Health & Saf. Code, § 8393 · Article 9. Reduction Facilities
Health & Saf. Code, § 8393
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) A reduction facility shall maintain an identification system allowing identification of each decedent beginning from the time the reduction facility accepts delivery of human remains until the point at which it releases the reduced human remains to a third party. After reduction, an identifying disk, tab, or other permanent label shall be placed with the reduced human remains container or containers before the reduced human remains are released from the licensed reduction facility. Each identification disk, tab, or label shall contain the license number of the reduction facility and shall have a unique number that shall be recorded on all documents regarding the decedent and in the reduction log. Each reduction facility shall maintain a written procedure for identification of remains.
(b) A reduction facility that fails, when requested by an official of the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau, to produce a written procedure for identification of remains shall have 15 working days from the time of the request to produce an identification procedure for review by the chief of the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau. The license of the reduction facility shall be suspended pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, if no identification procedure is produced for review after 15 working days have elapsed.
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History
Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 399, Sec. 45. (AB 351) Effective January 1, 2023. Operative January 1, 2027, pursuant to Sec. 8396.
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