§3503.  Maximum rate of conventional interest on certain loans

Unless otherwise provided, the amount of simple conventional interest on obligations bearing interest from date and secured in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by a mortgage on immovable property, shall not exceed twelve percent per annum.  The same must be fixed in writing.  Testimonial proof of it is not admitted in any case.

Acts 1969, No. 28, §2.  Amended by Acts 1979, No. 205, §1, eff. July 6, 1979; Acts 1995, No. 1184, §2.