Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:867 – Applicability
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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:867
- 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
- Embalming: means preparing, disinfecting, and preserving, either hypodermically, arterially, or by any other recognized means, the body of a deceased person for burial, cremation, or other disposition. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
- 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 directing: means the operation of a funeral home, or, by way of illustration and not limitation, any service whatsoever connected with the management of funerals, or the supervision of hearses or funeral cars, the purchase of caskets or other funeral merchandise, and retail sale and display thereof, the cleaning or dressing of dead human bodies for burial, and the performance or supervision of any service or act connected with the management of funerals from time of death until the body or bodies are delivered to the cemetery, crematory, or other agent for the purpose of disposition. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
- person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
Anything in this Part contained to the contrary notwithstanding, this Part shall not apply to any person, firm, corporation, trustee, partnership, association or other legal entity who now or hereafter exclusively engages in, owns, operates, controls and manages a cemetery authority located in the state of Louisiana, unless it sells, or attempts to sell, or contracts for merchandise or services commonly furnished by a funeral home such as caskets, embalming, funeral directing, use of funeral home facilities and use of a hearse or transportation of a dead human body.
Acts 2008, No. 799, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.