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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:2324

  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
  • Property: includes every form, character and kind of property, real, personal, and mixed, tangible and intangible, corporeal and incorporeal, and every share, right, title or interest therein or thereto, and every right, privilege, franchise, patent, copyright, trade-mark, certificate, or other evidence of ownership or interest; bonds, notes, judgments, credits, accounts, or other evidence of indebtedness, and every other thing of value, in possession, on hand, or under the control, at any time during the calendar year for which taxes are levied, within the State of Louisiana, of any person, firm, partnership, association of persons, or corporation, foreign or domestic whether the same be held, possessed, or controlled, as owner, agent, pledgee, mortgagee, or legal representative, or as president, cashier, treasurer, liquidator, assignee, master, superintendent, manager, sequestrator, receiver, trustee, stakeholder, depository, warehouseman, keeper, curator, executor, administrator, legatee, heir, beneficiary, parent, attorney, usufructuary, mandatary, fiduciary, or other capacity, whether the owner be known or unknown; except in the cases of fire, life, or other insurance companies, the notes, judgments, accounts, and credits of nonresident persons, firms, corporations, partnerships, associations, or companies doing business in the State of Louisiana, originating from the business done in this state, are hereby declared to be property with its situs within this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:1702

Each assessor shall gather all data necessary to properly determine the fair market value of all property subject to taxation within his respective parish or district.  In securing this data, the assessor may employ the use of self-reporting forms by property owners.  When self-reporting forms are utilized by an assessor, he shall deliver the proper form or forms to each person in whose name the property is assessed, at the address shown on the assessment rolls.  The form or forms shall be delivered on or before the fifteenth day of February in the year in which the property is to be appraised.  Each property owner receiving a form, the parish of Jefferson excepted, shall fill out the form and return it to the assessor by the first day of April of that year or forty-five days after receipt, whichever is later.  In the parish of Jefferson each property owner receiving a form shall fill out the form and return it to the assessor within forty-five days after receipt.  Upon written request, the assessor may grant an extension of time in which to file, not to exceed thirty days.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 705, §4, eff. Aug. 4, 1976.  Amended by Acts 1980, No. 600, §1; Acts 1981, No. 695, §1; H.C.R. No. 88, 1993 R.S., eff. May 30, 1993; H.C.R. No. 1, 1994 R.S., eff. May 11, 1994.