The department shall cause to be recorded copies of all right-of-way maps relative to highway projects for which immovable property was acquired or a right-of-way or servitude affecting or involving immovable property was obtained, said recordation to be made in the parish in which the immovable property is situated.  

The department may reduce to size of such copies for convenience and they shall be accepted and filed in a suitable place by the clerks of court without cost to the department.  

Added by Acts 1970, No. 501, §1.