Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 22, § 839. Certain nonprofit mutual associations declared charitable institutions

Any domestic nonprofit mutual association, the net earnings of which do not inure to the benefit of any individual, which is engaged exclusively in the business of furnishing hospital service, medical, or surgical benefits, so that such services or benefits are furnished to those of the public who become subscribers of the plan, and at least a majority of whose directors or managing officers are administrators, trustees, or members of the clinical staffs or advisory boards of nonprofit hospitals having contracts with the association, or are licensed doctors of medicine who are members of their parish medical society and of the Louisiana State Medical Society is declared to be a charitable and beneficial institution. As such, its receipts, surplus, and reserves are exempt from all forms of taxation by the state or any of its political subdivisions, taxes on the real estate and the office equipment owned by the association, and the fee provided for in R.S. 22:840. This exemption from taxation applies to any form of taxation, licenses, fees, or assessments which has heretofore or which may hereafter become due the state or any of its political subdivisions.