Section 9609.

This act does not apply to any of the following:

(a) A religious corporation, church, religious society or denomination, a corporation sole administering temporalities of any church or religious society or denomination, or any cemetery organized, controlled, and operated by any of them.

(b) A public cemetery.

(c) Any private or fraternal burial park not exceeding 10 acres in area, established prior to September 19, 1939; however, (1) such cemeteries shall be subject to the cemetery brokerage provisions of this act, and (2) any such cemetery shall be subject to all of the provisions of this act if it collects a care, maintenance or embellishment deposit or sets up a trust for burial purposes pursuant to Section 8775 of the Health and Safety Code, including funeral services such as mortuary, cremation or other commodities or services furnished at the time of and in connection with such funeral or cremation.

(Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1269.)