Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1468

  • Agent: means a licensee acting under the provisions of this Chapter in a real estate transaction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1431
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Real estate: shall mean and include condominiums and leaseholds, as well as any other interest in land, with the exceptions of oil, gas and other minerals and whether the real estate is situated in this state or elsewhere. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1431
  • Real estate transaction: means the selling, offering for sale, buying, offering to buy, soliciting for prospective purchasers, managing, offering to manage, leasing, offering to lease, renting, or offering to rent any real estate or improvements thereon, or any business or other entity whose assets include real estate or leases of real estate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1431
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

           A. The fact or suspicion that a property might be or is psychologically impacted, such impact being the result of facts or suspicions, including but not limited to:

           (1) That an occupant of real property is, or was at any time suspected to be, infected, or has been infected with Human Immuno-deficiency Virus or diagnosed with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or any other disease which has been determined by medical evidence to be highly unlikely to be transmitted through the occupancy of a dwelling place; or

           (2) That the property was, or was at any time suspected to have been, the site of a homicide, or other felony, or a suicide;

is not a material fact or material defect regarding the condition of real estate that must be disclosed in a real estate transaction.

           B. No cause of action shall arise against an owner of real estate or his or her agent for the failure to disclose to the transferee that the transferred property was psychologically impacted as defined in Subsection A.

           Acts 1991, No. 336, §1.