2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 49 — State administration
RS 49:214.34 — Activities not requiring a coastal use permit

§214.34. Activities not requiring a coastal use permit

A. The following activities shall not require a coastal use permit.

(1) Activities occurring wholly on lands five feet above mean sea level except when the secretary finds, subject to appeal, that the particular activity would have direct and significant impact on coastal waters.

(2) Activities occurring within fast lands except when the secretary finds, subject to appeal, that the particular activity would have direct and significant impacts on coastal waters.

(3) Agricultural, forestry, and aquaculture activities on lands consistently used in the past for such activities.

(4) Hunting, fishing, trapping, and the preservation of scenic, historic, and scientific areas and wildlife preserves.

(5) Normal maintenance or repair of existing structures including emergency repairs of damage caused by accident, fire, or the elements.

(6) Uses and activities within the special area established in R.S. 49:214.29(C) which have been permitted by the Offshore Terminal Authority in keeping with its environmental protection plan.

(7) Construction of a residence or camp.

(8) Construction and modification of navigational aids such as channel markers and anchor buoys.

(9) Construction, maintenance, repair, or normal use of any dwelling, apartment complex, hotel, motel, restaurant, service station, garage, repair shop, school, hospital, church, office building, store, amusement park, sign, driveway, sidewalk, parking lot, fence, or utility pole or line, when these activities occur wholly on lands five feet or more above mean sea level or on fast lands except when the secretary finds, subject to appeal, that the particular activity would have direct and significant impacts on coastal waters.

(10) Uses which do not have a significant impact on coastal waters.

B.(1) The secretary shall adopt rules for the implementation of this Section and may, by such rules, specify such other activities not requiring a coastal use permit as are consistent with the purposes of this Subpart.

(2) Nothing in this Subsection shall be construed as otherwise abrogating the lawful authority of agencies and local governments to adopt zoning laws, ordinances, or rules and regulations for those activities within the coastal zone not requiring a coastal use permit and to issue licenses and permits pursuant thereto. Individual specific uses legally commenced or established prior to the effective date of the coastal use permit program shall not require a coastal use permit.

Acts 1978, No. 361, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1979; Acts 1983, No. 705, §4, eff. Sept. 1, 1983; Acts 1984, No. 408, §1, eff. July 6, 1984.

{{NOTE: SEE ACTS 1989, 2D EX. SESS., NO. 6, §7.}}