(a) Every cemetery authority operating a cemetery shall pay an annual regulatory charge for each cemetery to be fixed by the bureau at not more than four hundred dollars ($400). In addition to an annual regulatory charge for each cemetery, an additional quarterly charge to be fixed by the bureau at not more than eight dollars and fifty cents ($8.50) for each burial, entombment, or inurnment made during the preceding quarter shall be paid to the bureau and these charges shall be deposited in the Cemetery and Funeral Fund. If the cemetery authority performs a burial, entombment, or inurnment, and the cremation was performed at a crematory located on the grounds of the cemetery and under common ownership with the cemetery authority, the total of all additional charges shall be not more than eight dollars and fifty cents ($8.50).
(b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2016.
(Repealed (in Sec. 59) and added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 395, Sec. 60. (AB 180) Effective January 1, 2016. Section operative July 1, 2016, by its own provisions.)