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Cemeteries

RS 8Title 8.cemeteries
RS 8:1Definitions
RS 8:61Cemetery board created; appointments; terms
RS 8:62Qualifications of members
RS 8:63Compensation; expenses
RS 8:64Officers; administrative director; employees
RS 8:65Meetings
RS 8:66Administration and enforcement of law
RS 8:66.1Investigations
RS 8:66.2Cease and desist orders
RS 8:67Rules and regulations
RS 8:68Hearings
RS 8:69Actions to enforce law; attorney general; special counsel
RS 8:69.1Service of pleadings upon board
RS 8:69.2Receiverships; procedure; powers, duties, and qualifications; disposition of cemetery
RS 8:70Application for certificate of authority
RS 8:71Proof of applicant's compliance with law, rules and regulations; financial responsibility and reputation
RS 8:72Certificates; regulatory charges; suspension; restoration; late charge; requirement of certificate
RS 8:73Regulatory charges; rate
RS 8:74Sale or interment; certificate of authority; penalty
RS 8:75Refusal to grant, revocation, or suspension of certificate; injunction; fines; additional orders
RS 8:76Sale or transfer of cemetery authority; application for new certificate of authority; compliance required; late charge
RS 8:77Cemetery fund
RS 8:78Exemptions
RS 8:101Publicly owned cemeteries
RS 8:102Ordinance creating cemetery; location
RS 8:103Anticipation of revenues; bonds or certificates; taxes
RS 8:104Funds for support and improvement; special municipal election authorized
RS 8:105Maximum tax; use of proceeds
RS 8:106Rules and regulations; sexton and other employees
RS 8:107Gifts, donations and contributions
RS 8:108Expropriation
RS 8:109Lots, plots, or burial spaces; permits for interment; sale
RS 8:110Contract to assure proper care; maintenance; and control
RS 8:111Roads and drainage; parishes may provide
RS 8:112Expropriation of abandoned private cemeteries
RS 8:113Powers of parish governing authorities
RS 8:114Publicly owned cemeteries; mandatory trust accounts
RS 8:121St. mary parish cemetery district; creation; location
RS 8:122Board, qualification of members; appointment; vacancies; removal of members; officers
RS 8:123Corporate status; purpose; powers and duties
RS 8:124District as political subdivision; election imposing taxes, maximum tax; authority
RS 8:131Rapides parish cemetery district; creation; location
RS 8:131.1Board of commissioners; membership; appointment; vacancies; removal of members; officers
RS 8:131.2Powers and duties of the board; grants; donations
RS 8:132Grant parish cemetery district; creation; boundaries; purpose
RS 8:132.1Board, qualification of members; appointment; vacancies; removal of members; officers
RS 8:132.2Corporate status; powers and duties
RS 8:132.3District as a political subdivision; election imposing taxes, maximum tax; authority
RS 8:133Lasalle parish cemetery district; creation; boundaries; purpose
RS 8:133.1Board, qualification of members; appointment; vacancies; removal of members; officers
RS 8:133.2Corporate status; powers and duties
RS 8:133.3District as a political subdivision; election imposing taxes, maximum tax; authority
RS 8:135Sweet lake - grand lake community cemetery district; creation; boundaries; purpose
RS 8:135.1Board, qualification of members; appointment; vacancies; removal of members; officers
RS 8:135.2Corporate status; powers and duties
RS 8:141St. landry parish cemetery district; creation; boundaries; purpose
RS 8:141.1Board; qualification of members; appointment; vacancies; officers
RS 8:141.2Corporate status; powers and duties
RS 8:141.3District as a political subdivision; election imposing taxes, maximum tax; authority
RS 8:201Cemetery companies
RS 8:202Corporations; how organized
RS 8:203Prior operations not affected
RS 8:204Specific powers; rule making and enforcement
RS 8:205Rules and regulations; posting
RS 8:206Contracts required; disclosure
RS 8:301Acquisition of cemetery property
RS 8:302Surveys and maps
RS 8:303Maps and plats; amendment
RS 8:304Permanency of dedication
RS 8:305Rule against perpetuities, etc., inapplicable
RS 8:306Removal of dedication; procedure
RS 8:307Notice of hearing
RS 8:308Sale of cemetery spaces; abandoned spaces, defined, sale
RS 8:309Execution of conveyances
RS 8:310Interment spaces indivisible
RS 8:311Commission on sales prohibited
RS 8:312Employment of solicitors prohibited
RS 8:313Exemption from seizure and sale; mortgage prohibited
RS 8:314Record of ownership and transfers
RS 8:315Inspection of records
RS 8:316Opening of roads, railroads through cemetery; consent required, exception
RS 8:317Certain cemetery lands exempt from taxes
RS 8:401Cemetery sales and
RS 8:402Application for license
RS 8:403Application fee; annual fee
RS 8:404Investigation by board
RS 8:405Issuance of license; board's discretion
RS 8:406Denial procedure
RS 8:407Sale or transfer of cemetery sales or cemetery management organization; application for new license; compliance required
RS 8:408Penalties
RS 8:451Corporate operation
RS 8:452Certification of trust fund in articles of incorporation; amendments
RS 8:453Cemeteries in existence on august 1, 1962; acts prohibited
RS 8:454Trust funds required
RS 8:454.1Administration of trust funds; maintenance; exemption from seizure
RS 8:455Annual report by cemeteries
RS 8:456Annual account by trustee; final accounting by trustee required
RS 8:456.1Resignation of trustee; orderly transfer of trust fund
RS 8:457Application of chapter
RS 8:458Prohibited acts; injunctions
RS 8:459Cemeteries exempt
RS 8:459.1Trust fund transfers
RS 8:460Penalties
RS 8:461Examination of endowment funds; expenses
RS 8:462Examination expense; effect of refusal to pay; disposition
RS 8:463Powers, duties, records, concerning examination of funds
RS 8:464Action required when authority fails to deposit minimum endowment or perpetual funds
RS 8:465Order requiring reinvestment in compliance with law; actions for preservation and protection
RS 8:466Annual report of authority; contents, verification, certification
RS 8:467Examination of reports
RS 8:501Application
RS 8:502Payments to trust; amounts required
RS 8:502.1 determination of personal property delivery
RS 8:502.2Suppliers
RS 8:502.3Trust fund exempt from seizure
RS 8:503Withdrawals from trust
RS 8:504Payments to purchaser; change of domicile
RS 8:505Annual reports by trustee, final accounting by trustee required
RS 8:505.1Annual report by cemeteries or other entities; report filing fee
RS 8:505.2Resignation of trustee; orderly transfer of trust fund
RS 8:506Examination by board; expenses
RS 8:506.1Failure to make required deposits; action
RS 8:507Nonwaiver of provisions of chapter
RS 8:508Penalties
RS 8:509Trustee's duty of care
RS 8:510Exceptions; trust fund transfers
RS 8:511Nonretroactive effect
RS 8:601Mausoleums or similar structures
RS 8:602Standards of construction
RS 8:603Ordinances and specifications to be complied with
RS 8:604Improper construction a nuisance; penalty
RS 8:605Construction in compliance with existing laws
RS 8:606Commencement and completion requirements
RS 8:651Human remains
RS 8:652Unlawful disposal of remains
RS 8:653Opening graves; stealing body; receiving same
RS 8:654Mutilating, disinterring human remains; penalty
RS 8:655Right of disposing of remains
RS 8:656Effect of authorization
RS 8:657Right to rely on such authorization
RS 8:658Liability for damages; limitation
RS 8:659Permission to move remains
RS 8:660Exceptions
RS 8:661Undisposed remains; rules and regulations
RS 8:662Record of remains to be kept
RS 8:663Collection, analysis, and reburial of exposed human skeletal remains
RS 8:671Short title
RS 8:672Legislative declaration of intent
RS 8:673Definitions
RS 8:674Exclusions
RS 8:675Repealed by acts 2009, no. 438, §6b.
RS 8:676Powers and duties of the secretary
RS 8:677Revocation or suspension of permits
RS 8:678Unlawful acts
RS 8:679Civil remedies
RS 8:680Discovery of unmarked burial sites, human skeletal remains, and burial artifacts
RS 8:681Disposition of unmarked burial sites, human skeletal remains, and burial artifacts
RS 8:701Undeveloped land
RS 8:702Standards of construction
RS 8:703Compliance with ordinances and specifications
RS 8:704Improper use a nuisance; penalty
RS 8:705Construction in compliance with existing laws
RS 8:706Commencement and completion requirements
RS 8:801Title to and rights in cemetery spaces
RS 8:802Transfer of ownership rights
RS 8:803Descent of title to cemetery space
RS 8:804Affidavit as authorization
RS 8:805When right of interment or cemetery space is inalienable
RS 8:806Rights of co-owners
RS 8:807Co-owners; identification
RS 8:808Co-owners may designate representative
RS 8:809Waiver of right of interment
RS 8:810Termination of vested right by waiver
RS 8:811Limitations on vested rights
RS 8:812Conveyance of cemetery spaces; formality and recordation
RS 8:813Correction of errors
RS 8:814Repealed by acts 2010, no. 175, §6.
RS 8:901Miscellaneous
RS 8:902Underground burials; depth
RS 8:903Maintenance of cemetery spaces more than fifty years old; sale of repaired abandoned cemetery spaces
RS 8:903.1Cemeteries; maintenance of vaults and wall vaults more than fifty years old; reclamation by authority
RS 8:904Speculative sales and purchases prohibited; penalties
RS 8:905Upkeep of cemeteries; local ordinance authorized; penalty; definition of "shareholder"
RS 8:906Additional ad valorem tax; evangeline parish