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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:637. Use of property for educational purposes; stipulation, abandonment and use as dedication

RS 41:637 - Use of property for educational purposes; stipulation, abandonment and use as dedication
Wherever any real property has been acquired by any association, organization or non-profit corporation by virtue of a deed which contains a stipulation that such property is to be used for educational purposes and thereafter the use of said property is abandoned to any school board and is used by such school board for such purposes for a period in excess of ten years, such stipulation, abandonment and use shall constitute a dedication of such property to the public for such purposes and the right to administer and use such property for educational purposes shall be in the school board which has exercised the use of such property; provided that the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any property owned by an agency of the state, municipality or other public body.
Acts 1954, No. 572, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:638. Dedication of property for public school purposes; administration

RS 41:638 - Dedication of property for public school purposes; administration
Whenever any real property has been acquired by the state of Louisiana, any municipality, parish school board, or any other subdivision or agency of the state of Louisiana by virtue of a deed, act of sale, donation, or other form of transfer, which contains a stipulation that such property is to be used for public school or public educational purposes, said deed, act of sale, donation, or other form of transfer, shall constitute a dedication of such property to the public for such purposes and the school board in whose district the property lies shall have the right to administer and use the property for public school purposes.
Acts 1960, No. 527, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:639. Sale or disposition of property with no right of reverter

RS 41:639 - Sale or disposition of property with no right of reverter
Unless the deed, act of sale, donation, or other form of transfer by which said property is conveyed, contains specific provisions prohibiting the same, such school board may sell or dispose of any such property which is unused and unnecessary or is unsuitable for public school purposes, provided the mineral rights are reserved therein to the state of Louisiana and use the proceeds thereof to procure one or more new public school sites. In such event, the former owner, his heirs, successors and assigns shall have no claim by right of reverter to the property originally dedicated or to the proceeds thereof.
Acts 1960, No. 527, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:640. Sixteenth section lands; adjustments; distribution of proceeds; lease and use

RS 41:640 - Sixteenth section lands; adjustments; distribution of proceeds; lease and use
A. Where sixteenth section or indemnity lands granted by Congress for public school purposes have been erroneously sold by the state or paid by the state as fees for services rendered, such deficiencies shall be properly adjusted, as provided by the Constitution of 1879 and R.S. 41:641, and the amounts so determined shall be credited to the parish school boards of the parishes in which such townships are situated in proportion to the percentage of the townships lying in each said* parishes. The amounts so credited shall be treated as loans to the state on which the state shall pay interest at the rate of four percent per annum.
B. The parish school boards of parishes within which there lies a township or any portion of a township containing a sixteenth section or any portion of a sixteenth section shall be entitled to a portion of the proceeds derived from the sale of the sixteenth section or any portion thereof, including the sale of timber thereon and revenues arising from mineral leases, agricultural leases, contracts, royalties, and all other revenues arising from said sales, leases, and contracts heretofore made or which may hereafter be consummated. The proceeds and revenues thereof shall be credited to the parish school boards in which such townships are situated in proportion to the percentage of the townships lying in each parish. On the funds so credited to the respective parish school boards arising from the sources above mentioned the state shall pay interest at the rate of four percent per annum so long as said funds remain on deposit in the state treasury. However, any school board shall have authority to direct by resolution that the state treasurer shall return any funds on deposit to its credit in the state treasury or which may accrue to its credit from such sixteenth sections, and said parish school boards shall have the right to use the said funds in the acquisition, construction, and equipping of public school buildings and other school facilities.
C. The parish school boards of parishes within which there lies a township or any portion of a township containing a sixteenth section or any portion of a sixteenth section shall have the authority to lease, contract, or both, with any other governmental agency or department for the use of sixteenth section lands within the boundaries of their respective parishes. The proceeds and revenues thereof shall be credited to the parish school boards in which such townships are situated in proportion to the percentage of the sixteenth section lands lying in each parish.
Added by Acts 1975, No. 508, §1. Amended by Acts 1976, No. 328, §1; Acts 1983, No. 395, §1.
*In Subsection A, so in enrolled bill.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:641. Free school fund; seminary fund; agricultural and mechanical college fund; state indebtedness; interest

RS 41:641 - Free school fund; seminary fund; agricultural and mechanical college fund; state indebtedness; interest
A. The debt due by the state to the free school fund arising from the sale of lands granted by Congress for school purposes may remain a perpetual loan to the state on which it shall pay to the several townships four percent per annum interest or the parish school board of any parish in which there lies a township or the major portion thereof containing a sixteenth section so sold shall have the right to use these entire proceeds in the acquisition, construction, and equipping of public school plant facilities, and the state shall no longer pay four percent per annum interest thereon.
B. The debt due by the state to the seminary fund is hereby declared to be one hundred thirty-six thousand dollars, being the proceeds of the sale of lands heretofore granted by the United States to this state for the use of a seminary of learning, and the state shall pay an annual interest of four percent on said amount.
C. The debt due by the state to the agricultural and mechanical college fund is hereby declared to be the sum of one hundred eighty-two thousand three hundred thirteen dollars and three cents, being the proceeds of the sale of lands and land scrip heretofore granted by the United States to this state for the purpose of a college for the benefit of agricultural and mechanical arts. The state shall pay an annual interest of five percent on the said amount.
D. The above funds shall be kept separate on the books of the treasurer of the state as a perpetual record of said loans.
Added by Acts 1975, No. 508, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:643. Vermilion Parish; Sixteenth section land; distribution of mineral proceeds, and ownership of minerals and mineral revenues

RS 41:643 - Vermilion Parish; Sixteenth section land; distribution of mineral proceeds, and ownership of minerals and mineral revenues
A. The state of Louisiana, the State Mineral and Energy Board may enter into and execute a compromise and settlement with the Vermilion Parish School Board regarding the ownership of certain mineral and mineral revenues together with the disposition of mineral revenues derived from a certain area alleged by the school board to be a "Sixteenth Section" located in Township 15 South, Range 1 West, in East White Lake, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana.
B. The mineral board shall have all of the power and authority necessary and incidental to entering into and executing such compromise and settlement, and such compromise and settlement is hereby specifically authorized to provide for the following:
(1) That any and all revenues arising out of or in connection with mineral leases covering such area in existence on May 30, 1989 shall be shared equally by the state and the school board, insofar as such revenues are attributable to the area covered by each lease. The school board and the mineral board are hereby authorized to enter into any letter or division order necessary to effectuate this Section, including specifically a division order portraying an equal net royalty interest in leases payable to the school board and mineral board.
(2) That upon the termination of all or any portion of mineral leases covering such area which are in existence on May 30, 1989, the mineral board may lease all or any portion of such area under such terms and conditions as may be approved by the mineral board, without regard to the minimum royalty provisions of R.S. 30:127(A), and that such state lessee may be required to acquire for the same consideration payable to the mineral board, a lease from the school board on the same acreage without regard to the minimum royalty provisions of R.S. 30:127(B).
Acts 1989, No. 474, §1, eff. June 30, 1989; Acts 2009, No. 196, §6, eff. July 1, 2009.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:671. Determining value of improvements and of the use of the land

RS 41:671 - Determining value of improvements and of the use of the land
When the sale of the sixteenth section is legally ordered, and it appears to the satisfaction of the parish treasurer that any person had settled and improved the section or any part thereof prior to the extension of the survey over it, the treasurer shall appoint one appraiser; the settler or his agent may appoint another; the two shall select a third; and the three, after being sworn, shall assess the improvements put upon the lands, and the value of the use of the land.
In all cases the assent of a majority of the legal voters within the township shall be given to the provisions of this Part which shall be taken at the same time that the votes are taken for the sale of the land.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:672. Settler to be paid value of improvements less value of the use of the land

RS 41:672 - Settler to be paid value of improvements less value of the use of the land
The settler shall receive the value of his improvements out of the proceeds of the sale, except that the value of the use of the land shall be deducted from the value of the improvements. When the cash payment is not sufficient to pay for the improvements the parish treasurer shall cause the purchaser to execute his note for the balance due in favor of the settler, his or her heirs or assigns, with personal security to the satisfaction of the person entitled to receive the money, which shall be deducted from the amount of the first installments due on account of the purchase.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:673. Lease to pay for improvements where sale refused

RS 41:673 - Lease to pay for improvements where sale refused
Whenever any person has settled and improved the sixteenth section, and the inhabitants of the township refuse to sell the section, as provided by law, then the parish treasurer shall cause the section to be leased, and the lease shall be given to the person who may purpose to take the land for the shortest time on paying the settler for the improvements.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:711. Election for sale of school lands

RS 41:711 - Election for sale of school lands
The parish treasurer shall take the sense of the inhabitants of the township with reference to whether or not any lands heretofore reserved and appropriated by congress for the use of schools shall be sold, and the proceeds invested as authorized by an act of congress, approved February the fifteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-three, entitled: "An Act to authorize the Legislatures of the States of Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee, to sell the lands heretofore appropriated for the use of schools in those states."
Polls shall be opened and held in each township, after advertisement for thirty days at three of the most public places in the township and at the courthouse door, and the sense of the legal voters therein shall be taken within the usual hours, and in the usual manner of holding elections. The elections shall be held and votes received by a school board member or a justice of the peace. If a majority of the legal voters are in favor of selling the school lands therein, they may be sold, but not otherwise. The result of all elections shall be transmitted to the parish treasurer, and by him to the state superintendent of education.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:712. Election and sale of a sixteenth section divided by parish line

RS 41:712 - Election and sale of a sixteenth section divided by parish line
When the sixteenth section of any township is divided by a parish line, the treasurer of the parish in which a greater portion of the section lies, shall take the sense of the people of the township, and shall sell the section as provided by law, as if the whole section lay in his parish; provided that the sale shall be advertised at the courthouses of both parishes as provided by law.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:713. Resurvey of obliterated or uncertain lines

RS 41:713 - Resurvey of obliterated or uncertain lines
Before selling the school lands belonging to the state, the parish treasurer, or other persons whose duty it may become, to superintend the sales, shall cause a resurvey of the lines which from any cause may have become obliterated or uncertain; and for this purpose he may employ the parish surveyor, or on his default, any competent surveyor. The lines thus surveyed shall be marked in such manner as to enable those interested to make a thorough examination before sale, and all advertisements made for the sale of the lands shall contain a full description thereof, according to the original survey and that required by this Section. The expenses of making the survey shall be paid by the State Auditor out of the proceeds of the sale of the lands on the warrant of the parish treasurer.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:714. Manner, terms and conditions of sale

RS 41:714 - Manner, terms and conditions of sale
A. If the majority of the voters in a township give their assent to the sale of the lands, the parish treasurer shall notify the State Auditor of the vote thus taken, and upon his order, the parish treasurer shall have the land sold before the courthouse door, by the sheriff, or an auctioneer to be employed by the treasurer. The sale shall be made after thirty days advertisement and after the land has been appraised by three sworn appraisers selected by the parish treasurer and recorder of the parish. The land shall be sold to the highest bidder, in quantities not less than forty acres, nor more than one hundred and sixty.
B. In no case shall the land be sold at a less sum than the appraised value, payable on a credit of ten years, as follows:
(1) Ten per cent in cash, and the balance in nine annual installments, the interest to be paid on the whole amount, annually, at the rate of eight per cent per annum.
(2) The notes shall be made payable to the State Auditor, secured by special mortgage on the land sold, and personal security, in solido, until final payment of the principal and interest.
C. If the purchaser neglects or refuses to pay any of the installments or interest at maturity, the mortgage shall be forthwith closed, and the parish treasurer shall advertise and sell the land as before provided for, and shall execute all acts of sale on behalf of the state, for any such lands sold.
D. The parish treasurer shall receive the cash payments and notes given for the purchase, which shall be made payable to the State Treasurer, and shall place them in the office of the State Auditor for collection.
E. All cash received, either for principal or interest, from the sales shall be transmitted by the parish treasurer to the State Treasurer, and any moneys thus received into the state treasury from sales shall bear interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, and be credited to the township to which the money belongs.
F. The result of all sales made by the parish treasurer shall be forthwith notified by him to the state superintendent of education. The parish treasurer may receive the whole amount bid for the lands, deducting the eight per cent interest which the credits would bear.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:715. Compensation of parish treasurer

RS 41:715 - Compensation of parish treasurer
The parish treasurer may retain, out of the proceeds of the sales of sixteenth sections effected by him, a compensation of two and one-half per cent on the amount of the sales, which shall be deducted from the cash payment, and which shall be full compensation of his services.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:716. Lease of lands

RS 41:716 - Lease of lands
A. Should a majority of the legal voters be against the sale of the lands, then the school board of the parish in which the lands are located shall secure them from injury and waste, shall prevent illegal possession or aggression of any kind and shall lease the land, or any part thereof, according to the provisions of the act of congress referred to in R.S. 41:711 as amended by Act of Congress, approved June 12th, 1884, and shall inform the state superintendent of education thereof.
B. The lease shall be made only after due notice has been given by advertisement, for at least thirty days, in the official journal of the parish, or in any paper published regularly in the parish containing the land to be leased, of the time and place when the land will be offered for lease to the highest bidder. In all cases ample security shall be required, not only for the punctual payment of the rent but for the protection of the lands from all kinds of waste and injury. The parish school board may reject any and all bids offered for the lease, if in its judgment the bids do not reach a just and fair value of the lease.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:717. Sale of timber; time allowable for removal

RS 41:717 - Sale of timber; time allowable for removal
A. The parish school boards may sell the timber on sixteenth section school lands to the highest bidder for said timber, after public notice of the proposed timber sale has been given by advertisement for at least thirty days in the official journal of the parish. In the case of sixteenth sections located in townships which extend into two parishes, such timber sales shall be made by the joint action of the school boards of the two parishes, after public notice, as above provided, in the official journals of both parishes.
B. In all cases where a sale of timber is made under the provisions of this Subpart and deferred payments are allowed, the notes representing the deferred payments shall be made payable to the order of the State Auditor, and their punctual payment shall be secured by at least two good and solvent sureties who shall be liable in solido.
C. In all cases where a sale of timber is made under the provisions of this Subpart the purchaser thereof or his vendees, shall be allowed a period of not more than ten years in which to remove the timber.
Amended by Acts 1956, No. 374, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:718. Proceeds of lease of land or sale of timber

RS 41:718 - Proceeds of lease of land or sale of timber
A. In all cases of the lease of sixteenth section school lands, or of the sale of the timber thereon, the cash payment after deducting sufficient amount to cover the actual expenses incurred by the election and making the sale or lease, shall be credited to the account of the current school fund of the parish where the sixteenth section school lands are located. Notes representing deferred payments shall be placed in the hands of the parish school treasurer for collection, and when collected also credited to the current school fund of the parish, to be used for general school purposes.
B. The term "general school purposes" as used in the last sentence of the preceding part of this section shall include, but not be limited to, fencing, drainage, fire prevention, insect and pest eradication, reforestation and timber management of the sixteenth section from which the funds were derived.
Amended by Acts 1968, No. 537, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:719. Disposition of proceeds of sale of land; interest

RS 41:719 - Disposition of proceeds of sale of land; interest
All moneys received into the state treasury, and the interest accrued thereon from the sale of any sixteenth section of school lands or the school land warrants belonging to the various townships in the state, shall be placed to the credit of the township, and should the people of any township desire to receive for the use of the schools therein the annual interest payable by the state on funds deposited to their credit, or the annual proceeds of the loans, the parish treasurer shall, on the petition of five legal voters in any such township, order an election to be held in the township, as provided for the sale of township lands; and if a majority of any number of votes above seven are in favor of receiving annually the accruing interest it shall be paid to the treasurer of the parish for the use of the townships or districts; otherwise the interest shall be an accumulating fund to their credit until so called for.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:720. Annulment of sale by purchaser

RS 41:720 - Annulment of sale by purchaser
In all cases of the sale of school lands known as sixteenth sections, where the purchase money has not been paid, the purchaser may annul the sale, upon application to the district court of the parish where the land is situated subject to the following conditions: (1) that the judgment of nullity shall be obtained at the cost of the applicant and contradictorily with the district attorney and the school board of the district; (2) that it shall appear upon the trial thereof that the value of the land has not been impaired by any act of the purchaser. The purchaser shall not be entitled to the repayment of any part of the purchase money paid at the time of his purchase.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:721. Collection of notes given for purchase price

RS 41:721 - Collection of notes given for purchase price
The State Auditor shall forward for collection to the treasurer of the school board in their respective parishes throughout the state, all the notes given for the purchase price of sixteenth sections, or any part thereof, whenever any installment of the purchase price becomes due, and the treasurer of the parish school board shall receive and receipt for them.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:722. Treasurer's duties on receipt of notes due

RS 41:722 - Treasurer's duties on receipt of notes due
The treasurer of the parish school board, on the receipt of the notes due and given for the sixteenth sections, shall immediately notify the principal and his sureties, in writing, of the amount of the notes, principal and interest due and unpaid; provided the lands for which the notes were given are still in the possession of the original purchaser. If the lands are in the possession of other parties, the possessor shall also be notified of all the demands, principal and interest, against the lands, and if all demands against them are not satisfied within thirty days from the notice, the treasurer of the parish school board shall turn over the notes to the district attorney for the district, or other attorney selected by the school board, for suit. The notice shall serve as a bar to prescription, which shall only begin to run from the service of the notice.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:723. Attorney's duties

RS 41:723 - Attorney's duties
The attorney shall proceed without delay, by all necessary legal processes, and without depositing clerk's or sheriff's costs, or giving security therefor, to collect all such notes as may be turned over to him by said treasurer of the parish school board. If any of the conservatory writs should be found to be necessary in order to aid in the collection, it shall be lawful to issue the same, without giving bond as required in other cases.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:724. Disposition of moneys collected

RS 41:724 - Disposition of moneys collected
The attorney shall receive ten per cent of all moneys collected by him on notes given for sixteenth sections, and after deducting the ten per cent he shall turn over the remainder to the treasurer of the school funds, for the parish in which the lands are situated. The treasurer shall transmit the moneys through the State Auditor, to the State Treasurer. Any moneys thus received into the state treasury from the collections, shall bear interest at the rate of four per cent per annum, and shall be credited to the township to which the moneys belong.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:725. Terrebonne Parish School Board; transfer of certain sixteenth section lands

RS 41:725 - Terrebonne Parish School Board; transfer of certain sixteenth section lands
A. The Legislature of Louisiana hereby finds that as a result of the holding in Liner v. Terrebonne Parish School Board, 519 So.2d 777 (La. App. 1 Cir. 1987)(rehearing and writ denied in February and March of 1988), the North boundary of Section 16 of Township 20 South, Range 16 East now lies approximately two thousand feet North of where it previously was thought to lie. Many families constructed homes and resided for generations, in some cases, on the affected lands in Terrebonne Parish near Bayou Dularge which they thought in good faith to be theirs, paying taxes as required by state and local governments, only to learn that due to an ancient surveying error in the original government survey of 1838 their titles describe lands in Section 9 whereas their homes rest on Section 16 land. As a result of the inability of the families and the school board to reach a compromise, these families continue to live in homes they built but are subject to eviction and at least one family has been notified of the school board's intent to evict. While, due to the passage of time, these same families are blocked by prescription which has run against them, preventing them from seeking ownership of the lands in Section 9 which their titles specify they own.
B. Therefore, notwithstanding the provisions of this Chapter, or the provisions of Part II of Chapter 1 of Title 17, and pursuant to Section 4 of Article IX of the Constitution of Louisiana, the Terrebonne Parish School Board shall take all actions necessary for the transfer of title and ownership of such affected property in Section 16 near Bayou Dularge located in T20S-R16E in Terrebonne Parish to those persons who have possessed such property under good faith and just title for at least ten years or to those persons who have acquired from such possessors in good faith, provided that as just and sole compensation the mineral rights upon such lands shall be reserved to the Terrebonne Parish School Board.
Acts 1990, No. 209, §1; Acts 1992, No. 816, §1, eff. Nov. 5, 1992.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:726. Bienville Parish School Board; transfer of certain sixteenth section lands

RS 41:726 - Bienville Parish School Board; transfer of certain sixteenth section lands
A. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, whenever the Bienville Parish School Board, on behalf of the state of Louisiana, determines that the sixteenth section lands located within Bienville Parish, and as more specifically described in any agreements entered into and documents executed by the Bienville Parish School Board, is no longer needed for school purposes and that the best interests of the Bienville Parish school system would be served by the sale of the property, the Bienville Parish School Board shall have authority to order the disposition of such sixteenth section lands at public auction or under sealed bids. The procedure for disposition of the sixteenth section lands shall be the same as for unused school lands under R.S. 41:892. The Bienville Parish School Board shall reserve to the state all of the mineral rights and minerals in accordance with law. Any sale of sixteenth section lands which occurs as authorized by this Subsection shall be executed by the state land office on behalf of the Bienville Parish School Board.
B. All proceeds from the sale, less expenses of the sale, shall be used for the support of the schools located in Bienville Parish in furtherance of the purpose of the dedication of the sixteenth section lands by the United States by acts of Congress of April 21, 1806, and March 3, 1811, to the territories of Orleans and Louisiana in anticipation of statehood.
Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 129, §1, eff. April 19, 2000.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:727. Vermilion Parish School Board; transfer of certain sixteenth section lands

RS 41:727 - Vermilion Parish School Board; transfer of certain sixteenth section lands
A.(1) The legislature finds that as a result of the holding of the Louisiana Supreme Court in
Abshire v. Vermilion Parish School Board
, there are persons in Vermilion Parish who purchased sixteenth section lands in good faith, but because of the conveyance of less than full ownership in a 1909 property transaction, have only apparent title to such property; actual title remains with the school board. It is the intent of the Louisiana Legislature, as expressed by the enactment of this Section, that each person who holds apparent title to any portion of the tract described in Subsection B of this Section have conveyed and transferred unto him, his heirs, successors, and assigns, with all legal warranties and with full substitution and subrogation, ownership of and actual and complete title to any portion of said tract to which he holds apparent title.
(2) Such transfers shall be executed without an election and notwithstanding any provision of this Chapter or of Part II of Chapter 1 of Title 17 to the contrary.
B. The Vermilion Parish School Board is authorized to convey, transfer, assign, and deliver any interest, excluding mineral rights, the state or the school board may have to a certain tract or parcel of land located in Section Sixteen (16), Township Twelve (12) South, Range Two (2) East, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, lying within the following boundaries: Beginning at a point on the South line of Parish Road Number P-9-23 (now Cheneau Road) along the North line of Section Sixteen (16), Township Twelve (12) South, Range Two (2) East on the East End of the existing Flume and running East in the South line of said P-9-23 (now Cheneau Road), a distance of 4,839.4 feet, to the East line of said Section 16; thence, running South, in the East line of said Section 16, a distance of 200 feet; thence West, parallel to the South line of said P-9-23 (now Cheneau Road) a distance of 4,839.4 feet; thence North, parallel to the East line of Section 16 a distance of 200 feet to the point of beginning; said tract containing 22.22 acres.
C. The school board, on behalf of the state of Louisiana, is hereby authorized to enter into such agreements, covenants, conditions, and stipulations and to execute such documents as are necessary to properly effectuate the delivery of complete title, excluding mineral rights, to the various portions of the property described in Subsection B of this Section, and as more specifically described in any such agreements entered into and documents executed by and between the school board and the apparent title holders of said property or their assigns, heirs, or legatees, in exchange for payment of consideration proportionate to the appraised value of the property in accordance with Article VII, Section 14 of the Constitution of Louisiana.
Acts 2005, No. 417, §1, eff. July 11, 2005.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:728. St. Tammany Parish School Board; unused school lands; sell, exchange, disposition; proceeds

RS 41:728 - St. Tammany Parish School Board; unused school lands; sell, exchange, disposition; proceeds
A. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, whenever the St. Tammany Parish School Board, on behalf of the state of Louisiana, determines that any unused school lands, including but not limited to sixteenth section lands, indemnity for school lands, or other immovable property located in St. Tammany Parish and as more specifically described in any agreements entered into and documents executed by the St. Tammany Parish School Board, are no longer needed for school purposes and that the best interests of the St. Tammany Parish school system would be served by the sale, exchange, or other disposition of the property, the St. Tammany Parish School Board shall have authority to order the disposition of such sixteenth section lands, indemnity for school lands, or other immovable property at public auction or under sealed bids, except that immovable property subject to the provisions of R.S. 17:87.6 shall be disposed of as provided for in that Section. The procedure for disposition of the sixteenth section lands and indemnity for school lands shall be the same as for unused lands as provided for in R.S. 41:892. The St. Tammany Parish School Board shall reserve to the state all of the mineral rights and minerals in accordance with law. Any sale of sixteenth section lands which occurs as authorized by this Subsection shall be executed by the state land office on behalf of the St. Tammany Parish School Board.
B. All proceeds from the sale, exchange, or other disposition, less expenses of the disposition, if any, shall be used for the support of the schools located in St. Tammany Parish in furtherance of the purpose of the dedication of the sixteenth section lands or indemnity for school lands as provided by law.
Acts 2006, No. 74, §1, eff. May 25, 2006.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:729. Cameron Parish School Board; sale or exchange of sixteenth section lands

RS 41:729 - Cameron Parish School Board; sale or exchange of sixteenth section lands
A. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, if the Cameron Parish School Board, on behalf of the state of Louisiana, determines that any sixteenth section lands located within Cameron Parish are no longer needed for school purposes and that the best interest of the Cameron Parish school system would be served by the sale or exchange of the lands, the school board may authorize a sale or exchange on behalf of the state in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section.
B. The school board shall obtain an appraisal of the lands being considered for sale or exchange from a certified, licensed appraiser, and the appraisal shall be available for public inspection.
C. The school board shall hold a public hearing to receive public comment concerning the sale or exchange of the sixteenth section lands. The school board shall provide notice of the public hearing and notice of its intent to consider the sale or exchange of sixteenth section lands by advertisement in the official journal of the parish on at least three separate days at least thirty days prior to the date of the hearing. The notice shall include a brief description of the sixteenth section lands to be sold or exchanged, as well as any lands being considered in exchange for the sixteenth section lands. The appraisal required by Subsection B of this Section shall be made available for public inspection at the hearing.
D. After the hearing and with due consideration of any public comments, if the board determines that the sixteenth section lands are not needed for school purposes and that a sale or exchange is in the best interest of the school system, the school board may vote to authorize a sale or exchange.
E. Upon authorization of the school board for the sale of sixteenth section lands, the president of the school board may proceed with a sale on behalf of the state in accordance with the procedures provided in R.S. 41:892. Upon authorization of the school board for an exchange of sixteenth section lands, the president of the school board may proceed on behalf of the state with an exchange of the lands for other lands in Cameron Parish of equal or greater value.
F. The authority conferred by this Section shall be in addition to the authority conferred by any other law. This Section shall be construed liberally for the accomplishment of its purpose, which is to provide a complete and additional method for the sale or exchange of unused sixteenth section lands by the Cameron Parish School Board.
Acts 2023, No. 58, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:761. Sale of swamp or sea marsh lands

RS 41:761 - Sale of swamp or sea marsh lands
Whenever a sixteenth section donated to the state by Congress for school purposes is located in a township not habitable by reason of the township being swamp or sea marsh, the school board may, upon the petition of the land owners owning in area more than one-half of the land in the township, order the sale of the sixteenth section by resolution or motion passed by a majority of the members of the board present and voting.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:762. Procedure

RS 41:762 - Procedure
When a sale of a sixteenth section is ordered, the sale shall be made by the parish treasurer of the parish in which the sixteenth section is located, in person or by the sheriff or any auctioneer of the parish, designated by the treasurer. The sale shall be made only after it has been advertised for thirty days in a newspaper published in the parish where the property is located; or if no newspaper is published in the parish, then, by posting a written or printed notice for thirty days at or near the front door of the court house in the parish where the property is situated and at two other public places in the parish. On the day named in the advertisement, the section shall be sold as a whole or in lots of not less than forty acres, at the principal front door of the court house of the parish in which the property is situated, between the hours of eleven o'clock A.M. and four o'clock P.M., with appraisement, to the last and highest bidder, and without a prior survey of the property, and upon the following terms and conditions: (1) One-tenth or more in cash at the option of the purchaser, and the remainder, if any, in nine equal annual installments, bearing eight per cent interest per annum from date, interest payable annually. (2) The deeds shall contain the usual security clauses and a stipulation to pay ten per cent attorney's fees in the event the services of an attorney are secured for the purpose of collection.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:763. Deed; disposition of proceeds

RS 41:763 - Deed; disposition of proceeds
A. The deed of the parish treasurer shall be full and complete evidence of the sale, shall convey a good and valid title to the property sold and shall have all the force and effect of a notarial act.
B. All monies or notes received under and by virtue of the sale shall be disposed of by the parish treasurer in the manner now required by law.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:802. Advertisement

RS 41:802 - Advertisement
The Register of the State Land Office shall cause to be advertised for sale at public auction, for thirty clear days, a list of the lands to be sold, which have not already been advertised, and the publication shall be made in a newspaper published in the parish where the land to be sold is situated. No land to be sold shall be advertised in any paper published outside of the parish where the land is situated.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:803. Sale at public auction; withdrawal

RS 41:803 - Sale at public auction; withdrawal
The register shall adjudicate the lands at public auction to the last and highest bidder at his office and in case the land so offered for sale fails to bring at auction the price of five dollars per acre the land shall be withdrawn from sale by the register and cannot thereafter be sold except by another advertisement as required by R.S. 41:802, nor except to the last and highest bidder at public auction for a price not less than five dollars per acre.
Amended by Acts 1954, No. 270, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:841. Free school fund

RS 41:841 - Free school fund
A. The proceeds of all lands heretofore granted by the United States to this state for the use or support of schools, except the sixteenth section in the various townships of the states specially reserved by Congress for the use and benefit of the people therein; and of all lands granted or bequeathed to the state and not specially granted or bequeathed for any other purpose, which are disposed of by the state, and the ten percent of the net proceeds of the sales of the public land which have accrued and are to accrue to this state under the act of Congress, entitled "An Act to appropriate the proceeds of the public lands", and to grant preemption rights, approved September 4, 1841; and the proceeds of the estates of deceased persons, to which the state has or may become entitled by law, shall be held by the state as a loan, and shall be and remain a perpetual fund, to be called the Free School Fund, on which the state shall pay an annual interest of six percent. The interest, together with the interest of the trust fund deposited with this state by the United States, under the act of Congress approved the twenty-third of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and the rents of all unsold lands, except that of the sixteenth sections, shall be appropriated for the support of public schools in this state; and donations of all kinds which are made for the support of schools, and such other means as the legislature may from time to time set apart for school purposes, shall form a part of the fund, and shall also be a loan on which the state shall pay an interest of six percent per annum.
B. The state treasurer shall apply annually, and shall receive from the federal government the ten percent of monies due to this state, and shall place the money, when received, to the credit of the proper fund.
Acts 1986, No. 821, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:842. Investment in levee bonds

RS 41:842 - Investment in levee bonds
In addition to the investments now authorized by law, the State Auditor and State Treasurer, with the approval of the governor, may invest in levee bonds of this state yielding not less than four per cent per annum interest net, the proceeds of the sale of sixteenth section school lands now on hand, or that may accumulate, in the state treasury.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:843. Registration of bonds

RS 41:843 - Registration of bonds
The State Auditor and the State Treasurer shall keep a distinct book wherein to register all bonds which are acquired by investment of proceeds of the sales of sixteenth section school lands, and shall write or stamp in legible characters on the face of the bonds the words, "The property of the Free School Fund of Louisiana". The bonds when so stamped, shall lose their negotiable character.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:844. Interest due townships

RS 41:844 - Interest due townships
The State Auditor shall ascertain the amount of capital that may be due the several townships from the proceeds of the sales of sixteenth sections, made since the first of January, 1880, and actually paid into the state treasury. The amount thus ascertained shall be the capital upon which interest shall be thereafter allowed and paid out of the interest collected on the said bonds to the townships, the sixteenth sections of which have been sold since the 1st of January, 1880, and the proceeds actually paid into the state treasury, and the proceeds so paid invested as required by law.
In calculating the interest due the several townships, no interest shall be allowed for fractions of the year during which the receipts have come into the treasury; but it shall commence at the beginning of the 1st of January of the next year.
The interest due upon the capital thus ascertained, and the interest due upon subsequent sales, shall be paid to the townships in the manner now provided for by law. The State Auditor shall furnish the State Treasurer and superintendent of public education with a statement of the amount due each township.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:881. School board presidents may issue correction deeds

RS 41:881 - School board presidents may issue correction deeds
The presidents of the school boards of the several parishes shall enter into and execute deeds correcting the description in various deeds to sixteenth sections or parts thereof where the original of the deed was executed prior to January 1, 1900, when the president of the school board has been authorized to execute the correction deed by a resolution of the school board of the parish in which the sixteenth section or part thereof is located.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:882. Resolution of the school board

RS 41:882 - Resolution of the school board
The school boards of the several parishes may enact and adopt, either at a regular meeting or a special meeting called for the express purpose, a resolution authorizing and requesting the president of the school board to execute a correction deed correcting the description in deeds to sixteenth sections or parts thereof where the sixteenth section or part thereof lies in the parish of the school board, when it is shown to the satisfaction of a majority of the school board that the original deed was in fact erroneous and it was the intent of the parish treasurer to sell and the purchaser to acquire a tract or tracts other than or in addition to the tract described in the original deeds.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:883. Resolution when land is in more than one parish

RS 41:883 - Resolution when land is in more than one parish
If the sixteenth section of any township is divided by a parish line, the school board for the parish in which the greater portion of the section lies may authorize the correction deed and the president of the school board in which the greater portion of the section lies shall execute the deed.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 41 - Public Lands › §41:884. Action to enforce issuance of correction deed

RS 41:884 - Action to enforce issuance of correction deed
If any school board refuses to enact and adopt a resolution authorizing the execution by the president of the school board of correction deed pertaining to sixteenth sections or parts thereof in the parish of the school board, then any interested party may bring a suit or suits against the school board in the district court in and for the parish where the sixteenth section is located for the purpose of securing a judgment authorizing and directing the president of the school board of the parish to execute the correction deed.