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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:966"
article_number: "966"
status: active
heading: "Acceptance or renunciation of accretion"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title I › Chapter 6 › Section 3"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=111096"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1997
    act_number: 1421
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1999-07-01
    role: enactment
schema_version: "1.0.0"
---

# Art. 966. Acceptance or renunciation of accretion

A person to whom succession rights accrete may accept or renounce all or part of the accretion. The acceptance or renunciation of the accretion need not be consistent with his acceptance or renunciation of other succession rights.