ENROLLED
2016 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 634
BY REPRESENTATIVE MAGEE
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 31:149(B), relative to mineral rights in land acquired by
3 governmental agencies; to provide relative to the prescription of mineral rights; to
4 provide for mineral rights in appropriated property; and to provide for related
5 matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 31:149(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
8 ยง149. Mineral rights reserved from acquisitions of land by governments or agencies
9 thereof imprescriptible; prescription period in acquisitions for economic
10 development
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12 B. When land is acquired from any person by an acquiring authority through
13 act of sale, exchange, donation, or other contract, or by condemnation, appropriation,
14 or expropriation, and a mineral right subject to the prescription of nonuse is reserved
15 in the instrument or judgment by which the land is acquired, prescription of the
16 mineral right is interrupted as long as title to the land remains with the acquiring
17 authority, or any successor that is also an acquiring authority. The instrument or
18 judgment shall reflect the intent to reserve or exclude the mineral rights from the
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1 acquisition and their imprescriptibility as authorized under the provisions of this
2 Section and shall be recorded in the conveyance records of the parish in which the
3 land is located.
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SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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