§ 8560 Cemetery Land Use Protection

Health and Safety Code·California

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•Once land is used as a cemetery, no roads, pipes, or power lines can be built on it without permission.
•The cemetery owners or most of the plot owners (at least two-thirds) must agree before anything can be built there.
•This rule protects cemeteries from being disturbed by new construction.

Example

A city wants to build a new road through an old cemetery to make traffic easier.

The city can't just build the road—they need the cemetery's permission or the okay from at least two-thirds of the families who own burial plots there.

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§ 8560 Cemetery Land Use Protection

After dedication pursuant to this chapter, and as long as the property remains dedicated to cemetery purposes, no railroad, street, road, alley, pipe line, pole line, or other public thoroughfare or utility shall be laid out, through, over, or across any part of it without the consent of the cemetery authority owning and operating it, or of not less than two-thirds of the owners of interment plots. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Last verified: January 24, 2026

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property road dedication utility authority interment

References

Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
California Legislature. Health and Safety Code. Section 8560.

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