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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:311

  • 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
  • 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
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, association, trust, or any other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • 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

            It shall be unlawful for a cemetery authority, directly or indirectly, to pay or offer to pay to any person, firm, or corporation not licensed pursuant to this Title a commission, bonus, rebate, or other thing of value for the sale of an interment space. This shall not apply to a person employed by the cemetery authority to make such sales.

            Acts 1974, No. 417, §1; Acts 2022, No. 574, §1.