If a dedication is made pursuant to Section 9700, the pet cemetery owners shall charge an endowment maintenance fee to persons whose pets will be buried in the cemetery on and after the date of this act, in addition to any burial fee. This maintenance fee shall be charged only at the time of the burial and shall be not less than twenty-five dollars ($25). Proceeds from these maintenance fees shall be placed by the pet cemetery owners into an endowment care or similar trust fund, the entirety of which shall be used for the perpetual maintenance of the pet cemetery.
(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1093, Sec. 1.)