Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:4834

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10

            The effect of filing a notice of contract ceases five years after it is filed, unless a written notice of its reinscription, in the manner provided for the reinscription of mortgages, is properly and timely filed by an interested person with the recorder of mortgages in whose office the notice of contract is filed. A notice of reinscription may not be filed after the effect of the filing of the notice of the contract has ceased. The effect of reinscription shall cease five years after the notice of reinscription is filed unless a subsequent notice of reinscription is filed within that time.

            Acts 1981, No. 724, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982; Acts 2005, No. 169, §4, eff. July 1, 2006; Acts 2005, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 13, §1, eff. Nov. 29, 2005; Acts 2019, No. 325, §1.

NOTE: See Acts 2019, No. 325, §§6, 7, and 10, regarding applicability.