California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 3.5 - Licenses and Certificates of Authority

• Section 7651.
  Application for license as a cemetery broker shall be made in writing on the form prescribed by the bureau and filed at the principal office...
• Section 7651.1.
  The bureau shall not grant an original cemetery broker’s license to any person who is not a resident of this state. Change of residence to...
• Section 7651.2.
  The bureau shall not grant an original cemetery broker’s license to any person who has not held a cemetery salesperson’s license for at least two...
• Section 7651.3.
  Application for license as a cemetery salesperson shall be made in writing on the form prescribed by the bureau and filed at the principal office...
• Section 7651.4.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, Section 7651.7 does not apply to an applicant for a cemetery salesperson’s license. (Added by Stats. 2015, Ch....
• Section 7651.5.
  The bureau shall investigate the qualifications of the applicants. Except as otherwise prescribed in this article, it may issue the license applied for to an...
• Section 7651.6.
  All cemetery brokers who do not possess a certificate of authority shall, in addition to the requirements of this chapter, file with the bureau a...
• Section 7651.7.
  The bureau shall ascertain by written examination that the applicant, and, in case of a copartnership or corporation applicant for a cemetery broker’s license, that...
• Section 7651.8.
  The bureau may, in its discretion, waive the examination of any applicant for a cemetery broker’s license who held an unrevoked or unsuspended cemetery license...
• Section 7651.9.
  An application on the form prescribed by the bureau for the renewal of any unrevoked and unsuspended license filed before midnight of June 30 of...
• Section 7651.10.a.
  A cemetery license does not give authority to do any act specified in this act to any person other than the person to whom the...
• Section 7652.
  When a cemetery brokerage license is issued to a cemetery brokerage corporation, if it desires any of its officers other than the officer through whom...
• Section 7652.1.
  Each officer of a corporation through whom it is licensed to act as a cemetery broker, and each member of a copartnership through whom it...
• Section 7652.2.
  The cemetery licenses of both broker and salesperson shall be prominently displayed in the office of the broker.The cemetery salesperson’s license shall remain in the...
• Section 7652.3.
  Immediately upon the salesperson’s withdrawal from the employ of the broker, the broker shall return the salesperson’s license to the bureau for cancellation. A license...
• Section 7652.4.
  (a) Every licensed cemetery broker shall have and maintain a definite place of business in this state which shall serve as his or her office for...
• Section 7652.5.
  (a) If the applicant for a cemetery broker’s license maintains more than one place of business within the state, he or she shall apply for and...
• Section 7652.6.
  Each cemetery broker shall erect and maintain a sign in a conspicuous place on the premises to indicate that he or she is a licensed...
• Section 7652.7.
  For a violation of any of the provisions of Sections 7652.2, 7652.3, 7652.4, and 7652.6, the bureau may temporarily suspend or permanently revoke the license...
• Section 7652.8.
  Application for a certificate of authority shall be made in writing on the form prescribed by the bureau and filed at the principal office of...
• Section 7652.9.
  Each cemetery for which a certificate of authority is required shall be operated under the supervision of a manager who is qualified in accordance with...
• Section 7652.10.a.
  The bureau may require such proof as it deems advisable concerning the compliance by such applicant to all the laws, rules, regulations, ordinances and orders...
• Section 7653.
  (a) The bureau shall adopt, and may from time to time amend, rules and regulations prescribing standards of knowledge and experience and financial responsibility for applicants...
• Section 7653.1.
  (a) The bureau may, in accordance with its rules and regulations, authorize interments in cemeteries for which there is no currently valid certificate of authority outstanding...
• Section 7653.2.
  The bureau shall inspect the books, records, and premises of any crematory licensed under this chapter. In making those inspections, the bureau shall have access...
• Section 7653.3.
  The bureau shall annually conduct a minimum of one unannounced inspection of each licensed crematory. (Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 395, Sec. 19. (AB 180)...
• Section 7653.35.
  (a) The bureau shall inspect the books, records, and premises of any hydrolysis facility licensed under this chapter. In making those inspections, the bureau shall have...
• Section 7653.36.
  (a) The bureau shall annually conduct a minimum of one unannounced inspection of each licensed hydrolysis facility.(b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2020.(Added by...
• Section 7653.4.
  The bureau shall inspect the books, records, and premises of any cemetery where a certificate of authority is required under this chapter. In making the...
• Section 7653.5.
  The bureau shall annually conduct a minimum of one unannounced inspection of each cemetery for which a certificate of authority is required. (Added by Stats....
• Section 7653.6.
  A cemetery licensed under this chapter shall at all times employ a licensed cemetery manager to manage, supervise, and direct its operations. Notwithstanding any other...
• Section 7653.7.
  (a) Application for a cemetery manager license shall be made in writing on the form provided by the bureau, verified by the applicant, and filed at...
• Section 7653.8.
  (a) A person shall not engage in or conduct, or hold himself or herself out as engaging in or conducting, the activities of a cemetery manager...
• Section 7653.9.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, based upon a finding by a court of competent jurisdiction that a cemetery manager of a private cemetery has ceased to...

Last modified: October 22, 2018