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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:778"
article_number: "778"
status: active
heading: "Affirmative duties"
breadcrumb: "Book II › Title V"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110973"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1977, No. 170, §1; Acts 2010, No. 938, §2, eff. July 2, 2010."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1977
    act_number: 170
    section: 1
    role: enactment
  - act_year: 2010
    act_number: 938
    section: 2
    effective_date: 2010-07-02
    role: amendment
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---

# Art. 778. Affirmative duties

Building restrictions may impose on owners of immovables affirmative duties that are reasonable and necessary for the maintenance of the general plan. Building restrictions may not impose upon the owner of an immovable or his successors the obligation to pay a fee or other charge on the occasion of an alienation, lease or encumbrance of the immovable.