The bill amends Louisiana law regarding legal servitudes, specifically focusing on rights of passage for enclosed estates and utility servitudes. It establishes that owners of enclosed estates lacking access to public roads can claim a right of passage over neighboring properties, with the requirement to compensate the neighbor. Additionally, it introduces provisions allowing owners of estates without utility access to claim a utility servitude over neighboring properties, also necessitating compensation. The bill repeals certain existing articles and relocates utility servitude provisions from the Civil Code to the Louisiana Revised Statutes, clarifying compensation and indemnification guidelines for both rights of passage and utility servitudes.

Key amendments include the stipulation that the owner of the dominant estate must compensate the neighbor for the utility servitude, with the possibility of compensation claims being barred by prescription. The utility servitude is limited to what is reasonably necessary for utility provision, ensuring that the burden on the servient estate remains similar to that of an ordinary household. The bill also outlines the preferred location for utility servitudes, mandates gratuitous servitude provision in cases of judicial partition or voluntary alienation, and grants the servient estate owner the right to demand relocation of the servitude at their expense. Furthermore, it requires the dominant estate owner to indemnify the servient estate owner for any damages incurred from the servitude's use, while repealing Civil Code Article 696.1 entirely.