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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 664
BY SENATOR CORTEZ
AGRICULTURE/FOREST COMR. Authorizes the commissioner of agriculture and
forestry to receive and investigate complaints about prescribed burns and to revoke his
authorization in certain situations. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 3:17(F), relative to prescribed burning; to provide for the powers, duties, and2
authority of the commissioner of agriculture and forestry; to allow the commissioner3
to receive complaints of prescribed burns and investigate such complaints; to provide4
the commissioner with authority to suspend or revoke certain authorizations; and to5
provide for related matters.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. R.S. 3:17(F) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 8
ยง17. Prescribed burning; intent and purpose; authorization; definitions9
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F. Persons who wish to complain about certain prescribed burns shall11
issue their complaints to the commissioner. The commissioner shall investigate12
such complaints and have the authority to suspend or revoke his authorization13
for the prescribed burn for such persons found to be in violation of the14
prescribed burn requirements or rules and regulations promulgated pursuant15
to this Section.16 SB NO. 664
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Heyward Jeffers.
DIGEST
Cortez (SB 664)
Proposed law provides that complaints by citizens about prescribed burns shall be made to
the commissioner of agriculture and forestry, who shall investigate such complaints and who
will possess the authority to suspend or revoke his authorization issued to persons found to
be in violation of the prescribed burn requirements or rules and regulations.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Adds R.S. 3:17(F))