Bill Text: CA AB1658 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Happy Homestead Cemetery District: nonresident burial.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-08-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 242, Statutes of 2016. [AB1658 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1658-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1658	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  242
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 30, 2016
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 30, 2016
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 15, 2016
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 12, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bigelow
   (Coauthor: Senator Gaines)

                        JANUARY 13, 2016

   An act to add Section 9063.3 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to cemeteries.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1658, Bigelow. Happy Homestead Cemetery District: nonresident
burial.
   The Public Cemetery District Law specifies the procedures for the
formation of public cemetery districts, procedures for the selection
of the district board of trustees and officers, and the powers and
duties of the board. That law limits interments in public cemetery
district cemeteries to residents of the district and nonresidents who
meet specified criteria. Existing law also permits interments of
nonresidents in designated public cemetery districts under certain
circumstances.
   This bill would authorize the Happy Homestead Cemetery District in
the City of South Lake Tahoe in the County of El Dorado to use its
cemeteries to inter residents of specified Nevada communities if
specified conditions are met.
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the Happy Homestead Cemetery
District.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 9063.3 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   9063.3.  Notwithstanding Sections 9060 and 9061, the Happy
Homestead Cemetery District located in the City of South Lake Tahoe
in the County of El Dorado may inter residents of the Nevada
communities of Glenbrook, Cave Rock, Skyland, Zephyr Cove, Round
Hill, Elk Point, Kingsbury, and Stateline in the cemeteries in the
district if all of the following apply:
   (a) The Happy Homestead Cemetery District Board of Trustees
determines that the district's cemeteries have adequate space for the
foreseeable future.
   (b) The district has an endowment care fund that requires a
contribution for every interment of at least the minimum amount set
pursuant to Sections 8738, 9065, and 9068.
   (c) The district requires the payment of a nonresident fee set
pursuant to Section 9068.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the unique circumstances pertaining to the Happy Homestead
Cemetery District.