California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 6 - Disciplinary Proceedings

• Section 7686.
  The bureau may suspend or revoke licenses, after proper notice and hearing to the licensee, if the licensee has been found guilty by the bureau...
• Section 7686.5.
  All accusations against licensees shall be filed with the bureau within two years after the performance of the act or omission alleged as the ground...
• Section 7687.
  Upon receipt of a complaint, the bureau may make or cause to be made such investigation as it deems necessary.(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 568,...
• Section 7690.
  The bureau may discipline every accused licensee whose default has been entered or who has been tried and found guilty, after formal hearing, of any...
• Section 7691.
  Conviction of a crime substantially related to the qualifications, functions and duties of the license holder in question constitutes a ground for disciplinary action. The...
• Section 7692.
  Misrepresentation or fraud in the conduct of the business or the profession of a funeral director or embalmer constitutes a ground for disciplinary action.(Added by...
• Section 7692.5.
  Any false or misleading statement regarding any law or regulation pertaining to the preparation for burial, transportation for burial, or burial of the dead, made...
• Section 7693.
  False or misleading advertising as a funeral establishment, funeral director, or embalmer constitutes a ground for disciplinary action.(Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 970, Sec. 72....
• Section 7694.
  Solicitation, after a death or while a death is impending, of funeral directing or embalming business by the licensee, or by the agents, assistants or...
• Section 7695.
  Employment by the licensee of persons known as “cappers” or “steerers” or “solicitors,” or other such persons to solicit, after a death or while a...
• Section 7696.
  Employment, directly or indirectly, of any apprentice, agent, assistant, embalmer, employee or other person, on part or full time, or on commission, for the purpose...
• Section 7697.
  The buying, after a death or while a death is impending, of funeral directing and embalming business by the licensee, the licensee’s agents, assistants or...
• Section 7699.
  Aiding or abetting an unlicensed person to practice funeral directing or embalming constitutes a ground for disciplinary action.(Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 39.)
• Section 7700.
  Using profane, indecent, or obscene language in the course of the preparation for burial, removal, or other disposition of, or during the funeral service for,...
• Section 7701.
  Solicitation or acceptance by a licensee of any commission or bonus or rebate in consideration of recommending or causing human remains to be disposed of...
• Section 7701.5.
  Solicitation or acceptance by a licensee of any commission or bonus or rebate in consideration of recommending or causing the purchase of flowers from any...
• Section 7702.
  Using any casket or part of a casket which has previously been used as a receptacle for, or in connection with the burial or other...
• Section 7703.
  Violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or of the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter constitutes a ground for disciplinary...
• Section 7704.
  Violation of any state law or municipal or county ordinance or regulation affecting the handling, custody, care or transportation of human remains constitutes a ground...
• Section 7705.
  Fraud or misrepresentation in obtaining a license constitutes a ground for disciplinary action.(Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 39.)
• Section 7706.
  Refusing to surrender promptly the custody of human remains, the personal effects, and any certificate or permit required under Division 102 (commencing with Section 102100)...
• Section 7707.
  Gross negligence, gross incompetence or unprofessional conduct in the practice of funeral directing or embalming constitutes a ground for disciplinary action.(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch.
• Section 7708.
  The bureau, after a hearing, may deny the application of a funeral establishment, funeral director, embalmer, or apprentice embalmer on proof that the applicant has...
• Section 7709.
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere is deemed to be a conviction within the meaning of...
• Section 7711.
  When a funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer has had his, or her, or its license suspended, canceled, or revoked by the bureau, the bureau,...
• Section 7711.1.
  Unprofessional conduct by any licensee or registrant or by any agent or employee of a licensee or registrant constitutes grounds for disciplinary action. Unprofessional conduct...
• Section 7711.2.
  The bureau may, upon its own motion, and shall, upon the verified complaint in writing of any person, investigate the actions of any person engaged...
• Section 7711.3.
  The bureau may suspend or revoke the license of any cemetery licensee who, within the immediately preceding three years, has done any of the following:(a) Been...
• Section 7711.4.
  When any salesperson is discharged by his or her employer for a violation of any of the provisions of this article prescribing a ground for...
• Section 7711.5.
  The bureau may deny, suspend, or revoke the cemetery license of a corporation as to any officer or agent acting under its cemetery license, and...
• Section 7711.6.
  The fees for cemetery licenses at all periods of the fiscal year is the same as provided in this article. All cemetery license fees are...
• Section 7711.7.
  (a) If a person fails to apply for a license renewal, no renewal license shall be issued except upon payment of the delinquent renewal fee required...
• Section 7711.8.
  The definitions contained in this article are solely for the purposes of this article. (Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 395, Sec. 30. (AB 180) Effective...
• Section 7711.9.
  An original cemetery broker’s license is a cemetery license issued to a person who did not have a cemetery broker’s license on June 30 of...
• Section 7711.10.a.
  A renewal cemetery broker’s license is a cemetery license issued to a person who had a cemetery broker’s license unrevoked and unsuspended on June 30...
• Section 7711.11.
  An original cemetery salesperson’s license is a cemetery license issued to a person who did not have a cemetery salesperson’s or a broker’s license either...
• Section 7711.12.
  A renewal cemetery salesperson’s license is a cemetery license issued to a person who had a cemetery salesperson’s or a broker’s license either individually or...

Last modified: October 22, 2018