Title 9. Civil Code Ancillaries

Code Book III. Of the Different Modes of Acquiring the Ownership of Things

Code Title IV. Conventional Obligations or Contracts

Chapter 1. Louisiana Uniform Electronic Transactions Act

9:2604     Prospective application; exemption from preemption

A. This Chapter applies to any electronic record or electronic signature created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored on or after July 1, 2001. 

B. This Chapter is intended and shall be construed to constitute an enactment or adoption of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as approved and recommended for enactment in all states by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 1999. If a court of competent jurisdiction finds that any provision of this Chapter is inconsistent with 15 U.S.C. 7002(a)(1) (the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act), then any inconsistent provision is intended to comply with 15 U.S.C. 7002(a)(2)(A) and (B). 

Added by Acts 2001, No. 244, § 1, eff. July 1, 2001.