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La. Rev. Stat. § 8:204

Specific powers; rulemaking and enforcement

Louisiana · Louisiana Revised Statutes Title 8 — Cemeteries · Status: effective

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La. Rev. Stat. § 8:204, Specific powers; rulemaking and enforcement, Louisiana, version 1 as recorded 2026-10-04, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/2637857
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A cemetery authority may make, adopt, amend, add to, revise, repeal, or modify, and enforce, rules and regulations for the use, care, control, management, restriction, and protection of all or any part of its cemetery, including without limitation the following: (1) It may restrict and limit the use of all property within its cemetery. (2) It may regulate the uniformity, class, and kind of all markers, monuments, and other structures within the cemetery and its subdivisions. (3) It may regulate or prohibit the erection or installation of monuments, markers, effigies, structures, and foundations within the cemetery. (4) It may regulate or prevent the introduction or care of plants or shrubs within the cemetery. (5) It may prevent interment in any part of the cemetery of human remains not entitled to interment and prevent the use of interment spaces for purposes violative of its restrictions or rules and regulations. (6) It may regulate the conduct of persons and prevent improper assemblages in the cemetery. (7) It may make and enforce rules and regulations for all other purposes deemed necessary by the cemetery authority for the proper conduct of the business of the cemetery, for the transfer of any interment space or the right of interment, and the protection and safeguarding of the premises, and the principles, plans, and ideals on which the cemetery is conducted.