California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 9 - Preneed Funeral Arrangements

• Section 7735.
  No funeral establishment licensed under the laws of the State of California, or the agents or employees of a funeral establishment, shall enter into or...
• Section 7735.5.
  The preneed funeral arrangement contract shall clearly state if benefits are unavailable or limited for any reason.(Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 715, Sec. 4. Effective...
• Section 7736.
  For the purposes of this article the term “trustee” shall mean any banking institution or trust company legally authorized and empowered by the State of...
• Section 7737.
  All securities purchased by the trustor for deposit in trust and all money received from the trustor for deposit in trust shall be placed in...
• Section 7737.3.
  All commingled preneed trust funds held by a funeral establishment shall be subject to an annual, independent certified financial audit with a copy of the...
• Section 7737.5.
  A trustee may deposit the corpus of the trust in any financial institution insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.(Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 970,...
• Section 7737.7.
  A trustee may deposit the corpus of the trust in any credit union which is insured by the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund.(Added by...
• Section 7738.
  A licensed funeral establishment that is also a licensed cemetery authority shall not deposit any money or securities received in connection with preneed funeral arrangements...
• Section 7739.
  Any person willfully violating the provisions of this article or any of them shall be punishable either by imprisonment in a county jail for a...
• Section 7740.
  The bureau is authorized to enforce of its own initiative the provisions of this article and may adopt such rules and regulations as in its...
• Section 7740.5.
  A funeral establishment shall pay to the bureau the fee fixed by this chapter for filing with the bureau any report on preneed trust funds...
• Section 7741.
  Nothing in this article shall apply to cemetery property; cemetery commodities; cemetery service; or merchandise that is delivered as soon as paid for.(Added by Stats....
• Section 7742.
  Nothing in this article shall apply to any arrangement, contract or plan for the issuance of securities now or hereafter authorized under a permit of...
• Section 7745.
  Every funeral establishment shall present to the survivor of the deceased who is handling the funeral arrangements or the responsible party a copy of any...
• Section 7746.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a funeral establishment that is otherwise exempt from the requirement of filing an annual preneed trust report or whose...

Last modified: October 22, 2018