§505. Statement of authority as to immovable property

A. An unincorporated association may execute and file a statement of authority to mortgage, hypothecate, encumber, donate, or otherwise transfer an interest in immovable property in the name of the unincorporated association.

B. An interest in immovable property held in the name of an unincorporated association may be mortgaged, hypothecated, encumbered, donated, or otherwise transferred by a person so authorized in a statement of authority filed in the conveyance records in the parish in which the immovable property is situated.

C. A statement of authority shall set forth all of the following:

(1) The name of the unincorporated association.

(2) The federal tax identification number, if any, of the unincorporated association.

(3) The address in this state, including the street address, if any, of the unincorporated association, or, if the unincorporated association does not have an address in this state, its address out of state.

(4) The fact that it is an unincorporated association.

(5) The name or title of a person authorized to transfer an interest in immovable property held in the name of the unincorporated association.

(6) That the transaction was duly authorized by a majority of the members or otherwise in accordance with the bylaws or other governing documents of the unincorporated association as duly adopted by a majority of the members.

D. A statement of authority shall be in the form of an authentic act and must be executed by a person who is not the person authorized to transfer the interest in immovable property.

E. A filing officer may collect a fee for filing a statement of authority in the amount authorized for filing a transfer of immovable property.

F. An amendment, including a cancellation, of a statement of authority shall meet the form requirements and be filed in the same manner as an original statement. Unless canceled earlier, a filed statement of authority or its most recent amendment is canceled by operation of law five years after the date of the most recent filing.

G. If the record title to immovable property is in the name of an unincorporated association and the statement of authority is filed in the conveyance records in the parish in which the immovable property is situated, the authority of the person named in a statement of authority to transfer is conclusive in favor of a person who gives value without notice that the person lacks authority.

Renumbered from R.S.1950, §12:405 by Acts 1968, No. 105, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 1969; Acts 1985, No. 907, §1; Acts 2008, No. 877, §1.

NOTE: Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 270, §1; however, superceded and reenacted by Acts 1985, No. 907, §2.