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2016 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 8 - Cemeteries
RS 8:417 - Inadvertent discovery
LA Rev Stat § 8:417 (2016) What's This?
§417. Inadvertent discovery
In the event of an inadvertent discovery of an unknown or unmarked grave by a licensee, the licensee shall document the existence of the grave and close the grave, but he shall neither disturb any human remains therein nor reuse the grave without the authority of those individuals identified in R.S. 8:659.
Acts 2016, No. 413, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2017.
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