Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 8 > Chapter 3-B - Rapides Parish Cemetery District

• Administrator: means the state treasurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:153
• Apparent owner: means a person whose name appears on the records of a holder as the person entitled to property held, issued, or owed by the holder. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:153
• Board: means the Louisiana Cemetery Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• 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
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Directors: means the board of directors, board of trustees, or other governing body of a cemetery authority, cemetery sales organization, or cemetery management organization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Domicile: means the state of incorporation of a corporation and the state of the principal place of business of a holder other than a corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:153
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
• Holder: means a person obligated to hold for the account of, or deliver or pay to, the owner of property that is subject to this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:153
• Money order: includes an express money order and a personal money order, on which the remitter is the purchaser. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:153
• Owner: means a person who has a legal or equitable interest in property subject to this Chapter or the person's legal representative. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:153
• perpetual care: means the maintenance, repair, and care of all places where interments have been or are to be made, including the improvements made upon the places, in keeping with a well-maintained cemetery, and general overhead expense necessary for such purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Person: means an individual, business association, estate, trust, partnership, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:153
• Property: means a fixed and certain interest in intangible property that is held, issued, or owed in the course of a holder's business, or by a government or governmental entity, and all income or increments therefrom. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:153
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:153