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  • Habit; routine practice; methods of proof

    La. Code Evid. art. 406 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code code-of-evidence › Article 406

    Evidence of the habit of a person or of the routine practice of an organization, whether corroborated or not and regardless of the presence of eyewitnesses, is relevant to prove that the conduct of the … person or organization on a particular occasion was in conformity with the habit or routine practice.

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  • Standards for determination of unfitness for human habitation

    La. Rev. Stat. § 40:580.3 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code revised-statutes › Title 40 › Section 580.3

    are dangerous or injurious to the health, safety, or morals of the persons using it for human habitation or of the public. … The ordinance may provide additional standards to guide the public officer or his agents in determining the fitness of a dwelling for human habitation. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.

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  • Regulation by title.

    La. Civ. Code art. 632 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code civil-code › Article 632

    The right of habitation is regulated by the title that establishes it. If the title is silent as to the extent of habitation, the right is regulated in accordance with Articles 633 through 635.

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  • Definitions

    La. Rev. Stat. § 37:3172 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code revised-statutes › Title 37 › Section 3172

    (b) The formulation of preliminary designs for an interior area designed for human habitation or occupancy that are appropriate, functional, and esthetic. … (b) The formulation of preliminary designs for an interior area designed for human habitation or occupancy that are appropriate, functional, and esthetic.

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  • Tamed wild animals

    La. Civ. Code art. 3416 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code civil-code › Article 3416

    Tamed wild animals and birds are privately owned as long as they have the habit of returning to their owner. … They are considered to have lost the habit when they fail to return within a reasonable time.

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  • Taxes, repairs, and other charges.

    La. Civ. Code art. 636 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code civil-code › Article 636

    When the person having the right of habitation occupies the entire house, he is liable for ordinary repairs, for the payment of taxes, and for other annual charges in the same manner as the usufructuary … When the person having the right of habitation occupies only a part of the house, he is liable for ordinary repairs to the part he occupies and for all other expenses and charges in proportion to his enjoyment

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  • Definitions

    La. Rev. Stat. § 40:600.73 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code revised-statutes › Title 40 › Section 600.73

    strategy" means a plan for the acquisition of residential housing property to replace property or for the disposition, renovation or rehabilitation of either a residential housing property below minimum habitability … standards or a blighted housing property prepared by the owner or other secured party that preserves the historic integrity of the residential building and restores such property to minimum habitability

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  • Establishment and extinction.

    La. Civ. Code art. 631 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code civil-code › Article 631

    The right of habitation is established and extinguished in the same manner as the right of usufruct. Acts 1976, No. 103, §1.

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  • Duration of habitation.

    La. Civ. Code art. 638 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code civil-code › Article 638

    The right of habitation terminates at the death of the person having it unless a shorter period is stipulated. Acts 1976, No. 103, §1.

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  • Nontransferable and nonheritable right.

    La. Civ. Code art. 637 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code civil-code › Article 637

    The right of habitation is neither transferable nor heritable. It may not be alienated, let, or encumbered. Acts 1976, No. 103, §1.

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  • Habitation.

    La. Civ. Code art. 630 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code civil-code › Article 630

    Habitation is the nontransferable real right of a natural person to dwell in the house of another. Acts 1976, No. 103, §1.

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  • Persons residing in the house.

    La. Civ. Code art. 633 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code civil-code › Article 633

    A person having the right of habitation may reside in the house with his family, although not married at the time the right was granted to him. Acts 1976, No. 103, §1.

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  • Personal servitude.

    La. Civ. Code art. 534 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code civil-code › Article 534

    There are three sorts of personal servitudes: usufruct, habitation, and rights of use. Acts 1976, No. 103, §1.

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  • Definitions

    La. Rev. Stat. § 40:600.33 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code revised-statutes › Title 40 › Section 600.33

    (2) "Alternate plan" means a renovation or rehabilitation plan for either a residential housing property below minimum habitability standards or a blighted housing property prepared by the owner or other … secured party that preserves the historic integrity of the residential building and restores such property to minimum habitability standards as evidenced by (a) a physical condition assessment identifying

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  • Extent of right of habitation.

    La. Civ. Code art. 634 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code civil-code › Article 634

    A person having the right of habitation is entitled to the exclusive use of the house or of the part assigned to him, and, provided that he resides therein, he may receive friends, guests, and boarders

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  • Degree of care; duty to restore the property.

    La. Civ. Code art. 635 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code civil-code › Article 635

    A person having the right of habitation is bound to use the property as a prudent administrator and at the expiration of his right to deliver it to the owner in the condition in which he received it, ordinary

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  • Blighted housing property list; creation, maintenance, and challenges thereto

    La. Rev. Stat. § 40:600.34 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code revised-statutes › Title 40 › Section 600.34

    Creation and content. (1) A local governmental subdivision may adopt an ordinance directing a public officer to identify residential housing properties below minimum habitability standards for the purpose … a local governmental subdivision certifying the basis for such person being a party in interest and the conditions of the property that make the property unfit for human habitation, occupancy, or use

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  • Scientific research

    La. Rev. Stat. § 56:264 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code revised-statutes › Title 56 › Section 264

    The commission shall conduct scientific researches into the life habits of the nongame quadrupeds through technically trained officers and employees and, when practicable, give full publicity to such biological

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  • Distribution of fish

    La. Rev. Stat. § 56:582 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code revised-statutes › Title 56 › Section 582

    The secretary shall distribute the fish from the state hatcheries to all sections of the state where the waters are found suited to the habits of the various species.

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  • Qualifications of board members

    La. Rev. Stat. § 37:3464 · Louisiana · Statutes

    Code revised-statutes › Title 37 › Section 3464

    Each member of the board shall be at least twenty-one years of age, of good moral character and temperate habits, and a resident of this state and shall have engaged in distribution as defined by this

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