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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 600
BY SENATOR MOUNT
MUNICIPALITIES. Allows any municipality to prescribe civil fines for the violation of
public health, housing, fire code, environmental, and historic district ordinances in the
municipality. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 13:2575(A), relative to public health, housing, and2
environmental violations; to authorize all municipalities to prescribe civil penalties;3
and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 13:2575(A) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 6
ยง2575. Public health, housing, and environmental violations; administrative7
adjudication; procedure; appeal; penalties 8
A. Any municipality, or a parish having a population of four hundred twenty-9
five thousand or more, may prescribe civil fines for violation of public health,10
housing, fire code, environmental, and historic district ordinances in the municipality11
or parish by owners of immovable property, their agents, tenants, or representatives12
pursuant to the procedures for administrative adjudication provided in this Chapter.13
For the purposes of this Chapter, "housing violations" shall encompass only those14
conditions in privately owned structures which are determined to constitute a threat15
or danger to the public health, safety or welfare and/or to the environment, or a16
historic district. However, nothing in this Section shall be construed to affect17 SB NO. 600
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activities which occur on the premises of manufacturing facilities and which are1
regulated by Title 30 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.2
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by James Benton.
DIGEST
Present law provides that any municipality or parish having a population of 425,000 or more
may prescribe civil fines for violation of public health, housing, fire code, environmental,
and historic district ordinances in the municipality or parish by owners of immovable
property, their agents, tenants, or representatives pursuant to the procedures for
administrative adjudication provided in present law.
Proposed law retains present law and adds the right to prescribe civil fines to any
municipality.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Amends R.S.13:2575(A))