CALIFORNIA

FCA has TEN Affiliates in California. Find the one closest to you here: 

https://funerals.org/local-fca/#US-CA

 

The California Department of Consumer Affairs website (www.cfb.ca.gov) makes available a Consumer Guide to Funeral and Cemetery Purchases, which includes the following information  relating to the use of a funeral director and home death care:

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Home Death Care

The use of a funeral establishment and funeral director is not required by law when preparing a body for disposition. You can arrange for your body, or that of a loved one, to be cared for and prepared for disposition by family and friends at home. If you choose home death care, you must:

• File a properly completed Certificate of Death, signed by the attending physician or coroner, with the local registrar of births and deaths.

• Obtain a Permit for Disposition from the local registrar of births and deaths.

• Provide a casket or other suitable container.

• Make arrangements directly with the cemetery or crematory.

Your local county health department may be able to help you file a Certificate of Death and/or a Permit for Disposition.

(NOTE: Human remains may be kept at home without embalming or refrigeration until disposition. Generally, decomposition will proceed more rapidly without refrigeration or embalming.)

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Pick up the body and transport it to Utah? 

All you do is acquire the Death certificate and the burial transit permit and you are on your way.

https://finalpassages.org/about-home-funerals/ This is an organization in California that has been teaching how for two decades. 

 

Here is another confirmation of the law in California: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-home-funeral-laws.html

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Excellent instruction Southern California specific:
https://fcasocal.org/