HLS 16RS-2053 ORIGINAL
2016 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 967
BY REPRESENTATIVE THIBAUT
PARISH/ORDINANCES: Authorizes parish governing authorities to regulate livestock
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 33:1236(5), relative to the powers of parish governing
3 authorities; to authorize parish governing authorities to take actions to regulate
4 livestock; and to provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 33:1236(5) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง1236. Powers of parish governing authorities
8 The police juries and other parish governing authorities shall have the
9 following powers:
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11 (5) To pass all ordinances and regulations in relation to the marking, the sale,
12 destruction of cattle in general and especially of wild cattle which are not marked
13 and also of horses and mules; and to take any measure concerning the policing of
14 cattle livestock in general in all the cases not provided for by law; to fix the time in
15 which cattle livestock may be suffered to rove in the parishes of this state, where that
16 custom prevails, so that such roving may not be detrimental to the crops; to
17 determine what animals shall not be suffered to rove, and in what cases they may
18 lawfully be killed.
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are additions. HLS 16RS-2053 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 967
DIGEST
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HB 967 Original 2016 Regular Session Thibaut
Abstract: Authorizes parish governing authorities to regulate livestock.
Present law authorizes police juries and other parish governing authorities to pass ordinances
and regulations relative to the marking, sale, and destruction of cattle, horses, and mules.
Authorizes such parish governing authorities to police cattle in cases not provided for by law
and to fix the time in which cattle may rove. Proposed law authorizes parish governing
authorities to police livestock, rather than cattle, and to fix the time in which livestock, rather
than cattle, may rove.
(Amends R.S. 33:1236(5))
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