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Designated managing funeral director - ✔️✔️A licensed funeral director permitted to manage
more than one funeral establishment under common ownership.
Conditions for managing multiple establishments - ✔️✔️The establishments are not more than 60
miles from the main office.
Authorization to Accept or Decline Embalming form - ✔️✔️The form must be used exactly as set
forth, without any additions, substitutions, or amendments.
Change in ownership requiring license assignment - ✔️✔️A single or series of transactions of
more than 50% of equitable interest.
Determination of Death Act - ✔️✔️An individual is considered to be dead when there is
irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions.
Surviving spouse's right to control disposition - ✔️✔️A competent surviving spouse relinquishes
the right to control disposition 10 days after failing to act, delegate, or be located.
Refrigeration temperature for a body - ✔️✔️A body must be refrigerated at no greater than 50º F.
Altering funeral arrangements - ✔️✔️Survivors may alter arrangements when there is a signed and
dated statement allowing changes.
Transportation of a body that cannot be embalmed - ✔️✔️It must be received in an airtight metal
casket enclosed in a transportation case.
Right to control disposition after murder charge - ✔️✔️The right to control passes to the next in
priority pursuant to Section 7100 of the Health and Safety Code.
Agent's authority under power of attorney for health care - ✔️✔️An agent has authority to direct
disposition in the absence of any limitations in the power of attorney.
Out-of-state funeral establishment transport - ✔️✔️Transporting human remains out of California
without a permit is allowed when remains are found within 50 miles of the border and the nearest
establishment is within 30 miles in the adjacent state.
Scattering cremated remains at sea - ✔️✔️Cremated remains in a dissolvable urn must be scattered
from a boat only.
, Cremation container characteristics - ✔️✔️It must be rigid, although this is not legally required by
the Health and Safety Code.
Keeping cremated remains on real property - ✔️✔️Cremated remains may be kept by any person
with permission from the person with the right to control disposition.
Priority for authorizing removal from cemetery plot - ✔️✔️The surviving spouse has the highest
priority.
Notifying funeral director of reportable disease death - ✔️✔️The hospital facility or the county
health officer is responsible for notifying the funeral director.
Definition of cremation - ✔️✔️The definition does not include weighing the remains prior to
incineration.
Permission for embalming a body - ✔️✔️A body may not be embalmed without permission from
the person who has the right to control.
Coroner's custody of remains - ✔️✔️The coroner is entitled to custody of the remains for which he
or she is required to investigate.
Autopsy or medical investigation - ✔️✔️Until the conclusion of the autopsy or medical
investigation
Liability for misrepresentation - ✔️✔️The individual making the misrepresentation
Scattering cremated remains on private property - ✔️✔️The cremated remains are not in a
container
Definition of 'at sea' for scattering cremated remains - ✔️✔️Inland navigable waters, exclusive of
lakes and streams
Crematory disclosure prohibition - ✔️✔️In writing, prior to having a contract signed
Dissolution time for scattering urn - ✔️✔️Four hours
Power of attorney for disposition control - ✔️✔️A power of attorney for health care
Confirmation of death by brain cessation - ✔️✔️By another physician
Disposing of excess cremated remains - ✔️✔️By placing them in a secondary container, attached
to the primary container
Crematory rule on casket requirement - ✔️✔️Under no circumstances
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Designated managing funeral director - ✔️✔️A licensed funeral director permitted to manage
more than one funeral establishment under common ownership.
Conditions for managing multiple establishments - ✔️✔️The establishments are not more than 60
miles from the main office.
Authorization to Accept or Decline Embalming form - ✔️✔️The form must be used exactly as set
forth, without any additions, substitutions, or amendments.
Change in ownership requiring license assignment - ✔️✔️A single or series of transactions of
more than 50% of equitable interest.
Determination of Death Act - ✔️✔️An individual is considered to be dead when there is
irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions.
Surviving spouse's right to control disposition - ✔️✔️A competent surviving spouse relinquishes
the right to control disposition 10 days after failing to act, delegate, or be located.
Refrigeration temperature for a body - ✔️✔️A body must be refrigerated at no greater than 50º F.
Altering funeral arrangements - ✔️✔️Survivors may alter arrangements when there is a signed and
dated statement allowing changes.
Transportation of a body that cannot be embalmed - ✔️✔️It must be received in an airtight metal
casket enclosed in a transportation case.
Right to control disposition after murder charge - ✔️✔️The right to control passes to the next in
priority pursuant to Section 7100 of the Health and Safety Code.
Agent's authority under power of attorney for health care - ✔️✔️An agent has authority to direct
disposition in the absence of any limitations in the power of attorney.
Out-of-state funeral establishment transport - ✔️✔️Transporting human remains out of California
without a permit is allowed when remains are found within 50 miles of the border and the nearest
establishment is within 30 miles in the adjacent state.
Scattering cremated remains at sea - ✔️✔️Cremated remains in a dissolvable urn must be scattered
from a boat only.
, Cremation container characteristics - ✔️✔️It must be rigid, although this is not legally required by
the Health and Safety Code.
Keeping cremated remains on real property - ✔️✔️Cremated remains may be kept by any person
with permission from the person with the right to control disposition.
Priority for authorizing removal from cemetery plot - ✔️✔️The surviving spouse has the highest
priority.
Notifying funeral director of reportable disease death - ✔️✔️The hospital facility or the county
health officer is responsible for notifying the funeral director.
Definition of cremation - ✔️✔️The definition does not include weighing the remains prior to
incineration.
Permission for embalming a body - ✔️✔️A body may not be embalmed without permission from
the person who has the right to control.
Coroner's custody of remains - ✔️✔️The coroner is entitled to custody of the remains for which he
or she is required to investigate.
Autopsy or medical investigation - ✔️✔️Until the conclusion of the autopsy or medical
investigation
Liability for misrepresentation - ✔️✔️The individual making the misrepresentation
Scattering cremated remains on private property - ✔️✔️The cremated remains are not in a
container
Definition of 'at sea' for scattering cremated remains - ✔️✔️Inland navigable waters, exclusive of
lakes and streams
Crematory disclosure prohibition - ✔️✔️In writing, prior to having a contract signed
Dissolution time for scattering urn - ✔️✔️Four hours
Power of attorney for disposition control - ✔️✔️A power of attorney for health care
Confirmation of death by brain cessation - ✔️✔️By another physician
Disposing of excess cremated remains - ✔️✔️By placing them in a secondary container, attached
to the primary container
Crematory rule on casket requirement - ✔️✔️Under no circumstances
