ENROLLED
ACT No. 57
2018 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 104
BY REPRESENTATIVES JIM MORRIS AND BISHOP
AN ACT
To amend and reenact R.S. 30:544(A)(1), relative to pipeline safety violations; to raise the
maximum penalty for such violations; and to provide for related matters.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
Section 1. R.S. 30:544(A)(1) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ยง544. Violation; penalties, civil and criminal
A.(1) Any person who shall be determined by the assistant secretary, after
notice and an opportunity for a hearing, to have violated any provision of this
Chapter or any rule, regulation, or order promulgated or issued under this Chapter
shall be liable to the office of conservation for a civil penalty not to exceed ten two
hundred thousand dollars for each violation for each day that the violation persists,
except that the maximum civil penalty shall not exceed five hundred thousand two
million dollars for any related series of violations.
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SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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