Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 43:145

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Newspaper: shall mean a publication that complies with the requirement of La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 43:140
  • Office: shall mean the newspaper's principal public business office and need not be the place at which the newspaper's printing presses are physically located. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 43:140

Municipal corporations shall select an official journal published in an office physically located within their municipal boundaries if a newspaper as defined in La. Rev. Stat. 43:140(3) is published therein.  If no qualified newspaper is published within the municipal boundaries, a newspaper published in the parish of the municipal corporation which meets the requirements of a newspaper as defined in La. Rev. Stat. 43:140(3) shall be selected.  

Acts 1986, No. 378, §1, eff. July 2, 1986.