The definitions in this article govern the meaning of terms used in the act except as otherwise provided expressly or by necessary implication.

“Act” means the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau Act.

“Endowment care” or “endowed care” shall include both general and special care funds.

A “cemetery broker” is a person who, other than in reference to an occasional sale, sells or offers for sale, buys, or offers to buy, lists, leases or offers to lease, or solicits, or negotiates the purchase or sale, lease, or exchange of cemetery property or interment services, or interest therein, for his or her own account or for another.

A “cemetery salesperson” is a natural person who, other than in reference to an occasional sale, is employed by a cemetery broker to sell, or offer for sale, list or offer to list, or to buy, or to offer to buy, or to lease, or offer to lease, or to solicit, or to negotiate the purchase or sale or lease or exchange of cemetery property or interment services, or any interest therein, for his or her own account or for another.

licensed under this chapter.

A “crematory manager” is a person engaged in or conducting, or holding himself or herself out as engaged in those activities involved in, or incidental to, the maintaining or operating of a crematory licensed under this chapter, and the cremation of human remains.

The definitions in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 7000) of Part 1 of Division 7 of the Health and Safety Code are applicable to this act.

“Cemetery licensee” means any cemetery broker, cemetery salesperson, or cemetery manager.

“Crematory licensee” shall mean a corporation, partnership, or natural person licensed pursuant to Article 6.5 (commencing with Section 7712) and shall mean a cemetery licensee for purposes of disciplinary action under Article 6 (commencing with Section 7686).

An “occasional sale” is a sale of cemetery property not acquired or held for purposes of resale or speculation, provided such sale is not one of a series of sales sufficient in number, scope, and character to constitute engaging in the business of selling or reselling or holding for speculation cemetery property.

“Public cemetery” means a cemetery owned and operated by a city, county, city and county, or public cemetery district.

disciplinary action.

the cemetery has sold for interment, the total number of spaces that have contributed to the endowment care funds of the cemetery.

repealed on January 1, 2033.

California Cities, the California State Association of Counties, the Urban Counties of California, the Rural County Representatives of California, public cemeteries, and legislative staff for the appropriate committees of the Legislature, to discuss options for ensuring continued care, maintenance, and embellishment of abandoned cemeteries, including the possibility of requiring counties to assume responsibility for maintenance, irrigation, public works, and burial services for cemeteries located within their boundaries that become abandoned.

workgroup and its recommendations no later than

June 1, 2026.

This article does not apply to any of the following:

or sets up a trust for burial purposes pursuant to Section 8775 of the Health and Safety Code, including funeral services such as mortuary, cremation, or other commodities or services furnished at the time of and in connection with that funeral or cremation.

The bureau shall disclose on its Internet Web site, information about each cemetery subject to the jurisdiction of the bureau. In addition to the information required by Section 27, the bureau shall disclose the name of the owner of each cemetery, the name of the cemetery, the business address of the cemetery owner, and the physical address of the cemetery.

to Section 8115 of the Health and Safety Code.