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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:1925.8

  • 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.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, this Section shall be the exclusive means of funding for the Board of Assessors for Orleans Parish.  The board of assessors shall be funded annually no later than March first by the city of New Orleans with no less than two percent of the ad valorem taxes levied on property in the city of New Orleans and the parish of Orleans.  Such funding shall produce in the initial year revenue equal to or greater than that which was received by the Board of Assessors for Orleans Parish from the city of New Orleans for the previous year.  The total amount of revenue received by the board shall never be less than that received by the board in the initial year.

B.  The millage currently being levied pursuant to this Part by the Board of Assessors for Orleans Parish for the 2005 tax year shall be transferred to and levied by the city of New Orleans, without the necessity of voter approval, for the 2006 and subsequent tax years.

Acts 2005, No. 433, §1, eff. Dec. 31, 2005.