§ 103090 Funeral Director Body Transport

Health and Safety Code·California

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This law says funeral directors can move a dead body from one place to another to prepare it for burial or shipping.

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•Funeral directors can move a body to another place for preparation.
•This is allowed even if the new place is in a different county.
•The move must be for preparing the body for burial or shipping.

Example

If someone dies in a hospital in one town, the funeral home can take the body to another town to get it ready for the funeral.

The law allows this so the body can be properly prepared, even if it means moving it to a different place.

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§ 103090 Funeral Director Body Transport

This chapter does not prevent a funeral director from removing a body from the registration district where the death occurred or the body was found to another registration district in the same or another county in a funeral director’s conveyance for the purpose of preparing the body for interment or shipment. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1996.)

Last verified: January 11, 2026

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funeral director registration district funeral director’s conveyance interment shipment

References

Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
California Legislature. Health and Safety Code. Section 103090.

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