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urn: urn:us-la:rs:9:4201
citation: "R.S. 9:4201"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 9 › Code Preliminary Title › Code Book III › Code Title XIX › Chapter 2"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1997, number: 1451, section: 2, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
---

# Validity of arbitration agreements

A provision in any written contract to settle by arbitration a controversy thereafter arising out of the contract, or out of the refusal to perform the whole or any part thereof, or an agreement in writing between two or more persons to submit to arbitration any controversy existing between them at the time of the agreement to submit, shall be valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.