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2011 California Code
Health and Safety Code
DIVISION 7. DEAD BODIES [7000 - 8030]

DIVISION 7. DEAD BODIES

7000-8030

PART 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

7000-7355

CHAPTER 1. Definitions

CHAPTER 2. General Provisions

CHAPTER 3. Custody, and Duty of Interment

CHAPTER 3.55. Organ and Tissue Donation Information and Procedures

CHAPTER 3.5. Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

CHAPTER 3.56. Altruistic Living Donor Registry Act

CHAPTER 3.6. Organ Transplants

CHAPTER 3.7. Death

7180-7184.5

ARTICLE 1. Uniform Determination of Death Act

ARTICLE 2. Confirmation of Death

CHAPTER 4. Disposal of Unclaimed Dead

CHAPTER 5. Embalming and Transportation

7300-7355

ARTICLE 1. Embalming

ARTICLE 2. Transportation

PART 2. DISINTERMENT AND REMOVAL

7500-8030

CHAPTER 1. General Provisions

7500-7528

ARTICLE 1. Permits

ARTICLE 2. Consent to Removal

CHAPTER 3. Removal of All Remains: Cities of 1500–100,000

CHAPTER 4. Removal of All Remains: Cities and Cities and Counties Over 100,000

7700-8005

ARTICLE 1. Power of Municipality

ARTICLE 2. Declaration of Intention by Cemetery Authority

ARTICLE 3. Notice of Intention

ARTICLE 4. Special Notice to Relative or Friend

ARTICLE 5. Removals by Relatives or Friends

ARTICLE 6. Removal by Cemetery Authority

ARTICLE 7. Disposal of Lands

ARTICLE 8. Use of Funds

ARTICLE 9. New Land, Mausoleum or Columbarium

ARTICLE 10. Taxation

ARTICLE 11. Religious Observances

ARTICLE 12. Removal by Counties

CHAPTER 5. California Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation

8010-8030

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. State Cultural Affiliation and Repatriation

ARTICLE 3. Repatriation Oversight Commission

ARTICLE 4. Penalties and Enforcement Procedures

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