2011 California Code
Business and Professions Code
DIVISION 3. PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY [5000 - 9998.8]
ARTICLE 3. Regulation of Cemeteries
Section 9656.2
When it has been alleged by verified petition pursuant to Section 9652 or when the bureau on its own investigation determines that there is probable cause to believe that any of the conditions set forth in Section 9656.1 exist or that irreparable loss and injury to the endowment care funds of a cemetery authority has occurred or may occur unless the bureau so acts immediately, the bureau, without notice and before applying to the court for any order, may take possession of the endowment care funds and the books, records, and accounts relating thereto of the cemetery authority, and retain possession subject to the order of the court. Any person having possession of and refusing to deliver any assets, books or records of a cemetery authority against which a seizure order has been issued by the bureau shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 568, Sec. 164. Effective January 1, 2001.)
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