Health and Safety Code § 8378

ARTICLE 8. Hydrolysis Facilities

Current as of September 28, 2026Health & Saf. Code, § 8378Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 846, Sec. 69. (AB 967) Effective January 1, 2018. Section operative July 1, 2020, pursuant to Sec. 8382.

Within two hours after a licensed hydrolysis facility takes custody of a body that has not been embalmed, it shall refrigerate the body at a temperature not greater than 50 degrees Fahrenheit, unless the hydrolysis process will begin within 24 hours of the time that the hydrolysis facility took custody.