Shreveport, LA Code Violation Reporting: Response Times (2026)

Section 38-31 defines an inoperable vehicle as one that can't legally be driven on public streets, whether because it's unlicensed, wrecked, dismantled or simply incapable of moving under its own power, and subsection (b) bars parking, storing or depositing one anywhere outside a fully enclosed garage. Subsection (c) is the response-time provision: whenever a complaint is made to the department of property standards, or the department becomes aware of a violation of the section, the department must serve a written notice informing the person of the violation and directing compliance within ten days following receipt of the notice.

That ten-day clock runs from the date the notice is received, not the date the complaint was filed, and the recipient can appeal the notice to the environmental court under section 38-105 instead of complying. If the ten days pass with no compliance and no timely appeal, or if the vehicle's owner can't be found, or the property owner is a nonresident of the parish, subsection (d) lets the division of code enforcement enter the property and remove the vehicle itself, billing the removal cost against the property.

This ten-day framework is specific to inoperable-vehicle complaints under section 38-31 rather than a general service-level standard for every kind of property-standards complaint filed with the city.