CHAPTER 3. Custody, and Duty of Interment
Chapter 3 enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.
§§ 7100–7117.1 · 20 sections
- § 7100 (a) The right to control the disposition of the remains of a deceased person, the location and conditions of interment, and arrangements for funeral goods and…
- § 7100.1 (a) A decedent, prior to death, may direct, in writing, the disposition of his or her remains and specify funeral goods and services to be provided. Unless…
- § 7101 When any decedent leaves an estate in this state, the reasonable cost of interment and an interment plot of sufficient size to constitute a family plot and…
- § 7102 When a person is charged by law with the duty of interment he is entitled to the custody of the remains for the purpose of interment or, with respect to…
- § 7103 (a) Every person, upon whom the duty of interment is imposed by law, who omits to perform that duty within a reasonable time is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b)…
- § 7104 (a) When no provision is made by the decedent, or where the estate is insufficient to provide for interment and the duty of interment does not devolve upon any…
- § 7104.1 If, within 30 days after the coroner notifies or diligently attempts to notify the person responsible for the interment of a decedent’s remains which are in…
- § 7105 (a) If the person or persons listed in paragraphs (1), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), and (8) of subdivision (a) of Section 7100 who would otherwise have the right…
- § 7106 A cemetery authority may seek an order providing for the interment of the remains of one or more decedents. Where a proceeding is commenced involving the…
- § 7107 Notice of the time and place of the hearing on the petition shall be given as the court may direct. Upon the hearing the court shall make its order providing…
- § 7108 If the coroner is directed to make such interment he shall make it in the manner provided by law for the interment of the indigent dead.
- § 7109 The court shall allow costs and reasonable attorney’s fees to a prevailing plaintiff against all defendants, other than the coroner.
- § 7110 Any person signing any authorization for the interment or cremation of any remains warrants the truthfulness of any fact set forth in the authorization, the…
- § 7111 A cemetery authority or crematory may make an interment or cremation of any remains upon the receipt of a written authorization of a person representing…
- § 7112 No action shall lie against any cemetery authority relating to the cremated remains of any person which have been left in its possession for a period of one…
- § 7113 A cemetery authority or licensed funeral director or a licensed hospital or its authorized personnel may permit or assist, and a physician may perform, an…
- § 7114 Any person who performs, permits or assists at, an autopsy on a dead body without having first obtained (a) the authorization of the deceased in writing,…
- § 7116 (a) Cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains may be scattered in an area where no local prohibition exists, provided that the cremated remains or…
- § 7117 (a) Cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains may be taken by boat from any harbor in this state, or by air, and scattered at sea. Cremated remains or…
- § 7117.1 (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 7117, cremated remains may be transferred from a durable container into a scattering urn no more than seven days…