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DIVISION 8 - CEMETERIES
PART 3 - PRIVATE CEMETERIES
CHAPTER 2 - Operation and Management
ARTICLE 5 - Operation of Crematories
Section 8346.
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CA Health & Safety Code § 8346 (2023)
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8346. Within two hours after a crematory licensed by the State of California takes custody of a body that has not been embalmed, it shall refrigerate the body at a temperature not greater than 50 degrees Fahrenheit unless the cremation process will begin within 24 hours of the time that crematory took custody.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 570, Sec. 10. Effective January 1, 1995.)
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