2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 19 — Expropriation
RS 19:201 — Attorney fees; unsuccessful or abandoned expropriation suits
PART V. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
§201. Attorney fees; unsuccessful or abandoned expropriation suits
A. A court of Louisiana having jurisdiction of a proceeding instituted by a public or private entity vested with the power of expropriation, to acquire immovable property by expropriation, shall award the owner of any right, or title to, or interest in such immovable property such sum as will, in the opinion of the court, reimburse such owner for his reasonable attorney fees, and court costs, actually incurred because of the expropriation proceeding, if the final judgment is that the plaintiff does not acquire at least fifty percent of the immovable property requested in the petition for 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.
B. 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; Acts 2011, No. 316, §1, eff. June 28, 2011.
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