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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 684
BY SENATOR ERDEY
MOTOR VEHICLES. Provides authority to remove vehicles and cargo from roadways.
(8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 32:155, relative to motor vehicles; to provide authority to remove vehicles,2
cargo, or other personal property from roadways; and to provide for related matters.3
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:4
Section 1. R.S. 32:155 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 5
ยง155. Authority to remove vehicles and cargo 6
A. As a result of a motor vehicle accident or incident, the commissioner,7
the secretary, any police officer, any public safety agency, or any person acting8
at their direction or request, may, without the consent of the owner,9
immediately remove or have removed any vehicle, cargo, or other personal10
property that has been damaged or spilled within the highway which constitutes11
a hazard or obstructs traffic when such removal will improve public health or12
safety and reduce accident or incident related traffic congestion and delay.13
B. No liability shall attach to the secretary, commissioner, any police14
officer, any public safety agency, or to any person acting under their direction15
or request, for damage to a vehicle, cargo, or other personal property, which16
may result from the exercise or failure to exercise any authority granted under17 SB NO. 684
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this Section in the absence of gross negligence.1
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Sharon F. Lyles.
DIGEST
Proposed law provides removal authority, as result of a motor vehicle accident or incident,
to the secretary, commissioner, any police officer, any public safety agency, or any person
acting at their direction or request, without the consent of the owner, to immediately remove
or have removed any vehicle, cargo, or other personal property that has been damaged or
spilled within the highway which constitutes a hazard or obstructs traffic when such removal
will improve public health or safety and reduce accident or incident related traffic congestion
and delay.
Proposed law provides that there is no liability for exercise or failure to exercise removal
authority in the absence of gross negligence.
Effective August 1, 2012.
(Adds R.S. 32:155)