Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:705.1 – Commencement requirements; application form; application fee
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:705.1
- 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
- Cemetery space: means a grave, crypt, vault, niche, tomb, lawn crypt, or any other property used or intended to be used for the interment of human remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- 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
A. Prior to the first sale of a cemetery space or the right of use or interment in any cemetery space in a garden which has not yet been developed, the cemetery authority shall submit to the board all of the following:
(1) A copy of the preliminary plans.
(2) A map or plat delineating the sections, blocks, plots, or other subdivisions with descriptive names or numbers.
(3) A copy of all sales promotion material.
(4) A copy of the pre-construction sales contract.
B. The cemetery authority shall submit the information required in this Subsection on an application form prescribed by the board, accompanied by an application fee of two hundred fifty dollars to cover the board’s reasonable and ordinary expenses associated with determining compliance with the applicable provisions of this Title.
Acts 2015, No. 222, §1.