2018 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 48 - Roads, Bridges and Ferries
RS 48:256.9 - Liability on bond; summary trial of objections to solvency and sufficiency of bond
§256.9. Liability on bond; summary trial of objections to solvency and sufficiency of bond
A. If no objections are made by any claimant to the solvency or sufficiency of the bond required of the contractor by this Part, the department shall, ten days after the service of judicial notice of the concursus proceeding on each claimant having recorded claims, obtain a certificate to that effect from the clerk of court. The certificate shall relieve the department of any personal liability and the recorder of mortgages shall cancel all of the recorded claims.
B. If any objections are made by the claimants they shall be tried summarily. Whenever it is found that the surety is not solvent or sufficient to cover the amount of the bond or that the department has failed to exact the bond or record the bond within the time allowed, the department shall be in default and shall be liable to the same extent as the surety would have been. The surety on the bond shall be limited to the defense which the principal has on the bond.
Acts 1997, No. 1112, §1, eff. July 14, 1997.
