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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:502. Notice of killing or injury of livestock; arbitration

RS 45:502 - Notice of killing or injury of livestock; arbitration
When an animal has been killed or injured by the locomotive or cars of the railway company, the owner, his agent, or representative, shall notify in writing, within a reasonable time, the nearest station agent of the railway company, giving a description of the animal killed or injured, and stating the place where the killing or injury occurred and any other facts connected with the matter.
The agent so notified, without delay, shall notify in writing the superintendent, general agent or agent of the railway company at their domicile. The superintendent, general agent or agent shall instruct, without delay, an agent on behalf of the railway company, to confer with the owner or his representative of the stock killed or injured.
If they fail to agree upon the sum to be paid for the animal, each may select an arbitrator, from the parish in which the animal was killed or injured. The arbitrator shall not be the agent or servant of either party. The matter shall be referred to the arbitrators, and in case they fail to agree, they shall call in an umpire, whose decision shall be final. If the arbitrators do not agree on the selection of an umpire, the nearest magistrate shall appoint the umpire. The arbitrators and umpire shall be sworn to make a just award, and the arbitration shall be held at the railroad station nearest to the place where the stock was killed or injured.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:503. Payment of arbitration award; failure of arbitration; remedy cumulative; proper fencing a defense

RS 45:503 - Payment of arbitration award; failure of arbitration; remedy cumulative; proper fencing a defense
Within thirty days after the date of any award by the arbitrators, the railway company shall pay to the owner or his legal representative, the amount agreed upon by the arbitrators. Upon their failure to do so within the prescribed time, they shall pay to the owner of the stock five per cent a month, in addition to the amount of damages awarded by the arbitrators. In case arbitration fails, nothing in this Sub-part shall create any liability or responsibility on the part of the railway company for the killing or injury. Nothing in this Sub-part shall deny to any owner of stock the right to institute his action for damages, or to compel such owners to avail themselves of the benefit of this Sub-part.
Railroad companies shall not be responsible for the killing or injury of stock if their line of track is fenced in and kept in good order, and if they have erected and maintained, in good order, suitable cattle guards at crossings.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:504. Burden of disproving negligence in killing or injuring livestock

RS 45:504 - Burden of disproving negligence in killing or injuring livestock
In suits against railroad companies for the loss of stock killed or injured by them, it is sufficient, in order for the plaintiff and owner to recover, to prove the killing or injury, unless it is shown by the defendant company that the killing or injury was not the result of fault or carelessness on their part or the negligent or indifferent running or management of their locomotive or train.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:561. Implementation of Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970

RS 45:561 - Implementation of Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970
The Public Service Commission is hereby authorized to perform any act and issue any rules or orders as permitted by the Federal Railroad State Safety Participation regulations (49 CFR Part 212).
Acts 2008, No. 753, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:562. Authority to inspect railroad facility

RS 45:562 - Authority to inspect railroad facility
A. In performing an inspection in accordance with this Section, the commission shall not require a railroad facility owner or operator to alter or cease rail operations.
B. Any inspection, investigation, or surveillance performed on the site of a manufacturing facility shall be performed in compliance with the safety rules or regulations of the facility, including security clearance at the front gate if appropriate.
Acts 2008, No. 753, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:566. Bridges, ropes to warn employees of approach to

RS 45:566 - Bridges, ropes to warn employees of approach to
All railroads operating in this state shall erect stands at a point not less than one hundred and fifty feet from either approach of their bridges. From these stands light ropes shall be hung across the entire width of their track and properly knotted and hanging so low as to touch the head or body of any train-hand in ample time to notify him of his near approach to the bridge, so as to enable him to take the necessary precautionary means to avoid the possibility of injury.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:568. Violation of law; discontinuance of business

RS 45:568 - Violation of law; discontinuance of business
If any railroad company fails or refuses to comply with the provisions of R.S. 45:566 through 45:567, the governor, through the Attorney General, shall enjoin that company from operating or running any trains in this state until those provisions are complied with.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:569. Angles in frogs and crossings to be adjusted, filled or blocked; penalty

RS 45:569 - Angles in frogs and crossings to be adjusted, filled or blocked; penalty
Every person operating a railroad or part of railroad, other than a logging or plantation road, within this state, shall adjust, fill or block all angles in frogs and crossings on its roads and in its yards, divisional and terminal stations where trains are made up. The material used shall be so placed and of such design as to prevent the wedging of the feet of employees and other persons in these angles.
Whoever violates this Section shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:611. Conditional sales of tank cars lawful

RS 45:611 - Conditional sales of tank cars lawful
In any contract for the sale of a tank car the parties may agree that the title to the property sold or contracted to be sold, shall not vest in the purchaser until the purchase price is paid and until the terms of the contract have been fully performed, notwithstanding that the purchaser may have been given possession or control of the property.
And in any contract for the leasing and hiring of such property the parties may stipulate for a conditional sale, to take effect and to become an absolute and unconditional sale after the termination of the contract. And in these contracts the parties may also agree that the rentals or amounts received under the contract may be paid, applied and treated as purchase money, and that the title to the property shall not vest in the lessee or bailee until the purchase price is paid in full and until the terms of the contract have been fully performed, notwithstanding that the lessee or bailee may have been given possession or control of the property.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:612. Retaking of conditionally sold tank cars

RS 45:612 - Retaking of conditionally sold tank cars
If the vendee, lessee or bailee fails to make the payment or to perform the covenants in any contract authorized by R.S. 45:611, the vendor, lessor, or bailor, or any assignee may retake the property in accordance with the terms of the contract; and in case of retaking, the vendee, lessee, or bailee or any assignee has no right of redemption and all payments under the contract shall be forfeited to the vendor, lessor or bailor, or to the party to whom they may have been made.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:613. Sale or lease of railroad to connecting railroad, power to make

RS 45:613 - Sale or lease of railroad to connecting railroad, power to make
Any railroad company in Louisiana may sell or lease its railroad, property and franchises, to any other railroad company, whether the lines of the contracting companies form in their operation connecting or continuous lines of railroad by bridge, ferry, or otherwise. But the railroads of the contracting companies shall not be parallel and competing lines.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:614. Sale, pledge or hypothecation of bonds, stock, earnings, etc., power to make

RS 45:614 - Sale, pledge or hypothecation of bonds, stock, earnings, etc., power to make
Any railway corporation in Louisiana may sell, pledge or hypothecate, for railroad purposes, its bonds, stock, earnings, revenues, income rights, and credits, to any person or other railway corporation unless the railroad lines of the contracting railway corporations are parallel and competing lines.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:615. Purchase or lease of railroad; connecting railroad's power

RS 45:615 - Purchase or lease of railroad; connecting railroad's power
Any railway company may acquire by conventional or judicial sales, or by lease, from any other railway corporation, any railroad, the whole or any part of which is in Louisiana, with all the property, privileges, appurtenances, rights and franchises, stocks and bonds, of such railway company, whenever the railroad lines of the contracting companies form, in their operation, connecting or continuous lines of railroad, by bridge, ferry or otherwise. However, the lines of the contracting companies shall not be parallel and competing.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:616. Stockholders' approval of sale

RS 45:616 - Stockholders' approval of sale
In order for a conventional sale of any railroad, its property, rights, and franchises to take place and be valid, it shall be approved and ratified by two-thirds of the capital stock of each of the contracting companies respectively, at a stockholders' meeting called for that purpose. The purchase by a railway corporation at judicial sale, shall be authorized and approved by two-thirds of the capital stock of the purchasing company, at a stockholders' meeting convened for that purpose.
In either case, sixty days' public notice calling such meeting shall be given in a newspaper published at the domicile of each company.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:618. Expropriation incident to purchase, lease, etc., of another railroad

RS 45:618 - Expropriation incident to purchase, lease, etc., of another railroad
Any railroad company which acquires the railroad, property, or franchises of any other railroad company, whether by purchase, lease, consolidation, or otherwise, has the right of expropriation of land and property for constructing or extending its line of railroad, for branch lines, spur tracks, switches, sidings, depot grounds, shops and yards, and for any other railroad purposes, in the manner and according to Louisiana law relative to expropriation by railways.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:619. Binding date of purchase at judicial sale

RS 45:619 - Binding date of purchase at judicial sale
Any purchase at judicial sale by any railway corporation approved by two-thirds of the capital stock of such purchasing company in a stockholders' meeting, duly convened and held, is valid and binding from the date of the purchase.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:620. Laws and regulations applicable

RS 45:620 - Laws and regulations applicable
Railroad companies availing themselves of the provisions of R.S. 45:613 through 45:619 shall maintain a domicile and main and general office in Louisiana and shall be subject to the control and regulation of the laws of Louisiana and the Louisiana Public Service Commission.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:671. Acquisition of railroad property by street railway company

RS 45:671 - Acquisition of railroad property by street railway company
Any railroad company, domestic or foreign, may sell, lease, or grant the use of any portion of its railroad, property or franchise or both, as may be situated within the limits of any parish or municipality to any street railway company existing under the laws of this state and carrying passengers under municipal franchises.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:672. Acquisition of railroad property; street railway company's authority

RS 45:672 - Acquisition of railroad property; street railway company's authority
Any street railway company referred to in R.S. 45:671 may acquire by conventional or judicial sales, or may lease, or may acquire the use of, from any railroad company, domestic or foreign, any portion of its railroad as may be situated within the limits of any municipality, with all or any part of the property, privileges and appurtenances, rights and franchises attached or necessary for the full enjoyment by the property.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:673. Acquisition of railroad property; stockholder's approval

RS 45:673 - Acquisition of railroad property; stockholder's approval
In order for a conventional sale, lease or grant or use of any portion of any railroad, property, rights and franchises, to take place and be valid, it shall first be approved and ratified by two-thirds of the capital stock of each of the contracting companies at a stockholders meeting called for the purpose, after public notice of thirty clear days by advertisement in a newspaper published at the domiciles of the respective companies in the manner provided by law for judicial sales, calling the meeting of the stockholders of the contracting companies. The purchase at judicial sale shall be authorized and approved by two-thirds of the capital stock of the street railway company, at a stockholders meeting convened for that purpose, after thirty days public notice of the meeting has been given in a newspaper published at the domicile of the purchasing company, in the manner provided by law for judicial sales.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:674. Acquisition of railroad property; assumption of bonds

RS 45:674 - Acquisition of railroad property; assumption of bonds
Any street railway company purchasing, leasing or acquiring the use of such or any portion of any railroad company may assume or guarantee the part of the bonds of that railroad company as may be properly apportioned to the part purchased, or leased, or of which the use is acquired.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:692. Fenders; violation of law

RS 45:692 - Fenders; violation of law
Any street railroad corporation or interurban railroad corporation or the receiver or lessee, president or manager where the railway is domiciled and doing business in Louisiana, which violates the provisions of R.S. 45:691, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than one hundred days, or both. Each day's violation shall constitute a separate offense.
In the event of violation, suit may be brought against the offending firms or persons by the Attorney General or by the parish or district attorney in any parish, in or through which such line of street or interurban railroad may be operated.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:693. Sandboxes; requirement

RS 45:693 - Sandboxes; requirement
All street railway companies operating street railways in cities of population of one hundred thousand or more, shall equip all street railway cars running by motor and controlled by electric power with sandboxes in front of the wheels coupled to and controlled by motor. These boxes shall be provided with valves from which the sand therein may be poured upon the rails immediately in front of the wheels of the car as the brakes are put on by the motorman for the purpose of stopping as necessity may require.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:694. Sandboxes; violation of law

RS 45:694 - Sandboxes; violation of law
All officers and directors of railway companies, refusing or neglecting to comply with the provisions of R.S. 45:693 shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:695. Seats for motormen and conductors; penalty

RS 45:695 - Seats for motormen and conductors; penalty
All persons engaged in the operation of street railroads shall provide the cars operated by them with good substantial seats on each platform of every car and shall maintain them in good order for the use of the operator and conductor on the car and shall permit the operator and conductor of the car to use the seats in order to rest themselves when in service on the cars on which they are employed while the cars are passing over portions of the road bed out of the business district of any city, town or village.
Whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not less than three months nor more than one year.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:696. Vestibule; requirement; penalty

RS 45:696 - Vestibule; requirement; penalty
No person operating a line of electric street railways shall require or permit the operation upon the lines of any electric car during the period beginning September 1st, and ending May 1st, of each year, unless each end of such car is provided with a solid vestibule which shall fully protect the motorman, conductor and passengers compelled to stand on the platform.
Whoever violates this Section shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or both. Each day of violation shall constitute a separate offense.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:711. Motormen and conductors; instruction; qualification in certain cities

RS 45:711 - Motormen and conductors; instruction; qualification in certain cities
No person shall act as motorman or conductor on any electric railway unless he shall have first received at least ten days instruction under a competent instructor or instructors employed by the company in whose services he intends to enter.
In cities of less than twenty-five thousand, the experience and qualification of conductors and motormen shall not be less than five days.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:714. Certification by employers

RS 45:714 - Certification by employers
The provisions of R.S. 45:711 through 45:715 shall not apply to motormen or conductors possessing written evidence of their qualifications and length of service from their last employers, which qualification must not be less than set out in R.S. 45:711.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:715. Violation of law; law inapplicable during strikes

RS 45:715 - Violation of law; law inapplicable during strikes
Whoever violates R.S. 45:711 through 45:714 shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
The provisions of R.S. 45:711 through 45:714 shall not apply during strikes.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:716. Maximum working hours during 24 hour period; exceptions; penalty

RS 45:716 - Maximum working hours during 24 hour period; exceptions; penalty
No officer or agent of any street railroad company shall exact from any of its employees more than ten hours' labor in the twenty four, constituting a day and embraced within twelve consecutive hours, except that in cases of accident, unavoidable delay, or emergency extra labor may be permitted for extra compensation, with the consent of the employee.
Any officer or agent of any of the railroads violating this section shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned for not more than two months, or both.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:734. School children; reduced fare provision in franchise

RS 45:734 - School children; reduced fare provision in franchise
In all franchises which may be granted by any state, parish, or municipal corporation, the parish of Orleans excepted, for any street or interurban railway, there shall be a provision that all children, attending the schools in the city or parish in which the railway is situated, shall be afforded transportation over such railway at a price not exceeding three-fifths of the regular fare. Each child shall have the right to the reduced fare only when going to or returning from school, and only when in possession of a certificate from the principal of the school which the child attends, declaring that the child is a pupil of the school.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:735. School children; amendment of franchise

RS 45:735 - School children; amendment of franchise
No license, privilege, or franchise shall be granted to any existing city or interurban railway, the parish of Orleans excepted, amending, modifying or changing any of its rights, obligations or privileges under its franchise unless the corporation operating the railway agrees to the insertion in the statute or ordinance making the change, a provision that it will furnish to all school children in actual travel to and from school, and provided with a proper certificate from the principal of the school which the said child attends, transportation at a price of not more than three-fifths of the fare charged to adults. Whenever the rights, obligations and privileges of any existing city or interurban railway are amended, modified or changed by the city or interurban railway at the request of the governing authority of any city or parish the change, modification, or amendment shall not be construed as bringing such city or interurban railway within the provisions of R.S. 45:734 and 45:735.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:781. Lines; right to use public property; railroad property; waters; roads and streets; private property; expropriation; excluding lines of competitors; franchising of cable television by parishes

RS 45:781 - Lines; right to use public property; railroad property; waters; roads and streets; private property; expropriation; excluding lines of competitors; franchising of cable television by parishes
A. Corporations, domestic or foreign, formed for the purpose of transmitting intelligence by telegraph or telephone or other system of transmitting intelligence, may construct and maintain telegraph, telephone or other lines necessary to transmit intelligence along all public roads or public works, and along and parallel to any of the railroads in the state, and along and over the waters of the state, if the ordinary use of the roads, works, railroads, and waters are not obstructed, and along the streets of any city, with the consent of the city council or trustees. Such companies, shall be entitled to the right of way over all lands belonging to the state and over the lands, privileges and servitudes of other persons, and to the right to erect poles, piers, abutments, and other works necessary for constructing and maintaining lines and works, upon making just compensation therefor. If the company fails to secure such right by consent, contract or agreement upon just and reasonable terms, then the company has the right to proceed to expropriate as provided by law for railroads and other works of public utility, but shall not impede the full use of the highways, navigable waters, or the drainage or natural servitudes of the land over which the right of way may be exercised. No company, operating under the provisions of this Section, shall contract with the owners of land or with any other corporation for the right to erect and maintain any telephone, telegraph or other line for transmission of intelligence over its lands, privileges or servitudes, to the exclusion of the lines of other companies operating under the provisions of this Section.
B. Nothing provided in Section A herein shall affect the right granted to parish governing authorities to grant franchises for the regulation of cable television outside municipalities.
Amended by Acts 1976, No. 573, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:781.1. Removal of abandoned lines; liability

RS 45:781.1 - Removal of abandoned lines; liability
A. The telephone or telegraph company, which constructed telephone or telegraph lines pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter, may allow another person or company to remove lines which have been abandoned.
B. The telephone or telegraph company, which constructed telephone or telegraph lines pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter, shall not be liable for damages or injuries sustained during the removal by another person or company of lines which have been abandoned provided that the abandoned cable lies within a right of way provided for the exclusive use of the telephone or telegraph company.
Acts 1990, No. 900, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:783. Unlawful to delay, refuse to receive, transmit or deliver message; penalty

RS 45:783 - Unlawful to delay, refuse to receive, transmit or deliver message; penalty
No telegraph company, official or employee of a telegraph company shall wilfully delay, or shall refuse to receive, transmit, or deliver any written message addressed to any person within one mile of their office.
Whoever violates this Section shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than three months, or both.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:784. Unlawful to reveal or make use of contents of message; penalty

RS 45:784 - Unlawful to reveal or make use of contents of message; penalty
No official or employee of a telegraph company shall reveal, make use of, or make public any message.
Whoever violates this Section shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars, and for any subsequent offense, may also be imprisoned for not more than three months.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:785. Liability for error, delay or failure to deliver message; venue

RS 45:785 - Liability for error, delay or failure to deliver message; venue
All persons operating telegraph or telephone lines or systems and doing business in this state, are hereby required to pay for all damages that may arise from the failure, refusal or neglect to transmit or to deliver, or from any delay in the transmission or the delivery, or from any error made in the transmission or the delivery of any message handled by them or offered them for transmission; and they may be sued either at the place where the message is to be delivered or at the place where the message is offered for transmission or at the domicile of such persons, at the option of the party bringing the suit.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:786. Suit for error, delay or failure to deliver message; prescription; notice of claim

RS 45:786 - Suit for error, delay or failure to deliver message; prescription; notice of claim
Suits for damages against telegraph companies arising from any error in the transmission of the message, delay in delivery or the failure to deliver the message, may be brought at any time within one year from the date of the act complained of, if notice to the company of the claim is presented in writing within four months after the telegram is filed for transmission.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:787. Stipulations for shorter prescription or notice to be void

RS 45:787 - Stipulations for shorter prescription or notice to be void
All printed or written stipulations contrary to R.S. 45:786 attempting to provide a shorter prescription period, or attempting to limit liability to cases in which written demand has been made within a shorter period than four months after the telegram is filed with the company for transmission are void.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:788. Telegrams to show time of filing and of receipt; penalty

RS 45:788 - Telegrams to show time of filing and of receipt; penalty
Every person engaged in the business of transmitting communications by telegraph and charging tolls therefor, shall, without extra charge, cause to appear plainly upon the addressee's copy of every telegram originating at and destined for a point within the state, the hour and minute of the day on which it was filed for transmission, and the hour and minute of the day of its receipt at its destination.
Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each violation.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:789. Immediate dispatch of messages of public officers; penalty

RS 45:789 - Immediate dispatch of messages of public officers; penalty
All telegraph and telephone companies shall be bound on application of any officer of this state, or of the United States, in the event of any war, insurrection or resistance of public authority, or whenever it may be necessary for the prevention of crime, or the arrest of persons accused of crime or fleeing from justice, to give their communications immediate dispatch.
Whoever refuses or intentionally omits to transmit such communications, or designedly alters or falsifies the same shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than one year.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:790. Messages preventing apprehension of fugitives or assisting escape; penalty

RS 45:790 - Messages preventing apprehension of fugitives or assisting escape; penalty
No operator or agent of any telegraph or telephone company shall transmit any message which can in any way tend to defeat the ends of justice, by preventing the apprehension of fugitives from justice, or by communicating information which may enable persons charged with offense to escape.
Whoever violates this Section shall be imprisoned not less than one year nor more than two years, and fined not less than two hundred and fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:791. Statement of purpose

RS 45:791 - Statement of purpose
The legislature hereby finds and declares that it is in the public interest to shorten the time required for a citizen to request and receive emergency aid. There exist thousands of different emergency phone numbers throughout the state, and telephone exchange boundaries and central office service areas do not necessarily correspond to public safety and political boundaries. Provision of a single, primary three digit emergency number through which emergency services can be quickly and efficiently obtained would provide a significant contribution to law enforcement and other public service efforts by making it less difficult to quickly notify public safety personnel. Such a simplified means of procuring emergency services will result in the saving of life, a reduction in the destruction of property, quicker apprehension of criminals, and ultimately the saving of money. The legislature further finds and declares that the establishment of a uniform, statewide emergency number is a matter of statewide concern and interest to all inhabitants and citizens of this state. It is the purpose of this chapter to establish the number 911 as the primary emergency telephone number for use in this state and to encourage units of local government and combinations of such units to develop and improve emergency communication procedures and facilities in such a manner as to be able to quickly respond to any person calling the telephone number 911 seeking police, fire, medical, rescue, and other emergency services.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 94, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:792. Definitions

RS 45:792 - Definitions
When used in this Chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this section, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
(1) "Public agency" means any agency or political subdivision of the state which provides or has authority to provide firefighting, police, ambulance, medical, or other emergency services.
(2) "Public safety agency" means a functional division of a public agency which provides firefighting, police, medical, or other emergency services.
(3) "Direct dispatch method" means a telephone service to a centralized dispatch center providing for the dispatch of an appropriate emergency service unit upon receipt of a telephone request for such services and a decision as to the proper action to be taken.
(4) "Relay method" means a telephone service whereby pertinent information is noted by the recipient of a telephone request for emergency services, and is relayed to appropriate public safety agencies or other providers of emergency services for dispatch of an emergency service unit.
(5) "Transfer method" means a telephone service which receives telephone requests for emergency services and directly transfers such requests to an appropriate public safety agency or other provider of emergency services.
(6) "Referral method" means a telephone service which, upon the receipt of a telephone request for emergency services, provides the requesting party with the telephone number of the appropriate public safety agency or other provider of emergency services.
(7) "Basic system" means a telephone service which automatically connects a person dialing the digits 911 to an established public safety answering point through normal telephone service facilities.
(8) "Sophisticated system" means a basic system with the additional capability of automatic identification of the caller's number, holding the incoming call, reconnection on the same telephone line, clearing a telephone line or automatic call routing or combinations of such capabilities.
(9) "Methods" as used in Paragraphs (3), (4), (5) and (6) above shall refer to procedures to be followed by the public agency or public safety agency affected by those paragraphs.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 94, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:793. Establishment of systems

RS 45:793 - Establishment of systems
Every public agency or public safety agency within its respective jurisdiction shall establish and have in operation by January 1, 1978, a basic or sophisticated system, if technologically compatible with the existing local telephone network.
The establishment of such systems shall be centralized to the extent feasible that is, multijurisdictional or regional systems shall be encouraged. Any system established pursuant to this Chapter may include the territory of more than one public agency or may include a segment of the territory of a public agency. However, all agencies must recognize the limitations of the local telephone network to segregate.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 94, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:794. Services of system

RS 45:794 - Services of system
Every system shall include police, firefighting, and emergency medical and ambulance services, and may include other emergency services, in the discretion of the affected public agency, such as poison control services, suicide prevention services, and civil defense services. The system may incorporate private ambulance service. In those areas in which a public safety agency of the state provides such emergency services, the system shall include such public safety agencies.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 94, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:795. Primary emergency telephone number; 911

RS 45:795 - Primary emergency telephone number; 911
The digits 911 shall be the primary emergency telephone number within the system, but a public agency or public safety agency may maintain a separate secondary backup number, and shall maintain a separate number for non-emergency telephone calls.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 94, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:796. Design of systems

RS 45:796 - Design of systems
All systems shall be designed to meet the requirements of each community and public agency served by the system. Every system, whether basic or sophisticated, shall be designed to have the capability of utilizing at least three of the four methods specified in Paragraphs (3) through (6) of R.S. 45:792, in response to emergency calls.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 94, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:797. Planning and coordinating systems; department of public safety

RS 45:797 - Planning and coordinating systems; department of public safety
In order to insure that proper preparation and implementation of such systems as provided in R.S. 45:793 is accomplished by all public agencies on or before January 1, 1978, the department of public safety shall develop an overall plan prior to development of any system and shall coordinate the implementation of systems to be established pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter. The department shall assist public agencies and public safety agencies in obtaining financial assistance to establish emergency telephone service and shall aid such agencies in the formulation of concepts, methods and procedures which will improve the operation of systems and which will increase cooperation between public safety agencies. The department shall consult at regular intervals with the Highway Safety Commission, the state fire marshal, the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Criminal Justice and the public utilities in this state providing telephone service.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 94, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:799. Submission of plans

RS 45:799 - Submission of plans
A. On or before January 1, 1976, all public agencies shall submit tentative plans for the establishment of a system required by this Chapter to the public utility or utilities providing public telephone service within the respective jurisdiction of each public agency. A copy of each such plan shall be filed with the department of public safety.
B. On or before January 1, 1977, all public agencies shall submit final plans for the establishment of the system to such utilities, and shall make arrangements with such utilities according to the provisions of their duly filed tariffs for the implementation of the planned emergency telephone system no later than January 1, 1978. A copy of the plan required by this subsection shall be filed with the department of public safety.
C. If any public agency has implemented or is a part of a system required by this Chapter on a deadline specified in Subsection A or B such public agency shall submit in lieu of the tentative or final plan a report describing the system and stating its operational date.
D. Plans filed pursuant to Subsections A and B shall conform to minimum standards established pursuant to R.S. 45:798.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 94, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:800. Enforcement

RS 45:800 - Enforcement
The department of public safety through the State of Louisiana may commence judicial proceedings to enforce compliance by any public agency or public safety with the provisions of this Chapter. The department of public safety through the State of Louisiana may commence proceedings before the Louisiana Public Service Commission against any public utility providing telephone service to enforce compliance by such public utility with the provisions of its duly filed tariffs.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 94, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:801. Cooperative agreements; mandatory

RS 45:801 - Cooperative agreements; mandatory
In implementing systems pursuant to this Chapter, all public agencies in a single system shall annually enter into a joint powers agreement or any other form of written cooperative agreement which is applicable when need arises on a day to day basis. In addition, such agreements shall be entered into between public agencies and public safety agencies which are part of different systems but whose jurisdictional boundaries are contiguous. The agreements shall provide that, once an emergency unit is dispatched in response to a request through the system, such unit shall render its services to the requesting party without regard to whether the unit is operating outside its normal jurisdictional boundaries. Copies of the annual agreement shall be filed with the department of public safety. Commencing with the year 1978, all such agreements shall be so filed prior to the 31st day of January. The department of public safety shall commence judicial proceedings to enforce compliance with the provisions of this section where a public agency or public safety agency has failed to timely enter into such agreement or file copies thereof.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 94, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:802. Report to legislature

RS 45:802 - Report to legislature
At least thirty days prior to 1975, 1976 and 1977 regular sessions of the legislature, the department of public safety shall report to the appropriate standing committee or committees of each house of the legislature the progress in the implementation of the systems required by this Chapter. Such reports may contain recommendations for additional legislation.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 94, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:804. Appropriation of funds by legislature; implementation of systems

RS 45:804 - Appropriation of funds by legislature; implementation of systems
During the 1977 regular session or any session prior thereto, the legislature, after reviewing all reports required by this Chapter, shall enact legislation and appropriate such funds as are necessary to enable local public agencies to implement systems required by the provisions of this Chapter including tariff charges in connection therewith. If the legislature fails to enact such legislation and appropriate such funds during the 1977 regular session, then the provisions of this Chapter shall become and remain inoperative until such legislation is enacted and funds appropriated. The dates specified for the implementation of a system, or the performance of any other duty, required by the provisions of this Chapter to be performed after 1977 shall be respectively postponed by the number of years elapsing between 1975 and the year in which the legislature appropriates such funds. It is the intent of the legislature that, if legislation providing necessary funds to local public agencies to carry out the requirements of this Chapter is enacted after the 1977 regular session of the legislature, then the time schedules specified in this Chapter shall be advanced by the number of years required for the legislature to subsequently appropriate such funds.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 94, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:810. Definitions

RS 45:810 - Definitions
A. The provisions of the Chapter shall be known as the "Consumer Telemarketing Protection Act of 1991".
B. When used in this Chapter the following terms shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this Section, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
(1) "ADAD equipment" means any device or system of devices which is used, whether alone or in conjunction with other equipment, for the purpose of automatically selecting or dialing telephone numbers and disseminating recorded messages to the numbers so selected or dialed.
(2) "Commission" means the Louisiana Public Service Commission.
(3) "Telephone access line" means any seven-digit telephone number for each call to which a fee is charged.
Acts 1991, No. 917, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:811. Prohibited practices

RS 45:811 - Prohibited practices
It shall be unlawful for any person to use, to employ or direct another person to use, or to contract for the use of ADAD equipment or to use a live operator to make calls for the purpose of advertising or offering for sale, lease, rental, or as a gift any goods, services, or property, either real or personal, primarily for personal, family, or household use or for the purpose of conducting polls or soliciting information when:
(1) Consent is not received prior to the invitation of the calls as specified in the provisions of R.S. 45:812.
(2) Such use is other than between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday.
(3) Such use is on days declared to be a state holiday, or Sundays.
(4) The ADAD equipment will operate unattended, or is not so designed and equipped with an automatic clock and calendar device that it will not operate unattended, even in the event of power failures.
(5) Such use involves the use of random or sequential dialing of telephone numbers.
(6) The automatic dialing and recorded message player does not automatically terminate its connection with any telephone call within ten seconds after the person called fails to give consent for the playing of a recorded message or hangs up.
(7) The recorded message fails to state clearly the name and telephone number of the person or organization initiating the call within the first twenty-five seconds of the call and at the conclusion of the call.
(8) Such use involves calls to:
(a) Telephone numbers which, at the request of the customer, have been omitted from the telephone directory published by the telephone company or cooperative serving the customer.
(b) Hospitals, nursing homes, fire protection agencies, or law enforcement agencies.
(9) The telephone number required to be stated in the provision of Paragraph (7) is not, during normal business hours, promptly, and personally answered by someone who is an agent of the person or organization in whose behalf the automatic calls are made and is able to provide information concerning the automatic calls.
Acts 1991, No. 917, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:812. Agreement of consent to receive calls

RS 45:812 - Agreement of consent to receive calls
A person may give consent to a call made with ADAD equipment when a live operator introduces the call and states an intent to play a recorded message, or when the ADAD has a feature that allows the person to indicate consent. Any such consent shall apply only to a particular call and shall not constitute prior consent to receive further calls through the use of such ADAD equipment.
Acts 1991, No. 917, §1.