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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 44 - Public Records and Recorders › §44:503. State historical records coordinator duties; deputy state historical records coordinator duties

RS 44:503 - State historical records coordinator duties; deputy state historical records coordinator duties
A. The secretary of state, or his designee, shall serve as the state historical records coordinator for the board. The duties of the state historical records coordinator shall include the following:
(1) To prepare a comprehensive written report, to be submitted annually to the national commission, detailing the board's activities during the previous year, assessing the board's ongoing planning objectives, and providing all additional data and information necessary to comply with the national commission's manual.
(2) To coordinate the board's efforts to assess and monitor the conditions of and needs concerning historical records in the state.
(3) To serve as the project director or provide administrative oversight, or both, for grant projects carried out by the board.
(4) To assist the board in developing and sustaining statewide strategic planning regarding the preservation of historical records, including the development and maintenance of a statement of priorities for historical records programs in the state, identifying particular priorities for board action and priorities for grant funding.
(5) To solicit and receive applications for grant projects funded by the national commission, to manage the grant review process at the state level, and to forward rating sheets and summary recommendations to the national commission.
(6) To provide information about national commission grants and board activities and priorities to entities and individuals within the state.
(7) To serve as the liaison between the board and the national commission, and as the initial point of contact for state and local officials and agencies on matters relating to records grants.
(8) Upon request of the national commission and when practicable, to review grant proposals from other state historical records boards and applicants from outside the state.
(9) To foster cooperation and communication among historical records repositories, other information agencies within the state, and the national commission.
(10) To participate with other state historical records coordinators at regional and national meetings to discuss the national commission's work and the work of the state boards and seek solutions to common problems.
B. The director of state archives or his designee shall act as the deputy state historical records coordinator for the board. The duties of the deputy state historical records coordinator shall be assisting the state historical records coordinator in executing the state historical records coordinator's duties and serving as the acting state historical records coordinator at the state historical records coordinator's discretion.
Acts 2018, No. 85, §1, eff. May 10, 2018.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 44 - Public Records and Recorders › §44:504. REPEALED BY ACTS 1989, NO. 46, §1; ACTS 1989, NO. 662, §8, EFF. JULY 7, 1989.

RS 44:504 - REPEALED BY ACTS 1989, NO. 46, §1; ACTS 1989, NO. 662, §8, EFF. JULY 7, 1989.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:1. Persons affected

RS 45:1 - Persons affected
For the purposes of this Chapter any person, whether owner, lessee or otherwise, who at any time carries or transports passengers in an airplane for a price or consideration, whether the passengers are carried from one point to another or whether they are carried into the air and returned to the point from which they started, is engaged in the business of carrying persons for hire by airplane.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:2. Bond required

RS 45:2 - Bond required
Every person engaged in the business of operating airplanes for the purpose of carrying passengers for hire shall procure and execute an indemnity bond in the amount provided in R.S. 45:5 with a good and solvent surety company authorized to do business in this state, as surety, with the obligation running in favor of any person who may be injured in person or property, or otherwise suffer loss or damage, by the operation of any airplane so used by such person in said business.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:3. Form of bond; beneficiaries

RS 45:3 - Form of bond; beneficiaries
The bond shall be drawn in favor of the governor, but it shall inure to the benefit of anyone having an interest therein who has a right of action thereon in his own name for the recovery of any loss or damage to his person or property, or any other loss or damage which he may sustain, or for the recovery of such damages as he may be entitled to recover as the one to whom such right of action survives, in case of death.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:5. Amount of bond

RS 45:5 - Amount of bond
If the person engaged in the business of carrying persons for hire by airplane uses in the business only one airplane which is used or intended to be used for the purpose of carrying passengers for hire, then the amount of the bond shall be fifteen thousand dollars, and for every additional airplane that such person may so use, the amount of the bond shall be increased by one thousand dollars.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:6. Recordation

RS 45:6 - Recordation
It is the duty of every person engaged in the business of carrying persons for hire by airplane to cause the bond to be recorded in the office of the recorder of mortgages of the parish in which the person is domiciled, if domiciled in this state, or in the office of the recorder of mortgages of the parish of East Baton Rouge if the person is not domiciled in this state.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:7. Construction of bond

RS 45:7 - Construction of bond
Any bond given in attempted pursuance of this Chapter by any person, shall be a statutory bond, and all the provisions of this Chapter shall be conclusively presumed to be intended to be read into it and form a part of it, any stipulation in the bond to the contrary notwithstanding.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:8. Carriage in violation of law

RS 45:8 - Carriage in violation of law
No person shall engage in the business of carrying passengers for hire by airplane without having first complied with all the provisions of this Chapter.
Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:9. Permitting or assisting violation

RS 45:9 - Permitting or assisting violation
No member of a firm and no officer, director, agent or employee of a corporation shall knowingly permit or assist the firm or corporation to engage in the business of carrying passengers for hire by airplane without the firm or corporation having first complied with all the provisions of this Chapter.
Whoever violates this Section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months or both.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:10. Unlawful piloting; penalty

RS 45:10 - Unlawful piloting; penalty
No person shall operate or pilot any airplane in which passengers are carried for hire, unless the airplane is used in the business of carrying passengers for hire by a person who has complied with all the provisions of this Chapter.
Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:61. Acquisition of land for gravity irrigation; expropriation

RS 45:61 - Acquisition of land for gravity irrigation; expropriation
Corporations formed under the laws of this state for the purpose of constructing and operating canals for irrigation by gravity have power to acquire all land needed by them for rights of way over the routes selected by them and for reservoirs, and in the event of failure to agree with the owners of the land on the price to be paid for it, they have power to expropriate this land, such power to be exercised in the manner now provided for by the general expropriation laws of the state. This power of expropriation shall not be exercised within any township or section occupied by any canal in actual use, without the consent of the owners of such canal.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:62. Navigable waters, right to utilize

RS 45:62 - Navigable waters, right to utilize
Corporations, operating under R.S. 45:61, have the right to utilize waters of navigable streams and other waters of the state for irrigation purposes, under regulations which the Department of Public Works shall prescribe, for the purpose of preventing unnecessary injury to private and public property.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:63. Public service corporations, status as

RS 45:63 - Public service corporations, status as
Corporations availing themselves of the privileges conferred by R.S. 45:61 and 45:62 and by Art. 13, Section 6 of the Constitution are deemed public service corporations within the territory selected by them for the distribution of water. R.S. 45:61, however, does not confer the right of expropriation upon existing canal systems nor declares existing canal systems public service corporations.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:64. Expropriation for other canals, power of

RS 45:64 - Expropriation for other canals, power of
Domestic corporations, except those provided for in R.S. 45:61, organized with power of building, constructing and operating canals for irrigation, for the transportation of freight and passengers, and for the development of hydro-electric power for lawful uses and purposes, or either of them, have the right to expropriate rights of way for these canals, and for telegraph, telephone, and hydro-electric lines, incident to the conduction, operation and maintenance of these canals, and lands for reservoirs, dam sites, and dykes, forming a part of the irrigation canal and hydro-electric system.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:65. Expropriation; proceedings

RS 45:65 - Expropriation; proceedings
This right of expropriation shall be exercised in the same manner, by the same proceedings, and under the same limitations now imposed by law on railroads and other quasi-public corporations; except through those townships, sections, or properties that are now occupied by irrigation canals.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:66. Public lands; right of way

RS 45:66 - Public lands; right of way
Corporations, described in R.S. 45:64, shall have a right of way not exceeding six hundred feet wide for the building and construction, and laying out of canals, lateral ditches, and conduits, under, over, and across all public lands and not exceeding fifty feet for hydroelectric lines.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:67. Streams and waters, crossing

RS 45:67 - Streams and waters, crossing
Corporations, described in R.S. 45:64, have the right to cross all streams and waters but the construction of these works over, under, and across the same shall not impede or interfere with navigation, drainage, or the natural servitude of the lands on which the rights of way may be exercised.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:68. Highways, crossing or utilizing

RS 45:68 - Highways, crossing or utilizing
Corporations described in R.S. 45:64 have the right to build, construct, lay out, operate and maintain a line of canals, lateral ditches or conduits, and hydro-electric lines, over, under, and across all public rural highways and roads, with the consent of the local authorities having jurisdiction or control upon such terms the authorities may impose.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:69. Telephone, telegraph and electric lines

RS 45:69 - Telephone, telegraph and electric lines
Corporations, described in R.S. 45:64, have the right to construct and maintain along the route of such canal or canals telephone and telegraph lines, and to erect poles for the transmission of electric power for all uses incident to and connected with the operations and purposes of these canals, and hydro-electric line or system.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:70. Consent to become a public utility

RS 45:70 - Consent to become a public utility
No corporation, functioning under R.S. 45:64, shall exercise any right of expropriation or be considered as a public utility until it has filed with the Secretary of State a resolution of its board of directors, duly certified under its corporate seal, agreeing that the corporation shall be a public utility for the distribution of water for irrigation, for the transportation of freight and passengers, and for furnishing hydroelectric power and electricity, or either of them.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:71. Corporations organized after passage of law

RS 45:71 - Corporations organized after passage of law
These rights of expropriation conferred by R.S. 45:64 shall extend to corporations organized under the laws of this state after August 1, 1916, provided the estimates of cost of construction shall exceed three million dollars.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:121. Electric public utility defined

RS 45:121 - Electric public utility defined
The term "electric public utility" as used in this Chapter means any person furnishing electric service within this state, the parish of Orleans excepted, including any electric cooperative transacting business in this state, provided, however, that said term shall not be construed to apply to any person owning, leasing and/or operating an electric generation facility provided such person is not primarily engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution, and/or sale of electricity, and provided that such person: (a) consumes all of the electric power and energy generated by such facility for its own use at the site of generation or at some other location if mutually acceptable agreements to transport such electric power and energy can be reached with each electric public utility whose transmission facilities would be electrically utilized therefor, provided, however, notwithstanding any provision contained herein, there shall be no obligation or duty, expressed or implied, to purchase, to sell, to transport, or to engage in any other type of transaction with respect to the electric power and energy that may be generated by such person, imposed upon any public utility by this Section except as shall be provided in the cogeneration rules and regulations adopted by the Louisiana Public Service Commission pursuant to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978; or, (b) only consumes a portion thereof in such manner and sells the entire remaining portion of such electric power and energy generated to an electric public utility as herein defined; or, (c) sells the entire production of electric power and energy generated by such facility to an electric public utility as herein defined.
Amended by Acts 1970, No. 34, §1; Acts 1982, No. 562, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:122. Extensions of services and facilities, requirement of

RS 45:122 - Extensions of services and facilities, requirement of
The Louisiana Public Service Commission has authority to require electric public utilities furnishing electricity to make extensions of their services and facilities whenever the revenues to be derived from the proposed extensions will be sufficient to provide a fair return upon the fair value of the facilities used and useful in rendering additional service.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:124. Mortgages, power to make; property covered

RS 45:124 - Mortgages, power to make; property covered
Corporations, domestic or foreign, organized for the purpose of developing and transmitting electric energy or power, lighting, heating and other such uses, may, to secure the payment of any obligation contracted by them, mortgage their transmission lines, in whole or in part, and such mortgage, if made of all the transmission lines of the corporation, shall bear upon the entire system of transmission lines and all extensions or additions made during the term of the mortgage, though not completed or contemplated at the time the mortgage is made, and such mortgage may also bind the appurtenances of transmission lines, its equipment, transformers, sub-stations, and all other parts thereof.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:125. Mortgages; recordation; re-inscription

RS 45:125 - Mortgages; recordation; re-inscription
A mortgage made according to R.S. 45:124 upon transmission lines and appurtenances shall bind the same in the several parishes where they may be, by the recordation of the mortgage in the parish where the transmission lines are situated, and such mortgage need not be re-inscribed to continue it in force.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:141. Definitions

RS 45:141 - Definitions
As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(1) "Authorized person" means:
(a) Employees or electrical or communication contractors or other contractors employed for the maintenance of electric lines of an electric public utility with respect to the electrical system owned or operated by such electric public utility; employees or electrical or communication contractors or other contractors employed for the maintenance of electric lines of an electric cooperative with respect to the electrical system owned or operated by such cooperative; employees or electrical or communication contractors or other contractors employed for the maintenance of electric lines of a municipality or other public entity with respect to the electrical system owned or operated by such municipality or other public entity; and the employees of a transportation system with respect to the electrical circuits of such system.
(b) Employees or electrical or communication contractors, including cable television, telephone, and other communication utilities having pole attachment agreements with an owner or operator of high voltage overhead lines with respect to the electrical system of an owner or operator of a high voltage overhead line.
(2) "High voltage" means a voltage in excess of six hundred volts between conductors, or between any conductor and the ground.
(3) "Overhead line" means all bare or insulated electrical conductors installed above ground, except those conductors that are de-energized and grounded or that are enclosed in rigid metallic conduits.
Acts 2001, No. 176, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2002.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:142. Ten-foot restriction; prohibited functions or activities

RS 45:142 - Ten-foot restriction; prohibited functions or activities
No person shall, individually or through an agent or employee, perform any function or activity upon any land, building, highway, waterway, or other premises, if at any time during the performance of any function or activity it is possible that the person performing the function or activity shall move or be placed within ten feet of any high voltage overhead line, or if it is possible for any part of any tool, equipment, machinery, or material used, handled, or stored by such person to be brought within ten feet of any high voltage overhead line or conductor during the performance of such function or activity.
Acts 2001, No. 176, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2002.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:143. Required conditions for commencing work within ten feet of high voltage overhead lines

RS 45:143 - Required conditions for commencing work within ten feet of high voltage overhead lines
A. When any person desires to temporarily carry on any function, activity, work, or operation in closer proximity to any high voltage overhead line than permitted by this Chapter, the person or persons responsible for the work to be done shall promptly notify the owner or operator of the high voltage overhead line prior to the scheduled commencement of the work. Such notice shall be reasonable, considering the work to be done; however, the notice shall not be less than forty-eight hours prior to the scheduled commencement of the work, exclusive of holidays and weekends, except in emergency situations that include police, fire, and rescue emergencies, in which case the notice shall be made as soon as possible.
B. The work shall be performed only after satisfactory mutual arrangements have been negotiated between the owner or operator of the high voltage overhead lines and the person or persons responsible for the work to be done. The owner or operator of the lines shall initiate the agreed upon safety arrangements within three working days and shall complete the work promptly, subject to emergency weather conditions. Arrangements may include placement of temporary mechanical barriers separating and preventing contact between material, equipment, or persons and high voltage overhead lines; temporary deenergization and grounding; temporary location or raising of the lines; or by other means deemed appropriate by the owner or operator of the lines.
C. The actual expense incurred by any operator or owner of high voltage overhead lines in providing clearances established in this Section shall be paid by the person or persons responsible for the work to be done in the vicinity thereof. The owner or operator of the lines may require an estimated payment of such actual expense in advance.
Acts 2001, No. 176, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2002.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:144. Liability for damages

RS 45:144 - Liability for damages
A. If a violation of this Chapter results in physical or electrical contact with any high voltage overhead line, the person violating this Chapter shall be liable to the owner or operator of the high voltage overhead line for all damages, costs, or expenses incurred by the owner or operator as a result of the contact.
B. Nothing contained in this Chapter shall be construed to alter, amend, restrict, or limit the liability of an owner or operator of the high voltage line under current law.
C. Nothing contained in this Chapter shall be construed to alter, amend, restrict, or limit the exclusive remedy provisions of R.S. 23:1032, except for the rights provided to the owner or operator of the high voltage line provided in Subsection A of this Section.
Acts 2001, No. 176, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2002.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:145. Operations and activities exempt

RS 45:145 - Operations and activities exempt
A. The provisions of this Chapter shall not apply to the construction, reconstruction, operation, and maintenance or removal of overhead electrical or communication circuits or conductors, and their supporting structures and associated equipment, of rail transportation systems, electrical generating systems, transmission or distribution systems, or communications systems by an authorized person.
B. The provisions of this Chapter shall not apply to persons engaged in the regular and ordinary activities of farming, ranching, logging, or reforestation who lawfully own, lease, or have the right to operate the land where a line is located.
C. The provisions of this Chapter shall not apply to the employees of the Department of Transportation and Development or to employees of parish or municipal governments performing duties relating to public projects in the course and scope of their employment.
D. The provisions of this Chapter shall not apply to the employees, contractors, or subcontractors of chemical, petrochemical, natural gas and liquid pipelines, gas processing, refining, pulp and paper, and wood products manufacturing facilities when such persons are engaged in activities relating to the operation, maintenance, or expansion of such manufacturing facilities.
Acts 2001, No. 176, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2002.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:146. Rules and regulations

RS 45:146 - Rules and regulations
The Public Service Commission shall promulgate rules and regulations requiring owners or operators of overhead electric utility lines to promote public awareness of the requirements of this Chapter, including but not limited to annual inserts in all customers' billing statements.
Acts 2001, No. 176, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2002.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:161. Declaration of policy

RS 45:161 - Declaration of policy
The business of operating motor vehicles intrastate for hire as common or contract carriers of persons or household goods, waste, or any other classification of carriers, other than a contract carrier by bus, created by law for compensation upon the public highways and bridges of this state is a business affected with a public interest.
Acts 1995, No. 301, §2, eff. June 15, 1995; Acts 1999, No. 631, §2; Acts 2008, No. 724, §2, eff. July 6, 2008.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:164.1. Attorney general; powers, duties; commercial and trade practices of motor carriers; investigations; legal proceedings

RS 45:164.1 - Attorney general; powers, duties; commercial and trade practices of motor carriers; investigations; legal proceedings
A. The attorney general may receive information and documents and may receive and otherwise investigate complaints with respect to the commercial and trade practices of, or acts of, motor carriers transporting household goods for consumers in violation of R.S. 45:164, including any regulations of this state or its agencies adopted hereunder. The attorney general may institute legal proceedings seeking injunctive relief, fines, or other relief and take such other actions provided for herein or which are necessary or incidental to the exercise of his powers and functions. All costs incurred by the state in connection with such legal proceedings shall be borne by the carrier if found to be in violation of R.S. 45:164 or rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
B. Nothing in this Section is intended to be nor shall be construed to constitute any limitation, derogation, or diminution of the jurisdiction or authority of the Louisiana Public Service Commission over motor carriers transporting household goods.
Acts 2008, No. 323, §1, eff. June 17, 2008.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:165. Holding of both certificate and permit prohibited

RS 45:165 - Holding of both certificate and permit prohibited
No person shall at the same time hold, or operate under, both a common carrier certificate and a contract carrier permit; however, this provision shall not prohibit a carrier from holding a common carrier certificate or contract carrier permit of waste and also holding a certificate for the transportation of salt water utilized in oil well exploration and production.
Acts 2012, No. 804, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:166. Amendment, suspension, revocation or transfer of certificate or permit

RS 45:166 - Amendment, suspension, revocation or transfer of certificate or permit
A. Any certificate or permit may, in the discretion of the commission, be amended, suspended or revoked in whole or in part after notice and hearing for failure to comply with any provision of R.S. 45:161 through 45:172, or with any lawful order, rule or regulation of the commission promulgated pursuant thereto, or with any term, condition or limitation of the certificate or permit.
B. No certificate or permit shall be sold, leased or transferred, nor shall such certificate or permit be used by any other than the person, firm or corporation to whom it was originally granted, unless and until it be shown by a clear preponderance and to the satisfaction of the commission that the owner thereof shall have for a period of six consecutive months, immediately prior to the lease transfer or use thereof by one other than the owner, substantially operated all rights under said certificate or permit; or that the failure to so operate was due to bankruptcy, receivership, or other legal proceedings, or to other causes beyond his or its control.
C. Where the owner of a certificate as a common carrier of passengers or freight or of a permit as a contract carrier issued by the Louisiana public service commission has not for a period of six consecutive calendar months operated thereunder to a reasonable extent all rights under said certificate or permit shall cease and terminate and same shall be canceled either upon motion of commission or of any interested person after notice to the owner of said certificate or permit and hearing thereon by the commission.
Amended by Acts 1958, No. 131, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:167. Name and address of operator and certificate or permit number to be displayed

RS 45:167 - Name and address of operator and certificate or permit number to be displayed
There shall be displayed upon every vehicle operated intrastate under the authority of R.S. 45:161 through 172 the name and address of the operator and his certificate or permit number in such a manner as to be plainly discernible.
Acts 2008, No. 724, §2, eff. July 6, 2008.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:168. Consideration to shipper prohibited; rebates; deviation from rate prescribed by commission; penalties

RS 45:168 - Consideration to shipper prohibited; rebates; deviation from rate prescribed by commission; penalties
A. No motor carrier, owner of a certificate or permit, his agent or employee, directly or indirectly, shall offer, permit, or give to any person, directly or indirectly, any commission or other consideration to induce such person to deliver property to be transported; nor shall any shipper, consignee, his agent, or employee receive from any motor carrier, directly or indirectly, any commission or consideration as an inducement to secure the transportation of any property.
B.(1)(a) It shall be unlawful for any motor carrier operating under the jurisdiction of the Louisiana Public Service Commission to charge, demand, collect, or receive a greater, lesser, or different compensation for transportation or for any service in connection therewith between the points enumerated in such tariffs or contracts than the rates, fares, and charges specified in the tariffs or contracts in effect; and
(b) No such carrier shall refund or remit in any manner or by any device, directly or indirectly, or through any agent or broker or otherwise, any portion of the rates, fares, or charges so specified, or extend to any person any privileges or facilities for transportation in intrastate commerce; and
(2) Likewise it shall be unlawful for any shipper or consignee or his agent, servant, representative, or employee to ask for or receive a greater, lesser, or different compensation for transportation or for any service in connection therewith between the points enumerated in such tariffs or contracts than the rates, fares, and charges specified in the tariffs or contracts in effect.
C. REPEALED BY ACTS 1990, NO. 165, §2.
D. Each transaction proscribed in this Section shall constitute a separate offense.
Acts 1960, No. 450, §1; Acts 1984, No. 819, §1; Acts 1990, No. 165, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:169. Fees; disposition; refunds; credits; prescription

RS 45:169 - Fees; disposition; refunds; credits; prescription
A. Every motor carrier as defined in R.S. 45:162 regularly operating, or which shall regularly operate in the state, is hereby required to pay to the Louisiana Public Service Commission a special fee of ten dollars for each motor vehicle or combination of vehicles operated or to be operated by the motor carrier. This special fee shall be paid at the time of the issuance of a common carrier certificate or contract carrier permit and shall be due each year thereafter between January first and February first. In case of emergency or unusual temporary demands for transportation, the fee for additional motor vehicles for a shorter period shall be fixed by the commission in such reasonable amounts as may be prescribed by general rule or temporary order. Every application for a common carrier certificate or contract carrier permit shall be accompanied by a filing fee of fifty dollars and every application for a permit shall be accompanied by a filing fee of twenty-five dollars, which fees shall be in addition to other fees and taxes and shall be retained by the commission whether the common carrier certificate or contract carrier permit be granted or not.
B. If there has been an overpayment or a payment where no fee was due, the commission may credit the whole amount, or any portion of the payment to other liabilities of the carrier to the commission. If no fees or other charges are due, the commission shall make a refund of the payment out of current collections. The commission is not required to make a refund of less than one dollar. All rights to refunds or credits shall prescribe in three years from the thirty-first day of December in the year in which the fee was due.
Amended by Acts 1972, No. 303, §1; Acts 1974, No. 707, §1; Acts 1977, No. 184, §1; Acts 1982, No. 409, §1, eff. Oct. 1, 1982; Acts 1995, No. 301, §2, eff. June 15, 1995; Acts 2012, No. 804, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:169.1. Motor Carrier Regulation Dedicated Fund Account

RS 45:169.1 - Motor Carrier Regulation Dedicated Fund Account
A.(1) All monies recovered by the transportation division of the Public Service Commission, by the collection of intrastate application, registration, and permit fees, and fines collected from penalties, shall be deposited into the state treasury and shall be credited to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund. After satisfaction of the requirements of the Bond Security and Redemption Fund, the treasurer shall deposit into the special statutorily dedicated fund account, hereby created in the state treasury and designated as the "Motor Carrier Regulation Dedicated Fund Account", an amount equal to one hundred percent of the total sums recovered as provided in R.S. 45:168 and 169. Monies deposited into this 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.
(2) The Motor Carrier Regulation Dedicated Fund Account, hereinafter referred to in this Section as the "carrier account", shall additionally consist of all funds received by donation, grant, gift, or otherwise from any source and sums appropriated specifically to it by the legislature for increased regulatory enforcement of motor carriers.
B. The director of the transportation division of the Public Service Commission shall administer the carrier account and shall make disbursements from the carrier account for all necessary and appropriate expenditures.
C.(1) The monies in the carrier account shall be used to defray the cost of regulation of the intrastate motor carrier industry, specifically by the transportation division of the Public Service Commission.
(2) Monies in the carrier account shall be available to increase manpower and physical support for regulation of the intrastate motor carrier industry.
(3) Monies in the carrier account shall be invested by the state treasurer in the same manner as are monies in the state general fund. All interest earned on carrier account money invested by the state treasurer shall be deposited into the state general fund.
D. In any cases where monies from the carrier account are expended in the prosecution of any violation of this Chapter, the attorney general shall institute a civil action to recover from the responsible person all such monies expended from the carrier account. Any monies so recovered shall be paid into the carrier account as provided by this Section.
Acts 1956, No. 120, §1. Acts 1984, No. 819, §1; Acts 1992, No. 871, §1, eff. July 1, 1993; Acts 2007, No. 108, §1; Acts 2008, No. 724, §2, eff. July 6, 2008; Acts 2021, No. 114, §11, eff. July 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:170. Impoundment of vehicles

RS 45:170 - Impoundment of vehicles
A. A vehicle may be impounded by an employee of the commission in the course of and as part of a highway inspection if:
(1) The vehicle is involved in a current infraction and the offending person cannot post the appropriate appearance bond before the close of the working day; or
(2) To enforce collection of a commission monetary sanction or penalty that has become final upon a person determined by the commission to have committed an act that is a violation of this Chapter or of regulations promulgated by the commission.
B. In the event of such impoundment, the commission shall make every reasonable effort to preserve the vehicle and its cargo; however, in no event shall the commission or the state be liable for the loss of said vehicle and cargo, except for intentional acts or acts of negligence during the period of the impoundment.
Acts 1989, No. 72, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:171. Violations; definitions; penalty; report

RS 45:171 - Violations; definitions; penalty; report
A. No person shall violate or knowingly assist in the violation of any of the provisions of this Chapter or any of the rules, regulations, orders, or decrees of the commission promulgated under the terms of this Chapter, or operate as a common or contract carrier without having obtained a certificate or permit from the commission.
B.(1) The term "person" means but is not limited to any carrier, shipper, consignee, consignor, agent, servant, broker, employee, or other natural or legal entity violating any of the provisions of this Chapter.
(2) For purposes of the penalties provided herein, the term "shipper" means the owner of the goods or commodities transported who knowingly assists in a violation by any other person as defined in this Subsection.
C. Whoever violates this Chapter shall be fined by the commission at open hearing not less than one hundred dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars for each violation. The commission in its discretion may assess and impose as costs any actual expenses incurred in the investigation and disposition of an act found to be a violation. This assessment shall be limited to no more than the amount of any monetary fine levied by the commission. Such expenses may include transportation, lodging, or other costs necessary to conduct a hearing on the act or acts in question. As an additional sanction, the commission in its discretion may order the recovery and forfeiture to the state treasurer of all revenue derived by any person, as defined in this Section, from any violation of the provisions of this Chapter.
D. The commission shall report any revenues or compensation derived by a person, as defined in this Section, from any violation of the provisions of this Chapter to the Louisiana Department of Revenue.
Acts 1990, No. 165, §1; Acts 1997, No. 658, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:173. Contract carriers; liability policy or bond required

RS 45:173 - Contract carriers; liability policy or bond required
Every motor carrier, as defined in R.S. 45:162(10), not exempted by R.S. 45:177, using the highways shall file with the Louisiana Public Service Commission, a liability insurance policy or bond satisfactory to the commission of a company authorized to do business in this state. For contract carriers of passengers, other than a contract carrier by bus, the policy or bond shall be not less than five thousand dollars for the death or injury to any one person and thirty thousand dollars total liability for any one accident, and for contract carriers of property the policy or bond shall be not less than five thousand dollars for the death or injury to any one person and ten thousand dollars total liability for any one accident.
Acts 1995, No. 301, §2, eff. June 15, 1995; Acts 1999, No. 631, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:174. Cancellation of bond or policy

RS 45:174 - Cancellation of bond or policy
The policy or bond provided in R.S. 45:173 shall provide that ten days' notice in writing shall be given to the commission of intention to cancel the policy or bond. If the policy or bond is cancelled, or in the event it should lapse for any reason, the contract carrier by motor vehicle shall replace the policy or bond with another.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:176. Violation of bond requirements

RS 45:176 - Violation of bond requirements
Whoever violates R.S. 45:173 through R.S. 45:177 shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both, and each day of operation in violation of the above provisions shall be a separate offense.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:177. Exemptions; policy or bond

RS 45:177 - Exemptions; policy or bond
Nothing in R.S. 45:173 through 45:176 shall apply to motor vehicles operated:
(1) In transporting school children and teachers;
(2) In hauling farm products exclusively;
(3) Exclusively for transporting workers to and from any factory or mill located in this state;
(4) For hotel passengers or baggage when used exclusively for its patrons and employees;
(5) And owned by the United States, District of Columbia, any state or any political subdivision of this state;
(6) Or owned, leased, used, or controlled by any farmer, group of farmers or any legally incorporated farmer-owned and controlled cooperative association while engaged in the transportation of his or its agricultural commodities and products, or in the transportation of supplies to his farm, or the farms of the members of such association;
(7) By electric power derived from a fixed overhead wire, furnishing local passenger transportation similar to street railway service;
(8) Exclusively in carrying fruit, live stock poultry products, buttermilk, fresh milk and cream, meats, butter and cheese, produced on the farm, fish (including shell fish), cotton, cotton seed, cotton seed hulls and cotton seed meal, other horticultural or agricultural commodities (not including manufactured products thereof), naval stores and forest products, including lumber, raw materials used in the manufacture of naval stores (but not including manufactured products thereof) from the point of production to market and between any of the following points: farm, market, gin, warehouse, or mill, while the title is still in the producer, and where the net load does not exceed eighteen thousand pounds. "Other agricultural and horticultural commodities" shall include fertilizer, household goods and other supplies transported to farms and dairies for farm and dairy purposes;
(9) Exclusively in the distribution of newspapers;
(10) Exclusively in hauling for the state highway department, or for any parish, city or town in this state;
(11) Exclusively in hauling gravel or other unmanufactured road building material;
(12) In the transportation of persons or property operating under the authority of a municipal ordinance wholly within a municipality or between contiguous municipalities, or within a zone adjacent to and commercially a part of such municipality or municipalities but not exceeding seven miles from the corporate limits, except when such transportation is under a common control, management or arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment to or from a point without such municipality, municipalities, or zone.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:178. License for carrier's vehicle; certificate from public service commission required

RS 45:178 - License for carrier's vehicle; certificate from public service commission required
A. Neither the vehicle commissioner nor any public official charged with the sale and issuance of license plates and registration certificates for motor vehicles shall sell or issue, or permit to be sold or issued, a certificate or license plate to be used on a motor vehicle of a common or contract carrier in the conduct of such business, unless there is presented a certificate from the Louisiana Public Service Commission certifying that the applicant for the license plate or registration certificate is entitled to use it.
B. Neither the vehicle commissioner nor any public official charged with the sale and issuance of license plates and registration certificates for motor vehicles shall sell or issue, or permit to be sold or issued, a certificate or license plate for a motor vehicle which will be used in the conduct of a business as a motor carrier of passengers pursuant to R.S. 45:164(A) or as a public carrier vehicle as defined in R.S. 45:200.2(2) if the motor vehicle has a reconstructed title as provided in R.S. 32:707 or an equivalent title issued pursuant to the laws of another state.
Acts 2012, No. 566, §2, eff. Oct. 15, 2012.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:179. Unlawful purchase or use of registration certificate or license plate

RS 45:179 - Unlawful purchase or use of registration certificate or license plate
Except as provided for in R.S. 45:172(A)(4), no person engaged in the business of a common carrier or contract carrier shall purchase or use a registration certificate or license plate on any motor vehicle operated by him in conducting such business without presenting to the vehicle commissioner or the public official charged with the selling and issuing of license plates and registration certificates, a certificate from the Louisiana Public Service Commission certifying that he is entitled to use the license plate or registration certificate.
Acts 2012, No. 804, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:180. Penalty for unlawful issuance or purchase of license

RS 45:180 - Penalty for unlawful issuance or purchase of license
Whoever violates R.S. 45:178 or 45:179 shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than thirty days, or both.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 45 - Public Utilities and Carriers › §45:180.2. Classification of wreckers; license exemptions

RS 45:180.2 - Classification of wreckers; license exemptions
Wreckers shall be classified as emergency carriers and shall be exempted from the provisions of R.S. 45:178 and R.S. 45:179.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 462, §1.