Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:453 – Cemeteries in existence on August 1, 1962; acts prohibited
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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:453
- 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
- 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
- Owner: means a person to whom the cemetery authority has transferred full title to or the right of use of or interment in any cemetery space and who appears as the title holder in the official records of the cemetery authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
No owner of a cemetery in existence on August 1, 1962, who previously to such date has not sold or contracted to sell any interment space in the cemetery with a provision for perpetual or endowed care, shall thereafter advertise or otherwise hold out to the public that the cemetery or any individual interment space therein is entitled to perpetual or endowed care unless the owner has established a trust fund for perpetual or endowed care as provided by this Chapter.
Acts 1974, No. 417, §1; Acts 2022, No. 574, §1.