La. Stat. tit. 8 § 651
Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session
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.
La. R.S. § 8:651