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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:135

  • 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
  • Community cemetery: means a cemetery owned, operated, controlled, or managed by any association or organization in which the sale of lots, graves, crypts, vaults, or niches is restricted principally to individuals within a community. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1

The governing authority of Cameron Parish is hereby authorized to create a public cemetery district to be designated as the Sweet Lake – Grand Lake Community Cemetery District, the boundaries of which shall be coterminous with the boundaries of the Cameron Parish Police Jury District No. Three, located in the communities of Sweet Lake and Grand Lake.  The objective and purpose of the Sweet Lake – Grand Lake Community Cemetery District created under the provisions of this Chapter shall be the acquisition, establishment, operation, and maintenance of one or more public cemeteries within the district.

Acts 2003, No. 541, §1.