CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2256Introduced by Assembly Member Eduardo GarciaFebruary 13, 2020 An act to amend Section 8825 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to cemeteries. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2256, as introduced, Eduardo Garcia. Private cemeteries.Existing law authorizes a private corporation authorized by its articles so to do, to establish, maintain, manage, improve, or operate a cemetery, and conduct any or all of the businesses of a cemetery, either for or without profit to its members or stockholders. Existing law authorizes a cemetery authority that maintains a cemetery to place its cemetery under endowment care and establish, maintain, and operate an endowment care fund to care for, maintain, and embellish the cemetery. Existing law also authorizes a city or county that has a nonendowment care cemetery within its boundaries that threatens or endangers the health, safety, comfort, or welfare of the public and in which not more than 10 human remains have been interred for a period of 5 years, to declare the abandonment of a cemetery as a place of future interment. Existing law requires the city or county to allow interments after the resolution in specified circumstances.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 8825 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:8825. A city or county having that has a nonendowment care cemetery within its boundaries which that threatens or endangers the health, safety, comfort comfort, or welfare of the public may, by resolution of its governing board, if not more than 10 human dead bodies remains have been interred therein for a period of five years immediately preceding the date of the resolution, declare the abandonment of the cemetery as a place of future interment, but interment. The city or county shall permit interment therein in the abandoned cemetery of any a person who is an owner of owns a plot in the cemetery on the date of adoption of the resolution is adopted or who otherwise has a right of interment in the cemetery which that is vested on such date. the date of the resolution. The resolution may provide for the removal of such copings, improvements, and embellishments which that the governing board finds to be a threat or danger to the health, safety, comfort, or welfare of the public.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2256Introduced by Assembly Member Eduardo GarciaFebruary 13, 2020 An act to amend Section 8825 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to cemeteries. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2256, as introduced, Eduardo Garcia. Private cemeteries.Existing law authorizes a private corporation authorized by its articles so to do, to establish, maintain, manage, improve, or operate a cemetery, and conduct any or all of the businesses of a cemetery, either for or without profit to its members or stockholders. Existing law authorizes a cemetery authority that maintains a cemetery to place its cemetery under endowment care and establish, maintain, and operate an endowment care fund to care for, maintain, and embellish the cemetery. Existing law also authorizes a city or county that has a nonendowment care cemetery within its boundaries that threatens or endangers the health, safety, comfort, or welfare of the public and in which not more than 10 human remains have been interred for a period of 5 years, to declare the abandonment of a cemetery as a place of future interment. Existing law requires the city or county to allow interments after the resolution in specified circumstances.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2256
Introduced by Assembly Member Eduardo GarciaFebruary 13, 2020
Introduced by Assembly Member Eduardo Garcia
February 13, 2020
An act to amend Section 8825 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to cemeteries.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2256, as introduced, Eduardo Garcia. Private cemeteries.
Existing law authorizes a private corporation authorized by its articles so to do, to establish, maintain, manage, improve, or operate a cemetery, and conduct any or all of the businesses of a cemetery, either for or without profit to its members or stockholders. Existing law authorizes a cemetery authority that maintains a cemetery to place its cemetery under endowment care and establish, maintain, and operate an endowment care fund to care for, maintain, and embellish the cemetery. Existing law also authorizes a city or county that has a nonendowment care cemetery within its boundaries that threatens or endangers the health, safety, comfort, or welfare of the public and in which not more than 10 human remains have been interred for a period of 5 years, to declare the abandonment of a cemetery as a place of future interment. Existing law requires the city or county to allow interments after the resolution in specified circumstances.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Existing law authorizes a private corporation authorized by its articles so to do, to establish, maintain, manage, improve, or operate a cemetery, and conduct any or all of the businesses of a cemetery, either for or without profit to its members or stockholders. Existing law authorizes a cemetery authority that maintains a cemetery to place its cemetery under endowment care and establish, maintain, and operate an endowment care fund to care for, maintain, and embellish the cemetery. Existing law also authorizes a city or county that has a nonendowment care cemetery within its boundaries that threatens or endangers the health, safety, comfort, or welfare of the public and in which not more than 10 human remains have been interred for a period of 5 years, to declare the abandonment of a cemetery as a place of future interment. Existing law requires the city or county to allow interments after the resolution in specified circumstances.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 8825 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:8825. A city or county having that has a nonendowment care cemetery within its boundaries which that threatens or endangers the health, safety, comfort comfort, or welfare of the public may, by resolution of its governing board, if not more than 10 human dead bodies remains have been interred therein for a period of five years immediately preceding the date of the resolution, declare the abandonment of the cemetery as a place of future interment, but interment. The city or county shall permit interment therein in the abandoned cemetery of any a person who is an owner of owns a plot in the cemetery on the date of adoption of the resolution is adopted or who otherwise has a right of interment in the cemetery which that is vested on such date. the date of the resolution. The resolution may provide for the removal of such copings, improvements, and embellishments which that the governing board finds to be a threat or danger to the health, safety, comfort, or welfare of the public.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 8825 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:8825. A city or county having that has a nonendowment care cemetery within its boundaries which that threatens or endangers the health, safety, comfort comfort, or welfare of the public may, by resolution of its governing board, if not more than 10 human dead bodies remains have been interred therein for a period of five years immediately preceding the date of the resolution, declare the abandonment of the cemetery as a place of future interment, but interment. The city or county shall permit interment therein in the abandoned cemetery of any a person who is an owner of owns a plot in the cemetery on the date of adoption of the resolution is adopted or who otherwise has a right of interment in the cemetery which that is vested on such date. the date of the resolution. The resolution may provide for the removal of such copings, improvements, and embellishments which that the governing board finds to be a threat or danger to the health, safety, comfort, or welfare of the public.
SECTION 1. Section 8825 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:
### SECTION 1.
8825. A city or county having that has a nonendowment care cemetery within its boundaries which that threatens or endangers the health, safety, comfort comfort, or welfare of the public may, by resolution of its governing board, if not more than 10 human dead bodies remains have been interred therein for a period of five years immediately preceding the date of the resolution, declare the abandonment of the cemetery as a place of future interment, but interment. The city or county shall permit interment therein in the abandoned cemetery of any a person who is an owner of owns a plot in the cemetery on the date of adoption of the resolution is adopted or who otherwise has a right of interment in the cemetery which that is vested on such date. the date of the resolution. The resolution may provide for the removal of such copings, improvements, and embellishments which that the governing board finds to be a threat or danger to the health, safety, comfort, or welfare of the public.
8825. A city or county having that has a nonendowment care cemetery within its boundaries which that threatens or endangers the health, safety, comfort comfort, or welfare of the public may, by resolution of its governing board, if not more than 10 human dead bodies remains have been interred therein for a period of five years immediately preceding the date of the resolution, declare the abandonment of the cemetery as a place of future interment, but interment. The city or county shall permit interment therein in the abandoned cemetery of any a person who is an owner of owns a plot in the cemetery on the date of adoption of the resolution is adopted or who otherwise has a right of interment in the cemetery which that is vested on such date. the date of the resolution. The resolution may provide for the removal of such copings, improvements, and embellishments which that the governing board finds to be a threat or danger to the health, safety, comfort, or welfare of the public.
8825. A city or county having that has a nonendowment care cemetery within its boundaries which that threatens or endangers the health, safety, comfort comfort, or welfare of the public may, by resolution of its governing board, if not more than 10 human dead bodies remains have been interred therein for a period of five years immediately preceding the date of the resolution, declare the abandonment of the cemetery as a place of future interment, but interment. The city or county shall permit interment therein in the abandoned cemetery of any a person who is an owner of owns a plot in the cemetery on the date of adoption of the resolution is adopted or who otherwise has a right of interment in the cemetery which that is vested on such date. the date of the resolution. The resolution may provide for the removal of such copings, improvements, and embellishments which that the governing board finds to be a threat or danger to the health, safety, comfort, or welfare of the public.
8825. A city or county having that has a nonendowment care cemetery within its boundaries which that threatens or endangers the health, safety, comfort comfort, or welfare of the public may, by resolution of its governing board, if not more than 10 human dead bodies remains have been interred therein for a period of five years immediately preceding the date of the resolution, declare the abandonment of the cemetery as a place of future interment, but interment. The city or county shall permit interment therein in the abandoned cemetery of any a person who is an owner of owns a plot in the cemetery on the date of adoption of the resolution is adopted or who otherwise has a right of interment in the cemetery which that is vested on such date. the date of the resolution. The resolution may provide for the removal of such copings, improvements, and embellishments which that the governing board finds to be a threat or danger to the health, safety, comfort, or welfare of the public.