Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1873

  • Antique dealer: means any owner of an antique shop, or agent of the antique shop, and any person engaged in the business of buying, selling, trading in, or otherwise acquiring, disposing or exhibiting antiques, including but not limited to antique property, such as antique jewelry, antique silverware, antique pictures and paintings, antique objects of art, cemetery artifacts, used building components, antique furniture, antique collectibles and other such antique property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1871
  • person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10

If any person shall tender for sale or exchange any article covered by this Part to an antique dealer, owner, keeper, or agent of any antique shop, and such person has good reason to believe that such article was stolen, the antique dealer, owner, keeper, or agent of any antique shop shall immediately notify the police department of the municipality or the sheriff’s office of the parish in which the business is located.

Acts 1999, No. 218, §1.