Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:812 – Conveyance of cemetery spaces; formality and recordation
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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:812
- 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
- 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
Cemetery authorities that own land destined as places for the interment of human remains may convey portions thereof, or cemetery spaces located therein, for interments. The acts of conveyance shall be passed under the form prescribed by the cemetery authority, and any acts so made shall be equally authentic and impart full proof as if passed before a notary and two witnesses. It shall not be necessary to record such instruments in any public office.
Acts 1974, No. 417, §1.