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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 7717.
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CA Bus & Prof Code § 7717 (2025)
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7717. Every person, who pays or causes to be paid or offers to pay to any funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer, or to the agent, assistant or employee of either, any commission or bonus or rebate or other thing of value in consideration of the funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer recommending or causing human remains to be disposed of in any crematory, mausoleum or cemetery, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1151, Sec. 36. Effective January 1, 1997.)
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