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LA Rev Stat § 32:5 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§5. Authority of other law enforcement officers; parade marshals in Calcasieu Parish and Lake Charles; traffic control officers in the city of New Orleans

RS 5 - Authority of other law enforcement officers; parade marshals in Calcasieu Parish and Lake Charles; traffic control officers in the city of New Orleans  A. All law enforcement officers of this state or of any political subdivision thereof invested by law with authority to direct, control, or regulate traffic are authorized to enforce the provisions of this Chapter and regulations of the department and the commissioner adopted pursuant hereto, within their respective territorial jurisdictions, except as otherwise provided by law or this Chapter.  B. The governing authorities of the city of Lake Charles and Calcasieu Parish may employ parade marshals who shall have the authority to direct, control, and regulate traffic for parade events only. However, such parade marshals shall not have the authority to issue traffic citations.  C. The superintendent of police in the city of New Orleans may contract with or employ traffic control officers who shall have the authority to direct, control, and regulate traffic within the city of New Orleans. However, no such officer shall have the authority to issue traffic citations. The New Orleans Police Department shall establish a training program for any such traffic control officers.  Acts 1962, No. 310, §1. Amended by Acts 1977, No. 113, §1, eff. June 22, 1977; Acts 2004, No. 136, §1; Acts 2016, No. 247, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 32:7 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§7. Authority to operate joint weight enforcement scales with contiguous states; joint enforcement of laws

RS 7 - Authority to operate joint weight enforcement scales with contiguous states; joint enforcement of laws A. The agency of the state which exercises authority over the state's stationary weight enforcement scale facilities may enter into interstate agreements with contiguous states through appropriate officials, departments, or agencies to jointly provide for the location, construction, staffing, and operation of scale facilities for the purpose of weighing vehicles and enforcement of the laws, rules, and regulations of this state and the laws, rules, and regulations of the contiguous state, its appropriate agencies, or departments. B. The interstate agreement may authorize employees of either state to weigh vehicles under the jurisdiction of either state, issue permits, collect fees, taxes, interests, and penalties imposed by the laws, rules, or regulations of either state, its agencies, or departments, and enforce the laws, rules, and regulations of either state. C.(1) As part of an interstate agreement, the agency of this state may appoint employees of a contiguous state as duly authorized and empowered enforcement officers of that agency for the enforcement of tax, weight, size and load, equipment, safety, and all other state laws, rules, and regulations relating to vehicles entering into, exiting, or traveling upon the highways of this state and may allow employees of this state to accept similar positions or appointments with any contiguous state or appropriate agency or department of such state and to enforce the laws, rules, and regulations of such state, its agencies, and departments. (2) Any employee of a contiguous state which enters into an interstate agreement pursuant to this Section shall not be considered an employee of this state, and as such, shall not be compensated by this state or entitled to any employment benefits either directly or indirectly from this state. Neither this state nor its officers, agents, or employees shall be subject to civil or criminal liability for the actions or inactions of such persons. (3) Employees of this state who accept appointments from a contiguous state shall not be considered an employee of that state, compensated by that state, or entitled to any employment rights from that state. D. The agency of this state shall promulgate all rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this Section in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. E. For purposes of this Section, "agency of this state" shall mean either the Department of Transportation and Development or the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, based upon the authority granted to that department by this Chapter. F. Any interstate agreement entered into pursuant to this Section shall be subject to oversight by the Joint Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 37, §1, eff. April 24, 1998.
LA Rev Stat § 32:8 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§8. Final delinquent debt; office of motor vehicles

RS 8 - Final delinquent debt; office of motor vehicles  A. For purposes of this Section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:  (1) "Debt" means any legally collectible liquidated sum due and owed to the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of motor vehicles, pursuant to R.S. 32:57.1, 863, or 863.1.  (2) "Delinquent debt" means a debt that is sixty days or more past due.  (3) "Final debt" means the amount due is no longer negotiable and that the debtor has no further right of administrative and judicial review.  (4) "Office of motor vehicles" means the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of motor vehicles.  B. The office of motor vehicles shall refer a final delinquent debt for which a debtor has not entered into an installment agreement for payment to the office of debt recovery as provided in R.S. 47:1676. Final delinquent debt referrals shall include data and information in the required format necessary to institute collection procedures. All delinquent debts shall be authenticated by the office of motor vehicles prior to being referred to the office of debt recovery. Once the delinquent debt becomes final, and prior to referral to the office of debt recovery, the office of motor vehicles shall notify the debtor in writing that failure to pay the debt in full within sixty days shall subject the debt to the maximum amount owed together with the additional fee collected by the office of debt recovery provided for in R.S. 47:1676. Such notice shall also inform the debtor that he may qualify to pay sums due by installment agreement, if eligible, and shall include instructions on how to inquire with the office of motor vehicles to determine eligibility and terms.  C. The office of motor vehicles may promulgate rules and regulations in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act necessary to implement the provisions of this Section, including rules for referring final delinquent debt.  Acts 2015, No. 414, §1; Acts 2016, 1st E.S., No. 11, §1, eff. March 9, 2016; Acts 2016, No. 397, §1, eff. June 8, 2016.
LA Rev Stat § 32:21 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§21. Uniform application

RS 21 - Uniform application The provisions of this Chapter and the regulations of the department adopted pursuant thereto shall govern the operation of vehicles and pedestrians upon all highways within this state and other areas specifically set forth; provided, however, that local authorities may adopt local traffic regulations in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 32:41, 32:42.  Acts 1962, No. 310, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 32:22 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§22. Persons riding animals or driving animal-drawn vehicles; application of part

RS 22 - Persons riding animals or driving animal-drawn vehicles; application of part Every person riding an animal or driving any animal-drawn vehicle upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this Chapter, except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application.  Acts 1962, No. 310, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 32:23 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§23. Persons and vehicles working on highways; exceptions

RS 23 - Persons and vehicles working on highways; exceptions Unless specifically made applicable, the provisions of this Chapter shall not apply to persons, teams, motor vehicles and other equipment while actually engaged in work upon a highway, but shall apply to such persons, teams, motor vehicles and other equipment when traveling to or from such work.  Acts 1962, No. 310, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 32:24 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§24. Emergency vehicles; exceptions

RS 24 - Emergency vehicles; exceptions A. The driver or rider of an authorized emergency vehicle, when responding to an emergency call, or when in the pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law, or when responding to, but not upon returning from, a fire alarm, may exercise the privileges set forth in this Section, but subject to the conditions herein stated. B. The driver or rider of an authorized emergency vehicle may do any of the following: (1) Park or stand, irrespective of the provisions of this Chapter. (2) Proceed past a red or stop signal or stop sign, but only after slowing down or stopping as may be necessary for safe operation. (3) Exceed the maximum speed limits so long as he does not endanger life or property. (4) Disregard regulations governing the direction of movement or turning in specified directions. C. The exceptions herein granted to an authorized emergency vehicle shall apply only when such vehicle or bicycle is making use of audible or visual signals, including the use of a peace officer cycle rider's whistle, sufficient to warn motorists of their approach, except that a police vehicle need not be equipped with or display a red light visible from in front of the vehicle. D. The foregoing provisions shall not relieve the driver or rider of an authorized vehicle from the duty to drive or ride with due regard for the safety of all persons, nor shall such provisions protect the driver or rider from the consequences of his reckless disregard for the safety of others. Acts 1962, No. 310, §1. Amended by Acts 1980, No. 160, §1; Acts 2011, No. 98, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 32:25 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§25. Rights of owners of real property

RS 25 - Rights of owners of real property Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prevent the owner of real property used by the public for purposes of vehicular travel by permission of the owner, and not as a matter of right, from prohibiting such use, or from requiring other or different or additional conditions than those specified in this Chapter, or otherwise regulating such use as may seem best to such owner.  Acts 1962, No. 310, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 32:42 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§42. Power of local parish authorities

RS 42 - Power of local parish authorities A. Local parish authorities or lake commissions shall, with respect to highways other than state maintained highways and with respect to public roads within their territorial limits, but outside corporate limits of any municipality therein, have henceforth, power to adopt ordinances regulating the matters enumerated in R.S. 32:41.  B. With respect to private roads when requested by the owner within recognized subdivisions within their territorial limits but outside the corporate limits of any municipality therein, local parish authorities shall henceforth have power to adopt ordinances regulating matters enumerated in R.S. 32:41(A)(9) and provides for stop signs at certain intersections.  C. Local parish authorities shall with respect to parking areas located outside the corporate limits of any municipality have, henceforth, the power to adopt ordinances regulating the matters enumerated in R.S. 32:41(D).  Acts 1962, No. 310, §1. Amended by Acts 1966, No. 217, §1; Acts 1974, No. 412, §1; Acts 1975, No. 637, §1; Acts 1978, No. 433, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 32:43 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§43. Automated speed enforcement devices; prohibition

RS 43 - Automated speed enforcement devices; prohibition A.(1) Local municipal authorities or local parish authorities shall not install or utilize automated speed enforcement devices to regulate traffic on interstate roadways within their corporate or territorial limits. (2) The provisions of this Section shall not apply to highway construction zones, where work is being performed by the Department of Transportation and Development or a private contractor under contract with the Department of Transportation and Development, where construction workers are present. However, the exemption provided by this Paragraph shall not apply to local municipal authorities and local parish authorities. B. For the purposes of this Section, the term "automated speed enforcement device" means an unmanned or handheld camera or optical device installed to work in conjunction with a traffic control signal or radar speed detection equipment, or both, and designed to collect photographic evidence of alleged traffic violations for the issuance of traffic citations by recording images that depict the license plate or other identifying feature of a motor vehicle not in compliance with instruction of a traffic control signal or posted traffic sign. C. Effective January 1, 2015, local municipal authorities or local parish authorities shall not impose or collect any civil or criminal fine, fee, or penalty as a result of an image produced by an automated speed enforcement device in violation of this Section. Acts 2014, No. 95, §1, eff. May 16, 2014.
LA Rev Stat § 32:44 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§44. Required notification for red light cameras

RS 44 - Required notification for red light cameras  A. Local municipal authorities or local parish authorities shall post signs, indicating that a red light camera is present, within five hundred feet of each red light camera, in such a manner as to be clearly visible to traffic approaching the red light camera.  B.(1) Failure of a municipal or parish authority to comply with Subsection A of this Section shall prohibit the use of any photographic or video images collected by the red light camera to impose or collect any civil or criminal fine, fee, or penalty by or on behalf of the municipal or parish authority.  (2) In any proceeding to collect a civil or criminal fine, fee, or penalty by or on behalf of a municipal or parish authority, a rebuttable presumption shall exist that signs were posted in accordance with Subsection A of this Section.  C. For the purposes of this Section, "red light camera" means a device installed at an intersection designed to collect photographic or video evidence of alleged traffic violations by recording images that depict the license plate or other identifying feature of a motor vehicle that is not operated in compliance with instruction of a traffic control signal or a posted traffic sign.  Acts 2016, No. 348, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 32:45 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§45. Required notification for mobile speed camera

RS 45 - Required notification for mobile speed camera  A. Local municipal authorities or local parish authorities shall post signs indicating that a mobile speed camera is present. The sign shall be posted no less than two hundred fifty feet and no more than five hundred feet of the location of each mobile speed camera in such a manner as to be clearly visible, not obstructed by any barrier, equipment, vegetation, or other object, and shall be easily viewable by drivers approaching the speed camera. The sign shall comply with the current manual and specifications adopted by the Department of Transportation and Development pursuant to R.S. 32:235.  B.(1) Failure of a municipal or parish authority to comply with Subsection A of this Section shall prohibit the use of any photographic or video images collected by the speed camera to impose or collect any civil or criminal fine, fee, or penalty by or on behalf of the municipal or parish authority.  (2) In any proceeding to collect a civil or criminal fine, fee, or penalty by or on behalf of a municipal or parish authority, a rebuttable presumption shall exist that signs were posted in accordance with Subsection A of this Section.  C. For the purposes of this Section, "mobile speed camera" means a device designed to collect photographic or video evidence of an alleged violation of a posted speed limit by recording images that depict the license plate or other identifying feature of a motor vehicle that is not operated in compliance with a posted speed limit sign.  Acts 2017, No. 247, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 32:51 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§51. Vehicle license required

RS 51 - Vehicle license required No person shall operate, or permit to be operated, any motor vehicle upon the highways of this state unless it is registered with the commissioner, the license tax is paid thereon, and it is operated in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter and other laws of this state.  Acts 1962, No. 310, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 32:52 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§52. Driver must be licensed

RS 52 - Driver must be licensed No person shall drive or operate any vehicle upon any highway within this state unless and until he has been issued a license to so do as required by the laws of this state nor shall any person permit or allow any other person to drive or operate any vehicle owned or controlled by him upon highways of this state unless and until such other person has been issued a license to so do as required by the laws of this state.  Acts 1962, No. 310, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 32:54 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§54. Size, weight and load of vehicles limited

RS 54 - Size, weight and load of vehicles limited A. No person shall drive or move any vehicle, nor cause or knowingly permit any vehicle owned or controlled by him to be driven or moved, on any highway of this state when such vehicle is of a size or weight exceeding the limitations stated in this Chapter or otherwise in violation of this Chapter, and the maximum size and weight of vehicles herein specified shall be lawful throughout the state.  B. The provisions of this Chapter governing size, weight and load shall not apply to fire apparatus, vehicles and machinery used solely in the building of highways while actually temporarily engaged in work upon a highway, to implements of husbandry, including farm tractors temporarily moved upon a highway, or to a vehicle operated under the terms of a special permit issued as herein provided, or to trolley coaches or motor buses operated under a franchise or indeterminate permit wholly within the corporate limits of a municipality having a population of one hundred thousand or more inhabitants.  C. These exceptions shall not include any vehicle or combinations of vehicles not used primarily for such purposes, nor ordinary commercial vehicles upon which are placed removable machinery for such purposes, nor vehicles designed for the purpose of evading the limitations of this Part.  Acts 1962, No. 310, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 32:55 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§55. Exclusion of vehicles from highways; notice required

RS 55 - Exclusion of vehicles from highways; notice required No person shall operate, or knowingly permit to be operated, a motor vehicle over any highway of this state from which it is by proper authority excluded, provided notice of such exclusion is conspicuously posted at the entrance to such highway.  Acts 1962, No. 310, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 32:56 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§56. Obedience to police officers, weights and standards police officers, and traffic signs

RS 56 - Obedience to police officers, weights and standards police officers, and traffic signs A. No person shall fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police officer or weights and standards police officer invested by law with authority to direct, control, or regulate traffic.  B. No person shall fail or refuse to comply with the instruction or direction of any traffic control device which has been erected under authority of this Chapter or other law of this state.  Acts 1962, No. 310, §1. Amended by Acts 1977, No. 113, §1, eff. June 22, 1977.
LA Rev Stat § 32:57.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation|§57.1. Failure to honor written promise to appear; penalty; disposition of fines

RS 57.1 - Failure to honor written promise to appear; penalty; disposition of fines  A. Whenever an arrested person who was released on his written promise to appear before a magistrate at the place and time specified in a summons described in R.S. 32:391(B) fails to honor his written promise to appear, the magistrate or judge of the court exercising jurisdiction may immediately forward to the Department of Public Safety and Corrections notice of the failure to appear, with information necessary for identification of the arrested person. Thereupon, unless the original charges have been disposed of, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections shall immediately notify the arrested person of suspension of his operator's license and the imposition of a fifty-dollar fee, regardless of the disposition of the original charge. The Department of Public Safety and Corrections likewise shall inform the arrested person that his operator's license cannot be renewed or reissued until the forwarding court exercising jurisdiction certifies that he had honored the appearance promise or paid an appropriate fine for the offense as determined by the forwarding court exercising jurisdiction.  B. Whenever the arrested person makes an appearance as required by Subsection A hereof or pays an appropriate fine for the offense committed, as determined by the court, the prosecuting authority shall immediately notify the Department of Public Safety and Corrections thereof. Upon such notification and payment of an additional fifty dollars to the department, the operator's license of the arrested person shall be renewed or reissued for the purpose of this Section. Twelve dollars and fifty cents of the additional fine imposed by this Section shall be paid to the court exercising jurisdiction, to be deposited in that court's criminal court fund and to be used in the same manner as the other sums deposited in said fund.  C. If after sixty calendar days from the date of the notification issued by the Department of Public Safety and Corrections as required in Subsection A of this Section the arrested person has failed to comply, the fees provided for in this Section shall be considered final delinquent debt.  Added by Acts 1978, No. 301, §2. Amended by Acts 1980, No. 779, §1; Acts 1984, No. 763, §1; Acts 1988, No. 180, §1; Acts 1995, No. 114, §1; Acts 2003, No. 966, §1; Acts 2015, No. 414, §1; Acts 2018, No. 714, §1.