SECTIONS 7500-7502 - California Statutes

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE

SECTION 7500-7502

7500. No remains of any deceased person shall be removed from any
cemetery, except upon written order of the health department having
jurisdiction, or of the superior court of the county in which such
cemetery is situated. A duplicate copy of the order shall be
maintained as a part of the records of the cemetery. Any person who
removes any remains from any cemetery shall keep and maintain a true
and correct record showing:
(a) The date such remains were removed.
(b) The name and age of the person removed, when these particulars
can be conveniently obtained and the place to which the remains were
removed.
(c) The cemetery and the plot therein in which such remains were
buried.
If the remains are disposed of other than by interment, a record
shall be made and kept of such disposition. The person making the
removal shall deliver to the cemetery authority operating the
cemetery from which the remains were removed, a true, full and
complete copy of such record.

7501. A cemetery authority shall not remove or permit the removal
of any interred remains, unless a permit for the removal has been
issued by the local registrar of the district in which the premises
are located, and delivered to the cemetery authority. Any person
entitled by law to remove any remains may apply to the local
registrar for a permit to remove them. The local registrar shall
issue a permit, which in all cases, shall specify the name of a
cemetery where the remains shall be interred, and shall retain a
copy, except that if cremated remains are to be buried at sea as
provided in Section 7117 of this code, the permit shall so specify
and indicate the county where the fact of burial at sea shall be
reported.

7502. In the disinterment, transportation and removal of human
remains under Chapter 4 of this part a cemetery authority need not
obtain a separate permit for the disinterment, transportation or
removal of the remains of each person, but disinterment,
transportation and removal of human remains shall be made subject to
reasonable rules and regulations relative to the manner of
disinterring, transporting or removing such remains as may be adopted
by the board of health or health officer of the city or city and
county in which the cemetery lands are situated.