CHAPTER 3. Acquisition, Dedication and Sale [8500. - 8585.]

Chapter 3 enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.

§§ 8500–8585 · 25 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. Acquisition of Property §§ 8500–8501 · 2 sections

   • § 8500 Cemetery authorities may take by purchase, donation or devise, property consisting of lands, mausoleums, crematories, and columbariums, or other property…
   • § 8501 Any cemetery authority which is described in Section 23701c of the Revenue and Taxation Code or is a corporation sole may acquire by eminent domain any…
2. ARTICLE 2. Declaration of Intention §§ 8525–8526 · 2 sections

   • § 8525 A cemetery authority may execute a declaration acknowledged so as to entitle it to be recorded, describing the property and declaring its intention to use all…
   • § 8526 The declaration may be filed for record in the office of the recorder of the county in which the property is situated, and from the date of filing the…
3. ARTICLE 3. Dedication §§ 8550–8561 · 13 sections

   • § 8550 Every cemetery authority, from time to time as its property may be required for interment purposes, shall: (a) In case of land, survey and subdivide it into…
   • § 8551 The cemetery authority shall file the map or plat in the office of the recorder of the county in which all or a portion of the property is situated. The…
   • § 8552 The declaration shall be in such form as the cemetery authority may prescribe, and shall be subscribed by the president or vice president, and the secretary,…
   • § 8553 Upon the filing of the map or plat and the filing of the declaration for record, the dedication is complete for all purposes and thereafter the property shall…
   • § 8554 When reservation is made in the declaration of dedication, any part or subdivision of the property so mapped and platted may, by order of the directors, be…
   • § 8555 The filed map or plat and the recorded declaration are constructive notice to all persons of the dedication of the property to cemetery purposes.
   • § 8556 The county recorder of the county in which a map or plat is filed shall index the map or plat in the general index giving reference to date of filing and…
   • § 8557 The county recorder of the county in which a declaration of dedication is filed shall record it in the official records of his office and index it in the…
   • § 8558 After property is dedicated to cemetery purposes pursuant to this chapter, neither the dedication, nor the title of a plot owner, shall be affected by the…
   • § 8559 Dedication to cemetery purposes pursuant to this chapter is not invalid as violating any laws against perpetuities or the suspension of the power of alienation…
   • § 8560 After dedication pursuant to this chapter, and as long as the property remains dedicated to cemetery purposes, no railroad, street, road, alley, pipe line,…
   • § 8560.5 No streets, alleys, or roads shall be opened or laid out within the boundary lines of any cemetery located in whole or in part within the lines of any city or…
   • § 8561 All property dedicated pursuant to this chapter, including roads, alleys, and walks, is exempt from public improvement assessments and is exempt from…
4. ARTICLE 4. Sale of Plots §§ 8570–8574 · 5 sections

   • § 8570 After filing the map or plat and recording the declaration of dedication, a cemetery authority may sell and convey plots subject to such rules and regulations…
   • § 8571 (a) All plots, the use of which has been conveyed by deed or certificate of ownership as a separate plot, are indivisible except with the consent of the…
   • § 8572 All conveyances made by a cemetery authority shall be signed by the president or the vice president, and the secretary, or by other officers authorized by the…
   • § 8573 Any cemetery authority or its agents who sell, offer for sale, contract to sell, or negotiate the sale of mausoleum crypts before the receipt of a certificate…
   • § 8574 For a violation of any provision of Section 8573, the bureau may temporarily suspend or permanently revoke the license of any cemetery licensee and may order…
5. ARTICLE 5. Removal of Dedication §§ 8580–8581 · 2 sections

   • § 8580 Property dedicated to cemetery purposes shall be held and used exclusively for cemetery purposes, unless and until the dedication is removed from all or any…
   • § 8581 The notice of hearing provided in section 8580 shall be given by publication once a week for at least three consecutive weeks in a daily newspaper of general…
6. ARTICLE 6. Transfer of Cemetery Ownership § 8585 · 1 section

   • § 8585 (a) Whenever ownership of any cemetery authority is proposed to be transferred, the cemetery authority shall notify the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau in the…