§1149.6.  Deimmobilization

A.  The owner may deimmobilize a manufactured home by detachment or removal.  However, to affect third persons, an authentic act or sale or mortgage or sale with mortgage containing a description of the manufactured home as described in the previous certificate of title or manufacturer's certificate of origin, a description of the lot or tract of land upon which the manufactured home has been placed, a statement of intent by the owner that he no longer intends the manufactured home to be an immovable and a description of the document by which the manufactured home was immobilized, including the recording information, must be filed in the appropriate conveyance or mortgage records of the parish where the said lot or tract of land is situated.  

B.  Thereafter the owner may apply to the commissioner for a certificate of title according to the provisions of Chapter 4 of Title 32 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.  The commissioner shall issue a certificate of title upon the furnishing of:  (a) a certificate of mortgages; (b) a certified copy of the act of deimmobilization as provided in R.S. 9:1149.6(A); and (c) a release of all mortgages previously secured by the manufactured home and/or the immovable property upon which the manufactured home was located.  

C.  Upon the issuance of a certificate of title by the commissioner, the manufactured home shall be deemed a movable, and shall be subject to all laws concerning movable property.  

Added by Acts 1982, No. 524, §1, eff. July 22, 1982.