2015 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 37 - Professions and Occupations
RS 37:33 - Provisional license; issuance; term; probation or parole

§33. Provisional license; issuance; term; probation or parole

A.(1) An ex-offender may apply to any entity issuing licenses to engage in certain fields of work pursuant to state law for a provisional license to engage in the particular field of work for which the entity issues licenses.

(2) The licensing entity shall issue the provisional license for which the applicant applied and is otherwise qualified to receive.

B. The licensing entity issuing the provisional license shall determine the term for which the provisional license shall be valid; however, in no event shall a provisional license issued pursuant to this Chapter be valid for fewer than ninety days nor more than three hundred sixty days.

C. The licensing entity may require up to two years to have passed since an applicant's last conviction or release from incarceration in order for the applicant to qualify for the provisional license.

D.(1) An applicant who is on community supervision and who is issued a provisional license pursuant to this Chapter shall provide the licensing entity the name and contact information of the person at the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, division of probation and parole, to whom he reports. If the applicant reports to the probation or parole department of another state, he shall provide the licensing entity the name and contact information of the person at that particular department to whom he reports.

(2) The licensing entity shall notify the probation or parole division or department and court in which the holder's offense was adjudicated that a provisional license has been issued to the applicant.

Acts 2014, No. 809, §1, eff. June 19, 2014.