2014 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 40 - Public Health and Safety
RS 40:52 - Permit for removal, burial, cremation, or other disposition of body for a death in state; requirements to obtain death certificate before removing body out of the continental United States
§52. Permit for removal, burial, cremation, or other disposition of body for a death in state; requirements to obtain death certificate before removing body out of the continental United States
When a death or spontaneous fetal death (stillbirth) occurs in this state or when a dead human body is found, the deceased, stillborn child, or dead human body shall not be interred, deposited in a vault or tomb, removed from the state, cremated, or otherwise disposed of until a burial transit permit has been issued by a local registrar. However, a dead human body shall not be removed from the continental United States until a burial transit permit has been issued and a death certificate has been completed by the parish coroner or a physician as required in R.S. 40:34(B)(2)(r).
Acts 1979, No. 776, §1; Acts 2003, No. 657, §1.
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