2021 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes
§140.33. Enforcement and remedies
RS 140.33 - Enforcement and remedies
The city council and the police jury may provide for the enforcement of any ordinance enacted under this Sub-part. A violation of any such ordinance is hereby declared a misdemeanor. In case any building or structure is or is proposed to be erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, converted, or maintained, or any building structure, or land is or is proposed to be used in violation of any ordinance enacted under this Sub-Part, the building inspector, permit and zoning clerk, municipal or parish counsel, or other appropriate authority of the municipality or of the parish, or any adjacent or neighboring property owner who would be specifically damaged by such violation, may, in addition to other remedies, institute injunction, mandamus, or other appropriate action or proceeding to prevent such unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, conversion, maintenance, or use, or to correct or abate such violation, or to prevent the occupancy of such building, structure, or land.
NOTE: §140.33 as amended by Acts 2020, No. 294, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
RS 140.33 - Grant of power
For the purposes of promoting the public health, safety, morals, convenience, order, prosperity, and general welfare, the city council is hereby empowered, in accordance with the conditions and procedures specified in this Subpart, to adopt housing codes prescribing minimum standards for the area, volume, light, air, ventilation, illumination, occupancy and density of occupancy, and sanitation of dwellings and dwelling places; to adopt building codes, plumbing codes, electrical codes and related measures to regulate the construction, reconstruction, alteration, extension, conversion, or maintenance of buildings; to regulate by building and housing codes or other measures or ordinances conditions of sanitation, including requirements for water supply and sewerage disposal and drainage; and to adopt such other ordinances, regulations, and plans as, in their judgment, are necessary to effect the rehabilitation of substandard dwellings and blighted areas within the municipality.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §33; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
