California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 3 - Dedication

• Section 8550.
  Every cemetery authority, from time to time as its property may be required for interment purposes, shall:(a)  In case of land, survey and subdivide it...
• Section 8551.
  The cemetery authority shall file the map or plat in the office of the recorder of the county in which all or a portion of...
• Section 8552.
  The declaration shall be in such form as the cemetery authority may prescribe, and shall be subscribed by the president or vice president, and the...
• Section 8553.
  Upon the filing of the map or plat and the filing of the declaration for record, the dedication is complete for all purposes and thereafter...
• Section 8554.
  When reservation is made in the declaration of dedication, any part or subdivision of the property so mapped and platted may, by order of the...
• Section 8555.
  The filed map or plat and the recorded declaration are constructive notice to all persons of the dedication of the property to cemetery purposes.(Enacted by...
• Section 8556.
  The county recorder of the county in which a map or plat is filed shall index the map or plat in the general index giving...
• Section 8557.
  The county recorder of the county in which a declaration of dedication is filed shall record it in the official records of his office and...
• Section 8558.
  After property is dedicated to cemetery purposes pursuant to this chapter, neither the dedication, nor the title of a plot owner, shall be affected by...
• Section 8559.
  Dedication to cemetery purposes pursuant to this chapter is not invalid as violating any laws against perpetuities or the suspension of the power of alienation...
• Section 8560.
  After dedication pursuant to this chapter, and as long as the property remains dedicated to cemetery purposes, no railroad, street, road, alley, pipe line, pole...
• Section 8560.5.
  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 8561.
  All property dedicated pursuant to this chapter, including roads, alleys, and walks, is exempt from public improvement assessments and is exempt from enforcement of a...

Last modified: October 22, 2018