California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 3 - Custody, and Duty of Interment

• Section 7100.
  (a) The right to control the disposition of the remains of a deceased person, the location and conditions of interment, and arrangements for funeral goods and...
• Section 7100.1.
  (a)  A decedent, prior to death, may direct, in writing, the disposition of his or her remains and specify funeral goods and services to be...
• Section 7101.
  When any decedent leaves an estate in this state, the reasonable cost of interment and an interment plot of sufficient size to constitute a family...
• Section 7102.
  When a person is charged by law with the duty of interment he is entitled to the custody of the remains for the purpose of...
• Section 7103.
  (a)  Every person, upon whom the duty of interment is imposed by law, who omits to perform that duty within a reasonable time is guilty...
• Section 7104.
  (a)  When no provision is made by the decedent, or where the estate is insufficient to provide for interment and the duty of interment does...
• Section 7104.1.
  If, within 30 days after the coroner notifies or diligently attempts to notify the person responsible for the interment of a decedent’s remains which are...
• Section 7105.
  (a) If the person or persons listed in paragraphs (1), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), and (8) of subdivision (a) of Section 7100 who would otherwise...
• Section 7106.
  A cemetery authority may seek an order providing for the interment of the remains of one or more decedents. Where a proceeding is commenced involving...
• Section 7107.
  Notice of the time and place of the hearing on the petition shall be given as the court may direct. Upon the hearing the court...
• Section 7108.
  If the coroner is directed to make such interment he shall make it in the manner provided by law for the interment of the indigent...
• Section 7109.
  The court shall allow costs and reasonable attorney’s fees to a prevailing plaintiff against all defendants, other than the coroner.(Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 436,...
• Section 7110.
  Any person signing any authorization for the interment or cremation of any remains warrants the truthfulness of any fact set forth in the authorization, the...
• Section 7111.
  A cemetery authority or crematory may make an interment or cremation of any remains upon the receipt of a written authorization of a person representing...
• Section 7112.
  No action shall lie against any cemetery authority relating to the cremated remains of any person which have been left in its possession for a...
• Section 7113.
  A cemetery authority or licensed funeral director or a licensed hospital or its authorized personnel may permit or assist, and a physician may perform, an...
• Section 7114.
  Any person who performs, permits or assists at, an autopsy on a dead body without having first obtained (a) the authorization of the deceased in...
• Section 7116.
  (a) Cremated remains may be scattered in areas where no local prohibition exists, provided that the cremated remains are not distinguishable to the public, are not...
• Section 7116.a.
  (a) Cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains may be scattered in areas where no local prohibition exists, provided that the cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains...
• Section 7117.
  (a) Cremated remains may be taken by boat from any harbor in this state, or by air, and scattered at sea. Cremated remains shall be removed...
• Section 7117.a.
  (a) Cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains may be taken by boat from any harbor in this state, or by air, and scattered at sea. Cremated...
• Section 7117.1.
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 7117, cremated remains may be transferred from a durable container into a scattering urn no more than seven days before...

Last modified: October 22, 2018