2014 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality
RS 30:2522 - Definitions

§2522. Definitions

As used in this Part, the following words have the meanings ascribed to them unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) "Commission" means the Louisiana Litter Reduction and Public Action Commission.

(2) "Department" means the Department of Environmental Quality.

(3) "Dispose" means to throw, discard, place, deposit, discharge, burn, dump, drop, eject, or allow the escape of a substance.

(4) "Litter" means all waste material except as provided and defined in R.S. 30:2173(2), including but not limited to disposable packages, containers, sand, gravel, rubbish, cans, bottles, refuse, garbage, trash, cigarettes, cigarette butts, cigars, cigarillos, cigar or cigarillo tips, debris, dead animals, furniture or appliances, automotive parts including but not limited to tires and engines, trailers, boats and boating accessories, tools and equipment, and building materials, roofing nails, or other discarded materials of any kind and description. While being used for or distributed in accordance with their intended uses, litter shall not include political pamphlets, handbills, religious tracts and newspapers, and other similar printed materials, the unsolicited distribution of which is protected by the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution of Louisiana. Litter shall not include agricultural products that are being transported from the harvest or collection site to a processing or market site if reasonable measures are taken to prevent the agricultural product from leaving the transporting vehicle. Litter shall also not include recyclable cardboard being transported in compressed bundles to processing facilities. "Agricultural product" as used in this definition means all crops, livestock, poultry, and forestry, and all aquacultural, floracultural, horticultural, silvicultural, and viticultural products.

(5) "Local governing authority" means the governing authority of the parish or the governing authority of the municipality in which the littering offense was committed.

(6) "Public or private property" means the right-of-way of any road or highway, levee, any body of water or watercourse or the shores or beaches thereof, any park, playground, building, refuge, or conservation or recreation area, and residential or farm properties, timberlands, or forests.

(7) "Section" means the litter reduction and public action section located within and acting through the Department of Environmental Quality.

Acts 1986, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 32, §1; Acts 1989, No. 687, §1; Acts 1989, No. 768, §3; Acts 1992, No. 655, §1; Acts 1995, No. 1019, §§1, 9; Acts 1997, No. 27, §1; Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 148, §3; Acts 1999, No. 303, §1, eff. June 14, 1999; Acts 2003, No. 950, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 2004; Acts 2006, No. 234, §1; Acts 2014, No. 100, §1.