(a) Every crematory licensee operating a crematory pursuant to a license issued in compliance with this article shall pay an annual regulatory charge for each crematory, to be fixed by the bureau at not more than four hundred dollars ($400). In addition to an annual regulatory charge for each crematory, every licensee operating a crematory pursuant to a license issued pursuant to this article shall pay an additional charge to be fixed by the bureau at not more than eight dollars and fifty cents ($8.50) per cremation made during the preceding quarter, which charges shall be deposited in the Cemetery and Funeral Fund.
(b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2016.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 395, Sec. 35 (2nd text). (AB 180) Effective January 1, 2016. Section operative July 1, 2016, by its own provisions.)