§2304.  Application for use value assessment

A.  A landowner, desiring a use value assessment under this Act shall be required to file an application with the assessor in the parish or district where the property is located certifying that the property is eligible for use value assessment as bona fide agricultural, horticultural, marsh or timber land as defined in Section 2 of this Act.*

B.(1)  Except as provided for in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection, applications shall be filed in the parish or district where the property is located and shall be permanent as long as the property remains eligible for use value, except that in the event of a sale of the property, the purchaser must sign a new application within sixty days from the date of the sale.

(2)  In the parishes of Orleans and Jefferson, such applications shall be filed at least every four years except that in the event of a sale of the property, the purchaser must sign a new application within sixty days from the date of sale.

C.  In addition to the filing of an application required in Section 4(A) above, the landowner shall sign an agreement that the land will be devoted to one or more of the designated uses as defined in Section 2 of this Act.*

D to G.  Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 630, §1.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 702, §4, eff. Aug. 4, 1976; H.C.R. No. 88, 1993 R.S., eff. May 30, 1993; H.C.R. No. 1, 1994 R.S., eff. May 11, 1994; Acts 1999, No. 833, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2000.

*R.S. 47:2302