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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 4
BY SENATOR MURRAY
PUBLIC HEALTH. Authorizes ordinances regulating backwashing of swimming pools into
the street. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 33:4883, relative to the exercise of police powers by local governmental2
subdivisions; to authorize parish and municipal governing authorities to adopt3
ordinances regulating the backwash and drainage of swimming pools; and to provide4
for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 33:4883 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 7
ยง4883. Exercise of police power; backwashing and drainage of residential and8
commercial pools9
For the purpose of promoting the health, safety, and general welfare of10
the community, parish and municipal governing authorities may adopt11
ordinances regulating the backwashing and drainage of residential and12
commercial swimming pools into the street. Such ordinances may restrict the13
practice of backwashing or draining a swimming pool into the street. Any such14
ordinance shall be subject to judicial review on the grounds of abuse of15
discretion, unreasonable exercise of police powers, excessive use of the power16
herein granted, or the denial of the right of due process. However, the right of17 SB NO. 4
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judicial review of such ordinances shall not be limited by the provisions of this1
Section.2
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Greg Waddell.
DIGEST
Murray (SB 4)
Proposed law provides that parish or municipal governing authorities may adopt ordinances
regulating the backwashing and drainage of residential and commercial swimming pools into
the street.
Proposed law further provides that any ordinance which restricts the practice of backwashing
or draining a swimming pool into the street shall be subject to judicial review on the grounds
of abuse of discretion, unreasonable exercise of police powers, excessive use of the power
herein granted, or the denial of the right of due process. However, the right of judicial
review of such ordinances shall not be limited by the provisions of this proposed law.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Adds R.S. 33:4883)