Louisiana 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 8:70 — 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 8:301 — 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 — The louisiana unmarked burial sites board
- RS 8:676 — Powers and duties of the board
- 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 — Exemption from inheritance tax
- 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