Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:601 – Application of Chapter
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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:601
- 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
- Lawn crypts: means space for interment in preplaced chambers or burial vaults, either side by side or multiple depth, covered by earth or sod and known also as below-ground crypts, Westminster crypts, or turf top crypts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
This Chapter applies to all structures, including but not limited to mausoleums, tombs, columbariums, niches, lawn crypts, and underground crypts used, intended to be used, or converted or altered for use for the interment of the remains of two or more persons, whether erected under, above, or partially below the surface of the earth.
Acts 1974, No. 417, §1; Acts 2022, No. 574, §1.