Health and Safety Code § 8394

ARTICLE 9. Reduction Facilities

Current as of September 28, 2026 · not in forceHealth & Saf. Code, § 8394Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 399, Sec. 45. (AB 351) Effective January 1, 2023. Operative January 1, 2027, pursuant to Sec. 8396.

No version of this section is in force on September 28, 2026; the latest listed version is shown.

Within two hours after a reduction 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 reduction process will begin within 24 hours of the time that the facility took custody.