2018 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 3 - PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY
CHAPTER 12 - Cemetery and Funeral Act
ARTICLE 3.5 - Licenses and Certificates of Authority
Section 7651.7.
The bureau shall ascertain by written examination that the applicant, and, in case of a copartnership or corporation applicant for a cemetery broker’s license, that each officer, agent, or member thereof through whom it proposes to act as a cemetery licensee has:
(a) Appropriate knowledge of the English language, including reading, writing, and spelling, and of elementary arithmetic.
(b) A fair understanding of:
(1) Cemetery associations, cemetery corporations, and duties of directors.
(2) Plot ownership, deeds, certificates of ownership, contracts of sale, liens, and leases.
(3) Establishing, dedicating, maintaining, managing, operating, improving, and conducting a cemetery.
(4) The care, preservation, and embellishment of cemetery property.
(5) The care and preservation of endowment care funds, trust funds, and the investment thereof.
(c) A general and fair understanding of the obligations between principal and agent, of the principles of cemetery brokerage practice and the business ethics pertaining thereto, as well as of the provisions of this act relating to cemetery brokerage.
(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 395, Sec. 19. (AB 180) Effective January 1, 2016.)
