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AB-528 Regulation of cemeteries: pet burial.(2023-2024)



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SECTION 1.

 Article 10 (commencing with Section 7750) is added to Chapter 12 of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code, to read:

Article  10. Human and Pet Coburial
7750.
 (a) A private cemetery may specify a separate section of the cemetery that is devoted to the burial, interment, entombment, or inurnment of pet remains, cremated pet remains, or hydrolyzed pet remains with the remains of the pet’s owner.
(b) The section of the cemetery allowing the human and pet coburial shall be separate from the portions of the cemetery allowing exclusively human burials, interments, entombments, or inurnments and shall be clearly marked by the cemetery.
(c) The pet remains, cremated pet remains, or hydrolyzed pet remains shall be in a separate remains container from the human remains, but may be placed in the same cemetery plot, niche, crypt, or vault.
(d) If a cemetery designates a section of the cemetery pursuant to subdivision (a), the cemetery authority shall develop and adopt rules and regulations for human and pet coburials. These regulations shall include all of the following:
(1) The types of dispositions that are allowed.
(2) The types of pets that are allowed.
(3) The number of pets allowed per decedent.
(4) Whether interments are allowed before, at the time of, or after death.

SEC. 2.

 Section 8138 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

8138.
 (a) A public cemetery may specify a separate section of the cemetery that is devoted to the burial, interment, entombment, or inurnment of pet remains, cremated pet remains, or hydrolyzed pet remains with the remains of the pet’s owner.
(b) The section of the cemetery allowing the human and pet coburial shall be separate from the portions of the cemetery allowing exclusively human burials, interments, entombments, or inurnments and shall be clearly marked by the cemetery.
(c) The pet remains, cremated pet remains, or hydrolyzed pet remains shall be in a separate remains container from the human remains, but may be placed in the same cemetery plot, niche, crypt, or vault.
(d) If a cemetery designates a section of the cemetery pursuant to subdivision (a), the cemetery authority shall develop and adopt rules and regulations for human and pet coburials. These regulations shall include all of the following:
(1) The types of dispositions that are allowed.
(2) The types of pets that are allowed.
(3) The number of pets allowed per decedent.
(4) Whether interments are allowed before, at the time of, or after death.