§ 7000 The definitions in this chapter apply to this division, Division 8 …
§ 7001 “Human remains” or “remains” means the body of a deceased person, …
§ 7002 “Cremated remains” means the ashes and bone fragments of a human body …
§ 7002.5 (a) “Hydrolyzed human remains” means bone fragments of a human …
§ 7002.7 (a) “Reduction facility” means a structure, room, or other space …
§ 7003 (a) “Cemetery” means either of the following:(1) Any of the …
§ 7004 “Burial park” means a tract of land for the burial of human remains …
§ 7005 Except in Part 5 (commencing with Section 9501) of Division 8, …
§ 7006 “Crematory” means a building or structure containing one or more …
§ 7006.1 (a) “Hydrolysis facility” means a building or structure …
§ 7006.3 “Cremation chamber” means the enclosed space within which the …
§ 7006.4 (a) “Hydrolysis chamber” means the enclosed space within which …
§ 7006.5 “Cremation container” means a combustible, closed container resistant …
§ 7006.6 (a) “Hydrolysis container” means a hydrolyzable body wrapping …
§ 7006.7 “Cremated remains container” means a receptacle in which cremated …
§ 7006.8 (a) “Hydrolyzed human remains container” means a receptacle in …
§ 7007 Except in Part 5 (commencing with Section 9501) of Division 8, …
§ 7008 “Crematory and columbarium” means a building or structure containing …
§ 7009 “Interment” means the disposition of human remains by entombment or …
§ 7010 “Cremation” means the process by which the following three steps are …
§ 7010.1 (a) “Hydrolysis” means the process by which the following two …
§ 7010.3 (a) “Processing” means the removal of foreign objects, pursuant …
§ 7010.5 “Residue” means human ashes, bone fragments, prostheses, and …
§ 7010.7 (a) “Scattering” means the authorized dispersal of cremated …
§ 7010.8 (a) “Integrate into the soil” means the authorized addition and …
§ 7011 (a) “Inurnment” means placing cremated remains or hydrolyzed …
§ 7011.2 (a) “Placement” means the placing of a container holding …
§ 7012 “Entombment” means the process of placing human remains in a crypt or …
§ 7013 “Burial” means the process of placing human remains in a grave.
§ 7014 “Grave” means a space of earth in a burial park, used, or intended to …
§ 7015 (a) “Crypt” or “vault” means a space in a mausoleum of …
§ 7016 (a) “Niche” means a space in a columbarium used, or intended to …
§ 7017 (a) “Hydrolysate” means the resultant liquid from the hydrolysis …
§ 7018 “Cemetery authority” includes cemetery association, corporation sole, …
§ 7019 “Cemetery corporation,” “cemetery association,” or “cemetery …
§ 7020 “Cemetery business,” “cemetery businesses,” and “cemetery purposes” …
§ 7021 “Directors” or “governing body” means the board of directors, board …
§ 7022 “Lot,” “plot,” or “interment plot” means space in a cemetery, used or …
§ 7023 “Plot owner,” “owner,” or “lot proprietor,” means any person in whose …
§ 7024 “Permit for Disposition of Human Remains” includes “burial permit” …
§ 7025 “Disposition” means the interment, integration into soil, or …

Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 7 > Part 1 > Chapter 1 - Definitions

  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • Conservatee: includes a limited conservatee. See California Probate Code 29
  • Conservator: includes a limited conservator. See California Probate Code 30
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Domestic partner: means one of two persons who have filed a Declaration of Domestic Partnership with the Secretary of State pursuant to Division 2. See California Probate Code 37
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • interested person: includes any of the following:

    California Probate Code 48

  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, or other entity. See California Probate Code 56
  • Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership and includes both real and personal property and any interest therein. See California Probate Code 62
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Spouse: includes domestic partner, as defined in Section 37 of this code, as required by §. See California Probate Code 72
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
  • State: includes any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory or possession subject to the legislative authority of the United States. See California Probate Code 74
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trust: includes the following:

    California Probate Code 82

  • Will: includes codicil and any testamentary instrument which merely appoints an executor or revokes or revises another will. See California Probate Code 88