§362.  Parishes may purchase or expropriate abstractors' records

A.  In order to make the abstracts, photographs and rectigraphs available for the restoration of destroyed records, parish governing authorities may purchase the abstracts, photographs and rectigraphs; or may purchase the right to have true copies made of said abstracts, photographs and rectigraphs; or, in their discretion, may purchase true copies of them.  The purchase may be upon such reasonable terms and conditions as may be agreed upon with the owner.

B.  The parish governing authority may, in the event of a failure to agree upon a price, expropriate under existing laws the right to copy the abstracts, photographs and rectigraphs for the restoration of the public records.