SLS 16RS-175 ORIGINAL
2016 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 62
BY SENATOR MARTINY
MOTOR VEHICLES. Provides for parking in residential areas. (8/1/16)
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 32:144(C), relative to parking; to provide for parking in a residence district;
3 and to provide for related matters.
4 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
5 Section 1. R.S. 32:144(C) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
6 ยง144. Additional parking regulations
7 * * *
8 C. The provisions of Subsection A of this Section shall not apply to any
9 vehicle standing or parked on a highway or street in a residence district as
10 defined in R.S. 32:1(56).
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Sharon F. Lyles.
DIGEST
SB 62 Original 2016 Regular Session Martiny
Present law requires every vehicle standing or parked on a highway where there are adjacent
curbs to stand or park with the right-hand wheels of such vehicle parallel to and within
eighteen inches of the right-hand curb.
Present law defines "residence district" as the territory contiguous to a highway not
comprising a business district, when the frontage on such a highway for a distance of three
hundred feet or more is mainly occupied by dwellings or by dwellings and buildings in use
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for business.
Proposed law provides that present law does not apply in a residence district.
Effective August 1, 2016.
(Adds R.S. 32:144(C))
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words in boldface type and underscored are additions.