Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:2238.2

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • 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

A.  Whenever any person or public or private entity desires to purchase any unredeemed property adjudicated to the city for unpaid taxes due, charges pursuant to La. Rev. Stat. 33:1236 or paving and other local improvement assessments for which the adjudication was made, he shall, with an application to purchase, deposit with the tax collector of the city an amount of money sufficient to cover the expenses of the sale, including advertising, taxes due, and other costs associated with said sale as evidence of good faith in the application.

B.  The tax collector shall determine the amount of money to be deposited. The tax collector’s determination of the amount of monies to be deposited by the purchaser shall be equal to the expenses of the sale, including advertising, all parish and municipal taxes due, and other costs associated with such sale as evidence of good faith in the application.

C.  The sale of unredeemed commercial property shall be for no less than two-thirds of the appraised value, plus advertising costs, taxes owed, and other costs associated with said sale on its advertisement.

Acts 2009, No. 146, §1, eff. June 25, 2009.