California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 2 - Funeral Establishments and Directors

• Section 7615.
  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...
• Section 7616.
  (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...
• Section 7616.2.
  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...
• Section 7617.
  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...
• Section 7617.1.
  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...
• Section 7618.
  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...
• Section 7619.
  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...
• Section 7619.3.
  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...
• Section 7622.
  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...
• Section 7622.2.
  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...
• Section 7622.5.
  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.)
• Section 7623.
  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...
• Section 7624.
  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...
• Section 7625.
  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...
• Section 7626.
  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...
• Section 7626.5.
  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...
• Section 7627.
  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...
• Section 7628.
  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...
• Section 7629.
  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...
• Section 7630.
  (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...
• Section 7631.
  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...
• Section 7632.
  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...
• Section 7633.
  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...
• Section 7634.
  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...
• Section 7635.
  (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...
• Section 7636.
  (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...

Last modified: October 22, 2018