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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 167
BY SENATOR WALSWORTH
PUBLIC RECORDS. Provides for the confidentiality of cemetery records during the
pendency of an investigation of any officer, employee agent or agency of the state. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 44:4(44), relative to public records; to provide for applicability of records of2
a cemetery authority under investigation; and to provide for related matters.3
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:4
Section 1. R.S. 44:4(44) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 5
ยง4. Applicability6
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(44) To any records, writings, accounts, letters, letter books,8
photographs or copies thereof, or to the actual working papers related to an9
investigation, in the custody or control of any officer, employee, agent or agency10
of the state whose duties and functions are to investigate, examine, manage in11
whole or in part, the business of any cemetery authority in this state, when the12
records, writings, accounts, letters, letter books, photographs or copies thereof,13
or the actual working papers related to an investigation, pertain to the business14
of the cemetery authority under investigation. Such records may be made part15
of the public record when introduced as evidence before an administrative or16
other judicial tribunal or when the investigation is complete, unless otherwise17 SB NO. 167
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provided.1
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Alan Miller.
DIGEST
Proposed law exempts from the Public Records Law, any records, including the actual
working papers related to an investigation, in the custody or control of any officer,
employee, agent or agency of the state whose duties and functions are to investigate,
examine, manage in whole or in part, the business of any cemetery authority, when the
records or the actual working papers related to an investigation, pertain to the business of
the cemetery authority under investigation. Such records may be made part of the public
record when introduced as evidence before an administrative or other judicial tribunal or
when the investigation is complete, unless otherwise by present law.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Adds R.S. 44:4(44))