CODE TITLE X - OF CORPORATIONS

CHAPTER 1.  CORPORATIONS; UNAUTHORIZED

CORPORATIONS; UNINCORPORATED NONPROFIT

ASSOCIATIONS

§1051.  Unauthorized corporations; unincorporated nonprofit associations; powers and liabilities

A.  Corporations unauthorized by law or by an act of the legislature enjoy no public character, although these corporations may acquire and possess estates and have common interests as well as other private societies.

Unless otherwise provided by its constitution, charter, bylaws, rules, or regulations under which it is organized, governed, and exists, any unincorporated nonprofit association may alienate or encumber title to immovable property to any person.  For the purposes of this article, immovable property includes, without limitation, mineral rights, predial servitudes, and predial leases, and a transaction to alienate or encumber shall include, without limitation, transactions to mortgage, hypothecate, donate, or transfer title to immovable property.  Any such transaction shall be authorized by resolution adopted by a majority of the members of the association who vote on the resolution at a special meeting called and held for that purpose.  The resolution may designate a person or persons to act as agent for the purpose of effectuating the transaction.  Notice of the special meeting, including the date, time, and place of the meeting and the substance of the contemplated resolution, shall be published, on two separate days at least fifteen days prior to the date of the meeting, in the official journal of the parish in which a majority of the members reside or, if none, in a newspaper of general circulation in the parish.  A copy of the resolution and proof of publication as required herein shall be attached to each act effectuating the transaction.  

B.  The provisions of this article applicable to transfers of immovable property by unincorporated nonprofit associations shall not apply when the transfers are part of an incorporation of the association in which substantially all of the assets of the unincorporated nonprofit association are transferred to the new corporation.  In such cases, R.S. 12:207(C) shall govern the transfer.  

Amended by Acts 1977, No. 489, §1; Acts 1978, No. 388, §1; Acts 1978, No. 459, §1; Acts 1979, No. 356, §1; Acts 1980, No. 352, §1; Acts 1987, No. 126, §2.