Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:602

  • Cemetery: means a place used or intended to be used for the interment of the human dead and, to the extent allowed in accordance with this Title, pet remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Interment: means the disposition of human remains by inurnment, scattering, entombment, or burial in a place used or intended to be used, and dedicated, for cemetery purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1

No structure shall be built or altered for use or to be used for interment purposes unless constructed of such material and workmanship as will insure its durability and permanence.  The cemetery authority shall have the right to establish and enforce standards of construction for all work done in the cemetery.

Acts 1974, No. 417, §1.