---
urn: urn:us-la:rs:8:651
citation: "R.S. 8:651"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 8 › Chapter 10"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1974, number: 417, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
---

# Interring or cremating

Except in cases of lawful dissection or where a dead body shall rightfully be carried through or removed from the state for the purposes of interment or cremation elsewhere, every dead body of a human being lying within this state, and the remains of any dissected body, after dissection, shall be decently interred or cremated within a reasonable time after death.