DIGEST
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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)]
HB 634 Engrossed 2016 Regular Session Magee
Abstract: Relative to the imprescriptibility of mineral rights in land acquired by a governmental
authority, includes property appropriated by an acquiring authority.
Present law provides that when land is acquired from any person by an acquiring authority through
act of sale, exchange, donation, or other contract, or by condemnation or expropriation, and a mineral
right is reserved, prescription of the mineral right is interrupted.
Present law requires that the instrument or judgment reflect the intent to reserve or exclude the
mineral rights from the acquisition and their imprescriptibility as authorized under present law and
requires that it be recorded in the conveyance records of the parish in which the land is located.
Proposed law retains present law and includes property appropriated by an acquiring authority.
(Amends R.S. 31:149(B))