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 8:66.1 - Investigations
- RS 8:66.2 - Cease and desist orders
- 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; exempt certificates of authority; renewal; fees
- 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 - Incorporation required
- 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 8:308.1 - Franklin; interment space ownership
- 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 8:411 - Definitions
- RS 8:412 - Application for license; qualifications; fees
- RS 8:413 - Licensee authority; restrictions
- RS 8:414 - Additional powers of the board
- RS 8:415 - Labor by prisoners permitted
- RS 8:416 - Liability
- RS 8:417 - Inadvertent discovery
- RS 8:418 - Scope
- 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; master trust fund
- RS 8:454.1 - Administration of trust funds; maintenance; exemption from seizure
- RS 8:455 - Annual report by cemeteries
- RS 8:456 - Annual report 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 cemetery authority; contents; fees
- RS 8:467 - Examination of reports
- RS 8:501 - Application
- RS 8:502 - Payments to trust; amounts required
- RS 8:502.1 - Determination of personal property delivery
- RS 8:502.2 - Suppliers
- RS 8:502.3 - Trust fund exempt from seizure
- 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; report filing fee
- 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; application form; application fee
- 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; military personnel; limitation of liability
- 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 8:663 - Collection, analysis, and reburial of exposed human skeletal remains
- 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 8:705.1 - Commencement requirements; application form; application fee
- 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