reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
LA Rev Stat § 33:4780.83 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4780.83. Purpose of regulations

RS 4780.83 - Purpose of regulations A. Regulations adopted pursuant to this Subpart shall be made in accordance with a comprehensive plan and designed to lessen congestion in the public streets, secure safety from fire, promote health and the general welfare, provide adequate light and air, avoid undue concentration of population, facilitate adequate transportation, water supply, sewerage, schools, and parks, and meet other public requirements. B. Such regulations shall be made with reasonable consideration of the character of the district and its peculiar suitability for particular uses and with a view to conserving the values of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the district. Acts 2012, No. 422, §1, eff. May 31, 2012.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4780.84 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4780.84. Public hearing authorized; prohibited rezoning

RS 4780.84 - Public hearing authorized; prohibited rezoning A. The governing authority of the parish shall, in accordance with the comprehensive plan required by R.S. 33:4780.83, provide for the manner in which the regulations and restrictions shall be determined, established, enforced, and, from time to time, amended. B. No regulations or restrictions shall become effective until after a public hearing held by the governing authority of the parish at which parties in interest have had an opportunity to be heard. The governing authority of the parish shall provide for notice of the hearing and notice to property owners in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 33:4780.43. Acts 2012, No. 422, §1, eff. May 31, 2012.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4780.85 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4780.85. Amendment of regulations

RS 4780.85 - Amendment of regulations A. Regulations and restrictions, established pursuant to this Subpart may, from time to time, be amended, modified, or repealed. The governing authority of the parish shall follow the procedures set forth is R.S. 33:4780.44 regarding a protest made against a change in any such regulation and restriction. B. The provisions of R.S. 33:4780.43 relative to public hearing and official notice shall apply equally to all changes or amendments; however, no ordinance shall require a procedure or criterion for amendment any greater than that initially used in establishing such regulations, restrictions, or penalties. Acts 2012, No. 422, §1, eff. May 31, 2012.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4780.86 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4780.86. Zoning commission; recommendations; public hearing

RS 4780.86 - Zoning commission; recommendations; public hearing A. The governing authority of the parish may appoint a zoning commission whose function it shall be to recommend the restrictions and regulations to be enforced within the district, and any supplements, changes, or modifications thereof. B. Before making any recommendation to the governing authority of the parish, the zoning commission shall hold a public hearing. Notice of the time and place of the hearing shall be made in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 33:4780.45. C. After the hearing has been held by the zoning commission, it shall make a report of its findings and recommendations to the governing authority of the parish. D. If a zoning commission is appointed, the governing authority of the parish shall not hold its public hearings or take action until it has received the final report of the zoning commission. Acts 2012, No. 422, §1, eff. May 31, 2012.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4780.87 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4780.87. Board of adjustment; membership; powers and procedures; appeals from decisions

RS 4780.87 - Board of adjustment; membership; powers and procedures; appeals from decisions A. The governing authority of the parish may provide for the appointment of a board of adjustment and, in the regulations and restrictions adopted pursuant to this Subpart, may provide that the board may determine and vary the application of such regulations and restrictions in harmony with their general purpose and intent and in accordance with general or specific rules contained therein. B. The board of adjustment shall consist of such members and shall have such powers and duties as provided in R.S. 33:4780.46. C. Appeals to the board of adjustment may be taken by any person aggrieved or by any officer, department, board, or bureau of the parish affected by any decision of the administrative officer. The procedures for appeals shall be as provided in R.S. 33:4780.46. Acts 2012, No. 422, §1, eff. May 31, 2012.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4780.88 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4780.88. Judicial review

RS 4780.88 - Judicial review Any person or persons jointly or severally aggrieved by any decision by the board of adjustment relative to any officer, department, board, or bureau of the parish may present a petition to the district court of the parish or municipality in which the property affected is located. The procedures for judicial review shall be as provided in R.S. 33:4780.47. Acts 2012, No. 422, §1, eff. May 31, 2012.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4780.89 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4780.89. Enforcement of building and zoning regulations; penalty for violations

RS 4780.89 - Enforcement of building and zoning regulations; penalty for violations A. In case any building or structure is erected, structurally altered, or maintained, or any building, structure, or land is used in violation of this Subpart or of any ordinance or other regulation made pursuant to authority conferred by this Subpart, the proper local authorities of the parish, in addition to other remedies, may institute any appropriate action or proceedings to prevent such unlawful erection, structural alteration, maintenance, or use; to restrain, correct, or abate such violation; to prevent the occupancy of the building, structure, or land; or to prevent any illegal act, conduct, business, or use in or about such premises. B. The regulations shall be enforced by the officer authorized to issue building permits, who is empowered to cause any building, structure, place, or premises to be inspected and examined and to order in writing the remedying of any condition found to exist therein in violation of any provision of the regulations made pursuant to authority of this Subpart. C. The owner or general agent of a building or premises where a violation of any regulation has been committed or exists; the lessee or tenant of an entire building or entire premises where the violation has been committed or exists; the owner, general agent, lessee, or tenant of any part of the building or premises in which the violation has been committed or exists; the general agent, architect, builder, contractor, or any other person who commits, takes part in, or who assists in any violation or who maintains any building or premises in which any violation exists shall be fined not less than ten dollars and not more than twenty-five dollars or be imprisoned for not more than thirty days for each day that the violation continues. Acts 2012, No. 422, §1, eff. May 31, 2012.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4780.90 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4780.90. Conflicting regulations; higher standards to apply

RS 4780.90 - Conflicting regulations; higher standards to apply A. Whenever the regulations made pursuant to authority of this Subpart impose higher standards than are required in any other statute or local ordinance or regulation, the provisions of the regulations made pursuant to authority of this Subpart shall govern. B. Whenever the provisions of any other statute, local ordinance, or regulation impose higher standards than are required by the regulations made pursuant to authority of this Subpart, the provisions of such statute, local ordinance, or regulation shall govern. Acts 2012, No. 422, §1, eff. May 31, 2012.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4780.91 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4780.91. Applicability

RS 4780.91 - Applicability The provisions of this Subpart are intended to authorize the governing authority of the parish of Rapides to provide zoning regulations and restrictions in the district. The governing authority shall have no additional authority to provide zoning regulations or restrictions in any other area of the parish. Acts 2012, No. 422, §1, eff. May 31, 2012.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4781 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4781. Regulation of tourist camps; suppression by injunction

RS 4781 - Regulation of tourist camps; suppression by injunction  Police juries may pass ordinances providing for the regulation, supervision, and control of tourist courts or tourist camps and provide penalties of fine, imprisonment, or both, for violating the ordinances. Police juries may suppress tourist courts or tourist camps whenever they have evidence submitted that the tourist camps or tourist courts are being conducted in a disorderly manner or for immoral purposes. The procedure for suppression shall be by injunction brought for the purpose of prohibiting the continued operation of the camps or courts. The injunction proceedings shall be instituted in the district court of the parish in which the camp or court sought to be enjoined is located. The present rules of practice and the rules of law in force relative to the issuance of injunctions shall apply, with the right of appeal to the proper appellate court being granted to either the police jury or to the owner of the camp or court involved.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4782 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4782. Regulation of electricians

RS 4782 - Regulation of electricians  All municipalities, except New Orleans, may enact ordinances for the purpose of regulating persons pursuing or engaged in the business of installing wires or apparatus to convey electric current for light, heat, or power. In furtherance thereof, the mayor, by and with the consent of the council, may appoint a board of not more than five members, of which the city electrician shall be a member and chairman. The remaining four members shall be electricians, who have had five years' experience, as such. The municipalities may in their discretion vest the board with full power, control, and regulation of the business. The power or final inspection of any of the work shall be vested solely in the city electrician. The municipalities may enforce compliance with these rules and regulations and provide methods of punishment for the violation thereof.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4783 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4783. Sunday closing of butcher shops and bakeries in cities of over 25,000

RS 4783 - Sunday closing of butcher shops and bakeries in cities of over 25,000  Municipalities having a population of over twenty-five thousand may regulate or prohibit the opening and closing of butcher shops, meat markets, baker shops, and bakeries within their corporate limits on Sunday. Municipalities of over one hundred thousand may also regulate or prohibit the sale and delivery of bakery products within their corporate limits on Sunday. Municipalities may punish by penal ordinance violations of ordinances passed in pursuance of this Section.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4784 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4784. Collection of license fees by summary proceedings

RS 4784 - Collection of license fees by summary proceedings  Any municipality which requires a license to conduct any business within its corporate limits may proceed against any person who is conducting a business without paying the required license by rule to show cause why he should not pay the license and penalties or close the business, which rule may be tried on the fifth day, exclusive of holidays, after the service thereof. The rule shall always be tried by preference and may be tried in term time or vacation, in open court or in chambers. If the rule is made absolute the municipality shall have judgment for the amount of the license, penalty, and costs against the defendant, who shall also be ordered to close his business until he obtains the required license. Every violation of the order of court shall constitute and be punishable as a contempt of court.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4785 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4785. Retail dealers in alcoholic beverages; suspension or revocation of permits

RS 4785 - Retail dealers in alcoholic beverages; suspension or revocation of permits A. Any municipality may suspend or revoke within the corporate limits and any police jury or other governing authority of a parish may suspend or revoke within the limits of the parish, permits issued to retail dealers in beverages having an alcoholic content of more than six percent by volume for causes set forth in R.S. 26:88, 26:89; and may suspend or revoke permits issued to such retail dealers in beverages having an alcoholic content of not more than six percent by volume for causes set forth in R.S. 26:285, 26:286. B. The city of New Orleans is hereby authorized to create a municipal alcoholic beverage control board. The board may suspend or revoke within the corporate limits, permits issued to retail dealers in beverages having an alcoholic content of more than six percent by volume for causes set forth in R.S. 26:88 and 89; and may suspend or revoke permits issued to such retail dealers in beverages having an alcoholic content of not more than six percent by volume for causes set forth in R.S. 26:285 and 286. The board shall be governed by the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act unless the procedure is specifically established by R.S. 33:4787 or 4788. Acts 1952, No. 493, §1. Amended by Acts 1958, No. 302, §1; Acts 1975, No. 359, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1370, §4; Acts 2011, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 20, §1, eff. June 12, 2011.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4786 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4786. Hearing; requirement of majority vote for suspension or revocation

RS 4786 - Hearing; requirement of majority vote for suspension or revocation Before any permit is suspended or revoked the holder thereof shall be entitled to a hearing as hereinafter provided, and no permit shall be revoked unless such a hearing has been held and a majority of the governing body of the municipality or parish, or a municipal alcoholic beverage control board thereafter votes for such suspension or revocation. Acts 1952, No. 493, §2. Amended by Acts 1958, No. 302, §1; Acts 1975, No. 359, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4787 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4787. Notice of hearing; petition for suspension or revocation of permit

RS 4787 - Notice of hearing; petition for suspension or revocation of permit A notice shall be served upon the holder of the permit stating the time and place of the hearing to be held by the governing body of the municipality or parish, or a municipal alcoholic beverage control board which shall be not less than ten calendar days from the date such notice is given. The notice shall enumerate the cause or causes for suspending or revoking the permit, and shall be sent by registered mail to the holder of the permit at the address of his place of business as given in his application for the permit, or may be served on him in person by an officer or employee of the municipality or parish. Any trade organization consisting of brewers and distributors of beverages of low alcoholic content, through its authorized representative, may file with the governing body of any municipality or parish, or a municipal alcohol control board a sworn petition requesting that a permit be suspended or revoked, and the procedure in such cases shall be the same as herein set out. Acts 1952, No. 493, §3. Amended by Acts 1958, No. 302, §1; Acts 1975, No. 359, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4788 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4788. Appeal from suspension or revocation of permit

RS 4788 - Appeal from suspension or revocation of permit The holder of the permit who is aggrieved by a decision of the governing body of the municipality or parish or a municipal alcohol control board to suspend or revoke his permit, may within ten days of the notification of the decision take a devolutive appeal to the district court having jurisdiction of his place of business and on such appeal the trial shall be de novo. Within ten calendar days from the signing of the judgment by the district court the municipality or parish governing authority, a municipal alcoholic beverage control board or the holder of the permit, as the case may be, may devolutively appeal from the judgment of the district court to the court of appeals as in ordinary civil cases. Acts 1952, No. 493, §4. Amended by Acts 1958, No. 302, §1; Acts 1975, No. 359, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4789 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4789. Sale of products from Communist countries

RS 4789 - Sale of products from Communist countries  A. The governing authority of the parishes and municipalities of this state are hereby authorized to adopt ordinances to prohibit the sale and offering for sale of products manufactured or produced in any Communist country, any Communist controlled country, or any country which is a satellite of a Communist country, including but not necessarily restricted to products manufactured or produced in any form or manner in the U.S.S.R., Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, North Vietnam, Hungary, Cuba, Bulgaria, East Germany, North Korea, and Red China. B. Any ordinance adopted pursuant to the authority herein granted may include provisions for enforcement of the ordinance, including criminal penalties for the violation thereof which shall consist of a fine not in excess of five thousand dollars or imprisonment for not to exceed two years in the parish jail, or both a fine and imprisonment not exceeding the limits herein stated. Acts 1963, No. 48, §§1, 2.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4790 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4790. Bicycle regulation in the city of New Orleans

RS 4790 - Bicycle regulation in the city of New Orleans The governing authority of the city of New Orleans is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt ordinances regulating the business of purchasing, selling, transferring, exchanging, repairing, or storing of new and used bicycles, parts and accessories for bicycles, at wholesale or retail, and to provide for the registration of description and ownership of bicycles. Acts 1964, No. 363, §1; Acts 2011, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 20, §1, eff. June 12, 2011.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4791 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4791. Regulation of private ambulance services

RS 4791 - Regulation of private ambulance services  A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the governing authority of each municipality within the state of Louisiana shall have the power to adopt ordinances for the regulation of ambulance services operated by private individuals or companies within the corporate limits of said municipality. B. In the parishes of Caddo and Bossier, this power shall include but not be limited to the power to franchise, exclusively or otherwise, emergency ambulance operations within said municipalities. In exercising the power authorized in this Subsection, municipalities are hereby specifically authorized to take action that would, absent this explicit grant or authority, violate the antitrust laws of the United States and/or this state as they may now or hereafter be written. Provided, however, that in event an exclusive franchise is issued, the process employed in granting said exclusive franchise shall provide that it shall be awarded by the municipal governing authority to the entity submitting the best bid in response to a publicly advertised request for bids and further provide that no exclusive franchise shall be granted for period of time to exceed five years. Exclusive franchises shall be issued only for emergency ambulance services and shall be issued only to ambulance service companies who have agreed in writing to provide service to all eligible medicare and medicaid recipients. Added by Acts 1972, No. 770, §1. Amended by Acts 1982, No. 100, §1, eff. July 11, 1982.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4811 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4811. Ordering removal of remains of dead interred in residential area

RS 4811 - Ordering removal of remains of dead interred in residential area  Whenever it appears to the police jury of any parish, that it is in the interest of the public health that the remains of any dead interred in any part of a residential subdivision of the parish, not within the limits of a municipality, should be removed from the area, it may, by an ordinance, adopted by a majority vote at any regular meeting, order the removal of the remains in the manner hereinafter set forth, provided that the area from which the removal is ordered is not a regularly dedicated cemetery, and provided, further, that there is no act of sale of record in the office of the clerk of court of the parish, transferring or dedicating the property for burial purposes.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4812 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4812. Notice of ordinance ordering removal of remains

RS 4812 - Notice of ordinance ordering removal of remains  Notice of the adoption of the ordinance shall be published once a week for five weeks in the official journal of the parish, calling upon all parties interested to remove the remains from the area within forty days after the first publication, or within such longer time as the ordinance may provide.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4813 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4813. Removal of remains of dead by police jury

RS 4813 - Removal of remains of dead by police jury  The ordinance shall provide that, if the remains are not removed within forty days, or within such longer time as the ordinance may allow, after the first publication of the adoption of the ordinance in the official journal, the police jury shall have the right to remove the remains. The ordinance may also provide that the cost of removal shall be at the expense of the parish or at the expense of the record owner of the property in which the bodies are interred.