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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:861

  • Association: means a partnership, a combination or group of individuals, or an unincorporated organization of persons having a common interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Firm: means a business unit or enterprise or a partnership of two or more persons not recognized as a legal person distinct from the members composing it. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Funeral: means the observances held for a dead person usually before burial or cremation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Funeral establishment: means any place or premises duly licensed by the board and devoted to or used in the care and preparation for disposition of the body of a deceased person or maintained or held out to the public by advertising or otherwise as the office or place for the practice of funeral directing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831

It shall be unlawful for a firm, partnership, corporation, an association of individuals, or anyone to enter into a preneed funeral contract other than a duly licensed funeral establishment.

Added by Acts 1974, No. 5, §1.  Amended by Acts 1982, No. 592, §1; Acts 1983, No. 454, §1; Acts 2008, No. 799, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.