La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2370.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2370.2
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this Subpart, the following terms have the following meanings:

(1) "Agriculture" means the commercial planting, growing, harvesting, production, storage, processing, marketing, distribution, or export of any agricultural product, including but not limited to farm products, livestock and livestock products, poultry and poultry products, milk and dairy products, fruit and other horticultural products, and seafood and aquacultural products.

(2) "Broadband service" means deployed internet access service with a minimum of one hundred megabits per second (Mbps) download and at least twenty megabits per second upload transmission speeds. The office shall have the authority to determine whether any particular technology can reliably meet or exceed any internet transmission speed threshold.

(3) "Cooperative" means a corporation organized under Part I of Chapter 2 of Title 12 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 or a corporation who becomes subject to those provisions pursuant to R.S. 12:401 et seq.

(4) "Director" means the executive director of the office of broadband development and connectivity within the division of administration.

(5) "Economically distressed parish" means an unserved area that is in need of expansion of business and industry and the creation of jobs, giving consideration to unemployment, per capita income, and the number of residents receiving public assistance within that unserved area.

(6) "Eligible grant recipient" means a provider of broadband service, including a provider operated by a local government if the local government is compliant with the Local Government Fair Competition Act prior to July 1, 2021, with respect to providing such services, a cooperative, or any partnership thereof.

(7) "Eligible parishes" means any parish with unserved structures.

(8) "Eligible project" means a discrete and specific project located in an unserved area of an eligible parish seeking to provide broadband service to homes, households, businesses, educational facilities, healthcare facilities, and community anchor points not currently served. A project that is primarily engaged in middle-mile, backhaul, or similar work is not an eligible project. The inclusion of middle-mile, backhaul, or similar capacity is permissible in an eligible project, if the capacity does not otherwise exist and is necessary for the project's last-mile broadband connectivity to end users. If a contiguous project area crosses from one eligible parish into one or more eligible adjacent parishes, for the purposes of this Subpart, the project shall be deemed to be located in the parish where the greatest number of unserved households are proposed to be served.

(9) "Household" means any individual or group of individuals who are living together at the same address as one economic unit. A household may include related and unrelated persons. An "economic unit" consists of all adult individuals contributing to and sharing in the income and expenses of a household. An adult is any person eighteen years or older. If an adult has no or minimal income, and lives with someone who provides financial support to him, both people shall be considered part of the same household. Children under the age of eighteen living with their parents or guardians are considered to be part of the same household as their parents or guardians.

(10) "Infrastructure" means existing facilities, equipment, materials, and structures that an internet service provider has installed either for its core business or public enterprise purposes. Examples include but are not limited to copper wire, coaxial cable, optical cable, loose tube cable, communication huts, conduits, vaults, patch panels, mounting hardware, poles, generators, batteries and cabinets, network nodes, network routers, network switches, microwave relays, microwave receivers, site routers, outdoor cabinets, towers, easements, rights-of-way, and buildings or structures owned by the entity that are made available for location or collocation purposes.

(11) "Infrastructure costs" means costs directly related to the construction of broadband infrastructure for the extension of broadband service for an eligible project, including installation, acquiring or updating easements, backhaul infrastructure, and testing costs. The term does not include overhead or administrative costs.

(12) "Local government" means a parish, municipality, or school board, or any instrumentality thereof.

(13) "Office" means the office of broadband development and connectivity within the division of administration.

(14) "Prospective broadband recipient" means a household, home, business, educational facility, healthcare facility, community anchor point, agricultural operation, or agricultural processing facility that is currently unserved and is identified in an application submitted in accordance with this Subpart.

(15) "Shapefile" means a file format for storing, depicting, and analyzing geospatial data depicting broadband coverage, comprised of several component files, such as a Main file (.shp), an Index file, (.sbx) and a dBASE table (.dbf).

(16) "Unserved" means, notwithstanding any other provision of law, any federal funding awarded to or allocated by the state for broadband deployment shall not be used, directly or indirectly, to deploy broadband infrastructure to provide broadband internet service in any area of the state where broadband internet service of at least one hundred megabits per second download and twenty megabits per second upload is available from at least one internet service provider.

(17) "Unserved area" means a designated geographic area that is presently without access to broadband service, as defined in this Section, offered by a wireline or fixed wireless provider. Areas included in an application where a provider has been designated to receive funds through other state or federally funded programs designed specifically for broadband deployment shall be considered served if such funding is intended to result in the initiation of activity related to construction of broadband infrastructure in such area within twenty-four months of the expiration of the sixty-day period related to such application established pursuant to R.S. 51:2370.4(C).

Acts 2021, No. 477, §1, eff. July 1, 2021; Acts 2022, No. 288, §2; Acts 2023, No. 383, §3A.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2131 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2131
Short title
Status: in_force

This Chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Child Performer Trust Act".

Acts 2005, No. 147, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2011 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2011
Nonapplicability
Status: in_force

A. Nothing in R.S. 51:2009 or 2010 shall apply to any monitoring of or interaction with a user's Internet or other network connection or service, or a protected computer, by a cable operator, computer hardware or software provider, or provider of information service or interactive computer service for network or computer security purposes, diagnostics, technical support, repair, authorized updates of software or system firmware, network management or maintenance, authorized remote system management or detection or prevention of the use of or fraudulent or other illegal activities as prohibited by this Chapter in connection with a network, service, or computer software, including scanning for and removing software proscribed under this Chapter.

B. Nothing in this Chapter shall limit the rights of providers of wire and electronic communications under 18 U.S.C. 2511.

Acts 2006, No. 392, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:122 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 122
Contracts, combinations and conspiracies in restraint of trade illegal; penalty
Status: in_force

A. Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce in this state is illegal.

B. Whoever violates this Section shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned, with or without hard labor, not more than three years, or both.

C. For purposes of this Title, a parent corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or partnership-in-commendam is not capable of conspiring with any subsidiary that it controls, and each such controlled subsidiary is not capable of conspiring with any other wholly owned subsidiary controlled by the same common parent.

D. For the purposes of this Part only, an officer or employee of a legal entity is not capable of conspiring with the legal entity or with another officer or employee of the legal entity when they are acting on behalf of the entity.

Acts 2003, No. 888, §1; Acts 2012, No. 782, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2108 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2108
Reporting
Status: in_force

No state entity that receives cybersecurity information shared pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter shall be subject to the reporting requirements of 6 U.S.C. 1508.

Acts 2019, No. 187, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1362 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1362
The office of broadband development and connectivity
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby created within the division of administration the office of broadband development and connectivity. The head of the office shall be the executive director of broadband development and connectivity.

B. The executive director shall employ necessary staff to carry out the duties and functions of the office as provided in this Chapter, or as otherwise provided by law.

C. On or before February first of each year, the executive director shall prepare and submit to the governor, the House Committee on Commerce, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and International Affairs, and the Joint Legislative Committee on Technology and Cybersecurity, a comprehensive report to include, at a minimum, the following information:

(1) Activities undertaken by the office during the previous year.

(2) Data concerning broadband and other connectivity services in this state and expansion and deployment of these services.

(3) An assessment of the current availability and accessibility of broadband and other connectivity services in the state.

(4) A mapping initiative to identify availability of broadband to every home and business in the state.

(5) Availability and description of public or private grants available for the expansion or enhancement of broadband services and other connectivity services in the state.

(6) Recommendations for legislative proposals.

(7) Identification of resources to assist the office in performing its functions and duties.

D. The governor shall direct that all state agencies provide the executive director with assistance in advancing the purpose of the office and assure that the activities of the office are fully coordinated with the activities of state agencies providing related services.

Acts 2020, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 24, §3, see Act; Acts 2022, No. 760, §1, eff. June 18, 2022.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1580 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1580
Permissible clauses in contracts
Status: in_force

A contract may also contain any other clause not in conflict with this Chapter or other provisions of law.

Added by Acts 1982, No. 808, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2459 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2459
Promulgation of rules
Status: in_force

Louisiana Economic Development, the Department of Revenue, and Louisiana Works shall each promulgate such rules as may be necessary to implement the provisions of this Chapter. However, prior to such rules taking effect all rules shall be approved by the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.

Acts 1995, No. 1238, §1, eff. July 1, 1995; Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 39, §1, eff. May 7, 1996; Acts 2008, No. 743, §7, eff. July 1, 2008.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1425 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1425
Unfair or deceptive acts or practices; prohibition of certain disclosures by an Internet service provider; penalties
Status: in_force

A. A violation of the Stored Communications Act, Section 2701 et seq., of Title 18 of the United States Code, by a provider of Internet service involving information relating to a resident of Louisiana shall constitute a deceptive and unfair trade practice.

B. As used in this Chapter, "provider of Internet service" means a facilities-based provider or other entity that provides residential consumers with the ability to access the Internet in exchange for consideration such as through a paid subscription or through an agreement to view specific ads or content in exchange for Internet access, provided, however, this term does not include an entity that provides access to the Internet using spectrum regulated by the Federal Communications Commission pursuant to 47 U.S.C. 301 et seq. Systems operated or services offered by libraries or educational institutions are excluded from this definition.

C. Any violation of this Section shall be a deceptive and unfair trade practice and shall subject the violator to any and all penalties provided for in this Chapter.

D. Nothing herein shall prohibit a provider of Internet service from disclosing information to any state or local agency where such agency's lawful request is otherwise authorized in statute, including but not limited to disclosure required pursuant to R.S. 15:545.1.

Acts 2006, No. 556, §1; Acts 2008, No. 672, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2236 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2236
Parishes and municipalities may prohibit discrimination
Status: in_force

A. Parishes and municipalities may adopt and enforce ordinances, orders, and resolutions prohibiting all forms of discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, age, or natural, protective, or cultural hairstyle, and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof, such penalties being in addition to the remedial orders and enforcement herein authorized.

B. Parishes and municipalities may adopt and enforce ordinances, orders, and resolutions prohibiting discrimination, but no ordinance, order, or resolution shall attempt to exempt more transactions from its coverage than are exempted by R.S. 51:2250.

Acts 1988, No. 886, §1; Acts 1993, No. 820, §9; Acts 1997, No. 1409, §3, eff. Aug. 1, 1997; Acts 2022, No. 529, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:721 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 721
Burden of proving exemption; certificate of compliance or noncompliance as evidence; admissibility of copies of records
Status: in_force

A. In any action, civil or criminal, where a defense is based upon any exemption provided for in this Part, the burden of proving the existence of the exemption shall be upon the party raising such defense.

B. In any action, civil or criminal, a certificate signed and sealed by the commissioner, stating compliance or non-compliance with this Part, shall constitute prima facie evidence of such compliance or non-compliance with this Part and shall be admissible in any such action.

C. In any action, civil or criminal, copies, photostatic or otherwise, certified by the commissioner of any documents filed in his office and of any of his records shall be admissible with the same effect as the original of such documents or records would have if actually produced.

D. Any person claiming the right to register any securities by notification under R.S. 51:705 shall also have the burden of establishing the right so to register such securities.

Acts 1985, No. 722, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1559 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1559
Noncomplying contracts void
Status: in_force

Any contract for dance studio lessons and other services which does not comply with the applicable provisions of this Chapter shall be void and unenforceable as contrary to public policy.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 533, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:3076 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 3076
Financial institution; compliance
Status: in_force

A financial institution that is subject to and in compliance with the Federal Interagency Guidance on Response Programs for Unauthorized Access to Customer Information and Customer Notice, issued on March 7, 2005, by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the office of the comptroller of the currency and the office of thrift supervision, and any revisions, additions, or substitutions relating to said interagency guidance, shall be deemed to be in compliance with this Chapter.

Acts 2005, No. 499, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1001 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1001
Entry into compact; purpose
Status: in_force

NOTE: AS ENACTED BY ACTS 1960, NO. 389, §2:

The Southern Interstate Nuclear Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the state of Louisiana with any and all states legally joining therein in accordance with its terms. The party states recognize that the proper employment of nuclear energy, facilities, materials, and products can assist substantially in the industrialization of the South and the development of a balanced economy for the region. They also recognize that optimum benefit from an acquisition of nuclear resources and facilities requires systematic encouragement, guidance, and assistance from the party states on a cooperative basis. It is the policy of the party states to undertake such cooperation on a continuing basis; it is the purpose of this compact to provide the instruments and framework for such a cooperative effort to improve the economy of the South and contribute to the individual and community well being of the region's people.

NOTE: AS AMENDED BY ACTS 1979, NO. 576, §1, EFF. UPON APPROVAL BY NINE PARTY STATES AND CONGRESS:

The Southern States Energy Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the state of Louisiana with any and all states legally joining therein in accordance with its terms. The party states recognize that the proper employment and conservation of energy and employment of energy related facilities, materials, and products, within the context of a responsible regard for the environment, can assist substantially in the industrialization of the south, and the development of a balanced economy for the region; they also recognize that optimum benefit from an acquisition of energy resources and facilities requires systematic encouragement, guidance, and assistance from the party states on a cooperative basis. It is the policy of the party states to undertake such cooperation on a continuing basis; it is the purpose of this compact to provide the instruments and framework for such a cooperative effort to improve the economy of the south and contribute to the individual and community well being of the region's people.

Acts 1979, No. 576, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2370.31 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2370.31
Receipt and disbursement of federal grant funds
Status: in_force

The division of administration shall be the designated agency for receipt and disbursement of state and federal funds received to implement the BEAD program. All federal grant funds received for this purpose shall be disbursed in accordance with R.S. 51:2370.21(A).

Acts 2023, No. 383, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:3161 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 3161
Scope and purpose; exemptions
Status: in_force

A. The purposes of this Chapter are the following:

(1) To create a registration and assurance mechanism for motor vehicle service contract providers in this state.

(2) To encourage innovation in the marketing and development of more economical and effective means of providing services under motor vehicle service contracts while placing the risk of innovation on the providers rather than on consumers.

(3) To permit and encourage fair and effective competition among different systems of providing and paying for these services.

B. The following shall be exempt from this Chapter:

(1) Warranties as defined in this Chapter.

(2) Maintenance-only agreements as defined in this Chapter.

(3) Service contracts sold or offered for sale to persons other than consumers.

(4) Service contracts sold or offered for sale on a single item of property sold at the time of sale of the property or within a year of the date of sale.

(5) A vehicle mechanical breakdown insurance policy or vehicle component coverage contract offered by a vehicle mechanical breakdown insurer in compliance with the applicable provisions of Title 22 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

(6) Tire and wheel coverage sold by a retailer as a part of a service package in concert with the sale of one or more tires or one or more wheels in compliance with the applicable provisions of Title 22 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

C. The types of agreements referred to in Paragraphs (B)(1) through (4) of this Section are not insurance in this state and shall be exempt from any provision of the Louisiana Insurance Code.

Acts 2018, No. 592, §2, eff. Feb. 1, 2019.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1353 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1353
Powers
Status: in_force

The authority shall have the following powers in addition to any powers specifically conferred upon said authority elsewhere in this Chapter.

(1) To sue and be sued.

(2) To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure.

(3) To make and alter by-laws for its organization and internal management.

(4) To make rules and regulations governing the exercise of its corporate powers and the fulfillment of its corporate purposes under this title.

(5) To purchase, receive, lease, or otherwise acquire and hold in the name of the authority, and to sell, convey, mortgage, lease, pledge or otherwise dispose of upon such terms and conditions as the authority may deem advisable, real or personal property, together with such rights and privileges as may be incidental and appurtenant thereto and to the use thereof, including but not restricted to, any real or personal property acquired by the authority in the satisfaction of obligations contained in contracts, leases or other arrangements.

(6) To enter into contracts, leases or other arrangements providing for the establishment, operation, development and management of any property or facility under the jurisdiction of the authority.

(7) To enter into contracts, leases or other arrangements permitting any person to use any property or facility under the jurisdiction of the authority; permitting such person to build or add facilities or improvements upon such property or facility; and providing, at the discretion of the authority, for the acquisition by the authority of any such facilities or improvements built or added by such person, upon such terms and conditions as the authority may deem advisable.

(8) To sell or otherwise make available, upon such terms and conditions as the authority may deem advisable, any product, by-product or service produced in or provided by any facility under its jurisdiction.

(9) To fix and collect fees, rentals and charges for the use of any property or facility under its jurisdiction, or for the sale of any product, by-product or service produced in or provided by any such facility, and to establish the rights and privileges created upon payment thereof. Such fees, rentals and charges shall be established by the authority so as to produce revenues sufficient, together with any other funds available to the authority, to meet the expenses of maintenance and operation of the facilities of the authority, to fulfill the terms of agreements with the holders of its bonds, notes or other obligations, and to provide funds for such other corporate purposes as the authority may deem appropriate.

(10) To enter into any contracts and to execute all instruments necessary or convenient for the exercise of its corporate powers and the fulfillment of its corporate purposes under this title.

(11) To borrow money and to issue negotiable bonds, notes or other obligations and to provide for the rights of the holders thereof.

(12) To procure insurance, or obtain indemnification from the federal government or other persons, against any loss in connection with the assets of the authority and any liability in connection with the activities of the authority, such insurance or indemnification to be procured or obtained in such amounts, and from such sources, as the authority deems to be appropriate.

(13) To accept any gifts or grants or loans of funds or property or financial or other aid in any form from the federal government or any agency or instrumentality thereof or from the state or from any other source and to comply, subject to the provisions of this Chapter, with the terms and conditions thereof.

(14) To engage the services of bond counsel, financial advisors, accountants, engineers, attorneys and other private consultants on a contract basis for rendering professional and technical assistance and advice.

(15) To do all things necessary or convenient to carry out its corporate purposes and exercise the powers given and granted by this Chapter.

Acts 1968, No. 605, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:3214 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 3214
Limitations of applicability
Status: in_force

A. The provisions of this Chapter do not apply to a location of business in the state of Louisiana where a physical copy of an individual's current driver's license, valid passport, or visa issued by the federal government or another country or nation, or other card of identity is held in compliance with state or federal law.

B. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the provisions of this Chapter do not apply to the following:

(1) A federally insured depository institution that is organized under the laws of this state, another state, or the United States. However, a federally insured depository institution may, at its option, accept a digitized identification card as a valid form of identification.

(2) An entity licensed pursuant to the provisions of Title 27 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, including but not limited to a casino, official gaming establishment, or other establishment providing gaming operations. However, such licensee may, at its option, accept a digitized identification card as a valid form of identification.

(3) An entity licensed pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 4 of Title 4 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. However, such licensee may, at its option, accept a digitized identification card as a valid form of identification.

(4) A person validating identification for notarial acts involving immovable property, authentic acts, testaments or codicils thereto, trust instruments or acknowledgments thereof, donations inter vivos, matrimonial agreements or acknowledgments thereof, and acts modifying, waiving, or extinguishing an obligation of final spousal support or acknowledgments thereof. However, a notary public may, at its option, accept a digitized identification card as a valid form of identification.

(5) A person or entity licensed pursuant to the provisions of Subpart R of Part I of Chapter 2 of Title 22 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. However, such licensee may, at its option, accept a digitized identification card as a valid form of identification.

(6) A used motor vehicle dealer licensed pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 4-C of Title 32 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 or a dealer licensed pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 6 of Title 32 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. However, the licensed used motor vehicle dealer or licensed dealer may, at its option, accept a digitized identification card as a valid form of identification.

Acts 2020, 2 nd Ex. Sess., No. 21, §1, eff. Dec. 22, 2020.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2320 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2320
Appropriations; warrants; records
Status: in_force

Funds made available to the corporation by the legislature shall be used solely for the programs and purposes otherwise provided for in this Chapter. The corporation shall keep books showing from whom any money is received and for what purpose, and to whom any money is paid and for what purpose. It shall keep in its file vouchers or receipts for all money paid out.

Acts 1992, No. 1136, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1994.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2614 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2614
Enforcement by attorney general
Status: in_force

A. If, after investigation of a complaint filed pursuant to R.S. 51:2611, the attorney general finds reasonable cause to believe that any person or group of persons is engaged in resistance to the full enjoyment of any of the rights granted pursuant to this Chapter or that any person or group of persons has been denied any of the rights granted pursuant to this Chapter, and the complainant, the respondent, and the attorney general have not entered into a conciliation agreement, he shall bring a civil action in any appropriate state district court requesting relief, including an application for a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order, or other order against the person or persons responsible for the resistance or denial of rights.

B. In any civil action pursuant to Subsection A of this Section, the court may grant as relief, as it deems appropriate, any permanent or temporary injunction, temporary restraining order, or other order and may award actual damages and punitive damages to any person found to have been denied any of the rights granted pursuant to this Chapter.

C. If the attorney general concludes at any time following the filing of a complaint that a discriminatory housing practice has occurred or is about to occur, he shall promptly commence and maintain a civil action for appropriate temporary or preliminary relief pending final disposition of the complaint.

Acts 1991, No. 527, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 1992, No. 569, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2370.22 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2370.22
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this Subpart, the following terms have the following meanings:

(1) "Agriculture" means the commercial planting, growing, harvesting, production, storage, processing, marketing, distribution, or export of any agricultural product, including but not limited to farm products, livestock and livestock products, poultry and poultry products, milk and dairy products, fruit and other horticultural products, and seafood and aquacultural products.

(2) "Assistant secretary" means the assistant secretary of the United States Department of Commerce for Communications and Information.

(3) "Broadband data maps" means the maps created in accordance with the provisions of 47 U.S.C. 642.

(4) "Broadband service" means deployed mass-market retail internet access service with a minimum of one hundred megabits per second, or Mbps, download and at least twenty megabits per second upload transmission speeds. This definition has the meaning given by the Federal Communications Commission under rules and guidance that are in effect as of the date of enactment of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

(5) "Broadband-serviceable location" means a business or residential location in the United States at which fixed broadband internet access service is, or can be, installed. See IIJA, P.L. 117-58, §60102(a)(2)(h), 135 Stat. 429, 1184 (2021). In the Third Broadband Data Collection Report and Order, the Commission adopted "as fundamental definition of a 'location' for purposes of the broadband-serviceable location fabric: a business or residential location in the United States at which fixed broadband Internet access service is, or can be, installed." See Establishing the Digital Opportunity Data Collection; Modernizing the FCC Form 477 Data Program, WC Docket Nos. 19§195, 11§10, Third Report and Order, 36 FCC Rcd 1126m 1175 para. 126 (2021).

(6) "Community anchor institution" means an entity such as a school, library, health clinic, health center, hospital or other medical provider, public safety entity, institution of higher education, public housing organization, or community support organization that facilitates greater use of broadband service by vulnerable populations, including but not limited to low-income individuals, unemployed individuals, children, the incarcerated, and aged individuals.

(7) "Cooperative" means a corporation organized pursuant to Part I of Chapter 4 of Title 12 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 or a corporation that becomes subject to those provisions pursuant to R.S. 12:401 et seq.

(8) "Director" means the executive director of the office of broadband development and connectivity within the division of administration.

(9) "Eligible costs" means costs that are eligible for BEAD program funding as specified by the assistant secretary.

(10) "Eligible grant recipient" means a provider of broadband service, including a provider operated by a local government if the local government is compliant with the Local Government Fair Competition Act, R.S. 45:844.41 et seq., prior to July 1, 2021, with respect to providing such services, a cooperative, or any partnership thereof.

(11) "Eligible location" means an unserved location or underserved location.

(12) "Eligible parish" means any parish with unserved or underserved broadband-serviceable locations.

(13) "Enforceable commitment" means any location that is already subject to a legally enforceable federal, state, or local commitment to deploy broadband.

(14) "Extremely high-cost per location threshold" means a BEAD subsidy cost per location to be utilized during the grantee selection process described in Section IV.B.7 of the BEAD NOFO above which the office may decline to select an application if use of an alternative technology meeting the BEAD program's technical requirements would be less expensive.

(15) "Household" means any individual or group of individuals who are living together at the same address as one economic unit. A household may include related and unrelated persons. An "economic unit" consists of all adult individuals contributing to and sharing in the income and expenses of a household. An adult is any person eighteen years or older. If an adult has no or minimal income and lives with someone who provides financial support to him, both people shall be considered part of the same household. A child under the age of eighteen living with his parent or guardian is considered to be part of the same household as his parent or guardian.

(16) "Infrastructure" means existing facilities, equipment, materials, and structures that an internet service provider has installed either for its core business or public enterprise purposes. Examples include but are not limited to copper wire, coaxial cable, optical cable, loose tube cable, communication huts, conduits, vaults, patch panels, mounting hardware, poles, generators, batteries and cabinets, network nodes, network routers, network switches, microwave relays, microwave receivers, site routers, outdoor cabinets, towers, easements, rights-of-way, and buildings or structures owned by the entity that are made available for location or collocation purposes.

(17) "Local government" means a parish, municipality, or school board.

(18) "Office" means the office of broadband development and connectivity within the division of administration.

(19) "Project" means an undertaking by an eligible grant recipient to construct and deploy infrastructure for the provision of broadband service. A project may constitute a single unserved or underserved broadband-serviceable location or a grouping of broadband-serviceable locations in which not less than eighty percent of broadband-serviceable locations served by the project are unserved locations or underserved locations. If an overall project area crosses from one eligible parish into one or more eligible adjacent parishes, for the purposes of this Subpart, the project shall be determined to be located in the parish where the greatest number of unserved or underserved households are proposed to be served.

(20) "Reliable broadband service" means broadband service that the broadband data maps show are accessible to a location via any of the following:

(a) Fiber-optic technology.

(b) Cable modem or hybrid fiber-coaxial technology.

(c) Terrestrial fixed wireless technology utilizing entirely licensed spectrum or using a hybrid of licensed and unlicensed spectrum.

(21) "Shapefile" means a file format for storing, depicting, and analyzing geospatial data depicting broadband coverage, comprised of several component files.

(22) "Underserved location" means an underserved location as defined in the IIJA and the BEAD NOFO.

(23) "Unserved location" means an unserved location as defined in the IIJA and the BEAD NOFO.

Acts 2023, No. 383, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1555 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1555
Prohibition of notes cutting off, as to third parties, buyer's right of action or defense against seller
Status: in_force

No contract for dance studio lessons and other services shall require or entail the execution of any note or series of notes by the buyer which, when separately negotiated, will cut off as to third parties any right of action or defense which the buyer may have against the seller.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 533, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:911.29 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 911.29
Motor vehicle inspection; exception
Status: in_force

The provisions of Chapter 7 of Title 32 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 relative to inspections shall not apply to manufactured or modular housing.

Acts 1974, No. 281, §1. Amended by Acts 1982, No. 211, §1, eff. July 15, 1982; Acts 2001, No. 718, §2; Acts 2017, No. 221, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:911.35 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 911.35
Suit by party in interest upon commission's failure to sue
Status: in_force

If the commission fails to bring suit within ten days to restrain a violation as provided in R.S. 51:911.34, any person in interest adversely affected by the violation who has notified the commission in writing of the violation or threat thereof and has requested it to sue, may bring suit to prevent any or further violations, in the district court of any parish in which the commission could have brought suit. If the court holds that injunctive relief should be granted, the commission shall be made a party and shall be substituted for the person who brought the suit and the injunctions shall be issued as if the commission had at all times been the complaining party.

Acts 1974, No. 281, §1; Acts 2001, No. 718, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:214 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 214
Application for registration
Status: in_force

A. Subject to the limitations set forth in this Subpart, any person who adopts and uses a mark or name in this state may file in the office of the secretary of state, on a form to be furnished by the secretary of state, an application for registration of that mark or name setting forth but not limited to the following information written in the English language:

(1) The name and business address of the person applying for such registration and, if a corporation, the state of incorporation.

(2) The goods or services in connection with which the mark or name is used, the mode or manner in which the mark or name is used in connection with such goods or services, and the class in which such goods or services fall.

(3) The date when the mark or name was first used anywhere and the date when it was first used in this state by the applicant or his predecessor in business; and

(4) A statement that the applicant is the owner of the mark or name and that no other person has the right to use such mark or name in this state, either in the identical form thereof or in such near resemblance thereto as might be calculated to deceive or to be mistaken therefor.

B. The application shall be signed and verified by the applicant or by a member of the firm or an officer of the corporation or association applying.

C. The application shall be accompanied by a specimen or facsimile of such mark or name in triplicate.

D. The application for registration shall be accompanied by a filing fee as provided in R.S. 49:222, payable to the secretary of state.

E. In addition to said filing fee, the secretary of state shall charge and collect, for the use and benefit of the state, a fee as provided in R.S. 49:222 for making and issuing a copy of any document filed in his office under the provisions of this Subpart, plus a fee as provided in R.S. 49:222 for sealing and certifying to the correctness thereof. The additional fee, provided as aforesaid, shall not apply to the original certificate of registration required by R.S. 51:215.

Acts 1983, No. 235, §5, eff. July 1, 1983; Acts 1989, No. 100, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990; Acts 2008, No. 913, §5; Acts 2022, No. 193, §5.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2239 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2239
Additional powers of local commissions
Status: in_force

A local commission established pursuant to this Chapter may:

(1) Enter into cooperative working agreements with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, created by Section 705 of the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 241) in order to achieve the purposes of that Act, and with any federal or state agency in order to achieve the purposes of this Chapter.

(2) In its discretion, or upon request of the commission, refer a matter under its jurisdiction to the commission for initial action or review.

(3) Refer to the commission for resolution a dispute with another local commission over jurisdiction or any other matter.

(4) Provide a copy of its annual report to the commission.

Acts 1988, No. 886, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2333 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2333
Workforce development and training program; purpose
Status: in_force

The Workforce Development and Training Program is hereby established in and administered by the Louisiana Economic Development Corporation. The purpose of the program is to develop and provide customized workforce training programs to existing and prospective Louisiana businesses.

Acts 1995, No. 483, §1; Acts 1997, No. 313, §1, eff. June 17, 1997; Acts 2001, No. 9, §9, eff. July 1, 2001.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2316 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2316
Site Investment and Infrastructure Improvement Fund
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby established in the state treasury, as a special fund, the Site Investment and Infrastructure Improvement Fund, hereafter referred to as the "fund".

B.(1) After allocation of money to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund as provided in Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana, the treasurer shall deposit into the fund any monies transferred or appropriated by the legislature. The treasurer shall also deposit into the fund any grants, donations, gifts, or other monies which may become available.

(2) Monies in the fund shall be invested in the same manner as monies in the state general fund. Interest earned on investment of monies in the fund shall be deposited into the state general fund. Unexpended and unencumbered monies in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund.

C.(1) Subject to appropriation by the legislature to Louisiana Economic Development, hereafter referred to in this Section as the "department", monies in the fund shall be used solely for economic development efforts, specifically for site investment and infrastructure improvements for economic development purposes.

(2) Monies in the fund shall be utilized in accordance with the department's strategic plan and program priorities. The department shall consider the following factors in the allocation of monies:

(a) Demonstrated market demand in priority sectors.

(b) Performance measures.

(c) Return on investment.

(d) Impact on distressed communities.

(e) Public benefit and economic impact.

(f) Site potential.

(g) Any other factors as established by rule.

(3) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the department shall prioritize allocation of monies to purposes that meet any of the following criteria:

(a) Leverage public-private partnerships, private equity, or other resources.

(b) Address specific and critical needs for high-potential projects.

(c) Are a Louisiana Economic Development certified site.

(d) Any other factors as established by rule.

(4) In accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, the secretary of Louisiana Economic Development is hereby authorized and directed to adopt and promulgate rules necessary for implementation and administration of the provisions of this Subsection. Notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, such rules may be promulgated by emergency rule.

Acts 2025, No. 365, §4, eff. June 20, 2025.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:3061 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 3061
Legislative findings
Status: in_force

The legislature hereby finds and declares that:

(1) Net energy metering encourages the use of renewable energy resources and renewable energy technologies. Increasing the consumption of renewable energy resources promotes the wise use of Louisiana's natural energy resources to meet a growing energy demand, increases Louisiana's use of indigenous energy fuels and fosters investment in emerging renewable technologies to stimulate economic development and job creation in the state.

(2) Louisiana should actively encourage the manufacture of new technologies through promotion of emerging energy technologies. Net energy metering could help to further attract energy technology manufacturers, providing a foothold for these technologies in the Louisiana economy, and easier customer access to these technologies.

(3) Energy produced from forest products' manufacturing bioenergy feedstocks shall be considered renewable and carbon neutral. When paired with carbon capture technologies, known as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, it may be considered carbon negative.

(4) Energy produced from agricultural harvesting, including bagasse produced from sugarcane processing, shall be considered renewable and carbon neutral. When paired with carbon capture technologies, known as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, it may be considered carbon negative.

Acts 2003, No. 653, §1, eff. Oct. 1, 2003; Acts 2022, No. 275, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2337 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2337
Application for funding; procedures
Status: in_force

A. To qualify for funding for customized training services, an application shall be made to the corporation and shall be accompanied by an application describing the need for the services as well as a detailed explanation of the proposal and projected benefits and any other information the corporation deems appropriate.

B. The corporation shall develop a formal workforce training award program that includes an application, review, evaluation, and award process and the corporation shall adopt rules and regulations promulgated in accordance with law.

C. Each application shall be reviewed by the corporation's board to determine if such applicant is qualified to receive funding and whether he shall receive such funding.

D. All approved applications shall be presented to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget, the House Committee on Commerce, and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and International Affairs in the corporation's quarterly report in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 51:2319.

Acts 1995, No. 483, §1; Acts 1997, No. 313, §1, eff. June 17, 1997; Acts 2001, No. 9, §9, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2003, No. 183, §8.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2133 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2133
Gross earnings; fifteen percent placed in trust fund
Status: in_force

A.(1) Every contract executed by or on behalf of a minor rendering artistic or creative services for compensation in this state shall require that fifteen percent of the gross earnings for the minor under the contract be placed in a trust fund created for the benefit of the minor and, except as provided in Subsection G of this Section, that the trust fund be created in a state or federally chartered financial institution, including trust companies, operating in this state through one or more branches.

(2) Monies placed in a trust fund pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter shall be placed in a blocked account and no funds shall be withdrawn prior to the date the minor attains the age of eighteen unless the minor is determined to be in necessitous circumstances by a court of competent jurisdiction.

(3) All monies deposited in trust pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter shall be administered by the financial institution as a fiduciary for the benefit of the minor. Reasonable fees may be charged by a financial institution to the trust for providing services as fiduciary and/or trustee.

B.(1) Monies in the trust fund shall be invested in a combination of United States Treasury notes, bonds, interest bearing savings accounts, or certificates of deposit fully insured by the federal government at the highest possible rate of return without risk to principal in the trust account or a combination of such investments. All funds derived from investments and earnings attributed to the trust fund shall be redeposited into the fund and invested in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter. All investments in the fund shall have a maturity date on or before the date the minor attains the age of eighteen.

(2) Funds may be withdrawn from the trust fund by the beneficiary only after the beneficiary provides a certified copy of his birth certificate to the financial institution where the trust fund is located showing that the beneficiary is at least eighteen years of age.

C. Both parents of a minor on whose behalf monies are placed in trust pursuant to this Section shall serve as trustees of the trust unless otherwise provided in writing by both parents or in the case of divorce or death of a parent by the person appointed as tutor of the minor, or by both cotutors if the parents are divorced and have joint custody of the minor. Any state or federally chartered financial institution operating in this state through one or more branches, may serve as a trustee.

D. Prior to execution of a contract subject to the provisions of this Chapter, the trustee or trustees shall establish the trust required under this Section, unless an account has been previously established, and no contract subject to the provisions of this Chapter shall be executed until the trustee or trustees provide a written statement to the employer which shall include the name, address, and telephone number of the financial institution holding the trust account, the name of the account, the number of the account, the name of the minor beneficiary, the name of the trustee or trustees of the account and such additional information as may be required by the employer to make the deposit required under this Section. The trustee or trustees shall attach to this written statement a true and accurate photocopy of any information received from the financial institution confirming the creation and existence of the trust account on behalf of the minor, and may include a copy of the account agreement, account terms, passbook, or other similar writings required by the employer.

E. In the event that a trust account is not established on behalf of a minor performer within thirty days of the last day of employment, the employer shall forward the fifteen percent of the minor's gross earnings, accompanied by the name of the minor, and if known, the minor's address and social security number, to the treasurer of the state of Louisiana, who shall hold such funds in trust to be tendered to a trust account that is subsequently established on behalf of the minor, or if no such trust account is established, then to the minor upon reaching the age of majority.

F. Once the employer has transferred monies pursuant to this Section to either the minor's trust account or the treasurer's office in those circumstances where a trust account has not been established, the employer has no further duty or obligation with respect to the transferred monies.

G. If a trust account is already established on behalf of the minor in another state, all monies required to be deposited in a trust fund under the provisions of this Section, may be deposited into the trust account already established in another state for the benefit of the minor.

Acts 2005, No. 147, §2; Acts 2006, No. 594, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2126 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2126
Cajundome Commission; purpose; function; authority; powers; duties
Status: in_force

A. The commission shall develop, manage, operate, and maintain the Cajundome including any additions or appurtenances thereto for the public purpose of providing entertainment, cultural, economic, and educational benefits to the community of Lafayette and the Acadiana region.

B. The commission, through its board, may sue and be sued in the courts of its domicile, and service of process shall be made on the chair of the board or, in the absence of the chair, upon the vice chair.

C. The commission, acting through its board, shall have all authority and power to effectuate the purposes of the commission, including but not limited to the following rights and powers:

(1) To acquire, purchase, lease as lessee, and hold and use any property, movable or immovable, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein that is necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of the commission and to sell, lease as lessor, transfer, dispose of, or encumber any property or interest therein acquired by the commission.

(2) To develop, manage, operate, and maintain the Cajundome, including any and all additions and appurtenances thereto; provided, however, that the construction of additions, improvements, or renovations to the Cajundome shall be done only with permission of the university as owner of the Cajundome.

(3) To execute contracts of any sort with public or private entities to effectuate the provisions of this Chapter.

(4) To execute contracts or agreements with any person, corporation, association, or other entity, including private persons, public corporations, political subdivisions, the government of the United States or any of its agencies, the state of Louisiana or any of its agencies, or any combination thereof, for or relating to the use of the Cajundome's facilities, services, and equipment.

(5) To fix, collect, consent to, and revise rates, charges, rentals, and other terms for the use of the Cajundome's facilities, services, and equipment as may be necessary or appropriate in the board's discretion or as authorized by the board, including but not limited to contracts with promoters for such use upon terms authorized by the board.

(6) To establish rules and regulations for the conduct of the commission's affairs, including but not limited to rules and regulations governing the management and operation of the Cajundome and its facilities, services, equipment, programs, and activities.

(7) To accept gifts, grants, and donations of property and money.

(8) To cooperate with the state of Louisiana or any political subdivision, department, agency, or corporation thereof for the development, operation, or maintenance of the Cajundome to accomplish the purposes of this Chapter on any basis, including the matching of funds, and by participating in projects authorized by federal or state law.

(9) To contract with, employ, and fix the compensation and terms of employment of agents or employees as may be necessary or appropriate to develop, manage, operate, and maintain the Cajundome.

(10) To pledge all or any part of its revenues for any lawful purpose to effectuate the provisions of this Chapter.

(11) To incur debt, issue bonds, and pledge payment of bonds issued by the commission for any authorized purpose pursuant to Part XII of Chapter 4 of Subtitle II of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

D. All policies, procedures, delegations, authorizations, contracts, and obligations of the board or commission in effect on August 1, 2024, shall continue in full force and effect unless and until amended by future action of the board.

Acts 2024, No. 510, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2370.12 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2370.12
Reporting requirements
Status: in_force

A. Grant recipients shall submit to the office an annual report for each funded project for the duration of the agreement. The report shall include a summary of the items contained in the grant agreement and shall also include all of the following:

(1) The number of residential and commercial locations that have broadband access as a result of the project.

(2) The percentage of end users in the project area who have access to broadband service and the percentage of those with access who actually subscribe to the broadband service.

(3) The average monthly subscription rate for residential and commercial broadband service in the project area.

(4) Any right-of-way fees or permit fees paid to local government, state government, railroad, private entity or person during the fulfillment of the grant awarded pursuant to this Subpart.

(5) Any delays encountered when obtaining a right-of-way permission.

B. The office shall submit an annual report to the House Committee on Commerce, Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and International Affairs, and the Joint Legislative Committee on Technology and Cybersecurity on or before September thirtieth of each calendar year. The report shall contain all of the following:

(1) The number of grant projects applied for and the number of grant agreements entered into.

(2) A timeline for each grant agreement and the number of households, businesses, agriculture operations, and community anchor points expected to benefit from each agreement.

(3) The amount of matching funds required for each agreement and the total amount of investment.

(4) A summary of areas receiving grants that are now being provided broadband service and the advertised broadband speeds and corresponding costs for those areas.

(5) Any breaches of agreements, grant fund forfeitures, or subsequent reductions or refunds of matching funds.

(6) Any recommendations for the GUMBO program, including better sources and methods for improving outcomes and accountability.

Acts 2021, No. 477, §1, eff. July 1, 2021; Acts 2023, No. 383, §3A.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2370.34 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2370.34
Reporting requirements
Status: in_force

A. Any GUMBO 2.0 grantee shall report all instances of known damage to existing underground utilities that occur during the construction or installation of broadband infrastructure funded by GUMBO 2.0.

B. Reports shall be submitted to the office in a monthly report once construction has begun.

C. The report shall include all of the following:

(1) The date and location of the incident.

(2) A description of the damage caused.

(3) Steps taken to address the damage.

D. Failure to report such incidents may result in the suspension of GUMBO 2.0 funding.

Acts 2024, No. 632, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2155 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2155
Scope of applicability
Status: in_force

A. Alteration, defacement, mutilation, or modification of a work of fine art resulting from the passage of time or the inherent nature of the materials shall not by itself constitute a violation of R.S. 51:2153 or create a right to disclaim authorship under R.S. 51:2154(C), provided such alteration, defacement, mutilation, or modification was not the result of gross negligence in maintaining or protecting the work of fine art. For purposes of this Section, the term "gross negligence" shall mean the exercise of so slight a degree of care as to justify the belief that there was an indifference to the particular work of fine art.

B. In the case of a reproduction, a change that is an ordinary result of the medium of reproduction does not by itself constitute a violation of R.S. 51:2153 or create a right to disclaim authorship under R.S. 51:2154(C).

C. Conservation or restoration shall not constitute an alteration, defacement, mutilation, or modification within the meaning of this Chapter unless the alteration, defacement, mutilation, or modification would not have occurred but for negligence in the conservation or restoration work.

D. This Chapter shall not apply to work prepared under contract for advertising or trade use unless the contract so provides.

E. The provisions of this Chapter shall apply only to works of fine art or reproductions thereof knowingly displayed to others, made accessible to the public, or published in this state or to acts in violation of this Chapter by a person who is subject to the jurisdiction of this state.

F.(1) If a work of fine art cannot be removed from a building without substantial physical defacement, mutilation, alteration, or destruction of such work, the rights and duties created under this Chapter, unless expressly reserved by an instrument in writing signed by the owner of such building and properly recorded, shall be deemed waived. Such instrument, if recorded, shall be binding on subsequent owners of such building.

(2) If the owner of a building wishes to remove a work of fine art which is a part of such building, but which can be removed from the building without substantial harm to such fine art, the rights and duties created under this Chapter shall apply, unless the owner has diligently attempted without success to notify the artist in writing of his intended action affecting the work of fine art, or unless he did provide such notice and the artist fails within ninety days either to remove the work or to pay for its removal. If such work is removed by or at the expense of the artist, title to such work of fine art shall be deemed to be in the artist.

G. The provisions of this Chapter apply to any works of fine art regardless of when created.

Acts 1986, No. 599, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2370.26 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2370.26
Funding; match requirement
Status: in_force

A. A grant recipient is required to provide matching funds in accordance with state law and rules promulgated by the office. A grant recipient shall contribute from its own funds a minimum of twenty-five percent of the total estimated cost of the project, to be validated by the office, unless granted a written waiver by the office.

B.(1) A local government may contribute funding or in-kind contributions for use on an eligible project in accordance with the provisions of this Subpart. The contribution of funding by local government for an eligible project in accordance with the provisions of this Subpart shall not be considered a partnership for providing a covered service in accordance with the Local Government Fair Competition Act, R.S. 45:844.41 et seq.

(2) A local government shall not make or grant any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to itself or to any provider of broadband service.

(3) A local government shall apply without discrimination as to itself and to any broadband service provider the local government's ordinances, rules, and policies, including those relating to access to public right-of-way, permitting, and any bonding requirements.

Acts 2023, No. 383, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:297 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 297
Applicability of law regarding trademarks, service marks and trade names in general
Status: in_force

Except insofar as the provisions of this Subpart are in conflict therewith, the provisions of Subpart A, of Part VI of Chapter 1 of Title 51 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, relative to trademarks, service marks and trade names in general, shall be applicable to this Subpart.

Added by Acts 1973, No. 132, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:913.4 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 913.4
Injunctive relief
Status: in_force

The attorney general or any district attorney or parish attorney, in their respective district or parish, may enjoin a dealer from continuing in business as a dealer in this state on violation of any provision of this Part.

Acts 2005, No. 423, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:41 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 41
Violations; penalty
Status: in_force

A. No person shall hold, conduct, or carry on any sale of goods as a fire, bankruptcy, or fiduciary sale contrary to the provisions of this Part.

B. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this Part except as provided in R.S. 51:40 shall be fined not less than two hundred and fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not less than three months nor more than six months, or both.

Acts 1986, No. 806, §1; Acts 1995, No. 669, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:3283 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 3283
Financial privacy
Status: in_force

A. Except for those records kept during the regular course of a criminal investigation and prosecution, or as otherwise required by law, no government entity or official and no agent or employee of a governmental entity shall knowingly keep or cause to be kept any list, record, or registry of privately owned firearms or the owners of those firearms.

B. A payment card network shall not require or incentivize the use of a merchant category code in a manner that distinguishes a firearm retailer from other retailers.

C. A covered entity shall not assign a firearm retailer a merchant category code that distinguishes the firearm retailer from other retailers.

Acts 2024, No. 585, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:3275.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 3275.2
Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this Chapter, the following definitions apply:

(1) "Annual consumption report" means a detailed report of the aggregate energy usage for all the meters associated with a property during the previous calendar year, including but not limited to total usage, peak usage periods, and cost.

(2) "Commission" means the Public Service Commission.

(3) "Energy utility" means any public utility providing electricity or natural gas services within the state.

Act 2025, No. 311, §1, eff. June 24, 2025.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:654 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 654
Sales to children under fifteen or to intoxicated or irresponsible persons prohibited; unlawful discharge; minimum age for employee; penalties
Status: in_force

A. No person shall offer to sell or sell fireworks to a child known to be under the age of fifteen years or to any person known to be intoxicated or any person known to be irresponsible.

B. No person shall explode or ignite fireworks within one thousand feet of any church, hospital, asylum, school, public building, or fireworks retail location.

C. No person shall ignite or discharge fireworks in a motor vehicle or throw fireworks from a motor vehicle. Whoever violates this Subsection shall be fined five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

D. No person shall place an ignited article of fireworks in or throw an ignited article of fireworks at a motor vehicle. Whoever violates this Subsection shall be fined five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

E. No minor under the age of seventeen shall be employed in a facility where fireworks are sold at retail without complying with the regulations of Louisiana Works. The minor shall be subject to the restrictions placed on the number of hours of employment permitted minors by Louisiana Works.

Acts 1958, No. 63, §5. Acts 1984, No. 918, §1, eff. July 20, 1984; Acts 1992, No. 447, §4; Acts 2001, No. 667, §1, eff. June 25, 2001; Acts 2008, No. 743, §7, eff. July 1, 2008.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1601 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1601
Findings; policy and procedure
Status: in_force

The legislature finds and declares that:

(1) The industrial base of the state of Louisiana, upon which the economy of the state is heavily dependent, is highly energy intensive.

(2) The primary industrial and powerplant energy sources in the state of Louisiana are natural gas and petroleum.

(3) The Congress of the United States has enacted Public Law 95-620, the "Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978", 1 which, among others, has as its purpose the discouragement, prohibition, or minimization of the use of natural gas and petroleum as a primary energy source and the encouragement of the greater use of coal and other alternate fuels in lieu of natural gas and petroleum as a primary energy source, including the use of coal in existing and new electric powerplants and major fuel-burning installations.

(4) The unplanned and federally mandated use of coal and other alternate fuels in lieu of natural gas and petroleum in new industries and powerplants and the federally mandated conversion of the state's industrial and powerplant fuel requirements from natural gas and petroleum to coal or other alternate fuels could cause a major disruption of the state's industrial base, resulting in curtailment of vital public services and severe economic dislocations and hardships, including loss of jobs and closing of factories and businesses and would discourage expansion of existing facilities and deter new industries from locating in the state.

(5) The Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 permits the Secretary of Energy, in his discretion, to consider state law in exempting new and existing industries and powerplants from the requirement of using or converting to coal or other alternate fuel in lieu of natural gas or petroleum and in postponing the requirement for the use or conversion to coal or other alternate fuel.

(6) If industries and powerplants within the state are required by the Secretary of Energy to convert to coal or other alternate fuel in lieu of natural gas or petroleum, the state, acting through an appropriate state agency, may ameliorate the effects of the requirement to use or convert to coal or other alternate fuel, provided that such state agency has the jurisdiction and power to work in conjunction with the Secretary of Energy in the administration of federal laws and regulations and provided that such state agency has the jurisdiction and power to implement any necessary or required state action. Such state agency will be able to assist industries and powerplants within the state in obtaining exemptions from the requirements of federal laws and regulations or in preparing to use and using or converting to the use of coal or other alternate fuel in lieu of natural gas and petroleum, with a minimum of disruption in the state's overall economy.

(7) It is within the police power of the state and in the public interest of the state to insure that measures will be taken to avoid, if possible, or ameliorate the effects of mandated use of coal or other alternate fuel and conversion of the state's industrial and powerplant fuel requirements from natural gas and petroleum to coal or other alternate fuels and, where use and conversion are mandated or undertaken, to insure that such use and conversion occur with a minimum of adverse economic effect on the state and that to the maximum extent possible measures be taken to insure that natural gas affected by this conversion be retained within the state of Louisiana.

(8) The public interest of the state in avoiding or ameliorating the effects of the conversion of the state's industrial and powerplant fuel requirements from natural gas and petroleum to coal or other alternate fuels can best be served by granting to the Department of Conservation and Energy primary state governmental responsibility for intervening on behalf of the state with the United States Department of Energy in the implementation and administration of the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978, and authorizing the department to implement measures within the state as may postpone untimely implementation of federal laws and regulations and further, where use of or conversion to coal or other alternate fuel is mandated, to take measures as may be required to ensure that mandated future use and conversion proceeds in an orderly fashion and with a minimum of adverse economic effect upon the state and to the maximum extent possible take measures to ensure that natural gas affected by this conversion be retained within the state of Louisiana.

Acts 1979, No. 605, §1; Acts 2023, No. 150, §21, eff. Jan. 10, 2024.

1 42 U.S.C.A. §8301 et seq.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1157.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1157.3
Rapides Parish industrial development board; bond issuance prohibited
Status: in_force

Beginning August 1, 1993, the Industrial Development Board of Rapides Parish shall be prohibited from issuing any bonds pursuant to the authority provided by Chapter 7 of Title 51 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. The board shall honor all bonds issued previous to August 1, 1993.

Acts 1993, No. 735, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1722 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1722
Violations; penalties
Status: in_force

A. Violation of any of the provisions of this Chapter shall constitute an unfair practice under R.S. 51:1405(A).

B. Whoever violates any provision of this Chapter shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both, for each such violation.

Acts 1983, No. 527, §1; Acts 1987, No. 488, §1; Acts 1990, No. 760, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:3241 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 3241
Advertising, promoting, and conducting certain live music performances; penalties
Status: in_force

A. As used in this Section, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:

(1) "Performing group" means a vocal or instrumental group of one or more members that intends to advertise or perform under the name of a recording group or a name so similar to the name used by a recording group as to cause confusion among members of the public.

(2) "Recording group" means a vocal or instrumental group of one or more members, with at least one of the members having previously released a commercial sound recording under the group's name and the legal rights to the recording have not been abandoned.

(3) "Sound recording" means a work that results from the fixation of a series of musical, spoken, or other sounds, regardless of the nature of the material object, such as phonograph, disc, tape, wire, digital storage, or other medium, in which the sounds are embodied.

B. No person shall knowingly advertise or conduct a live musical performance or production in this state through the use of a false, deceptive, or misleading affiliation, connection, or association between the performing group and a recording group.

C. The provisions of this Section shall not apply if any of the following occurs:

(1) The performing group is the authorized registrant and owner of a federal service mark or trademark for the recording group that is registered in the United States, or is a licensee of or otherwise authorized to use the service mark or trademark by such registrant and owner.

(2) At least one member of the performing group was a member of the recording group and that member has a legal right to use or operate under the name of the recording group without having abandoned the name or affiliation with the recording group.

(3) The live musical performance or production is identified in all advertising and promotion as a salute or tribute, and the name of the performing group is not so similar to the name used by the recording group as to cause confusion among members of the public.

(4) The performance or production is expressly authorized by the recording group.

D.(1) The attorney general or a district attorney of this state may bring an action on behalf of the state, for a permanent or temporary injunction, against a person advertising or conducting, or a person who intends to advertise or conduct, a live musical performance or production in violation of Subsection B of this Section.

(2) In connection with the permanent injunction issued pursuant to this Subsection, the court shall order a person who violates the provisions of this Section to restore actual damages and property that may have been acquired as a result of a violation of this Section.

E.(1) A person who violates Subsection B of this Section shall be liable to the state for a civil penalty of not less than five thousand dollars and not more than fifteen thousand dollars for each violation. Each performance or production in violation of Subsection B of this Section shall constitute a separate violation.

(2) The civil penalties provided in this Section are in addition to any injunctive relief or any other remedy that may be available.

F. Any party, assignee, authorized agent, or licensee who is injured as a result of a person's violation of the provisions of Subsection B of this Section of that party may bring a civil action for damages, reasonable attorney fees, and court costs. Each performance or production in violation of Subsection B of this Section shall constitute a separate violation.

G. This Section shall not apply to a legislatively created tourist commission, convention facility, or destination marketing organization.

Acts 2022, No. 311, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:938.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 938.2
Additional duties of Louisiana Economic Development; manufacturing development
Status: in_force

A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, Louisiana Economic Development shall do all of the following regarding manufacturing:

(1)(a) Develop and implement a state strategic plan for attracting manufacturers to the state.

(b) The purpose of the state strategic plan is to design a program for the preparation and distribution of promotional and informational materials citing the key economic benefits of locating manufacturing facilities in the state.

(2) Monitor the implementation of the state strategic plan to attract manufacturers to the state.

(3) Develop a plan to identify areas of land for future manufacturing use.

(4) Identify manufacturing sites that are ready for development.

(5) Develop a plan in conjunction with the office of workforce development and Technical College System for the training of skilled workers to ensure a scalable workforce.

(6) Develop a plan for locating and identifying property for potential workforce housing.

B. The department shall promote the development of the manufacturing industry within this state and may engage in all of the following activities:

(1) Contracting with and directing trade or industry representatives for the purpose of promoting Louisiana as a site for the development of future manufacturing facilities.

(2) Serving as an informational clearinghouse and providing technical assistance to individuals and entities engaged in manufacturing by compiling, producing, publishing, and updating a comprehensive directory on sites, facilities, services, tax incentives, and permitting practices for the state.

(3) Participating in regional, national, and international manufacturing conferences and networking opportunities.

(4) Sponsoring workshops and seminars on topics including but not limited to legal and financial aspects of locating manufacturers in the state.

C. All departments, commissions, boards, agencies, officers, and institutions of this state and all subdivisions thereof shall cooperate with the office in carrying out the purposes of this Section.

D. The department is hereby designated as the applicant, administrative body, and recipient for accepting and administering any and all state, federal, and private funds awarded to and allocated by this state for any purpose covered by this Section.

E. The department shall provide the Legislature of Louisiana with an annual report regarding the provisions of this Section at least thirty days before the covening of the regular legislative session.

Acts 2022, No. 743, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1422 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1422
Unfair or deceptive trade practice; unsolicited offer to sell extended service agreement for a motor vehicle; requirements; exceptions; penalties
Status: in_force

A. The provisions of this Section shall apply to an unsolicited offer, made by mail or common carrier, to sell to another an extended service agreement relative to a motor vehicle.

B. If the unsolicited offer is in writing, it shall state at the top of each page "THIS IS AN ADVERTISEMENT TO PURCHASE AN EXTENDED SERVICE AGREEMENT ON A MOTOR VEHICLE. IT IS NOT AN OFFICIAL DOCUMENT." The statement shall be in conspicuous and legible type that is not smaller than fourteen-point font and is in contrast by typography, layout, or color with any other printing on the writing.

C. If the unsolicited offer is oral, it shall begin and end with the statement: "THIS IS AN ADVERTISEMENT TO PURCHASE AN EXTENDED SERVICE AGREEMENT ON A MOTOR VEHICLE. IT IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION OR DEMAND FOR ACTION."

D. A violation of the provisions of this Section shall constitute a deceptive and unfair trade practice and subject the violator to any and all actions and penalties authorized in this Chapter. Each offer in violation of this Section shall be considered a separate offense.

E. For the purposes of this Section, "extended service agreement" shall include any vehicle mechanical breakdown insurance policy, vehicle service contract sold by an independent payment provider or their agent, or vehicle component coverage contract. "Unsolicited offer" shall not include an offer made subsequent to a prior personal contact that included a meaningful exchange between the offeror and offeree.

F. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any manufacturer, distributor, or dealer of motor vehicles as defined in R.S. 32:1252, any vehicle mechanical breakdown insurer licensed pursuant to R.S. 22:362, any person acting pursuant to an agreement of and on behalf of such manufacturer, distributor, dealer, or licensed vehicle mechanical breakdown insurer, any entity licensed pursuant to R.S. 6:969.37, or any Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) or National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) insured depository financial institution operating with a main office or one or more branches in this state, or their subsidiaries or affiliates.

Acts 2016, No. 657, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1577 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1577
Requirements for contracts for physical fitness services
Status: in_force

A. Every prepaid or credit contract for physical fitness services of over one month's duration shall conform to the following requirements:

(1) The contract shall be in writing, and a copy shall be given to the customer at the time he signs it.

(2) The contract shall state clearly the street address or location of the center and any outlet which the member may use at the time the contract is executed.

(3) The contract shall reveal the finance charge, if any, which the member agrees to pay.

(4) If the customer executes a negotiable promissory note in connection with the contract, the contract shall clearly indicate that the promissory note is negotiable paper and that it may be discounted and sold to third parties. Negotiation of the promissory note does not affect the right of the member to cancel the contract or the method by which the cancellation may be made.

(5) Every center that engages in the sale of contracts prior to the opening of any outlet shall provide to each customer prior to the time the customer signs the contract, a written list of equipment and services which are or will be available for use by the customer at the outlet.

(6) Any contract by and between a center and a customer shall be canceled at the customer's option if any of the following conditions are met:

(a) The center goes out of business.

(b) The center moves any outlet more than ten driving miles from the business location designated in such contract and fails to provide, within thirty days, an outlet of equal quality located within ten driving miles of the business designated in the contract at no additional cost to the customer.

(c) Construction of or improvement to an outlet is not completed within one year of the date on which the contract between the center and the customer is signed, unless such completion date is extended through no fault of the center. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Subparagraph, construction shall commence, in any event, within thirty days from the date the first contract is executed by a customer.

(d) Any physical fitness services provided to the customer pursuant to Paragraph (5) of this Subsection are materially changed.

(7) The contract shall contain under a conspicuous caption in capital letters and boldfaced type the following language:

"CUSTOMER'S RIGHT TO CANCEL

(a) You may cancel this contract by sending notice of your wish to cancel to the center before midnight of the third business day after you sign the contract. This notice must be hand delivered to the center or sent registered mail to the following address:

________________________________________

Within fifteen days of receipt of this notice, the center shall return any payments made and any note executed by the customer in connection with the contract. If you use the seller's facilities or services, the center may charge you a reasonable fee based on days of actual use.

(b) This right of cancellation shall affect only the financial obligations under the contract and the customer's right to use the center's physical fitness service."

B. Any contractual provision allowing more liberal rights of cancellation than herein set forth may be substituted for the notice required herein.

Added by Acts 1982, No. 808, §1; Acts 1993, No. 704, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:3202 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 3202
Legislative findings; creation; intent
Status: in_force

A. The Legislature of Louisiana hereby finds and declares all of the following:

(1) It is necessary and appropriate to honor the sacrifice that Louisiana veterans have made on our behalf.

(2) A program recognizing and promoting veteran-owned businesses will help to instill a sense of patriotism in the community and throughout the state and will aid the men and women who were wounded, incapacitated, or otherwise placed their lives on hold to fight for freedom.

(3) After serving in the armed forces, veterans often return with dreams of starting a business to continue to serve the community, reassimilate, and earn an income in civilian life.

(4) The legislature appreciates and recognizes veterans' sacrifices and intends to encourage and promote veteran-owned businesses as a vital part of the economy of the state.

B. The Legislature of Louisiana hereby creates The Veterans First Business Initiative which shall be administered by Louisiana Economic Development.

C. It is the intent of the Legislature of Louisiana:

(1) That The Veterans First Business Initiative shall highlight and promote veteran-owned businesses to the public making them easily identifiable and accessible to enable citizens to support veterans.

(2) That a cooperation among Louisiana Economic Development, the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs, local chambers of commerce, regional economic development organizations, and local economic development organizations throughout the state is harmoniously developed in order to promote veteran-owned businesses.

(3) That The Veterans First Business Initiative shall reach out to veterans who own businesses to encourage and assist the veteran to apply for the program and to facilitate interactions between veteran-owned businesses and veterans seeking employment.

Acts 2019, No. 160, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:144 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 144
Discovery; order; production of books, papers, etc.
Status: in_force

The order for examination shall be signed by the judge making it, and the service of a copy with an endorsement signed by the Attorney General or district attorney that the person named shall appear and be examined at the time and place and before the officer specified in the endorsement, shall be sufficient notice for the attendance of witnesses.

The endorsement may require the person to produce on examination all books, papers and documents in his possession or under his control, relating to the subject of such examination. The production of books and papers for inspection shall be subject to the order of the judge who has ordered the examination; and either party may, by a petition, ask that the judge pass on the questions as to whether or not the books or papers should be produced, examined, and introduced in evidence.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1602 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1602
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this Chapter, the following words and phrases have the meaning ascribed to them in this Section except where otherwise provided in this Chapter or unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context:

(1) "Coal" means anthracite and bituminous coal, lignite, and any fuel derivative thereof.

(2) "Conversion" shall mean the voluntary or mandated conversion of industrial and powerplant fuel requirements in the state from natural gas or petroleum to coal or other alternate fuels.

(3) "Department of Conservation and Energy" or "department" means the Department of Conservation and Energy of the state of Louisiana.

(4) "Department of Energy" means the Department of Energy of the United States.

(5) "Exemptions" as used in this Chapter shall mean those criteria established through rules and regulations of the Department of Conservation and Energy, in accordance with federal law and in coordination with the rules of applicable federal agencies to permit a powerplant or industry, when feasible or in the best interest of the state, to postpone or avoid untimely use of coal or other alternate fuel or conversion of its fuel base from natural gas or petroleum to coal or other alternate fuel.

(6) "Other alternate fuel" as used in this Chapter shall mean some fuel other than natural gas, coal, and with the exceptions stated in the Federal Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978, oil.

(7) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental subdivision, or public or private organization of any character.

(8) "Powerplant" as used in this Chapter means a stationary electric generating unit consisting of a boiler, gas turbines, or combined cycle unit that produces electricity for sale or exchange or self-generated use.

(9) "Project costs" means all costs necessary for the planning, development, acquisition, construction, extension, or improvement of a revenue bond project, including site acquisition and preparation and installation of utilities, architectural, engineering, supervising, accounting, inspection, legal, and financing fees and costs, preparation of feasibility studies and reports, interest on revenue bonds and notes during construction and for a reasonable period thereafter, establishment of reserves to secure the bonds and notes, and all other expenditures incidental and necessary or convenient therefor.

(10) "Revenue bond project" or "Revenue Bond Projects" means any one or more of the facilities authorized to be financed by the issuance of revenue bonds pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter.

(11) "Revenue bonds" means any bonds or notes issued pursuant to this Chapter.

(12) "Revenues" include fees, proceeds, moneys, receipts, and income derived for the account of the Department of Conservation and Energy in connection with any revenue bond project or arising from the project.

(13) "Secretary of Energy" means the secretary of the United States Department of Energy.

(14) "Secretary of Natural Resources" or "secretary" means the secretary of the Department of Conservation and Energy of the state of Louisiana or such persons as the secretary may authorize to act for him as provided in R.S. 51:1603.

(15) "State plan" means a program or plan of the state of Louisiana planned, prepared, established, and administered by the Department of Conservation and Energy to implement the intent and purposes of this Chapter.

(16) "Support facility" means any facility providing an intermediate coal or alternate fuel service essential or useful to the use of or conversion to such fuels by powerplants and industries, the availability of which will facilitate economical and orderly use of or conversion to coal or alternate fuel and inure to the benefit of Louisiana citizens using the products produced by the powerplants and industries which utilize the support facility, and which the secretary has determined is required by the public interest of the state to be either licensed by the state under this Chapter, or if no person is interested in obtaining a license and constructing and operating such support facility, is owned and operated by the department as elsewhere provided in this Chapter. Support facilities shall include, without exclusion, facilities for loading and unloading, cleaning, blending, or storing coal or alternate fuel.

Acts 1979, No. 605, §1; Acts 1983, No. 705, §5, eff. Sept. 1, 1983; Acts 2023, No. 150, §21, eff. Jan. 10, 2024.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:3171 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 3171
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this Chapter, the following words have the meaning ascribed to them in this Section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1) "Agreement" means a written contractual agreement between the merchant and the third-party delivery service.

(2) "Consumer" means a person, business, or other entity who places an order for merchant products through the third-party delivery platform.

(3) "Likeness" means the logo, motto, or any identifiable symbols attributed and easily identified as belonging to a specific merchant.

(4) "Merchant" means a restaurant or other retail entity.

(5) "Third-party delivery platform" means the online communication platform of the third-party delivery service on which a consumer can view and search the menus of merchants and place an order for merchant products through internet-enabled technology and digital media, including websites and consumer applications accessible through smart phones and other mobile devices.

(6) "Third-party delivery service" means a company, organization, or other entity, other than a merchant, that is licensed to do business in this state and provides limited delivery services to a consumer.

Acts 2020, No. 192, §1.

NOTE: This Section is updated through the 2020 First Extraordinary Session, but is subject to final technical revisions by the Louisiana State Law Institute.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:223 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 223
Remedies
Status: in_force

Any owner of a mark registered under this Subpart may proceed by suit to enjoin the manufacture, use, display or sale of any counterfeits or imitations thereof and any court of competent jurisdiction may grant injunctions to restrain such manufacture, use, display or sale as may be by the said court deemed just and reasonable, and may require the defendants to pay to such owner all profits derived from and/or all damages suffered by reason of such wrongful manufacture, use, display or sale; and such court may also order that any such counterfeits or imitations in the possession or under the control of any defendant in such case, be delivered to an officer of the court, or to the complainant, to be destroyed.

The enumeration of any right or remedy herein shall not affect a registrant's right to prosecute under any penal law of this state.

Added by Acts 1954, No. 235, §2; Amended by Acts 1968, No. 475, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2320.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2320.3
Penalty for false statements
Status: in_force

Whoever knowingly files a false statement concerning an application for any program administered by the corporation shall be guilty of the offense of filing false public records and shall be subject to the penalty provided for in R.S. 14:133.

Acts 1992, No. 1136, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1994.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:944 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 944
Deceptive certification of a small and emerging business; penalties
Status: in_force

A. The crime of deceptive certification of a small and emerging business is the act of any applicant who does any one or all of the following:

(1) Fraudulently obtains or retains certification as a small and emerging business under R.S. 51:942 or any similar program conducted or funded by the state or a political subdivision thereof.

(2) Willfully makes a false statement, whether by affidavit, report, or other representation, to an official or employee of the department with the intent to influence the certification or denial of certification of any business entity as a small and emerging business under R.S. 51:942 or any similar program conducted or funded by the state or a political subdivision thereof.

(3) Fraudulently obtains money reserved for, allocated to, or available to a small and emerging business pursuant to R.S. 51:942 or any similar program conducted or funded by the state or a political subdivision thereof.

B. Any employee of the department or any other public servant who, with the intent to defraud, knowingly commits any of the acts provided for in Subsection A of this Section or knowingly assists an applicant in committing any such acts shall be guilty of the crime of deceptive certification of a small and emerging business and shall be subject to any penalties or other court orders provided for in this Section.

C. Whoever commits the crime of deceptive certification of a small and emerging business shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than two years, or both.

D. In addition to any fine imposed under this Section the court, as a condition of any suspension of an order of imprisonment, shall require that the offender make restitution to the entity from which such money was obtained, in an amount equal to all or part of the amount of money that was obtained in violation of this Section.

Acts 2001, No. 9, §9, eff. July 1, 2001.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1755 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1755
Investigative powers of the division
Status: in_force

A. The division shall receive consumer complaints alleging any violation of this Chapter, and any person may file a consumer complaint with the division that alleges a violation of this Chapter.

B. The division shall investigate a consumer complaint to determine whether a violation of this Chapter has occurred.

Acts 2023, No. 456, §1, eff. July 1, 2024; Acts 2024, No. 656, §1, eff. July 1, 2025.

NOTE: Acts 2023, No. 456 became effective July 1, 2024. Acts 2024, No. 656 changes the effective date of Acts 2023, No. 456 to July 1, 2025. However, Acts 2024, No. 656 is not effective until July 1, 2025.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:137 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 137
Damages recoverable for violation of law
Status: in_force

Any person who is injured in his business or property by any person by reason of any act or thing forbidden by this Part may sue in any court of competent jurisdiction and shall recover threefold the damages sustained by him, the cost of suit, and a reasonable attorney's fee.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:121 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 121
Commerce defined
Status: in_force

Commerce means trade or commerce within the geographic boundaries of this state.

Acts 2003, No. 933, §4.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2176 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2176
Annual disclosure statement
Status: in_force

A. The provider shall file with the department annually, within four months following the end of the provider's fiscal year, an annual disclosure statement which shall contain a statement setting forth, as of the end of the fiscal year, any material changes in the information required by R.S. 51:2175 for the initial disclosure statement.

B. From the date an annual disclosure statement is filed until the date the next succeeding disclosure form is filed with the department and prior to the provider's acceptance on behalf of the home of any part or all of any application fee or part of the entrance fee or the execution of the continuing care agreement by the resident, whichever first occurs, a copy of the current annual disclosure statement shall be available for inspection by residents or prospective residents.

C. In addition to filing the annual disclosure statement, the provider shall amend its currently filed disclosure statement at any other time an amendment is necessary to prevent any disclosure statement from containing any material misstatement of fact or any omission of a material fact required to be stated therein. Any such amendment or amended disclosure statement shall be filed with the department and shall be subject to all applicable requirements of this Chapter.

Acts 1987, No. 483, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:3233 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 3233
Required disclosures on website and online services; location
Status: in_force

A. A person who owns or operates a website or online service dealing in substantial part in the electronic dissemination of third-party commercial recordings or audiovisual works, directly or indirectly, and who electronically disseminates such works to consumers in this state shall clearly and conspicuously disclose his name, physical address, telephone number, and electronic mail address on his website or online service in a location readily accessible to a consumer using or visiting the website or online service.

B. For the purposes of this Section, any of the following locations are considered readily accessible:

(1) A landing or home webpage or screen.

(2) An "about" or "about us" webpage or screen.

(3) A "contact" or "contact us" webpage or screen.

(4) An information webpage or screen.

(5) Any place on the website or online service commonly used to display information identifying the owner or operator of the website or online service to consumers.

Acts 2022, No. 267, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:933 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 933
Cooperative endeavor agreement requirements
Status: in_force

A. A cooperative endeavor agreement with the department shall include but not be limited to the following terms and requirements:

(1) An agreement with a nongovernmental entity for economic development purposes shall contain the specific goals sought to be achieved by the nongovernmental entity and methods for reimbursement to the state if those goals are not met. Further, a nongovernmental entity, other than one participating in a business incubator program, Quality Jobs Program, or Enterprise Zone Program, which defaults on the agreement, breaches the terms of the agreement, ceases to do business, or ceases to do business in Louisiana, shall be required to repay the state, and the agreement shall set out the terms of the repayment.

(2) An agreement based on a legislative appropriation to a public or quasi-public agency or entity which is not a state budget unit shall include a comprehensive budget, provided to the agency and the legislative auditor, showing all anticipated uses of the appropriation, an estimate of the duration of the project, and a plan showing specific goals and objectives, including measures of performance.

(3) The department shall notify all businesses entering into cooperative endeavor agreements of the specific goals within the Louisiana Hudson Initiative and the Veterans Initiative as set forth by the division of administration.

(4) All agreements shall contain a plan to monitor compliance with the terms of the agreement, assigning a particular person within Louisiana Economic Development to be responsible for monitoring the agreement. Written reports shall be provided to Louisiana Economic Development at least every six months concerning the use of funds and the specific goals and objectives for the use of the funds.

B. The requirements set contained in Subsection A of this Section shall not apply to any existing economic development programs established by the Louisiana Constitution, the Revised Statutes of 1950, or by administrative rule, prior to August 15, 2010.

Acts 2010, No. 1031, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:217 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 217
Assignment
Status: in_force

A. Any trademark, trade name, or service mark, and its registration hereunder shall be assignable with the good will of the business in which the mark is used, or with that part of the good will of the business connected with the use of and symbolized by the trademark, trade name, or service mark.

B. Assignment shall be by instruments in writing duly executed and may be recorded with the secretary of state upon the payment of a fee as provided in R.S. 49:222, payable to the secretary of state, who, upon recording of the assignment, shall issue in the name of the assignee a new certificate for the remainder of the term of the registration or of the last renewal thereof. An assignment of any registration under this Subpart shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser for valuable consideration without notice, unless it is recorded with the secretary of state within three months after the date thereof or prior to such subsequent purchase.

C. The secretary of state may prescribe and furnish forms for assigning a trade name, trademark, and service mark.

Acts 1983, No. 235, §5, eff. July 1, 1983; Acts 1991, No. 746, §1; Acts 2008, No. 913, §5; Acts 2019, No. 19, §3, eff. May 28, 2019.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2370.21 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2370.21
Establishment; short title
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby created a grant program to be known as the "Granting Unserved Municipalities Broadband Opportunities 2.0" program, hereinafter referred to in this Subpart as the "GUMBO 2.0" program. Funding and administration of this program shall be governed in accordance with the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), P.L. 117-58, and the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) issued by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of United States Department of Commerce (NTIA), including any additional regulations promulgated by or guidance of the assistant secretary may provide.

B. This Subpart shall be known and may be cited as the "GUMBO 2.0 Program Law".

Acts 2023, No. 383, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2364 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2364
Louisiana Economic Development Innovation Fund
Status: in_force

A.(1) There shall hereby be established within the state treasury a special fund, the Louisiana Economic Development Innovation Fund, hereinafter referred to as the "fund". After compliance with the requirements of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana relative to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund, all monies received for the purpose of the fund shall be deposited into the fund.

(2) Monies in the fund shall be used solely for economic development initiatives as determined appropriate by the secretary, who shall develop guidelines for objectives and performance-based criteria for fund distribution.

(3) The source of monies in the fund shall be any monies transferred or appropriated by the legislature, grants, donations, or other monies which may become available.

B. The treasurer shall invest the monies in the fund in the same manner as funds are invested in the general fund. Interest earned from the investment of monies in the fund shall be credited back to the fund. All unexpended and unencumbered money remaining in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall be retained within the fund.

Acts 2025, No. 432, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1410 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1410
Assurances of voluntary compliance
Status: in_force

In the administration of this Chapter, the attorney general shall accept an assurance of voluntary compliance with respect to any method, act, or practice deemed to be violative of this Chapter from any person who has engaged or was about to engage in such method, act, or practice. Any such assurance shall be in writing and be filed with the district court having civil jurisdiction in the parish in which the alleged violator resides, or is domiciled or has his principal place of business, or in the district court of the parish in which the state capitol is located. Such assurance of voluntary compliance shall not be considered an admission of violation for any purpose.

Added by Acts 1972, No. 759, §1; Acts 2006, No. 218, §1, eff. June 2, 2006.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:733 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 733
Actions and immunities
Status: in_force

A. If a qualified individual reasonably believes that financial exploitation of an eligible adult may have occurred, may have been attempted, or is being attempted, the qualified individual may notify the appropriate adult protection agency and the commissioner of securities.

B. A qualified individual who, in good faith and exercising reasonable care, makes a disclosure of information pursuant to this Section shall be immune from administrative or civil liability that might otherwise arise from such disclosure or for any failure to notify the customer of the disclosure.

Acts 2016, No. 580, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2017.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2238 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2238
Powers of local commissions
Status: in_force

A local commission may:

(1) Receive, initiate, investigate, hear, and determine charges of violations of ordinances, orders, or resolutions forbidding discrimination adopted by the parish or municipality.

(2) Compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of evidence before it by subpoena issued by the district court of the parish wherein the local commission is authorized to act.

(3) Issue remedial orders, after notice and hearing, requiring cessation of violations.

(4) Issue such affirmative orders as in the judgment of the local commission will carry out the purposes of this Chapter. Affirmative action ordered may include but is not limited to the remedies enumerated in R.S. 51:2261(C).

(5) Employ an executive director, attorneys, hearing examiners, clerks, and other employees and agents.

(6) Accept grants, gifts, or bequests, public or private, to help finance its activities.

Acts 1988, No. 886, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2771 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2771
High Impact Jobs Program; fund
Status: in_force

A. For the purposes of this Section, the following terms have the following meanings, unless context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1) "Basic health benefits plan" means individual coverage for basic hospital care, physician care, and health care, effective no later than the first day of the month ninety days after hiring, that provides the same coverage as that provided to executive, administrative, and professional employees who are exempt from the minimum wage and maximum hour requirements of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq., and which LED determines to be in compliance with federally mandated healthcare requirements, or if no federally mandated healthcare requirements exist, shall be determined by rule. For the purposes of this Paragraph, the term "value" means the cost to the company or the cost of equivalent coverage.

(2) "Company" means an entity authorized to do business in Louisiana pursuant to state law.

(3) "Distressed area" means an area that is economically distressed or underdeveloped as determined by rule and approved by the secretary.

(4) "Expenditure verification report" means a report of expenses prepared by an independent certified public accountant, paid for by the company, in accordance with R.S. 36:104.1.

(5) "Jobs" means positions of employment that meet all of the following criteria:

(a) Did not exist in the state for that employer prior to the effective date of the incentive contract entered into pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter.

(b) Are full-time, at-will employees and does not include seasonal or temporary positions.

(c) Are directly employed by the company or a named subsidiary in the contract.

(d) Are filled onsite or remotely by Louisiana employees of the company or a named subsidiary in the contract.

(e) Include a basic health benefits plan.

(f) Are approved by the secretary.

(6) "LED" means Louisiana Economic Development.

(7) "Louisiana employee" means a person who qualifies as a resident individual pursuant to R.S. 47:31.

(8) "Parish average wage" means the average wage in a parish as determined annually by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, or its successor agency.

(9) "Project site" means a site in Louisiana identified for a project on the program application.

(10) "Qualifying company" means a company that is certified by LED as meeting the eligibility requirements of this Section and that has executed a contract with LED providing the terms and conditions for its participation in the program provided for in this Section.

(11) "Regional average wage" means the average wage within the geographic boundaries of the regional economic development organization in which the project is located, as calculated by LED and posted on its website.

(12) "Secretary" means the secretary of Louisiana Economic Development.

(13) "Wages" means compensation of an employee based on time worked or output of production but does not include benefits or overtime compensation.

B. There is hereby established within LED the High Impact Jobs Program, hereafter referred to in this Section as the "program", to encourage companies to create jobs that pay above the parish average wage and offer a basic health benefits plan. LED shall offer the following types of incentives pursuant to the program:

(1) A reimbursable grant of a percentage of annualized wages paid for qualifying jobs, not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars per year, per job, based upon the parish average wage paid where the project site is located at the time the incentive contract is executed, subject to the following conditions:

(a) Eight percent for a project located in a distressed area with wages equal to or greater than one hundred ten percent but less than one hundred twenty-five percent of the lesser of the parish average wage or the regional average wage.

(b) Eighteen percent for a project located in a parish with wages equal to or greater than one hundred twenty-five percent but less than one hundred fifty percent of the parish average wage.

(c) Twenty-two percent for a project located in a parish with wages equal to or greater than one hundred fifty percent of the parish average wage.

(2) A reimbursable grant to retain highly skilled workers with advanced degrees, as approved by the secretary in accordance with program rules.

C.(1) A company may be eligible for participation in the program if it meets either of the following minimum criteria and is approved by the secretary:

(a)(i) If the proposed project is located in a distressed area and the company will pay wages on new jobs created equal to or greater than one hundred ten percent of the lesser of the parish average wage or the regional average wage.

(ii) If the proposed project is located outside of a distressed area and the company will pay wages on new jobs created equal to or greater than one hundred twenty-five percent of the parish average wage.

(b) Retains highly skilled workers with advanced degrees.

(2)(a) Companies primarily engaged in the following sectors are ineligible for participation in the program:

(i) Gaming.

(ii) Retail sales.

(iii) Professional sports teams.

(iv) State and political subdivision enterprises.

(v) Automotive rental and leasing.

(vi) Local solid waste disposal.

(vii) Local sewage systems.

(viii) Local water systems.

(b) LED may promulgate rules listing other professions or industries which are eligible or ineligible for program participation.

D.(1) LED shall establish an application process for the program and establish an application fee for the program in accordance with R.S. 36:104.

(2) Upon receipt of a company's application and the fee imposed pursuant to Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, LED staff shall review the application and any other information the secretary deems appropriate for a determination of the project's eligibility.

(3) If LED staff determine that an applicant is eligible, funding is available, and that a grant would be in the best interest of the state, the secretary may execute a contract with an applicant that contains the terms and conditions of the applicant's participation in the program. The initial term of the contract shall be for three years; however, the contract may be renewed for a single two-year period if the grant recipient has complied with the provisions of this Section and all the terms of the contract and has not performed or failed to perform any act which would have made the applicant default on any of the terms of the contract.

(4)(a) A qualifying company may make a request for reimbursement by submitting to LED an expenditure verification report detailing qualifying expenditures. The qualifying company may submit the request for reimbursement either annually or at the end of the initial and renewed contract periods, as applicable.

(b) LED staff shall review the expenditure verification report and issue reimbursement payments for qualifying expenses.

(5) If an application is denied or if a reimbursement request is denied in whole or in part, LED shall issue a written basis for denial.

E. A qualifying company shall not receive any other incentive administered by LED for any expenditure or job for which it has received a grant pursuant to the provisions of this Section nor can the company be receiving a benefit from the Louisiana Quality Jobs Program, established pursuant to R.S. 51:2451 et seq.

F. The secretary may promulgate rules in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act to carry out the provisions of this Section. Notwithstanding any provision of the Administrative Procedure Act to the contrary, rules promulgated pursuant to the provisions of this Section are subject to the approval of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

G. No incentive shall be awarded pursuant to the provisions of this Section for applications received on or after July 1, 2035.

H.(1) There is hereby established in the state treasury as a special fund the High Impact Job Fund, hereafter referred to in this Section as the "fund". Any money transferred, donated, or appropriated to the fund by the legislature shall be deposited into the fund after compliance with the requirements of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana relative to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund.

(2) All unexpended and unencumbered monies in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund. The monies in the fund shall be invested by the state treasurer in the same manner as monies in the state general fund, and interest earned on the investment of monies in the fund shall be credited to the fund.

(3) Monies in the fund shall be appropriated to LED for awarding incentives pursuant to the provisions of this Section.

Acts 2025, No. 372, §1, eff. July 1, 2025.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1409 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1409
Private actions
Status: in_force

A. Any person who suffers any ascertainable loss of money or movable property, corporeal or incorporeal, as a result of the use or employment by another person of an unfair or deceptive method, act, or practice declared unlawful by R.S. 51:1405, may bring an action individually but not in a representative capacity to recover actual damages. If the court finds the unfair or deceptive method, act, or practice was knowingly used, after being put on notice by the attorney general, the court shall award three times the actual damages sustained. In the event that damages are awarded under this Section, the court shall award to the person bringing such action reasonable attorney fees and costs. Upon a finding by the court that an action under this Section was groundless and brought in bad faith or for purposes of harassment, the court may award to the defendant reasonable attorney fees and costs.

B. Upon commencement of any action brought under Subsection A of this Section, the plaintiff's attorney shall mail a copy of the petition to the attorney general, and, upon entry of any judgment or decree in the action, shall mail a copy of such judgment or decree to the attorney general, but failure to conform with this Subsection shall not affect any of plaintiff's rights under this Section.

C. Any permanent injunction, judgment or order of the court made under R.S. 51:1407 and 1408 shall be prima facie evidence in an action brought under this Section that the respondent used or employed a method, act or practice declared unlawful by R.S. 51:1405 or by rule or regulation promulgated pursuant thereto; provided, however, that this Subsection shall not apply to consent orders or voluntary assurances of compliance.

D. If any person is enjoined from the use of any method, act, or practice or enters into a voluntary compliance agreement accepted by the attorney general under the provisions of this Chapter, such person shall have a right of action to enjoin competing businesses engaged in like practices.

E. The action provided by this Section shall be subject to a liberative prescription of one year running from the time of the transaction or act which gave rise to this right of action.

Added by Acts 1972, No. 759, §1; Acts 2006, No. 218, §1, eff. June 2, 2006; Acts 2018, No. 337, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1442 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1442
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this Chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:

(1) "Arrears" or "arrearages" means amounts of past due and unpaid monthly support obligations established by a court order issued by any court of this state or another state, including any judgment or order issued in accordance with an administrative procedure established by state law that affords substantial due process and is subject to judicial review, or any other judgment created by operation of any state law.

(2) "Child support" means any amount required to be paid pursuant to a court order issued by any court of this state or another state, including any judgment or order issued in accordance with an administrative procedure established by state law that affords substantial due process and is subject to judicial review.

(3) "Contract" means a contract or agreement, as described in R.S. 51:1444, pursuant to which a private child support collection agency agrees to perform support enforcement services for an obligee for a fee or other compensation.

NOTE: Paragraph (4) eff. until October 1, 2027. See Acts 2025, No. 477, §17.

(4) "Department" means the Department of Children and Family Services, office of children and family services, child support enforcement section.

NOTE: Paragraph (4) as amended by Acts 2025, No. 477, §17, eff. October 1, 2027.

(4) "Department" means the Department of Children and Family Services, office of child support.

(5) "FITAP" means Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program.

(6) "Obligee" means an individual who is owed child support under a child support order and who has entered or may enter into a contract with a collection agency.

(7) "Obligor" means a resident of this state required to pay child support in accordance with an order of support issued by a court or other tribunal.

(8) "Order of support" or "child support order" means any judgment or order for the support of dependent children issued by any court of this state or another state, including any judgment or order issued in accordance with an administrative procedure established by state law that affords substantial due process and is subject to judicial review.

(9)(a) "Private child support collection agency" or "collection agency" means an individual or nongovernmental entity that solicits and contracts directly with obligees to provide child support collection services for compensation.

(b) For the purposes of this Chapter, the following persons or entities are not considered a private child support collection agency:

(i) The department or any government agency providing services in accordance with Title IV-D of the Social Security Act and corresponding state laws and regulations;

(ii) An attorney duly licensed to practice law in the state of Louisiana if he is not employed by a private child support collection agency or does not derive a substantial portion of business from the collection or enforcement of child support. As used in this Section, "substantial" means that at least fifty percent of the attorney's business, either in terms of remuneration or time spent, is comprised of the activity of seeking to collect or enforce child support obligations.

(iii) A collection agency that performs support enforcement services while under contract with the department to provide such services in accordance with Title IV-D of the Social Security Act and corresponding state laws and regulations.

(iv) A public officer, judicial officer, receiver, or trustee acting in accordance with a court order.

(10) "Support services" and "support enforcement services" means:

(a) Any action taken by the department, upon receipt of an application or referral for services or a request made under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, in accordance with the federal requirements of Title IV-D of the Social Security Act and corresponding state laws and regulations without regard to whether there is any existing court order, delinquency, or presumption of paternity.

(b) A service, including related financial accounting services, performed directly or indirectly for the purpose of causing a payment required, or allegedly required, by an order of support to be made to the obligee or to an agent of that individual.

Acts 2010, No. 872, §2, eff. July 2, 2010; Acts 2010, No. 877, §3, eff. July 1, 2010; Acts 2012, No. 255, §8; Acts 2025, No. 477, §17, eff. October 1, 2027.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:3207 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 3207
Outreach
Status: in_force

The department shall work in cooperation with the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs for outreach to regional economic development organizations, local economic development organizations, and chambers of commerce throughout the state. The cooperation shall serve to encourage business owners who are veterans to seek certification as part of The Veterans First Business Initiative and to promote veteran-owned businesses that have been certified pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter.

Acts 2019, No. 160, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:195 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 195
Repealed by Acts 1986, No. 1, §2, eff. Dec. 1, 1986.
Status: repealed

{{NOTE: SEE ACTS 1986, NO. 1, §3, REGARDING EFFECTIVE DATES OF MAY 22, 1987 OR DEC. 1, 1986.}}
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1926 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1926
Requirements for continuance of certification
Status: in_force

A. A certified Louisiana capital company is required to comply with all of the requirements of this Section in order to continue certification of its investment pools as certified capital. To continue the certification of any investment pools as certified capital, a certified Louisiana capital company must make qualified investments from each investment pool according to the following schedule:

(1) Within three years after the investment date for each investment pool, at least fifty percent of each investment pool must be invested, with at least thirty percent of each investment pool placed in qualified investments; provided, with respect to investment pools certified after January 1, 2002, at least fifty percent of the amount required to be placed in qualified investments within three years after their respective investment dates must be or have been placed in qualified Louisiana technology-based businesses, qualified Louisiana start-up businesses and/or qualified technology funds, with a minimum of fifty percent of such investments in qualified Louisiana technology-based businesses.

(2) Within five years after the investment date for each investment pool, at least eighty percent of each investment pool must be invested, with at least fifty percent of each investment pool placed in qualified investments; provided, with respect to investment pools certified after January 1, 2002, (a) at least fifty percent of the amount required to be placed in qualified investments within five years after their respective investment dates must be or have been placed in qualified Louisiana technology-based businesses, qualified Louisiana start-up businesses and/or qualified technology funds, with a minimum of fifty percent of such investments in qualified Louisiana technology-based businesses and (b) at least ten percent of the investment pool must be or have been placed in qualified technology funds, qualified investments in approved technology-based businesses and/or qualified investments in research park early stage businesses. The qualified investments used to satisfy the ten percent requirement in this Paragraph may also be used to satisfy the investment requirements regarding investment pools certified after January 1, 2002, as provided in Paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Subsection.

(3) The following are not qualified investments under this Subsection:

(a) Investments in businesses predominantly engaged in oil and gas exploration and development, gaming, real estate development for resale, banking, lending, insurance, or professional services provided by accountants, lawyers, or physicians. The only exception to lending activities under this definition of a qualified investment are those activities permitted under R.S. 51:1935(A)(1)(a) and (b) and investments in qualified venture funds and investments in qualified technology funds.

(b) Investments in associates of certified Louisiana capital companies. The secretary, by rule, shall define "associate". If a legal entity is not an associate before a certified Louisiana capital company or any of its affiliated certified Louisiana capital companies initially invests in the entity, it will not be an associate if the certified Louisiana capital company or any of its affiliated certified Louisiana capital companies provide additional investment subsequent to the initial investment in the entity.

(c) That portion of a certified Louisiana capital company's qualified investments outstanding at any one time in any qualified Louisiana business or group of affiliated qualified Louisiana businesses in excess of fifteen percent of the certified Louisiana capital company's total certified capital.

(d) Qualified investments, with the exception of participations between certified Louisiana capital companies, which are reported as qualified investments on another certified Louisiana capital company's books.

(e) Reciprocal investments or loans made between certified Louisiana capital companies.

(4) For purposes of satisfying the requirements of Paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Subsection and satisfying the requirements of the three-year forty percent tests and the five-year sixty percent tests contained in R.S. 51:1927.1, each dollar invested by a certified Louisiana capital company in a qualified venture fund shall be counted as two dollars.

(5) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, for purposes of this Chapter, a qualified investment shall include an investment received by a business prior to August 29, 2005, that was either made by or participated to a certified capital company for the purpose of moving the headquarter operations of the business to Louisiana and which business ceased its operations subsequent to August 29, 2005, but prior to the completion of the relocation to Louisiana. The commissioner shall determine if an investment meets the requirements of this Paragraph.

B. A certified Louisiana capital company shall make no investment if after making such investment, the total investment outstanding would exceed fifteen percent of the total certified capital under management plus, upon written submission to and approval of the commissioner, any reserved leverage resulting from either the receipt by the certified capital company of a written commitment letter from the United States Small Business Administration or the United States Department of Agriculture Business and Industrial Loan Guarantee Program, or both, issued prior to refunding of the investment, unless the investment is defined to be a permissible investment for a certified Louisiana capital company. The department may promulgate rules which include a method of defining "permissible investments".

C. Repealed by Acts 1996, No. 21, §3, eff. June 27, 1996.

D. Documents and other materials submitted by certified Louisiana capital companies or by Louisiana businesses for purposes of the continuance of certification shall not be public records if such records are determined to be trade or business secrets and shall be maintained in a secured environment by the commissioner. All reports, applications, and other information submitted to the commissioner shall contain no materially false or misleading information.

E. All qualified investments in equity in qualified Louisiana businesses as defined in R.S. 51:1923, including any losses therein incurred after certification, will be considered in the calculation of the percentage requirements under Subsections A and B of this Section.

F.(1) Each certified Louisiana capital company shall report the following to the commissioner on a calendar quarterly basis, starting with the first quarter after certification and each quarter thereafter, if any of the following information has changed since the first or any subsequent quarterly report filed:

(a) The name of each investor in a certified Louisiana capital company entitled to either an income tax credit or an insurance premium tax credit, including federal and state income tax identification numbers and, if applicable, the insurance premium tax identification number.

(b) The amount of each investor's investment and tax credit.

(c) The date on which the certified Louisiana capital company received the investment.

(d) The amount of the certified Louisiana capital company's certified capital at the end of the quarter.

(e) Whether or not the certified Louisiana capital company has invested more than fifteen percent, of the total certified capital under management in any one company.

(2) Each certified Louisiana capital company shall report to the commissioner annually, on or before January thirty-first, all qualified investments that the company has made during the previous calendar year, as well as the investment pool from which each investment originated.

(3) The certified Louisiana capital company shall submit to the commissioner, on or before April thirtieth, annual audited financial statements which include the opinion of an independent certified public accountant.

G.(1) Prior to making an investment in a business, a certified Louisiana capital company shall obtain, from an authorized representative of the business, a signed affidavit which shall be maintained by the company in its files.

(2) The commissioner shall by rule specify the substantive content of the affidavit.

H. A certified Louisiana capital company shall not:

(1) Operate or conceal any fact or condition which, if such operation or condition had existed at the time of application for certification, would have justified the commissioner's refusal of the certified Louisiana capital company's certification.

(2) Make any material misrepresentation to the commissioner in an application for certification which would have justified the commissioner's refusal of the certification.

(3) Willfully violate any provision of this Chapter, any rule or regulation promulgated hereunder, or any order of the secretary or the commissioner.

Added by Acts 1983, No. 642, §1. Acts 1984, No. 891, §1, §2, eff. July 20, 1984; Acts 1986, No. 695, §1; Acts 1989, No. 496, §1; Acts 1993, No. 279, §2, eff. June 2, 1993; Acts 1996, No. 21, §§2, 3, eff. June 27, 1996; Acts 2001, No. 1122, §1, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2002, No. 84, §2, eff. June 25, 2002; Acts 2006, No. 434, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1949 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1949
Disclosure by seller
Status: in_force

It shall be an unfair and deceptive trade practice within the meaning of R.S. 51:1405(A) for any person to sell a motor vehicle of 1980 or later model from which the emission controls have been removed, disconnected, or otherwise rendered inoperable without disclosing such fact to the potential buyer prior to the sale of the vehicle. Any person aggrieved by a violation of this Chapter shall have a right of action regardless of whether the sale is a commercial or consumer transaction.

Acts 1986, No. 1054, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:219 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 219
Cancellation
Status: in_force

A. The secretary of state shall cancel from the register:

(1) After one year from July 31, 1968, all registrations under prior acts which are more than ten years old and not renewed in accordance with this Subpart.

(2) Any registration concerning which the secretary of state shall receive a voluntary request for cancellation thereof from the registrant or the assignee of record.

(3) All registrations granted pursuant to this Subpart and not renewed in accordance with the provisions hereof.

(4) Any registration concerning which a court of competent jurisdiction shall find:

(a) That the registered mark has been abandoned.

(b) That the registrant is not the owner of the mark.

(c) That the registration was granted improperly.

(d) That the registration was obtained fraudulently.

(e) That the registered mark is so similar, as to be likely to cause confusion or mistake or to deceive, to a mark registered by another person in the United States Patent Office, prior to the date of the filing of the application for registration by the registrant hereunder, and not abandoned; provided, however, that should the registrant prove that he is the owner of a concurrent registration of his mark in the United States Patent Office covering an area including this state, the registration hereunder shall not be cancelled.

(5) When a court of competent jurisdiction shall order cancellation of a registration on any ground.

B. The secretary of state may prescribe and furnish forms for filing a voluntary cancellation of registration in accordance with Subsection A of this Section.

Added by Acts 1954, No. 235, §2. Amended by Acts 1968, No. 475, §1; Acts 2019, No. 19, §3, eff. May 28, 2019.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1753 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1753
Prohibition on data collection for certain accounts and advertising
Status: in_force

For a Louisiana minor account holder, a social media company shall prohibit all of the following:

(1) Adults from direct messaging a Louisiana minor account holder unless the minor is already connected to the adult on the service.

(2) The display of any advertising in the account based on the Louisiana minor account holder's personal information, except age and location.

(3) The collection or use of personal information from the posts, content, messages, text, or usage activities of the account other than information beyond what is adequate, relevant, and reasonably necessary in relation to the purposes for which the information is collected, as disclosed.

Acts 2023, No. 456, §1, eff. July 1, 2024; Acts 2024, No. 656, §1, eff. July 1, 2025.

NOTE: Acts 2023, No. 456 became effective July 1, 2024. Acts 2024, No. 656 changes the effective date of Acts 2023, No. 456 to July 1, 2025. However, Acts 2024, No. 656 is not effective until July 1, 2025.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1418 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1418
Jurisdiction
Status: in_force

A. A consumer transaction or modification of a consumer transaction is made in this state when: (1) a writing signed by the consumer and evidencing the obligation is received by the merchant in this state, or when (2) the merchant negotiates in this state personally or by mail, telephone or otherwise, for a transaction with a consumer consummated outside the state.

B. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, this Act applies if the consumer is a resident of this state at the time of the consumer transaction and either of the conditions specified in Subsection A of this section are present.

C. The following terms of a writing executed by a consumer are invalid with respect to consumer transactions or modifications thereof: (1) that the law of another state will apply; (2) that the consumer consents to the jurisdiction of another state; or (3) any term that fixes venue.

Added by Acts 1972, No. 759, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:412 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 412
Advertising of fallout shelters
Status: in_force

A. Definitions. For the purposes of this Section, the terms defined herein shall have the respective meanings hereinafter set forth.

(1) Shelter: A fallout shelter, a blast-resistant shelter, or a limited blast-resistant shelter.

(2) Fallout shelter: A structure which, when properly installed, has a protection factor against fallout gamma radiation of not less than one hundred.

(3) Protection factor: The relative reduction in the amount of radiation that would be received by a person in a shelter compared with the amount which he would receive if unprotected. A structure which has a protection factor of one hundred must offer a person at least one hundred times more protection against radiation than such person would have if unprotected.

(4) Blast-resistant or limited blast-resistant shelter: A structure which qualifies as a fallout shelter and, in addition, is capable of affording a certain minimum amount of protection against the effects of a blast overpressure and associated nuclear and thermal radiation. To qualify as a "blast-resistant shelter" a structure must be capable of withstanding an overpressure of not less than thirty pounds per square inch, which pressure would occur at a range of approximately two and one-half miles from a ten megaton, and approximately five miles from a one hundred megaton explosion. To qualify as a "limited blast-resistant shelter" a structure must be capable of withstanding an overpressure of not less than five pounds per square inch, which pressure would occur at a range of approximately eight and one-half miles from a ten megaton, and approximately eighteen miles from a one hundred megaton explosion.

B. Fallout and blast protection.

(1) A structure shall not be described or designated as a "fallout shelter," or by any other term of like implication, nor shall any representation be made that a structure affords protection against radioactive fallout, unless such structure meets the minimum requirements set forth in the definition of a "fallout shelter" in Subsection A of this Section.

(2) A structure shall not be described or designated as a "blast shelter" or by any other term of like implication.

(3) A structure shall not be described or designated as a "blast-resistant shelter" or a "limited blast-resistant shelter," or by any other term of like implication, unless it meets the applicable minimum requirements set forth herein.

(4) No representation, express or implied, shall be made that a structure affords protection against nuclear blast unless such structure meets the minimum requirements for a "limited blast-resistant shelter."

(5) No advertisement for, or representation as to the characteristics or capabilities of, any structure designated as a "fallout shelter," "blast-resistant shelter," "limited blast-resistant shelter," or any other term of like implication, shall be used without the inclusion of an affirmative disclosure, in clear and conspicuous terms, of the limits of the protection provided by such structure.

(6) With reference to a fallout shelter which does not qualify as a "limited blast-resistant shelter," an advertisement shall disclose that the structure has not been designated to afford protection against blast or other related hazards.

(7) If the structure qualifies as a "limited blast-resistant shelter" or a "blast-resistant shelter," an advertisement shall disclose that the structure, when properly installed, will protect its occupants from a blast of a stated force (such as ten megatons) occurring at an approximate number of miles distant.

(8) If a structure meets the minimum requirements for a "fallout shelter," factual and nondeceptive representations may be made as to the degree and nature of fallout protection afforded. Claims that the fallout protection afforded exceeds the requirements shall not be used unless the protection so afforded exceeds the prescribed minimum to a significant degree.

(9) Claims, express or implied, of absolute or complete protection from fallout or blast under any and all conditions shall not be used.

C. Installation.

(1) Any advertisement offering a shelter shall disclose affirmatively that the structure must be properly installed before it can provide protection as a shelter.

(2) No representation shall be made that a shelter can be installed in one day or in any other period of time, unless the installation can in fact be completed within the stated period.

(3) Statements which deceptively exaggerate the ease or economy with which a shelter can be installed shall not be used.

D. Affirmative disclosures as to capacity.

(1) Whenever any representation is made which conveys any implication as to the size or capacity of the advertised shelter, such as a picture, a quoted price or the use of the word "family," the advertisement shall clearly and conspicuously disclose the number of persons the shelter will protect.

(2) Minimum standard requirements of the office of civil defense of the United States in effect at the time the advertised offer is made shall be applied in determining the number of persons that the shelter can protect.

E. Pictorial and other misrepresentations.

(1) No advertisement shall be used which would mislead prospective buyers, through pictorial representations or in any other manner, as to the protection afforded by a shelter or as to the size, composition, construction, design, capacity, quality, cost or manner of installation, fire or water-resistant properties, location or utility of a shelter or any part thereof, or which would be misleading in any other material respect.

(2) All construction items featured in a pictorial representation must be included in the price stated in the advertisement.

(3) Picturizations of fallout shelters which imply protection against blast effects but which are not capable of providing this protection shall not be used.

(4) An advertisement shall not feature the picture of a higher-priced shelter in conjunction with the price of a lower-priced shelter in such manner as to lead consumers to believe the higher-priced model can be purchased at the lower price.

F. Deceptive prices.

(1) No statement, express or implied, shall be used which misrepresents prices or savings in any manner.

(2) Claims that the price offer is for a limited time only or that there will be an increase in price shall not be used unless in fact true.

(3) Advertised or quoted prices shall include the cost of all parts of the structure which are essential to its functioning as a shelter.

(4) Advertised or quoted prices also shall include all charges for the delivery and installation of the shelter, unless the advertisement clearly and conspicuously discloses that delivery or installation charges are not included.

(5) No statement, however expressed, whether in words, phrases, price figures, symbols, fractions, percentages or otherwise, which represents or implies a reduction or saving from an established retail price or from the advertiser's former price shall be used in connection with the price at which a shelter is offered for sale unless:

(a) the saving or reduction statement applies to the specific shelter offered for sale as distinguished from similar or comparable shelters, and either

(b) the saving or reduction is from the usual and customary retail price of the shelter in the trade area or areas where the statement is made, or

(c) the saving or reduction is from the advertiser's usual and customary retail price of the shelter in the recent, regular course of business, and

(d) the statement clearly shows whether the saving or reduction is from the usual and customary retail price of the shelter in the trade area or from the advertiser's usual and customary retail price of the shelter in the recent, regular course of business.

(6) No statement which represents or implies a reduction or saving from an established retail price or from the advertiser's usual and customary retail price shall be used if,

(a) an artificial mark-up has been used to provide the basis for the claim, or

(b) the claim is based on infrequent or isolated sales, or

(c) the claim is based on a past price, that is, a price not immediately preceding the price used in the recent, regular course of business, unless this fact is clearly and adequately disclosed.

(7) Nothing herein provided shall be interpreted to preclude an advertiser from comparing his selling price for a shelter to the price at which similar and comparable shelters are currently offered for sale, or sold, provided that,

(a) it is clearly and conspicuously disclosed in the statement, however made, that the comparison in price is being made between the shelter offered for sale and similar and comparable shelters so that it is made clear that the comparative price is not the former or usual and customary price of the advertised shelter but is the price of such similar and comparable shelters, and

(b) the shelters, to which the sales price of the advertised shelter is compared, is at least of like grade and quality in all material respects, and

(c) said similar and comparable shelters are generally available for purchase at the comparative price in the same trade area or areas where the claim is made or, if not so available, that fact is clearly disclosed.

(8) No statement which represents or implies that, because of some unusual event or manner of business, a shelter is offered for sale to the consuming public at a saving from the usual and customary retail price in the trade area or areas where the claim is made, or at a saving from the advertiser's usual and customary price for the shelter in the recent, regular course of his business shall be made unless the claim is true.

(9) No statement shall be made in connection with the offering for sale of a shelter to the consuming public of a "factory" or "wholesale" price, or other such expression, which represents or implies that the consuming public can purchase the shelter at the same price that retailers regularly do, and provides a saving from the usual and customary retail price for the shelter in the trade area or areas where the claim is made unless such statement is true.

(10) No shelter shall be "pre-ticketed" with any price figure, either alone or with descriptive terminology, which exceeds the price at which the shelter is usually and customarily sold in the trade area or areas where the "pre-ticketed" shelter is offered for sale.

G. Financial terms.

(1) Installment purchase plans shall not be misrepresented in any manner, nor shall an advertiser claim that loans from any lending institution are available, or that such loans may be insured by the Federal Housing Administration, unless such is the fact.

(2) Down payments shall not be quoted in such a manner as to imply that the down payment constitutes the entire price.

(3) If a shelter is offered at a quoted price under an installment plan which requires additionally the payment of carrying charges, the fact that carrying charges are to be added to the advertised price shall be disclosed.

(4) If an interest rate is quoted, it must be simple interest per annum calculated on the basis of the unpaid balance due as reduced after crediting installments as paid.

H. Guarantees.

(1) A guarantee shall not be used in such a manner as to constitute a misrepresentation of a material fact.

(2) Any guarantee in advertising shall clearly and conspicuously disclose

(a) the nature and extent of the guarantee, including but not necessarily restricted to disclosure of (1) the shelter or part thereof guaranteed; (2) the characteristics or properties of the designated shelter or part thereof covered by or excluded from the guarantee; (3) the duration of the guarantee; (4) what, if anything, any one claiming under the guarantee must do before the guarantor will fulfill his obligation under the guarantee, and

(b) the manner in which the guarantor will perform including a statement of exactly what the guarantor undertakes to do under the guarantee, such as repair, replacement and refund and, if the guarantor or the person receiving the guarantee has an option as to what may satisfy the guarantee, this shall be set out in the statement; and

(c) the identity of the guarantor. The identity of the guarantor also shall be clearly revealed in all advertising, as well as in any documents evidencing the guarantee.

(3) A seller or manufacturer shall not advertise or represent that a shelter is guaranteed when he cannot or does not promptly and scrupulously fulfill his obligations under the guarantee.

I. Government connection, approval or endorsement. If a shelter design meets the minimum requirements of the United States Office of Civil Defense, the advertiser may reveal this fact in advertising. Even though the shelter design meets the aforementioned requirements, however, an advertiser shall not represent that the shelter has been approved or endorsed by the federal government or is being offered by an agency of the federal government. Seals, insignia, trade or brand names, or any other term or symbol implying connection, approval, or endorsement of the federal government shall not be used in advertising.

J. Maintenance or repairs. No statement shall be made which misrepresents the extent to which maintenance, repairs or replacement of a shelter or parts thereof may be required.

K. Custom made, custom built, etc. Claims that a shelter is "custom made," "custom built," or representations of similar import, shall not be used unless the shelter is to be designed and built specially for the particular purchaser.

L. Model shelters. An advertiser shall not claim that prospective purchasers' homes have been selected for the installation of "model shelters," or that the owners thereof will receive any amount of money, a reduction in price or other thing of value conditioned upon the sale to others of similar shelters, when such is not the fact.

M. Combination or dual-purpose shelters. Claims to the effect that a shelter serves a combination or dual purpose shall not be used unless factually true. If a shelter can in fact be utilized for other purposes which would not interfere with its use as a shelter, factual and non-deceptive representations as to such other utilization may be made.

N. Bait advertising. An advertiser shall not offer a shelter for sale unless such offer is made in good faith for the purpose of selling the advertised shelter. Insincere offers to sell, made for the purpose of contacting prospective purchasers and switching them to a shelter other than the shelter advertised, are not to be used.

O. Lottery schemes. Sales promotional plans involving lottery or other schemes of chance shall not be used.

P. Scare tactics. Scare tactics, such as the employment of horror pictures calculated to arouse unduly the emotions of prospective shelter buyers, shall not be used.

Q. Untrue or misleading advertisements prohibited. The provisions of R.S. 51:411 shall apply wherever applicable to this Section.

R. Penalty. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this Section shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not less than ten days nor more than six months, or both, and each offense shall constitute a separate offense.

Added by Acts 1962, No. 237, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1905.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1905.2
Donation receptacles; violations
Status: in_force

A. Any person who is not affiliated with or acting on behalf of a charitable organization, who places, maintains, services, and collects contents from a donation receptacle placed in public view that is placed for the purpose of collecting donated clothing, household items, or other such donated items for future resale or subsequent donation for purposes of claiming a tax deduction shall permanently affix to the receptacle a label or sign, with lettering no less than three inches in height and one half inch in width, that includes all of the following information:

(1) A statement that reads "DONATIONS MADE IN THIS RECEPTACLE SUPPORT A COMMERCIAL BUSINESS (INSERT NAME OF BUSINESS) AND DO NOT QUALIFY AS CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR TAX PURPOSES."

(2) The person's name, telephone number, electronic mail address, and physical address.

B. Violation of Subsection A of this Section shall constitute an unfair trade practice under the Unfair Trade Practices Law.

Acts 2010, No. 172, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2424 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2424
Disclosure
Status: in_force

A. No insurer shall specify the use of non-OEM aftermarket crash parts in the repair of an insured's motor vehicle, nor shall a repair facility or installer use non-OEM aftermarket parts to repair a vehicle, unless the insured is so advised in writing.

B. In all instances where non-OEM aftermarket crash parts are intended for use by an insurer:

(1) The written estimate shall clearly identify each such part.

(2) A disclosure document containing the following information in ten point type or larger type shall appear on or be attached to the insured's copy of the estimate: "This estimate has been prepared based on the use of crash parts supplied by a source other than the manufacturer of your motor vehicle. Warranties applicable to these replacement parts are provided by the manufacturer or distributor of these parts rather than the manufacturer of your vehicle."

Acts 1990, No. 765, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1003 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1003
Cooperation of departments, agencies and officers
Status: in_force

NOTE: AS ENACTED BY ACTS 1960, NO. 389, §2:

The departments, agencies and officers of this state and its subdivisions are hereby authorized to cooperate with the Southern Interstate Nuclear Board in the furtherance of any of its activities pursuant to the Compact.

NOTE: AS AMENDED BY ACTS 1979, NO. 576, §1, EFF. UPON APPROVAL BY NINE PARTY STATES AND CONGRESS:

§1003. Finances

A. The board shall submit to the executive head or designated officer or officers of each party state a budget of its estimated expenditures for such period as may be required by the laws of that jurisdiction for presentation to the legislature thereof.

B. Each of the board's budgets of estimated expenditures shall contain specific recommendations of the amount or amounts to be appropriated by each of the party states. One half of the total amount of each budget of estimated expenditures shall be apportioned among the party states in equal shares; one quarter of each such budget shall be apportioned among the party states in accordance with the ratio of their populations to the total population of the entire group of party states based on the last decennial federal census; and one quarter of each such budget shall be apportioned among the party states on the basis of the relative average per capita income of the inhabitants in each of the party states based on the latest computations published by the federal census taking agency. Subject to appropriation by their respective legislatures, the board shall be provided with such funds by each of the party states as are necessary to provide the means of establishing and maintaining facilities, a staff of personnel, and such activities as may be necessary to fulfill the powers and duties imposed upon and entrusted to the board.

C. The board may meet any of its obligations in whole or in part with funds available to it under R.S. 51:1002(G), provided that the board takes specific action setting aside such funds prior to the incurring of any obligation to be met in whole or in part in this manner. Except where the board makes use of funds available to it under R.S. 51:1002(G) the board shall not incur any obligation prior to the allotment of funds by the party jurisdictions adequate to meet the same.

D. The board shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements. The receipts and disbursements of the board shall be subject to the audit and accounting procedures established under its bylaws. However, all receipts and disbursements of funds handled by the board shall be audited yearly by a qualified public accountant and the report of the audit shall be included in and become part of the annual report of the board.

E. The accounts of the board shall be open at any reasonable time for inspection.

Acts 1979, No. 576, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2179 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2179
Dismissal or discharge of resident; refund
Status: in_force

No agreement for care shall permit dismissal or discharge of the resident from the facility providing care before the expiration of the agreement without just cause for the removal. If a facility terminates a resident for just cause, the facility shall pay to the resident any refund due in the same manner as if the resident had provided notice pursuant to R.S. 51:2178. The term "just cause" includes, but is not limited to, a good faith determination that a resident is a danger to himself or others while remaining in the facility.

Acts 1987, No. 483, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:936 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 936
Cooperation between department and state agencies
Status: in_force

A. Louisiana Economic Development is authorized to call upon all state agencies for full and complete cooperation and assistance in planning and coordinating its programs, and all state agencies are hereby directed to cooperate and assist the department to the fullest possible extent.

B. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 428, §3, eff. July 1, 2005.

C. Louisiana Economic Development may obtain directly from all state agencies any information that state agencies may have regarding any company that has applied to or contracted with Louisiana Economic Development for assistance, including but not limited to tax incentives, economic development programs, financial assistance, cooperative endeavor agreements, or technical assistance. Louisiana Economic Development is further authorized to obtain information outlined above for the Louisiana Economic Development Corporation. Louisiana Economic Development will minimize the financial impact this Section may have on another agency, by obtaining the information from the agency in the least intrusive and most efficient manner.

D. Any information obtained by Louisiana Economic Development from another state agency in this manner shall remain confidential and privileged in the same manner as the agency providing that information would maintain confidentiality and privilege. Any information obtained by the Louisiana Economic Development Corporation from Louisiana Economic Development pursuant to this Section shall remain confidential and privileged in the same manner as Louisiana Economic Development would maintain confidentiality and privilege.

Acts 1983, No. 724, §2; Acts 1997, No. 588, §2; Acts 1997, No. 1116, §2; Acts 2004, No. 699, §3; Acts 2005, No. 428, §3, eff. July 1, 2005.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2031 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2031
Short title
Status: in_force

This Chapter shall be known as the "Anti-Phishing Act of 2006".

Acts 2006, No. 201, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2330 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2330
Qualifications for tenants
Status: in_force

A. The tenants of a small business incubator created by this Part shall be limited to technology based start-up companies.

B. The corporation shall define by rule a qualified technology based start-up company and establish eligibility qualifications for inclusion in a small business incubator.

C. In addition to the rules established by the corporation, the applicant may also establish additional qualifications for inclusion in a small business incubator which are not inconsistent with this Part.

Acts 2003, No. 1170, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2261 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2261
Findings of the commission; orders; nature of affirmative action
Status: in_force

A. If the commission determines that the respondent has not engaged in an unlawful practice, the commission shall state its findings of fact and conclusions of law and shall issue an order dismissing the complaint. A copy of the order shall be delivered to the complainant, the respondent, the attorney general, and such other public officers and persons as the commission deems proper.

B. If the commission determines that the respondent has engaged in an unlawful practice, the commission shall state its findings of fact and conclusions of law and shall issue an order requiring the respondent to cease and desist from the unlawful practice and to take such affirmative action as in the judgment of the commission will carry out the purposes of this Chapter. A copy of the order shall be delivered to the respondent, the complainant, the attorney general, and to such other public officers and persons as the commission deems proper.

C. Affirmative action ordered under this Section may include but is not limited to:

(1) Hiring, reinstatement, or upgrading of employees with or without back pay. Interim earnings or amounts earnable with reasonable diligence by the person or persons discriminated against shall operate to reduce the back pay otherwise allowable.

(2) Admission or restoration of individuals to union membership, admission to or participation in a guidance program, apprenticeship training program, on-the-job training program, or other occupational training or retraining program, and the utilization of objective criteria in the admission of individuals to such programs.

(3) Admission of individuals to a place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement.

(4) The extension to all individuals of the full and equal enjoyment of the advantages, facilities, privileges, and services of the respondent.

(5) Reporting as to the manner of compliance.

(6) Posting notices in conspicuous places in the respondent's place of business in a form prescribed by the commission.

(7) Sale, exchange, lease, rental, assignment, or sublease of immovable property to an individual.

(8) Payment to the complainant of damages for injury caused by an unlawful practice, including compensation for humiliation and embarrassment, expenses incurred by the complainant in obtaining alternative housing accommodations, and other costs actually incurred by the complainant as a direct result of such unlawful practice.

D. The commission may publish or cause to be published the names of persons who have been determined to have engaged in an unlawful practice.

E. The proceeding for enforcement of a commission order shall be initiated by filing a complaint in the district court of the parish in which the subject of the complaint occurred or in the parish in which a respondent resides or has his principal place of business. Copies of the complaint shall be served upon all parties of record. Within thirty days after the filing of the complaint by the commission, or within such further time as the court may allow, the commission shall transmit to the court the original or a certified copy of the entire record upon which the order is based, including a transcript of testimony, which need not be printed. By stipulation of all parties to the proceeding, the record may be shortened.

F. The findings of fact of the commission shall be conclusive unless manifestly erroneous in view of the probative and substantive evidence on the whole record. The court may grant such temporary relief or restraining order as it deems just and may enter an order enforcing, modifying, and enforcing as modified, or setting aside in whole or in part the order of the commission, or remanding the case to the commission for further proceedings.

Acts 1988, No. 886, §1; Acts 1995, No. 1314, §1, eff. July 1, 1995.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2134 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2134
Education requirement
Status: in_force

A. Every contract or employment arrangement agreed to by the parties subject to the provisions of this Chapter shall include provisions contained in this Section for the education of the minor being employed to render artistic or creative services.

B. If a minor is absent from school for two or more days within a thirty-day period, the employer shall employ a certified teacher, beginning on the second day of employment, to provide a minimum of three education instruction hours per day to the minor pursuant to the lesson plans for the particular minor as provided by the principal and teachers at the minor's school. There must be a teacher to student ratio of one teacher for every ten students.

Acts 2005, No. 147, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:711 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 711
Investigations; subpoenas; self-incrimination; conducting hearings
Status: in_force

A. The commissioner, at his discretion:

(1) May make such public or private investigations within or outside of this state as he deems necessary to determine whether any person has violated or is about to violate this Part or any rule, regulation, or order under this Part or to aid in the enforcement of this Part or in the prescribing of rules and regulations hereunder.

(2) May require or permit any person to file a statement in writing, under oath or otherwise as the commissioner determines, as to all the facts and circumstances concerning the matter to be investigated.

(3) May publish information concerning any violation of this Part or any rule, regulation, or order under this Part.

B. For the purpose of conducting any investigation as provided in this Section, the commissioner shall have the power to administer oaths, to call any party to testify under oath at such investigations, to require the attendance of witnesses, the production of books, records, and papers, and to take the depositions of witnesses; and for such purposes the commissioner is authorized to issue a subpoena for any witness or a subpoena for production of documentary evidence to compel the production of any books, records, or papers. Said subpoenas may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the addressee's business mailing address or by investigators appointed by the commissioner or shall be directed for service to the sheriff of the parish where the witness resides or is found or where such person in custody of any books, records or papers resides or is found.

C. In case of refusal to obey a subpoena issued under any section of this Part to any person, a judicial district court upon application by the commissioner, may issue to the person an order requiring him to appear before the court to show cause why he should not be held in contempt for refusal to obey the subpoena. Failure to obey a subpoena may be punished by the court as a contempt of court.

D.(1) The commissioner may, with the approval of the attorney general, issue to any person who has been or may be called to a hearing or other proceeding under this Part a written order requiring the individual to give testimony or provide other information which he refuses to give or provide on the basis of his privilege against self-incrimination. Such order shall be issued only if the commissioner shall find that:

(a) The testimony or other information from such individual may be in the public interest; and

(b) Such individual has refused or is likely to refuse to testify or provide other information on the basis of his privilege against self-incrimination.

(2) Whenever any witness refuses, on the basis of his privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or provide other information at any hearing or other proceeding under this Part and the person presiding over the proceeding delivers to the witness a written order issued under Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, the witness may not refuse to comply with the order on the basis of his privilege against self-incrimination; but no testimony or other information compelled under the order as to which the witness could validly assert his privilege against self-incrimination, or any information directly or indirectly derived from such testimony or other information, may be used against the witness in any criminal case, except a prosecution for perjury, false swearing, giving a false statement to the commissioner pursuant to this Part, or otherwise failing to comply with the order.

E. In the case of any investigation conducted under this Section, the commissioner may hold hearings or he may appoint an investigative agent to conduct the hearings who shall have the same powers and authority in conducting the hearings as are in this Section granted to the commissioner. The agent shall possess such qualifications as the commissioner may require. A transcript of the testimony and evidence and objections resulting from such hearings shall be taken unless waived in writing by the commissioner and by all parties present at the hearings. Copies of the transcript shall be available to all parties present at the hearing upon payment of a reasonable expense of reproducing such transcript. All recommendations of the investigative agent shall be advisory only and shall not have the effect of an order of the commissioner.

F. In any case where hearings are conducted by an investigative agent, he shall submit to the commissioner a written report, including the transcript of the testimony in evidence, if requested by the commissioner, the findings of the hearing, and a recommendation of the action to be taken by the commissioner. The recommendation of the agent shall be approved, modified, or disapproved by the commissioner. The commissioner may direct an investigative agent to take additional testimony or permit introduction of further documentary evidence.

G. In addition to any other hearings and investigations which the commissioner is authorized or required by this Part to hold, the commissioner is also authorized to hold general investigative hearings on his own motion with respect to any matter under this Part. A general investigative hearing as provided for may be conducted by any person designated by the commissioner for that purpose and may, but need not be, transcribed by the commissioner or by any other interested party. No formal action may be taken as a result of such investigative hearing, but the commissioner may take such action as he deems appropriate, based on the information developed in the hearing and on any other information which he may have.

Acts 1985, No. 722, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1403 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1403
Prohibited contracts
Status: in_force

Any consumer contract, express or implied, made by any person, firm, or corporation in violation of this Chapter is an illegal contract and no recovery thereon shall be had.

Acts 2006, No. 218, §1, eff. June 2, 2006.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:128 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 128
Injunction at suit of state; petition and citation; temporary relief; process as to parties not joined
Status: in_force

The district courts have jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this Part, and the Attorney General or the district attorneys in their respective districts under the direction of the Attorney General or the governor, shall institute proceedings to prevent and restrain violations. Proceedings shall be by way of petition and by citation, setting forth the case and praying that the violations be enjoined, or otherwise prohibited. When the parties complained of have been duly notified of the petition, the court shall proceed, as soon as practicable, to the hearing and determination of the case. Pending such action and before the final decree, the court may at any time issue a temporary restraining order if it is just in the premises. Whenever other parties are required, the court may summon them whether they reside in the parish in which the court is held or not, and the subpoenas may be served in any parish by the sheriff thereof.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:486 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 486
Passage of title; right of possession
Status: in_force

The payment required by the agent under this Part shall be due within sixty days after shipment of such items, and upon such payment or allowance of credit to the dealer's account of the sum required by R.S. 51:484 and 485, the title to the equipment, implements, machinery, attachments or repair parts shall pass to the agent making the payment or allowing the credit, and the agent shall be entitled to the possession of the engines, equipment, implements, machinery, attachments, or repair parts. However, this shall not in any way affect any mortgage or privilege which the agent may have on the inventory of the dealer. The date of cancellation or termination shall be the date the agent receives written notice from the dealer or the dealer receives written notice from the agent.

Acts 1991, No. 627, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2399.4 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2399.4
Modernization tax credit approval
Status: in_force

A. The department, after consultation with the secretary of Louisiana Works and the secretary of the Department of Revenue, may issue modernization tax credits provided the employer meets the requirements established by Subsection B of this Section. Nothing in this Chapter shall establish a right of the employer to receive retention and modernization tax credits unless approved by the department.

B. The employer shall establish one of the following:

(1) An increase in the increase of maximum capacity or efficiency of the facility of greater than ten percent.

(2) An approved investment from a company with multi-state operations with an established competitive capital project program.

C.(1) No contract shall be executed pursuant to this Chapter with an employer who has defaulted on or otherwise not repaid any loan or other obligation involving public funds nor with any employer who has ever declared bankruptcy under which an obligation of the employer to pay or repay public funds or monies was discharged as part of such bankruptcy.

(2) No contract shall be executed under this Chapter with an employer who is in default on any filing or payment with or to the state or any of its agencies or political subdivisions and in which an assessment or judgment that is final and non-appealable has been rendered, and remains outstanding, in favor of the state, or any of its agencies, or political subdivisions.

Acts 2009, No. 447, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:706 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 706
General provisions for registration of securities
Status: in_force

A. Every person registering securities pursuant to R.S. 51:705(B), (D), or (E) shall pay to the commissioner a fee of one-tenth of one percentum of the aggregate price of the securities to be registered and offered to be sold in this state, for which the applicant is seeking registration, but in no case shall the fee be less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and in addition thereto shall pay a charge of two hundred fifty dollars, to be used to defray the expenses of the commissioner. All fees and charges paid in accordance with this Section, whether paid at the time of filing or at the time of renewal, shall be immediately transmitted to the state treasurer for credit to the state general fund, except that the two hundred fifty dollar fee hereinabove provided shall be retained by the commissioner to be used for the enforcement of this Part generally.

B. Every person who proposes to offer in this state a security required to be registered under R.S. 51:705 who has not previously filed with the commissioner an irrevocable consent to service of process in the form prescribed by R.S. 51:718 shall, as a condition of registration, file with the commissioner such a consent.

C. Every offering circular or prospectus used in connection with an offering of securities registered under R.S. 51:705 shall contain the following legend on the cover page thereof in boldface print or capital type: "THESE SECURITIES HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES COMMISSIONER OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. THE SECURITIES COMMISSIONER, BY ACCEPTING REGISTRATION, DOES NOT IN ANY WAY ENDORSE OR RECOMMEND THE PURCHASE OF ANY OF THESE SECURITIES."

D. In any case where securities are to be registered for sale in this state and where the issuer of such securities has not had any substantial gross revenues from the sale of products or services or any substantial net income from any source for any fiscal year ended during the past three years and has not succeeded and does not intend to succeed to any business which has had any substantial gross revenues from the sale of products or services or any substantial net income from any source for any fiscal year ended during the past three years, the commissioner may by regulation or order require either or both of the following as a condition of registration under this Part:

(1) Except in an offering pursuant to an underwriting agreement under which no securities will be sold unless all securities to be offered are sold, the deposit in escrow of not less than eighty-five percent of the proceeds from the sale of the registered securities until such escrow account contains the amount specified in R.S. 51:705(C)(1)(k).

(2) The deposit in an escrow account for a period not exceeding one year from the termination of effectiveness of the registration statement or any renewal thereof, of:

(a) Any securities of the same class issued or transferred to a person who is an executive officer, director, general partner, or affiliate of the issuer or to any other person authorized to sell such securities for the issuer except a dealer registered under this Part and selling pursuant to an underwriting agreement which is disclosed in the prospectus delivered to each purchaser and still beneficially owned by such person; or

(b) Any securities of the same class as the securities registered which are to be issued to a person specified in Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph; at a price below the proposed offering price of such securities or for a consideration other than cash. No interest in any security held in such an escrow account shall be offered for sale, sold, assigned or transferred during the term of such escrow account without the written consent of the commissioner.

E. Any document filed under this Part or a predecessor law within five years preceding the filing of a registration statement may be incorporated by reference as an exhibit to any registration statement filed under R.S. 51:705 to the extent that the document is currently accurate.

F. The commissioner may treat any exhibit filed under R.S. 51:705(C)(2)(f) as confidential and not subject to public inspection upon a showing, satisfactory to him, that disclosure of such information or document to the public would be detrimental to the applicant for registration or to the issuer and that confidential treatment is consistent with the public interest.

G. Any registration statement filed under this Part may be withdrawn prior to the effectiveness of such registration statement or the issuance of a preeffective stop order under R.S. 51:707.

H. A registration under R.S. 51:705 shall be effective for twelve months from its effective date. If the securities registered for sale are not sold within twelve months and the applicant desires to continue the offering under substantially the same terms, a renewal registration statement may be filed with the commissioner. Such renewal registration statement shall recite the total number of shares or principal amount of securities sold in this state under the original, together with any renewal, registration and shall in all respects, including currency of information, comply with the requirements for an original registration. The commissioner shall examine applications for renewal by the same standards as for original applications and upon that basis grant or deny the renewal registrations. Such registrations, if granted, shall be effective for a period of twelve months. In lieu of the filing fee prescribed by Subsection A of this Section, the commissioner shall charge a renewal fee in the same amount as was paid under Subsection A of this Section. Successive renewal registration statements may be filed when appropriate. The prospectus delivery requirements of R.S. 51:705(B)(3) shall apply to sales of securities pursuant to a renewal registration.

I.(1)(a) Every issuer which has registered securities for sale in this state under R.S. 51:705(B) and (D) shall:

(i) For a period of twelve months following the effective date of such registration statement or any renewals thereof, file with the commissioner within sixty days of the close of each fiscal quarter of such issuer except the last fiscal quarter of each fiscal year, the following financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles:

(aa) A consolidated profit and loss statement of the issuer and its subsidiaries for each such fiscal quarter and for the corresponding period of the preceding fiscal year if the issuer or any predecessor was then in existence; and

(bb) Such other financial statements as the commissioner shall, by rule or regulation, require; however, no such financial statements need be filed following termination of such registration statement.

(ii) For a period beginning on the effective date of such registration statement and ending twelve months after the termination date of such registration statement or any renewals thereof, file with the commissioner within ninety days of the close of such issuer's fiscal year the following financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles:

(aa) A consolidated balance sheet of the issuer and its subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal year;

(bb) A consolidated profit and loss statement of the issuer and its subsidiaries for such fiscal year and for the preceding fiscal year if the issuer or any predecessor was then in existence; and

(cc) Such other financial statements as the commissioner may, by rule or regulation, require; however, such financial statements shall be certified by an independent public accountant duly registered and in good standing as such under the laws of the place of his residence or principal office.

(b) If a substantial part of the proceeds of the issue is to be applied to the purchase of any business, the financial statements of the business to be purchased which would be required in Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph if that business were the issuer; however, if the commissioner finds that certified financial statements are not necessary for the protection of investors and if the financial statements of such business have not been certified during any such three year period or the commissioner finds that the requirement of certified financial statements would cause undue hardship on the issuer or on such business, the commissioner may permit such financial statements not to be certified.

(c) If the issuer does not report its accounts in the normal course of its business on a consolidated basis, then it may furnish in lieu of the consolidated statements required in Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph, individual statements for it and its majority owned subsidiaries; and, if the business to be purchased described in Subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph does not report its accounts in the normal course of its business on a consolidated basis, then the issuer may furnish in lieu of the consolidated statements required in Subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph individual statements for such business and its majority owned subsidiaries.

(2) Every issuer which has registered securities for sale in this state under R.S. 51:705(E) shall, for a period beginning with the effective date of the registration statement and ending twelve months after the termination date of such registration statement or any renewals thereof, file with the commissioner within ninety days of the close of such issuer's fiscal year the following financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles:

(a) A consolidated balance sheet of the issuer and its subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal year.

(b) A consolidated profit and loss statement of the issuer and its subsidiaries for such fiscal year and for the preceding fiscal year if the issuer or any predecessor was then in existence.

(c) Such other financial statements as the commissioner may, by rule or regulation, require.

(3) A copy of each financial statement filed with the commissioner pursuant to this Subsection shall be delivered with any prospectus required to be delivered pursuant to R.S. 51:705(E)(3).

J.(1) If any registration statement which has become effective under this Part contains a statement of material fact which was untrue on the date such registration statement became effective or if such registration statement fails to state a material fact which, on the date the registration statement became effective, was necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, then such registration statement may be amended by filing with the commissioner such information and such changes in any prospectus used in connection with the registration statement as may be necessary to correct such untruth or failure. Such amendment shall be signed by the persons required to sign the original registration statement under R.S. 51:705. Any such amendment shall become effective when the commissioner so orders.

(2) Any prospectus forming part of a registration statement which has become effective under this Part may be supplemented without amending such registration statement by adding information regarding factual developments which occurred after the effective date of such registration statement and by deleting statements of fact which, as a result of such developments, may be misleading or immaterial. If no stop order with respect to the registration statement is in effect, the prospectus, as supplemented, may be used after:

(a) 3:00 p.m. central standard time or central daylight time, whichever is applicable, on the fifth business day after the filing of five copies of the prospectus, as supplemented, with the commissioner; or

(b) Such shorter time as the commissioner may allow.

Acts 1985, No. 722, §1; Acts 2006, No. 544, §1, eff. June 22, 2006.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:350 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 350
Independent truckers; prohibit requirement of broker
Status: in_force

A. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to require that an independent trucker utilize the services of a broker in contracting for work with that person, firm, or corporation.

B. If any firm or corporation, foreign or domestic, authorized to do business in this state or any officer, agent, or receiver of any such firm or corporation knowingly and willfully violates the provisions of this Section, his license or permit to do business in this state shall be revoked immediately.

Acts 1984, No. 856, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2023 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2023
Electronic mail fraud
Status: in_force

A person may not, with the intent to engage in conduct involving the fraudulent use or possession of identifying information, send or cause to be sent to an electronic mail address held by a resident of this state an electronic mail message that:

(1) Is falsely represented as being sent by a legitimate online business;

(2) Refers or links the recipient of the message to a Web page that is represented as being associated with the legitimate online business; and

(3) Directly or indirectly induces, requests, or solicits the recipient of the electronic mail message to provide identifying information for a purpose that the recipient believes is legitimate.

Acts 2006, No. 549, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 2006.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:2014 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 2014
Civil relief
Status: in_force

A. A violation of this Chapter shall be considered an unfair trade practice and such violation shall subject the violator to all of the provisions of the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law and as provided for in R.S. 51:1401 et seq.

B. Except for an action or other relief brought under Subsection A of this Section, the following persons may bring a civil action against a person who violates this Chapter:

(1) A provider of computer software who is adversely affected by the violation.

(2) An Internet service provider who is adversely affected by the violation.

(3) A trademark owner whose trademark is used without the authorization of the owner to deceive users in the course of any of the deceptive practices prohibited by this Section.

(4) The attorney general.

C. A person bringing an action under Subsection B of this Section may apply for injunctive relief to restrain any violation of this Chapter and seek to recover damages not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars for each violation.

D. The court may increase an award of actual damages in an action brought under this Section to an amount not to exceed three times the actual damages sustained if the court finds that the violations have occurred with such frequency with respect to a group of victims as to constitute a pattern or practice.

E. A plaintiff who prevails in an action filed under this Section is entitled to recover reasonable attorney fees and court costs.

F. In the case of a violation of R.S. 51:2009(1)(b) that causes a communications provider to incur costs for the origination, transport, or termination of a call triggered using the modem of a customer of the communications provider as a result of a violation, the communications provider may bring a civil action against the violator to recover any or all of the following:

(1) The charges the carrier is obligated to pay to another carrier or to an information service provider as a result of the violation, including but not limited to charges for the origination, transport, or termination of the call.

(2) Costs of handling customer inquiries or complaints with respect to amounts billed for calls.

(3) Costs and reasonable attorney fees.

(4) An order to enjoin the violation.

Acts 2006, No. 392, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:284 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 284
Penalty; fee for certificate needed to obtain license
Status: in_force

Whoever violates the provisions of this Subpart shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not less than ten days nor more than sixty days, or both. Each day any person continues to conduct any business in violation of this Subpart, shall constitute a separate offense.

Any person authorized under law to issue licenses who issues a license without compliance with the provisions of R.S. 51:281 shall be punished as provided for under existing laws for such offense.
La. Rev. Stat. § 51:1163 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 51 / Section 1163
Dissolution of corporation and vesting of title in municipality or parish
Status: in_force

Whenever the board of directors of the corporation, by resolution shall determine that the purposes for which the corporation was formed have been substantially complied with and that all bonds theretofore issued and all obligations theretofore incurred by the corporation have been fully paid, the members of the board of directors of the corporation shall thereupon dissolve the corporation in accordance with the provisions of Title 12 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, and in the proceedings therefor transfer the title to all funds and properties then owned by the corporation to the municipality or parish under whose auspices the corporation shall have been created.

Acts 1962, No. 436, §13. Amended by Acts 1964, No. 433, §1; Acts 1972, No. 103, §10, emerg. eff. June 25, 1972, at 6:15 P.M.