Cemeteries
La. Laws div. RS, tit. 8
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section8:1. Definitionssection8:61. Cemetery board created; appointments; termssection8:62. Qualifications of memberssection8:63. Compensation; expensessection8:64. Officers; administrative director; employeessection8:65. Meetingssection8:66. Administration and enforcement of lawsection8:66.1. Investigationssection8:66.2. Cease and desist orderssection8:67. Rules and regulationssection8:68. Hearingssection8:69. Actions to enforce law; attorney general; special counselsection8:69.1. Service of pleadings upon boardsection8:69.2. Receiverships; procedure; powers, duties, and qualifications; disposition of cemeterysection8:70. Application for certificate of authoritysection8:71. Proof of applicant's compliance with law, rules, and regulations; financial responsibility and reputationsection8:72. Certificates; regulatory charges; suspension; restoration; late charge; requirement of certificatesection8:73. Regulatory charges; ratesection8:74. Sale or interment; certificate of authority; penaltysection8:75. Refusal to grant, revocation, or suspension of certificate; injunction; fines; additional orderssection8:76. Sale or transfer of cemetery authority; application for new certificate of authority; compliance required; late chargesection8:77. Cemetery fundsection8:78. Exemptions; exempt certificates of authority; renewal; feessection8:79. Actions for violation of this Titlesection8:101. Municipal corporations; establishment and maintenance of cemeteriessection8:102. Ordinance creating cemetery; locationsection8:103. Anticipation of revenues; bonds or certificates; taxessection8:104. Funds for support and improvement; special municipal election authorizedsection8:105. Maximum tax; use of proceedssection8:106. Rules and regulations; sexton and other employeessection8:107. Gifts, donations, and contributionssection8:108. Expropriationsection8:109. Lots, plots, or burial spaces; permits for interment; salesection8:110. Contract to assure proper care; maintenance; and controlsection8:111. Roads and drainage; parishes may providesection8:112. Expropriation of abandoned private cemeteriessection8:113. Powers of parish governing authoritiessection8:114. Publicly owned cemeteries; mandatory trust accountssection8:121. St. Mary Parish Cemetery District; creation; locationsection8:122. Board; qualification of members; appointment; vacancies; removal of members; officerssection8:123. Corporate status; purpose; powers and dutiessection8:124. District as political subdivision; election imposing taxes, maximum tax; authoritysection8:131. Rapides Parish Cemetery District; creation; locationsection8:131.1. Board of commissioners; membership; appointment; vacancies; removal of members; officerssection8:131.2. Powers and duties of the board; grants; donationssection8:132. Grant Parish Cemetery District; creation; boundaries; purposesection8:132.1. Board; qualification of members; appointment; vacancies; removal of members; officerssection8:132.2. Corporate status; powers and dutiessection8:132.3. District as a political subdivision; election imposing taxes, maximum tax; authoritysection8:133. LaSalle Parish Cemetery District; creation; boundaries; purposesection8:133.1. Board; qualification of members; appointment; vacancies; removal of members; officerssection8:133.2. Corporate status; powers and dutiessection8:133.3. District as a political subdivision; election imposing taxes, maximum tax; authoritysection8:135. Sweet Lake - Grand Lake Community Cemetery District; creation; boundaries; purposesection8:135.1. Board; qualification of members; appointment; vacancies; removal of members; officerssection8:135.2. Corporate status; powers and dutiessection8:141. St. Landry Parish Cemetery District; creation; boundaries; purposesection8:141.1. Board; qualification of members; appointment; vacancies; officerssection8:141.2. Corporate status; powers and dutiessection8:141.3. District as a political subdivision; election imposing taxes, maximum tax; authoritysection8:201. Incorporation requiredsection8:202. Corporations; how organizedsection8:203. Prior operations not affectedsection8:204. Specific powers; rulemaking and enforcementsection8:205. Rules and regulations; postingsection8:206. Contracts required; disclosuresection8:301. Right to acquire propertysection8:302. Surveys and mapssection8:303. Maps and plats; amendmentsection8:304. Permanency of dedicationsection8:305. perpetuities, etc., inapplicablesection8:306. Removal of dedication; proceduresection8:307. Notice of hearingsection8:308. Sale of cemetery spaces; abandoned spaces defined; sale of abandoned spacessection8:308.1. Franklin; interment space ownershipsection8:309. Execution of conveyancessection8:310. Interment spaces indivisiblesection8:311. Commission on sales prohibitedsection8:312. Employment of solicitors prohibitedsection8:313. Exemption from seizure and sale; mortgage prohibitedsection8:314. Record of ownership and transferssection8:315. Inspection of recordssection8:316. Opening of roads and railroads through cemetery; consent required; exceptionsection8:317. Certain cemetery lands exempt from taxessection8:401. License to engage in businesssection8:402. Application for licensesection8:403. Application fee; annual feesection8:404. Investigation by boardsection8:405. Issuance of license; board's discretionsection8:406. Denial proceduresection8:407. Sale or transfer of cemetery sales or cemetery management organization; application for new license; compliance requiredsection8:408. Penaltiessection8:411. Definitionssection8:412. Application for license; qualifications; feessection8:413. Licensee authority; restrictionssection8:414. Additional powers of the boardsection8:415. Labor by prisoners permittedsection8:416. Liabilitysection8:417. Inadvertent discoverysection8:418. Scopesection8:451. Corporate operationsection8:452. Certification of trust fund in articles of incorporation; amendmentssection8:453. Cemeteries in existence on August 1, 1962; acts prohibitedsection8:454. Trust funds required; master trust fundssection8:454.1. Administration of trust funds; maintenance; exemption from seizuresection8:454.2. Income distribution methods; application; restrictionssection8:454.3. Merger of cemetery trust fundssection8:455. Annual report by cemeteriessection8:456. Annual report by trustee; final accounting by trustee requiredsection8:456.1. Resignation of trustee; orderly transfer of trust fundsection8:457. Application of Chaptersection8:458. Prohibited acts; injunctionssection8:459. Cemeteries exemptsection8:459.1. Trust fund transferssection8:460. Penaltiessection8:461. Examination of endowment funds; expensessection8:462. Examination expense; effect of refusal to pay; dispositionsection8:463. Powers, duties, and records concerning examination of fundssection8:464. Action required when authority fails to deposit minimum endowment or perpetual fundssection8:465. Order requiring reinvestment in compliance with law; actions for preservation and protectionsection8:466. Annual report of cemetery authority; contents; feessection8:467. Examination of reportssection8:501. Applicationsection8:502. Payments to trust; amounts required; master trust fundsection8:502.1. Determination of personal property deliverysection8:502.2. Supplierssection8:502.3. Trust fund exempt from seizuresection8:503. Withdrawals from trustsection8:504. Payments to purchaser; change of domicilesection8:505. Annual reports by trustee; final accounting by trustee requiredsection8:505.1. Annual report by cemeteries or other entities; report filing feesection8:505.2. Resignation of trustee; orderly transfer of trust fundsection8:506. Examination by board; expensessection8:506.1. Failure to make required deposits; actionsection8:507. Nonwaiver of provisions of Chaptersection8:508. Penaltiessection8:509. Trustee's duty of caresection8:510. Exceptions; trust fund transferssection8:511. Nonretroactive effectsection8:512. Examination of reportssection8:601. Application of Chaptersection8:602. Standards of constructionsection8:603. Ordinances and specifications to be complied withsection8:604. Improper construction a nuisance; penaltysection8:605. Construction in compliance with existing lawssection8:606. Commencement and completion requirements; application form; application feesection8:651. Interring or crematingsection8:652. Unlawful disposal of remainssection8:653. Opening graves; stealing body; receiving samesection8:654. Mutilating, disinterring human remains; penaltysection8:655. Right of disposing of remains; military personnel; limitation of liabilitysection8:656. Effect of authorizationsection8:657. Right to rely on such authorizationsection8:658. Liability for damages; limitationsection8:659. Permission to move remainssection8:660. Exceptionssection8:661. Undisposed remains; rules and regulationssection8:662. Record of remains to be keptsection8:663. Collection, analysis, and reburial of exposed human skeletal remainssection8:671. Short titlesection8:672. Legislative declaration of intentsection8:673. Definitionssection8:674. Exclusionssection8:675. Repealed by Acts 2009, No. 438, §6B.section8:676. Powers and duties of the secretarysection8:677. Revocation or suspension of permitssection8:678. Unlawful actssection8:679. Civil remediessection8:680. Discovery of unmarked burial sites, human skeletal remains, and burial artifactssection8:681. Disposition of unmarked burial sites, human skeletal remains, and burial artifactssection8:701. Applicationsection8:702. Standards of constructionsection8:703. Compliance with ordinances and specificationssection8:704. Improper use a nuisance; penaltysection8:705. Construction in compliance with existing lawssection8:705.1. Commencement requirements; application form; application feesection8:706. Commencement and completion requirementssection8:801. Recognized owner of titlesection8:802. Transfer of ownership rightssection8:803. Descent of title to cemetery spacesection8:804. Affidavit as authorizationsection8:805. When right of interment or cemetery space is inalienablesection8:806. Rights of co-ownerssection8:807. Co-owners; identificationsection8:808. Co-owners may designate representativesection8:809. Waiver of right of intermentsection8:810. Termination of vested right by waiversection8:811. Limitations on vested rightssection8:812. Conveyance of cemetery spaces; formality and recordationsection8:813. Correction of errorssection8:814. Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 175, §6.section8:901. Unlawful to use, lease, or sell for drilling, mining, or prospecting; penaltysection8:902. Underground burials; depthsection8:903. Maintenance of cemetery spaces more than fifty years old; sale of repaired abandoned cemetery spacessection8:903.1. Cemeteries; maintenance of vaults and wall vaults more than fifty years old; reclamation by authoritysection8:904. Speculative sales and purchases prohibited; penaltiessection8:905. Upkeep of cemeteries; local ordinance authorized; penalty; definition of shareholdersection8:906. Additional ad valorem tax; Evangeline Parishsection8:907. Interment of pet remainssection8:908. Abatement of public health or safety risks in abandoned cemeteries
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