Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:855 – Right to arrange funeral goods and services
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:855
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Disposition: means the shipment, interment, burial, cremation, or anatomical donation of a dead human body or parts of a dead human body. 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 director: means a person to whom a valid license has been issued by the board to perform the duties of funeral directing. 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
- Funeral goods and services: means any one or more of the following goods or services:
(a) Goods which are sold or offered for sale directly to the public for use in connection with funeral services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
- Human remains: means the body of a deceased person, or part of a body or limb in any stage of decomposition that has been removed from a living or dead person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
- person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
- Preparation: means the actions or processes necessary to make a dead body ready for disposition. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
A. The persons in the priority listed in La. Rev. Stat. 8:655 and La. Rev. Stat. 37:876 have the right to arrange with a funeral director or funeral establishment for funeral goods and services, as defined in La. Rev. Stat. 37:831, in preparation for the disposition of the remains of a decedent.
B. There is no liability for a funeral director, funeral establishment, or any respective employee for following the directions or relying on the representation of a person representing himself to be the person who has the prior right to arrange the funeral goods and services for the remains of a decedent in accordance with Subsection A of this Section.
C. There shall be no liability for a funeral director, funeral establishment, or any respective employee for permitting any interested person to view human remains in the care of the funeral director or funeral establishment.
Acts 2016, No. 143, §2, eff. May 19, 2016; Acts 2020, No. 329, §1, eff. June 12, 2020.