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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE BILL NO. 462
BY REPRESENTATIVE ABRAMSON
CIVIL/VENUE: Provides relative to venue for foreign corporations and limited liability
companies
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact Code of Civil Procedure Article 42(4), relative to venue of foreign2
corporations and limited liability companies; to provide for venue in certain parishes;3
and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. Code of Civil Procedure Article 42(4) is hereby amended and reenacted6
to read as follows: 7
Art. 42. General rules8
The general rules of venue are that an action against:9
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(4) A foreign corporation or foreign limited liability company licensed to do11
business in this state shall be brought in the parish where its primary business office12
principal business establishment is located as designated in its application to do13
business in the state, or, if no such designation is made, then in the parish where its14
primary place of business in the state is located.15
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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)]
Abramson HB No. 462
Abstract: Provides that venue is proper for a foreign corporation or foreign limited liability
company in the parish where its principal business establishment is located.
Present law provides that an action against a foreign corporation or foreign limited liability
company licensed to do business in this state shall be brought in the parish where its
"primary business office" is located as designated in its application to do business in the
state, or, if no such designation is made, then in the parish where its primary place of
business in the state is located.
Proposed law retains present law except it specifies that the action shall be brought in the
parish of the "principal business establishment" of the foreign corporation or limited liability
company.
(Amends C.C.P. Art. 42(4))