BILL NUMBER: AB 1969INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Jeffries FEBRUARY 17, 2010 An act to add Section 9063.5 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to public cemeteries. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1969, as introduced, Jeffries. Elsinore Valley Cemetary. Existing law, the Public Cemetary District Law, specifies the procedures for the formation of public cemetary districts, procedures for the selection of the district board of trustees and officers, and the powers and duties of the board. Existing law limits interments in public cemetary district cemeteries to residents of the district and nonresidents who meet specified criteria. This bill would allow the Elsinore Valley Cemetary District to inter, in a specified section of the cemetary, nonresidents who meet a more limited set of criteria. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Elsinore Valley Cemetary District. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 9063.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read: 9063.5. Notwithstanding Section 9060, the Elsinor Valley Cemetery District may use the portion of its cemetery formerly known as Home of Peace for up to a total of 536 interments, for interment in the ground of any person who meets the criteria for burial in that area but is not a resident of the district if all of the following apply: (a) The board of trustees determines that the cemetery has adequate space for the foreseeable future. (b) The district has an endowment care fund that requires at least the minimum payment set pursuant to Section 9065. (c) The district requires the payment of a nonresident fee set pursuant to Section 9068. SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique disparity between the population of Elsinore Valley and the availability of cemetary plots.