California Business and Professions Code

§ 7737.1

BPC § 7737.1 Effective Jan 1, 2022Div. 3 · Ch. 12 · Art. 9

Statute text

(a)(1) For purposes of Section 7737, a funeral establishment that intends to cease engaging in business operations, as authorized under this chapter, by reason of dissolution, closure, sale, or revocation and that intends to transfer its preneed funeral agreements to a licensed successor funeral establishment, pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 7737, shall provide written notice, as described in paragraph (2), at least 60 days prior to the cessation of operations to both of the following:

(A)The beneficiaries or trustors, or legal representatives of the beneficiaries or trustors, of the preneed funeral agreements associated with the funeral establishment ceasing business operations.

(B)The trustees holding the preneed funeral trusts associated with the preneed funeral agreements.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 514, Sec. 3. (AB 293) Effective January 1, 2022. Operative January 1, 2023, by its own provisions.