Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 8:904 - Speculative sales and purchases prohibited; penaltiesA. It is declared to be against the public policy of this state for any person, firm, corporation, association, or other legal entity to speculate in interment spaces. Accordingly, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, association, or other legal entity, except a licensed cemetery authority, to sell or buy an interment space or spaces for the purpose of resale at a profit.B. Whoever violates this Section shall be fined no more than five hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than six months, or both, for each interment space bought or sold.Acts 1974, No. 417, §1; Acts 2022, No. 574, §1.Amended by Acts 2022, No. 574,s. 1, eff. 8/1/2022.