Louisiana § RS 33:113.1 - Administrative procedure

§ RS 33:113.1. Administrative procedure

            A. Notwithstanding other provisions of this Subpart or other law to the contrary, the governing authority may adopt an ordinance establishing administrative procedures for approving or certifying certain plats involving minor modifications of existing parcels of land. The categories of such modifications qualifying for such administrative approval or certification are:

            (1) The realignment or shifting of lot boundary lines, including removal, addition, alignment, or shifting of interior lot boundary lines, or the redesignation of lot numbers provided the application meets the following requirements:

            (a) Does not involve the creation of any new street or other public improvement except as otherwise provided in this Section.

            (b) Does not involve more than two acres of land or ten lots of record.

            (c) Does not reduce a lot size below the minimum area or frontage requirements established by ordinance.

            (d) Otherwise meets all the requirements of the subdivision regulations and zoning ordinances.

            (2) Parcels of land where a portion has been expropriated or has been dedicated, sold, or otherwise transferred to the parish or municipality, thereby leaving a severed portion of the original property which requires a redesignation of lot number and establishment of new lot boundary lines.

            B. Notwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph (1) of Subsection A of this Section, such administrative procedures may provide for the dedication, acceptance, relocation, or deletion of public utility servitudes, other than streets, or the deletion of gas, electric, or telephone utility servitudes acquired by private act or pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 19:1 et seq. on the property being resubdivided.

            C. All plats approved or certified by an administrative procedure provided for herein shall designate such fact on the plat and the plats shall be recorded in the conveyance records of the parish. Any plat so approved shall have the same force and effect and legal status of a subdivision application approved by the established legislative process.

            D. Notwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph (A)(1) of this Section, any application in Lafayette Parish for realignment or shifting of lot boundary lines, including removal, addition, alignment, or shifting of interior lot boundary lines, or the redesignation of lot numbers shall not be subject to any restriction based on acreage.

            Acts 1990, No. 699, §1, eff. July 20, 1990; Acts 1999, No. 144, §1, eff. June 9, 1999; Acts 2006, No. 185, §1, eff. June 2, 2006; Acts 2024, No. 503, §1, eff. June 10, 2024.