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2025 California Code
Military and Veterans Code - MVC
DIVISION 4 - VETERANS' AID AND WELFARE
CHAPTER 5 - Local Aid
ARTICLE 2 - Burial of Veterans and Veterans’ Dependents
Section 953.
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CA Mil & Vet Code § 953 (2025)
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953. (a) A veterans’ remains organization shall take all reasonable steps to inter the cremated remains of a veteran or dependent of a veteran received in accordance with this article.
(b) A veterans’ remains organization that receives and inters the cremated remains of a veteran or dependent of a veteran pursuant to this article shall not be liable for negligence if the veterans’ remains organization does not know or have reason to know that the cremated remains of the veteran or dependent of a veteran were not released by the cemetery authority, cemetery corporation or association, or other entity in compliance with subdivisions (a) and (c) of Section 952.
(Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 189, Sec. 5. (AB 1644) Effective January 1, 2011.)
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