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DIVISION 8. CEMETERIES 8100-9703›PART 3. PRIVATE CEMETERIES 8250-8829›CHAPTER 7. Abandonment 8825-8829

§ 8828

California Health and Safety Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

After the work which the governing body, in its discretion, finds necessary and practicable has been completed, the governing body shall immediately thereafter, by resolution, which shall contain a legal description of the cemetery, dedicate such abandoned cemetery as a pioneer memorial park and may cause to be erected a suitable central memorial honoring those who have been interred in the cemetery.

Upon recordation of the resolution with the county recorder of the county in which the cemetery is located, fee title to the cemetery shall vest in the city or county as the case may be. The governing body may bring an action to quiet title to the cemetery, and in the absence of fraud the resolution and the fact of recordation shall be conclusive evidence of fee title to the cemetery.

Any county or city acquiring fee title to a cemetery under this section shall only use the property for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a pioneer memorial park.

(Amended by Stats. 1970, Ch. 543.)

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