§2147. Movable property; tax debtors' rights

            A. Any person shall be allowed to point out the particular movable property which he may desire to have sold for taxes due by him, delivering the property to the tax collector at his office on or before the day of sale, provided that the property be sufficient in the opinion of the tax collector to realize the amount of the taxes due.

            B. When seizure is made of movable property in any of the forms provided to enforce the payment of taxes, the debtor may secure release of the same until the day of sale upon his forthcoming bond, with solvent security in solido, which shall be executed in the same manner as forthcoming bonds for property seized under writs of fieri facias. Anyone so releasing his property shall return the same into the possession of the tax collector for sale on or before the day of sale; unless so returned, the forthcoming bond shall be considered forfeited and shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the civil district court of the parish and shall have the force and effect of a twelve months' bond to be executed by a writ of fieri facias issued thereon by the clerk against the principal and sureties in solido, as provided by law for the enforcement of twelve months' bonds. The forfeiture of the bond shall be made to appear by certificate of the tax collector written thereon.

            Acts 2008, No. 819, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2025, No. 411, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2026.

            NOTE: Redesignated from R.S. 47:2146.

            NOTE: Former R.S. 47:2147 redesignated as R.S. 47:2148 by Acts 2025, No. 411, §4.