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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE BILL NO. 1409
BY REPRESENTATIVE GIROD JACKSON
HOUSING: Provides relative to notices for demolition or removal of buildings
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 33:4762(D), relative to notices for demolition or removal of2
buildings; to provide that notice of demolition or removal of a building is de facto3
proof that a building is more than fifty percent damaged; and to provide for related4
matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 33:4762(D) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 7
ยง4762. Notice to owner; hearing; notice filed with recorder of mortgages binds8
transferees9
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D.(1) Any notice served pursuant to this Section shall be filed by the11
appropriate parish or municipal governing authority with the recorder of mortgages12
where the property is located. Once filed, said notice shall be deemed notice to all13
subsequent transferees. Any transferee of such property takes the property subject14
to all recorded liens, mortgages, and notices thereunto pertaining.15
(2) Any notice served pursuant to this Section shall be de facto proof that the16
building or structure is more than fifty percent damaged.17 HLS 10RS-2517 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 1409
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Girod Jackson HB No. 1409
Abstract: Provides that a notice of demolition or removal of a building is de facto proof
that a building is more than 50% damaged.
Present law requires the parish or municipal governing authority to notify an occupant of a
condemned building that the building has been condemned.
Proposed law retains present law but also provides that the notice shall be de facto proof that
the building or structure is more than 50% damaged.
(Amends R.S. 33:4762(D))