CHAPTER 37.  CONSTABLES AND MARSHALS

PART I.  GENERAL PROVISIONS

§5801.  Proper bond not to operate as mortgage

If the bond of the constable, except in Orleans Parish, is given with three good and solvent sureties, bound in solido, residing within the parish wherein the constable is to exercise the functions of his office, or with an approved surety company, and the bond is then approved by the judge of the district court for the parish, the bond shall not be recorded in the mortgage records and shall not operate as a mortgage on any property of the constable, or on any surety thereon.

Redesignated from R.S. 33:1701 pursuant to Acts 2011, No. 248, §3.