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LA Rev Stat § 9:1251 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1251. Passage to or from waters or recreational sites; servitudes or rights of way or passage not acquired

RS 1251 - Passage to or from waters or recreational sites; servitudes or rights of way or passage not acquired  A. Any other provisions of the laws of this state to the contrary notwithstanding, whenever any land owner voluntarily, whether expressly or tacitly, permits passage through or across his land by certain persons or by the public, solely for the purpose of providing a convenience to such persons in the ingress and egress to and from waters for boating, or for the purpose of ingress and egress to and from any recreational site, neither the public nor any person shall thereby acquire a servitude or right of passage, nor shall such passage become a public road or street by reason of upkeep, maintenance, or work performed thereon by any governing authority.  B. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to:  (1) prohibit land owners from entering into enforceable contracts specifically granting servitudes or rights of way or passage;  (2) prohibit land owners from specifically dedicating roads, streets or passages to the public use;  (3) repeal any laws relative to expropriation or appropriation of land or servitudes or laws authorizing the legislature or governing authorities to open, lay out or appoint public roads or streets; nor  (4) repeal any laws creating servitudes along rivers, streams or other waters.  Acts 1958, No. 463, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1252 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1252. Creation of real right for educational, charitable, or historic purposes

RS 1252 - Creation of real right for educational, charitable, or historic purposes  A. The owner of immovable property may create a perpetual real right burdening the whole or any part thereof of that immovable property, including, but not limited to, the facade, exterior, roof, or front of any improvements thereon to any corporation, trust, community chest, fund, or foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious, scientific, literary, charitable, educational, or historical purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual, or to the United States, the state of Louisiana, or any political subdivision of any of the foregoing. A real right established pursuant hereto may additionally obligate the owner of the immovable property as is necessary to fully execute the rights granted herein.  B. A real right created pursuant to this Section shall be binding on the grantor, his heirs, successors, assigns, and all subsequent owners of the immovable property, regardless of the fact that the grantee does not own or possess any interest in a neighboring estate or the fact that the real right is granted to the grantee and not to the estate of the grantee, the fact that the real right was not created as a part of a common development or building plan, devised by an ancestor in title of the grantor.  C. A real right created under the authority of this Section shall be granted by authentic act and shall be effective against third parties when filed for registry in the conveyance records of the parish in which the immovable property is located. Any right or obligation imposed on the owner of the immovable property by the real right created pursuant hereto, including any affirmative obligation established therein, shall be enforceable by the grantee through judicial proceeding by actions for injunctions or damages brought by the grantee.  D. A real right granted under authority of this Section shall be non-transferable by the grantee except upon dissolution of the grantee in which case the real right shall be transferred to another similar charitable organization or to the state of Louisiana or any political subdivision thereof. Added by Acts 1977, No. 234, §1. Amended by Acts 1979, No. 212, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1253 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1253. Public transportation servitude

RS 1253 - Public transportation servitude  Any road or street which becomes a public road or street under R.S. 48:491(B) shall be subject to a servitude of public transportation and utility running in favor of the parish or municipality in which the road or street is located. This servitude shall extend directly above and below the surface of the public road or street and shall grant to the governing authority of the parish or municipality and any public utility authorized by such governing authority the right to construct and maintain all public utilities, including but not limited to, the right to lay water lines, natural gas lines, sewerage lines, and electrical, telecommunications, and cable television lines.  Acts 1986, No. 708, §1.  {{NOTE: SEE ACTS 1986, NO. 708, §2.}}
LA Rev Stat § 9:1254 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1254. Enclosed estate; right and servitude of passage on certain waterways

§§1254. Enclosed estate; right and servitude of passage on certain waterways  A. The owner of an enclosed estate who has no access to his estate other than by way of an existing waterway passing through neighboring property shall have a right and servitude of passage on such waterway. He is bound to indemnify his neighbor for the damage he may occasion. The existing waterway passing through the neighboring property shall be directly accessible from a publicly navigable waterway, and shall have been and shall still be capable of use for navigation by the owner of either the dominant or servient estate at the time of acquisition by act of sale, inheritance, or otherwise, by the owner of the dominant estate.  B. If more than one existing waterway is capable of providing access to the enclosed estate pursuant to Subsection A, the passage shall generally be taken along the shortest route of safe passage from the enclosed estate to the nearest publicly navigable waterway at the location least injurious to the intervening lands and waterways. The owner of the dominant estate shall not be required to traverse open waters which may become hazardous for small watercraft during inclement weather.  C. The provisions of this Section shall supersede any other provision of law to the contrary.  D. The provisions of this Section are interpretative and are intended to clarify Civil Code Articles 689, 692, and 705 and any other existing law as to the right and servitude of passage on waterways to enclosed estates which have no means of access other than by way of water due to the lack of sufficient land on which to feasibly construct a road, and shall have retroactive application.  Acts 2004, No. 813, §1; Acts 2017, No. 244, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1255 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1255. Solar collectors; right of use

RS 1255 - Solar collectors; right of use A. For purposes of this Section, "solar collector" means any device or combination of elements which relies on sunlight as an energy source. B. No person or entity shall unreasonably restrict the right of a property owner to install or use a solar collector. C. The provisions of this Section shall not supersede zoning restrictions, servitudes as provided by Civil Code Article 697 et seq., or building restrictions, as provided by Civil Code Article 775 et seq., which require approval prior to the installation or use of solar collectors. D. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to property or areas which have been identified as historic districts, historical preservations or landmarks by any historic preservation district commission, landmarks commission, or the planning or zoning commission of a governing authority. Acts 2010, No. 274, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1256 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1256. Alteration and extinction of natural servitudes of drain

RS 1256 - Alteration and extinction of natural servitudes of drain  A. A natural servitude of drain may be altered or extinguished by agreement between the owners of the dominant and servient estates.  B. An alteration or extinguishment by agreement shall not be adverse to the public interest, and is without effect as to a third person unless registered by recording in the conveyance records of the parish in which the estates are located.  Acts 2020, No. 59, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1257 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1257. Conventional servitude of drain; right of dominant estate owner to enter servient estate

RS 1257 - Conventional servitude of drain; right of dominant estate owner to enter servient estate  A. A conventional servitude of drain may be acquired by title, by acquisitive prescription, or by destination of the owner.  B. The owner of the dominant estate with a conventional servitude of drain has the right to enter with his workmen and equipment into the part of the servient estate that is needed for the construction or repair of works required for the use or the preservation of the servitude. This includes the removal of obstructions from any waterway on the servient estate through which the right of drain is exercised, and the dredging of the waterway and removal of silt from it. The owner of the dominant estate may deposit materials to be used for the works, and the debris and silt that may result, subject to the obligation of causing the least possible damage and of removing them as soon as possible.  C. The owner of the dominant estate may engage another person to exercise and perform on his behalf the functions authorized by this Section. The engagement may be through contract of employment, mandate, or otherwise. This shall include a drainage district within which his estate is located.  Acts 2020, No. 59, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1271 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1271. Short title

RS 1271 - Short title  This Chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the "Louisiana Conservation Servitude Act".  Acts 1986, No. 217, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1987.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1272 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1272. Definitions

RS 1272 - Definitions  As used in this Chapter unless the context otherwise requires:  (1) "Conservation servitude" means a nonpossessory interest of a holder in immovable property imposing limitations or affirmative obligations the purposes of which include retaining or protecting natural, scenic, or open-space values of immovable property, assuring its availability for agricultural, forest, recreational, or open-space use, protecting natural resources, maintaining or enhancing air or water quality, or preserving the historical, archaeological, or cultural aspects of unimproved immovable property.  (2) "Holder" means:  (a) A governmental body empowered to hold an interest in immovable property under the laws of this state or the United States; or  (b) A charitable corporation, charitable association, or charitable trust, the purposes or powers of which include retaining or protecting the natural, scenic, or open-space values of immovable property, assuring the availability of immovable property for agricultural, forest, recreational, or open-space use, protecting natural resources, maintaining or enhancing air or water quality, or preserving the historical, archaeological, or cultural aspects of unimproved immovable property.  (3) "Third party right of enforcement" means a right provided in a conservation servitude to enforce any of its terms granted to a governmental body, charitable corporation, charitable association, or charitable trust, which, although eligible to be a holder, is not a holder.  Acts 1986, No. 217, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1987.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1273 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1273. Creation, conveyance, acceptance and duration

RS 1273 - Creation, conveyance, acceptance and duration  A. Except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, a conservation servitude may be created, conveyed, recorded, assigned, released, modified, terminated, or otherwise altered or affected in the same manner as other servitudes created by contract.  B. No right or duty in favor of or against a holder, and no right in favor of a person having a third party right of enforcement shall arise under a conservation servitude before its acceptance by the holder and a recordation of the acceptance.  C. A conservation servitude is unlimited in duration unless the instrument creating it otherwise provides.  D. Any interest in immovable property in existence at the time a conservation servitude is created is not impaired by the conservation servitude unless the owner of the interest is a party to the conservation servitude or consents to it.  Acts 1986, No. 217, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1987.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1274 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1274. Judicial actions

RS 1274 - Judicial actions  Any action affecting a conservation servitude may be brought by any one of the following:  (1) An owner of an interest in the immovable property burdened by the servitude.  (2) A holder of the servitude.  (3) A person having a third party right of enforcement.  (4) A person otherwise authorized by law.  Acts 1986, No. 217, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1987.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1275 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1275. Applicability

RS 1275 - Applicability  A. This Chapter applies to any interest created after December 31, 1986 which complies with the provisions of this Chapter, whether designated as a conservation servitude or as a covenant, equitable servitude, restriction, or otherwise. B. This Chapter applies to any interest created before January 1, 1987 if it would have been enforceable had it been created after December 31, 1986 unless retroactive application contravenes the constitution or laws of this state or the United States. C. This Chapter does not invalidate any interest, whether designated as a conservation or preservation servitude or as a covenant, equitable servitude, restriction, or otherwise, that is enforceable under any other law of this state. Acts 1986, No. 217, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1987.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1276 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1276. Uniformity of application and construction

RS 1276 - Uniformity of application and construction  A. This Chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this Chapter among states enacting similar provisions of law.  B. The provisions of this Chapter shall supercede any conflicting provisions of Civil Code Article 608.  C. This Chapter shall not be applied or construed to allow or permit the holder or owner of such servitude to obstruct or in any way impede the construction, operation, or maintenance of needed public utility facilities as provided by law on the effective date of this Chapter.  Acts 1986, No. 217, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1987.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1422 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1422. Certified copies of inventories in Parish of Orleans; admission as proof

RS 1422 - Certified copies of inventories in Parish of Orleans; admission as proof  Certified copies of original inventories of a succession taken in the parish of Orleans may be returned into the court having jurisdiction and when returned may be admitted as proof in the courts.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1423 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1423. Fees of experts and appraisers

RS 1423 - Fees of experts and appraisers  The fees allowed to experts, notary publics and appraisers appointed to assist in taking inventories of successions, tutorships, interdictions, and other proceedings requiring the taking of inventories, shall be fixed by the court appointing such experts, notary publics and appraisers, and shall be taxed as costs in those proceedings in which the taking of an inventory is required.  Amended by Acts 1970, No. 508, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1424 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1424. Affixing of seals on succession property; preservation

RS 1424 - Affixing of seals on succession property; preservation  On the application of an interested party, or on its own motion, the court may order the affixing of seals on succession property in the manner and to the extent directed by the court, and may take such other action as the court deems necessary for the preservation of the succession property in the interest of the succession, the heirs, and the creditors.  Added by Acts 1960, No. 31, §6; eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1425 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1425. Succession judgments affecting real property in Orleans; attorneys to file with assessor

RS 1425 - Succession judgments affecting real property in Orleans; attorneys to file with assessor A. Whenever any real property situated in the parish of Orleans is included in a succession judgment, signed upon the presentation of a petition for simple possession and rendered without opposition, a copy of all such succession judgments shall be filed within fifteen days with the assessor for the parish of Orleans by the attorney at law representing the succession, and it shall be the duty of the attorney representing the successful litigant, if such judgments include any real property situated in the parish of Orleans are signed after opposition and litigation, to so file such judgments with the said assessor within fifteen days from the date the judgments become final. B. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned in the parish jail for not more than sixty days, or both. Added by Acts 1964, No. 43, §§2, 3; Acts 2006, No. 622, §1, eff. Dec. 11, 2006.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1426 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1426. Retirement plan; usufruct of surviving spouse

RS 1426 - Retirement plan; usufruct of surviving spouse A.(1) If a recurring payment is being made from a public or private pension or retirement plan, an annuity policy or plan, an individual retirement account, a Keogh plan, a simplified employee plan, or any other similar retirement plan, to one partner or to both partners of a marriage, and the payment constitutes community property, and one spouse dies, the surviving spouse shall enjoy a legal usufruct over any portion of the continuing recurring payment which was the deceased spouse's share of their community property, provided the source of the benefit is due to payments made by or on behalf of the survivor. (2) This usufruct shall exist despite any provision to the contrary contained in a testament of the deceased spouse. B. The usufruct granted by this Section shall be treated as a legal usufruct and is not an impingement upon the legitime and a naked owner shall not have a right to demand security. Acts 1990, No. 1075, §1, eff. July 27, 1990; Acts 1997, No. 1421, §6, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1431 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1431. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 31, §7, eff. Jan. 1, 1961

RS 1431 - Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 31, §7, eff. Jan. 1, 1961
LA Rev Stat § 9:1441 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1441. Presumption of death of military personnel

RS 1441 - Presumption of death of military personnel  A person on active duty in one of the armed services of the United States, who has been reported missing under circumstances which have induced the armed service to which he was attached to accept the presumption of his death, shall likewise be presumed dead under the law of this state.  Added by Acts 1960, No. 31, §6; eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1442 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1442. Succession of military personnel presumed dead

RS 1442 - Succession of military personnel presumed dead  A. The succession of a person presumed dead, as provided in R.S. 9:1441, may be opened, administered, and his heirs or legatees sent into absolute possession of his estate, by the district court of the parish where he was domiciled at the time of entering the armed service, and in the same manner as the succession of a deceased person, except as otherwise provided in R.S. 9:1443. His heirs and legatees sent into possession of his property judicially may thereafter deal with such property as the absolute and unconditional owners, and third persons may safely deal with them as such. B. If it is subsequently discovered that the person presumed dead is alive, and within thirty years of the date of the judgment of possession he demands the return of his property, the persons sent into possession thereof as his heirs or legatees shall return to him all such property which they still own, subject to the mortgages and other encumbrances which they have placed thereon. These persons shall also repay him the value of all property of which they were sent into possession and which they have alienated, and the amount of the mortgages and other encumbrances which they placed on property returned to him. The persons sent into possession as his heirs or legatees shall return to him the annual revenues of his property as follows:  (1) If he reappears within five years, they shall return two-thirds. (2) If he reappears after five and within seven years, one-half.  (3) But after seven years' absence, the whole of the revenue shall belong to those who shall have been put into possession.  Acts 1960, No. 31, §6; eff. Jan. 1, 1961; Acts 1990, No. 989, §8, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1443 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1443. Proof of presumption of death of military personnel

RS 1443 - Proof of presumption of death of military personnel  In a proceeding to open the succession of a person presumed dead, as provided in R.S. 9:1441, or in any other action or proceeding whatever in which the presumption of his death is an issue, this presumption may be proved by a certified copy of an official certificate of the armed service to which he was attached, or of pertinent excerpts from his service record, indicating that the armed service has accepted the presumption of his death. Added by Acts 1960, No. 31, §6; eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1451 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1451. §§1451 to 1454 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 31, §7, eff. Jan. 1, 1961

RS 1451 - §§1451 to 1454 Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 31, §7, eff. Jan. 1, 1961
LA Rev Stat § 9:1454.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1454.1. Prescription against informalities of legal procedure

RS 1454.1 - Prescription against informalities of legal procedure  Any and all informalities of legal procedure connected with or growing out of any private sale of any succession property by executors or administrators, pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 9:1451 through 9:1454, inclusive, authorized by an order of the courts of this state, to sell at private sale, shall be prescribed against by those claiming under such sale after the lapse of two years from the date of the sale; provided, that where any such informality of legal procedure has existed for a period of two years prior to July 27, 1960, an action to annul because of such informality must be brought within six months from and after July 27, 1960.  Added by Acts 1960, No. 367, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 9:1455 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1455. Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 31, §7, eff. Jan. 1, 1961

RS 1455 - Repealed by Acts 1960, No. 31, §7, eff. Jan. 1, 1961
LA Rev Stat § 9:1491 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries|§1491. §§1491 to 1493 Repealed by Acts 1974, No. 131, §3

RS 1491 - §§1491 to 1493 Repealed by Acts 1974, No. 131, §3