Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:2322

  • 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
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

For the purposes of this Act, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

A.  “Land” shall mean all land other than those lands assessed as agricultural, horticultural, marsh and timber lands as defined by law.

B.  “Improvements for residential purposes” shall mean single family dwellings, duplex, triplex, fourplex, apartment buildings, condominiums, and mobile homes used as a residence, whether on land owned, rented, or leased.

C.  “Other property” shall mean all properties not included in A or B above and shall include both real and personal property as defined herein.

D.  “Real property” shall mean land and all things permanently affixed to the land.

E.  “Personal property” shall mean tangible property that is capable of being moved or removed from real property without substantial damage to the property itself or the real property from which it is capable of being removed.  Personal property shall include but not necessarily be limited to inventory, furniture, fixtures, machinery and equipment, and all process and manufacturing machinery and equipment, including the foundations therefor.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 705, §2, 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.