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DIVISION 3. PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY 5000-9998.11›CHAPTER 12. Cemetery and Funeral Act 7600-7746›ARTICLE 2. Funeral Establishments and Directors 7615-7636

§ 7615

California Business and Professions Code · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

A funeral director is a person engaged in or conducting, or holding himself or herself out as engaged in any of the following:

(a) Preparing for the transportation or burial or disposal, or directing and supervising for transportation or burial or disposal of human remains.

(b) Maintaining an establishment for the preparation for the transportation or disposition or for the care of human remains.

(c) Using, in connection with his or her name, the words “funeral director,” or “undertaker,” or “mortician,” or any other title implying that he or she is engaged as a funeral director.

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

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