Watch out, Californians: You know Governor Ahnuld & Co. are up Crap’s Creek when citizens of cash-strapped The Bear Republic are being charged to mourn.

(How long do you think it will be before the government and business owners slap giant dollar signs in the air and start charging us to breathe?)

Effective immediately, fans of late Pop King Michael Jackson who wish to leave flowers at the “Thriller” star’s final resting place will now be hit with a $3 “delivery” fee.

That’s one way to get around a crippling budget deficit.

Executives at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale — where Jackson is buried — has decided to remove the stage where fans were previously allowed to place gifts. Instead, only floral gifts will be allowed, and cemetery staff will hand-deliver them inside of Jackson’s mausoleum for the nominal fee, a cemetery source spilled to TMZ.com. MJ’s grave has reportedly been receiving a flood of flowers since his former wife — Lisa Marie Presley — issued a plea asking fan to gift the singer’s grave with some of his beloved sunflowers.

All other gifts – including teddy bears, posters, picture frames, candles, etc. — will be trashed. And if the mausoleum runs out of space, overflow flowers will just have to brave the elements outside.

Well, how decent of them.

In the meantime, fans are still forbidden from stepping foot inside of the mausoleum.