Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:2192 – Certain contract amendments and revisions; recordation
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:2192
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- contract: means any contract awarded by any public entity for the making of any public works or for the purchase of any materials or supplies. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:2211
- Public entity: means and includes the state of Louisiana, or any agency, board, commission, department, or public corporation of the state, created by the constitution or statute or pursuant thereto, or any political subdivision of the state, including but not limited to any political subdivision as defined in Article VI Section 44 of the Constitution of Louisiana, and any public housing authority, public school board, or any public officer whether or not an officer of a public corporation or political subdivision. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:2211
Each amendment or other revision to any service or insurance contract which adds an amount of ten percent or more of the original contract amount and which additional amount is at least ten thousand dollars or all amendments and other revisions to any service or insurance contract aggregating to an amount of twenty percent or more of the original contract amount and which additional amount is at least ten thousand dollars shall be recorded by the public entity which entered into the contract in the office of the recorder of mortgages in the parish where the public entity is domiciled not later than thirty days after the date of the amendment or other revision which requires that the recordation take place. In addition, the original contract shall be recorded together with the amendments or other revisions if not previously recorded.
Acts 2011, No. 343, §2.