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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:458

  • Board: means the Louisiana Cemetery Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • 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

            No person or cemetery authority shall offer for sale or sell any interment space in any cemetery with a provision for perpetual or endowed care, or in any manner represent, advertise, or hold out to the public that the cemetery, or any portion thereof, is entitled to perpetual or endowed care, unless such person or authority has complied with the provisions of this Chapter. The board, by a majority vote of its members, may institute legal proceedings to enjoin any person or cemetery authority from violating the provisions of this Section.

            Acts 1974, No. 417, §1. Amended by Acts 1980, No. 428, §1; Acts 2022, No. 574, §1; Acts 2023, No. 381, §1.