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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE BILL NO. 819
BY REPRESENTATIVE MILLS
MTR VEHICLE/EMERGENCY: Changes definition of "authorized emergency vehicle"
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 32:1(1), relative to motor vehicles; to provide for certain2
personal vehicles be included in the definition of "authorized emergency vehicle";3
and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 32:1(1) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:6
ยง1. Definitions7
When used in this Chapter, the following words and phrases have the8
meaning ascribed to them in this Section, unless the context clearly indicates a9
different meaning:10
(1) "Authorized emergency vehicle" means a vehicle of a fire department,11
a vehicle of the department's weights and standards police force, a police vehicle, a12
privately owned vehicle belonging to members of an organized volunteer fire13
department or fire district when so designated or authorized by the fire chief of that14
fire department or fire district, a privately owned vehicle equipped with emergency15
lights or sirens belonging to a peace officer or deputized parish or municipality16
employee and being used in the course and scope of his employment to respond to17
an emergency when such use is designated or authorized by the employing public18
body, an industrial-owned vehicle assigned to members of a fire department or fire19
district when so designated or authorized by the fire chief of that fire department or20 HLS 10RS-895 ENGROSSED
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fire district, a vehicle parked or stopped by elevator repair or construction personnel1
while responding to an elevator emergency, such ambulances and emergency2
medical response vehicles certified by the Department of Health and Hospitals that3
are operated by certified ambulance services, and emergency vehicles of municipal4
departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the5
secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development or by the chief of6
police of any incorporated municipality. For purposes of this Section, elevator repair7
shall be limited to those elevators that move people.8
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Mills HB No. 819
Abstract: Adds privately owned vehicles owned by certain persons and used within the
course and scope of certain employment to be included in the definition of
"authorized emergency vehicle".
Proposed law adds a privately owned vehicle equipped with emergency lights or sirens
belonging to a peace officer or deputized parish or municipality employee and being used
in the course and scope of his employment to respond to an emergency when such use is
designated or authorized by the employing public body to the definition of "authorized
emergency vehicle".
(Amends R.S. 32:1(1))