La. Admin. Code tit. 46 § XIII-2101

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section XIII-2101 - Qualifications [Formerly Section 1501]

A. The Louisiana Cemetery Act requires the board to determine generally whether applicants and their officers, directors, owners, and managerial personnel have the ability, experience, financial stability and responsibility, integrity, trustworthiness, and have good personal and business reputations, in order to ensure that the applicant's operation of a cemetery, cemetery sales organization, or cemetery management organization will beof permanent benefit to the community in which it is located.

B. While no rigid specifications, particularly as to character, can be fashioned, some objective evidence of a lack of such qualifications should exist before an application is denied. Unlessthe applicant produces evidence, acceptable to the board, indicating complete rehabilitation, the application should be denied if the applicant is an individual who has, or is a firm, association, corporation or limited liability company any of whose officers, owners, directors, limited liability company managers or managerial personnel has or have:

1. been convicted of a felony;

2. employed misrepresentation or deception in obtaining, renewing, or reinstating a license or privilege from a public entity, or in seeking a certificate of authority or license from this board; or

3. used false or misleading advertising or solicitation in any business venture.

La. Admin. Code tit. 46, § XIII-2101

Promulgated by the Department of Commerce, Cemetery Board, LR 8:468 (September 1982), amended by the Office of the Governor, Cemetery Board, LR 39:2751 (October 2013).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 8:67.