---
urn: urn:us-la:rs:40:52
citation: "R.S. 40:52"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 40 › Chapter 2 › Part I"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1979, number: 776, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
  - { year: 2003, number: 657, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: amendment }
---

# Permit for removal, burial, cremation, or other disposition of body for a death in state; requirements to obtain death certificate before removing body out of the continental United States

When a death or spontaneous fetal death (stillbirth) occurs in this state or when a dead human body is found, the deceased, stillborn child, or dead human body shall not be interred, deposited in a vault or tomb, removed from the state, cremated, or otherwise disposed of until a burial transit permit has been issued by a local registrar. However, a dead human body shall not be removed from the continental United States until a burial transit permit has been issued and a death certificate has been completed by the parish coroner or a physician as required in R.S. 40:34.10(19).