2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 8:706 — Commencement and completion requirements

§706.  Commencement and completion requirements

A.  A cemetery authority shall commence the installation of the necessary improvements to the undeveloped land in which sales, contracts for sales, or reservations for sales are being made, within twenty-four months after the date of the first such sale.  The completion of all such necessary improvements shall be no later than forty-eight months after the date of the first sale.  However, extensions for completion, not to exceed six months, may be granted by the board for reasonable cause, but in no event shall any such extension exceed one year.

B.  Failure to commence and/or complete development within the time herein required shall be a misdemeanor punishable by fine of not less than two hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment of not less than thirty days nor more than one year, or both.

Acts 1974, No. 417, §1.