BILL NUMBER: AB 1969	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jeffries

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2010

   An act to add Section 9063.5 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to public cemeteries.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1969, as introduced, Jeffries. Elsinore Valley Cemetary.
   Existing law, the Public Cemetary District Law, specifies the
procedures for the formation of public cemetary districts, procedures
for the selection of the district board of trustees and officers,
and the powers and duties of the board. Existing law limits
interments in public cemetary district cemeteries to residents of the
district and nonresidents who meet specified criteria.
   This bill would allow the Elsinore Valley Cemetary District to
inter, in a specified section of the cemetary, nonresidents who meet
a more limited set of criteria.
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the Elsinore Valley Cemetary
District.
   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 9063.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   9063.5.  Notwithstanding Section 9060, the Elsinor Valley Cemetery
District may use the portion of its cemetery formerly known as Home
of Peace for up to a total of 536 interments, for interment in the
ground of any person who meets the criteria for burial in that area
but is not a resident 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.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the unique disparity between the population of Elsinore
Valley and the availability of cemetary plots.