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Business and Professions Code - BPC

DIVISION 3. PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY [5000 - 9998.11]

  ( Heading of Division 3 added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 30. )
  

CHAPTER 12. Cemetery and Funeral Act [7600 - 7746]

  ( Heading of Chapter 12 amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 395, Sec. 3. )
  

ARTICLE 7. Penal Provisions [7715 - 7719]
  ( Article 7 added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 39. )

  
7716.  

Every funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer, or the agents or representatives thereof, who, after a death or while a death is impending, pays, offers to pay or causes to be paid, directly or indirectly, any sum of money or other valuable consideration for the securing of business is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1151, Sec. 35. Effective January 1, 1997.)