Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:1903

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
  • 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.  The tax assessors shall enumerate and list and assess property as directed in this Chapter and be subject to all the obligations prescribed by law.  They shall prepare and have ready their lists showing the valuations assessed by them and lay the same before the tax commission within the time and in the manner prescribed by La. Rev. Stat. 47:1987 and 1988.

B.  Each tax assessor is authorized to appoint as many deputies as he may require.  Such deputies shall take the constitutional oath of office, and the tax assessor shall require from them such security in his own favor as he deems sufficient.  The assessor may perform all the functions of the office of tax assessor through such deputies, but the assessor shall be officially and pecuniarily responsible for them on his bonds and in all other respects for the acts of such deputies.

C.  No assessor shall, as a consideration for appointing any person as a clerk, be allowed to contract with the person for a less sum than the salary allowed by law to clerks of assessors.  Whoever violates the provisions of this Subsection shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not less than one month nor more than six months, or both.

Acts 2006, No. 622, §8, eff. Dec. 11, 2006.