§5021. Privilege on assets of purchaser when purchaser becomes insolvent or bankrupt
When any corporation formed under the provisions of the laws of the State of Louisiana, or any corporation doing business in this state, or any partnership, firm or individual doing business in this state, becomes insolvent or bankrupt, the producers of agricultural and dairy products, including cooperative marketing associations of such producers, shall have a special privilege upon the assets, whether immovable, movable, or mixed, of such corporation, partnership, firm or individual for the amount of payments for agricultural and dairy products due them, not exceeding six months payments for such products which shall have accrued prior to the adjudication of the insolvency or bankruptcy of such corporati
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§5021. Privilege on assets of purchaser when purchaser becomes insolvent or bankrupt
When any corporation formed under the provisions of the laws of the State of Louisiana, or any corporation doing business in this state, or any partnership, firm or individual doing business in this state, becomes insolvent or bankrupt, the producers of agricultural and dairy products, including cooperative marketing associations of such producers, shall have a special privilege upon the assets, whether immovable, movable, or mixed, of such corporation, partnership, firm or individual for the amount of payments for agricultural and dairy products due them, not exceeding six months payments for such products which shall have accrued prior to the adjudication of the insolvency or bankruptcy of such corporation, partnership, firm or individual, which privilege shall rank ahead of all other privileges, debts, charges, or claims against said corporation, partnership, firm or individual, except: (1) those arising out of taxes due the United States government or the State of Louisiana, and (2) bona fide vendor's privileges or mortgages if the vendor's privileges or mortgages exist and have been recorded before the purchase of the agricultural and dairy products for which payment is due, and, (3) laborer's privileges, and (4) lessor's privileges; provided, however, that the privilege of producers of agricultural and dairy products shall take effect and its rank or order of priority established only from the date and time that an affidavit asserting such indebtedness and privilege is recorded in the mortgage records of the parish in which the bankrupt or insolvent debtor is domiciled, if domiciled in the State of Louisiana, or in the parish where the bankrupt or insolvent debtor has its principal place of business in Louisiana, if its domicile is out of the State of Louisiana.
Added by Acts 1968, No. 461, §1.