Section 7055 Of Chapter 2. General Provisions From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 7. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 2.
7055
. (a) Every person, who for himself or herself or for another
person, inters or incinerates a body or permits the same to be done,
or removes any remains, other than cremated remains, from the primary
registration district in which the death or incineration occurred or
the body was found, except a removal by a funeral director in a
funeral director's conveyance or an officer of a duly accredited
medical college engaged in official duties with respect to the body
of a decedent who has willfully donated his or her body to the
medical college from that registration district or county to another
registration district or county, or within the same registration
district or county, without the authority of a burial or removal
permit issued by the local registrar of the district in which the
death occurred or in which the body was found; or removes interred
human remains from the cemetery in which the interment occurred, or
removes cremated remains from the premises on which the cremation
occurred without the authority of a removal permit is guilty of a
misdemeanor and punishable as follows:
(1) For the first offense, by a fine of not less than ten dollars
($10) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500).
(2) For each subsequent offense, by a fine of not less than fifty
dollars ($50) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) or
imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 60 days, or by
both.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a funeral director of a
licensed out-of-state funeral establishment may transport human
remains out of this state without a removal permit when he or she is
acting within the requirements specified in subdivision (b) of
Section 103050.