California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 4 - Powers

• Section 9040.
  (a)  A district may own, operate, improve, and maintain cemeteries and provide interment services within its boundaries. (b)  A district shall maintain the cemeteries owned...
• Section 9041.
  A district shall have and may exercise all rights and powers, expressed or implied, necessary to carry out the purposes and intent of this part,...
• Section 9042.
  (a)  When acquiring, improving, or using any real property, a district shall comply with Article 5 (commencing with Section 53090) of Chapter 1 of Part...
• Section 9043.
  (a)  A district shall have perpetual succession. (b)  A board of trustees may, by a two-thirds vote of its total membership, adopt a resolution to...
• Section 9044.
  (a)  Each district shall adopt policies and procedures, including bidding regulations, governing the purchase of supplies and equipment. Each district shall adopt these policies and...
• Section 9045.
  (a)  The Myers-Milias-Brown Act, Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code applies to all districts. (b)...
• Section 9046.
  A board of trustees may require any employee or officer to be bonded. The district shall pay the cost of the bonds.(Added by Stats. 2003,...
• Section 9047.
  A board of trustees may provide for any programs for the benefit of its employees and members of the board of trustees pursuant to Chapter...
• Section 9048.
  A district may authorize the members of its board of trustees and its employees to attend professional, educational, or vocational meetings, and pay their actual...
• Section 9049.
  A district may sell interment rights in its cemeteries, columbariums, and mausoleums, subject to the limitations of this part.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec....
• Section 9050.
  (a)  A district may acquire, construct, improve, maintain, or repair a columbarium for the placement of cremated remains. (b)  A district shall comply with the...
• Section 9051.
  (a)  A district may acquire, maintain, or repair a mausoleum for crypt entombment that was completed on or before May 1, 1937. A district may...
• Section 9052.
  (a)  A district may require that monuments or markers shall be placed at interment plots. (b)  A district may adopt minimum requirements for the permanency...
• Section 9053.
  A district may sell accessory and replacement objects that are necessary or convenient to interments, including but not limited to burial vaults, liners, and flower...
• Section 9054.
  (a)  A district may use or lease land acquired for a future cemetery for an enterprise if all of the following conditions apply: (1)  The...
• Section 9055.
  (a)  A district may convey a cemetery owned by the district to any cemetery authority, pursuant to this section. (b)  The board of trustees of...
• Section 9056.
  (a)  A district may dedicate real property or an interest in real property owned by the district to another public agency for use as roads...

Last modified: October 22, 2018