Miller (HB 656) Act No. 632
Existing law prohibits the expropriation of a graveyard or cemetery by the state, certain legal
entities, and municipal corporations unless the court finds that the route of expropriation
cannot be diverted from that proposed by the plaintiff without great public loss or
inconvenience.
New law prohibits application of existing law to a graveyard or cemetery in which no
interred remains are located at the time the plaintiff makes its first offer to acquire the rights
sought to be acquired.
New law prohibits the expropriation of mortgages.
Provides that new law shall not apply to an expropriating authority which seeks to
expropriate needed property that is subject to a mortgage.
Effective Aug. 1, 2014.
(Amends R.S. 19:3 and 104)