Louisiana Code — 40
Browse 2,440 sections in division 40 of the Louisiana code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § RS 40:1. Assistant secretary
- § RS 40:2. State health officer
- § RS 40:3. State health officer; powers
- § RS 40:3.1. Confidentiality of public health investigations; prohibited disclosure and discovery; civil penalties
- § RS 40:4. Sanitary Code
- § RS 40:4.1. Cochon de lait; preparation in traditional manner
- § RS 40:4.2. Jambalaya; preparation in traditional manner
- § RS 40:4.3. Hard- and soft-shell crabs; preparation in traditional manner for public consumption
- § RS 40:4.4. Italian food; preparation in traditional manner for public consumption
- § RS 40:4.5. Exemptions
- § RS 40:4.6. Exemption; benefits for zoos
- § RS 40:4.7. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
- § RS 40:4.8. Voluntary sanitary inspections of food booths
- § RS 40:4.9. Low-risk foods; preparation in home for public consumption
- § RS 40:4.9.1. Louisiana Small Wild Catfish Processor's Act; preparation for direct sale to the consuming public
- § RS 40:4.10. Public notice of infectious medical waste storage by landowner
- § RS 40:4.11. Community-type sewage systems and public water systems; permits
- § RS 40:4.12. Water distribution in certain facilities
- § RS 40:4.14. Not-for-profit entity or charitable organization; receipt or use of certain meats or fish in food or meal distribution
- § RS 40:4.15. Minimum disinfectant residual level of free or total chlorine throughout public water systems; rules and regulations; reporting
- § RS 40:4.16. Water systems; iron and manganese control
- § RS 40:5. General powers and jurisdiction
- § RS 40:5.1. Sanitation; inspection of railroad property
- § RS 40:5.2. Limitations
- § RS 40:5.3. Molluscan shellfish sanitation requirements; opening and closing of molluscan shellfish growing areas; adoption of guidelines to regulate molluscan shellfish industry; authority to collect samples for bacteriological analysis; testing of oysters; Calcasieu Lake
- § RS 40:5.4. Testing of private water wells
- § RS 40:5.5. Sanitary inspections of certain food service establishments; food safety certificates
- § RS 40:5.5.1. Food service establishments; self-service buffets
- § RS 40:5.5.2. Seafood safety
- § RS 40:5.5.3. Seafood Safety Task Force; creation; purpose
- § RS 40:5.5.4. Imported crawfish and shrimp; notice to patrons of food service establishments required
- § RS 40:5.6. Safe drinking water; inspections and tests; cost
- § RS 40:5.6.1. Safe drinking water; pilot program for water testing at schools; reporting; termination
- § RS 40:5.7. Sanitary inspections of individual, privately owned water wells; fees
- § RS 40:5.8. Definitions
- § RS 40:5.9. Enforcement of drinking water regulations; administrative compliance orders; civil actions; receiverships
- § RS 40:5.9.1. Community water system accountability process; creation of letter grade schedule; penalties for failing systems
- § RS 40:5.9.2. Community water system accountability; federal funds
- § RS 40:5.10. Oyster Sanitation Dedicated Fund Account
- § RS 40:5.10.1. Imported Seafood Safety Fund
- § RS 40:5.11. Water fluoridation program
- § RS 40:5.12. Cancer investigation and intervention
- § RS 40:5.13. Rules for administration of medical activities under Emergency Use Authorization
- § RS 40:6. Penalties for violation of state Sanitary Code
- § RS 40:7. Communicable disease epidemic; procedure
- § RS 40:8. Investigations; entry on and inspection of premises; order to compel attendance of witnesses or production of documents
- § RS 40:9. Arrests for violations
- § RS 40:10. Preparation for emergency
- § RS 40:11. Distribution of funds to parish health units or departments
- § RS 40:12. Parish health units
- § RS 40:13. Expenses of parish health units
- § RS 40:14. Parish health units; jurisdiction
- § RS 40:15. Quarantine by parish health officer
- § RS 40:16. Parish health units to act in harmony with state health officer
- § RS 40:16.1. Proceeds of any sale of the state facilities owned by the Louisiana Department of Health, office of behavioral health
- § RS 40:16.3. John J. Hainkel, Jr., Home and Rehabilitation Center; lease
- § RS 40:16.4. Louisiana Department of Health's Facility Support Fund Number 2
- § RS 40:17. Mandatory medical examination; confinement; when allowed; emergency certificate
- § RS 40:18. Communicable disease; isolation and report to state health officer; quarantine
- § RS 40:19. Domicile of parish health unit
- § RS 40:20. Appointment of parish health officer; qualifications; Orleans Parish health director
- § RS 40:21. Establishment of health district; district health officer
- § RS 40:22. Removal of parish or district health officer; Orleans Parish health director
- § RS 40:23. Salaries of parish or district health officers; unclassified
- § RS 40:24. Issuance of warrants by health officer; general duties of officer
- § RS 40:25. Entry on and inspection of premises
- § RS 40:26. Contractual agreement on establishment and maintenance of parish health unit
- § RS 40:27. Salaries and personnel benefits of health unit
- § RS 40:28. Tubercular individuals; free diagnostic clinics
- § RS 40:29. State health laboratories; fee schedule
- § RS 40:30. Provisions of this Chapter not to affect Louisiana Department of Agriculture
- § RS 40:31. Costs of court not charged against state or parish health officers
- § RS 40:31.1. Reye's Syndrome disease; mandatory reporting
- § RS 40:31.3. Adolescent school health initiative; health centers in schools
- § RS 40:31.11. Purpose
- § RS 40:31.12. Definitions
- § RS 40:31.13. Development of immunization registry and tracking and recall system; standards
- § RS 40:31.14. Authorization of release of immunization records
- § RS 40:31.15. Rulemaking
- § RS 40:31.16. Parental consent; parental responsibility for immunization; exemptions
- § RS 40:31.21. Legislative intent, declaration of policy
- § RS 40:31.22. Admission; general provisions
- § RS 40:31.23. Admissions; voluntary; involuntary
- § RS 40:31.24. Ex parte judicial order for custody; grounds; civil liability
- § RS 40:31.25. Adversarial judicial commitment; procedure
- § RS 40:31.26. Judicial hearings; general provisions
- § RS 40:31.27. Judicial commitment; review
- § RS 40:31.28. Discharge
- § RS 40:31.29. Costs
- § RS 40:31.31. Definitions
- § RS 40:31.31.1. Export certificate fees
- § RS 40:31.32. Individual sewage fees
- § RS 40:31.33. Safe drinking water fee; exemptions
- § RS 40:31.34. Infectious waste permits
- § RS 40:31.35. Commercial seafood permit fee
- § RS 40:31.36. Health unit fees
- § RS 40:31.37. Retail food establishment fees
- § RS 40:31.38. Office of public health reinspection fees
- § RS 40:31.39. Dairy farms and plants; milk plants; permit fees; definitions
- § RS 40:31.40. Plan review fees
- § RS 40:31.41. Legislative intent
- § RS 40:31.42. Definitions
- § RS 40:31.43. Louisiana Birth Defects Surveillance System
- § RS 40:31.44. Confidentiality
- § RS 40:31.45. Report
- § RS 40:31.46. Advisory board
- § RS 40:31.47. Cooperation by other state entities
- § RS 40:31.48. Rules and regulations
- § RS 40:31.61. Legislative intent
- § RS 40:31.62. Definitions
- § RS 40:31.63. Parkinson's Disease Registry
- § RS 40:31.64. Director
- § RS 40:31.65. Authority and responsibility of the director
- § RS 40:31.66. Confidentiality; cooperation with other state and federal entities
- § RS 40:31.67. Funding
- § RS 40:31.68. Rules and regulations
- § RS 40:31.71. Legislative findings
- § RS 40:31.72. ALS disease surveillance system
- § RS 40:31.73. Confidentiality
- § RS 40:31.74. Report
- § RS 40:32. Definition of terms
- § RS 40:33. Vital records registry; establishment; general authority and duties of state registrar
- § RS 40:34. Vital records forms
- § RS 40:34.1. Original birth certificate; required contents
- § RS 40:34.2. Original birth certificate; required contents; name of child
- § RS 40:34.3. Original birth certificate; required contents; sex of child
- § RS 40:34.4. Original birth certificate; required contents; circumstances of birth
- § RS 40:34.5. Original birth certificate; required contents; name of father
- § RS 40:34.5.1. Three-party acknowledgment of paternity; effect
- § RS 40:34.5.2. Form and notice for three-party acknowledgment of paternity
- § RS 40:34.6. Original birth certificate; required contents; name of mother
- § RS 40:34.7. Original birth certificate; required contents; other information regarding the parents
- § RS 40:34.8. Original birth certificate; required contents; certification of attendant
- § RS 40:34.9. Original birth certificate; required contents; attestation of local filing
- § RS 40:34.10. Death certificate; required contents
- § RS 40:34.11. Paternity acknowledgement affidavit; required contents
- § RS 40:34.12. Provision of information to aid implementation of program of family support
- § RS 40:34.13. Registration of acknowledgements and adjudications of paternity
- § RS 40:35. Failure to complete medical certification
- § RS 40:36. State registrar as custodian
- § RS 40:37. Local registrars; duties
- § RS 40:38. Certified copies; issuance
- § RS 40:39. Issuance of short-form birth certification cards
- § RS 40:39.1. Certified copies of birth certificates and death certificates; clerks of district courts and the Second City Court of the city of New Orleans; Vital Records Conversion Dedicated Fund Account
- § RS 40:40. Fees for certified copies
- § RS 40:41. Disclosure of records
- § RS 40:42. Evidentiary character of certificates
- § RS 40:44. Compulsory registration of births; rejection of certificates
- § RS 40:45. Preparation of birth certificates; by whom made
- § RS 40:46. Amendments to certificate of birth
- § RS 40:46.1. Amended birth certificates; change of biological filiation; general principle
- § RS 40:46.2. Change of maternal filiation; child with unidentified mother
- § RS 40:46.3. Change of maternal filiation; child with identified mother
- § RS 40:46.4. Change of paternal filiation; disavowal of paternity or three-party acknowledgment
- § RS 40:46.5. Change of paternal filiation; contestation and establishment of paternity
- § RS 40:46.6. Change of paternal filiation; marriage and formal acknowledgment
- § RS 40:46.7. Change of paternal filiation; formal acknowledgment alone
- § RS 40:46.8. Change of paternal filiation; judgment of paternity
- § RS 40:46.10. Child born as a result of a surrogacy agreement
- § RS 40:46.11. Review by district attorney
- § RS 40:46.12. Hospital-based paternity program
- § RS 40:46.13. Paternity establishment services
- § RS 40:47. Compulsory registration of deaths and spontaneous fetal deaths (stillbirths)
- § RS 40:48. Abortions (induced termination of pregnancy); birth and death certificates
- § RS 40:49. Preparation and filing of death and spontaneous fetal death certificate (stillbirth)
- § RS 40:50. Issuance of death certificates; duties of state registrar
- § RS 40:51. Delayed determination of cause of death
- § RS 40:52. Permit for removal, burial, cremation, or other disposition of body for a death in state; requirements to obtain death certificate before removing body out of the continental United States
- § RS 40:53. Foreign permits; death outside state
- § RS 40:54. Prerequisites for permit
- § RS 40:55. Marriage certificate; compulsory registration of marriages
- § RS 40:57. Divorce certificate; registration of divorces and annulments
- § RS 40:58. Fee of clerk of court for divorce and annulment report
- § RS 40:59. Delayed or altered certificates; allowed subject to department regulations
- § RS 40:60. Handling of delayed or altered certificate
- § RS 40:61. Penalties
- § RS 40:61.1. Criminal background investigation
- § RS 40:62. Issuance of new birth certificate after anatomical change of sex by surgery
- § RS 40:62.1. Issuance of new birth certificate for child with mistaken sex designation on original birth record
- § RS 40:63. Abortion, induced termination of pregnancy; purpose
- § RS 40:64. Forms for collection of data
- § RS 40:65. Completion of forms; filing with vital records registry
- § RS 40:66. Failure to complete form; penalty
- § RS 40:67. Persons over twelve years of age; establishment of birth record
- § RS 40:68. Petition
- § RS 40:69. Proof required
- § RS 40:70. Copy of petition and judgment to registrar
- § RS 40:71. Issuance of copy
- § RS 40:72. Record of adoptions prior to July 27, 1938
- § RS 40:73. Certified copy of the new record; sealing and confidentiality of the original birth record; issuance of original birth certificate
- § RS 40:74. Report of annulments of adoption
- § RS 40:75. Adult adoption; name changes
- § RS 40:76. Record of foreign adoptions
- § RS 40:77. Certified copy for adoptive parents; issuance of original birth certificate
- § RS 40:78. Retroactive operation
- § RS 40:79. Record of adoption decree
- § RS 40:91. Title
- § RS 40:92. Certificate of stillbirth; requirements
- § RS 40:93. Gestational carrier data collection; purpose
- § RS 40:94. Forms for collection of data
- § RS 40:95. Completion of forms; filing with vital records registry
- § RS 40:96. Confidentiality
- § RS 40:101. Commemorative certificate of miscarried child; requirements
- § RS 40:381. Title
- § RS 40:382. Findings and purposes
- § RS 40:383. Purposes
- § RS 40:384. Definitions
- § RS 40:385. Benefits not a right
- § RS 40:391. Establishment of local housing authorities
- § RS 40:392. Establishment of authorities
- § RS 40:393. Resolution of governing body
- § RS 40:394. Adoption of a legal name
- § RS 40:395. Evidence of establishment of local housing authority
- § RS 40:396. Area of operation of local housing authority established by municipality
- § RS 40:397. Area of operation of local housing authority established by parish
- § RS 40:398. Concurrent jurisdiction
- § RS 40:399. Continuation of operations after commenced
- § RS 40:400. Cooperative jurisdiction
- § RS 40:401. Vesting of authority's powers in commissioners, voting
- § RS 40:401.1. Housing authority of the parish of St. Landry; commissioners
- § RS 40:402. Executive committees
- § RS 40:403. Responsibility for debts or liabilities of local housing authorities
- § RS 40:404.1. Housing authorities of the cities of Gonzales and St. Martinville; per diem
- § RS 40:405. Exemptions from levy and execution
- § RS 40:406. Exemptions from certain laws
- § RS 40:411. Creation
- § RS 40:412. Area of operation
- § RS 40:413. Increasing area of operation
- § RS 40:414. Effect on local authorities of adoption of consolidated or regional authorities
- § RS 40:415. Prerequisites to adoption of resolution creating or expanding regional or consolidated authority
- § RS 40:416. Public hearings to create regional or consolidated authority or increase its area of operation
- § RS 40:417. Consent of obligees and commissioners of local authority to substitution of regional or consolidated authority, transfer of rights, duties and property
- § RS 40:418. Notification of mayor of adoption of consolidated authority
- § RS 40:419. Transfer of property to regional or consolidated authority; registration
- § RS 40:420. Time of official creation; contents of resolution; resolution as evidence
- § RS 40:421. Decreasing area of operation; conversion to parish or municipal authority
- § RS 40:422. Prerequisites to adoption of resolution decreasing area of operation
- § RS 40:423. Public hearing necessary before decrease
- § RS 40:424. Creditors of agency must consent to decrease
- § RS 40:425. Disposal of property held in eliminated area
- § RS 40:426. Creation of new local authority in parishes and municipalities excluded from regional or consolidated authority
- § RS 40:427. Commissioners of regional or consolidated housing authority; appointment
- § RS 40:428. Terms of commissioners
- § RS 40:429. Certificates of appointment of commissioners
- § RS 40:431. General character of local housing authority powers
- § RS 40:431.1. Jefferson Parish Housing Authority; power of taxation
- § RS 40:432. Examinations and investigations
- § RS 40:433. Issue subpoenas and commissions
- § RS 40:434. Funds and investments
- § RS 40:435. Assessments and planning
- § RS 40:436. Development
- § RS 40:437. Development, operations, and activities
- § RS 40:438. Maintenance of housing developments
- § RS 40:439. Rental of housing and other property
- § RS 40:440. Acquisition and sale of housing and other property
- § RS 40:441. Non-residential and mixed-use properties and facilities
- § RS 40:442. Community facilities
- § RS 40:443. Preservation of affordable housing
- § RS 40:444. Program eligibility, procedures, and requirements
- § RS 40:445. Mortgaging, pledging, encumbering property and assets
- § RS 40:446. Loans, guarantees, tax inducements, mortgage assistance
- § RS 40:447. Forgiveness or compromise of indebtedness
- § RS 40:448. Mixed-income housing
- § RS 40:449. Rental and relocation assistance
- § RS 40:450. Insurance
- § RS 40:451. Indemnification
- § RS 40:452. Services
- § RS 40:453. Local, state, or federal assistance
- § RS 40:454. Private cooperation and assistance
- § RS 40:455. Management contracts
- § RS 40:456. Security of persons and property
- § RS 40:456.1. The Housing Authority of New Orleans; peace officers; appointment, duties, and powers
- § RS 40:457. Resident organizations
- § RS 40:458. Facilities and programs to assist homeless persons
- § RS 40:459. Commercial activities
- § RS 40:460. Benefit plans
- § RS 40:461. Expenditure of public funds
- § RS 40:462. Memberships in associations
- § RS 40:463. Grants, donations and contributions
- § RS 40:464. Elimination or amelioration of slums and blight
- § RS 40:465. Pre-existing powers
- § RS 40:466. Mixed-income development
- § RS 40:467. Bonds and other debt instruments, financing
- § RS 40:468. Issuance of bonds; means for payment
- § RS 40:469. Liability on bonds; debt limitations
- § RS 40:470. Issuance of bonds; type, form and sale of bonds
- § RS 40:471. Signatures validated, presumption of validity of bond
- § RS 40:472. Powers of housing authority; securing payment of bonds or lease obligations
- § RS 40:473. Short-term bond anticipation notes
- § RS 40:474. Underwriter as agent
- § RS 40:475. Enforcing rights of obligee of a housing authority
- § RS 40:476. Power of housing authority to confer additional rights upon obligee
- § RS 40:477. Investment in bonds and authorized for public funds, financial institutions, trusts and fiduciaries
- § RS 40:478. Issuance of debt instruments other than bonds
- § RS 40:479. Taxability of bonds and other debt instruments
- § RS 40:480. Essential governmental purpose
- § RS 40:481. Issuance of debt instruments on behalf of others
- § RS 40:482. Limitations on housing authority powers; not-for-profit operation
- § RS 40:483. Method of operation
- § RS 40:484. Use of income or surplus