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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1379.2. Civil defense officers' commissions for local civil defense directors; powers and duties

RS 40:1379.2 - Civil defense officers' commissions for local civil defense directors; powers and duties
A. The deputy secretary for public safety services of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections shall issue a special officer's commission from the office of state police through the Military Department, State of Louisiana, to each director of a local organization for civil defense appointed under the provisions of R.S. 29:608 which shall be termed a civil defense officer's commission. Such civil defense officer's commission shall be valid only during emergency situations in which the assistance of the civil defense organization is necessary.
B. The civil defense officer shall have the same powers and duties as a peace officer except for the power to arrest or utilize a weapon in carrying out his duties; provided, however, that when not performing those tasks directly related to the civil defense officer's commission, he shall be regarded as a private citizen and his commission shall not be in effect.
C. The deputy secretary of the Department of Public Safety may promulgate and adopt regulations providing with respect to the issuance and use of a civil defense officer's commission which shall not be inconsistent with the duties of a civil defense director. Every civil defense officer's commission issued under the provisions of this Section shall expire whenever any person who has received such commission ceases to be the director of a local organization for civil defense appointed under the provisions of R.S. 29:608.
Added by Acts 1978, No. 324, §1; Acts 1990, No. 2, §3, eff. July 1, 1990.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1379.3.3. Louisiana Firearm Safety Awareness Act

RS 40:1379.3.3 - Louisiana Firearm Safety Awareness Act
A. This Section shall be known and may be cited as the "Louisiana Firearm Safety Awareness Act".
B. The Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of state police, shall provide a two-hour-and-fifteen-minute online handgun education course at no cost to Louisiana residents.
C. The purpose of this online education course is to educate the public on firearm safety and use. The course is optional and shall not be a requirement for obtaining a concealed handgun permit under R.S. 40:1379.3. Completion of this course shall not grant any person the right to carry a concealed handgun unless otherwise provided by law.
D. The online handgun education course shall include instruction on all of the following topics:
(1) Handgun basics and nomenclature, including handling procedures for a revolver and a semiautomatic pistol.
(2) Firearm-free zones.
(3) Use of deadly force.
(4) Interactions with law enforcement officers.
(5) Conflict resolution.
(6) Accident prevention, including safe storage of firearms.
(7) Unauthorized access prevention.
(8) Safe handling of a handgun.
(9) Suicide prevention with an emphasis on the impact of firearm-related suicides involving veterans and current service members of the United States Armed Forces.
E. State police shall maintain an online database of all licensed handgun and firearm instructors to allow the public to search for classes.
F.(1) The content, structure, accessibility, and all other related matters of the online handgun education course shall be developed and promulgated by the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of state police, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Administrative Procedure Act.
(2) In accordance with Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of state police, shall divide the topics provided in Subsection D of this Section into nine video segments that shall broadcast for no less than fifteen minutes per segment.
Acts 2022, No. 518, §1; Acts 2023, No. 295, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1379.3.4. Louisiana permitless carry

RS 40:1379.3.4 - Louisiana permitless carry
A. The Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of state police, shall provide a two-hour online concealed handgun education course at no cost to Louisiana residents.
B. The purpose of this online education course is to educate the public on firearm safety and use. The course is optional and shall not be a requirement for obtaining a concealed handgun permit under R.S. 40:1379.3. Completion of this course shall not grant any person the right to carry a concealed handgun unless otherwise provided by law.
C. The concealed handgun education course shall include instruction on the following topics:
(1) Concealed handgun basics and nomenclature.
(2) Firearm-free zones.
(3) Use of deadly force.
(4) Interactions with law enforcement officers.
(5) Conflict resolution.
(6) Accident prevention.
(7) Unauthorized access prevention.
(8) Safe handling of a handgun.
D. State police shall maintain an online database of all licensed handgun and firearm instructors to allow the public to search for classes.
E. State police shall post prominently on its website all conditions required to be met to authorize the carrying of a concealed handgun without a valid concealed handgun permit pursuant to R.S. 14:95(M) and R.S. 40:1379.3(B)(2).
F.(1) The content, structure, accessibility, and all other related matters of the online handgun education shall be developed and promulgated by the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of state police, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Administrative Procedure Act.
(2) In accordance with Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of state police, shall divide the topics provided in Subsection C of this Section into eight video segments that shall broadcast for no less than fifteen minutes per segment.
Acts 2022, No. 680, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1379.4. Reserve officer's commission; powers and duties

RS 40:1379.4 - Reserve officer's commission; powers and duties
A. It is expressly recognized that there is a need to use the training, experience, and skills of retired state police officers to aid in the enforcement of the laws and protection of the people of the state of Louisiana. For this reason, the following provisions are hereby set forth.
B. The deputy secretary of the Department of Public Safety shall be authorized to issue at his discretion a reserve officer's commission to peace officers who have retired from the division of state police. Any person who receives a reserve officer's commission must be bonded and adhere to all restrictive stipulations as set forth in the reserve officer's commission.
C. The reserve officer, when performing those tasks requiring a reserve officer's commission, shall have the same powers and duties as a peace officer in the division of state police.
D. The deputy secretary of the Department of Public Safety shall determine who is entitled to receive a commission and may promulgate and adopt regulations providing with respect thereto.
E. The deputy secretary of the Department of Public Safety shall have the authority to revoke any reserve officer's commission, and is further empowered to require those holding a reserve officer's commission to furnish proof of their being bonded and such other information as may be deemed necessary for determining suitability for holding a reserve officer's commission.
F. Reserve officers' commissions shall only be valid for a period of one year from the date of their issuance.
G. No provision of this Section or of any regulation of the deputy secretary of the Department of Public Safety shall be construed to require persons holding bona fide law enforcement officer commissions to possess a handgun permit.
Added by Acts 1981, No. 532, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1379.5. State capitol complex; provision of police protection; maintenance of peace and order

RS 40:1379.5 - State capitol complex; provision of police protection; maintenance of peace and order
A.(1) The deputy secretary for public safety services of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections shall provide that public safety services police officers regularly patrol all areas within the state capitol complex to maintain peace and order and to prevent and detect crime.
(2) Within the areas in the state capitol complex that are occupied and utilized by the members, officers, and staff of the legislative branch of state government, all public safety services police officers shall coordinate with and be subject to the direction of the director of capitol security in accordance with Chapter 12 of Title 24 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.
B. Nothing in this Section shall be construed or interpreted in any manner as to affect the rights, powers, and duties of any sheriff, constable, police officer, or other law enforcement officer with jurisdiction over any area within the state capitol complex.
C. For the purposes of this Section, the term "state capitol complex" shall mean that area in the city of Baton Rouge, containing the state capitol building and bounded on the south by Main Street, on the west by the Mississippi River, on the north by Choctaw Drive, and on the east by the Kansas City Southern Railway tracks.
Acts 2004, No. 569, §1; Acts 2022, No. 507, §2, eff. June 16, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1379.6. Aviation unit; powers and duties

RS 40:1379.6 - Aviation unit; powers and duties
A. There is hereby created an aviation unit in the office of state police. The unit created herein shall have authority of ownership, control, maintenance, and operation of all state-owned aircraft, including helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, used by the office of state police. The deputy secretary for public safety services is authorized to appoint as many police and civilian employees to the unit as may be permitted by legislative appropriation.
B. The police employees of the unit shall have the same duties and powers as are provided for other police employees of the office in R.S. 40:1379 and such other duties and rank as are assigned by the deputy secretary.
Acts 1985, No. 507, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1379.7. Public Safety DWI Testing, Maintenance, and Training Dedicated Fund Account; uses

RS 40:1379.7 - Public Safety DWI Testing, Maintenance, and Training Dedicated Fund Account; uses
A. When the office of state police has performed or participated in a blood, breath, or urine analysis for which special costs are assessed in accordance with Code of Criminal Procedure Article 887(C) such costs shall be forwarded, on or before the twenty-fifth day of each month following their collection, to the state treasurer for immediate deposit in the state treasury.
B. After compliance with the requirements of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana relative to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund, and prior to monies being placed in the state general fund, the treasurer shall credit an amount equal to the total amount of such costs received to a special statutorily dedicated fund account which is hereby created in the state treasury and designated as the Public Safety DWI Testing, Maintenance, and Training Dedicated Fund Account. The monies in the account shall be used solely to fund activities of the office of state police in executing its responsibilities in the purchase and maintenance of equipment and supplies for use in breath, blood, or urine analysis as related to violations of R.S. 14:98 or 98.1; training in the maintenance and usage of testing equipment; other such related expenses as may be necessary in the efficient and effective administration of those duties; and for special law enforcement initiatives. The monies in the account shall be used only in the amounts appropriated by the legislature. All unexpended and unencumbered monies in the account at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the account. The monies in the account shall be invested by the treasurer in the same manner as monies in the state general fund. All interest earned on monies in the account invested by the treasurer shall be credited to the account. Monies deposited into the account shall be categorized as fees and self-generated revenue for the sole purpose of reporting related to the executive budget, supporting documents, and general appropriation bills and shall be available for annual appropriation by the legislature.
Acts 1987, No. 331, §2; Acts 1990, No. 320, §2; Acts 1997, No. 1296, §4, eff. July 15, 1997; Acts 2014, No. 524, §4, Acts 2021, No. 114, §10, eff. July 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1379.8. Weights and Standards Mobile Police Force

RS 40:1379.8 - Weights and Standards Mobile Police Force
A. The Weights and Standards Mobile Police Force is hereby created within the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, public safety services.
B. Members of the Weights and Standards Mobile Police Force of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections who receive P.O.S.T. certification training, are considered peace officers and shall have the authority to enforce the criminal and traffic laws of the state, apprehend criminals and make arrests, and perform other related duties imposed upon them by the legislature. As peace officers, they shall also have, in any part of the state, the same powers with respect to criminal matters and the enforcement of the law relating thereto as sheriffs, constables, and police officers have in their respective jurisdictions. No member of the Weights and Standards Mobile Police Force shall be authorized to carry a weapon until the member has received P.O.S.T. certification training.
Acts 1997, No. 1186, §3; Acts 1999, No. 842, §1; Acts 2010, No. 320, §3, eff. July 1, 2010; Acts 2021, No. 384, §§3, 5, eff. July 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1380. Fish and game, conservation; enforcement of laws relating to

RS 40:1380 - Fish and game, conservation; enforcement of laws relating to
The members of the division shall co-operate with game wardens and shall enforce the fish and game laws of the state and the laws enacted for the protection and conservation of forests, woods, and other natural resources.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1381. Concealed weapons; employees; highway patrol

RS 40:1381 - Concealed weapons; employees; highway patrol
A. All employees, officers, or agents of the division of state police may carry arms and weapons, concealed or openly, while in the actual performance of any duty or while under assignment to any duty under this Subpart.
B. The police employees of the division shall be the highway patrol of the state and as such shall perform only real police duties as provided by R.S. 40:1379.
Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 4, §1, eff. April 19, 1996.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1382. Negligent carrying of a concealed handgun

RS 40:1382 - Negligent carrying of a concealed handgun
A. Negligent carrying of a concealed handgun is the intentional or criminally negligent carrying by any person, whether or not authorized or licensed to carry or possess a concealed handgun, under the following circumstances:
(1) When it is foreseeable that the handgun may discharge, or when others are placed in reasonable apprehension that the handgun may discharge.
(2) When the handgun is being carried, brandished, or displayed under circumstances that create a reasonable apprehension on the part of members of the public or a law enforcement official that a crime is being committed or is about to be committed.
B. It shall be within the discretion of the law enforcement officer to issue a summons to a person accused of committing this offense in lieu of making a physical arrest. The seizure of the handgun pending resolution of the offense shall only be discretionary in the instance where the law enforcement officer issues a summons to the person accused. If the law enforcement officer makes a physical arrest of the person accused, the handgun and the person's license to carry such handgun shall be seized.
C. Whoever commits the offense of negligent carrying of a concealed handgun shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned without hard labor for not more than six months, or both. The adjudicating judge may also order the forfeiture of the handgun and may suspend or revoke any permit or license authorizing the carrying of the handgun.
Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 4, §1, eff. April 19, 1996.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1383. Incarceration of persons arrested; penalty for failure to comply

RS 40:1383 - Incarceration of persons arrested; penalty for failure to comply
Any police employee of the division, in executing any warrant of arrest issued by any magistrate of the state or in making any other arrest, shall, immediately after the arrest, place the person arrested in the parish jail of the parish in which the arrest was made.
Whoever wilfully violates this Section shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days, or both.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1384. Prisoners; place of detention; how released; penalty

RS 40:1384 - Prisoners; place of detention; how released; penalty
Any person having charge of a jail or other place of detention shall, provided sufficient facilities are available, receive any prisoner arrested by a police employee of the division and shall detain him in custody until otherwise ordered by a court, by the department, or by the police employee from whom the prisoner was received.
Whoever violates this Section shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days, or both.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1385. Fingerprints and other identification data

RS 40:1385 - Fingerprints and other identification data
The employees of the division shall take fingerprints and such other identification data as is prescribed by the department of all persons taken into custody by them for offenses other than those arising solely out of violations of fish, game, conservation, or traffic laws.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1386. Industrial disputes

RS 40:1386 - Industrial disputes
The police employees of the division shall not be used or called upon for service within any municipality in any industrial dispute unless actual violence has occurred therein or the threat of violence exists and then only by order of the superintendent of state police. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of state police to notify the chief executive officer of the municipality wherein the dispute has occurred or, if unavailable, the highest ranking municipal law enforcement official available, of the issuance of the order prior to the execution thereof. The provisions of this Section do not apply in the case of a municipality which has elected to operate under a contract pursuant to R.S. 40:1388.
Amended by Acts 1976, No. 635, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1387. Control of officers; municipalities

RS 40:1387 - Control of officers; municipalities
When a situation develops in a municipality which, in the judgment of the chief law enforcement official of such municipality, constitutes an emergency, then the said chief law enforcement officer of the municipality shall have the sole authority, command and control of all peace officers or police officers within the municipality during the said emergency; provided that the governor may supercede the chief law enforcement officer at any time during such emergency as he deems appropriate.
Amended by Acts 1958, No. 120, §1; Acts 1972, No. 386, §1; Acts 1974, No. 256, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1975.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1388. Contracts with municipalities for police protection

RS 40:1388 - Contracts with municipalities for police protection
The mayor or chief police officer of any municipality and the sheriff of any parish within this state may contract with the department, acting on behalf of the state, for the regular assignment of an agreed number of employees of the division of state police to the municipality or parish, as the case may be, so as to provide police protection therein and to enforce both state laws and local ordinances, in consideration of the payment by the municipality, parish, or other unit of government of a sum agreed upon by them and the department. The department may enter into such a contract or contracts or may refuse to do so for the good of the service.
Any police employee of the division so assigned shall continue to have all the powers and duties granted and bestowed in this Sub-part but he shall not be subject to the restrictions contained in R.S. 40:1386 and 40:1387 with reference to the municipality to which he has been assigned.
The department may, at all times, withdraw any employee of the division so assigned and assign another employee in his place.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1389. Police protection for certain companies

RS 40:1389 - Police protection for certain companies
Upon the application of the collector of revenue or any railroad company, shipping transportation company, or armored car company transporting money or other valuables within this state for the appointment of police officers, the department may appoint persons whom it thinks qualified and competent for purposes of protection. The department may also appoint any other officers, agents, and employees necessary for the rendition of efficient service. Every person so appointed shall have the rank and title of special agent and shall be governed by this Sub-part when so designated by the department.
The department may revoke the commission and authority of any person appointed under this Section.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1390. Resisting arrest and interference with officers; penalty

RS 40:1390 - Resisting arrest and interference with officers; penalty
Any person who resists arrest by any officer or agent of the division or who interferes with or obstructs the head of the division or any officer or agent thereof in the lawful performance of any duty imposed on him by this Sub-part or any duty assigned to him under authority of this Sub-part shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1391. Exchange of information; interstate compacts for police protection

RS 40:1391 - Exchange of information; interstate compacts for police protection
The employees of the division shall cooperate and exchange information with any department or authority of the state or with other police forces, both within this state and outside it and with federal police forces, toward the end of achieving greater success in preventing and detecting crimes and apprehending criminals.
The department of public safety may, on request of any chief police officer of any local government unit in the state, assist such officer in the investigation of the circumstances of any crime and in the identification, apprehension, and conviction of the perpetrators thereof. For this purpose it may detail such employees of the division of state police for such length of time as it sees fit.
The department may, when so authorized by the governor, negotiate with appropriate officials of other states in the preparation of interstate compacts for police protection as authorized by the Act of June 6, 1934 (48 Stat. 909, c. 406; U.S. Code, Title 18, section 420),* or other Acts of Congress. Such compacts as are negotiated shall be submitted to the governor and legislature for approval.
*Now 4 U.S.C.A. §112.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1392. Free and unhampered passage on bridges and ferries

RS 40:1392 - Free and unhampered passage on bridges and ferries
A. State police, in uniform or in civilian clothes, with state police equipment, have free and unhampered passage, at all times, on and over toll-bridges and ferries in this state.
B. All law enforcement personnel, with law enforcement agency equipment, who are employed within this state shall have unhampered passage at all times on and over toll-bridges and ferries in this state, regardless of whether the personnel are in uniform or in civilian clothes. Procedures currently in effect for Louisiana state police to sign a register when granted an exemption from tolls, shall also apply to all other law enforcement personnel in the state.
C.(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsections A and B of this Section, the right of free passage on and over the Crescent City Connection Bridge at New Orleans for state police and law enforcement personnel shall be exercised only by means of automatic vehicular identification toll tags.
(2)(a) Upon the written request of the superintendent of state police or the head of a law enforcement agency and payment of the deposit required by Subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph, the Crescent City Connection Division of the Department of Transportation and Development shall issue the number of automatic vehicular identification toll tags requested for use in connection with the exemption granted by this Section.
(b) Each state policeman and law enforcement personnel shall be charged a deposit of twenty-five dollars for the issuance of his tag. The deposit shall be refunded to such state policeman and law enforcement personnel upon the return of the tag to the division.
(3) The use of the automatic vehicular identification toll tags provided shall be limited to bridge crossings made by state police with state police equipment and by designated law enforcement personnel with law enforcement agency equipment. The appropriate law enforcement agency shall be responsible for any crossing made using the automatic vehicular identification toll tag outside the scope of the exemption granted by this Section.
D. The Department of Transportation and Development shall adopt rules and regulations in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act for the administration of the provisions of this Section on those toll bridges and ferries under their jurisdiction.
Acts 1991, No. 867, §1; Acts 2001, No. 1021, §2, eff. June 27, 2001.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1393. Fees and rewards not to be accepted by employees

RS 40:1393 - Fees and rewards not to be accepted by employees
No employee of the division shall accept any fee for the performance of an act in line of duty or any reward offered for the apprehension or conviction of any person or for the recovery of any property. Any fee or reward to which the employee would be entitled except for the foregoing provision shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the State Police Retirement Fund.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1394. Salary scale; vouchers in payment of expenses; allowances

RS 40:1394 - Salary scale; vouchers in payment of expenses; allowances
The salary scale of the enumerated troopers and officers of the Division of State Police, whether under civil service or otherwise, shall be as follows:
Trooper, minimum salary $565.00 per month;
Sergeant, minimum salary $675.00 per month;
Lieutenant, minimum salary $760.00 per month;
Captain, minimum salary $850.00 per month;
Major, minimum salary $965 per month;
Lt. Colonel, minimum salary $1,120 per month.
All troopers shall maintain grade for a minimum period of three years. All sergeants shall maintain grade for a minimum period of two years. All lieutenants shall maintain grade for a minimum period of two years. At the end of the respective periods in grade, they shall be paid at the maximum rate prescribed for the respective grades and be eligible for promotion to the next higher grade as vacancies occur.
The department may approve vouchers in payment of expenses incurred by employees of the division in the discharge of their duties.
Allowance for lodging and subsistence may be paid to the employees of the division under such terms and conditions as the department prescribes. The department may provide lodging and subsistence for employees of the division at their official stations.
Amended by Acts 1952, No. 299, §1; Acts 1970, No. 33, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1394.1. Annual salary schedule

RS 40:1394.1 - Annual salary schedule
The deputy secretary of public safety services of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of state police, shall prepare and submit a report of salary schedules for troopers and officers of the state police service, whether classified or unclassified, to the governor, the commissioner of administration, and the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president of the Senate for distribution by them to the members of each house of the legislature not later than the fifteenth day of November prior to the regular session held pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4) of the Constitution of Louisiana. The report shall include a comparison of the salaries of troopers and officers of the division of state police, with the salaries of local law enforcement officers in the state in addition to other matters deemed pertinent by the superintendent. The report may contain such other information as deemed appropriate by the deputy secretary.
Acts 2005, No. 207, §1; Acts 2008, No. 60, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1395. Counsel for employees and division in certain litigations

RS 40:1395 - Counsel for employees and division in certain litigations
The attorney general may defend any criminal or civil action in which any employee of the division is a party by reason of acts performed in the course of duty, which, in his opinion, requires his services to protect the interests of the state. The department may, with the approval of the governor, appoint an attorney for the division.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1396. Length of service of Division of State Police employees computed

RS 40:1396 - Length of service of Division of State Police employees computed
Members of the Division of State Police shall be credited with service credit in the following manner:
Any state police employee who was transferred or assigned by the superintendent of the division of state police to perform police duty at any war plant or at the establishment of any employer who, in the opinion of the superintendent of state police, contributed to the war effort during World War II, shall have credited to his service record in the department all of the actual time served by him at such plant or establishment.
Added by Acts 1960, No. 128, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1397. Police employees, persons ineligible

RS 40:1397 - Police employees, persons ineligible
No individual shall be eligible to become a state police officer who is a member of an organization which advocates the violation of the laws of the United States of America and/or the State of Louisiana.
Added by Acts 1968, No. 297, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1398. Reimbursement for use, damage or destruction of property by state police

RS 40:1398 - Reimbursement for use, damage or destruction of property by state police
The Department of Public Safety may reimburse the owner of property for the use, damage or destruction of property by the Division of State Police without the necessity of suit. The amount of such reimbursement shall be determined by an appraisal of the damages sustained as estimated by three appraisers engaged in the business of repairing or supplying the type of item seized. Compensation shall also be paid for the actual pecuniary loss suffered because of such use, damage or destruction. Reimbursement to the Department of Public Safety shall be obtained by supplemental appropriation by the legislature in the session following the department's payment of damages. The director of the Department of Public Safety shall establish rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this section. If the owner of property elects to accept the payment authorized by this section, such payment shall be in lieu of other actions for damages against the state.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 263, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1399. Police protection for the governor or other authorized persons

RS 40:1399 - Police protection for the governor or other authorized persons
A. The office of state police shall provide and maintain the security for the governor, the governor's immediate family, other persons authorized by the governor, and the governor's office and mansion, and the grounds thereof.
B. The office of state police may employ personnel necessary to carry out this responsibility, including uniformed and nonuniformed commissioned state police officers, pursuant to R.S. 40:1375, who shall have authority to bear arms and make arrests, with or without warrant, for violations of any of the criminal laws of the state, under the same terms and conditions as investigative personnel of the office, and who shall be considered peace officers for all purposes.
C. The deputy secretary for public safety services, in accordance with R.S. 36:405(A)(2), shall assign commissioned state police officers for the performance of the duties prescribed in this Section. Upon request of the governor, the deputy secretary shall reassign a commissioned state police officer from continued performance of such duties.
D. Per diem and subsistence allowance for security personnel traveling with the governor or his family away from Baton Rouge shall be computed by payment of a sum not exceeding the amounts permitted for meals, plus actual expenses for lodging, to be substantiated by paid bills therefor.
E. The office of state police may provide security or transportation to visiting governors and their families upon request by the governor.
F. The office of state police may coordinate transportation and protective services provided herein with other law enforcement agencies and may request the assistance of other law enforcement agencies to carry out the duties required herein. The other law enforcement agencies of the state may provide such assistance as may be requested by the office of state police under this Section.
G. The office of state police shall coordinate all protective services with the United States Department of State and the United States Secret Service when requested to do so by such agencies or by the governor.
Acts 1988, No. 681, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1401. Release of personal information

RS 40:1401 - Release of personal information
No person, agency, or department shall release to the news media, press, or any other public information agency the home address, photograph, or any information that may be deemed otherwise confidential of an employee, officer, or agent of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of state police, without the express written consent of that employee, officer, or agent with respect to an investigation of the employee, officer, or agent.
Acts 2003, No. 144, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1421. Definitions

RS 40:1421 - Definitions
As used in this Chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings:
(1) "Commissioner" means commissioner of insurance.
(2) "Fraud unit" or "unit" means the insurance fraud investigation unit within the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of state police.
(3) "Fraud support unit" means the insurance fraud support unit within the Department of Justice.
(4) "Insurance fraud" means any commission or attempted commission of criminal acts or practices as provided in R.S. 22:1923, 1924, or 1925 which involves any type of insurance as provided in R.S. 22:47.
(5) "Insurance fraud section" means the insurance fraud section within the Louisiana Department of Insurance.
(6) "Insurance policy" means a contract or other written instrument between an insured and insurer setting forth the obligations and responsibilities of each party.
(7) "Insurance premium finance company" means a person engaged or purporting to engage in the business of advancing money, directly or indirectly, to an insurer or producer at the request of an insured pursuant to the terms of a premium finance agreement, including but not limited to loan contracts, notes, agreements, or obligations, wherein the insured has assigned the unearned premiums, accrued dividends, or loss payments as security for such advancement in payment of premiums on insurance policies only, and does not include the financing of insurance premiums purchased in connection with the financing of goods and services.
(8) "Insurance professional" means an adjuster, agent, managing general agent, surplus lines broker, reinsurance intermediary, insurance consultant, broker, or attorney-in-fact.
(9) "Insurance transaction", "insurance business", and "business of insurance" include solicitation, negotiations preliminary to execution of an insurance contract, execution of an insurance contract and the transaction of matters subsequent to execution of a contract and arising out of it, and matters arising out of any relationship among or between an insured, an insurer, and a third party for which an insurance policy provides coverage.
(10) "Insured" means any person covered by an insurance policy.
(11) "Insurer" means any person or company subject to regulation pursuant to Title 22 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.
(12) "LATIFPA" means the Louisiana Automobile Theft and Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority within the Louisiana Department of Insurance.
Acts 1999, No. 1312, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2000; Acts 2008, No. 415, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2010, No. 1013, §2, eff. July 1, 2010.
NOTE: See R.S. 40:1429 regarding termination date of Subpart on July 1, 2024.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1423. Access to evidence, documentation, and related materials

RS 40:1423 - Access to evidence, documentation, and related materials
A. The insurance investigation fraud unit is authorized to have direct access to information compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as contained in the National Crime Identification Center.
B. The unit is authorized to request access to evidence, documentation, and related materials located within this state pertinent to an investigation or examination and in the possession or control of an insurer or an insurance professional. The person so requested shall either make the material available to the unit or shall make the material available for inspection or examination by a designated representative of the unit.
Acts 1999, No. 1312, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2000.
NOTE: See R.S. 40:1429 regarding termination date of Subpart on July 1, 2024.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1424. Reporting suspected fraud

RS 40:1424 - Reporting suspected fraud
A. If any person or any insurer, any employee thereof, or any insurance professional has knowledge of or has reason to believe that a violation of R.S. 22:1923, 1924, or 1925 will be, is being, or has been committed, that person shall notify the section of insurance fraud in the Department of Insurance, in accordance with R.S. 22:1926.
B. All applications for insurance and all claim forms provided and required by an insurer or required by law as a condition of payment of a claim shall contain a statement, permanently affixed to or included as a part of the application or claim form, that clearly states in substance the following:
"Any person who knowingly presents a false or fraudulent claim for payment of a loss or benefit or knowingly presents false information in an application for insurance is guilty of a crime and may be subject to fines and confinement in prison."
C. The lack of the statement required by Subsection B of this Section shall not constitute a defense in any criminal prosecution. The statement shall not be required to appear on applications and forms relating to reinsurance.
Acts 1999, No. 1312, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2000; Acts 2001, No. 598, §2; Acts 2008, No. 415, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
NOTE: See R.S. 40:1429 regarding termination date of Subpart on July 1, 2024.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1425. Receipt of information; immunity from liability

RS 40:1425 - Receipt of information; immunity from liability
A. Any insurer providing information to an authorized representative of the unit pursuant to this Subpart shall have the right to request relevant information and receive the information requested within thirty days.
B. There shall be no cause of action in the nature of defamation, libel, slander, invasion of privacy, negligence, or any other cause of action against any person furnishing information concerning any suspected, anticipated, or completed criminal or fraudulent insurance act as described in this Subpart which involve any type of insurance as defined in R.S. 22:47. This immunity from liability shall apply when the information is provided to or received from a person employed by or authorized by an insurer whose activities include the investigation or reporting of suspected fraudulent insurance acts. The immunity shall apply to furnishing, disclosing, or requesting information on such suspected fraudulent insurance acts to or from the unit as to a person employed by or authorized by other insurers or insurer organizations acting in the same capacity including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, another insurer, any federal or state governmental entity established for the purposes of detecting and preventing insurance fraud, or the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
C. No insurer, its officers or employees, or insurance professional, nor any other person shall be subject to such cause of action for cooperating with or furnishing evidence or information regarding any suspected criminal violation to the unit.
D. This Section shall not provide immunity for those disclosing or furnishing false information with actual malice or willful intent to injure any person.
E. This Section shall not abrogate or modify in any way jurisprudential or statutory privileges or immunities heretofore enjoyed by any person or entity described in this Section, nor shall it authorize the unit to make public insurance company records which are proprietary in nature.
Acts 1999, No. 1312, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2000; Acts 2008, No. 415, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
NOTE: See R.S. 40:1429 regarding termination date of Subpart on July 1, 2024.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1426. Reward fund

RS 40:1426 - Reward fund
The Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of state police, in cooperation with and with voluntarily funding by authorized insurers and insurance professionals, may establish and operate a fund to offer monetary rewards for information sufficient to procure conviction in a court of appropriate jurisdiction of a person or persons responsible for insurance fraud. No law enforcement officer, employee of the office of commissioner of insurance, employee of an insurance company, or any insurance professional shall be eligible to receive such reward.
Acts 1999, No. 1312, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2000.
NOTE: See R.S. 40:1429 regarding termination date of Subpart on July 1, 2024.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1427. Reports

RS 40:1427 - Reports
The insurance fraud investigation unit, fraud support unit, and insurance fraud section shall submit a combined annual report to the governor and the insurance committees of each house of the legislature no later than February fifteenth of each year on the progress made in deterring insurance fraud. Such report shall detail:
(1) All expenditures and receipts of the insurance fraud investigation unit, fraud support unit, and insurance fraud section.
(2) The uses to which these funds were put, including payment of salaries and expenses, purchases of equipment and supplies, and other expenditures by type.
(3) The results achieved as a consequence of such expenditures, including the number of notifications or inquiries received, the number of inquiries and investigations undertaken, the number of inquiries to which an investigation was not initiated, the number of arrests, the number of files presented to prosecutors, the number of prosecutions, the number of convictions, and the total dollar amount of restitution resulting from the operation of the insurance fraud investigation unit, fraud support unit, and insurance fraud section, as applicable to each.
Acts 1999, No. 1312, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2000; Acts 2010, No. 1013, §2, eff. July 1, 2010.
NOTE: See R.S. 40:1429 regarding termination date of Subpart on July 1, 2024.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1429. Effectiveness of Subpart

NOTE: See R.S. 40:1429 regarding termination date of Subpart on July 1, 2024.§1429. Effectiveness of Subpart
This Subpart shall be null, void, and unenforceable on July 1, 2024.
Acts 1999, No. 1312, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2000; Acts 2004, No. 373, §1; Acts 2008, No. 608, §1; Acts 2010, No. 1013, §2, eff. July 1, 2010; Acts 2012, No. 615, §1, eff. July 1, 2012; Acts 2014, No. 115, §1, eff. July 1, 2014; Acts 2016, No. 193, §1, eff. July 1, 2016; Acts 2018, No. 147, §1, eff. July 1, 2018; Acts 2019, No. 195, §1, eff. July 1, 2019; Acts 2020, No. 94, §2, eff. July 1, 2020.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1430. §§1430 to 1430.3 Repealed by Acts 1978, No. 727, §11, eff. Jan. 1, 1979.

RS 40:1430 - §§1430 to 1430.3 Repealed by Acts 1978, No. 727, §11, eff. Jan. 1, 1979.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 40 - Public Health and Safety › §40:1451. Purpose

RS 40:1451 - Purpose
This law is enacted by the legislature in the exercise of the police power of the state, to promote the public peace and safety by providing better enforcement of the law.
Added by Acts 1959, No. 50, §1.
{{NOTE: §§1451-1459 WERE REPEALED SUBJECT TO THE CONDITION IN SECTION 3 OF ACTS 1989, NO. 337 WHICH STATES:
"Section 3. This Act shall become effective if and when the base salary of each person entitled to a supplement pursuant to Subpart D of Part III of Chapter 6 of Title 40 and Part XII of Chapter 1 of Title 56 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 is increased by an amount equal to the supplement to which the person is entitled on the date that this Act becomes law." }}