Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:417 – Inadvertent discovery
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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:417
- Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
- Grave: means a space of ground in a cemetery, used or intended to be used, for burial. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
- Human remains: means the body of a deceased person and includes the body in any stage of decomposition, as well as cremated remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
- Licensee: means any person who has been issued an abandoned cemetery sales and management license by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:411
- reuse: means the act of removing and disposing of a previously interred casket and the gathering and placing of human remains in an alternative container within the same cemetery space in order to accommodate additional interments. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
In the event of an inadvertent discovery of an unknown or unmarked grave by a licensee, the licensee shall document the existence of the grave and close the grave, but he shall neither disturb any human remains therein nor reuse the grave without the authority of those individuals identified in La. Rev. Stat. 8:659.
Acts 2016, No. 413, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2017.