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urn: urn:us-la:rs:9:2730
citation: "R.S. 9:2730"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 9 › Code Preliminary Title › Code Book III › Code Title II › Chapter 2 › Part I"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 2022, number: 481, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
---

# Prohibited private restrictive covenants

Any promise, covenant, or restriction in a contract, mortgage, lease, deed, or conveyance or in any other agreement affecting immovable property that limits, restrains, prohibits, or otherwise provides against the sale, grant, gift, transfer, assignment, conveyance, ownership, lease, rental, use, or occupancy of immovable property to or by any person based on race or religion shall be void, against public policy, and wholly unenforceable and shall not constitute a defense in any action, suit, or proceeding.