Originally published: . Volume 7, No. 5. Source pages: 10.
The office of the Louisiana Attorney General, Jeff Landry, issued an Opinion in April finding that the Funeral Directors Board exceeded its statutory authority when it imposed additional requirements on applicants to qualify for a license. The AG wrote, “A Board being only an administrative agency of the state, cannot on its own authority enlarge the powers delegated to it by the Legislature.”
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