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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:4741

  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.

No petition in relation to any plan for the readjustment of its debts by any parish, municipality, political subdivision, public board or public corporation, taxing district, or other agency of the state shall be received and filed in any court of bankruptcy of the United States, unless accompanied by the written approval of the State Bond and Tax Board, created at the 1935, 2nd Extra Session of the legislature, and no such plan of readjustment shall be put into temporary effect or finally confirmed by the courts of bankruptcy or carried into effect if already confirmed, without the written approval of the State Bond and Tax Board of such plans.