Louisiana § RS 37:1436 - Licensing and registration required

§ RS 37:1436. Licensing and registration required

            A. Licenses issued by the commission shall be classed as active and inactive.

            B. It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, limited liability company, association, or corporation, foreign or domestic, whether pursuant to a power of attorney or otherwise, for a fee, commission, or other valuable consideration, or with the intention, in the expectation, or upon the promise of receiving or collecting a fee, commission or other valuable consideration, to engage in any real estate activity relating to any portion of a real estate transaction performed for another, unless exempted, as specified herein.

            C. It shall be unlawful for any individual, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, or other legal entity, or the successor or assignee thereof, to create a timeshare plan, or to make sales of timeshare interests, which it owns or purports to own or for another, without first obtaining a registration, as provided in this Chapter, unless exempted, as specified therein.

            D. Any person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other legal entity that, directly or indirectly for another, with the intention or upon the promise of receiving any valuable consideration, offers, attempts, or agrees to perform, or performs any single act described herein, whether as a part of a transaction, or as an entire transaction, shall be deemed a licensee or registrant within the meaning of this Chapter. The commission of a single act by such a person or entity required to be licensed or registered under this Chapter and not so licensed or registered shall constitute a violation of the provisions of this Chapter.

            E. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than five hundred dollars per day of violation, beginning from five calendar days from service by certified mail of the cease-and-desist letter issued by the commission, or imprisoned for not more than three months, or both.

            F. The district attorney in whose jurisdiction the violation occurs shall have sole authority to prosecute criminal actions pursuant to this Section.

            Acts 1978, No. 514, §1; Acts 1989, No. 655, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990; Acts 1997, No. 845, §1; Acts 2016, No. 533, §1; Acts 2017, No. 50, §1.