BILL NUMBER: SB 1131	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator La Malfa
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Nielsen)

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2012

   An act to add Section 9063.9 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to cemeteries.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1131, as introduced, La Malfa. Public cemetery districts:
interments.
   The Public Cemetery District Law specifies the procedures for the
formation of public cemetery districts, procedures for the selection
of the district board of trustees and officers, and the powers and
duties of the board. That law limits interments in public cemetery
district cemeteries to residents of the district and nonresidents who
meet specified criteria. Existing law also permits interments of
nonresidents in designated public cemetery districts, under certain
circumstances.
   This bill would authorize a public cemetery district within a
50-mile radius of a National Veterans Cemetery or a State Veterans
Cemetery to inter nonresidents and nonproperty taxpayers, if
specified conditions are met.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 9063.9 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   9063.9.  Notwithstanding Section 9060, a public cemetery district
within a 50-mile radius of a National Veterans Cemetery or a State
Veterans Cemetery may use its cemetery for up to a total of 100
interments, for interment in the ground or a columbarium of any
person who is not a resident or a property taxpayer of the district
if all of the following apply:
   (a) The board of trustees determines that the cemetery has
adequate space for the foreseeable future.
   (b) The district has an endowment care fund that requires at least
the minimum payment set pursuant to Section 9065.
   (c) The district requires the payment of a nonresident fee set
pursuant to Section 9068.