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urn: urn:us-la:rs:8:74
citation: "R.S. 8:74"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 8 › Chapter 2"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1974, number: 417, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
  - { year: 1980, number: 428, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: amendment }
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# Sale or interment; certificate of authority; penalty

It shall be a misdemeanor for any person to operate or conduct a cemetery business without a valid, subsisting, and unsuspended certificate of authority. Each sale, interment, or other act constituting the operation or conduct of a cemetery business shall be a separate violation, and for each violation there shall be a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both.