Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:2304

  • 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.  A landowner, desiring a use value assessment under this Act shall be required to file an application with the assessor in the parish or district where the property is located certifying that the property is eligible for use value assessment as bona fide agricultural, horticultural, marsh or timber land as defined in Section 2 of this Act.*

B.(1)  Except as provided for in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection, applications shall be filed in the parish or district where the property is located and shall be permanent as long as the property remains eligible for use value, except that in the event of a sale of the property, the purchaser must sign a new application within sixty days from the date of the sale.

(2)  In the parishes of Orleans and Jefferson, such applications shall be filed at least every four years except that in the event of a sale of the property, the purchaser must sign a new application within sixty days from the date of sale.

C.  In addition to the filing of an application required in Section 4(A) above, the landowner shall sign an agreement that the land will be devoted to one or more of the designated uses as defined in Section 2 of this Act.*

D to G.  Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 630, §1.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 702, §4, eff. Aug. 4, 1976; H.C.R. No. 88, 1993 R.S., eff. May 30, 1993; H.C.R. No. 1, 1994 R.S., eff. May 11, 1994; Acts 1999, No. 833, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2000.

*R.S. 47:2302