2009 Louisiana Laws TITLE 19 Expropriation :: RS 19:201 Attorneys fees; unsuccessful or abandoned expropriation suits

PART V.  MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

§201.  Attorneys fees; unsuccessful or abandoned expropriation suits

A court of Louisiana having jurisdiction of a proceeding instituted by the State of Louisiana, a parish, a municipality or an agency of any of them vested with the power of expropriation, to acquire real property by expropriation, shall award the owner of any right, or title to, or interest in such real property such sum as will, in the opinion of the court, reimburse such owner for his reasonable attorney fees actually incurred because of the expropriation proceeding, if the final judgment is that the plaintiff cannot acquire the real property by expropriation or if the proceeding is abandoned by the plaintiff.  Any such award shall be paid from the same funds from which the purchase price of the property would have been paid.  

The rights of the landowner herein fixed are in addition to any other rights he may have under the Constitution of Louisiana.  

Added by Acts 1972, No. 121, §1.