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DIVISION 7. DEAD BODIES 7000-8030›PART 2. DISINTERMENT AND REMOVAL 7500-8030›CHAPTER 4. Removal of All Remains: Cities and Cities and Counties Over 100,000 7700-8005›ARTICLE 5. Removals by Relatives or Friends 7800-7805

§ 7803

California Health and Safety Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-03 · California

If the right, title or interest of any grantee of any plot or of the right of interment therein has passed by succession to the heir or heirs at law of the grantee without distribution by order of court, the heir or heirs at law may remove the remains of persons interred in the plot. The affidavit of any heir at law setting out the facts of heirship shall be accepted by the cemetery authority as sufficient evidence of the fact of the transfer.

(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

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