Article XIII — Sheriff-Coroner.
Sec. 2-130. - Fee for embalming.
Sonoma County Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-09-27 · Sonoma County
Whenever the sheriff-coroner takes custody of a dead body pursuant to law, he may embalm the body and charge and collect one hundred dollars ($100.00) from the person entitled to its custody, except when the body is that of a child not more than fourteen (14) years of age or a person for whose burial there is available less than one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00), in which cases the expenses of embalming are a county charge. The fee above set shall be paid into the county treasury.
(Ord. No. 2619 § 1.)
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