2015 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 33 - Municipalities and Parishes
RS 33:140.20 - Penalties for transferring lots in unapproved subdivisions
§140.20. Penalties for transferring lots in unapproved subdivisions
Whoever, being the owner or the agent of the owner of any land located within the area covered by the adopted plan, transfers or sells or agrees to sell or negotiates to sell such land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat of subdivision of such land before such plat has been approved by such commission and recorded in the office of the Clerk of Court and Recorder of Caddo Parish, shall be subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each lot so transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to be sold; and the description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from such penalties. The municipality or the parish, as appropriate, through its attorney or other designated official, may enjoin such transfer of sale or agreement by action for injunction or may recover the penalty by civil action.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §20.
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