TITLE 41. PUBLIC LANDS

CHAPTER 6. SCHOOL LANDS

PART IV. ACTIONS INVOLVING SCHOOL LANDS
SUBPART B. ACTIONS BY SCHOOL BOARDS

41:961        Actions for recovery of title and damages for trespass

 The school boards of the various parishes of the state may contract with and employ on the part of the State of Louisiana, attorneys at law, to recover for the state, damages for trespass to the sixteenth section known as school lands the title to which is still in the state. Each of the boards may make these contracts for the lands situated in its own parish and no others. The school boards may also sue for and recover the sixteenth section known as school lands.