California Health and Safety Code

§ 7002.7

HSC § 7002.7 Effective Jan 1, 2023Div. 7 · Part 1 · Ch. 1

Statute text

(a)“Reduction facility” means a structure, room, or other space in a building or real property where natural, organic reduction of a human body occurs.

(b)“Reduced human remains” means the remains of a human body that have been reduced to soil through a process of reduction. “Reduced human remains” does not include foreign materials, pacemakers, or prostheses.

(c)“Reduction” means the process of transforming a human body into soil using the natural decomposition process, accelerated with the addition of organic materials through the following steps:

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 399, Sec. 29. (AB 351) Effective January 1, 2023.