2020 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 7651.6.
All cemetery brokers who do not possess a certificate of authority shall, in addition to the requirements of this chapter, file with the bureau a satisfactory bond to the people of the State of California, duly executed by a sufficient surety or sureties to be approved by the bureau, in the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000). That bond shall be conditioned for the honest and faithful performance by such broker and his or her salespersons and employees of any undertaking as a licensed cemetery broker or salesperson or employee of said broker at any time when licensed under this chapter, and the strict compliance with the provisions of this chapter and of Division 8 (commencing with Section 8100) of the Health and Safety Code, relating to cemeteries, and the honest and faithful application of all funds received. That bond shall be further conditioned upon the payment of all damages suffered by any person damaged or defrauded by reason of the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or of Division 8 (commencing with Section 8100) of the Health and Safety Code relating to cemeteries, or by reason of the violation of the obligation of such broker as an agent, as such obligations are laid down by the Civil Code, or by reason of any fraud connected with or growing out of any transactions contemplated by this chapter or Division 8 (commencing with Section 8100) of the Health and Safety Code.
(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 395, Sec. 19. (AB 180) Effective January 1, 2016.)
