Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:204 – A cemetery authority may make, adopt, amend, add to, revise, repeal, or modify, and enforce, rules and regulations for the use, care, control, management, restriction, and protection
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:204
- Cemetery: means a place used or intended to be used for the interment of the human dead and, to the extent allowed in accordance with this Title, pet remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
- Human remains: means the body of a deceased person and includes the body in any stage of decomposition, as well as cremated remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
- Interment: means the disposition of human remains by inurnment, scattering, entombment, or burial in a place used or intended to be used, and dedicated, for cemetery purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
A cemetery authority may make, adopt, amend, add to, revise, repeal, or modify, and enforce, rules and regulations for the use, care, control, management, restriction, and protection of all or any part of its cemetery, including without limitation the following:
(1) It may restrict and limit the use of all property within its cemetery.
(2) It may regulate the uniformity, class, and kind of all markers, monuments, and other structures within the cemetery and its subdivisions.
(3) It may regulate or prohibit the erection or installation of monuments, markers, effigies, structures, and foundations within the cemetery.
(4) It may regulate or prevent the introduction or care of plants or shrubs within the cemetery.
(5) It may prevent interment in any part of the cemetery of human remains not entitled to interment and prevent the use of interment spaces for purposes violative of its restrictions or rules and regulations.
(6) It may regulate the conduct of persons and prevent improper assemblages in the cemetery.
(7) It may make and enforce rules and regulations for all other purposes deemed necessary by the cemetery authority for the proper conduct of the business of the cemetery, for the transfer of any interment space or the right of interment, and the protection and safeguarding of the premises, and the principles, plans, and ideals on which the cemetery is conducted.
Acts 1974, No. 417, §1; Acts 2022, No. 574, §1.