Section 9061 Of Chapter 5. Interments From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 8. >> Part 4. >> Chapter 5.
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. (a) A district may inter a person who is not a resident of
the district or a person who does not pay property taxes on property
located in the district in a cemetery owned by the district if all of
the following apply:
(1) The district has an endowment care fund that requires at least
the minimum payment set pursuant to Section 9065.
(2) The district requires the payment of a nonresident fee set
pursuant to Section 9068. A board of trustees may adopt a written
policy that permits waiving the payment of the nonresident fee for a
nonresident who had purchased an interment right while a resident or
a taxpayer.
(3) The person meets the conditions listed in one or more of
subdivisions (b) through (e).
(b) A person is an eligible nonresident pursuant to paragraph (5)
of subdivision (b) of Section 9060 if the person is a family member
of a person who is already interred in a cemetery owned by the
district or is a family member of a person who has acquired interment
rights in a cemetery owned by a district.
(c) A person is an eligible nonresident pursuant to paragraph (5)
of subdivision (b) of Section 9060 if all of the following apply:
(1) The person was a resident of the district or paid property
taxes on property located in the district for continuous period of at
least five years, a portion of which time period shall have occurred
within the 10 years immediately before the person's death.
(2) The district receives a written request for the interment of
the person from a person who is a resident of the district or who
pays property taxes on property located within the district, and the
person submitting the written request is not a trustee, officer, or
employee of the district and is not a funeral director or an employee
of a funeral director.
(3) The board of trustees determines that the cemetery has
adequate space for the foreseeable future.
(d) A person is an eligible nonresident pursuant to paragraph (5)
of subdivision (b) of Section 9060 if all of the following apply:
(1) The person was a resident of this state at the time of death.
(2) There is no private cemetery within a straight-line radius of
15 miles of the person's residence.
(3) There is no private cemetery nearer to the person's residence
than the nearest cemetery owned by the district.
(4) The distances shall be measured in a straight line from the
person's residence to the nearest private cemetery and the nearest
cemetery owned by the district.
(e) A person is an eligible nonresident pursuant to paragraph (5)
of subdivision (b) of Section 9060 if all of the following apply:
(1) The person died while either:
(A) Serving in the Armed Forces or the active militia, or
(B) In the line of duty as a peace officer or firefighter.
(2) The board of trustees determines that the cemetery has
adequate space for the foreseeable future.