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LA Rev Stat § 40:500 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§500. Tenant-housing authority relationship

RS 500 - Tenant-housing authority relationship Except as otherwise provided in this Chapter with respect to mixed-income developments or otherwise permitted by law, dwelling units in a local housing authority's developments shall be rented only to households consisting of persons of eligible income at the time of their initial occupancy of such units. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a local housing authority may allow police officers and maintenance and management employees, not otherwise eligible for residence, to reside in dwelling units in a local housing authority's developments. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:501 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§501. Selection and preferences

RS 501 - Selection and preferences A. Each housing authority shall adopt and promulgate policies establishing a plan for selection of applicants. The plan shall include standards for eligibility, procedures for prompt notification of eligibility or disqualification, and procedures for maintaining a waiting list of eligible applicants for whom vacancies are not immediately available. Eligible applicants shall be offered available vacancies as provided in said policies. Such policies and plans may, but shall not be required to, include: (1) That a local housing authority may deny a lease, right of occupancy, or any other assistance to any person, including the family or household of such person, if it determines that such person or any member of such person's household either: (a) Has committed any fraud or made any misrepresentation or omission deemed material by the local housing authority in connection with any application for assistance. (b) Has committed any fraud or made any misrepresentation or omission deemed material by the local housing authority in connection with any previous application for any public assistance or in connection with any determination or redetermination of eligibility therefor. (c) Possesses a personal history which exhibits violent, disruptive, antisocial, or criminal behavior, with or without criminal convictions, which, in the determination of the authority, renders such person unsuitable for occupancy or receipt of assistance. (d) Because of a history of poor credit or housekeeping or other deficient behavior, is otherwise likely to fail in meeting all lease terms, authority rules and regulations, or other requirements of occupancy or of the authority's program of assistance. (2) Preferences to give priority to persons displaced by public or private action, to families of veterans and servicemen, to families whose members are gainfully employed, to citizens of the United States or this state, to persons with disabilities or who are elderly and such other preferences, as well as priorities within each preference category, as the local housing authority deems appropriate. (3) Occupancy standards that provide for offering available units only to families of appropriate size and such other standards relating to occupancy and tenant conduct as the local housing authority deems appropriate. B. Without limiting the foregoing, the local housing authority may further limit the offering of available units to families of appropriate qualifications in order to comply with state or federal law or regulations or contractual agreements with governmental agencies pursuant to such law or regulations. C. Nothing contained in this Section shall prevent a housing authority from suspending processing of applications of persons of eligible income unlikely to be offered units within a reasonable time after initial application as determined by the authority or requiring annual renewal of applications. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1; Acts 2014, No. 811, §22, eff. June 23, 2014.
LA Rev Stat § 40:502 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§502. Differing criteria, requirements, or standards

RS 502 - Differing criteria, requirements, or standards Nothing contained in this Chapter shall limit the ability of any local housing authority to establish and apply different criteria or requirements with respect to admissions and occupancy, to utilize different methods of establishing and charging rents, or to impose different occupancy standards for different developments or portions thereof or with respect to recipients of assistance in any program designed or intended to differentiate between individual recipients on the basis of their circumstances, actions, or characteristics. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:503 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§503. Continued occupancy after termination of eligibility

RS 503 - Continued occupancy after termination of eligibility Households who are already in occupancy or are receiving assistance but who become ineligible for occupancy or other assistance may continue their occupancy or receipt of other assistance at the discretion of the local housing authority for such period, upon such terms and conditions, and, in the case of continued occupancy, in exchange for such rent, not less than any applicable minimum rent, as the authority shall determine to be appropriate. Acts 1992, No. 580, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:504 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§504. Lease

RS 504 - Lease The local housing authority may require that each household occupying a dwelling unit enter into a lease containing such terms and conditions and for such duration as the authority reasonably deems appropriate. No tenant or lessee of, or recipient of assistance from, a local housing authority shall have any right to the renewal of any lease, tenancy, right of occupancy or assistance, except as expressly agreed by the authority. All members of the household who are permitted to reside in a dwelling unit must be identified in any lease of a dwelling. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:505 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§505. Change in family composition

RS 505 - Change in family composition In the event of a change in the composition of tenant household, the local housing authority may determine which member or members of the household are entitled to continued occupancy for the unexpired lease term or periodic tenancy. A local housing authority may adopt such rules and procedures governing such determinations as it deems appropriate. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:507 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§507. Community participation

RS 507 - Community participation A. A local housing authority may require, as a condition to granting or continuing any assistance, that residents and other recipients of such assistance participate in activities for community and neighborhood betterment. Such conditions of assistance may require the performance of work in and around the authority's developments for the maintenance or improvement thereof, the performance of services to benefit residents or others, or work performed elsewhere in the community. Such requirements may vary among individual residents or other recipients of assistance. B. In establishing conditions of assistance and determining the requirements applicable to individual recipients thereof, local housing authorities shall take into account such individual circumstances as the authority deems appropriate in order to assure that, in the authority's judgment, the requirements are reasonably applied. Individual circumstances so taken into account may include, without limitation, age, disability, and employment status. C. A local housing authority may require, as a prerequisite to granting assistance, including any lease or right of occupancy of a dwelling unit, that the resident or recipient enter into a tenant participation plan or other similar agreement which sets forth the conditions of assistance and provides for the discontinuance of tenancy or other assistance in the event of the failure of the resident or recipient to satisfy such conditions. D. Except as and to the extent a local housing authority shall specifically and expressly agree in writing to the contrary, the community participation activities of a resident or other recipient of assistance contemplated by this Section shall not create, for any purpose, a legal relationship of agent/principal or employee/employer between the person performing such community participation activities and the local housing authority requiring such participation or any other public agency for whose benefit such activities may be carried out. Acts 1950, No. 401, §29; Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:508 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§508. Property of housing authorities; limitation on access

RS 508 - Property of housing authorities; limitation on access In order to protect the safety and security of its property and to protect the right of its residents and other tenants to the quiet enjoyment of their property, and the safety and security of their persons and property, a local housing authority may, in addition to any other power or authority contained in this Chapter, limit access to any development or other authority property by persons who are not any of the following: residents or their permitted guests, or employees of the local housing authority, its guests, law enforcement officers, or other persons conducting official business. Acts 1986, No. 637, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:509 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§509. Identification of persons

RS 509 - Identification of persons A local housing authority may establish and implement such regulations, procedures, and systems as it deems appropriate for the identification of persons and vehicles present on its developments or other property. Such rules, procedures, and systems may include but shall not be limited to requirements for personal identification cards, guest registration and identification, registration of vehicles, restricted pedestrian and vehicular access, and other measures for verification that persons present upon the authority's developments or property are entitled to be so present. Added by Acts 1989, No. 169, §1, eff. June 22, 1989. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:510 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§510. Exclusion or ejection of unauthorized persons

RS 510 - Exclusion or ejection of unauthorized persons Persons who are present on the developments or other property of the authority, and who are not residents, their guests, or employees of the local housing authority, its guests, law enforcement officers, or others conducting official business, may be excluded from such premises by the local housing authority, and, if said persons shall refuse to leave, after first being requested to do so, said persons shall be considered trespassers who shall be subject to an applicable state or local trespass law. Additionally, and without limiting the foregoing, the local housing authority may obtain injunctions for the temporary or permanent exclusion of such persons from authority property. Acts 1990, No. 467, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:511 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§511. Law cumulative

RS 511 - Law cumulative Notwithstanding any other provision of this Chapter to the contrary, R.S. 40:508 through 510 shall be cumulative of any other laws of this state relating to civil or criminal trespass, unauthorized entry upon property, or the exclusion or ejection of unauthorized persons from public or private property, all of which laws shall, in addition to R.S. 40:508 through 510, remain applicable to local housing authorities and their developments and property. A local housing authority may elect to exercise its rights under this Section without waiver of its rights or remedies under any other applicable provision of law, and vice versa. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:512 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§512. Annual reports of local housing authorities

RS 512 - Annual reports of local housing authorities A. Within a reasonable time after the end of each fiscal year, each local housing authority shall prepare a report generally describing such authority's activities for the year then ended. Such report shall contain financial statements fairly depicting the financial condition of the authority, its assets and liabilities, including contingent liabilities, and the results of its operations for the year then ended. The report shall be approved by the local authority's board of commissioners and signed by its chairperson. B. The annual report of the local housing authority shall be a public record that is available for inspection and copying by members of the general public at the offices of the local housing authority. C. A local housing authority shall also file its annual report with the municipal or parish clerk, or equivalent official whose duties include receipt and custody of public records of the municipality or parish, promptly upon completion thereof. Regional and consolidated housing authorities shall file annual reports with the appropriate officials of all participating political subdivisions. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:513 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§513. Filing a false report

RS 513 - Filing a false report Any representative of a local housing authority who knowingly approves, signs, or files an annual report of an authority which is materially false or misleading shall be guilty of misconduct in office. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:514 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§514. Audits

RS 514 - Audits The financial statements contained in annual reports of local housing authorities with gross revenues of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or more shall be audited annually. Such financial statements of authorities with gross revenues of less than two hundred fifty thousand dollars shall be audited at least biennially. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:515 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§515. Immunity from personal liability of commissioners, officers, employees, and agents

RS 515 - Immunity from personal liability of commissioners, officers, employees, and agents No representative of a local housing authority shall personally be civilly or criminally liable: (1) With respect to any matter or act not directly committed or authorized by such person. (2) For any action, including a direct action or authorization, taken in good faith: (a) Pursuant to any rule, procedure, or system implemented by an authority to deny access to the authority's developments or property by unauthorized persons, including but not limited to any action to identify any person or to verify such person's authority to be present upon authority property, or to exclude or eject any person determined in good faith to be an unauthorized person. (b) With respect to disclosure or nondisclosure of information under R.S. 40:526 or any other law pertaining to the confidentiality or disclosure of information or records. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:516 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§516. Authority to indemnify representatives

RS 516 - Authority to indemnify representatives A. Except as provided in Subsection C of this Section, a housing authority may indemnify a representative of a local housing authority who is made a party to a proceeding, because the representative is or was such, against liability incurred in the proceeding unless either: (1) The conduct of the representative was outside the scope of his official duties. (2) The representative's conduct constituted malfeasance in office. (3) The representative's conduct constituted a wilful or wanton neglect of duty. B. The termination of a proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent is not, of itself, determinative that the representative did not meet the standard of conduct described in this Section. C. A housing authority may not indemnify a representative under this Section in connection with either: (1) A proceeding by or in the right of a housing authority in which the representative was adjudged liable to the housing authority. (2) Any other proceeding charging improper personal benefit to the representative in which the representative was adjudged liable on the basis that personal benefit was improperly received by the representative. D. Indemnification permitted under this Section in connection with a proceeding by or in the right of a housing authority is limited to reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the proceeding. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:517 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§517. Mandatory indemnification

RS 517 - Mandatory indemnification Notwithstanding that a housing authority has failed or refused to agree to indemnify a representative, it shall indemnify any representative against reasonable expenses incurred by him in connection with any proceeding if the representative is wholly successful, on the merits, in the defense of the proceeding to which he was a party because he was a representative of the housing authority. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:518 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§518. Advance for expenses

RS 518 - Advance for expenses A. A housing authority may in its discretion pay for or reimburse the reasonable expenses incurred by a representative who is a party to a proceeding in advance of final disposition of the proceeding. B. Any authorization of payments under this Section shall be made by resolution of the housing authority. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:519 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§519. Determination and authority of indemnification

RS 519 - Determination and authority of indemnification A. A housing authority may indemnify a representative after a determination has been made that indemnification of the representative is not prohibited pursuant to R.S. 40:516(A) or (C). B. A determination that indemnification of a representative is permissible shall be made: (1) By majority vote of a quorum consisting of commissioners not at the time parties to the proceeding. (2) If a quorum cannot be obtained under Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, by a majority vote of a committee duly designated by the commissioners consisting solely of two or more commissioners not at the time parties to the proceeding. However, commissioners who are parties to the proceeding may participate in designation of the committee. (3) By special legal counsel selected by the board or its committee in the manner prescribed in Paragraph (1) or (2) of this Subsection or, if a quorum of the commissioners cannot be obtained under Paragraph (1) and a committee cannot be designated under Paragraph (2), the special legal counsel shall be selected by a majority vote of the commissioners, including commissioners who are parties to the proceeding. C. Authorization of indemnification and evaluation as to reasonableness of expenses shall be made in the same manner as the determination that indemnification is permissible, except that if the determination is made by special legal counsel, authorization of indemnification and evaluation as to reasonableness of expenses shall be made by those entitled under Paragraph (3) of Subsection B to select counsel. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:520 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§520. Insurance

RS 520 - Insurance A housing authority may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of a representative against liability asserted against or incurred by a representative who is or was a representative of a housing authority or who, while a representative, is or was serving at the request of the housing authority as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, or agent of a partnership, joint venture, employee benefit plan, or other enterprise. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:521 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§521. Indemnification; extent; reimbursement of commissioner expenses as witness

RS 521 - Indemnification; extent; reimbursement of commissioner expenses as witness A. The indemnification and the provisions for advancement of expenses provided by R.S. 40:515 through 519 shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which a representative may be entitled under any agreement, general or specific action of a housing authority, or otherwise, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a representative and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors, and administrators of such a person. Specifically and not by way of limitation, a housing authority may make or agree to make any further indemnification, including advancement of expenses, of any representative whose agreement for such was approved, adopted, or ratified, before or after such indemnification or agreement is made. B. Notwithstanding other provisions of this Chapter limiting compensation of commissioners, a housing authority may pay or reimburse expenses incurred by a commissioner in connection with the commissioner's appearance as a witness in a proceeding at the time when the commissioner has not been made a named defendant or respondent to a proceeding. Acts 1993, No. 772, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:522 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§522. Limitations

RS 522 - Limitations Nothing contained in R.S. 40:515 through 519 shall require or permit any payment to a representative that is redundant to the proceeds of any insurance policy payable to the representative in connection with the same matter as that for which indemnity would otherwise be given. Further, no discretionary payment of indemnity shall be made if such payment would jeopardize the ability of the authority to carry on its customary activities and meet its other obligations. Acts 1993, No. 772, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:523 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§523. Planning and zoning

RS 523 - Planning and zoning Except as otherwise provided herein, all developments are subject to the planning, zoning, sanitary, and building laws applicable to the locality in which the development is located. Acts 1993, No. 772, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:524 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§524. Exceptions for affordable housing or local housing authorities

RS 524 - Exceptions for affordable housing or local housing authorities A. In order to facilitate development, redevelopment, and other activities in furtherance of the purposes of this Chapter by local housing authorities and their affiliates, a municipality or parish may grant exceptions to the requirements of: (1) Zoning ordinances, and other laws, ordinances, and regulations regulating the use, development, and improvement of land or buildings. (2) Laws, ordinances, and regulations pertaining to historic buildings and structures. (3) Redevelopment plans, comprehensive plans, and other plans governing municipality or parish land use. B. However, any such exception shall not compromise essential health and safety standards. This Section shall be cumulative of, and not in limitation of, any existing laws, ordinances, and regulations that permit variances, special exceptions, and other relief from applicable requirements relating to development and improvement of real property. Acts 1993, No. 772, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.