2009 Louisiana Laws TITLE 13 Courts and judicial procedure :: RS 13:2493.1 Housing court division; jurisdiction; powers of judge; environmental docket

§2493.1.  Housing court division; jurisdiction; powers of judge

A.  The council of the city of New Orleans is hereby authorized to create, subject to the approval of the majority of the judges of the Municipal Court of New Orleans, the Housing and Environmental Court Division of the Municipal Court of New Orleans, hereinafter referred to as the "housing court division".  In the ordinance creating the housing court division, the said council shall designate the effective date of the creation of said court.  The housing court division shall be assigned, and its jurisdiction shall be limited to, all violations of the provisions of the following:

(1)  The Building Code of the city of New Orleans, Ordinance No. 17,525 C.C.S., as amended.  

(2)  The Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the city of New Orleans, Ordinance No. 4264 M.C.S., as amended.  

(3)  Chapters 28, 30, 37, 48, and 541 of the City Code of the city of New Orleans.  

(4)  The Fire Code of the city of New Orleans, Ordinance No. 4912 M.C.S.

B.  All cases involving violations of the provisions of the Building Code, The Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, or Chapters 28, 30, 37, 48, and 54 of the City Code of the city of New Orleans, or the Fire Code presently pending before the Municipal Court of New Orleans, shall be transferred to the housing court division for further proceedings in accordance with law.

C.  Upon creation of the housing court division, one of the judges of the Municipal Court of New Orleans now provided for by R.S. 13:2492 shall be assigned to serve as the judge of the housing court division of the Municipal Court of New Orleans.  

(1)  Each of the four judges provided for in R.S. 13:2492, one of whom shall be the judge of the housing court division, for the purposes of nomination and election only, shall preside over separate and distinct divisions of the court.  

(2)  The divisions provided for in Subparagraph (1) above shall be designated alphabetically as Division "A", Division "B", Division "C", and Division "D".  The judge senior in point of continuous service shall preside over Division "A", and the other judges of the court shall occupy the other designated divisions according to their respective periods of continuous service.  

Added by Acts 1982, No. 128, §1, eff. July 11, 1982.

1In par. (3) of subsec. A, as the enumeration appears in the original bill and enrolled Act.