{"data":{"id":"us-ca/bpc-7716","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"BPC § 7716","heading":"","body":"Every funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer, or the agents or representatives thereof, who, after a death or while a death is impending, pays, offers to pay or causes to be paid, directly or indirectly, any sum of money or other valuable consideration for the securing of business is guilty of a misdemeanor.","path":["Business and Professions Code - BPC","DIVISION 3. PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY [5000. - 9998.12.]","CHAPTER 12.  Cemetery and Funeral Act [7600. - 7746.]","ARTICLE 7. Penal Provisions [7715. - 7719.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"ebadabc98cdd90ceb4d8fe32f8fa6602437a57c55495bafd7d49955352f8d4dd","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/bpc-7715","next":"us-ca/bpc-7717"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}