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HB 147 Original 2024 Regular Session Glorioso
Abstract: Provides additional administrative adjudication procedures and judicial review
procedures in the city of Slidell.
Present law authorizes municipalities and parishes to prescribe civil fines for violations of certain
types of ordinances, including housing ordinances. Present law defines the term "housing violation"
as only those conditions in privately owned structures which are determined to constitute a threat or
danger to the public health, safety, or welfare or to the environment or a historic district. Present law
further provides that in municipalities with a population of 70,000 or more and in other specified
parishes and municipalities, the term shall also encompass building codes, zoning, vegetation, and
nuisance ordinances.
Proposed law provides that in the city of Slidell, the term "housing violation" also encompasses
building codes, zoning, vegetation, and nuisance ordinances and ordinances that provide for the
regulation of sewerage and drainage systems.
Present law authorizes municipalities and parishes to adopt ordinances establishing an administrative
adjudication procedure for holding hearings related to present law violations. Additionally
authorizes certain parishes and municipalities to use administrative adjudication procedures in
matters involving licensing, permits, and other ordinance violations that may be determined by the
respective parish or municipal governing authority.
Proposed law authorizes Slidell to use administrative adjudication procedures in matters involving
licensing, permits, and other ordinance violations as determined by the municipal governing
authority.
Proposed law provides procedures for judicial review of decisions of the adjudication hearing officer
in Slidell as follows:
(1)Provides for appeal by filing a petition with the district court within 30 days after the
decision of the hearing officer.
(2)Authorizes the court to allow a writ of certiorari directed to the hearing officer to review the
decision. Provides that the allowance of the writ does not stay the proceedings or any
enforcement unless the person who files the appeal furnishes security in the amount
sufficient to assure satisfaction of the fine, fee, penalty, costs of the hearing, and costs, if any,
of correcting the violation. (3)The hearing officer's return to the court shall concisely set forth pertinent and material facts.
(4)Authorizes the court to take additional testimony or to appoint a referee to take such
testimony. (5)Provides that the court may reverse or affirm, wholly or in part, or may modify the decision.
(Adds R.S. 13:2575.2.1)