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2009 Louisiana Laws TITLE 8 Cemeteries
- RS 8 Title 8.cemeteries
- RS 8:1 Definitions
- RS 8:61 Cemetery board created; appointments; terms
- RS 8:62 Qualifications of members
- RS 8:63 Compensation; expenses
- RS 8:64 Officers; administrative director; employees
- RS 8:65 Meetings
- RS 8:66 Administration and enforcement of law
- RS 8:67 Rules and regulations
- RS 8:68 Hearings
- RS 8:69 Actions to enforce law; attorney general; special counsel
- RS 8:69.1 Service of pleadings upon board
- RS 8:69.2 Receiverships; procedure; powers, duties, and qualifications; disposition of cemetery
- RS 8:70 Application for certificate of authority
- RS 8:71 Proof of applicant's compliance with law, rules and regulations; financial responsibility and reputation
- RS 8:72 Certificates; regulatory charges; suspension; restoration; late charge; requirement of certificate
- RS 8:73 Regulatory charges; rate
- RS 8:74 Sale or interment; certificate of authority; penalty
- RS 8:75 Refusal to grant, revocation, or suspension of certificate; injunction; fines; additional orders
- RS 8:76 Sale or transfer of cemetery authority; application for new certificate of authority; compliance required; late charge
- RS 8:77 Cemetery fund
- RS 8:78 Exemptions
- RS 8:101 Publicly owned cemeteries
- RS 8:102 Ordinance creating cemetery; location
- RS 8:103 Anticipation of revenues; bonds or certificates; taxes
- RS 8:104 Funds for support and improvement; special municipal election authorized
- RS 8:105 Maximum tax; use of proceeds
- RS 8:106 Rules and regulations; sexton and other employees
- RS 8:107 Gifts, donations and contributions
- RS 8:108 Expropriation
- RS 8:109 Lots, plots, or burial spaces; permits for interment; sale
- RS 8:110 Contract to assure proper care; maintenance; and control
- RS 8:111 Roads and drainage; parishes may provide
- RS 8:112 Expropriation of abandoned private cemeteries
- RS 8:113 Powers of parish governing authorities
- RS 8:114 Publicly owned cemeteries; mandatory trust accounts
- RS 8:121 St. mary parish cemetery district; creation; location
- RS 8:122 Board, qualification of members; appointment; vacancies; removal of members; officers
- RS 8:123 Corporate status; purpose; powers and duties
- RS 8:124 District as political subdivision; election imposing taxes, maximum tax; authority
- RS 8:131 Rapides parish cemetery district; creation; location
- RS 8:131.1 Board of commissioners; membership; appointment; vacancies; removal of members; officers
- RS 8:131.2 Powers and duties of the board; grants; donations
- RS 8:132 Grant parish cemetery district; creation; boundaries; purpose
- RS 8:132.1 Board, qualification of members; appointment; vacancies; removal of members; officers
- RS 8:132.2 Corporate status; powers and duties
- RS 8:132.3 District as a political subdivision; election imposing taxes, maximum tax; authority
- RS 8:133 Lasalle parish cemetery district; creation; boundaries; purpose
- RS 8:133.1 Board, qualification of members; appointment; vacancies; removal of members; officers
- RS 8:133.2 Corporate status; powers and duties
- RS 8:133.3 District as a political subdivision; election imposing taxes, maximum tax; authority
- RS 8:135 Sweet lake - grand lake community cemetery district; creation; boundaries; purpose
- RS 8:135.1 Board, qualification of members; appointment; vacancies; removal of members; officers
- RS 8:135.2 Corporate status; powers and duties
- RS 8:141 St. landry parish cemetery district; creation; boundaries; purpose
- RS 8:141.1 Board; qualification of members; appointment; vacancies; officers
- RS 8:141.2 Corporate status; powers and duties
- RS 8:141.3 District as a political subdivision; election imposing taxes, maximum tax; authority
- RS 8:201 Cemetery companies
- RS 8:202 Corporations; how organized
- RS 8:203 Prior operations not affected
- RS 8:204 Specific powers; rule making and enforcement
- RS 8:205 Rules and regulations; posting
- RS 8:206 Contracts required; disclosure
- RS 8:301 Acquisition of cemetery property
- RS 8:302 Surveys and maps
- RS 8:303 Maps and plats; amendment
- RS 8:304 Permanency of dedication
- RS 8:305 Rule against perpetuities, etc., inapplicable
- RS 8:306 Removal of dedication; procedure
- RS 8:307 Notice of hearing
- RS 8:308 Sale of cemetery spaces; abandoned spaces, defined, sale
- RS 8:309 Execution of conveyances
- RS 8:310 Interment spaces indivisible
- RS 8:311 Commission on sales prohibited
- RS 8:312 Employment of solicitors prohibited
- RS 8:313 Exemption from seizure and sale; mortgage prohibited
- RS 8:314 Record of ownership and transfers
- RS 8:315 Inspection of records
- RS 8:316 Opening of roads, railroads through cemetery; consent required, exception
- RS 8:317 Certain cemetery lands exempt from taxes
- RS 8:401 Cemetery sales and
- RS 8:402 Application for license
- RS 8:403 Application fee; annual fee
- RS 8:404 Investigation by board
- RS 8:405 Issuance of license; board's discretion
- RS 8:406 Denial procedure
- RS 8:407 Sale or transfer of cemetery sales or cemetery management organization; application for new license; compliance required
- RS 8:408 Penalties
- RS 8:451 Corporate operation
- RS 8:452 Certification of trust fund in articles of incorporation; amendments
- RS 8:453 Cemeteries in existence on august 1, 1962; acts prohibited
- RS 8:454 Trust funds required
- RS 8:454.1 Administration of trust funds; maintenance; exemption from seizure
- RS 8:455 Annual report by cemeteries
- RS 8:456 Annual account by trustee; final accounting by trustee required
- RS 8:456.1 Resignation of trustee; orderly transfer of trust fund
- RS 8:457 Application of chapter
- RS 8:458 Prohibited acts; injunctions
- RS 8:459 Cemeteries exempt
- RS 8:459.1 Trust fund transfers
- RS 8:460 Penalties
- RS 8:461 Examination of endowment funds; expenses
- RS 8:462 Examination expense; effect of refusal to pay; disposition
- RS 8:463 Powers, duties, records, concerning examination of funds
- RS 8:464 Action required when authority fails to deposit minimum endowment or perpetual funds
- RS 8:465 Order requiring reinvestment in compliance with law; actions for preservation and protection
- RS 8:466 Annual report of authority; contents, verification, certification
- RS 8:467 Examination of reports
- RS 8:501 Merchandise trust fund
- RS 8:502 Payments to trust; amounts required
- RS 8:502.1 Determination of personal property delivery
- RS 8:502.2 Suppliers
- RS 8:503 Withdrawals from trust
- RS 8:504 Payments to purchaser; change of domicile
- RS 8:505 Annual reports by trustee, final accounting by trustee required
- RS 8:505.1 Annual report by cemeteries or other entities
- RS 8:505.2 Resignation of trustee; orderly transfer of trust fund
- RS 8:506 Examination by board; expenses
- RS 8:506.1 Failure to make required deposits; action
- RS 8:507 Nonwaiver of provisions of chapter
- RS 8:508 Penalties
- RS 8:509 Trustee's duty of care
- RS 8:510 Exceptions; trust fund transfers
- RS 8:511 Nonretroactive effect
- RS 8:601 Mausoleums or similar structures
- RS 8:602 Standards of construction
- RS 8:603 Ordinances and specifications to be complied with
- RS 8:604 Improper construction a nuisance; penalty
- RS 8:605 Construction in compliance with existing laws
- RS 8:606 Commencement and completion requirements
- RS 8:651 Human remains
- RS 8:652 Unlawful disposal of remains
- RS 8:653 Opening graves; stealing body; receiving same
- RS 8:654 Mutilating, disinterring human remains; penalty
- RS 8:655 Right of disposing of remains
- RS 8:656 Effect of authorization
- RS 8:657 Right to rely on such authorization
- RS 8:658 Liability for damages; limitation
- RS 8:659 Permission to move remains
- RS 8:660 Exceptions
- RS 8:661 Undisposed remains; rules and regulations
- RS 8:662 Record of remains to be kept
- RS 8:671 Short title
- RS 8:672 Legislative declaration of intent
- RS 8:673 Definitions
- RS 8:674 Exclusions
- RS 8:675 Repealed by acts 2009, no. 438, §6b.
- RS 8:676 Powers and duties of the secretary
- RS 8:677 Revocation or suspension of permits
- RS 8:678 Unlawful acts
- RS 8:679 Civil remedies
- RS 8:680 Discovery of unmarked burial sites, human skeletal remains, and burial artifacts
- RS 8:681 Disposition of unmarked burial sites, human skeletal remains, and burial artifacts
- RS 8:701 Undeveloped land
- RS 8:702 Standards of construction
- RS 8:703 Compliance with ordinances and specifications
- RS 8:704 Improper use a nuisance; penalty
- RS 8:705 Construction in compliance with existing laws
- RS 8:706 Commencement and completion requirements
- RS 8:801 Title to and rights in cemetery spaces
- RS 8:802 Transfer of ownership rights
- RS 8:803 Descent of title to cemetery space
- RS 8:804 Affidavit as authorization
- RS 8:805 When right of interment or cemetery space is inalienable
- RS 8:806 Rights of co-owners
- RS 8:807 Co-owners; identification
- RS 8:808 Co-owners may designate representative
- RS 8:809 Waiver of right of interment
- RS 8:810 Termination of vested right by waiver
- RS 8:811 Limitations on vested rights
- RS 8:812 Conveyance of cemetery spaces; formality and recordation
- RS 8:813 Correction of errors
- RS 8:814 Repealed by acts 2010, no. 175, §6.
- RS 8:901 Miscellaneous
- RS 8:902 Underground burials; depth
- RS 8:903 Maintenance of cemetery spaces more than fifty years old; sale of repaired abandoned cemetery spaces
- RS 8:903.1 Cemeteries; maintenance of vaults and wall vaults more than fifty years old; reclamation by authority
- RS 8:904 Speculative sales and purchases prohibited; penalties
- RS 8:905 Upkeep of cemeteries; local ordinance authorized; penalty; definition of "shareholder"
- RS 8:906 Additional ad valorem tax; evangeline parish
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