Section 8004 Of Article 12. Removal By Counties From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 7. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 12.
8004
. Whenever the remains of any person shall be removed from any
abandoned cemetery by the county owning such abandoned cemetery, such
remains shall be transported and reinterred in a separate and
suitable receptacle. After the removal and reinterment of human
bodies disinterred from an abandoned cemetery, the county owning or
controlling the abandoned cemetery lands shall cause to be erected
upon or imbedded in any lot or plot wherein such body is reinterred a
suitable permanent marker identifying the remains with as much
particularity as is available to such county and shall prepare a
complete record of the name of each person, where known, and the lot
or plot where the body is reinterred and such record shall be kept in
the office of the board of supervisors of the county making such
removals and reinterments and shall at all times be open to the
relatives and friends of those so reinterred.