SUBPART B. OFFENSES AFFECTING THE PUBLIC SENSIBILITY

§101. Desecration of graves

            A. Desecration of graves is either of the following:

            (1) Unauthorized opening of any place of interment, or building wherein the dead body of a human being is located, with the intent to remove or to mutilate the body or any part thereof, or any article interred or intended to be interred with the body.

            (2) Intentional or criminally negligent damaging in any manner of any grave, tomb, or mausoleum erected for the dead.

            B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of desecration of graves shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

            (2) In addition to the penalties listed in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, the court shall order the offender to make restitution pursuant to Code of Criminal Procedure Article 883.2 for damages sustained.

            Amended by Acts 1968, No. 647, §1, eff. July 20, 1968; Acts 2014, No. 791, §7; Acts 2026, No. 542, §1.