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ACT No. 477
2024 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 927
BY REPRESENTATIVES SELDERS, BRYANT, DESHOTEL, FISHER, JACOB
LANDRY, TAYLOR, AND WALTERS
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 33:4886, relative to parishes and municipalities; to provide
3 relative to permits required by parishes and municipalities; to prohibit any parish or
4 municipality from requiring a permit for certain services provided by an authorized
5 utility provider; and to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 33:4886 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
8 ยง4886. Permits; certain utility services; parishes and municipalities
9 Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no parish
10 governing authority or municipal governing authority shall require any person who
11 holds an account with an authorized utility provider and whose account is being
12 charged by the provider for electric services provided to a dwelling located in the
13 state of Louisiana to acquire a permit from the respective parish or municipal
14 governing authority in which the dwelling is located for the purpose of changing the
15 name of the person listed as the account holder if a person who holds an account with
16 an authorized utility provider that is being charged by the provider for electric
17 services provided to a dwelling located in the state of Louisiana transfers the account
18 to another person, the parish or municipal governing authority shall not require the
19 new account holder to acquire a permit from the respective parish or municipal
20 governing authority to continue the electric services being provided by the
21 authorized utility provider to any such dwelling. Nothing in this Section shall
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1 prohibit regulatory inspection or enforcement regarding on-site sewerage disposal
2 systems, nor shall it prohibit a parish or municipal governing authority from
3 collecting past due utility debt.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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