CHAPTER 1. Definitions
Chapter 1 enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.
§§ 7000–7025 · 41 sections
- § 7000 The definitions in this chapter apply to this division, Division 8 (commencing with Section 8100) and Division 102 (commencing with Section 102100) of this…
- § 7001 “Human remains” or “remains” means the body of a deceased person, regardless of its stage of decomposition, and includes cremated, reduced, or hydrolyzed human…
- § 7002 “Cremated remains” means the ashes and bone fragments of a human body that are left after cremation in a crematory, and includes ashes from the cremation…
- § 7002.5 (a) “Hydrolyzed human remains” means bone fragments of a human body that are left after hydrolysis in a hydrolysis facility. “Hydrolyzed human remains” does…
- § 7002.7 (a) “Reduction facility” means a structure, room, or other space in a building or real property where natural, organic reduction of a human body occurs. (b)…
- § 7003 (a) “Cemetery” means either of the following: (1) Any of the following that is used or intended to be used and dedicated for cemetery purposes: (A) A burial…
- § 7004 “Burial park” means a tract of land for the burial of human remains in the ground, used or intended to be used, and dedicated, for cemetery purposes.
- § 7005 Except in Part 5 (commencing with Section 9501) of Division 8, “mausoleum” means a structure or building for the entombment of human remains in crypts or…
- § 7006 “Crematory” means a building or structure containing one or more furnaces for the reduction of bodies of deceased persons to cremated remains.
- § 7006.1 (a) “Hydrolysis facility” means a building or structure containing one or more chambers for the reduction of bodies of deceased persons by alkaline hydrolysis.…
- § 7006.3 “Cremation chamber” means the enclosed space within which the cremation of human remains is performed.
- § 7006.4 (a) “Hydrolysis chamber” means the enclosed space within which the hydrolysis of human remains is performed and any other attached, nonenclosed, mechanical…
- § 7006.5 “Cremation container” means a combustible, closed container resistant to leakage of bodily fluids into which the body of a deceased person is placed prior to…
- § 7006.6 (a) “Hydrolysis container” means a hydrolyzable body wrapping into which the body of a deceased person is placed prior to insertion into a hydrolysis chamber.…
- § 7006.7 “Cremated remains container” means a receptacle in which cremated remains are placed after cremation.
- § 7006.8 (a) “Hydrolyzed human remains container” means a receptacle in which hydrolyzed human remains are placed after hydrolysis. (b) This section shall become…
- § 7007 Except in Part 5 (commencing with Section 9501) of Division 8, “columbarium” means a structure, room, or other space in a building or structure containing…
- § 7008 “Crematory and columbarium” means a building or structure containing both a crematory and columbarium.
- § 7009 “Interment” means the disposition of human remains by entombment or burial in a cemetery or, in the case of cremated remains, by inurnment, placement or burial…
- § 7010 “Cremation” means the process by which the following three steps are taken: (a) The reduction of the body of a deceased human to its essential elements by…
- § 7010.1 (a) “Hydrolysis” means the process by which the following two steps are taken: (1) The reduction of the body of a deceased person to its essential organic…
- § 7010.3 (a) “Processing” means the removal of foreign objects, pursuant to Section 7051, and the reduction of the particle size of cremated remains or hydrolyzed human…
- § 7010.5 “Residue” means human ashes, bone fragments, prostheses, and disintegrated material from the chamber itself, imbedded in cracks and uneven spaces of a…
- § 7010.7 (a) “Scattering” means the authorized dispersal of cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains at sea, in other areas of the state, or commingling in a…
- § 7010.8 (a) “Integrate into the soil” means the authorized addition and mixing of reduced human remains with existing soil in a defined area within a dedicated…
- § 7011 (a) “Inurnment” means placing cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains in a cremated remains container or hydrolyzed human remains container suitable for…
- § 7011.2 (a) “Placement” means the placing of a container holding cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains in a crypt, vault, or niche. (b) This section shall…
- § 7012 “Entombment” means the process of placing human remains in a crypt or vault.
- § 7013 “Burial” means the process of placing human remains in a grave.
- § 7014 “Grave” means a space of earth in a burial park, used, or intended to be used, for the disposition of human remains.
- § 7015 (a) “Crypt” or “vault” means a space in a mausoleum of sufficient size, used or intended to be used, to entomb human remains that have been neither cremated…
- § 7016 (a) “Niche” means a space in a columbarium used, or intended to be used, for the placement of cremated human remains or hydrolyzed human remains. (b) This…
- § 7017 (a) “Hydrolysate” means the resultant liquid from the hydrolysis of human remains, which liquid is a sterile, benign, micronutrient-rich solution consisting of…
- § 7018 “Cemetery authority” includes cemetery association, corporation sole, limited liability company, or other person owning or controlling cemetery lands or…
- § 7019 “Cemetery corporation,” “cemetery association,” or “cemetery corporation or association,” means any corporation now or hereafter organized which is or may be…
- § 7020 “Cemetery business,” “cemetery businesses,” and “cemetery purposes” are used interchangeably and mean any and all business and purposes requisite to, necessary…
- § 7021 “Directors” or “governing body” means the board of directors, board of trustees, or other policymaking body of a cemetery association.
- § 7022 “Lot,” “plot,” or “interment plot” means space in a cemetery, used or intended to be used for the interment of human remains. Such terms include and apply to…
- § 7023 “Plot owner,” “owner,” or “lot proprietor,” means any person in whose name an interment plot stands of record as owner, in the office of a cemetery authority.
- § 7024 “Permit for Disposition of Human Remains” includes “burial permit” and is a permit, issued pursuant to law, for the interment, disinterment, removal,…
- § 7025 “Disposition” means the interment, integration into soil, or scattering of human remains within California, or the shipment outside of California, for lawful…