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2025 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 3 - PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY
CHAPTER 12 - Cemetery and Funeral Act
ARTICLE 7 - Penal Provisions
Section 7716.
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CA Bus & Prof Code § 7716 (2025)
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7716. Every funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer, or the agents or representatives thereof, who, after a death or while a death is impending, pays, offers to pay or causes to be paid, directly or indirectly, any sum of money or other valuable consideration for the securing of business is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1151, Sec. 35. Effective January 1, 1997.)
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