7980

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
SECTION 7980




7980.  The heirs, relatives or friends of any decedent whose remains
have been interred in any cemetery owned, governed or controlled by
any religious corporation or by any church or religious society of
any denomination or by any corporation sole administering
temporalities of any religious denomination, society or church, or
owned, governed or controlled by any person or persons as trustee or
trustees for any religious denomination, society or church shall not
disinter, remove, reinter or dispose of any such remains except in
accordance with the rules, regulations and discipline of such
religious denomination, society or church.
   The officers, representatives or agents of the church or religious
society shall be the sole judge of the requirements of the rules,
regulations and discipline of such religious denomination, society or
church.