§ 8:451 Corporate operation
§ 8:452 Certification of trust fund in articles of incorporation; amendments
§ 8:453 Cemeteries in existence on August 1, 1962; acts prohibited
§ 8:454 funds required; master trust funds
§ 8:454.1 Administration of trust funds; maintenance; exemption from seizure
§ 8:454.2 Income distribution methods; application; restrictions
§ 8:455 Annual report by cemeteries
§ 8:456 Annual report by trustee; final accounting by trustee required
§ 8:456.1 Resignation of trustee; orderly transfer of trust fund
§ 8:457 Application of Chapter
§ 8:458 Prohibited acts; injunctions
§ 8:459 Cemeteries exempt
§ 8:459.1 Trust fund transfers
§ 8:460 Penalties
§ 8:461 Examination of endowment funds; expenses
§ 8:462 Examination expense; effect of refusal to pay; disposition
§ 8:463 Powers, duties, and records concerning examination of funds
§ 8:464 Action required when authority fails to deposit minimum endowment or perpetual funds
§ 8:465 Order requiring reinvestment in compliance with law; actions for preservation and protection
§ 8:466 Annual report of cemetery authority; contents; fees
§ 8:467 Examination of reports

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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 8 > Chapter 7 - Cemetery Care Fund

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Board: means the Louisiana Cemetery Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Burial: means the placement of human remains in a grave. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • care funds: includes both general and special care funds. 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
  • Corporation: means any corporation or limited liability company which is authorized by its articles or an operating agreement to conduct any one or more of the businesses of a cemetery. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Disposition: means the interment, burial, cremation, or anatomical donation of the body of a deceased person or parts of the body of a deceased person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • endowed care cemetery: means a cemetery wherein lots and other interment spaces are sold or transferred under the representation that the cemetery will receive perpetual or endowed care. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • 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
  • Law clerk: Assist judges with research and drafting of opinions.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • 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
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, association, trust, or any other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • 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
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Trustee: means the separate legal entity designated as trustee of a cemetery care fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1