Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:2286

  • Payment nullity: means a nullity arising from payment of taxes prior to a tax sale, including payment based on dual assessment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:2122
  • 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
  • Redemption nullity: means the right of a person to annul a tax sale in accordance with La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:2122
  • Tax sale: means the sale or adjudication of tax sale title to property pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:2122

No tax sale shall be set aside except for a payment nullity, redemption nullity, or a nullity under La. Rev. Stat. 47:2162, all of which are relative nullities.  The action shall be brought in the district court of the parish in which the property is located.  In addition, the action may be brought as a reconventional demand or an intervention in an action to quiet title under La. Rev. Stat. 47:2266 or as an intervention in a monition proceeding under La. Rev. Stat. 47:2271 through 2280.

Acts 2008, No. 819, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.