Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:3134

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
  • Private transfer fee: means a fee or charge required by a private transfer fee obligation and payable upon the transfer of an interest in an immovable, or payable for the right to make or accept such transfer, regardless of whether the fee or charge is a fixed amount or is determined as a percentage of the value of the immovable, the purchase price, or other consideration given for the transfer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:3132
  • Private transfer fee obligation: means any obligation arising under any recorded or unrecorded declaration or agreement, whether or not purporting to create a servitude, building restriction or other real right, to pay a private transfer fee to a party to the declaration or agreement, or his successors or assigns, or a third person upon a subsequent transfer of an interest in the immovable. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:3132
  • Transfer: means the sale, donation, conveyance, assignment, inheritance, or other transfer of an ownership interest in an immovable located in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:3132

Any natural or juridical person who records or enters into an agreement imposing a private transfer fee obligation in their favor after July 2, 2010, shall be liable for:

(1)  Any and all damages resulting from the imposition of the transfer fee obligation on a transfer of an interest in an immovable, including without limitation the amount of any transfer fee paid by a party to the transfer.

(2)  All attorney fees, expenses, and costs incurred by a party to the transfer or mortgagee of the immovable to recover any transfer fee paid or in connection with an action to quiet title or to declare the private transfer fee unenforceable.  Where a mandatary acts on behalf of a principal to record or enforce a private transfer fee obligation, both the principal and the mandatary shall be solidarily liable.

Acts 2010, No. 938, §1, eff. July 2, 2010.