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First Extraordinary Session, 2011 ENROLLED
SENATE BILL NO. 13
BY SENATOR MURRAY
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 8:308(B), relative to provisions of Title 8 (Cemeteries) of the2
Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, which are limited in applicability to certain3
political subdivisions or local areas based upon population classifications; to specify4
applicability to one or more political subdivisions or local areas; and to provide for5
related matters.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. R.S. 8:308(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 8
ยง308. Sale of cemetery spaces; abandoned spaces, defined, sale9
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B. In the event that any of the interment spaces in municipal, religious , and11
nonprofit cemeteries, in any parish the population of which is five hundred thousand12
or greater has the city of New Orleans have been abandoned as defined in13
Paragraph C hereof Subsection C of this Section for more than a period of ten years,14
then a cemetery authority managing the cemetery in which such space is located,15
after advertising in the official journal of the parish or municipality wherein such16
cemetery is located city of New Orleans a notice attesting to such fact, may take17
possession of but not demolish such abandoned interment spaces and sell and convey18
same subject to rules and regulations as set forth in Paragraph A Subsection A of19
this Section.20
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PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
ACT No. 34