La. Rev. Stat. § 14:390.6 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 390.6
Destruction of contraband
Status: in_force

All communist propaganda discovered in the state of Louisiana in violation of R.S. 14:390 through 390.8 shall be seized and after proper identification and upon summary order of the district court of proper jurisdiction, destroyed, unless needed for official purposes.

Added by Acts 1962, No. 245, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:91.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 91.1
Unlawful presence of a sexually violent predator
Status: in_force

A. Unlawful presence of a sexually violent predator is any of the following:

(1) The physical presence of a sexually violent predator on the school property of any public or private, elementary or secondary school, or in any motor vehicle or other means of conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by such school to transport students to or from school or a school-related activity when persons under the age of eighteen years are present on the school property or in a school vehicle.

(2) The physical residing of a sexually violent predator within one thousand feet of any of the following:

(a) Public or private elementary or secondary school.

(b) Early learning center as defined by R.S. 17:407.33.

(c) Residence in which child care services are provided by a family child care provider or in-home provider who is registered pursuant to R.S. 17:407.61 et seq.

(d) Residential home as defined by R.S. 46:1403.

(e) Playground.

(f) Public or private youth center.

(g) Public swimming pool.

(h) Free standing video arcade facility.

(3)(a) Loitering between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. or 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. within five hundred feet of a location that is commonly used for the pickup or drop-off of children for school or a school-related activity when a child is present and the offender has reasonable grounds to believe that a child or children are awaiting pickup or drop off from school or a school-related activity.

(b) For the purposes of this Paragraph, "reasonable grounds" includes but is not limited to attire of the child or children, personal items or effects, school supplies, athletic equipment, or the time of day.

B. It shall not be a violation of Paragraph (A)(1) of this Section if the offender has permission to be present from the superintendent of the school board in the case of a public school or the principal or headmaster in the case of a private school.

C. If permission is granted to an offender to be present on public school property by the superintendent for that public school pursuant to Subsection B of this Section, then the superintendent shall notify the principal at least twenty-four hours in advance of the visit by the offender. This notification shall include the nature of the visit and the date and time in which the sex offender will be present in the school. The offender shall notify the office of the principal upon arrival on the school property and upon departing from the school. If the offender is to be present in the vicinity of children, the offender shall remain under the direct supervision of a school official.

D. For the purposes of this Section:

(1) "Loitering" means lingering, remaining, or prowling in a public place or on the premises of another for a protracted period of time without lawful business or reason to be present.

(2) "School property" means any property used for school purposes, including but not limited to school buildings, playgrounds, and parking lots.

(3) "Sexually violent predator" means a person defined as such in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 3-D of Title 15 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

E. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

Acts 2001, No. 1044, §1; Acts 2004, No. 178, §1; Acts 2006, No. 186, §1, eff. June 2, 2006; Acts 2009, No. 210, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 2009; Acts 2018, No. 5, §1; Acts 2025, No. 142, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:34.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 34.2
Battery of a police officer
Status: in_force

A.(1) Battery of a police officer is a battery committed without the consent of the victim when the offender has reasonable grounds to believe the victim is a police officer acting in the performance of his duty.

(2) For purposes of this Section, "police officer" shall include commissioned police officers, sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, marshals, deputy marshals, correctional officers, juvenile detention facility officers, federal law enforcement officers, constables, wildlife enforcement agents, state park wardens, and probation and parole officers.

(3) For purposes of this Section, "battery of a police officer" includes the use of force or violence upon the person of the police officer by throwing water or any other liquid, feces, urine, blood, saliva, or any form of human waste.

B.(1)(a) Whoever commits the crime of battery of a police officer shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars and imprisoned not less than fifteen days nor more than six months without benefit of suspension of sentence.

(b) Whoever commits a second or subsequent offense of battery of a police officer shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars and imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than one year nor more than three years. At least fifteen days of the sentence imposed shall be served without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

(2) If at the time of the commission of the offense the offender is under the jurisdiction and legal custody of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, or is being detained in any jail, prison, correctional facility, juvenile institution, temporary holding center, halfway house, or detention facility, the offender shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars and imprisoned with or without hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence for not less than one year nor more than five years. Such sentence shall be consecutive to any other sentence imposed for violation of the provisions of any state criminal law.

(3)(a) If the battery produces an injury that requires medical attention, the offender shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than one year nor more than five years, or both. At least thirty days of the sentence imposed shall be served without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

(b) If the battery produces an injury that requires medical attention, and the offense is a second or subsequent violation of the provisions of this Section, the offender shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars and shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than two years nor more than five years. At least sixty days of the sentence imposed shall be served without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

C. The definition of a "police officer" as provided in Paragraph (A)(2) of this Section shall be strictly construed solely for the purposes of this Section and shall not be construed as granting the authority to any agency not defined as a "peace officer" pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 40:2402 to make arrests, perform search and seizures, execute criminal warrants, prevent and detect crime, and enforce the laws of this state.

Added by Acts 1981, No. 258, §1. Amended by Acts 1982, No. 594, §1; Acts 1984, No. 871, §1; Acts 1989, No. 206, §1; Acts 1990, No. 84, §1; Acts 1991, No. 132, §1; Acts 1993, No. 438, §1; Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 16, §1; Acts 1997, No. 486, §1; Acts 1999, No. 338, §1; Acts 1999, No. 872, §1; Acts 2001, No. 944, §4; Acts 2007, No. 52, §1, eff. June 18, 2007; Acts 2012, No. 174, §1; Acts 2020, No. 64, §1; Acts 2020, No. 174, §1; Acts 2022, No. 468, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:67.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 67.3
False statements and false or altered documents; unclaimed property claim
Status: in_force

A. Any person who intentionally makes a material false statement, submits false or altered documentation, or both in any claim submitted pursuant to the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act of 1997 commits a violation of the provisions of this Section.

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

C. Restitution shall be ordered pursuant to Code of Criminal Procedure Article 883.2 and shall be made payable to the Louisiana Unclaimed Property Permanent Trust Fund.

Acts 2021, No. 466, §1; Acts 2022, No. 33, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 2
Definitions
Status: in_force

A. In this Code the terms enumerated shall have the designated meanings:

(1) "Another" refers to any other person or legal entity, including the state of Louisiana or any subdivision thereof.

(2) "Anything of value" must be given the broadest possible construction, including any conceivable thing of the slightest value, movable or immovable, corporeal or incorporeal, public or private, and including transportation, telephone and telegraph services, or any other service available for hire. It must be construed in the broad popular sense of the phrase, not necessarily as synonymous with the traditional legal term "property." In all cases involving shoplifting the term "value" is the actual retail price of the property at the time of the offense.

(3) "Dangerous weapon" includes any gas, liquid or other substance or instrumentality, which, in the manner used, is calculated or likely to produce death or great bodily harm.

(4) "Felony" is any crime for which an offender may be sentenced to death or imprisonment at hard labor.

(5) "Foreseeable" refers to that which ordinarily would be anticipated by a human being of average reasonable intelligence and perception.

(6) "Misdemeanor" is any crime other than a felony.

(7) "Person" includes a human being from the moment of fertilization and implantation and also includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not.

(8) "Property" refers to both public and private property, movable and immovable, and corporeal and incorporeal property.

(9) "Public officer", "public office", "public employee", or "position of public authority" means and applies to any executive, ministerial, administrative, judicial, or legislative officer, office, employee or position of authority respectively, of the state of Louisiana or any parish, municipality, district, or other political subdivision thereof, or of any agency, board, commission, department, or institution of said state, parish, municipality, district, or other political subdivision.

(10) "State" means the state of Louisiana, or any parish, municipality, district, or other political subdivision thereof, or any agency, board, commission, department, or institution of said state, parish, municipality, district, or other political subdivision.

(11) "Unborn child" means any individual of the human species from fertilization and implantation until birth.

(12) "Whoever" in a penalty clause refers only to natural persons insofar as death or imprisonment is provided, but insofar as a fine may be imposed "whoever" in a penalty clause refers to any person.

B. In this Code, "crime of violence" means an offense that has, as an element, the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another, and that, by its very nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense or an offense that involves the possession or use of a dangerous weapon. The following enumerated offenses and attempts to commit any of them are included as "crimes of violence":

(1) Solicitation for murder.

(2) First degree murder.

(3) Second degree murder.

(4) Manslaughter.

(5) Aggravated battery.

(6) Second degree battery.

(7) Aggravated assault.

(8) Aggravated kidnapping of a child.

(9) Aggravated or first degree rape.

(10) Forcible or second degree rape.

(11) Simple or third degree rape.

(12) Sexual battery.

(13) Second degree sexual battery.

(14) Intentional exposure to AIDS virus.

(15) Aggravated kidnapping.

(16) Second degree kidnapping.

(17) Simple kidnapping.

(18) Aggravated arson.

(19) Aggravated criminal damage to property.

(20) Aggravated burglary.

(21) Armed robbery.

(22) First degree robbery.

(23) Simple robbery.

(24) Purse snatching.

(25) False imprisonment; offender armed with dangerous weapon.

(26) Assault by drive-by shooting.

(27) Aggravated crime against nature.

(28) Carjacking.

(29) Molestation of a juvenile or a person with a physical or mental disability.

(30) Terrorism.

(31) Aggravated second degree battery.

(32) Aggravated assault upon a peace officer.

(33) Aggravated assault with a firearm.

(34) Armed robbery; use of firearm; additional penalty.

(35) Second degree robbery.

(36) Disarming of a peace officer.

(37) Stalking.

(38) Second degree cruelty to juveniles.

(39) Aggravated flight from an officer.

(40) Sexual battery of persons with infirmities.

(41) Battery of a police officer.

(42) Trafficking of children for sexual purposes.

(43) Human trafficking.

(44) Home invasion.

(45) Domestic abuse aggravated assault.

(46) Vehicular homicide, when the operator's blood alcohol concentration exceeds

0.20 percent by weight based on grams of alcohol per one hundred cubic centimeters of blood.

(47) Aggravated assault upon a dating partner.

(48) Domestic abuse battery punishable under R.S. 14:35.3(L), (M)(2), (N), (O), or (P).

(49) Battery of a dating partner punishable under R.S. 14:34.9(L), (M)(2), (N), (O), or (P).

(50) Violation of a protective order punishable under R.S. 14:79(C).

(51) Criminal abortion.

(52) First degree feticide.

(53) Second degree feticide.

(54) Third degree feticide.

(55) Aggravated abortion by dismemberment.

(56) Battery of emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel, or a healthcare professional.

(57) Possession of a firearm or carrying of a concealed weapon by a person convicted of certain felonies in violation of R.S. 14:95.1(D).

(58) Distribution of fentanyl or carfentanil punishable under R.S. 40:967(B)(4)(f).

(59) Distribution of heroin punishable under R.S. 40:966(B)(3)(b).

(60) Simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling when a person is present in the dwelling, house, apartment, or other structure.

(61) Illegal use of weapons or dangerous instrumentalities.

(62) First degree vehicular negligent injuring, when the operator's blood alcohol concentration exceeds 0.20 percent by weight based on grams of alcohol per one hundred cubic centimeters of blood.

C. For purposes of this Title, "serious bodily injury" means bodily injury which involves unconsciousness; extreme physical pain; protracted and obvious disfigurement; protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty; or a substantial risk of death. For purposes of R.S. 14:403, "serious bodily injury" shall also include injury resulting from starvation or malnutrition.

Amended by Acts 1962, No. 68, §1; Acts 1976, No. 256, §1; Acts 1977, No. 128, §1; Acts 1989, No. 777, §1; Acts 1992, No. 1015, §1; Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 73, §1; Acts 1995, No. 650, §1; Acts 1995, No. 1223, §1; Acts 2001, No. 301, §2; Acts 2002, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 128, §2; Acts 2003, No. 637, §1; Acts 2004, No. 651, §1; Acts 2004, No. 676, §1; Acts 2006, No. 72, §1; Acts 2008, No. 619, §1; Acts 2010, No. 387, §1; Acts 2010, No. 524, §1; Acts 2014, No. 194, §1; Acts 2014, No. 280, §1, eff. May 28, 2014; Acts 2014, No. 602, §7, eff. June 12, 2014; Acts 2015, No. 184, §1; Acts 2016, No. 225, §1; Acts 2017, No. 84, §1; Acts 2017, No. 281, §3; Acts 2018, No. 293, §1; Acts 2018, No. 674, §1, eff. June 1, 2018; Acts 2019, No. 2, §1; Acts 2020, No. 101, §1; Acts 2021, No. 484, §1; Acts 2022, No. 75, §1; Acts 2022, No. 129, §1; Acts 2022, No. 173, §1; Acts 2022, No. 465, §1, eff. June 15, 2022; Acts 2022, No. 671, §2; Acts 2022, No. 702, §1, eff. June 18, 2022; Acts 2023, No. 399, §2; Acts 2023, No. 419, §1; Acts 2024, 2 nd Ex. Sess., No. 17, §1; Acts 2024, No. 523, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:332 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 332
Interference with medical treatment
Status: in_force

A. Interference with medical treatment is the intentional and willful interference with a physician, physician's trained assistant, nurse, nurse's aide, paramedic, emergency medical technician, or other medical or hospital personnel in the performance of their duties relating to the care and treatment of patients in any hospital, clinic, other medical facility, or at the scene of a medical emergency.

B. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars or more than two hundred and fifty dollars upon conviction of a first offense, and not less than two hundred fifty dollars or more than five hundred dollars or ten days in jail or both upon conviction of any subsequent offense.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 497, §1. Acts 1984, No. 723, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:26 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 26
Criminal conspiracy
Status: in_force

A. Criminal conspiracy is the agreement or combination of two or more persons for the specific purpose of committing any crime; provided that an agreement or combination to commit a crime shall not amount to a criminal conspiracy unless, in addition to such agreement or combination, one or more of such parties does an act in furtherance of the object of the agreement or combination.

B. If the intended basic crime has been consummated, the conspirators may be tried for either the conspiracy or the completed offense, and a conviction for one shall not bar prosecution for the other.

C. Whoever is a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit any crime shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in the same manner as for the offense contemplated by the conspirators; provided, however, whoever is a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit a crime punishable by death or life imprisonment shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than thirty years.

D. Whoever is a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit any other crime shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in the same manner as for the offense contemplated by the conspirators; but such fine or imprisonment shall not exceed one-half of the largest fine, or one-half the longest term of imprisonment prescribed for such offense, or both.

Amended by Acts 1977, No. 538, §1; Acts 2013, No. 220, §4, eff. June 11, 2013.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:131.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 131.1
Failure to report the commission of certain felonies
Status: in_force

A. It shall be unlawful for any person having knowledge of the commission of any homicide, rape, or sexual abuse of a child to fail to report or disclose such information to a law enforcement agency or district attorney, except when the person having such knowledge is bound by any privilege of confidentiality recognized by law.

B. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than one year, or both.

Acts 2012, No. 638, §1, eff. June 7, 2012.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:81.6 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 81.6
Possessing, trafficking, or importing a child sex doll; reporting
Status: in_force

A.(1) A person commits the crime of possessing a child sex doll by intentionally or knowingly possessing a child sex doll.

(2) A person commits the crime of trafficking a child sex doll by knowingly manufacturing, distributing, selling, transferring, offering to sell, advertising, providing, shipping, delivering for shipment, offering to deliver for shipment, or possessing with the intent to manufacture, distribute, sell, ship, or transfer a child sex doll.

(3) A person commits the crime of importing a child sex doll by knowingly transporting or causing to be transported a child sex doll into this state by any means with the intent to distribute, sell, or transfer the child sex doll to another, whether or not the person has taken actual possession of the child sex doll.

B. For purposes of this Section, "child sex doll" means an anatomically correct doll, mannequin, or robot that both:

(1) Has the features of or features that resemble those of an infant or a child under eighteen years of age.

(2) Is intended to be used for sexual stimulation or gratification.

C. In a prosecution for a violation of Paragraph (A)(2) of this Section, the possession of two or more child sex dolls creates a rebuttable presumption that a person intends to commit trafficking of a child sex doll.

D. This Section shall not apply to a common carrier transporting a container with a child sex doll if the common carrier does not have actual knowledge of the container's contents.

E.(1) Whoever violates the provisions of Paragraph (A)(1) of this Section upon conviction shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than one year, fined not more than five thousand dollars, or both.

(2) Whoever violates the provisions of Paragraph (A)(2) of this Section upon conviction shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than six months nor more than one year, fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or both.

(3) Whoever violates the provisions of Paragraph (A)(3) of this Section upon conviction shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than one year nor more than two years, fined not more than twenty thousand dollars, or both.

F. No later than December 31, 2024, and no later than the thirty-first of December of each year thereafter, the court of conviction shall report each conviction pursuant to this Section to the judicial administrator's office of the Louisiana Supreme Court, which shall no later than January 31, 2025, and no later than the thirty-first of January of each year thereafter, submit a report to the governor, the president of the Senate, and the speaker of the House of Representatives that lists, by parish, the total number of persons who have been convicted of a violation of this Section in the preceding year.

Acts 2024, No. 505, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:94 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 94
Illegal use of weapons or dangerous instrumentalities
Status: in_force

A. Illegal use of weapons or dangerous instrumentalities is the intentional or criminally negligent discharging of any firearm, or the throwing, placing, or other use of any article, liquid, or substance, where it is foreseeable that it may result in death or great bodily harm to a human being.

B. Except as provided in Subsection E, whoever commits the crime of illegal use of weapons or dangerous instrumentalities shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than two years, or both.

C. Except as provided in Subsection E, on a second or subsequent conviction, the offender shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than five years nor more than seven years, without benefit of probation or suspension of sentence.

D. The enhanced penalty upon second and subsequent convictions provided for in Subsection C of this Section shall not be applicable in cases where more than five years have elapsed since the expiration of the maximum sentence, or sentences, of the previous conviction or convictions, and the time of the commission of the last offense for which he has been convicted. The sentence to be imposed in such event shall be the same as may be imposed upon a first conviction.

E. Whoever commits the crime of illegal use of weapons or dangerous instrumentalities by discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle located upon a public street or highway, where the intent is to injure, harm, or frighten another human being, shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than five nor more than ten years without benefit of probation or suspension of sentence.

F. Whoever commits the crime of illegal use of weapons or dangerous instrumentalities by discharging a firearm while committing, attempting to commit, conspiring to commit, or soliciting, coercing, or intimidating another person to commit a crime of violence or violation of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law, shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less then ten years nor more than twenty years, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. If the firearm used in violation of this Subsection is a machine gun or is equipped with a firearm silencer or muffler, as defined by R.S. 40:1751 and R.S. 40:1781, respectively, the offender shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than twenty years nor more than thirty years, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. Upon a second or subsequent conviction, under this Subsection, such offender shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than twenty years. If the violation of this Subsection, upon second or subsequent conviction, involves the use of a machine gun or a firearm equipped with a firearm silencer or muffler, such offender shall be sentenced to imprisonment for life without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

Amended by Acts 1958, No. 379, §§1, 3; Acts 1960, No. 550, §1; Acts 1966, No. 58, §1; Acts 1968, No. 647, §1; Acts 1972, No. 650, §1; Acts 1991, No. 904, §1; Acts 1992, No. 1015, §1; Acts 1995, No. 748, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:282 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 282
Operation of places of prostitution prohibited; penalty
Status: in_force

A. No person shall maintain, operate, or knowingly own any place or any conveyance used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution, or shall rent or let any place or conveyance to any person with knowledge of or good reason to believe that the lessee intends to use the place or conveyance for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution, or reside in, enter, or remain in any place for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution.

B.(1) Whoever violates or aids, abets, or participates in the violation of this Section shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both.

(2) Whoever violates any provision of this Section for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution of persons under the age of eighteen shall be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than fifteen years nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least five years being served without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.

(3) Whoever violates any provision of this Section for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution of persons under the age of fourteen years shall be fined not more than seventy-five thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than twenty-five years nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least ten years being served without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.

(4) Repealed by Acts 2020, No. 352, §2.

Amended by Acts 1980, No. 708, §1; Acts 2012, No. 446, §1; Acts 2013, No. 83, §1; Acts 2014, No. 564, §1; Acts 2017, No. 180, §1, eff. June 12, 2017; Acts 2020, No. 352, §2; Acts 2025, No. 230, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:133.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 133.2
Misrepresentation during booking
Status: in_force

A. Misrepresentation during booking is the misrepresentation of, or refusal by a person being booked to provide his name, age, sex, residence, or social security number to any law enforcement officer or official who is booking him pursuant to a lawful arrest, or the refusal of such person to submit to fingerprinting or photographing.

B. Whoever commits the crime of misrepresentation during booking shall be imprisoned for not more than six months, provided that any such sentence shall be made to run concurrently with any other sentence.

Acts 1988, No. 557, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:226 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 226
Protection of owners of crayfish farms; penalties
Status: in_force

A. It shall be unlawful for any person, other than the owner thereof, to fish for or to take crayfish from any domestic crayfish farm, unless the express consent of the owner is first obtained.

B. A domestic crayfish farm for the purposes of this Section means an earthen reservoir constructed so as to prevent the free ingress and egress of crayfish from public waters and on which the owner of private property cultivates, grows, harvests and markets domesticated crayfish that are spawned, grown, cultivated, managed, harvested and marketed on an annual, biennial or short term basis in privately owned waters which do not form a part of natural streams or lakes.

C. Whoever violates Subsection A of this Section shall, upon conviction thereof, be imprisoned for not more than one year or be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, or both.

Acts 1970, No. 627, §§2 to 4; Acts 2014, No. 791, §7.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:93.14 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 93.14
Responsibilities of retail dealers not relieved
Status: in_force

Nothing in R.S. 14:93.10 through 93.13 shall be construed as relieving any licensed retail dealer in alcoholic beverages any responsibilities imposed under the provisions of Title 26 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

Acts 1995, No. 639, §1; Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 78, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:102.12 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 102.12
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this Section and R.S. 14:102.13 through 102.18, the following definitions shall apply:

(1) "Animal control agency" means the parish or local animal control agency. If the municipality or parish does not have an animal control agency, it means whatever entity performs animal control functions.

(2) "Impounded" means taken into the custody of the animal control agency or provider of animal control services to the municipality or parish where the dangerous or vicious dog is found.

(3) "Secure enclosure" means a fence or structure suitable to prevent the entry of young children, and which is suitable to confine a dangerous dog in conjunction with other measures which may be taken by the owner of the dog. The enclosure shall be designed in order to prevent the animal from escaping.

(4) Repealed by Acts 2019, No. 2, §3.

Acts 2001, No. 823, §1; Acts 2003, No. 563, §1; Acts 2019, No. 2, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:72.4 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 72.4
Disposal of property with fraudulent or malicious intent
Status: in_force

A. It is unlawful for any person, who having executed a security agreement under Chapter 9 of the Louisiana Commercial Laws (R.S.10:9 through 101 et seq.) on movable property, to sell, assign, exchange, injure, destroy, conceal, or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the encumbered property with fraudulent or malicious intent to defeat the mortgage or security interest, or remove the encumbered property from the location designated in the security agreement, if any, or from the parish where it was located at the time of the granting of the security interest without written consent of the secured party, with fraudulent or malicious intent to defeat the security interest.

B.(1) When the value of the encumbered property is one thousand dollars or less, the offender shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

(2) When the value of the encumbered property exceeds one thousand dollars, the offender shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than one year, or both.

Acts 2005, No. 175, §1; Acts 2009, No. 152, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:102.11 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 102.11
Illegal contact sports; penalty
Status: in_force

A. Any person who intentionally commits any of the following shall be guilty of illegal contact sports:

(1) Promotes, engages or participates in, judges, or referees a tough-man competition or is employed by anyone who conducts a tough-man competition.

(2) Receives money for the admission of another person to a place which holds or has held tough-man competitions.

B. For the purposes of this Section, a "tough-man contest or competition" means any boxing match, wrestling event, or contest or competition, or combination thereof, between two or more persons, whether professional or amateur, who use their hands, with or without gloves, or their feet, or both, in any manner unauthorized by the State Boxing and Wrestling Commission, and compete for money, financial prize, or any item of pecuniary or nonpecuniary value or compete at an event where a fee is charged whereby either participant may obtain pecuniary gain. "Tough-man contest or competition" shall not include, nor shall the provisions of this Section apply to any contest, competition, or exhibition of any of the recognized martial arts including karate, judo, kung fu, tae kwan do, jujitsu, kickboxing, or any substantially similar tradition.

C. Whoever commits the crime of illegal contact sports shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than one year, or both.

Acts 1995, No. 1275, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:126.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 126.1
False swearing for purpose of violating public health or safety
Status: in_force

A. No person shall make a false statement, report, or allegation concerning the commission of a crime for the purpose of violating, disrupting, interfering with, or endangering the public health or safety, or to deprive any person or persons of any right, privilege, or immunity secured by the United States Constitution and laws or by the Louisiana Constitution and laws, or cause such false statement or report to be made to any official or agency of the state or any parish, city, or political subdivision thereof, or to any judicial, executive, or legislative body or subdivision thereof within this state, knowing or having reason to believe the same or any material part thereof to be false and with the intent to cause an investigation of or any other action to be taken as a result thereof.

B. Any person or persons convicted of violating the provisions of this Section shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than five years, with or without hard labor, or by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Added by Acts 1960, No. 81, §1; Acts 2014, No. 791, §7.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:38.5 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 38.5
Assault on emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel, or a healthcare professional
Status: in_force

A.(1) Assault on emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel, or a healthcare professional is an assault committed when the offender has reasonable grounds to believe the victim is an emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel, or a healthcare professional acting in the performance of his duties.

(2) For purposes of this Section:

(a) "Assault" shall have the same definition as in R.S. 14:36 but shall additionally include making statements threatening physical harm to an emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel, or a healthcare professional.

(b) "Emergency room personnel" shall have the same definitions as in R.S. 14:34.8.

(c) "Emergency services personnel" shall have the same definitions as in R.S. 14:34.8.

(d) "Healthcare professional" shall have the same definitions as in R.S. 14:34.8.

B. Whoever commits the crime of assault on emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel, or a healthcare professional shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than one hundred eighty days, or both.

Acts 2022, No. 129, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:102.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 102.3
Search warrant; animal cruelty offenses
Status: in_force

If the complaint is made, by affidavit, to any magistrate authorized to issue search warrants in criminal cases, that the complainant has reason to believe that an animal has been or is being cruelly treated in violation of R.S. 14:102.1, in any building or place, such magistrate, if satisfied that there is reasonable cause for such belief, shall issue a search warrant to any law enforcement officer authorized by law to make arrests for such offenses, authorizing any such officer to make a search of said building or place, and to arrest any person found violating R.S. 14:102.1. Said warrant may also authorize said officer to seize any animal believed to be cruelly treated and to take custody thereof. This section shall not be construed as a limitation on the power of law enforcement officers to seize animals as evidence at the time of the arrest.

Added by Acts 1982, No. 431, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:19 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 19
Use of force or violence in defense
Status: in_force

A.(1) The use of force or violence upon the person of another is justifiable under either of the following circumstances:

(a) When committed for the purpose of preventing a forcible offense against the person or a forcible offense or trespass against property in a person's lawful possession, provided that the force or violence used must be reasonable and apparently necessary to prevent such offense.

(b)(i) When committed by a person lawfully inside a dwelling, a place of business, or a motor vehicle as defined in R.S. 32:1(40) when the conflict began, against a person who is attempting to make an unlawful entry into the dwelling, place of business, or motor vehicle, or who has made an unlawful entry into the dwelling, place of business, or motor vehicle, and the person using the force or violence reasonably believes that the use of force or violence is necessary to prevent the entry or to compel the intruder to leave the dwelling, place of business, or motor vehicle.

(ii) The provisions of this Paragraph shall not apply when the person using the force or violence is engaged, at the time of the use of force or violence in the acquisition of, the distribution of, or possession of, with intent to distribute a controlled dangerous substance in violation of the provisions of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law.

(2) The provisions of Paragraph (1) of this Section shall not apply where the force or violence results in a homicide.

B. For the purposes of this Section, there shall be a presumption that a person lawfully inside a dwelling, place of business, or motor vehicle held a reasonable belief that the use of force or violence was necessary to prevent unlawful entry thereto, or to compel an unlawful intruder to leave the premises or motor vehicle, if both of the following occur:

(1) The person against whom the force or violence was used was in the process of unlawfully and forcibly entering or had unlawfully and forcibly entered the dwelling, place of business, or motor vehicle.

(2) The person who used force or violence knew or had reason to believe that an unlawful and forcible entry was occurring or had occurred.

C. A person who is not engaged in unlawful activity and who is in a place where he or she has a right to be shall have no duty to retreat before using force or violence as provided for in this Section and may stand his or her ground and meet force with force.

D. No finder of fact shall be permitted to consider the possibility of retreat as a factor in determining whether or not the person who used force or violence in defense of his person or property had a reasonable belief that force or violence was reasonable and apparently necessary to prevent a forcible offense or to prevent the unlawful entry.

Acts 2006, No. 141, §1; Acts 2014, No. 163, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:223.4 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 223.4
Civil remedies preserved
Status: repealed

Nothing in R.S. 14:223 through 223.8 shall be construed to abrogate or modify any civil action for any of the acts referred to herein.

Acts 1972, No. 350, §5; Acts 1990, No. 122, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:44.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 44.2
Aggravated kidnapping of a child
Status: in_force

A. Aggravated kidnapping of a child is the unauthorized taking, enticing, or decoying away and removing from a location for an unlawful purpose by any person other than a parent, grandparent, or legal guardian of a child under the age of thirteen years with the intent to secret the child from his parent or legal guardian.

B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of aggravated kidnapping of a child shall be punished by life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, if the child is returned not physically injured or sexually abused, then the offender shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 14:44.1. For the purposes of this Paragraph, "sexually abused" means that the child was subjected to any sex offense as defined in R.S. 15:541.

Acts 2001, No. 654, §1; Acts 2006, No. 118, §1; Acts 2022, No. 173, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:51 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 51
Aggravated arson
Status: in_force

A. Aggravated arson is the intentional damaging by any explosive substance or the setting fire to any structure, watercraft, or movable whereby it is foreseeable that human life might be endangered.

B. Whoever commits the crime of aggravated arson shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than six nor more than twenty years, and shall be fined not more than twenty-five thousand dollars. Two years of such imprisonment at hard labor shall be without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

Amended by Acts 1964, No. 117, §1; Acts 1977, No. 53, §1; Acts 1981, No. 297, §1; Acts 2014, No. 791, §7.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:10 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 10
Criminal intent
Status: in_force

Criminal intent may be specific or general:

(1) Specific criminal intent is that state of mind which exists when the circumstances indicate that the offender actively desired the prescribed criminal consequences to follow his act or failure to act.

(2) General criminal intent is present whenever there is specific intent, and also when the circumstances indicate that the offender, in the ordinary course of human experience, must have adverted to the prescribed criminal consequences as reasonably certain to result from his act or failure to act.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:204.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 204.1
Fire-raising in a correctional facility; penalty
Status: in_force

A. Fire-raising in a correctional facility is any of the following:

(1) The starting, causing, or assisting in the creation of any fire, heat, or spark of any nature in a correctional facility by any means or method and without authorization of the warden or his designee.

(2) The failure to report to a correctional facility employee, or concealing from a correctional facility employee, the unauthorized starting, causing, or assisting in the creation of any fire, heat, or spark of any nature by another in a correctional facility.

B. For purposes of this Section, the following definitions shall apply:

(1) "Correctional facility" means any jail, prison, penitentiary, juvenile institution, temporary holding center, or detention facility.

(2) "Correctional facility employee" means any employee of any jail, prison, penitentiary, juvenile institution, temporary holding center, or detention facility.

C.(1) Whoever commits the crime of fire-raising in a correctional facility by violating the provisions of Paragraph (A)(1) of this Section shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than three years.

(2) Whoever commits the crime of fire-raising in a correctional facility by violating the provisions of Paragraph (A)(2) of this Section shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than one year.

(3) If at the time of the commission of the offense, the offender is under the jurisdiction and legal custody of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, or is being detained in any correctional facility, the sentence imposed under this Section shall run consecutively to any other sentence being served by the offender at the time of the offense.

Acts 2010, No. 379, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:45 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 45
Simple kidnapping
Status: in_force

A. Simple kidnapping is:

(1) The intentional and forcible seizing and carrying of any person from one place to another without his consent.

(2) The intentional taking, enticing or decoying away, for an unlawful purpose, of any child not his own and under the age of fourteen years, without the consent of its parent or the person charged with its custody.

(3) The intentional taking, enticing or decoying away, without the consent of the proper authority, of any person who has been lawfully committed to any institution for orphans, persons with mental illness, persons with intellectual disabilities, or other similar institution.

(4) The intentional taking, enticing or decoying away and removing from the state, by any parent of his or her child, from the custody of any person to whom custody has been awarded by any court of competent jurisdiction of any state, without the consent of the legal custodian, with intent to defeat the jurisdiction of the said court over the custody of the child.

(5) The taking, enticing or decoying away and removing from the state, by any person, other than the parent, of a child temporarily placed in his custody by any court of competent jurisdiction in the state, with intent to defeat the jurisdiction of said court over the custody of the child.

B. Whoever commits the crime of simple kidnapping shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than five years, or both.

Amended by Acts 1962, No. 344, §1; Acts 1966, No. 253, §1; Acts 1980, No. 708, §1; Acts 2014, No. 811, §6, eff. June 23, 2014.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:46 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 46
False imprisonment
Status: in_force

A. False imprisonment is the intentional confinement or detention of another, without his consent and without proper legal authority.

B. Whoever commits the crime of false imprisonment shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

Acts 2014, No. 791, §7.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:89.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 89.2
Crime against nature by solicitation
Status: in_force

A. Crime against nature by solicitation is the solicitation by a human being of another with the intent to engage in any unnatural carnal copulation for compensation.

B.(1) Whoever violates the provisions of this Section, on a first conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

(2) Whoever violates the provisions of this Section, on a second or subsequent conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than two hundred fifty dollars and not more than two thousand dollars, imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than two years, or both.

(3)(a) Whoever violates the provisions of this Section, when the person being solicited is under the age of eighteen years, shall be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than fifteen years nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least five years being served without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.

(b) Whoever violates the provisions of this Section, when the person being solicited is under the age of fourteen years, shall be fined not more than seventy-five thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than twenty-five years nor more than fifty years, or both. Twenty-five years of the sentence imposed shall be without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

C. A violation of the provisions of Paragraph (B)(3) of this Section shall be considered a sex offense as defined in R.S. 15:541 and the offender shall be required to register as a sex offender as provided for in Chapter 3-B of Title 15 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

D.(1) It shall be an affirmative defense to prosecution for a violation of this Section that, during the time of the alleged commission of the offense, the defendant was a victim of trafficking of children for sexual purposes as provided in R.S. 14:46.3(E). Any child determined to be a victim pursuant to the provisions of this Paragraph shall be eligible for specialized services for sexually exploited children.

(2) Lack of knowledge of the age of the person being solicited shall not be a defense.

(3) It shall not be a defense to prosecution for a violation of Paragraph (B)(3) of this Section that the person being solicited consented to the activity prohibited by this Section.

(4) It shall not be a defense to prosecution for a violation of Paragraph (B)(3) of this Section that the person being solicited is actually a law enforcement officer or peace officer acting within the official scope of his duties.

(5) It shall be an affirmative defense to prosecution for a violation of this Section that, during the time of the alleged commission of the offense, the defendant is determined to be a victim of human trafficking pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 14:46.2(F). Any person determined to be a victim pursuant to the provisions of this Paragraph shall be notified of any treatment or specialized services for sexually exploited persons to the extent that such services are available.

Acts 2010, No. 882, §1; Acts 2011, No. 223, §1; Acts 2012, No. 446, §1; Acts 2014, No. 564, §1; Acts 2025, No. 230, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:62 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 62
Simple burglary
Status: in_force

A. Simple burglary is either of the following:

(1) The unauthorized entering of any dwelling, vehicle, watercraft, or other structure, movable or immovable, or any cemetery, with the intent to commit a felony or any theft therein, other than as set forth in R.S. 14:60.

(2) The unauthorized entering of any dwelling or other structure with the intent to temporarily or permanently deprive the owner, lessee, or tenant of full use of the dwelling or structure or to temporarily or permanently assert any right of ownership or use of such property.

B.(1) Except as provided in Paragraphs (2) and (3) of this Subsection, whoever commits the crime of simple burglary shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars, imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than twelve years, or both.

(2) If the offender, while committing the crime of simple burglary, is armed with a firearm or, after entering, arms himself with or possesses a firearm, the offender shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than three nor more than twelve years.

(3) If the offender commits multiple simple burglaries as a part of a continuous sequence of events, the offender shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than one nor more than twelve years. At least one year of the sentence of imprisonment shall be imposed without benefit of probation or suspension of sentence.

C. In addition to the penalties provided in Subsection B of this Section, an offender shall be liable for any damage that has resulted from a violation of Paragraph (A)(2) of this Section.

Amended by Acts 1972, No. 649, §1; Acts 1977, No. 133, §1; Acts 1980, No. 708, §1; Acts 2001, No. 241, §1; Acts 2020, No. 288, §1; Acts 2023, No. 417, §1; Acts 2024, No. 188, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:110.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 110.2
Tampering with electronic monitoring equipment
Status: in_force

A. Tampering with electronic monitoring equipment is the intentional alteration, destruction, removal, or disabling of electronic monitoring equipment being utilized in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 46:2143.

B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of tampering with electronic monitoring equipment shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars and shall be imprisoned for not more than six months.

(2) If the offender violates the provisions of this Section while he is involved in the commission of a felony, he shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars and shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than one year.

(3) If the offender violates the provisions of this Section after being released pursuant to a bail undertaking for a felony crime of violence enumerated or defined in R.S. 14:2(B), he shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars and shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than a year.

(4) At least seventy-two hours of the sentence shall be served without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.

Acts 2003, No. 1024, §1; Acts 2023, No. 374, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:101 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 101
Desecration of graves
Status: in_force

A. Desecration of graves is either of the following:

(1) Unauthorized opening of any place of interment, or building wherein the dead body of a human being is located, with the intent to remove or to mutilate the body or any part thereof, or any article interred or intended to be interred with the body.

(2) Intentional or criminally negligent damaging in any manner of any grave, tomb, or mausoleum erected for the dead.

B. Whoever commits the crime of desecration of graves shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

Amended by Acts 1968, No. 647, §1, eff. July 20, 1968; Acts 2014, No. 791, §7.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:97 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 97
Simple obstruction of a highway of commerce
Status: in_force

A. Simple obstruction of a highway of commerce is either of the following:

(1) The intentional or criminally negligent placing of anything or the intentional or criminally negligent performance of any act on any railway, railroad, navigable waterway, road, highway, thoroughfare, or runway of an airport, which will render movement thereon more difficult.

(2) The conspiracy or aiding and abetting of other individuals to commit either the intentional or criminally negligent placing of anything or the intentional or criminally negligent performance of any act on any railway, railroad, navigable waterway, road, highway, thoroughfare, or runway of an airport, which will render movement thereon more difficult.

B. Whoever commits the crime of simple obstruction of a highway of commerce in a manner that violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than seven hundred fifty dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

C. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to an employee or contractor of any public utility or a provider of electric utility services, communications, telecommunications, video, or information services to the extent that the employee or contractor is acting on behalf of such entity in a road, highway, or thoroughfare.

Acts 2014, No. 791, §7; Acts 2024, No. 542, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:91.10 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 91.10
Unlawful sale or distribution of mitragynine speciosa to persons under age
Status: in_force

twenty-one; penalty.

A. No person shall sell or distribute or cause to be sold or distributed a product containing mitragynine speciosa to any person under the age of twenty-one.

B. For purposes of this Section, "mitragynine speciosa" means a product containing either or both of the following:

(1) Mitragynine.

(2) 7-Hydroxy-mitragynine.

C. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

Acts 2023, No. 416, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:102.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 102.2
Seizure and disposition of animals cruelly treated
Status: in_force

A. When a person is charged with cruelty to animals, said person's animal may be seized by the arresting officer and held pursuant to this Section.

B.(1) The seizing officer shall notify the owner of the seized animal of the provisions of this Section by posting written notice at the location where the animal was seized or by leaving it with a person of suitable age and discretion residing at that location within twenty-four hours of the seizure.

(2) The seizing officer shall photograph the animal within fifteen days after posting of the notice of seizure and shall cause an affidavit to be prepared in order to document its condition in accordance with R.S. 15:436.2.

(3) The seizing officer shall appoint a licensed veterinarian or other suitable custodian to care for any such animal. The custodian shall retain custody of the animal in accordance with this Section.

(4) The seized animal shall be held by the custodian provided for in Paragraph (3) for a period of fifteen consecutive days, including weekends and holidays, after such notice of seizure is given. Thereafter, if a person who claims an interest in such animal has not posted bond in accordance with Subsection C, the animal may be humanely disposed of by sale, adoption, or euthanasia.

C.(1) A person claiming an interest in any animal seized pursuant to this Section may prevent the disposition of the animal as provided for in Subsection B of this Section by posting a bond with the court within fifteen days after receiving notice of such seizure. Such bond shall prevent the disposition of the animal for a period of thirty days commencing on the date of initial seizure.

(2)(a) The amount of the bond shall be determined by the department, agency, humane society, and the custodian of the animal as authorized by the court and shall be sufficient to secure payment for all reasonable costs incurred during the thirty-day period for the boarding and medical treatment of the animal after examination by a licensed veterinarian.

(b) The court shall order that the bond be given to the custodian of the animal to cover such costs.

(3) Such bond shall not prevent the department, agency, humane society, or other custodian of the animal from disposing of the animal in accordance with Subsection B of this Section at the end of the thirty-day period covered by the bond, unless the person claiming an interest posts an additional bond for such reasonable expenses for an additional thirty-day period. In addition, such bond shall not prevent disposition of the animal for humane purposes at any time, in accordance with Subsection E of this Section.

D. Upon a person's conviction of cruelty to animals, it shall be proper for the court, in its discretion, to order the forfeiture and final determination of the custody of any animal found to be cruelly treated in accordance with this Section and the forfeiture of the bond posted pursuant to Subsection C as part of the sentence. The court may, in its discretion, order the payment of any reasonable or additional costs incurred in the boarding or veterinary treatment of any seized animal prior to its disposition, whether or not a bond was posted by the defendant. In the event of the acquittal or final discharge without conviction of the accused, the court shall, on demand, direct the delivery of any animal held in custody to the owner thereof and order the return of any bond posted pursuant to Subsection C, less reasonable administrative costs.

E. Nothing in this Section shall prevent the euthanasia of any seized animal, at any time, whether or not any bond was posted, if a licensed veterinarian determines that the animal is not likely to survive and is suffering, as a result of any physical condition. In such instances, the court, in its discretion, may order the return of any bond posted, less reasonable costs, at the time of trial.

Added by Acts 1982, No. 431, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1212, §1; Acts 2010, No. 916, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:87.6 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 87.6
Coerced abortion
Status: in_force

A. Coerced abortion is committed when any person knowingly engages in the use or threatened use of physical force, control, or intimidation with the intent to compel a pregnant woman to undergo an abortion against her will, whether or not the abortion procedure has been attempted or completed. For purposes of this Section, physical force, control, or intimidation shall mean any of the following:

(1) Battery as defined in R.S. 14:33.

(2) Assault as defined in R.S. 14:36.

(3) Simple kidnapping as defined in R.S. 14:45.

(4) False imprisonment as defined in R.S. 14:46.

(5) Extortion as defined in R.S. 14:66.

B. Whoever commits the crime of coerced abortion shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than five years, or both.

Acts 2018, No. 674, §1, eff. June 1, 2018; Acts 2025, No. 275, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:91.5 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 91.5
Unlawful use of a social networking website
Status: in_force

A. The following shall constitute unlawful use of a social networking website:

(1) The intentional use of a social networking website by a person who is required to register as a sex offender and who was convicted of R.S. 14:81 (indecent behavior with juveniles), R.S. 14:81.1 (child sexual abuse materials), R.S. 14:81.3 (computer-aided solicitation of a minor), or R.S. 14:283 (video voyeurism) or was convicted of a sex offense as defined in R.S. 15:541 in which the victim of the sex offense was a minor.

(2) The provisions of this Section shall also apply to any person convicted for an offense under the laws of another state, or military, territorial, foreign, tribal, or federal law which is equivalent to the offenses provided for in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, unless the tribal court or foreign conviction was not obtained with sufficient safeguards for fundamental fairness and due process for the accused as provided by the federal guidelines adopted pursuant to the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006.

B. For purposes of this Section:

(1) "Minor" means a person under the age of eighteen years.

(2)(a) "Social networking website" means an Internet website, the primary purpose of which is facilitating social interaction with other users of the website and has all of the following capabilities:

(i) Allows users to create web pages or profiles about themselves that are available to the general public or to any other users.

(ii) Offers a mechanism for communication among users.

(b) "Social networking website" shall not include any of the following:

(i) An Internet website that provides only one of the following services: photo-sharing, electronic mail, or instant messaging.

(ii) An Internet website the primary purpose of which is the facilitation of commercial transactions involving goods or services between its members or visitors.

(iii) An Internet website the primary purpose of which is the dissemination of news.

(iv) An Internet website of a governmental entity.

(3) "Use" shall mean to create a profile on a social networking website or to contact or attempt to contact other users of the social networking website.

C.(1) Whoever commits the crime of unlawful use of a social networking website shall, upon a first conviction, be fined not more than ten thousand dollars and shall be imprisoned with hard labor for not more than ten years without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

(2) Whoever commits the crime of unlawful use of a social networking website, upon a second or subsequent conviction, shall be fined not more than twenty thousand dollars and shall be imprisoned with hard labor for not less than five years nor more than twenty years without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

Acts 2011, No. 26, §1; Acts 2012, No. 205, §1; Acts 2025, No. 261, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:372 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 372
Candidates for public office; filing of nonsubversive affidavits
Status: in_force

No person shall become a candidate nor shall be certified by any political party as a candidate for election to any public office created by the constitution or laws of this state unless such candidate for certification by the political party shall have attached to the qualifying papers, the nominating petition or nominating papers filed with the appropriate party committee of this state or the secretary of state, whichever the case may be, a sworn affidavit that the candidate is not and never has been a communist or a subversive person as defined in R.S. 14:359. No qualification of candidates, nominating petition or nominating papers for such office shall be received for filing by the official aforesaid unless the same shall be accompanied by the affidavit aforesaid and there shall not be entered upon any ballot or voting machine at any election the name of any person who has failed or refused to make the affidavit as required above.

Amended by Acts 1965, No. 45, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:32.7 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 32.7
Second degree feticide
Status: in_force

A. Second degree feticide is:

(1) The killing of an unborn child which would be first degree feticide, but the offense is committed in sudden passion or heat of blood immediately caused by provocation of the mother of the unborn child sufficient to deprive an average person of his self control and cool reflection. Provocation shall not reduce a first degree feticide to second degree feticide if the jury finds that the offender's blood had actually cooled, or that an average person's blood would have cooled, at the time the offense was committed.

(2) A feticide committed without any intent to cause death or great bodily harm:

(a) When the offender is engaged in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of any felony not enumerated in Article 32.6 (first degree feticide), or of any intentional misdemeanor directly affecting the person; or

(b) When the offender is resisting lawful arrest by means, or in a manner, not inherently dangerous, and the circumstances are such that the killing would not be first degree feticide under Article 32.6.

B. Whoever commits the crime of second degree feticide shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than ten years.

Acts 1989, No. 777, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:73.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 73.2
Offenses against intellectual property
Status: in_force

A. An offense against intellectual property is the intentional:

(1) Destruction, insertion, or modification, without consent, of intellectual property; or

(2) Disclosure, use, copying, taking, or accessing, without consent, of intellectual property.

B. (1) Whoever commits an offense against intellectual property shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both, for commission of the offense.

(2) However, when the damage or loss amounts to a value of five hundred dollars or more, the offender may be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or imprisoned with or without hard labor, for not more than five years, or both.

C. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to disclosure, use, copying, taking, or accessing by proper means as defined in this Subpart.

Acts 1984, No. 711, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:223.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 223.1
Terms defined
Status: in_force

The following terms have the meanings indicated:

(1) As used in R.S. 14:223 and 223.6*, "owner" means the person who owns the sounds fixed in the master phonograph record, master disc, master tape, master film, master audio or video cassette, or other device now known or later developed, used for reproducing recorded sounds or images on phonograph records, discs, tapes, films, video cassettes, or other articles or media on which sound is or may be recorded and from which the transferred recorded sounds are directly or indirectly derived. As used in R.S. 14:223.5, "owner" means the person who owns the sounds and images or the rights to authorize the recording of the sounds or images of any performance not fixed in a tangible medium of expression.

(2) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or any other legal entity.

(3) "Recording" and "article" mean any original phonograph record, disc, tape, audio or visual cassette, wire, film, or other medium known or later developed on which sounds or images are recorded or otherwise stored, or any copy or reproduction which duplicates, in whole or in part, the original.

(4) "Audiovisual work" means a series of related images intended to be shown through the use of mechanical or electronic devices, together with accompanying sounds, if any.

(5) "Motion picture" means an audiovisual work consisting of a series of images which, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion together with accompanying sounds, if any.

(6) "Phonorecord" means a material object in which sounds other than those accompanying a motion picture or other audiovisual work are fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the sounds can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Phonorecord includes the material object in which the sound is first fixed.

(7) "Counterfeit label" means an identifying label or container that appears to be genuine but is not.

Acts 1972, No. 350, §2; Acts 1990, No. 122, §1.

*AS APPEARS IN ENROLLED BILL.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:103 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 103
Disturbing the peace
Status: in_force

A. Disturbing the peace is the doing of any of the following in such manner as would foreseeably disturb or alarm the public:

(1) Engaging in a fistic encounter; or

(2) Addressing any offensive, derisive, or annoying words to any other person who is lawfully in any street, or other public place; or call him by any offensive or derisive name, or make any noise or exclamation in his presence and hearing with the intent to deride, offend, or annoy him, or to prevent him from pursuing his lawful business, occupation, or duty; or

(3) Appearing in an intoxicated condition; or

(4) Engaging in any act in a violent and tumultuous manner by any three or more persons; or

(5) Holding of an unlawful assembly; or

(6) Interruption of any lawful assembly of people; or

(7) Intentionally engaging in any act or any utterance, gesture, or display designed to disrupt a funeral, funeral route, or burial of a deceased person during the period beginning one hundred twenty minutes before and ending one hundred twenty minutes after the funeral or burial, within three hundred feet of the funeral or burial.

(8)(a) Intentionally blocking, impeding, inhibiting, or in any other manner obstructing or interfering with a funeral route.

(b) Intentionally blocking, impeding, inhibiting, or in any other manner obstructing or interfering, within five hundred feet, with access into or from any building or parking lot of a building in which a funeral or burial is being conducted, or any burial plot or the parking lot of the cemetery in which a funeral or burial is being conducted, during the period beginning one hundred twenty minutes before and ending one hundred twenty minutes after the funeral or burial.

B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of disturbing the peace shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than ninety days, or both.

(2) Whoever commits the crime of disturbing the peace as provided for in Paragraphs (A)(7) and (8) of this Section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

C. For purposes of Paragraphs (A)(7) and (8) of this Section:

(1) "Funeral" includes a funeral, funeral home viewing, wake, or memorial service.

(2) "Funeral route" means the route of ingress or egress from the location of a funeral or burial, including thirty feet from the outer edge of the outside lane of the route.

Amended by Acts 1960, No. 70, §1; Acts 1963, No. 93, §1; Acts 1968, No. 647, §1; Acts 1979, No. 222, §1; Acts 2006, No. 805, §1; Acts 2013, No. 30, §1, eff. May 29, 2013.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:93 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 93
Cruelty to juveniles
Status: in_force

A. Cruelty to juveniles is:

(1) The intentional or criminally negligent mistreatment or neglect by anyone seventeen years of age or older of any child under the age of seventeen whereby unjustifiable pain or suffering is caused to said child. Lack of knowledge of the child's age shall not be a defense; or

(2) The intentional or criminally negligent exposure by anyone seventeen years of age or older of any child under the age of seventeen to a clandestine laboratory operation as defined by R.S. 40:983 in a situation where it is foreseeable that the child may be physically harmed. Lack of knowledge of the child's age shall not be a defense.

(3) The intentional or criminally negligent allowing of any child under the age of seventeen years by any person over the age of seventeen years to be present during the manufacturing, distribution, or purchasing or attempted manufacturing, distribution, or purchasing of a controlled dangerous substance in violation of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law. Lack of knowledge of the child's age shall not be a defense.

B. The providing of treatment by a parent or tutor in accordance with the tenets of a well-recognized religious method of healing, in lieu of medical treatment, shall not for that reason alone be considered to be criminally negligent mistreatment or neglect of a child. The provisions of this Subsection shall be an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this Section. Nothing herein shall be construed to limit the provisions of R.S. 40:1299.36.1.

C. The trial judge shall have the authority to issue any necessary orders to protect the safety of the child during the pendency of the criminal action and beyond its conclusion.

D.(1) Whoever commits the crime of cruelty to juveniles shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than ten years, or both.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, whoever commits the crime of cruelty to juveniles as defined in Paragraph (A)(1) of this Section when the victim is eight years old or younger shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than twenty years.

Acts 1985, No. 827, §1; Acts 2004, No. 143, §1; Acts 2008, No. 7, §1; Acts 2018, No. 479, §1.

NOTE: R.S. 40:1299.36.1, referenced in Subsection E, was terminated by Acts 1999, No. 788, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:83.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 83.2
Promoting prostitution
Status: in_force

A. Promoting prostitution is the knowing and willful control of, supervision of, or management of an enterprise for profit in which customers are charged a fee for services which include prostitution, regardless of what portion of the fee is actually for the prostitution services.

B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of promoting prostitution shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than two years, or both.

(2) Whoever commits the crime of promoting prostitution of persons under the age of eighteen years shall be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than fifteen years nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least five years being served without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.

(3) Whoever commits the crime of promoting prostitution of persons under the age of fourteen years shall be fined not more than seventy-five thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than twenty-five years nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least ten years being served without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.

(4) Repealed by Acts 2020, No. 352, §2.

Acts 1984, No. 580, §1; Acts 2012, No. 446, §1; Acts 2013, No. 83, §1; Acts 2014, No. 564, §1; Acts 2017, No. 180, §1, eff. June 12, 2017; Acts 2020, No. 352, §2; Acts 2025, No. 230, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:71.4 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 71.4
Homestead exemption fraud
Status: in_force

A. It is unlawful for any person to intentionally claim more than one homestead exemption as provided for in Article VII, Section 20 of the Louisiana Constitution.

B. Any person who intentionally claims more than one homestead exemption shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

C. In addition to the penalties provided in Subsection B of this Section, a person convicted of a violation of this Section shall be ordered to make full restitution to the state or local governmental subdivision which has suffered a financial loss as a result of the offense. If a person ordered to make restitution pursuant to this Section is found to be indigent and therefore unable to make restitution in full at the time of conviction, the court shall order a periodic payment plan consistent with the person's financial ability.

D. For the purposes of this Section, "person" means a natural or juridical person, including but not limited to a sole proprietorship, corporation, company, limited liability company, partnership, limited liability partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, or any other individual or entity.

Acts 2016, No. 437, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:27 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 27
Attempt; penalties; attempt on peace officer; enhanced penalties
Status: in_force

A. Any person who, having a specific intent to commit a crime, does or omits an act for the purpose of and tending directly toward the accomplishing of his object is guilty of an attempt to commit the offense intended; and it shall be immaterial whether, under the circumstances, he would have actually accomplished his purpose.

B.(1) Mere preparation to commit a crime shall not be sufficient to constitute an attempt; but lying in wait with a dangerous weapon with the intent to commit a crime, or searching for the intended victim with a dangerous weapon with the intent to commit a crime, shall be sufficient to constitute an attempt to commit the offense intended.

(2) Further, the placing of any combustible or explosive substance in or near any structure, watercraft, movable, or forestland, with the specific intent eventually to set fire to or to damage by explosive substance such structure, watercraft, movable, or forestland, shall be sufficient to constitute an attempt to commit the crime of arson as defined in R.S. 14:51 through 53.

C. An attempt is a separate but lesser grade of the intended crime; and any person may be convicted of an attempt to commit a crime, although it appears on the trial that the crime intended or attempted was actually perpetrated by such person in pursuance of such attempt.

D. Whoever attempts to commit any crime shall be punished as follows:

(1)(a) If the offense so attempted is punishable by death or life imprisonment, he shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than ten nor more than fifty years without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

(b) If the offense so attempted is punishable by death or life imprisonment and is attempted against an individual who is a peace officer engaged in the performance of his lawful duty, he shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than twenty nor more than fifty years without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

(2)(a) If the offense so attempted is theft or receiving stolen things, and is not punishable as a felony, he shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

(b) If the offense so attempted is receiving stolen things, and is punishable as a felony, he shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

(c)(i) If the offense so attempted is theft of an amount not less than seven hundred fifty dollars nor more than twenty-five thousand dollars, he shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

(ii) If the offense so attempted is theft of an amount over twenty-five thousand dollars, he shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars, imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than five years, or both.

(3) In all other cases he shall be fined or imprisoned or both, in the same manner as for the offense attempted; such fine or imprisonment shall not exceed one-half of the largest fine, or one-half of the longest term of imprisonment prescribed for the offense so attempted, or both.

E. For the purposes of Subsection D of this Section, the term "peace officer" means any peace officer, as defined in R.S. 40:2402.

Amended by Acts 1970, No. 471, §1; Acts 1975, No. 132, §1; Acts 1989, No. 609, §1; Acts 1995, No. 988, §1; Acts 2003, No. 166, §1; Acts 2003, No. 745, §1; Acts 2010, No. 531, §1; Acts 2013, No. 240, §1; Acts 2014, No. 255, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:126.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 126.2
False statements concerning denial of constitutional rights
Status: in_force

A. No person shall wilfully and knowingly, whether orally or in writing, make or cause to be made to any agency, board, commission, member, officer, official, appointee, employee or representative thereof, of the executive, legislative, or judicial department of the United States or any subdivision thereof, which may be now in existence, or who may be now appointed, or hereafter created or appointed, including but not limited to any commissioner, referee, or voting referee now appointed or who may be hereafter appointed by any court of the United States or any judge thereof, and further including but not limited to any member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and any agent or representative, investigator, or member of the Commission of Civil Rights of the United States, or the Advisory Committee or Board of the Commission of Civil Rights of the United States appointed in and for the state of Louisiana, any false or fictitious or fraudulent statement or statements, or to use any false writing or document asserting or claiming that such person or persons, or any other person or persons have been or are about to be denied or deprived of any right, privilege, or immunity granted or secured to them, or to any of them, by the United States Constitution and laws, or by the Louisiana Constitution and laws, by any officer, agency, employee, representative, board or commission or any member thereof of the state of Louisiana, or of any parish or municipality of the state of Louisiana, or of any other political subdivision of the state of Louisiana, or by the state of Louisiana.

B. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this Section shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than five years with or without hard labor, or by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Added by Acts 1960, No. 68, §1; Acts 2014, No. 791, §7.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:201 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 201
Collateral securities, unauthorized use or withdrawal prohibited; penalty; proof of intent; of personal advantage
Status: in_force

A. No customer, nor any officer, member, or employee of any person who is a customer of any bank or banking institution, savings bank, or trust company organized under the laws of this state, of the United States, or of any foreign country, or of a private banker or of a person, or association that loans money on collateral security, doing business in this state, who is allowed to withdraw any collateral pledged by him, either personally or in his representative capacity, on a trust receipt or other form of receipt, shall do any of the following:

(1) Use, sell, repledge, or otherwise dispose of the collateral so withdrawn, for any other purpose other than that of paying the indebtedness for the security of which the collateral was pledged.

(2) Fail or refuse to return the collateral on demand.

(3) Fail or refuse in lieu of the return of the collateral to make the pledgee a cash payment equivalent to the full value of the collateral so withdrawn.

(4) If the collateral exceeds in value the indebtedness it secures, fail or refuse to make a cash payment to the pledgee equal to the full amount of the indebtedness.

(5) If the delivery of the collateral was to be made in the future and the customer has taken possession or control of the collateral, fails or refuses to deliver the collateral on demand.

B. Whoever violates this Section shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor, for not more than ten years.

C. Proof of any of the acts set forth in this Section shall be considered prima facie evidence of criminal intent. The state may proceed further and prove criminal intent by any competent evidence in its possession.

D. Where the person doing the acts denounced by this Section was an officer, agent, or employee of any person, who was a customer of any lender as provided in Subsection A of this Section loaning money on collateral security, it shall not be necessary, to complete the proof of the crime charged, for the state to prove that the person derived any personal benefit, advantage, or profit from the transaction. The state may always prove the crime charged by any competent evidence it may have in its possession.

Amended by Acts 1952, No. 82, §1; Acts 1980, No. 439, §1; Acts 2014, No. 791, §7.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:375 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 375
Illegal consideration for criminal bail bonds
Status: in_force

A. It shall be unlawful for any person to:

(1) Charge a fee or to receive anything of value to act as a personal surety on a criminal bail bond or to procure another to act as a personal surety on a criminal bail bond in the state of Louisiana.

(2) Charge a fee for or to receive anything of value for obtaining a release of a criminal defendant on a bail without surety.

B. An attorney at law admitted to practice in the state of Louisiana, in the course of his representation of his client, shall not be affected by this Section.

C. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section:

(1) When the amount charged or received is valued at five hundred dollars or more, shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than five years or may be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or both.

(2) When the amount charged or received is valued at one hundred dollars or more, but less than five hundred dollars, shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than two years or may be fined two thousand dollars, or both.

(3) When the amount received or charged is valued at less than one hundred dollars, shall be imprisoned for not more than six months or fined not more than five hundred dollars, or both.

Acts 1993, No. 834, §3, eff. June 22, 1993.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:117.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 117.1
Paramilitary organizations; prohibitions
Status: in_force

A. No paramilitary organization, or any member thereof, shall train in this state.

B. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

C.(1) For the purposes of this Section, "paramilitary organization" shall mean a group organized in a military or paramilitary structure, consisting of two or more persons who knowingly possess firearms or other weapons and who train in the use of such firearms or weapons, or knowingly teach or offer to teach the use of such firearms or weapons to others, for the purpose of committing an offense under the laws of this state or any political subdivision thereof.

(2) It shall not include a law enforcement agency, the armed services or reserve forces of the United States, the Louisiana National Guard, or any other organization that may possess firearms and train with such firearms, or teach or offer to teach the use of such firearms to others, for a lawful purpose.

Added by Acts 1983, No. 394, §1.

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La. Rev. Stat. § 14:331 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 331
Prohibition of debt adjusting when conducted for profit
Status: in_force

A. Except as otherwise provided herein, no person shall engage in the business of debt adjusting.

B. As used in this section, the following words and phrases shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1) "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, trust, firm, association or other legal entity.

(2) "Debt adjusting" means the making of a contract, express or implied, with a debtor whereby the debtor agrees to pay a certain amount of money or other thing of value periodically to the person engaged in the debt adjusting business who shall, for a consideration, distribute the same among certain specified creditors in accordance with a plan agreed upon. The term includes debt adjustment, budget counseling, debt management or debt pooling service or the holding of oneself out, by words of similar import, as providing services to debtors in the management of their debts and contracting with the debtor for a fee to (a) effect the adjustment, compromise, or discharge of any account, note, or other indebtedness, of the debtor, or (b) receive from the debtor and disperse to his creditors any money or other thing of value.

C. This section shall not apply to:

(1) Situations involving debt adjusting incurred incidentally in the lawful practice of law in this state;

(2) Banks and fiduciaries, as duly authorized and admitted to transact business in this state and performing credit and financial adjusting service in the regular course of their principal business;

(3) Title insurers and abstract companies, while doing an escrow business;

(4) Judicial officers or others acting under court orders;

(5) Nonprofit or charitable corporations or associations engaged in debt adjusting;

(6) Situations involving debt adjusting incurred incidentally in connection with lawful practice as a certified public accountant;

(7) Bona fide trade or mercantile associations in the course of arranging adjustment of debts with business establishments;

(8) Employers for their employees;

(9) Any person who, at the request of a debtor, arranges for or makes a loan to the debtor, and who, at the authorization of the debtor, acts as an adjuster of the debtor's debts in the disbursement of the proceeds of the loan, without compensation for services rendered in adjusting the debts.

D. Whoever shall engage in the business of debt adjusting shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

Added by Acts 1972, No. 451, §§1 to 3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:313 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 313
Wearing of masks, hoods, or other facial disguises in public places prohibited; penalty; exceptions; permit to conduct Mardi Gras festivities; wearing of hoods, masks, or disguises by sex offenders
Status: in_force

A. No person shall use or wear in any public place of any character whatsoever, or in any open place in view thereof, a hood or mask, or anything in the nature of either, or any facial disguise of any kind or description, calculated to conceal or hide the identity of the person or to prevent his being readily recognized.

B. Whoever violates this Section shall be imprisoned for not less than six months nor more than three years.

C. Except as provided in Subsection E of this Section, this Section shall not apply:

(1) To activities of children on Halloween, to persons participating in any public parade or exhibition of an educational, religious, or historical character given by any school, church, or public governing authority, or to persons in any private residence, club, or lodge room.

(2) To persons participating in masquerade balls or entertainments, to persons participating in carnival parades or exhibitions during the period of Mardi Gras festivities, to persons participating in the parades or exhibitions of minstrel troupes, circuses, or other dramatic or amusement shows, or to promiscuous masking on Mardi Gras which are duly authorized by the governing authorities of the municipality in which they are held or by the sheriff of the parish if held outside of an incorporated municipality.

(3) To persons wearing head covering or veils pursuant to religious beliefs or customs.

(4) To persons driving or riding a motorcycle.

(5) To persons wearing a helmet or mask for medical purposes or reasons.

D. All persons having charge or control of any of the festivities set forth in Paragraph (C)(2) of this Section shall, in order to bring the persons participating therein within the exceptions contained in Paragraph (C)(2), make written application for and shall obtain in advance of the festivities from the mayor of the city, town, or village in which the festivities are to be held, or when the festivities are to be held outside of an incorporated city, town, or village, from the sheriff of the parish, a written permit to conduct the festivities. A general public proclamation by the mayor or sheriff authorizing the festivities shall be equivalent to an application and permit.

E. Every person convicted of or who pleads guilty to a sex offense specified in R.S. 24:932, is prohibited from using or wearing a hood, mask or disguise of any kind with the intent to hide, conceal or disguise his identity on or concerning Halloween, Mardi Gras, Easter, Christmas, or any other recognized holiday for which hoods, masks, or disguises are generally used.

Acts 1999, No. 1043, §1; Acts 2008, No. 400, §1; Acts 2017, No. 295, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:222.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 222.3
Unlawful use of a cellular tracking device; penalty
Status: in_force

A. It shall be unlawful for any person to possess a cellular tracking device or to use a cellular tracking device for the purpose of collecting, intercepting, accessing, transferring, or forwarding the data transmitted or received by the communications device, or stored on the communications device of another without the consent of a party to the communication and by intentionally deceptive means.

B. For the purposes of this Section:

(1) "Cellular tracking device" means a device that transmits or receives radio waves to or from a communications device in a manner that interferes with the normal functioning of the communications device or communications network and that can be used to intercept, collect, access, transfer, or forward the data transmitted or received by the communications device, or stored on the communications device; includes an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) catcher or other cell phone or telephone surveillance or eavesdropping device that mimics a cellular base station and transmits radio waves that cause cell phones or other communications devices in the area to transmit or receive radio waves, electronic data, location data, information used to calculate location, identifying information, communications content, or metadata, or otherwise obtains this information through passive means, such as through the use of a digital analyzer or other passive interception device; and does not include any device used or installed by an electric utility solely to the extent such device is used by that utility to measure electrical usage, to provide services to customers, or to operate the electric grid.

(2) "Telecommunications device" means any type of instrument, device, or machine that is capable of transmitting or receiving telephonic, electronic, radio, text, or data communications, including but not limited to a cellular telephone, a text-messaging device, a personal digital assistant, a computer, or any other similar wireless device that is designed to engage in a call or communicate text or data. It does not include citizens band radios, citizens band radio hybrids, commercial two-way radio communication devices, or electronic communication devices with a push-to-talk function.

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

(1) An investigative or law enforcement officer, judicial officer, probation or parole officer, or employee of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections using a cellular tracking device when that person is engaged in the lawful performance of official duties and in accordance with other state or federal law, including using a cellular tracking device in accordance with the Electronic Surveillance Act and pursuant to a court order as provided for in R.S. 15:1317 and 1318.

(2) An operator of a switchboard, or any officer, employee, or agent of any electronic communications carrier, whose facilities are used in the transmission of a wire communication, to intercept, disclose, or use that communication in the normal course of his employment while engaged in any activity which is necessary to his service or to the protection of the rights or property of the carrier of such communication; however, such communications common carriers shall not utilize service observing or random monitoring, except for mechanical or service quality control checks.

(3) An officer, employee, or agent of the Federal Communications Commission, in the normal course of his employment and in discharge of the monitoring responsibilities exercised by the commission in the enforcement of Chapter 5 of Title 47 of the United States Code.

(4) The owner of a motor vehicle, including the owner of a vehicle available for rent, who has consented to the use of the tracking device with respect to that vehicle.

(5) The lessor or lessee of a motor vehicle and the person operating the motor vehicle who have consented to the use of a tracking device with respect to that vehicle.

(6) An automobile manufacturer, its affiliates, subsidiaries, or a related telematics provider installing a feature that could be considered a tracking device with respect to that vehicle.

(7)(a) A parent or legal guardian of a minor child whose location or movements are being tracked by the parent or legal guardian.

(b) When the parents of the minor child are living separate and apart or are divorced from one another, this exception shall apply only if both parents consent to the tracking of the minor child's location and movements, unless one parent has been granted sole custody, in which case consent of the noncustodial parent shall not be required.

(8) The Department of Public Safety and Corrections tracking an offender who is under its custody or supervision.

(9) Any provider of a commercial mobile radio service (CMRS), such as a mobile telephone service or vehicle safety or security service, which allows the provider of CMRS to determine the location or movement of a device provided to a customer of such service.

(10) Any commercial motor carrier operation.

(11) A provider of a mobile application or similar technology that a consumer affirmatively chooses to download onto the consumer's wireless device, or any technology used in conjunction with the mobile application or similar technology.

(12) Any use of technology provided by an entity based upon the prior consent of a consumer for such use.

(13) A person acting in good faith on behalf of a business entity for a legitimate business purpose.

(14) A law enforcement agency conducting training or calibration and maintenance of tracking equipment on the cell phone of another law enforcement officer who has given consent for his phone to be tracked for training or calibration and maintenance purposes.

(15) Any person who has more than one cellular phone or similar wireless telecommunications device as part of a wireless service plan contract and who is ascertaining or attempting to ascertain the location of any telecommunications device that is part of that plan.

(16) Any person who has a cellular phone or similar wireless telecommunications device and wireless service plan contract, or a wireless service provider at the person's direction, who is ascertaining or attempting to ascertain the location of any telecommunications device that is part of that plan and that has been lost or stolen.

D. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than three thousand dollars, imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than two years, or both.

Acts 2016, No. 308, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:34.8 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 34.8
Battery of emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel, or a healthcare professional
Status: in_force

A.(1) Battery of emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel, or a healthcare professional is battery committed without the consent of the victim when the offender has reasonable grounds to believe that the victim is emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel, or a healthcare professional acting in the performance of his duties.

(2) The use of force of violence upon the person of emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel, or a healthcare professional by throwing feces, urine, blood, saliva, or any form of human waste by an offender while the offender is transported to or from a medical facility or while being evaluated or treated in a medical facility shall also constitute battery of emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel, or a healthcare professional.

B. For purposes of this Section:

(1) "Emergency room personnel" includes a person in a hospital emergency department who, in the course and scope of his employment or as a volunteer, provides services or medical care, or who assists in the providing of services or medical care, for the benefit of the general public during emergency situations. "Emergency room personnel" shall include but not be limited to any healthcare professional, emergency department clerk, emergency department technician, student, and emergency department volunteer working in the hospital emergency department.

(2) "Emergency services personnel" means any "emergency medical services personnel" as defined by R.S. 40:1075.3 or any "EMS practitioners" as defined by R.S. 40:1131.

(3) "Healthcare professional" means a person licensed or certified by this state to provide healthcare or professional services as a physician, physician assistant, dentist, registered or licensed practical nurse or certified nurse assistant, advanced practice registered nurse, certified emergency medical technician, paramedic, certified registered nurse anesthetist, nurse practitioner, respiratory therapist, clinical nurse specialist, pharmacist, optometrist, podiatrist, chiropractor, physical therapist, occupational therapist, licensed radiologic technologist, licensed clinical laboratory scientist, licensed professional counselor, certified social worker, psychologist, patient transporter, dietary worker, patient access representative, security personnel, patient relations advocate, veterinarian, veterinary staff, or any other person who otherwise assists in or supports the performance of healthcare services.

C.(1)(a) Whoever commits the crime of battery of emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel, or a healthcare professional shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars and imprisoned for not less than fifteen days nor more than six months. At least forty-eight hours of the sentence imposed shall be without benefit of suspension of sentence.

(b) Whoever commits a second or subsequent offense of battery of emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel, or a healthcare professional shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars and imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not less than one year nor more than three years. At least forty-five days of the sentence imposed shall be served without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

(2)(a) If the battery produces an injury that requires medical attention, the offender shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars and imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than one year nor more than five years. At least sixty days of the sentence imposed shall be served without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

(b) If the battery produces an injury that requires medical attention, and the offense is a second or subsequent offense, the offender shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars and shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than two nor more than five years. At least ninety days of the sentence imposed shall be served without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

Acts 2014, No. 664, §1; Acts 2022, No. 129, §1; Acts 2025, No. 25, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:80.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 80.1
Misdemeanor carnal knowledge of a juvenile
Status: in_force

A. Misdemeanor carnal knowledge of a juvenile is committed when a person who is seventeen years of age or older has sexual intercourse, with consent, with a person who is thirteen years of age or older but less than seventeen years of age, when the victim is not the spouse of the offender, and when the difference between the age of the victim and age of the offender is greater than two years, but less than four years.

B. As used in this Section, "sexual intercourse" means anal, oral, or vaginal sexual intercourse.

C. Lack of knowledge of the juvenile's age shall not be a defense. Emission is not necessary, and penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the crime.

D. Whoever commits the crime of misdemeanor carnal knowledge of a juvenile shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

E. The offender shall be eligible to have his conviction set aside and his prosecution dismissed in accordance with the appropriate provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

F. The offender shall not be subject to any of the provisions of law which are applicable to sex offenders, including but not limited to the provisions which require registration of the offender and notice to the neighbors of the offender.

Acts 2001, No. 796, §1; Acts 2008, No. 331, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:61.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 61.1
Criminal damage to a critical infrastructure
Status: in_force

A. Criminal damage to a critical infrastructure is the intentional damaging of a critical infrastructure as defined in R.S. 14:61.

B. Any person who commits the crime of criminal damage to a critical infrastructure shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than fifteen years, fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or both.

C. Any person who commits the crime of criminal damage to a critical infrastructure wherein it is foreseeable that human life will be threatened or operations of a critical infrastructure will be disrupted as a result of such conduct shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than twenty years, fined not more than twenty-five thousand dollars, or both.

D. A person convicted under the provisions of this Section may be ordered to make restitution to the owner of the property pursuant to Code of Criminal Procedure Article 883.2.

E. A person convicted under R.S. 14:26 of a violation of this Section shall not be limited by R.S. 14:26(D) where it is foreseeable that more than one human life will be threatened as a result of such conduct, and each conspirator shall be imprisoned at hard labor for no more than twelve years, fined not more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars, or both.

Acts 2018, No. 692, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:67.13 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 67.13
Theft or criminal access of an automated teller machine
Status: in_force

A.(1) Theft of an automated teller machine is the misappropriation or taking of an automated teller machine which belongs to another without the consent of the other to the misappropriation or taking with the intent to deprive the owner permanently of the automated teller machine or its contents.

(2) Criminal access of an automated teller machine is the intentional destroying, damaging, impairing, tampering with, or otherwise rendering inoperable of an automated teller machine belonging to another with the intent to steal currency or personal financial information of another, regardless of the pecuniary loss.

B. For purposes of this Section, "automated teller machine" means an electronic information processing device located in this state which accepts or dispenses cash in connection with an account or credit card.

C. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than five years nor more than ten years, and may, in addition, be required to pay a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars. Restitution shall be ordered pursuant to Code of Criminal Procedure Article 883.2.

Acts 2023, No. 218, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:128.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 128.1
Terrorism
Status: in_force

A. Terrorism is the commission of any of the acts enumerated in this Subsection, when the offender has the intent to intimidate or coerce the civilian population, influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion:

(1) Intentional killing of a human being.

(2) Intentional infliction of serious bodily injury upon a human being.

(3) Kidnapping of a human being.

(4) Aggravated arson upon any structure, watercraft, or movable.

(5) Intentional aggravated criminal damage to property.

B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of terrorism as provided in Paragraph (A)(1) of this Section shall be punished by life imprisonment at hard labor, without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.

(2) Whoever commits the crime of terrorism as provided in Paragraph (A)(2) of this Section shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than thirty years.

(3) Whoever commits the crime of terrorism as provided in Paragraph (A)(3) of this Section shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than ten years.

(4) Whoever commits the crime of terrorism as provided in Paragraph (A)(4) of this Section shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than six years nor more than forty years. At least four years of the sentence of imprisonment shall be imposed without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.

(5) Whoever commits the crime of terrorism as provided in Paragraph (A)(5) of this Section shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than one year nor more than thirty years.

C. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prevent lawful assembly and peaceful and orderly petition for the redress of grievances, including but not limited to any labor dispute between any employer and its employees.

Acts 2002, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 128, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:87.9 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 87.9
Criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs
Status: in_force

A. Criminal abortion by means of an abortion-inducing drug is committed when a person knowingly causes an abortion to occur by means of delivering, dispensing, distributing, or providing a pregnant woman with an abortion-inducing drug.

B.(1) Any person who knowingly performs an abortion by means of an abortion-inducing drug in violation of this Section shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than one nor more than five years, fined not less than five thousand nor more than fifty thousand dollars, or both.

(2) Any person who knowingly performs an abortion by means of an abortion-inducing drug in violation of this Section that results in the death or serious bodily injury of the pregnant woman shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than five nor more than ten years, fined not less than ten thousand nor more than seventy-five thousand dollars, or both.

(3) Any person who knowingly performs or induces an abortion that results in the death or serious bodily injury of a pregnant woman under the age of eighteen in violation of this Section shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than fifteen nor more than fifty years, fined not less than fifteen thousand nor more than one hundred thousand dollars, or both.

C. None of the following shall be construed to create the crime of criminal abortion by means of an abortion-inducing drug:

(1) Any action taken when a physician or other licensed medical professional is acting in the course of administering lawful medical care.

(2) Any act taken or omission by a pregnant woman with regard to her own unborn child.

(3) Possessing for her own consumption or consuming an abortion-inducing drug by a pregnant woman in violation of this Section.

(4) Lawfully prescribing, dispensing, or distributing a drug, medicine, or other substance for a bona fide medical reason that is not intended to cause an abortion in violation of this Section.

(5)(a) The act of administering an abortion-inducing drug when the drug is administered by a physician licensed by the state of Louisiana who administers the abortion-inducing drug in person to the pregnant woman.

(b) The provisions of Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph shall not be a defense against prosecution under any other provision of law that makes the abortion unlawful, whether the other provision of law is in effect on August 1, 2022, or becomes unlawful at a later date.

(6) Any act by a licensed pharmacist or pharmacy related to filling a prescription for a drug, medicine, or other substance prescribed for a bona fide medical reason shall not subject the pharmacist or the pharmacy to the criminal consequences of this Section. A diagnosis or a diagnosis code shall be written on the prescription by the prescriber indicating that the drug, medicine, or other substance is intended for a purpose other than to cause an abortion in violation of this Section.

Acts 2022, No. 548, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:11 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 11
Criminal intent; how expressed
Status: in_force

The definitions of some crimes require a specific criminal intent, while in others no intent is required. Some crimes consist merely of criminal negligence that produces criminal consequences. However, in the absence of qualifying provisions, the terms "intent" and "intentional" have reference to "general criminal intent."
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:112.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 112.2
Fraudulent portrayal of a law enforcement officer or firefighter
Status: in_force

A. Fraudulent portrayal of a law enforcement officer or firefighter is the impersonation of any law enforcement officer or firefighter for the purpose of obtaining access to a public building, facility, or service. The fraudulent portrayal includes but is not limited to any of the following:

(1) Portraying or impersonating a law enforcement officer or firefighter by any means.

(2) Possessing, without authority, any uniform or badge by which a law enforcement officer or firefighter is identified.

(3) Performing any act purporting to be official while portraying a law enforcement officer or firefighter.

(4) Making, altering, possessing, or using a false document or document containing false statements which purports to be a training program certificate or in-service training certificate or other documentation issued by the Council on Peace Officer Standards and Training, pursuant to R.S. 40:2405, which certifies the peace officer has successfully completed the requirements necessary to exercise his authority as a peace officer.

(5) Making, altering, possessing, or using any false documents or credentials which purport to identify the person as a law enforcement officer or firefighter.

B. For the purposes of this Section, "law enforcement officer or firefighter" shall include police officers, sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, marshals, deputy marshals, correctional officers, constables, wildlife enforcement agents, state park wardens, firemen, and probation and parole officers.

C. "Access to a public building, facility, or service" includes but is not limited to the following:

(1) Free and unhampered passage on and over toll bridges and ferries in this state.

(2) Free passage on and over the Crescent City Connection Bridge at New Orleans.

(3) Free passage on any tollway as defined in R.S. 48:2021(17).

(4) Free parking at any parking facility owned by the state or any of its political subdivisions.

(5) Free admission or reduced price admission to any entertainment, cultural, or sporting event.

D. Nothing herein shall be construed to expand the provisions of law which provide for the free and unhampered passage by law enforcement personnel over toll bridges and ferries.

E. Whoever commits the crime of fraudulent portrayal of a law enforcement officer or firefighter shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than two years, or both.

Acts 2004, No. 85, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:54.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 54.2
Manufacture and possession of delayed action incendiary devices; penalty
Status: in_force

A. It shall be unlawful for any person without proper license as required by R.S. 40:1472.1 et seq. to knowingly and intentionally possess or have under his control any instrument, device, chemical, or explosive substance which is arranged, manufactured, mixed, or so made up as to be a device or substance which, when exposed to heat, humidity, air, or foreign elements, will after prolongation of time burst into flame, ignite, cause to be ignited, or explode.

B. This Section shall not apply to fireworks possessed within the meaning and contemplation of R.S. 51:650 et seq.

C. Whoever violates this Section shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than twenty years, or both.

Added by Acts 1970, No. 659, §1. Amended by Acts 1974, No. 374, §1; Acts 1979, No. 654, §1; Acts 2014, No. 791, §7.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:54.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 54.3
Manufacture and possession of a bomb
Status: in_force

A. It shall be unlawful for any person without a proper license as required by R.S. 40:1472.1 et seq. to knowingly and intentionally manufacture, possess, or have under his control any bomb.

B. For purposes of this Section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

(1) "Bomb" means an explosive compound or mixture with a detonator or initiator, or both, but does not include small arms ammunition. The term "bomb" shall also include any of the materials listed in Paragraph (3) of this Subsection that are present in an unassembled state but which could, when assembled, be ignited in the same manner as described in Paragraph (3) of this Subsection, when possessed with intent to manufacture or assemble a bomb.

(2) "Enhanced security zone" means the public spaces within an area that traditionally hosts more than fifteen million people annually, contains a venue for sports and entertainment with a capacity for more than seventy-five thousand people, a convention center with more than one million square feet of exhibition space, and has one land-based casino. This shall include the area of the city of New Orleans containing the boundaries of the French Quarter Management District as provided in R.S. 25:799(B), the Downtown Development District as provided in R.S. 33:2740.3(A), and the New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority Economic Growth and Development District as provided in R.S. 33:130.862(A).

(3) "Explosive" means gunpowders, powders used for blasting, all forms of high explosives, blasting materials, fuses (other than electric circuit breakers), detonators, and other detonating agents, smokeless powders, and any chemical compounds, mechanical mixture, or device that contains any oxidizing and combustible units, or other ingredients, in such proportions, quantities, or packing that ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion, by percussion, or by detonation of the compound, mixture, or device or any part thereof may cause an explosion.

C. This Section shall not apply to fireworks possessed within the meaning and contemplation of R.S. 51:650 et seq.

D.(1) Except as provided in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection, whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not more than twenty years, or both.

(2) Any person who violates the provisions of this Section within an enhanced security zone within one hundred feet of any parade, demonstration, or gathering for which a permit is issued by a governmental entity shall be fined not more than twenty thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not more than twenty years, or both.

Added by Acts 1974, No. 375, §1. Amended by Acts 1979, No. 654, §1; Acts 1988, No. 369, §1; Acts 2013, No. 59, §1, eff. May 30, 2013; Acts 2025, No. 424, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:221 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 221
Avoiding payment for telecommunications services, cable television services, or multipoint distribution system service
Status: in_force

A. Avoidance of payment for telecommunication, cable television, or multipoint distribution system services is the avoidance, attempt to avoid, or the causing of another person to avoid, the lawful charges, in whole or in part, for any telephone, telegraph, cable, or multipoint distribution system service utilized or for the transmission of a message, signal, or other communication over telephone, telegraph, cable facilities, or multipoint distribution system:

(1) By the use of a code, prearranged scheme, or other similar strategem or device whereby such person, in effect, sends or receives information; or

(2) By rearranging, tampering or interfering with, or making unauthorized connection with any facilities or equipment of a telephone or telegraph company, whether physically, inductively, acoustically, or otherwise; or

(3) By intercepting and decoding a transmission by a multipoint distribution system without the authorization of the provider of the service, the person intentionally or knowingly attaches to, causes to be attached to, or incorporates in a television set, video tape recorder, or other equipment designed to receive a television transmission a device that intercepts and decodes the transmission.

(4) By the use of any other fraudulent means, method, trick, or device.

B.(1) On a first conviction, the offender shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

(2) On a second conviction, the offender shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than five years, or both.

C. Nothing herein shall prohibit the use of earth station receivers to receive satellite communications.

Added by Acts 1966, No. 305, §1. Amended by Acts 1981, No. 145, §1; Acts 1982, No. 751, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:405 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 405
Unlawful establishment of accounts on Internet-based social networking websites by inmates
Status: in_force

A. It shall be unlawful for any offender who is incarcerated and who is sentenced to the legal custody of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to establish or maintain an account on any Internet-based, social networking website.

B. "Social networking website" means an Internet-based website that has any of the following capabilities:

(1) Allows users to create web pages or profiles about themselves that are available to the general public or to any other users.

(2) Offers a mechanism for communication among users, such as a forum, chat room, electronic mail, or instant messaging.

C. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

Acts 2011, No. 312, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:129.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 129.2
Recording, listening to, or observing proceedings of grand or petit juries while deliberating or voting
Status: in_force

A. It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly and intentionally, by any means or device whatsoever, to do either of the following:

(1) To record or attempt to record the proceedings of any grand or petit jury in any court of the state of Louisiana while such jury is deliberating or voting.

(2) To listen to or observe, or attempt to listen to or observe, the proceedings of any grand or petit jury of which he is not a member in any court of the state of Louisiana while such jury is deliberating or voting.

B. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

Added by Acts 1981, No. 866, §2; Acts 2014, No. 791, §7.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:93.16 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 93.16
Unlawful sales of consumable hemp products to persons under twenty-one
Status: in_force

A. It is unlawful for any person to sell, distribute, dispense, or otherwise deliver any consumable hemp product, as defined in R.S. 3:1481, to any person under twenty-one years of age unless such person is the lawful owner or lawful employee of an establishment to which the sale is being made and is accepting such delivery pursuant to such ownership or employment. Lack of knowledge of the person's age shall not be a defense.

B. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both.

Acts 2025, No. 233, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:360 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 360
Due process determination of facts
Status: in_force

In determining that any organization or individual is in fact a communist action organization, a communist front organization, a communist infiltrated organization, a subversive organization, a communist or a subversive person, the following procedure shall be the legal method of such determination:

Upon any district attorney or the attorney general being reasonably informed that an organization or person is or should be subject to the regulation of R.S. 14:358 through 373, the district attorney having proper jurisdiction, or the attorney general, shall institute in the appropriate district court a civil proceeding in the name of the state of Louisiana against such organization or individual, setting forth the relevant and pertinent facts pertaining to said organization or individual under the definitions provided in R.S. 14:358 through 373, and praying for a judgment of the court determining, from the facts presented concerning said organization or individual, whether or not said organization or individual is in fact a communist action organization, a communist front organization, a communist infiltrated organization, a subversive organization, a communist or a subversive person, as the case may be. All such suits shall be procedurally handled as an adversary proceeding the same as any other civil action. The judgment of the court in such actions shall be based upon a preponderance of the evidence, as in all other civil cases. No determination of fact as provided in this Section concerning any organization or individual shall be made by any other way than by judgment of a district court of this state, which judgment shall, when so justified by the facts presented, be rendered as prayed for by the district attorney or attorney general, as the case may be, identifying the defendant in the terms defined in R.S. 14:359. The provisions of Articles 1871 through 1883, of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure, concerning declaratory judgments, shall apply to all civil actions provided for in this Section.

Amended by Acts 1965, No. 45, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:403.9 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 403.9
Alcohol consumption; emergency assistance and cooperation; immunity
Status: in_force

A. A peace officer shall not take a person into custody based solely on the commission of an offense involving alcohol described in Subsection B of this Section if the peace officer, after making a reasonable determination and considering the facts and surrounding circumstances, reasonably believes that all of the following apply:

(1) The law enforcement officer has contact with the person because the person acting in good faith requested emergency medical assistance for an individual who reasonably appeared to be in need of medical assistance due to alcohol consumption and the person did not illegally provide alcohol to the individual.

(2) The person:

(a) Provided his full name and any other relevant information requested by the peace officer.

(b) Remained at the scene with the individual who reasonably appeared to be in need of medical assistance due to alcohol consumption until emergency medical assistance arrived.

(c) Cooperated with emergency medical assistance personnel and peace officers at the scene.

B. A person who meets the criteria of Subsection A of this Section shall be immune from criminal prosecution for any offense related solely to the possession and consumption of alcohol.

C. A person shall not initiate or maintain an action against a peace officer or the employing state agency or political subdivision based on the officer's compliance or failure to comply with this Section.

D. For the purposes of this Section, "peace officer" shall have the same meaning as defined in R.S. 14:112.1.

Acts 2014, No. 392, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:129.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 129.1
Intimidating, impeding, or injuring witnesses; injuring officers; penalties
Status: in_force

A. No person shall intentionally:

(1) Intimidate or impede, by threat of force or force, or attempt to intimidate or impede, by threat of force or force, a witness or a member of his immediate family with intent to influence his testimony, his reporting of criminal conduct, or his appearance at a judicial proceeding;

(2) Injure or attempt to injure a witness in his person or property, or a member of his immediate family, with intent to influence his testimony, his reporting of criminal conduct, or his appearance at a judicial proceeding; or

(3) Injure or attempt to injure an officer of a court of this state in his person or property, or a member of his immediate family, because of the performance of his duties as an officer of a court of this state or with intent to influence the performance of his duties as an officer of a court of this state.

B. For purposes of this Section the following words shall have the following meanings:

(1) "A member of his immediate family" means a spouse, parent, sibling, and child, whether related by blood or adoption.

(2) "Witness" means any of the following:

(a) A person who is a victim of conduct defined as a crime under the laws of this state, another state, or the United States.

(b) A person whose declaration under oath has been received in evidence in any court of this state, another state, or the United States.

(c) A person who has reported a crime to a peace officer, prosecutor, probation or parole officer, correctional officer, or judicial officer of this state, another state, or the United States.

(d) A person who has been served with a subpoena issued under authority of any court of this state, another state, or the United States, or

(e) A person who reasonably would be believed by an offender to be a witness as previously defined in this Section.

C.(1) Whoever violates the provisions of this Section in a civil proceeding shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than five years, or both.

(2) Whoever violates the provisions of this Section in a criminal proceeding in which a sentence of death or life imprisonment may be imposed, the offender shall be fined not more than one hundred thousand dollars, imprisoned for not more than forty years at hard labor, or both.

(3) Whoever violates the provisions of this Section in a criminal proceeding in which a sentence of imprisonment necessarily served at hard labor for any period less than a life sentence may be imposed, the offender shall be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not more than twenty years at hard labor, or both.

(4) Whoever violates the provisions of this Section in a criminal proceeding in which any other sentence may be imposed, the offender shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, imprisoned for not more than five years, with or without hard labor, or both.

Added by Acts 1981, No. 866, §2; Acts 2008, No. 4, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:93.13 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 93.13
Unlawful purchase of alcoholic beverages by persons on behalf of persons under twenty-one
Status: in_force

A. It is unlawful for any person, other than a parent, spouse, or legal guardian, as specified in R.S. 14:93.10(2)(a)(ii), to purchase on behalf of a person under twenty-one years of age any alcoholic beverage.

B.(1) Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days, or both.

(2) In addition to the penalties provided in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, the driver's license of any person violating the provisions of this Section may be suspended upon conviction, plea of guilty, or nolo contendere for a period of one hundred eighty days. Upon conviction, plea of guilty, or nolo contendere, the court shall surrender the driver's license to the Department of Public Safety and Corrections for suspension in accordance with the provisions of this Section. Upon first conviction, the court may issue an order which authorizes the department to issue a restricted driver's license upon a demonstration to the court that suspension of his driving privileges will deprive him or his family of the necessities of life or prevent him from earning a livelihood. Such restrictions shall be determined by the court.

Acts 1995, No. 639, §1; Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 78, §1; Acts 2005, No. 165, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:139 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 139
Political payroll padding
Status: in_force

A. Political payroll padding is committed when any public officer or public employee shall, at any time during the six months preceding any election for governor:

(1) Increase the number of public employees in his office, department, board, agency, or institution more than five percent over the average number of such employees for each of the first six months of the twelve months next preceding the election; or

(2) Increase the payroll or other operating expenses of his office, department, board, agency, or institution more than fifteen percent over its average amount of such expenditures for each of the months of the first six months of the twelve months next preceding the election.

B. The provisions of this Section shall not apply where the increases are necessitated by flood, invasion by a common enemy, or other public emergency.

C. Whoever commits the crime of political payroll padding shall be imprisoned for not more than five years with or without hard labor or shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or both.

Amended by Acts 1980, No. 454, §1; Acts 2014, No. 791, §7.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:38.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 38.3
Assault on a child welfare worker
Status: in_force

A.(1) Assault on a child welfare worker is an assault committed when the offender has reasonable grounds to believe the victim is a child welfare worker acting in the performance of his duties.

(2) For purposes of this Section, "child welfare worker" shall include any child protection investigator, family services worker, foster care worker, adoption worker, any supervisor of the above, any person authorized to transport clients for the agency, or court appointed special advocate (CASA) program representative.

B. Whoever commits the crime of assault on a child welfare worker shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than fifteen days nor more than ninety days, or both.

Acts 2005, No. 59, §1, eff. June 16, 2005.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:311 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 311
Discharging fireworks or explosives within one thousand feet of hospital prohibited; penalty
Status: in_force

A. No person shall shoot, discharge, explode, or cause to be shot, discharged or exploded any firecrackers, fireworks, or other explosives within one thousand feet of any hospital in Louisiana.

B. Whoever violates this Section shall be fined not more than one dollar or imprisoned for not more than one day, or both.

Acts 2014, No. 791, §7.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:90.4 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 90.4
Unlawful playing of video draw poker devices by persons under the age of twenty-one; penalty
Status: in_force

A. It is unlawful for any person under twenty-one years of age to play video draw poker devices.

B. For purposes of this Section, "video draw poker device" means a device, as defined in R.S. 27:402, placed in an establishment licensed for operation and regulated under the applicable provisions of Chapter 8 of Title 27 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

C. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for the first offense, two hundred fifty dollars for the second offense, and five hundred dollars for the third offense.

D. A gaming licensee, or a specifically authorized employee or agent of a gaming licensee, may use reasonable force to detain a person for questioning on the premises of the gaming establishment, for a length of time, not to exceed sixty minutes, unless it is reasonable under the circumstances that the person be detained longer, when he has reasonable cause to believe that the person has violated the provisions of this Section. The licensee or his employee or agent may also detain such a person for arrest by a peace officer. The detention shall not constitute an arrest.

Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 162, §1; Acts 2022, No. 310, §1, eff. July 1, 2022.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:513 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 513
Possession of loanshark records; penalty
Status: in_force

A. A person is guilty of possession of loanshark records when, with knowledge of the contents thereof, he possesses any writing, paper, instrument or article used to record loansharking transactions.

B. Whoever commits the crime of possession of loanshark records shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 165, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:286 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 286
Sale of minor children and other prohibited activities; penalties
Status: in_force

A.(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or surrender a minor child to another person for money or anything of value, or to receive a minor child for such payment of money or anything of value, except as specifically provided in Children's Code Articles 1200 and 1223.

(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to pay or receive anything of value for the procurement, attempted procurement, or assistance in the procurement of a party to an act of voluntary surrender of a child for adoption except as specifically provided in Children's Code Articles 1200 and 1223.

(3) It shall be unlawful for any petitioner, person acting on a petitioner's behalf, agency or attorney or other intermediary to make or agree to make any disbursements in connection with the adoptive placement, surrender, or adoption of a child except as specifically provided in Children's Code Articles 1200 and 1223.

(4) It shall be unlawful to make a false statement in any adoption disclosure affidavit with the intent to deceive and with knowledge that the statement is false.

B.(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to enter into, induce, arrange, procure, knowingly advertise for, or otherwise assist in a gestational carrier contract, whether written or unwritten, that is not in compliance with the requirements provided for in R.S. 9:2718 et seq.

(2) No person who is a party to, or acting on behalf of the parties to a gestational carrier contract shall make or agree to make any disbursements in connection with the gestational carrier contract other than the following:

(a) Payment of actual medical expenses, including hospital, testing, nursing, midwifery, pharmaceutical, travel, or other similar expenses, incurred by the gestational carrier for prenatal care and those medical and hospital expenses incurred incident to birth.

(b) Payment of actual expenses incurred for mental health counseling services provided to the gestational carrier prior to the birth and up to six months after birth.

(c) Payment of actual lost wages of the gestational carrier, not covered under a disability insurance policy, when bed rest has been prescribed for the gestational carrier for some maternal or fetal complication of pregnancy and the gestational carrier, who is employed, is unable to work during the prescribed period of bed rest.

(d) Payment of actual travel costs related to the pregnancy and delivery, court costs, and attorney fees incurred by the gestational carrier.

(3) It shall be unlawful for any person to enter into, induce, arrange, procure, knowingly advertise for, or otherwise assist in an agreement for genetic gestational carrier, with or without compensation, whether written or unwritten. For purposes of this Section, "genetic gestational carrier" and "compensation" shall have the same meaning as defined in R.S. 9:2718.1.

(4) It shall be unlawful for any person to give or offer payment of money, objects, services, or anything of monetary value to induce any gestational carrier, whether or not she is party to an enforceable or unenforceable agreement for genetic gestational carrier or gestational carrier contract, to consent to an abortion as defined in R.S. 14:87.1.

C. A person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this Section shall be punished by a fine not to exceed fifty thousand dollars or imprisonment with or without hard labor for not more than ten years, or both.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 253, §1; Acts 1984, No. 209, §1; Acts 1986, No. 262, §1; Acts 1987, No. 556, §1; Acts 1999, No. 1062, §1; Acts 2016, No. 494, §3; Acts 2018, No. 562, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:93.15 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 93.15
Alcoholic beverage vaporizer; prohibitions
Status: in_force

A. It is unlawful for any person to sell, deliver, give away, purchase, possess, or use an alcoholic beverage vaporizer.

B. This Section shall not apply to any other vaporizer device used for purposes other than vaporizing alcoholic beverages.

C. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

Acts 2006, No. 147, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:91.9 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 91.9
Unlawful presence or contact of a sex offender relative to a former victim
Status: in_force

A. It shall be unlawful for any person convicted of a sex offense as defined in R.S. 15:541 to do any of the following:

(1) Establish a residence or physically reside within three miles of the victim of the offense for which he was convicted.

(2) Knowingly be physically present within three hundred feet of the victim of the offense for which he was convicted.

(3) Communicate, either by electronic communication, in writing, or orally, with the victim of the offense for which he was convicted or an immediate family member of the victim, unless the victim consents to such communication in writing and the communication is made pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 46:1846.

B. For purposes of this Section, "immediate family member" means the spouse, mother, father, aunt, uncle, sibling, or child of the victim, whether related by blood, marriage, or adoption.

C.(1) Whoever violates the provisions of Paragraphs (A)(1) or (2) of this Section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than one year, or both.

(2) Whoever violates the provisions of Paragraph (A)(3) of this Section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

D.(1)(a) It shall be an affirmative defense to prosecution for a violation of Paragraph (A)(1) of this Section if the property where the offender resides was occupied by the offender prior to the date on which the victim began residing within three miles of the residence of the offender.

(b) The affirmative defense provided in Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph shall not be available to an offender who pleads guilty to or is convicted of a subsequent sex offense as defined in R.S. 15:541 against the same victim after the victim began residing within three miles of the residence of the offender.

(2)(a) It shall be an affirmative defense to prosecution for a violation of Paragraph (A)(1) of this Section if the property where the offender resides was occupied by the offender prior to August 1, 2012.

(b) The affirmative defense provided in Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph shall not be available to an offender who pleads guilty to or is convicted of a subsequent sex offense as defined in R.S. 15:541 against the same victim after August 1, 2012.

Acts 2012, No. 42, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:12 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 12
Criminal negligence
Status: in_force

Criminal negligence exists when, although neither specific nor general criminal intent is present, there is such disregard of the interest of others that the offender's conduct amounts to a gross deviation below the standard of care expected to be maintained by a reasonably careful man under like circumstances.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:107.4 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 107.4
Unlawful posting of criminal activity for notoriety and publicity
Status: in_force

A. It shall be unlawful for a person who is either a principal or accessory to a crime to obtain an image, live-stream, or video of the commission of the crime using any camera, videotape, photo-optical, photo-electric, or any other image recording device and to transfer that image, live-stream, or video obtained during the commission of the crime by the use of a computer online service, internet service, or any other means of electronic communication, including but not limited to a local bulletin board service, internet chat room, electronic mail, or online messaging service for the purpose of gaining notoriety, publicity, or the attention of the public.

B.(1) Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

(2) Whoever violates the provisions of this Section and the criminal activity results in the serious bodily injury or death of the victim shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars, imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than eight years, or both.

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

(1) The obtaining, use, or transference of such images, live-streams, or videos by a telephone company, cable television company, or any of its affiliates, an internet provider, or commercial online service provider, or to the carrying, broadcasting, or performing of related activities in providing telephone, cable television, internet, or commercial online services or in the production, exhibition, or presentation of an audiovisual work in any medium, including but not limited to a motion picture or television program.

(2) The obtaining, use, or transference of such images, live-streams, or videos by a law enforcement officer pursuant to investigation of criminal activity.

(3) The obtaining, use, or transference of such images, live-streams, or videos by any bona fide member of the news media broadcasting a news report through television, cable television, or other telecommunication.

(4) The obtaining, use, or transference of such images, live-streams, or videos for use in a feature-length film, short subject film, video, television series, television program, public service announcement, or commercial.

D. After the institution of prosecution, access to any material seized as evidence of this offense shall be in accordance with Code of Criminal Procedure Article 718.1.

E. Any evidence resulting from the commission of unlawful filming or recording criminal activity shall be contraband. The court, upon motion of the district attorney and after a contradictory hearing, may order the destruction of the contraband after it is determined that it is no longer needed as evidence. The contraband shall be presumed to be necessary as evidence if an appeal of the conviction is pending, if the convicted person is pursuing post-conviction remedies, or if the time for pursuing an appeal or post-conviction remedies has not expired.

F. For the purposes of this Section, "live-stream" shall mean a video of an event distributed on the internet while the event is taking place.

Acts 2008, No. 660, §1; Acts 2020, No. 353, §2; Acts 2021, No. 462, §1; Acts 2024, No. 130, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:21 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 21
Aggressor cannot claim self defense
Status: in_force

A person who is the aggressor or who brings on a difficulty cannot claim the right of self-defense unless he withdraws from the conflict in good faith and in such a manner that his adversary knows or should know that he desires to withdraw and discontinue the conflict.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:104 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 104
Keeping a disorderly place
Status: in_force

A. Keeping a disorderly place is the intentional maintaining of a place to be used habitually for any illegal purpose.

B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of keeping a disorderly place shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

(2) Whoever commits the crime of keeping a disorderly place for the purpose of prostitution of persons under the age of eighteen years shall be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than fifteen years nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least five years being served without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.

(3) Whoever commits the crime of keeping a disorderly place for the purpose of prostitution of persons under the age of fourteen years shall be fined not more than seventy-five thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than twenty-five years nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least ten years being served without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.

(4) Repealed by Acts 2020, No. 352, §2.

Amended by Acts 1970, No. 460, §1; Acts 1979, No. 224, §1, eff. July 8, 1979; Acts 2012, No. 446, §1; Acts 2013, No. 83, §1; Acts 2014, No. 564, §1; Acts 2017, No. 180, §1, eff. June 12, 2017; Acts 2020, No. 352, §2; Acts 2025, No. 230, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:218 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 218
Seafood sales and purchases; commercial license required of seller; penalties
Status: in_force

A. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to offer to sell or to sell any shrimp, oyster, fish, or other seafood without having first obtained a valid commercial fishing, retail, or wholesale license as provided in Subpart A of Part VII of Chapter 1 of Title 56 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, including any restaurant or retail establishment, to purchase any shrimp, oyster, fish, or other seafood from any person who does not possess a valid commercial fishing, retail, or wholesale license lawfully issued in his name or his employer's name as provided in the above-referenced Subpart A. The commercial fishing license required herein shall be one which authorizes the bearer to sell his catch. Such license or a copy thereof shall be in the possession of the seller and conspicuously displayed at all times when transacting any sale.

B. The provisions of this Section shall be enforceable by all law enforcement agencies throughout the state, in addition to agents of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and including but not limited to law enforcement officers of local governmental subdivisions.

C.(1) The following penalties shall be imposed for violation of the provisions of Subsection A of this Section:

(a) For the first offense, the fine shall be not less than five hundred dollars nor more than seven hundred fifty dollars, or imprisonment for not more than one hundred twenty days, or both.

(b) For the second offense, the fine shall be not less than seven hundred fifty dollars nor more than three thousand dollars and imprisonment for not less than ninety days nor more than one hundred eighty days.

(c) For the third offense, the fine shall be not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars and imprisonment for not less than one hundred eighty days nor more than two years.

(2) The above penalties in all cases shall include forfeiture of anything seized in connection with the violation and may include revocation of any applicable fishing, retail, or wholesale license under which the violation occurred for the period for which it is issued.

Acts 1986, No. 660, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:83 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 83
Soliciting for prostitutes
Status: in_force

A. Soliciting for prostitutes is the soliciting, inviting, inducing, directing, or transporting a person to any place with the intention of promoting prostitution.

B.(1)(a) Whoever commits the crime of soliciting for prostitutes shall be fined not more than seven hundred fifty dollars, imprisoned for not more than six months, or both, and one-half of the fines collected shall be distributed in accordance with R.S. 15:539.4.

(b) Whoever commits a second or subsequent offense for the crime of soliciting for prostitutes shall be fined not less than one thousand five hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, imprisoned,with or without hard labor, for not more than one year, or both, and one-half of the fines collected shall be distributed in accordance with R.S. 15:539.4.

(2) Whoever commits the crime of soliciting for prostitutes when the person being solicited is under the age of eighteen years shall be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than fifteen years nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least five years being served without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence. One-half of the fines collected pursuant to this Paragraph shall be distributed in accordance with R.S. 15:539.4.

(3) Whoever commits the crime of soliciting for prostitutes when the person being solicited is under the age of fourteen years shall be fined not more than seventy-five thousand dollars, imprisoned at hard labor for not less than twenty-five years nor more than fifty years, or both, with at least ten years being served without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence. One-half of the fines collected pursuant to this Paragraph shall be distributed in accordance with R.S. 15:539.4.

(4) In addition to the penalties provided for in this Subsection, the court shall order the offender to complete the Buyer Beware Program, as provided for in R.S. 15:243, to educate the offender about the harms, exploitation, and negative effects of prostitution. In furtherance of the administration of justice in the judicial district and to prevent future recidivism, the court shall impose additional court costs in the amount of two hundred dollars to defer the costs of the program, with the proceeds of the fine being paid to the operator of the Buyer Beware Program as provided for in R.S. 15:243.

(5) Repealed by Acts 2020, No. 352, §2.

C.(1) Any child who is identified to be a victim of the crime of soliciting for prostitutes shall be referred and be eligible for specialized services for victims of human trafficking pursuant to R.S. 14:46.2 or trafficking of children for sexual purposes pursuant to R.S. 14:46.3. In accordance with R.S. 14:46.3(E), no victim of trafficking of children for sexual purposes shall be prosecuted for a violation of this Section if such violation is committed as a direct result of being trafficked.

(2) Any other person who is eighteen years of age or older who is identified as a victim of the crime of soliciting for prostitutes shall be notified of any treatment or specialized services for sexually exploited persons to the extent that such services are available.

Amended by Acts 1980, No. 708, §1; Acts 2012, No. 446, §1; Acts 2013, No. 83, §1; Acts 2014, No. 564, §1; Acts 2017, No. 180, §1, eff. June 12, 2017; Acts 2018, No. 663, §1; Acts 2020, No. 352, §2; Acts 2025, No. 230, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:34.5 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 34.5
Battery of a correctional facility employee
Status: in_force

A.(1) Battery of a correctional facility employee is a battery committed without the consent of the victim when the offender has reasonable grounds to believe the victim is a correctional facility employee acting in the performance of his duty.

(2) For purposes of this Section, "correctional facility employee" means any employee of any jail, prison, correctional facility, juvenile institution, temporary holding center, halfway house, or detention facility.

(3) For purposes of this Section, "battery of a correctional facility employee" includes the use of force or violence upon the person of the employee by throwing water or any other liquid, feces, urine, blood, saliva, or any form of human waste by an offender while the offender is incarcerated and is being detained in any jail, prison, correctional facility, juvenile institution, temporary holding center, halfway house, or detention facility.

B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of battery of a correctional facility employee shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars and imprisoned not less than fifteen days nor more than six months without benefit of suspension of sentence.

(2) If at the time of the commission of the offense the offender is under the jurisdiction and legal custody of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, or is being detained in any jail, prison, correctional facility, juvenile institution, temporary holding center, halfway house, or detention facility, the offender shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars and imprisoned with or without hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence for not less than one year nor more than five years. Such sentence shall be consecutive to any other sentence imposed for violation of the provisions of any state criminal law.

Acts 1997, No. 486, §1; Acts 1999, No. 86, §1; Acts 2013, No. 290, §1, eff. June 14, 2013.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:5 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 5
Lesser and included offenses
Status: in_force

An offender who commits an offense which includes all the elements of other lesser offenses, may be prosecuted for and convicted of either the greater offense or one of the lesser and included offenses. In such case, where the offender is prosecuted for the greater offense, he may be convicted of any one of the lesser and included offenses.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:403 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 403
Abuse of children; reports; waiver of privilege
Status: in_force

A.(1)(a) Any person who, pursuant to Children's Code Article 609(A), is required to report the abuse or neglect of a child and knowingly and willfully fails to so report shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

(b)(i) Any person who, pursuant to Children's Code Article 609(A), is required to report the sexual abuse of a child, or the abuse or neglect of a child that results in the serious bodily injury, neurological impairment, or death of the child, and the person knowingly and willfully fails to so report, shall be fined not more than three thousand dollars, imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than three years, or both.

(ii) Repealed by Acts 2019, No. 2, §3.

(2) Any person, any employee of a local child protection unit of the Department of Children and Family Services, any employee of any local law enforcement agency, any employee or agent of any state department, or any school employee who knowingly and willfully violates the provisions of Chapter 5 of Title VI of the Children's Code, or who knowingly and willfully obstructs the procedures for receiving and investigating reports of child abuse or neglect or sexual abuse, or who discloses without authorization confidential information about or contained within such reports shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

(3) Any person who reports a child as abused or neglected or sexually abused to the department or to any law enforcement agency, knowing that such information is false, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

(4)(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, any person who is eighteen years of age or older who witnesses the sexual abuse of a child and knowingly and willfully fails to report the sexual abuse to law enforcement or to the Department of Children and Family Services as required by Children's Code Article 610, shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than five years, or both.

(b) For purposes of this Paragraph, "sexual abuse" shall include but is not limited to the perpetration or attempted perpetration of R.S. 14:41, 42, 42.1, 43, 43.1, 43.2, 43.3, 43.4, 46.2, 46.3, 80, 81, 81.1, 81.2, 86, 89, or 89.1.

B. In any proceeding concerning the abuse or neglect or sexual abuse of a child or the cause of such condition, evidence may not be excluded on any ground of privilege, except in the case of communications between an attorney and his client or between a priest, rabbi, duly ordained minister or Christian Science practitioner and his communicant.

Acts 1964, No. 116, §§1 to 5. Amended by Acts 1970, No. 636, §1; Acts 1972, No. 556, §1; Acts 1974, No. 384, §1; Acts 1974, No. 596, §1; Acts 1975, No. 737, §1; Acts 1979, No. 664, §1; Acts 1979, No. 769, §1; Acts 1980, No. 495, §1; Acts 1983, No. 529, §1; Acts 1984, No. 690, §1; Acts 1985, No. 864, §1, eff. July 23, 1985; Acts 1985, No. 339, §1, eff. July 9, 1985; Acts 1985, No. 615, §1; Acts 1985, No. 198, §1, eff. July 6, 1985; Acts 1985, No. 658, §1; Acts 1986, No. 428, §1, eff. July 2, 1986; Acts 1986, No. 1006, §1; Acts 1987, No. 626, §1; Acts 1988, No. 437, §1; Acts 1989, No. 595, §1; Acts 1990, No. 439, §1, eff. July 18, 1990; Acts 1992, No. 705, §3, eff. July 6, 1992; Acts 2012, No. 268, §1, eff. May 25, 2012; Acts 2012, No. 614, §1, eff. June 7, 2012; Acts 2016, No. 302, §2; Acts 2018, No. 458, §1; Acts 2019, No. 2, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:217 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 217
Purchase or sale of seafoods prohibited under certain conditions; penalties
Status: in_force

A. It shall be unlawful for any person:

(1) Who is engaged commercially in catching or taking fish, shrimp, oysters, or other seafood in a joint adventure or other undertaking whereby he receives a percentage of the proceeds of the sale of the catch, or a share of the catch itself, to sell or offer for sale any of such products, obtained in the joint adventure, except as provided for and in accordance with the terms and conditions of such joint adventure, without the express or implied consent of his co-adventurer or co-adventurers, or

(2) Who is employed on a salary or any other basis in the commercial catching or taking of fish, shrimp, oysters, or other seafood, to sell or offer for sale such products without the express or implied consent of his employer, or

(3) To purchase any fish, shrimp, oysters, or other seafood, knowing it is offered for sale in violation of Paragraph (1) or (2) of this Subsection.

B. Any person who violates any provision of this Section shall be, for the first offense, fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two hundred dollars and, for the second and subsequent offenses, shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, or be sentenced to serve not less than five days nor more than six months in the parish jail, or shall be punished by both such fine and imprisonment.

Acts 1964, No. 82, §§1, 2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:93.2.4 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 93.2.4
Unlawful swimming in certain waterways
Status: in_force

A. It shall be unlawful for any parent or legal guardian who has care and control of a minor to permit a minor, either knowingly, wilfully, or through criminal negligence, to swim without wearing a Type I, Type II, Type III, or Type V personal flotation device approved by the United States Coast Guard in the portion of any river beginning from a water-controlled structure through which that river flows to a point seventy miles downstream when that structure creates a reservoir used to generate hydroelectric power. The distance provided for in this Subsection shall be measured from the structure along a line drawn downstream in the middle of the river bed.

B.(1) On a first conviction, the parent or legal guardian shall be issued a warning ticket, fined not more than twenty-five dollars, or both.

(2) On a second conviction, the parent or legal guardian shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, imprisoned for not more than seven days, or both.

(3) On a third or subsequent conviction, the parent or legal guardian shall be fined not more than seventy-five dollars nor more than two hundred fifty dollars, imprisoned for not more than thirty days, or both.

Acts 2023, No. 300, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:79.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 79.1
Criminal abandonment
Status: in_force

A. Criminal abandonment is any of the following:

(1) The intentional physical abandonment of a minor child under the age of ten years by the child's parent or legal guardian by leaving the minor child unattended and to his own care when the evidence demonstrates that the child's parent or legal guardian did not intend to return to the minor child or provide for adult supervision of the minor child.

(2) The intentional physical abandonment of a person who is aged or person with a disability by a caregiver as defined in R.S. 14:93.3 who is compensated for providing care to such person. For the purpose of this Paragraph a person who is aged shall mean any individual who is sixty years of age or older.

B. Whoever commits the crime of criminal abandonment shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

Acts 1986, No. 368, §1; Acts 2008, No. 177, §1, eff. June 12, 2008; Acts 2014, No. 811, §6, eff. June 23, 2014.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:71.5 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 71.5
Misappropriation of funds; utility services
Status: in_force

A. No person who has received money or payment in accordance with a lease contract or rental agreement to pay utility services shall knowingly:

(1) Fail to apply the money or payment as necessary to satisfy the amount owed for the utility services within sixty days of the person's receipt of the bill for utility services.

(2) Use or cause an agent or employee to use any deception, false pretense, or false promise in the failure to apply the money or payment as necessary to satisfy the amount owed for the utility services.

B.(1) Whoever violates the provisions of this Section when the misappropriation or taking amounts to a value of twenty-five thousand dollars or more shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than twenty years, fined not more than fifty thousand dollars, or both.

(2) When the misappropriation or taking amounts to a value of five thousand dollars or more, but less than a value of twenty-five thousand dollars, the offender shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than ten years, fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or both.

(3) When the misappropriation or taking amounts to a value of one thousand dollars or more, but less than a value of five thousand dollars, the offender shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than five years, fined not more than three thousand dollars, or both.

(4)(a) When the misappropriation or taking amounts to less than a value of one thousand dollars, the offender shall be imprisoned for not more than six months, fined not more than one thousand dollars, or both.

(b) If the offender in such cases has been convicted two or more times previously, upon any subsequent conviction, the offender shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than two years, fined not more than two thousand dollars, or both.

(5) In addition to the penalties provided in Paragraphs (1) through (4) of this Subsection, a person convicted under the provisions of this Section shall be ordered to make full restitution to the victim and any other person who has suffered a financial loss as a result of the offense in accordance with Code of Criminal Procedure Article 883.2.

C. The provisions of this Section shall not apply if the person who has received money or payment for utility services is unable to pay the bill for utility services because either:

(1) The tenant or lessee has failed to timely pay sufficient funds to satisfy the specific amount owed in the bill for utility services.

(2) The reason for the delay in receipt of either the bill or payment for utility services is due to an administrative, clerical, or technical error or omission on behalf of the company providing utility services.

D. For purposes of this Section:

(1) "Person" means a natural or juridical person, including but not limited to a sole proprietorship, corporation, company, limited liability company, partnership, limited liability partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, or any other individual or entity. "Person" shall also include any representative, director, trustee, agent, or officer of a juridical person who is authorized and responsible for making payments for utility services.

(2) "Utility services" means any water, electricity, gas, heat, or sewer services, whether privately, municipally, cooperatively, or investor-owned.

Acts 2025, No. 231, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:102.25 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 102.25
Unlawfully supplying any product for the purpose of falsifying a screening test
Status: in_force

A. Unlawfully supplying any product for the purpose of falsifying or altering a drug, urine, or alcohol screening test is committed when a person intentionally:

(1) Sells, trades, furnishes, supplies, gives, distributes, or markets human or synthetic urine in this state or transports human or synthetic urine into this state with the intent of using the urine to falsify or alter results in a urine, drug, or alcohol screening test.

(2) Advertises for sale any product designed to falsify or alter a urine, drug, or alcohol screening test.

(3) Adulterates a urine or other bodily fluid sample with the intent to falsify or alter results in a urine, drug, or alcohol screening test.

(4) Possesses adulterants which are intended to be used to adulterate a urine or other bodily fluid sample for the purpose of falsifying or altering results in a urine, drug, or alcohol screening test.

(5) Sells, trades, furnishes, supplies, gives, distributes, or markets an adulterant with the intent by the seller or marketer that the product be used to adulterate a urine or other bodily fluid sample for the purpose of falsifying or altering results in a urine, drug, or alcohol screening test.

B. The intent to falsify or alter results in a urine, drug, or alcohol screening test shall be presumed if either of the following occur:

(1) A heating element or any other device used to thwart a drug screening test accompanies the sale, trading, furnishing, supplying, giving, distribution, or marketing of urine or adulterants.

(2) Instructions that provide a method for thwarting a drug screening test accompany the sale, giving, distribution, or marketing of urine or adulterants.

C. As used in this Section, "adulterant" means a substance that is not expected to be in human urine or a substance expected to be present in human urine but that is at a concentration so high that it is not consistent with human urine, including, but not limited to:

(1) Bleach.

(2) Chromium.

(3) Creatinine.

(4) Detergent.

(5) Glutaraldehyde.

(6) Hydrochloric acid.

(7) Hydroiodic acid.

(8) Iodine.

(9) Nitrite.

(10) Peroxidase.

(11) Potassium dichromate.

(12) Potassium nitrite.

(13) Pyridinium chlorochromate.

(14) Sodium nitrite.

D. Whoever commits the crime of unlawfully supplying any product for the purpose of falsifying or altering a drug, urine, or alcohol screening test shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

Acts 2010, No. 361, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 3
Interpretation
Status: in_force

The articles of this Code cannot be extended by analogy so as to create crimes not provided for herein; however, in order to promote justice and to effect the objects of the law, all of its provisions shall be given a genuine construction, according to the fair import of their words, taken in their usual sense, in connection with the context, and with reference to the purpose of the provision.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:38.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 38.2
Assault on a school teacher
Status: in_force

A.(1) Assault on a school teacher is an assault committed when the offender has reasonable grounds to believe the victim is a school teacher acting in the performance of his duties.

(2)(a) For purposes of this Section, "school teacher" means any teacher, instructor, administrator, staff person, or employee of any public or private elementary, secondary, vocational-technical training, special, or postsecondary school or institution. For purposes of this Section, "school teacher" shall also include any teacher aide and paraprofessional, school bus driver, food service worker, and other clerical, custodial, or maintenance personnel employed by a city, parish, or other local public school board.

(b) For the purposes of this Section, "assault" means an attempt to commit on a school teacher a battery or the intentional placing of a school teacher in reasonable apprehension of receiving a battery or making statements threatening physical harm to a school teacher.

(c) For the purposes of this Section, "school" means any public or nonpublic elementary, secondary, high school, vocational-technical school, college, special, or postsecondary school or institution, or university in this state.

(d) For the purposes of this Section, "student" means any person registered or enrolled at the school where the school teacher is employed.

B. Whoever commits the crime of assault on a school teacher shall be punished as follows:

(1) If the assault was committed by a student, upon conviction, the offender shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than one hundred eighty days, or both.

(2) If the assault was committed by someone who is not a student, upon conviction, the offender shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars or imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than one year nor more than three years, or both.

Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 44, §1; Acts 2006, No. 733, §1, eff. July 1, 2006; Acts 2008, No. 295, §1, eff. June 17, 2008; Acts 2009, No. 283, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:327 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 327
Obstructing a fireman
Status: in_force

A.(1) It shall be unlawful for any person intentionally to obstruct any fireman while in the performance of his official duties. Obstructing a fireman is hereby defined as intentionally hindering, delaying, hampering, interfering with, or impeding the progress of any regularly employed member of a fire department of any municipality, parish, or fire protection district of the state of Louisiana, or any volunteer fireman of the state of Louisiana while in the performance of his official duties; or cursing, reviling, or using any opprobrious language directed at any such fireman while in the performance of his official duties.

(2) For the purposes of this Section, "fireman" shall include all persons defined as "emergency medical services personnel" by R.S. 40:1075.3, all persons defined as "emergency medical services personnel" by R.S. 40:1131, and any firefighter regularly employed by a fire department of any municipality, parish, or fire protection district of the state of Louisiana, or any volunteer fireman of the state of Louisiana.

B. Whoever commits the crime of obstructing a fireman shall be punished as follows:

(1) If the act constituting the offense is equivalent to manslaughter or attempted murder as those crimes are defined in the Louisiana Criminal Code, he shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than ten nor more than thirty-five years.

(2) If the act constituting the offense is equivalent to aggravated battery as that crime is defined in the Louisiana Criminal Code, he shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than five years nor more than twenty years.

(3) If the act constituting the offense is equivalent to simple battery, aggravated assault, or false imprisonment, as those crimes are defined in the Louisiana Criminal Code, he shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned for not less than two years nor more than ten years, or both.

(4) If the act constituting the offense is equivalent to simple assault as that crime is defined in the Louisiana Criminal Code, he shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned for not less than one year nor more than five years, or both.

(5) In all other cases, he shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for not less than six months nor more than five years, or both.

C. Whoever attempts to commit the crime of obstructing a fireman shall be fined not less than two-thirds of the minimum fine nor more than two-thirds of the maximum fine provided in Subsection B of this Section or imprisoned for not less than two-thirds of the minimum term nor more than two-thirds of the maximum term as provided in Subsection B of this Section, or both. For the purposes of this Subsection, an attempt shall be defined as provided in R.S. 14:27.

D. The penalties provided in this section for the crime of obstructing a fireman shall be in addition to any other penalties provided by existing law.

Acts 1968, No. 183, §§1 to 4; Acts 2005, No. 29, §1; Acts 2014, No. 664, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:368 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 368
Acts prohibited
Status: in_force

It shall be a felony for any person knowingly and wilfully to:

1. Fail to register as required in R.S. 14:363, when required to so register by the terms of R.S. 14:358 through 373.

2. Fail as an officer of a communist action organization, a communist front organization, a communist infiltrated organization or a subversive organization to perform and carry out the obligations set forth and provided in R.S. 14:362.

3. File any false registration statement under the provisions of R.S. 14:362 and 14:363.

4. Violate the provisions of R.S. 14:367 in regard to the labeling and dissemination of propaganda material.

Amended by Acts 1965, No. 45, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:91.6 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 91.6
Unlawful distribution of sample tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products to persons under age twenty-one; penalty
Status: in_force

A. No person shall distribute or cause to be distributed to persons under twenty-one years of age a promotional sample of any tobacco product, alternative nicotine product, or vapor product.

B. For purposes of this Section, the following definitions apply:

(1) "Alternative nicotine product" means any non-combustible product containing nicotine that is intended for human consumption, whether chewed, absorbed, dissolved, or ingested by any other means. "Alternative nicotine product" does not include any of the following:

(a) Tobacco product.

(b) Vapor product.

(c) Product that is a drug pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 321(g)(1).

(d) Device pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 321(h).

(e) Combination product described in 21 U.S.C. 353(g).

(2) "Cigar" means any roll of tobacco for smoking, irrespective of size or shape, and irrespective of the tobacco being flavored, adulterated, or mixed with any other ingredients, where such roll has a wrapper made chiefly of tobacco.

(3) "Cigarette" means any roll for smoking made wholly or in part of tobacco, irrespective of size or shape and irrespective of the tobacco being flavored, adulterated, or mixed with any other ingredient, where such roll has a wrapper or cover made of paper, or any other material, except where such wrapper is wholly or in greater part made of tobacco.

(4) "Smokeless tobacco" means any finely cut, ground, powdered, or leaf tobacco that is intended to be placed in the oral or nasal cavity.

(5) "Smoking tobacco" means granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready rubbed, and any other kind and form of tobacco prepared in such manner as to be suitable for smoking in a pipe or cigarette.

(6) "Tobacco product" means any cigar, cigarette, smokeless tobacco, or smoking tobacco.

(7) "Vapor product" means any non-combustible product containing nicotine or other substances that employs a heating element, power source, electronic circuit, or other electronic, chemical or mechanical means, regardless of shape or size, that can be used to produce vapor from nicotine in a solution or other form. "Vapor product" includes any electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or similar product or device and any vapor cartridge or other container of nicotine in a solution or other form that is intended to be used with or in an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or similar product or device. "Vapor product" does not include any of the following:

(a) Product that is a drug pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 321(g)(1).

(b) Device pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 321(h).

(c) Combination product described in 21 U.S.C. 353(g).

C. Whoever violates a provision of this Section shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars upon conviction.

Acts 1988, No. 709, §1; Acts 2014, No. 278, §1, eff. May 28, 2014; Acts 2021, No. 403, §1; Acts 2022, No. 34, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:35.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 35.1
Battery of a child welfare or adult protective service worker
Status: in_force

A.(1) Battery of a child welfare or adult protective service worker is a battery committed without the consent of the victim when the offender has reasonable grounds to believe the victim is a child welfare or adult protective service worker working in the performance of employment duties who has presented proper identification.

(2) For purposes of this Section, "child welfare worker" shall include any child protection investigator, family services worker, foster care worker, adoption worker, any supervisor of the above, or any person authorized to transport clients for the agency, or court appointed special advocate (CASA) program representative.

(3) For purposes of this Section, "adult protective service worker" shall include any adult protection specialist or adult protection specialist supervisor employed by the Louisiana Department of Health or the Governor's Office of Elderly Affairs.

B. Whoever commits the crime of battery of a child welfare or adult protective service worker shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars and shall be imprisoned not less than fifteen days nor more than six months, or both. At least seventy-two hours of the sentence imposed shall be served without benefit of suspension of sentence. If the battery produces an injury which requires medical attention, the offender shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than one year nor more than five years, or both.

Acts 1987, No. 902, §1; Acts 2005, No. 59, §1, eff. June 16, 2005; Acts 2008, No. 43, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:8 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 8
Criminal conduct
Status: in_force

Criminal conduct consists of:

(1) An act or a failure to act that produces criminal consequences, and which is combined with criminal intent; or

(2) A mere act or failure to act that produces criminal consequences, where there is no requirement of criminal intent; or

(3) Criminal negligence that produces criminal consequences.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:93.2.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 93.2.3
Second degree cruelty to juveniles
Status: in_force

A.(1) Second degree cruelty to juveniles is the intentional or criminally negligent mistreatment or neglect by anyone over the age of seventeen to any child under the age of seventeen which causes serious bodily injury or neurological impairment to that child.

(2) Repealed by Acts 2019, No. 2, §3.

B. The providing of treatment by a parent or tutor in accordance with the tenets of a well-recognized religious method of healing, in lieu of medical treatment, shall not for that reason alone be considered to be intentional or criminally negligent mistreatment or neglect and shall be an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this Section.

C. Whoever commits the crime of second degree cruelty to juveniles shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than forty years.

Acts 1999, No. 191, §1; Acts 2019, No. 2, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:103.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 103.3
Disturbing the peace; residences
Status: in_force

A. No person shall petition, picket, demonstrate, or assemble with other persons within fifty feet of an individual's residence in a manner which interferes, disrupts, threatens to disrupt, or harasses the individual's right to control or use his residence.

B. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. Each day on which a violation occurs shall constitute a separate offense.

C. For purpose of this Section, "residence" shall mean the dwelling, house, apartment, or other structure used in whole or in part as a home or place of abode of any individual.

Acts 2024, No. 661, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:110.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 110.1
Jumping bail
Status: in_force

A. Jumping bail is the intentional failure to appear at the date, time, and place as ordered by the court before which the defendant's case is pending. If the state proves notice has been given to the defendant as set forth in Code of Criminal Procedure Articles 322 and 344, a rebuttable presumption of notice shall apply, and the burden of proof shifts to the defendant to show that he did not receive notice. The fact that no loss shall result to any surety or bondsman is immaterial.

B. Whoever commits the crime of jumping bail when the bail is to assure the presence of the defendant for those cases defined as misdemeanors in this Title and in the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law shall be imprisoned for not more than six months, or fined not more than five hundred dollars, or both.

C. Whoever commits the crime of jumping bail when the bail is to assure the presence of the defendant for those cases defined as felonies in this Title and in the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than two years.

Added by Acts 1950, No. 385, §1. Amended by Acts 1982, No. 523, §1; Acts 1993, No. 501, §1; Acts 2008, No. 54, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:115 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 115
Criminal anarchy
Status: in_force

A. Criminal anarchy is either of the following:

(1) The advocating or teaching, in any manner, in public or private, of the subversion, opposition, or destruction of the government of the United States or of the state of Louisiana by violence or other unlawful means.

(2) The organizing or becoming a member of any organization or society which is known to the offender to advocate, teach, or practice the subversion, opposition, or destruction of the government of the United States or of the state of Louisiana by violence or other unlawful means.

B. Whoever commits the crime of criminal anarchy shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than ten years.

Acts 2014, No. 791, §7.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:102.26 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 102.26
Unlawful restraint of a dog; definitions; penalties
Status: in_force

A. As used in this Section:

(1) "Collar" means any collar constructed of nylon, leather, or similar material, specifically designed to be used for a dog.

(2) "Owner" means a person who owns or has custody or control of a dog.

(3) "Properly fitted" means, with respect to a collar, a collar that measures the circumference of a dog's neck plus at least one inch.

(4) "Restraint" means a chain, rope, tether, leash, cable, or other device that attaches a dog to a stationary object or trolley system.

B. It shall be unlawful to tie, tether, or restrain any animal in a manner that is inhumane, cruel, or detrimental to its welfare.

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

(1) Accepted veterinary practices.

(2) Activities carried on for scientific or medical research governed by accepted standards.

(3) A dog restrained to a running line, pulley, or trolley system and is not restrained to the running line, pulley, or trolley system by means of a pinch-type, prong-type, choke-type, or improperly fitted collar.

(4) A dog restrained in compliance with the requirements of a camping or recreational area as defined by a federal, state, or local authority or jurisdiction.

(5) A dog restrained while the owner is engaged in, or actively training for, an activity that is conducted pursuant to a valid license issued by this state if the activity for which the license is issued is associated with the use or presence of a dog.

(6) A dog restrained while the owner is engaged in conduct directly related to the business of shepherding or herding cattle or livestock.

(7) A dog restrained while the owner is engaged in conduct directly related to the business of cultivating agricultural products if the restraint is reasonably necessary for the safety of the dog.

(8) A dog being restrained and walked with a hand-held leash regardless of the type of collar being used.

D. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars.

Acts 2010, No. 977, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:91 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 91
Unlawful sales of weapons to minors
Status: in_force

A. Unlawful sales of weapons to minors is the selling or otherwise delivering for value of any firearm or other instrumentality customarily used as a dangerous weapon to any person under the age of eighteen. Lack of knowledge of the minor's age shall not be a defense.

B. Whoever commits the crime of unlawful sales of weapons to minors shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

Amended by Acts 1972, No. 704, §1; Acts 1972, No. 768, §5; Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 84, §1; Acts 1995, No. 639, §1; Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 78, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:356.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 356.1
Unlawful referrals by wrecker drivers and others; penalty
Status: in_force

A. It shall be unlawful for any wrecker driver, owner, or any other person engaged in providing wrecker services to refer to an attorney at law any person involved in an accident in connection with which he has provided wrecker services, when the wrecker driver, owner, or other person receives any compensation for such referral.

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

Added by Acts 1977, No. 758, §2. Acts 1993, No. 420, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:87.1.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 87.1.1
Killing a child during delivery; penalties
Status: in_force

A. Killing a child during delivery is the intentional destruction, during parturition of the mother, of the vitality or life of a child in a state of being born and before actual birth, which child would otherwise have been born alive; provided, however, that the crime of killing a child during delivery shall not be construed to include any case in which the death of a child results from the use by a physician of a procedure during delivery which is necessary to save the life of the child or of the mother and is used for the express purpose of and with the specific intent of saving the life of the child or of the mother.

B. Whoever commits the crime of killing a child during delivery shall be imprisoned at hard labor in the penitentiary for life.

Acts 2022, No. 545, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:66 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 66
Extortion
Status: in_force

A. Extortion is the communication of threats to another with the intention thereby to obtain anything of value or any acquittance, advantage, or immunity of any description. Any of the following threats shall be sufficient to constitute extortion:

(1) A threat to do any unlawful injury to the person or property of the individual threatened or of any member of his family or of any other person held dear to him.

(2) A threat to accuse the individual threatened or any member of his family or any other person held dear to him of any crime. An offer to participate in a theft prevention program pursuant to Code of Criminal Procedure Article 215 shall not constitute a violation of the provisions of this Paragraph.

(3) A threat to expose or impute any deformity or disgrace to the individual threatened or to any member of his family or to any other person held dear to him.

(4) A threat to expose any secret affecting the individual threatened or any member of his family or any other person held dear to him.

(5) A threat to cause harm as retribution for participation in any legislative hearing or proceeding, administrative proceeding, or in any other legal action.

(6) A threat intended to compel a pregnant woman to have an abortion as defined in R.S. 14:87.1.

(7) A threat to do any other harm.

B. Whoever commits the crime of extortion shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than one nor more than fifteen years.

Acts 2011, No. 243, §1; Acts 2018, No. 61, §2; Acts 2025, No. 275, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 14:81.5.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 14 / Section 81.5.1
Unlawful posting; records of certain hearings of the Board of Pardons and committee on parole
Status: in_force

A. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly and intentionally obtain any audio, written, or visual recording of any testimony presented by a victim, or the spouse or next of kin of a deceased victim, during an executive session of the Board of Pardons and committee on parole and to transfer such recording by the use of a computer online service, internet service, or any other means of electronic communication. Such service or communication shall include but not be limited to a local bulletin board service, internet chat room, electronic mail, or online messaging service.

B. The provisions of this Section shall not prohibit any of the following from requesting and obtaining a copy of the recording:

(1) The defendant.

(2) The lawyer or legal representative of the defendant.

(3) The victim, or spouse or next of kin of a deceased victim.

(4) The legal guardian of the victim.

(5) Any person who has been granted authorization pursuant to R.S. 15:574.12.1.

C. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

Acts 2025, No. 128, §1.