CALIFORNIA CEMETERY MANAGER 2025 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Removal by Relative or Friend - ✔✔If person desiring removal is no an heir at law,
they must get written consent from a majority of the known heirs at law who are
residents of the state. Removal of all remains without consent may be caused by:
- Purchaser or owner of the plot
- Purchaser or owner of the right of interment in the plot
- any one of joint purchases or owners of plot or right of interment in the plot
Heirs or heirs at law may remove the remains of persons interred in the plot. Affidavit
setting out facts of heirship shall be sufficient
✔✔Cemetery Records - ✔✔Keep record of all remains interred or cremated and of
interment of remains on premises including:
- Name of each deceased person
- Place of death
- Date of interment
- Name and address of funeral director
Records of every interment showing:
- Date the remains were received
- Date of interment
- Name and age of person (when possible)
- Plot in which interment was made
Records shall be kept of the ownership of all plots. Ownership effective when recorded
on the books of the cemetery authority
✔✔Requirements for Burials - ✔✔Have at least 18" of dirt or turf on top of all vaults or
caskets. Consensual double burials must be covered with at least 12" at time of burial.
Cremated remains exempt if urn is covered by at least 3/4" of concrete, brass, granite,
marble or metal plate. Extreme hardship allows for less than 18" but not less than 12".
No person shall knowingly or willfully inter the remains of more than one body in a
single plot, or use an already occupied grave.
✔✔Streets in Cemeteries - ✔✔No street, ally, or road shall be opened within the
boundary of a cemetery where burials have taken place in the past 5 years without
consent of the person owning or controlling the cemetery
✔✔Setting of Grave Markers - ✔✔Charges shall be uniform whether the marker sale
was made by cemetery or a third party. Amount shall be separately stated on contract
when applicable.
✔✔Cemetery Contracts - ✔✔Must have a contract to provide services or merchandise
of any sort.
, Must contain:
- Total contract price
- Terms of payment
- Itemized statement of charges showing the following
* Charges for plot
* Charges for performing burial, entombment or inurnment
* Charges for marker
* Charges for any services in connection with any religious observance
* Amounts to be deposited into any endowment care or special fund
* Charges for any insurance provided
* Any other charges, which shall be particularized
* Space and location sold.
✔✔Contract Cancellation - ✔✔Must say "You, the purchaser, may cancel this
transaction at any time prior to midnight of the fifth calendar day after this transaction,
provided no interment or substantial service or merchandise has been provided
hereunder. To cancel, deliver or mail written notice of your intent to (name and address
of cemetery authority or cemetery broker)" in 10-point bold type
✔✔Cemetery Authority Power - ✔✔May make, amend, add to, revise, or modify, and
enforce rules and regulations for use, care, control, management, restriction and
protection of all or any part of the cemetery.
Include but note limited to:
- Restricting and limiting use of all property within cemetery
- Regulating the uniformity and types of markers/monuments and other structures, but
shall not require markers/monuments be purchased by cemetery
- Prohibiting the erection of monuments/markers/structures
- Regulating or prohibiting monuments, effigies, structures and provide for their removal
- Regulating or preventing the introduction or care of plants or shrubs in the cemetery
- Preventing interment in any part of the cemetery of human remains not entitled to
interment and preventing the use of interment plots for purposes violative of its
restrictions or rules and regulations
- Regulating the conduct of persons and preventing improper assemblages in the
cemetery
- Making and enforcing rules and regulations for all other purposes deemed necessary
by cemetery authority for proper conduct of business and safeguarding the premises
and principles, plans, and ideals of cemetery.
Must be plainly written and maintained subject to inspection in the office of the cemetery
authority.
✔✔Cremated Remains - ✔✔All cremated remains shall be interred within one year of
obtaining possession of them (without a written contract)
✔✔Restrictions on Officers - ✔✔No director or officer of any cemetery authority shall
borrow any of the funds of the corporation of association
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Removal by Relative or Friend - ✔✔If person desiring removal is no an heir at law,
they must get written consent from a majority of the known heirs at law who are
residents of the state. Removal of all remains without consent may be caused by:
- Purchaser or owner of the plot
- Purchaser or owner of the right of interment in the plot
- any one of joint purchases or owners of plot or right of interment in the plot
Heirs or heirs at law may remove the remains of persons interred in the plot. Affidavit
setting out facts of heirship shall be sufficient
✔✔Cemetery Records - ✔✔Keep record of all remains interred or cremated and of
interment of remains on premises including:
- Name of each deceased person
- Place of death
- Date of interment
- Name and address of funeral director
Records of every interment showing:
- Date the remains were received
- Date of interment
- Name and age of person (when possible)
- Plot in which interment was made
Records shall be kept of the ownership of all plots. Ownership effective when recorded
on the books of the cemetery authority
✔✔Requirements for Burials - ✔✔Have at least 18" of dirt or turf on top of all vaults or
caskets. Consensual double burials must be covered with at least 12" at time of burial.
Cremated remains exempt if urn is covered by at least 3/4" of concrete, brass, granite,
marble or metal plate. Extreme hardship allows for less than 18" but not less than 12".
No person shall knowingly or willfully inter the remains of more than one body in a
single plot, or use an already occupied grave.
✔✔Streets in Cemeteries - ✔✔No street, ally, or road shall be opened within the
boundary of a cemetery where burials have taken place in the past 5 years without
consent of the person owning or controlling the cemetery
✔✔Setting of Grave Markers - ✔✔Charges shall be uniform whether the marker sale
was made by cemetery or a third party. Amount shall be separately stated on contract
when applicable.
✔✔Cemetery Contracts - ✔✔Must have a contract to provide services or merchandise
of any sort.
, Must contain:
- Total contract price
- Terms of payment
- Itemized statement of charges showing the following
* Charges for plot
* Charges for performing burial, entombment or inurnment
* Charges for marker
* Charges for any services in connection with any religious observance
* Amounts to be deposited into any endowment care or special fund
* Charges for any insurance provided
* Any other charges, which shall be particularized
* Space and location sold.
✔✔Contract Cancellation - ✔✔Must say "You, the purchaser, may cancel this
transaction at any time prior to midnight of the fifth calendar day after this transaction,
provided no interment or substantial service or merchandise has been provided
hereunder. To cancel, deliver or mail written notice of your intent to (name and address
of cemetery authority or cemetery broker)" in 10-point bold type
✔✔Cemetery Authority Power - ✔✔May make, amend, add to, revise, or modify, and
enforce rules and regulations for use, care, control, management, restriction and
protection of all or any part of the cemetery.
Include but note limited to:
- Restricting and limiting use of all property within cemetery
- Regulating the uniformity and types of markers/monuments and other structures, but
shall not require markers/monuments be purchased by cemetery
- Prohibiting the erection of monuments/markers/structures
- Regulating or prohibiting monuments, effigies, structures and provide for their removal
- Regulating or preventing the introduction or care of plants or shrubs in the cemetery
- Preventing interment in any part of the cemetery of human remains not entitled to
interment and preventing the use of interment plots for purposes violative of its
restrictions or rules and regulations
- Regulating the conduct of persons and preventing improper assemblages in the
cemetery
- Making and enforcing rules and regulations for all other purposes deemed necessary
by cemetery authority for proper conduct of business and safeguarding the premises
and principles, plans, and ideals of cemetery.
Must be plainly written and maintained subject to inspection in the office of the cemetery
authority.
✔✔Cremated Remains - ✔✔All cremated remains shall be interred within one year of
obtaining possession of them (without a written contract)
✔✔Restrictions on Officers - ✔✔No director or officer of any cemetery authority shall
borrow any of the funds of the corporation of association
