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Within a reasonable time subsequent to approval by all necessary parties of a local housing authority's resolution to dissolve, the authority shall transfer its assets and liabilities to the transferee designated in the resolution. Upon the transfer of any of the authority's property, the receiving local housing authority, municipality, parish, or other public agency shall have all right, title, and interest in and to such property and all duties and obligations arising out of the transfer of such property as the transferring authority had. Upon dissolution and transfer, all rights, contracts, agreements, obligations, and property, real and personal, of such transferring authority, shall be in the name of, and vest in, such receiving local housing authority, municipality, parish, or other public agency, and all obligations of such transferring local housing authority shall be the obligations of such receiving local housing authority, municipality, parish or other public agency. All rights and remedies of any person against such transferring local housing authority may be asserted, enforced, and prosecuted against such receiving local housing authority, municipality, parish, or other public agency. All rights and remedies of any person against such transferring local housing authority may be asserted, enforced, and prosecuted against such receiving local housing authority, municipality, parish, or other public agency to the same extent as they might have been asserted, enforced, and prosecuted against such transferring local housing authority.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 40, § 542. Rights and obligations upon transfer, dissolution - last updated January 01, 2023 | https://codes.findlaw.com/la/revised-statutes/la-rev-stat-tit-40-sect-542/
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