Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:704 – Improper use a nuisance; penalty
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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:704
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Disposition: means the interment, burial, cremation, or anatomical donation of the body of a deceased person or parts of the body of a deceased person. 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
- 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
- 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
Every landowner who sells or otherwise disposes of or causes or permits the sale or other disposition of undeveloped land for use for the interment of human remains in violation of this Section shall be guilty of maintaining a public nuisance and, upon conviction, shall be punishable by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not less than one month nor more than six months, or both.
Acts 1974, No. 417, §1; Acts 2022, No. 574, §1.