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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3060"
article_number: "3060"
status: active
heading: "Prescription of the surety's obligation, right of reimbursement, and contribution"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title XVI › Chapter 6"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110102"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1987, No. 409, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1988."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1987
    act_number: 409
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1988-01-01
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# Art. 3060. Prescription of the surety's obligation, right of reimbursement, and contribution

Prescription of the principal obligation extinguishes the obligation of the surety. A surety's action for contribution from his co-sureties and his action for reimbursement from the principal obligor prescribe in ten years.

The interruption of prescription against a surety is effective against the principal obligor and other sureties only when such parties have mutually agreed to be bound together with the surety against whom prescription was interrupted.