State regulators have ordered four Northern California cemeteries to stop operations amid allegations of financial mismanagement.
Mount Tamalpais Cemetery and Mortuary in San Rafael and three other memorial sites under the same ownership received cease-and-desist demands from the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau, part of the California Department of Consumer Affairs. The others are Skyview Memorial Lawn in Vallejo, Chapel of the Light in Fresno and Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland.
The state directives, dated March 24, ordered the sites to stop “conducting any cemetery business, including internments and selling cemetery property.” Each cemetery also was fined $5,000 for continuing operations after surrendering their licenses last year…