Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 8 > Chapter 9 - Mausoleums or Similar Structures

• Board: means the Louisiana Cemetery Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• 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
• Cemetery authority: means any person, firm, corporation, limited liability company, trustee, partnership, association, or municipality owning, operating, controlling, or managing a cemetery or holding lands within this state for interment purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Cemetery space: means a grave, crypt, vault, niche, tomb, lawn crypt, or any other property used or intended to be used for the interment of human remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• commercial paper: means short-term obligations having a maturity ranging from two to two hundred seventy days issued by banks, corporations, or other borrowers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1223
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Force majeure: means any of the following circumstances:

              (a) A major storm, major flood, or other similar natural disaster. 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
• Lawn crypts: means space for interment in preplaced chambers or burial vaults, either side by side or multiple depth, covered by earth or sod and known also as below-ground crypts, Westminster crypts, or turf top crypts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Owner: means a person to whom the cemetery authority has transferred full title to or the right of use of or interment in any cemetery space and who appears as the title holder in the official records of the cemetery authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Sale: means the sale of the full title to any cemetery space or the sale of the right of use of or interment in any cemetery space. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1