California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions

• Section 8125.
  Incorporated cities, and for unincorporated towns the supervisors of the county, may survey, lay out, and dedicate for burial purposes not exceeding five acres of...
• Section 8125.5.
  The City of Simi Valley may survey, lay out, dedicate, own, and operate for burial purposes, or may purchase, or receive by gift or donation,...
• Section 8126.
  The title to lands situated in or near any city and used by the inhabitants without interruption as a cemetery for five years is vested...
• Section 8127.
  The inhabitants of any city may by subscription or otherwise purchase or receive by gift or donation, lands not exceeding five acres to be used...
• Section 8128.
  The governing body having control of a public cemetery shall require a register of name, age, birthplace, date of death, and burial of every body...
• Section 8129.
  The public cemeteries of cities, towns, or neighborhoods or of fraternal or beneficial associations or societies shall be inclosed and laid off into plots.(Enacted by...
• Section 8130.
  The general management, conduct, and regulation of burials, the disposition of plots, and keeping the plots in order, are under the jurisdiction and control of...
• Section 8131.
  If not owned by a city or by a fraternal or beneficial association or society, public cemeteries are under the jurisdiction and control of the...
• Section 8132.
  Public cemeteries of fraternal or beneficial associations or societies are under the jurisdiction of and controlled and managed by the associations or societies or by...
• Section 8133.
  The authorities having jurisdiction and control of cemeteries may make and enforce general rules and regulations, and appoint sextons or other officers to enforce obedience...
• Section 8134.
  No streets, alleys, or roads shall be opened or laid out within the boundary lines of any cemetery located in whole or in part within...
• Section 8135.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Water Resources may sell plots in any cemetery which is owned by the department on a...
• Section 8136.
  Any city, including a chartered city, that owns and operates a cemetery may maintain a proceeding in the superior court of the county in which...
• Section 8137.
  A cemetery owned and operated by a city, county, or city and county shall not engage in the business of selling monuments or markers, and...

Last modified: October 22, 2018