California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 1 - Care of Old Cemeteries

• Section 8700.
  In addition to those cemeteries to which this part does not apply, this article does not apply to abandoned cemeteries nor to cemeteries in which...
• Section 8701.
  Whenever a majority of the plots in all or any part of a cemetery established prior to August 14, 1931, has been sold without the...
• Section 8702.
  Application for the alteration or vacation or replatting of all or any portion of an alley, street, avenue, walk, driveway, or park, for plots in...
• Section 8703.
  The application may be by the cemetery authority owning or operating the cemetery or if there is no cemetery authority operating the cemetery, by twenty...
• Section 8704.
  The petition shall be verified and shall specify the facts of such ownership and shall state the reasons for the proposed change and what provisions...
• Section 8705.
  There shall be presented with the petition a plat of the cemetery and the proposed replat which shall clearly indicate the proposed changes.(Enacted by Stats....
• Section 8706.
  The petition shall be filed with the clerk of the superior court, and the clerk shall fix the time for hearing not less then thirty...
• Section 8707.
  Notice of the hearing shall be given by publishing a copy of the notice in a newspaper of general circulation near the cemetery in the...
• Section 8708.
  Copies of the notice shall be posted in three conspicuous places within the cemetery.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)
• Section 8709.
  The notice shall:(a)  Be addressed to all persons owning or interested in plots in the cemetery but need not name them. (b)  Set forth in...
• Section 8710.
  At the time fixed for the hearing, the court shall hear and consider any evidence introduced in favor of and all objections to the changes...
• Section 8711.
  The cemetery authority or other person directed by the court shall accept the newly created plots and shall sell and convey them only for interment...
• Section 8713.
  The vacation of an alley, avenue, roadway, walk, driveway, street, or park adjacent to a privately owned plot does not vest any interest in the...
• Section 8714.
  In allowing any damages to any plot owner for such vacation, the court shall take into consideration the benefit to be received from endowment care.(Amended...
• Section 8715.
  The provisions of this article are hereby declared to be a necessary exercise of the police power of the State in order to preserve and...

Last modified: October 22, 2018