(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) and Section 8124, no person or entity shall sell, trade, or transfer veteranâs commemorative property. (b) Any person, unincorporated association, cemetery corporation, or religious corporation, except a municipal corporation described in Section 8137, that owns or controls a cemetery where any veteranâs commemorative property has been placed that wishes to sell, trade, or transfer veteranâs commemorative property shall petition the superior court in the county in which the veteranâs commemorative property is located for permission to sell, trade, or transfer all or any part of the veteranâs commemorative property. The court may approve the sale, trade, or transfer of the veteranâs commemorative property under any of the following conditions: (1) The veteranâs commemorative property is at reasonable risk of physically deteriorating so that it will become unrecognizable as identifying or commemorating the veteran or group of veterans originally identified or commemorated thereby and the veteranâs commemorative property that is to be sold, traded, or transferred is replaced at its original site by a fitting replacement commemorative property, monument, or marker that appropriately identifies and commemorates the veteran or group of veterans. (2) The veteranâs commemorative property is proposed to be sold, traded, or transferred to a suitable person that will preserve the current condition of the veteranâs commemorative property and place the veteranâs commemorative property in a suitable place that will commemorate the veteran or group of veterans. (3) The petitioner needs to sell, trade, or transfer the veteranâs commemorative property to ensure that sufficient funds are available to suitably maintain the cemetery where the veteranâs commemorative property was placed, and the specific lot, plot, grave, burial place, niche, crypt, or other place of interment of a veteran or group of veterans, so that the place will retain the respect that these hallowed places deserve. (4) If the veteranâs commemorative property to be sold, traded, or transferred is reasonably known to the petitioner to have been donated to the petitioner by any veteransâ organization, historical organization, civic organization, or an individual, the sale, trade, or transfer shall have been consented to by that veteransâ organization, historical organization, civic organization, or individual. (5) If the petitioner is not the owner of the veteranâs commemorative property that is to be sold, traded, or transferred, the petitioner is authorized by the owner of the veteranâs commemorative property to engage in the sale, trade, or transfer. (6) By operation of any other law authorizing the sale, trade, or transfer of the veteranâs commemorative property. (c) A petition under subdivision (b) shall be filed with the clerk of the superior court. Upon receipt of the petition, the clerk shall fix the time and date for the hearing. The date fixed for the hearing shall be within a reasonable time after the petition is filed. (d) The petitioner shall serve notice of the hearing and a copy of the petition upon the persons and entities mentioned in paragraphs (1) to (6), inclusive, of subdivision (e) who could reasonably be ascertained and contacted by the petitioner and upon any other person as may be directed by the court. Service of the notice of hearing and petition shall be made in a manner and by a date as shall be specified by the court. (e) At the hearing held pursuant to subdivision (c), the following persons and entities, or their representatives, may be heard: (1) The petitioner. (2) Any person, other than the petitioner, who is the owner of the veteranâs commemorative property in question. (3) Any veteransâ organization, historical organization, civic organization, or individual that donated the veteranâs commemorative property in question to the petitioner. (4) The family of ea
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