Bus. & Prof. Code, § 7612.2 · Article 1.5. Definitions and Regulation of Cemeteries
Bus. & Prof. Code, § 7612.2
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
This article does not apply to any of the following:
(a) A 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) A public cemetery.
(c) Any private or fraternal burial park not exceeding 10 acres in area, established prior to September 19, 1939; however, (1) those cemeteries shall be subject to the cemetery brokerage provisions of this act, and (2) any cemetery shall be subject to all of the provisions of this act if it collects a care, maintenance, or embellishment deposit or sets up a trust for burial purposes pursuant to Section 8775 of the Health and Safety Code, including funeral services such as mortuary, cremation, or other commodities or services furnished at the time of and in connection with that funeral or cremation.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 589, Sec. 2. (AB 3254) Effective January 1, 2025.
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