Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 37 > Chapter 10 > Part III - Crematory and Cremation Regulation

• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Authorizing agent: means a person legally entitled to authorize the cremation of human remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Burial-transit permit: means the permit for disposition of a dead human body as required by state law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Casket: means a rigid container which is designed for the encasement of human remains usually constructed of wood, metal, fiberglass, or other similar material and ornamented and lined with fabric, which may or may not be combustible, for transportation, or for other disposition. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Certificate: means a license issued by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Closed container: means any container in which cremated human remains can be placed and closed in a manner so as to prevent leakage or spillage of remains or the entrance of foreign material. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Cremated human remains: means all the remains of the human body recovered after the completion of the cremation process, including processing, pulverization, or processing and pulverization which leaves only bone fragments reduced to unidentifiable dimensions and may possibly include the residue of any foreign material that was cremated with the human remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Cremation: means the technical process, using direct flame and heat, that reduces human remains to bone fragments through heat and evaporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Cremation container: means the container in which the human remains are transported to the crematory and placed in the cremation retort for cremation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Cremation retort: means the enclosed space within which the cremation process takes place. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Crematory: means the building or portion of a building that houses the cremation retort for the reduction of bodies of deceased persons to cremated human remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Crematory authority: means the legal entity which is licensed by the board to operate a crematory. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Crematory retort operator: means the individual who is authorized and licensed by the board to operate the retort and perform the cremation process. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Disposition: means the shipment, interment, burial, cremation, or anatomical donation of a dead human body or parts of a dead human body. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Funeral: means the observances held for a dead person usually before burial or cremation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Funeral director: means a person to whom a valid license has been issued by the board to perform the duties of funeral directing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Funeral establishment: means any place or premises duly licensed by the board and devoted to or used in the care and preparation for disposition of the body of a deceased person or maintained or held out to the public by advertising or otherwise as the office or place for the practice of funeral directing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Human remains: means the body of a deceased person, or part of a body or limb in any stage of decomposition that has been removed from a living or dead person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Joint venture: means a speculative business enterprise involving the united activity of two or more persons. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Political subdivision: means a parish, municipality, and any other unit of local government, including a school board and a special district, authorized by law to levy and collect a sales and use tax. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:337.6
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Subtitle: means and includes all the Chapters in Subtitle II of this Title 47 and any other Title of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 except the provisions of Chapter 1 of Subtitle IV of Title 47 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 and estate taxes for the assessment, collection, administration, and enforcement of taxes, fees, licenses, penalties, and interest due the state of Louisiana which have been delegated to the Department of Revenue. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:1501
• Temporary container: means a receptacle for cremated human remains usually made of cardboard, plastic, or similar material designed to hold the cremated human remains until an urn or other permanent container is acquired. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
• Urn: means a receptacle designed to permanently encase cremated human remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831