposed of in accordance with the instructions of the State department. Such unclaimed dead shall be held for a period of thirty days by those to whom they may have b…

The bodies of the unclaimed dead retained by the State department shall be used solely for the purpose of instruction and study in the promotion of medical, chiropractic, and embalming education and science within the State. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

All persons receiving unclaimed dead for educational purposes shall bear all reasonable expense incurred in the preservation and transportation of the dead and shall keep a permanent record of bodies received, giving the identification number, the name, age, sex, nationality, and…

It is unlawful for any person, unless specifically authorized by law, to hold a post mortem examination of any unclaimed dead without the express permission of the State department. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Any person authorized by law to perform post mortem examinations shall permit, with the consent of relatives, or in the absence of such relatives, with the consent of the State department, any representative of the anatomical or pathological departments of an incorporated medical…

Whenever, through the failure of any person to notify the State department, or promptly to deliver the body of a deceased indigent as required by the State department, such body becomes unfit for scientific or educational purposes, the State department shall so certify and the re…

Every person who unlawfully disposes, uses, or sells the body of an unclaimed dead person, or who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The governing body of any city or county, in the exercise of its police power, may by ordinance prescribe such standards governing burial, inurnment, and entombment and such standards of maintenance for cemeteries, including mausoleums and columbariums, as it shall determine to b…

(a) A district may own, operate, improve, and maintain cemeteries and provide interment services within its boundaries. (b) A district shall maintain the cemeteries owned by the district. (c) The district that owns a cemetery shall have exclusive jurisdiction and control over its…

A district shall have and may exercise all rights and powers, expressed or implied, necessary to carry out the purposes and intent of this part, including, but not limited to, all of the following powers: (a) To sue and be sued. (b) To acquire by purchase, eminent domain, grant, …

(a) When acquiring, improving, or using any real property, a district shall comply with Article 5 (commencing with Section 53090) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 and Article 7 (commencing with Section 65400) of Chapter 1 of Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government …

(a) A district shall have perpetual succession. (b) A board of trustees may, by a two-thirds vote of its total membership, adopt a resolution to change the name of the district. The name shall contain the words “public cemetery district” or “cemetery district.” The resolution sha…

(a) Each district shall adopt policies and procedures, including bidding regulations, governing the purchase of supplies and equipment. Each district shall adopt these policies and procedures by rule or regulation pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 54201) of Chapter 5…

(a) The Myers-Milias-Brown Act, Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code applies to all districts. (b) A board of trustees may adopt an ordinance establishing an employee relations system that may include, but is not limited to, a …

A board of trustees may require any employee or officer to be bonded. The district shall pay the cost of the bonds. (Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2004.)

A board of trustees may provide for any programs for the benefit of its employees and members of the board of trustees pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 53200) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code. (Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec. 5. Effective…

A district may authorize the members of its board of trustees and its employees to attend professional, educational, or vocational meetings, and pay their actual and necessary traveling and incidental expenses while on official business. The payment of expenses pursuant to this s…

A district may sell interment rights in its cemeteries, columbariums, and mausoleums, subject to the limitations of this part. (Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2004.)

(a) A district may acquire, construct, improve, maintain, or repair a columbarium for the placement of cremated remains. (b) A district shall comply with the Mausoleum and Columbarium Law, Part 5 (commencing with Section 9501). (c) A district that sells interment rights in a colu…

(a) A district may acquire, maintain, or repair a mausoleum for crypt entombment that was completed on or before May 1, 1937. A district may construct additions to the mausoleum. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the Visalia Public Cemetery District may acquire and manage the …

(a) A district may require that monuments or markers shall be placed at interment plots. (b) A district may adopt minimum requirements for the permanency of monuments or markers. (c) A district may cause to be purchased and placed suitable permanent monuments or markers at the in…

A district may sell accessory and replacement objects that are necessary or convenient to interments, including but not limited to burial vaults, liners, and flower vases, but excluding monuments or markers. (Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2004.)

(a) A district may use or lease land acquired for a future cemetery for an enterprise if all of the following conditions apply: (1) The district has filed with the county recorder a declaration of intention to use the land for a cemetery. (2) The amount of land is reasonably nece…

(a) A district may convey a cemetery owned by the district to any cemetery authority, pursuant to this section. (b) The board of trustees of a district that proposes to convey a cemetery owned by the district to a cemetery authority shall adopt a resolution of intention that cont…

(a) A district may dedicate real property or an interest in real property owned by the district to another public agency for use as roads or utility rights-of-way, including but not limited to water, sewer, drainage, gas or electricity transmission, or communications purposes, pu…

When the work is completed in accordance with plans, specifications, and statements previously made and upon which the permit or approval was issued, the owner or contractor shall notify the department. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1349.)

The department shall inspect or cause the work to be inspected, and shall issue a certificate of occupancy if the work has been performed in accordance with the approved plans, specifications, and statements, and in conformity with the provisions of this part; and if not, it shal…

When it is found that the building or structure is structurally complete, upon request, a temporary certificate of occupancy shall be issued by the department for the use of a portion or portions of a mausoleum or columbarium for interment of human remains prior to the completion…