The State - News from Sept. 9, 1985
A Santa Clara man has been fined $7,000 for dumping human ashes on his foothill property, instead of scattering them over the Sierra or over the ocean from his plane. Judge Donald Howard assessed the fine against Bill Elkin, 57, in Amador County Superior Court. Deputy Dist. Atty. Richard Hamm said Elkin was not sentenced to jail because it could not be proven that he knew of a law prohibiting the commingling of human remains, which became effective Jan. 1, 1984.
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