2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 3:695 — Penalties

§695.  Penalties

A.  Any person who shall hinder or obstruct any inspector in testing, inspecting, tagging or sealing any moisture measuring device under the provisions of this Subpart shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or confined in the parish jail for not more than ninety days, or both.

B.  Failure to register a moisture measuring device, use of an unregistered device in violation of Subsection A of Section 692 of this Subpart, or use of a defective device except as provided in Subsection B of Section 693 of this Subpart shall subject the owner or user thereof to a fine of two hundred dollars a day for each day of violation.

C.  Falsification, transference or alteration in any manner of an official tag or sticker on a moisture measuring device by any person other than an inspector of the department shall be a misdemeanor and shall carry a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or confinement in the parish jail for not more than ninety days, or both.

Added by Acts 1977, No. 23, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1978.