RS 9:3180 Petition for expropriation by certain corporations; prescription of claims for damages occasioned - Louisiana Statutes

§3180.  Petition for expropriation by certain corporations; prescription of claims for damages occasioned

Whenever any corporation, constituted under the laws of this State, for the construction of a railroad, plankroad, turnpike road, a canal for navigation, or for the purpose of transmitting intelligence by magnetic telegraph, can not agree with the owner of any land which may be wanted for its purchase, it shall be lawful for such corporation to apply by petition to the judge of the district court in which such land may be situated, or if it extends into two districts, to the judge of the district in which the owner thereof resides, and if the owner does not reside in either district, then to the judge of either district, describing the lands necessary for their purposes, with a plan of the same, and a statement of the improvements thereon, if any, and the name of the owner thereof, if known and present in the State, with a prayer that the land be adjudged to such corporation upon the payment to the owner of all such damages as he may sustain in consequence of the expropriation of his land for such public work.  All claims for land, or damages to the owner caused by its expropriation for the construction of any public works, shall be barred by two years' prescription, which shall commence to run from the date at which the land was actually occupied and used for the construction of the works.  

Redesignated by Acts 1993, No. 841, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.