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LA Rev Stat § 33:108 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§108. Procedure of commission; adoption of plan

RS 108 - Procedure of commission; adoption of plan A. A commission may adopt a plan as a whole by a single resolution or may by successive resolutions adopt successive parts of a plan, said parts corresponding with major geographical sections or divisions of the parish, in the case of a parish planning commission, or of the municipality, in the case of a municipal planning commission, or with functional subdivisions of the subject matter of the plan, and may adopt any amendment or extension thereof or addition thereto. B. Before the adoption of a plan or any such part, amendment, extension, or addition, a commission shall hold at least one public hearing thereon. A parish planning commission shall give notice of the purpose, time, and place of the public hearing by one publication in a newspaper of general circulation throughout the parish at least ten days prior to the date set for the hearing. A municipal planning commission shall give notice of the purpose, time, and place of the public hearing by one publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality at least ten days prior to the date set for the hearing. C. The adoption of a plan or of any such part or amendment or extension or addition shall be by resolution of a commission. The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps and descriptive and other matter intended by a commission to form the whole or part of a plan, and the action taken shall be recorded on the map and plan and descriptive matter by the identifying signature of the chairman or secretary of the commission. D. Certified copies of a summary of the plan or part thereof shall be filed with the division of administration, with the local legislative body and with the clerk of court of the parish, except in the parish of Orleans where certified copies of said plan shall be filed with the Commission Council of the city of New Orleans and recorded with the register of conveyances for the parish of Orleans. Amended by Acts 1952, No. 458, §1; Acts 1968, No. 288, §2; Acts 2004, No. 33, §1; Acts 2012, No. 49, §1, eff. May 11, 2012. NOTE: See R.S. 13:1211 et seq.
LA Rev Stat § 33:109 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§109. Legal status of official plan

RS 109 - Legal status of official plan A. Whenever a commission has adopted a master plan of a parish or municipality, as the case may be, or one or more major sections or districts thereof and has filed certified copies thereof as provided in R.S. 33:108, no street, square, park or other public way, ground, or open space, or public building or structure, or public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, shall be constructed or authorized in the parish or municipality, as the case may be, or in such planned section or district until the location, character, and extent thereof has been submitted to and approved by the commission. In case of disapproval, the commission shall communicate its reasons to the local legislative body which shall have the power to overrule such disapproval by a recorded vote of not less than two-thirds of its entire membership. However, if the public way, ground, space, building, structure, or utility is one the authorization or financing of which does not, under the law or charter provisions governing same, fall within the province of the local legislative body, then the submission to a planning commission shall be by the board, commission, or body having such jurisdiction, and a planning commission's disapproval may be overruled by such board, commission, or body by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its membership. The failure of a commission to act within sixty days from and after the date of official submission to a commission shall be deemed approval. B. Whenever a parish or municipal planning commission has adopted a master plan, the governing authority of such parish or municipality shall consider such adopted master plan before adopting, approving, or promulgating any local laws, ordinances, or regulations which are inconsistent with the adopted elements of the master plan. Acts 2004, No. 859, §1, eff. July 12, 2004. NOTE: See Acts 2004, No. 859, §2, relative to applicability of Act.
LA Rev Stat § 33:109.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§109.1. Relationship between local master plans and the plans of the state and other political subdivisions

RS 109.1 - Relationship between local master plans and the plans of the state and other political subdivisions Whenever a parish or municipal planning commission has adopted a master plan, state agencies and departments shall consider such adopted master plan before undertaking any activity or action which would affect the adopted elements of the master plan. Acts 2004, No. 859, §1, eff. July 12, 2004. NOTE: See Acts 2004, No. 859, §2, relative to applicability of Act.
LA Rev Stat § 33:110 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§110. Miscellaneous powers and duties of commission

RS 110 - Miscellaneous powers and duties of commission A commission may promote public interest in and understanding of a plan and to that end may publish and distribute copies of a plan or of any report and may employ such other means of publicity and education as it may determine. Members of a commission, when duly authorized by a commission, may attend planning conferences or meetings of planning institutes or hearings upon pending planning legislation, and a commission may, by resolution spread upon its minutes, pay the reasonable traveling expenses incident to such attendance. A commission shall, from time to time, recommend to the appropriate public officials programs for public structures and improvements and for the financing thereof. It shall consult and advise with public officials and agencies, public-utility companies, civic, education, professional, and other organizations, and with citizens with relation to the protecting or carrying out of a plan. A commission may accept and use gifts for the exercise of its functions. All public officials shall, upon request, furnish to a commission, within a reasonable time, such available information as it may require for its work. A commission, its members, officers, and employees, in the performance of their functions, may enter upon any land and make examinations and surveys and place and maintain necessary monuments and marks thereon. In general, a commission shall have such powers as may be necessary to enable it to fulfill its functions, promote planning, and in all respects carry out the purposes of this Sub-part.
LA Rev Stat § 33:111 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§111. Scope of control of subdivision

RS 111 - Scope of control of subdivision Whenever a planning commission has adopted a major street or road plan of the territory unincorporated, in the case of a parish planning commission, within its jurisdiction or part thereof and has filed certified copies of such plan with the local legislative body and with the clerk of court of the parish, it shall be incumbent upon any individual or corporation prior to filing or recording such plat to first obtain approval by such planning commission and the approval entered in writing on the plat by the chairman or secretary of the commission and failure to so do shall constitute the right of the governing authority wherein said land is located not to accept same as a duly accepted and dedicated subdivision. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to prohibit the respective clerks of court and recorder of records of the various parishes from recording surveys and/or plats of land presented to them for recording or filing as a public record. Amended by Acts 1974, No. 646, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:113 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§113. Procedure; legal effect of approval of plat

RS 113 - Procedure; legal effect of approval of plat A planning commission shall approve or disapprove a plat within sixty days after the submission thereof to it; otherwise such plat shall be deemed to have been approved, and a certificate to that effect shall be issued by such commission on demand. The applicant for a commission's approval may, however, waive this requirement and consent to an extension of such period. The ground of disapproval of any plat shall be stated upon the records of such commission. Any plat submitted to such commission shall contain the name and address of a person to whom notice of a hearing shall be sent; and no plat shall be acted on by such commission without affording a hearing thereon. Notice shall be sent to the said address by certified mail of the time and place of such hearing not less than five days before the date fixed therefor. A planning commission shall give notice of such hearings, including the purpose, time, and place, by at least one publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the area surrounding the proposed subdivision, not less than five days prior to the hearing date; provided, however, that in parishes or municipalities with a population in excess of one hundred fifty thousand, the public hearing may be waived by the planning commission or planning authority for subdivisions creating five or less lots not involving the creation of any new streets, and provided further that the provisions in such waivers shall be clearly set forth in the official subdivision regulations. Every plat approved by a planning commission shall, by virtue of such approval, be deemed to be an amendment of or an addition to or a detail of the official plan and a part thereof. Approval of a plat shall not be deemed to constitute or effect an acceptance by the public of any street or other open space shown upon the plat. A planning commission may, from time to time, recommend to the local legislative body amendments to the zoning ordinance or map or additions thereto to conform to such commission's recommendations for the zoning regulation of the territory comprised within approved subdivisions. In the case of a parish planning commission, such requirements or restrictions shall be stated upon the plat prior to the approval and recording thereof and shall have the same force of law and be enforceable in the same manner and with the same sanctions and penalties and subject to the same power of amendment or repeal as though set out as a part of a zoning ordinance or map. Amended by Acts 1966, No. 498, §1; Acts 1975, No. 556, §1; Acts 1977, No. 108, §1; Acts 1981, No. 379, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:113.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§113.1. Administrative procedure

RS 113.1 - Administrative procedure A. Notwithstanding other provisions of this Subpart or other law to the contrary, the governing authority may adopt an ordinance establishing administrative procedures for approving or certifying certain plats involving minor modifications of existing parcels of land. The categories of such modifications qualifying for such administrative approval or certification are: (1) The realignment or shifting of lot boundary lines, including removal, addition, alignment, or shifting of interior lot boundary lines, or the redesignation of lot numbers provided the application meets the following requirements: (a) Does not involve the creation of any new street or other public improvement except as otherwise provided in this Section. (b) Does not involve more than two acres of land or ten lots of record. (c) Does not reduce a lot size below the minimum area or frontage requirements established by ordinance. (d) Otherwise meets all the requirements of the subdivision regulations and zoning ordinances. (2) Parcels of land where a portion has been expropriated or has been dedicated, sold, or otherwise transferred to the parish or municipality, thereby leaving a severed portion of the original property which requires a redesignation of lot number and establishment of new lot boundary lines. B. Notwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph (1) of Subsection A of this Section, such administrative procedures may provide for the dedication, acceptance, relocation, or deletion of public utility servitudes, other than streets, or the deletion of gas, electric, or telephone utility servitudes acquired by private act or pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 19:1 et seq. on the property being resubdivided. C. All plats approved or certified by an administrative procedure provided for herein shall designate such fact on the plat and the plats shall be recorded in the conveyance records of the parish. Any plat so approved shall have the same force and effect and legal status of a subdivision application approved by the established legislative process. Acts 1990, No. 699, §1, eff. July 20, 1990; Acts 1999, No. 144, §1, eff. June 9, 1999; Acts 2006, No. 185, §1, eff. June 2, 2006.
LA Rev Stat § 33:114 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§114. Transfer of lots in unapproved subdivisions

RS 114 - Transfer of lots in unapproved subdivisions A. Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within a subdivision, transfers or sells or agrees to transfer or sell any land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat of a subdivision, before such plat has been approved by a planning commission and recorded or filed in the office of the clerk of court of the parish, shall make the instrument of transfer subject to compliance with laws, ordinances, and regulations relative to the development of subdivisions. B.(1) Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within a subdivision, transfers or sells or agrees to sell any land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat of a subdivision, before such plat has been approved by a planning commission and recorded or filed in the office of the clerk of court of the parish, without making the instrument of transfer subject to compliance with laws, ordinances, and regulations relative to the development of subdivisions, shall pay a penalty of five hundred dollars for each lot or parcel so transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to be sold. (2) The description of such lot or parcel by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from such penalties or from the remedies herein provided. (3) The parish or municipality, as the case may be, may enjoin such transfer or sale or agreement by suit for injunction brought in any court of competent jurisdiction or may recover the penalty by a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction. Acts 1983, No. 238, §1; Acts 1995, No. 141, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:115 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§115. Improvements in unapproved streets

RS 115 - Improvements in unapproved streets The parish or municipality, as the case may be, shall not accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave, curb, or light any street, or lay or authorize water mains or sewers or connections to be laid in any street, within any portion of territory for which a planning commission has adopted a major street plan, unless the street has been accepted or opened as or has otherwise received the legal status of a public street prior to the adoption of such plan, or unless the street corresponds with a street shown on the official master plan or with a street on a subdivision plat approved by a planning commission or with a street on a street plat made by and adopted by a commission, copies of which plat have been duly filed as provided in R.S. 33:108. The local legislative body may, however, accept any street not shown on or not corresponding with a street on the official master plan or on an approved subdivision plat or an approved street plat, if the ordinance or other measure accepting such street is first submitted to the planning commission for its approval and, if approved by the commission, is enacted or passed by not less than a majority of the entire membership of the local legislative body or, if disapproved by the commission, is enacted or passed by not less than two-thirds of the entire membership of the local legislative body. A street approved by a planning commission upon submission by the local legislative body, or a street accepted by a two-thirds vote after disapproval by the planning commission, shall thereupon have the status of an approved street as fully as though it had been originally shown on the official master plan or on a subdivision plat approved by the commission or had been originally platted by the commission.
LA Rev Stat § 33:116 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§116. Erection of structures

RS 116 - Erection of structures When a planning commission has adopted a major street plan, no structure shall be erected on any lot within the affected area, nor shall a building permit be issued therefor unless the street giving access to the lot upon which such structure is proposed to be placed has been accepted or opened as or has otherwise received the legal status of a public street prior to that time, or unless such street corresponds with a street shown on the official master plan or with a street on a subdivision plat approved by the planning commission or with a street on a street plat made by and adopted by the commission or with a street accepted by the local legislative body, after submission to the planning commission, by a favorable vote required in R.S. 33:115. Where a municipality has a planning commission, any structure erected in violation of this Section shall be deemed an unlawful structure, and the municipality may bring suit for a mandatory injunction in any court of competent jurisdiction to compel its removal. Where a parish has a planning commission, any structure erected in violation of this Section shall be deemed an unlawful structure, and the legislative body can bring an action to remove.
LA Rev Stat § 33:117 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§117. Status of existing platting statutes

RS 117 - Status of existing platting statutes When a planning commission has control over subdivisions as provided in R.S. 33:111, the jurisdiction of the planning commission over plats shall be exclusive within the territory under its jurisdiction, and all statutory control over plats or subdivisions of land granted by other laws shall, in so far as in harmony with the provisions of this Sub-part, be deemed transferred to the planning commission of the parish or municipality, as the case may be.
LA Rev Stat § 33:118 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§118. Designation of parish planning commission as municipal commission

RS 118 - Designation of parish planning commission as municipal commission In any municipality located in a parish which has a parish planning commission, the legislative body of the municipality may designate the parish commission as the municipal planning commission. Upon such designation the planning commission shall have all the powers and functions relating to making, adopting, amending, and adding to the master plan of the municipality or part thereof, or relating to the planning of the municipality as provided or granted by this Sub-part or by other laws to the municipal planning commission of the municipality; and the master plan, its parts, amendments, and additions made and adopted by the designated commission for the municipality shall have the same force and effect in the municipality as though made and adopted by a municipal planning commission appointed by the municipality. In acting as the planning commission of the municipality, the designated parish commission shall follow the procedure specified by the provisions of this Sub-part and other laws relating to municipal planning commissions. Any municipality so designating a parish planning commission as its planning commission shall pay to the designated commission that portion of the expenses of the designated commission which is properly chargeable to the planning service rendered to the municipality.
LA Rev Stat § 33:119 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§119. Coordination with parish planning

RS 119 - Coordination with parish planning In any parish where there exist separate parish and municipal planning commissions, every municipal planning commission shall consult and co-operate with the parish planning commission for the purpose of guiding and accomplishing a co-ordinated, adjusted, and harmonious development of the parish, of zoning districts and of public improvements and utilities and of subdivisions which do not begin and terminate within the boundaries of any single municipality.
LA Rev Stat § 33:120 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§120. Zoning of heavily populated areas from hunting and shooting of firearms

RS 120 - Zoning of heavily populated areas from hunting and shooting of firearms  A. The governing authorities of the parishes of this state are authorized to zone in order to prohibit, restrict, or regulate hunting and the shooting of firearms in heavily populated areas of the unincorporated area of the parish, as determined by the governing authorities, within their parishes subject to the provisions of Subsection B of this Section, and to set penalties for violation thereof.  B. As used in this Section, "heavily populated area" shall not include any of the following:  (1) Any parcel or tract of land that is in excess of five acres and that includes no more than one single-family residence on the parcel or tract.  (2) A dedicated residential subdivision that is recorded as provided in R.S. 33:5051 and in which each residential lot or unit of the subdivision is in excess of five acres.  Added by Acts 1956, No. 552, §1; Acts 2015, No. 259, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:120.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§120.1. Civil actions

RS 120.1 - Civil actions Nothing contained in any subdivision regulation shall relieve, lessen, or otherwise diminish the responsibility, liability, or duty of any person engaged in the design or development of a subdivision for damage to property or injury to another caused by or resulting from any defects of any nature in any work performed or acts done by said person. Acts 1990, No. 699, §1, eff. July 20, 1990.