RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
Act 164 (SB 176) 2015 Regular Session Appel
Prior law provided that the board of commissioners of the Port of New Orleans may
prescribe civil fines for violation of ordinances prohibiting parking, stopping, or standing in
certain areas of the jurisdiction of the port pursuant to the procedures for administrative
adjudication provided for in prior law.
New law provides that the board of commissioners may prescribe civil fines for violation of
its traffic and parking ordinances which prohibit speeding, parking, stopping, or standing in
certain areas of the jurisdiction of the port pursuant to the procedures for administrative
adjudication provided for in prior law.
Prior law provided that the board of commissioners of the Port of New Orleans may adopt
an ordinance establishing an administrative adjudication hearing procedure under prior law.
Prior law further provided that each ordinance shall provide a time period for persons
charged with violating a parking, stopping, or standing ordinance to have a hearing under
prior law. Further provided that the ordinance shall provide for appointment of hearing
officers who shall have been licensed to practice law in Louisiana for five years and who may
administer oaths and affirmations and to issue orders compelling the attendance of witnesses
and the production of documents. Provided that any order compelling the attendance of
witnesses or the production of documents may be enforced by the appellate court in the
parish in which the violation is alleged to have occurred.
New law retains prior law and adds speeding as one of the ordinances for which a time
period shall be provided within which a person charged with violations of the ordinance shall
have a hearing under prior law.
Prior law provided that a hearing officer shall issue an order stating whether or not the person
charged is liable for violation of the parking, stopping, or standing ordinance and the amount
of any fine, penalty, costs, or fee assessed against him, which order may be filed with the
port. Prior law further provided that any such order filed with the port may be enforced by
immobilization of the offending vehicle.
New law retains prior law and adds speeding as one of the ordinances for which the person
charged may be liable.
Prior law provided that any person determined by the hearing officer to be in violation of a
parking, stopping, or standing ordinance may appeal this determination to the appellate court
in the parish in which the violation is alleged to have occurred.
Prior law retains prior law and adds speeding as a possible violation which may be appealed.
Prior law provided that an agency of the port, designated by ordinance, shall accept payments
of violations for parking, stopping, or standing ordinances.
New law retains prior law and adds payment of speeding violations to the list of ordinances.
Effective August 1, 2015.
(Amends R.S. 13:2571.1)