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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:314

  • 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

            A record shall be kept by each cemetery authority of the ownership of each interment space in the cemetery conveyed by the cemetery authority and of all transfers made of each interment space. No transfer of any interment space made, or of any right of interment, shall be complete or effective until actually recorded in the official records of the cemetery authority.

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