California Health and Safety Code

§ 8014

HSC § 8014 Effective Jan 1, 2021Div. 7 · Part 2 · Ch. 5 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)A lineal descendent claiming a relationship with, and requesting return of, Native American human remains or cultural items listed in the inventory or summary of an agency or museum, or that requests the return of human remains or cultural items that are not listed in the inventory or summary of an agency or museum but that are believed to be in the possession or control of the agency or museum, shall do both of the following:

(1)File a claim for the human remains and cultural items with the commission and with the agency or museum believed to have possession or control.

(2)Demonstrate that the claimant can trace their ancestry directly and without interruption by means of the traditional kinship or village system of the appropriate California Indian tribe, or by the common law system of descendancy, to a known individual whose human remains or cultural items are being claimed.

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Legislative history

Repealed and added by Stats. 2020, Ch. 167, Sec. 8. (AB 275) Effective January 1, 2021.