{
  "urn": "urn:us-la:civcode:art:503",
  "article_number": "503",
  "heading": "Island formed by river opening a new channel.",
  "text": "When a river or stream, whether navigable or not, opens a new channel and surrounds riparian land making it an island, the ownership of that land is not affected.",
  "status": "active",
  "hierarchy_path": [
    {
      "level": "book",
      "number": "II",
      "name": "Things and the Different Modifications of Ownership"
    },
    {
      "level": "title",
      "number": "II",
      "name": "Ownership"
    },
    {
      "level": "chapter",
      "number": "2",
      "name": "Right of Accession"
    },
    {
      "level": "section",
      "number": "2",
      "name": "Accession in Relation to Immovables"
    }
  ],
  "breadcrumb": "Book II › Title II › Chapter 2 › Section 2",
  "acts_citations": [
    {
      "act_year": 1979,
      "act_number": 180,
      "section": 1,
      "effective_date": null,
      "effective_date_raw": null,
      "role": "enactment"
    }
  ],
  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 1979, No. 180, §1.",
  "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110686",
  "website_law_id": 110686,
  "scrape_timestamp": "2026-05-20T14:04:23Z",
  "source_html_hash": "sha256:3e671456045d1699f1ac3c2f394ba5e4f3463c63ac5d60d8f863ffe7f4b95fec",
  "schema_version": "1.0.0"
}