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LA Rev Stat § 50:63 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§63. Disagreement as to damages due; petition to court; costs

RS 63 - Disagreement as to damages due; petition to court; costs  If the parties interested cannot agree upon the amount to be paid for damages caused by the entry or by the work done, either of them may petition the district court in the parish in which the land is situated to settle the issue. The court shall appoint a time to hear the parties and their witnesses and shall assess damages.  If there has been a tender of damages to the injured party by the party entering the land, the injured party shall bear the costs of the suit if the damages finally assessed by the court do not exceed the amount tendered. If the damages assessed by the court are more than the amount tendered, the party entering upon the land shall bear the costs.
LA Rev Stat § 50:64 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§64. Defacing, injuring, or removing property of U.S. survey; penalty; damages

RS 64 - Defacing, injuring, or removing property of U.S. survey; penalty; damages  Any person who wilfully defaces, injures, or removes any property of the United States coast and geodetic, or geological, or other survey, constructed or used by virtue of an act of Congress referred to in R.S. 50:61 shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense and shall be liable in a civil action for damages sustained by the United States in consequence thereof.
LA Rev Stat § 50:121 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§121. Reasons for surveys

RS 121 - Reasons for surveys  The Register of the State Land Office may cause surveys and resurveys to be made, in order to establish or re-establish township lines, range lines, section lines, corners, and half-mile stations, where the original monuments have been destroyed or lost or are uncertain, or where the lines, corners, or stations were never actually established.
LA Rev Stat § 50:122 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§122. Register may procure field notes and hire surveyors and helpers to make survey

RS 122 - Register may procure field notes and hire surveyors and helpers to make survey  The Register of the State Land Office may, from time to time, procure necessary field notes, where any exist from actual surveys, and may employ one or more competent surveyors and the necessary helpers, in order to make any survey or re-survey authorized by this Chapter.
LA Rev Stat § 50:123 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§123. Petition for survey; notice; survey and map; cost

RS 123 - Petition for survey; notice; survey and map; cost  Upon petition of any individual owning land in any township, or section thereof, which has never been surveyed or which has been only partially surveyed or in which the lines or corners have become obliterated or are uncertain, in whole or part, the Register of the State Land Office shall, after giving written notice to the other record owners of land in the area in need of surveying so that they may attend if they desire, proceed without delay to have the township surveyed or re-surveyed and a map made showing township and section lines and corners and half-mile stations. The landowner petitioning for the survey shall bear the expense thereof.
LA Rev Stat § 50:124 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§124. Landowners' liability for expenses

RS 124 - Landowners' liability for expenses  The Register of the State Land Office may charge to landowners desiring a survey or re-survey its actual cost and expense, including the cost and expense of establishing or re-establishing the lines, corners, and half-mile stations and the cost of appropriate permanent markers, monuments, or witnesses.
LA Rev Stat § 50:125 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§125. Conformance to prior survey or to plats under which lands granted

RS 125 - Conformance to prior survey or to plats under which lands granted  In making re-surveys under the provisions of this Part, the surveyor shall, as nearly as possible, re-establish the original lines of any prior survey made under United States or state authority. In all townships or portions of townships where no survey has been made, the surveyor, in surveying or platting the township or portion thereof, shall make it conform as nearly as practicable to the lots and sections indicated upon the plats according to which the lands were granted by the state or by the United States.
LA Rev Stat § 50:126 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§126. Filing of field notes and map or plat; effect of approval

RS 126 - Filing of field notes and map or plat; effect of approval  In all cases where the Register of the State Land Office has caused a township, or one or more sections thereof, to be surveyed or resurveyed, field notes of this survey and the map or plat thereof shall be filed in the State Land Office. When the survey or re-survey and the maps or plat thereof are approved by the Register of the State Land Office, they shall be the official survey and map or plat of the township or section or sections thereof.
LA Rev Stat § 50:127 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§127. Recording of copy of proces verbal and of map or plat of survey in parish; filing of originals

RS 127 - Recording of copy of proces verbal and of map or plat of survey in parish; filing of originals  Whenever the register of the State Land Office approves a survey, whether it be an original survey or a re-survey, and whether or not a prior survey had theretofore been approved, he shall file a certified copy of the proces verbal of the survey, showing his approval and embracing all field notes, and a certified copy of the map or plat of the survey, with the clerk of court and ex-officio recorder of the parish in which the area covered by the survey is situated; and the clerk shall record this proces verbal in the records of his office. The originals, with the approval by the Register of the State Land Office, shall be filed in the State Land Office.
LA Rev Stat § 50:128 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§128. Conclusiveness of survey; evidence; correcting or setting aside

RS 128 - Conclusiveness of survey; evidence; correcting or setting aside  All surveys or re-surveys, and the plats thereof, approved by the Register of the State Land Office, are binding on all parties, and copies thereof, certified by the clerk of court or by the Register of the State Land Office, are conclusive evidence of the correctness thereof in any court. No court may set aside any such approved survey, re-survey, or plat except in a direct action brought for that purpose on the ground of fraud or gross error in the making of the survey. If a survey is set aside in this manner, a re-survey may be made as provided in this Chapter. Only the executive department of the government may make and correct surveys or re-surveys approved by the Register of the State Land Office. No court shall alter or amend in any way any part of an approved survey or re-survey or the plat thereof.
LA Rev Stat § 50:151 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§151. Authorization to hire surveyors, procure field notes, and make surveys

RS 151 - Authorization to hire surveyors, procure field notes, and make surveys  Any parish, except the Parish of Orleans, may procure necessary field notes from any previous survey and may employ one or more competent surveyors to survey or re-survey and establish or reestablish township lines, range lines, section corners, and half-mile stations where these have never been surveyed or established or where the original witness trees have been destroyed or lost.
LA Rev Stat § 50:152 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§152. Petition by landowners for survey; survey and map

RS 152 - Petition by landowners for survey; survey and map  Upon the petition of landowners owning more than fifty per cent of the land in a township which has never been wholly surveyed or the lines of which are obliterated or destroyed, the governing authority of the parish in which the township is situated shall immediately have the township surveyed and a map made thereof.
LA Rev Stat § 50:153 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§153. Cost of survey or re-survey

RS 153 - Cost of survey or re-survey  Except in the situation referred to in R.S. 50:152, the governing authority of the parish may appropriate money out the general fund of the parish to defray the expenses of the survey or resurvey and of the establishing or re-establishing of the lines, corners, and half mile stations with cement, cast iron, or other permanent material. In the situation set out in R.S. 50:152, the landowners petitioning for the survey shall bear its cost.
LA Rev Stat § 50:154 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§154. Conformance to prior survey or to plats under which lands sold by state or by U.S.

RS 154 - Conformance to prior survey or to plats under which lands sold by state or by U.S.  In making his survey, the surveyor shall, as nearly as possible, re-establish the original lines of any prior survey made under United States or state authority. Where no survey has been made, the surveyor, in surveying and platting a township, shall make his survey conform, as nearly as practicable, to the lots and sections as indicated on the plats according to which the lands were sold by the state or by the United States. Nothing in this Section affects the articles of the Louisiana Civil Code relating to boundaries.
LA Rev Stat § 50:155 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§155. Recording copy of resolution, proces verbal of survey, and blue print maps in parish; filing with State Land Office

RS 155 - Recording copy of resolution, proces verbal of survey, and blue print maps in parish; filing with State Land Office  When the governing authority of the parish approves a survey under the provisions of this Part, whether it is an original or a re-survey, and whether or not a survey had theretofore been approved, it shall file a certified copy of the resolution approving the survey, the proces verbal of the survey, embracing all field notes, and a tracing or blue print map of the actual survey of the township with the clerk of court and ex-officio recorder of the parish in which the township is situated, and he shall record all of them in the records of the parish. The governing authority of the parish shall also file similar documents with the Register of the State Land Office.
LA Rev Stat § 50:156 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§156. Establishing permanent markers after survey approval

RS 156 - Establishing permanent markers after survey approval  After the governing authority of the parish has approved a survey under this Part, it shall establish appropriate markers made of some permanent material on the lines, corners, or half-mile stations covered by the survey.
LA Rev Stat § 50:157 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§157. Surveys affecting parish boundary lines; how made official

RS 157 - Surveys affecting parish boundary lines; how made official  Wherever, under the provisions of this Part, a boundary line between two or more parishes is involved, the survey affecting that line shall be approved, in accordance with the provisions of this Part, by the governing authorities of all the parishes affected by the survey before it becomes official and legal.
LA Rev Stat § 50:171 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§171. Statewide land information mapping and records system; standards

RS 171 - Statewide land information mapping and records system; standards  A. The state land office shall establish, promulgate, and maintain appropriate standards for a statewide land information mapping and map records system of all lands, private and public, within the state of Louisiana to promote and ensure compatibility, uniformity, and cost-effectiveness by public entities. These standards shall be developed to include the establishment of appropriate photogrametric or electronic mapping techniques and procedures which efficiently accommodate land information collection, maintenance, sharing, and retrieval. The department shall adopt these standards by rules adopted pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act prior to January 1, 1991.  B. The standards required by Subsection A shall be employed by every parish governing authority or tax assessor undertaking the development of a land information mapping and map records system to assure that the assessment rolls of the parish contain a complete list of all taxable property. Only parish and tax assessor land information mapping and map records systems complying with these standards shall be eligible for state financial aid.  C. Information contained in the land information system shall not constitute or be considered as a legal representation of immovable property.  Acts 1989, No. 192, §1; Acts 2018, No. 242, §3.
LA Rev Stat § 50:172 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§172. Technical assistance and implementation

RS 172 - Technical assistance and implementation A. The division of administration, office of state lands, shall provide technical assistance and advice to local governmental units and assessors in the development of land information mapping and records systems and the implementation of the state standards established under R.S. 50:171. B-D. Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1116, §2. Acts 1991, No. 955, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1116, §§1, 2.
LA Rev Stat § 50:173 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§173. Maintaining currency of standards

RS 173 - Maintaining currency of standards  The office of state lands shall have the authority to promulgate and adopt such additional standards and upgrade existing standards regarding land information and records systems by rules adopted pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act.  Acts 1991, No. 955, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 50:173.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§173.1. Vertical control standards

RS 173.1 - Vertical control standards Vertical controls for all surveys shall be determined in the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). All measurements shall be referenced to local control stations of the National Spatial Reference System, specifically the public domain Louisiana State University Continuously Operating Reference Stations network or other currently National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration National Geodetic Survey approved reference stations, such as benchmarks, monuments, or continually operating reference stations. Acts 2006, No. 194, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 50:174 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§174. Parish land information office

RS 174 - Parish land information office  A. Parish land information mapping and records system programs may be initiated by either the parish government or by the parish office of the assessor.  B. Each parish government or assessor may either establish a parish land information office, or the functions and duties of the land information office may be directed to be performed by an existing parish department or by the office of the assessor.  C. The duties of the parish land information office shall include:  (1) The coordination of land information projects within the parish, between the parish and local government units, between the state and local governmental units, among local governmental units, the federal government, and the private sector.  (2) The establishment of a land information systems advisory user committee.  (3) The identification of possible program revenue sources for the initial development and future maintenance of the parish land information mapping and records system.  (4) The preparation of an implementation plan, setting forth the time schedule, the estimated total cost, and an annual budget for developing a parishwide land information mapping and records system.  (5) Applying for state financial aid, when available, from the office of state lands.  Acts 1991, No. 955, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 50:221 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§221. Fixing parish boundary

RS 221 - Fixing parish boundary  Whenever the governing authority of any parish desires to ascertain and fix the boundary line of any adjoining parish, it shall pass an ordinance to that effect fixing a time and place for starting the running of the boundary. It shall then serve the presiding officer of the governing authority of the adjoining parish with a copy of the ordinance and with notice, at least six months in advance, of the time and place of starting the running of the boundary.  The surveyors appointed for that purpose, or, if there were none specifically appointed, the parish surveyors of both parishes shall, at the time fixed, proceed to the running and marking of the boundary line. If the surveyor of either parish fails to attend at the time and place fixed, the other surveyor shall wait two days and if the first does not arrive within that time shall proceed to the running and marking of the boundary line.
LA Rev Stat § 50:222 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§222. Preserving returns showing boundary

RS 222 - Preserving returns showing boundary  After a boundary line has been run and marked as prescribed in R.S. 50:221, due return of the survey shall be made to the presiding officer of the governing authority of each parish and he shall have it filed and preserved in the office of the recorder.
LA Rev Stat § 50:223 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§223. Repealed by Acts 1968, No. 155, §1

RS 223 - Repealed by Acts 1968, No. 155, §1
LA Rev Stat § 50:224 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§224. Repealed by Acts 1972, No. 353, §1

RS 224 - Repealed by Acts 1972, No. 353, §1
LA Rev Stat § 50:225 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§225. Contracts for surveys and maps of parish

RS 225 - Contracts for surveys and maps of parish Any parish governing authority may contract for an aerial survey and mosaic map of its parish. This survey and map shall be drawn to scale and shall show range and township reference, township lines, section lines, and such other general information incidental and necessary to the survey and map as may be required by the parish governing authority and as is set out in the contract for the survey and mosaic map. Each section shall be completely numbered.
LA Rev Stat § 50:226 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§226. Payment of obligations incurred incidental to survey and mosaic map

RS 226 - Payment of obligations incurred incidental to survey and mosaic map The cost of the contracted obligation incurred incidental to the survey and mosaic map as required in R.S. 50:225 shall be paid for by all tax recipient bodies in the parish in the proportion that each shares in tax monies collected and allotted from ad valorem taxes collected. The governing authority of the parish and the various tax recipient bodies who share in the tax monies may either appropriate money out of their general fund or pledge and dedicate its revenues and issue obligations to meet its share of the obligations incurred incidental to the survey and mosaic map. Amended by Acts 1954, No. 643, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 50:227 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§227. Survey and map approved by parish governing authority; effect

RS 227 - Survey and map approved by parish governing authority; effect  When an aerial survey and mosaic map of the parish have been approved by the governing authority of the parish by a proper resolution, they are the official survey and mosaic map of the parish and shall be fully preserved in the parish archives.
LA Rev Stat § 50:228 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§228. Effect of survey on assessment roll of parish

RS 228 - Effect of survey on assessment roll of parish  Upon the completion of an aerial survey and mosaic map of the parish and the approval thereof by the parish governing authority, as provided in R.S. 50:227, the assessor of the parish shall compare the assessment roll of the parish with the mosaic map and shall include on that roll any taxable property or properties shown on the mosaic map but not shown on the assessment roll. The governing authority of the parish shall satisfy itself that the assessment roll of the parish contains a complete list of all taxable property in the parish, as shown by the mosaic map.
LA Rev Stat § 50:271 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 50 - Surveys and Surveyors|§271. §§271 to 283 Repealed by Acts 1968, No. 155, §1; Acts 1968, No. 533, §9

RS 271 - §§271 to 283 Repealed by Acts 1968, No. 155, §1; Acts 1968, No. 533, §9
LA Rev Stat § 51:1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 51 - Trade and Commerce|§1. Definitions

RS 1 - Definitions  As used in this Part:  Commission merchant means every person who sells in this state on commission or buys as broker or agent for or on account of any person, farm products, fish, oysters, shrimp, crabs, game, or fur skins.  Farm products means all agricultural, horticultural, and floricultural products, live stock, meats, hides, poultry, eggs, butter, milk, nuts, honey, and seeds.
LA Rev Stat § 51:2 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 51 - Trade and Commerce|§2. Bond

RS 2 - Bond Every commission merchant shall furnish a bond of one thousand dollars, payable to the commissioner of agriculture and forestry of Louisiana or his successors in office, to guarantee his compliance with the provisions of R.S. 51:1 through 4, such bond to be signed as surety by any surety company authorized to do business in this state. Acts 2009, No. 24, §5, eff. June 12, 2009.
LA Rev Stat § 51:3 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 51 - Trade and Commerce|§3. Records of transactions; statements of sales; commissions

RS 3 - Records of transactions; statements of sales; commissions  Every commission merchant shall keep complete records of all his transactions as such, including all brokerage transactions, full account of all purchases made for or on account of any person, and records of all consignments received, sales made, consignments refused, consignments claimed to be damaged, short, or inferior, with reason for the refusal or claim. He shall make statements, signed and numbered in duplicate, showing all sales made, quantity, and price paid, and he shall furnish to the consignor one copy of the statement or account of sale which shall include the name of the purchaser, his postoffice and street address, immediately upon delivery to the purchaser of the goods sold and the other copy shall be kept on file in the office of the commission merchant. He shall not charge or deduct commissions on consignment on any amount except the amount paid by the purchaser of the consigned goods, which commission shall not exceed ten per centum, except in the case of shrimps where the commission shall not exceed five per centum, and when he has sufficient reasons to refuse a consignment, or claims it seriously damaged or short, he shall immediately communicate with the consignor, stating his reasons.  Amended by Acts 1952, No. 347, §1.