SECTIONS 7715-7719 - California Statutes

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE

SECTION 7715-7719

7715. Any person, partnership, association, corporation, or other
form of organization, or any agent or representative thereof, who
violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a
misdemeanor.

7716. Every funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer, or
the agents or representatives thereof, who, after a death or while a
death is impending, pays, offers to pay or causes to be paid,
directly or indirectly, any sum of money or other valuable
consideration for the securing of business is guilty of a
misdemeanor.

7717. Every person, who pays or causes to be paid or offers to pay
to any funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer, or to the
agent, assistant or employee of either, any commission or bonus or
rebate or other thing of value in consideration of the funeral
establishment, funeral director or embalmer recommending or causing
human remains to be disposed of in any crematory, mausoleum or
cemetery, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

7717.5. Every person who pays or causes to be paid or offers to pay
to any funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer, or to
the agent, assistant or employee of either, any commission or bonus
or rebate or other thing of value in consideration of the funeral
establishment, funeral director or embalmer recommending or causing
the purchase of flowers from any particular florist or dealer in
flowers, for use in connection with a funeral service, is guilty of a
misdemeanor; provided, that this section shall not apply to a
funeral establishment or funeral director who owns or operates a
flower shop as a part of his, her or its funeral business, or to his,
her or its agents or employees.

7718. Every person who, after a death or while a death is
impending, solicits or accepts any sum of money or other valuable
consideration, directly or indirectly, from a funeral establishment,
funeral director or embalmer, his, her, or its agent or
representative, in order that the funeral establishment, funeral
director or embalmer might obtain business, is guilty of a
misdemeanor.

7718.5. Every person as an individual, as a partner in a
partnership or as an officer or employee of a corporation,
association or other organization, who, without a license, holds
himself or herself out as a funeral director, is guilty of a
misdemeanor.

7719. Every person guilty of a misdemeanor under the provisions of
this chapter, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by
imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or by a
fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both.