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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:2328

  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • 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.  The act of sale or other instrument transferring property shall, where applicable, contain the total sales price, as well as the amount of any mortgages.  All acts of sale or other instruments effecting transfer of real or personal property shall contain the correct names and addresses of vendee and vendor and transferee together with the municipal or street address of the property transferred, should an address be available.  All parish and municipal governing authorities which have adopted a building code shall, immediately upon issuance of a permit required under said building code, furnish the appropriate assessing authority a true and correct copy of such permit.

B.  The procedure for assessing, listing, and placing transferred property and property upon which improvements have been made shall apply uniformly throughout the state uniform guidelines, procedures, and rules and regulations as are necessary to determine the time when such property shall be assessed, reassessed, listed and placed on the tax rolls and as are necessary to implement same shall be adopted by the Louisiana Tax Commission and shall apply uniformly throughout the state.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 705, §8, eff. Aug. 4, 1976.  Amended by Acts 1978, No. 556, §1, eff. July 12, 1978; H.C.R. No. 88, 1993 R.S., eff. May 30, 1993; H.C.R. No. 1, 1994 R.S., eff. May 11, 1994.