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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3021"
article_number: "3021"
status: active
heading: "Putative mandatary"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title XV › Chapter 2 › Section 3 › Subsection B"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110063"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1997, No. 261, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1997
    act_number: 261
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1998-01-01
    role: enactment
schema_version: "1.0.0"
---

# Art. 3021. Putative mandatary

One who causes a third person to believe that another person is his mandatary is bound to the third person who in good faith contracts with the putative mandatary.