The procedures for eviction as provided by this Title shall be subject to the prohibitions and exceptions as provided by R.S.47:2158.1 and 2231.1.
Art. 4736.Prohibition of Eviction From Tax Sale Property
Book VII. Special Proceedings · Title XI. Eviction of Tenants and Occupants · Chapter 2. Procedure · Enacted 2022 · no amendments on record · Last verified July 30, 2026
In one sentenceArticle 4736 makes Louisiana's eviction procedure subject to the separate statutory prohibitions and exceptions protecting occupants of certain tax-sale property, cross-referencing the tax statutes that limit when a tax sale purchaser can use eviction to remove them.
Full Text of Art. 4736
Amendment History
Added by Acts 2022, No. 404, §2, eff. 8/1/2022.
Plain-English Summary
Louisiana law lets a tax sale purchaser acquire property when its owner falls behind on property taxes, but that purchaser's ability to remove whoever remains in possession through the eviction procedure in this Title is not unconditional. Article 4736 flags that limitation rather than restating the details, by making the eviction procedure subject to the prohibitions and exceptions found in the state's separate tax statutes.
Rather than duplicating those tax-law protections inside the Code of Civil Procedure, Article 4736 cross-references them directly, keeping the two bodies of law connected without repeating one inside the other. The eviction articles preceding this one do not override whatever protection or exception those tax statutes provide to an occupant of tax-sale property.
The practical effect is that a tax sale purchaser considering eviction under this Title has to look beyond Title XI before proceeding, since the separate tax statutes may restrict or condition the use of this summary procedure against a particular occupant.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can a tax sale purchaser use Louisiana's regular eviction procedure to remove an occupant?
Only to the extent the state's separate tax statutes allow. Article 4736 makes the eviction procedure subject to the prohibitions and exceptions those statutes set for tax-sale property.
Why does Article 4736 point to statutes outside the Code of Civil Procedure?
To keep the tax-sale protections in one place rather than duplicating them inside the eviction title, while making clear that the eviction articles yield to those protections.
What should someone check before evicting an occupant of tax-sale property?
The separate Louisiana tax statutes governing tax sales, since they may prohibit or limit the use of Title XI's eviction procedure against that occupant.
Source & verification. Article text is reproduced verbatim from
the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure (legis.la.gov). Enacted by the Louisiana Legislature.
Last verified July 30, 2026.
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