RS 14:101 Desecration of graves - Louisiana Statutes

SUBPART B.  OFFENSES AFFECTING THE PUBLIC SENSIBILITY

§101.  Desecration of graves

Desecration of graves is the:

(1)  Unauthorized opening of any place of interment, or building wherein the dead body of a human being is located, with the intent to remove or to mutilate the body or any part thereof, or any article interred or intended to be interred with the said body; or

(2)  Intentional or criminally negligent damaging in any manner, of any grave, tomb, or mausoleum erected for the dead.

Whoever commits the crime of desecration of graves shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

Amended by Acts 1968, No. 647, §1, eff. July 20, 1968.