Ouachita Parish, LA Ordinances (2026)

Ouachita Parish regulates storm drainage across the unincorporated parish under Code Chapter 21, Article II, outside Monroe and West Monroe city limits. Nobody may alter a natural or…

Any construction or land-disturbing development inside an area of special flood hazard in unincorporated Ouachita Parish needs a development permit before work starts, per Sec. 21-102…

Every site development project in unincorporated Ouachita Parish must carry a stormwater pollution prevention plan naming specific erosion-control measures, per Sec. 19½-74 of the…

New and substantially improved buildings in an Ouachita Parish flood hazard area must have their lowest floor set at least one foot above the 100-year base flood elevation, per Sec…

Minors under 17 may not be in public in unincorporated Ouachita Parish between 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. Monday through Thursday, or between midnight and 5:00 a.m. on Friday, Saturday…

Ouachita Parish Code Sec. 11-60 closes Cheniere Lake Park Area Six to the public every night at 9:00 p.m., reopening at 4:00 a.m. Being on the property during those hours without the…

Ouachita Parish requires temporary signs, including residential garage-sale signs, to come down within 5 days of the event under Sec. 15-33(3). Signs may not be placed on parish…

In unincorporated Ouachita Parish, a permit from the parish building official is required before constructing, altering, moving or demolishing any building, or before touching its…

Ouachita Parish adopts the 2005 National Electrical Code for all electrical work in the unincorporated parish and, under § 3½-107, makes it unlawful to install, alter, repair, or…

Ouachita Parish adopts the Louisiana State Plumbing Code, Part XIV of the State Sanitary Code, as the regulation governing plumbing work in the unincorporated parish, and § 3½-107…

Ouachita Parish requires owners of lots in recognized subdivisions and clearly established residential areas along state highways or parish roads to keep grass and obnoxious weeds cut…

In unincorporated Ouachita Parish subdivisions, no building may sit closer than 20 feet to the front lot line, 10 feet to a side-street line on a corner lot, or 5 feet to a side lot…

Sec. 14-5 bars tractor-trailers and commercial trucks over 30 feet in body length from seven named unincorporated parish roads, including Tanglewood, Dellwood and Charmingdale Drives…

Storing or abandoning a junked, wrecked, or inoperable vehicle on any property in unincorporated Ouachita Parish violates Code of Ordinances Sec. 8-3. The police jury office posts a…

Sec. 14-2 governs stopping, standing and parking on parish roads outside incorporated municipalities: vehicles must clear the traveled roadway when practicable, leave a 200-foot clear…

Any private cut, excavation, crossing, or facility installed in a parish road right-of-way in Ouachita Parish needs a permit from the director of public works under Code Sec. 19-4…

Ouachita Parish makes it unlawful to obstruct, change, or close any parish road, including the roadside right-of-way where sidewalks would sit, under Code Sec. 19-5. The ban covers…

Ouachita Parish Code Sec. 8-1 bans dumping trash, rubbish or waste material of any kind into parish ditches, drains, water outlets, another person's property, cemeteries, or any bayou…

In unincorporated Ouachita Parish, Code Sec. 8-29(a) requires all solid waste to be collected, conveyed and disposed of through franchise permit agents, with exceptions for households…

Ouachita Parish makes it unlawful to play music or operate phonographs, radios, amplifiers or loudspeakers that produce sound exceeding 100 decibels measured within 15 feet of a…

Between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., Ouachita Parish's noise ordinance cuts the allowable sound level in half: music, radios, amplifiers and similar devices may not exceed 75 decibels…

Ouachita Parish makes it a nuisance infraction for a dog owner or keeper to let their dog bark in a manner that would foreseeably disturb or alarm the public, under Section 3-45(3)…

Ouachita Parish bans smoking in the unincorporated parish to the full extent of Louisiana's Smokefree Air Act, but goes further than the state law by stripping out the outdoor-patio…

Ouachita Parish makes it unlawful to stand or stay on the road surface of any public road in the unincorporated parish to solicit contributions or purchases from motorists stopped at…

In unincorporated Ouachita Parish, licensed alcohol dealers may not sell alcoholic beverages for consumption, or allow patrons to drink, on the sidewalk, street curb, or street…

Ouachita Parish Code § 3½-34 makes every occupant of a dwelling responsible for disposing of garbage and organic waste that could feed rodents in approved containers, and for…

Ouachita Parish does not require a building permit to install a fence six feet or less in height under § 3½-123(b)(1)b; a taller fence falls under the parish's general…

Ouachita Parish does not require a building permit for a retaining wall four feet or less in height, measured from the footing to the top, under § 3½-123(b)(1)c, unless the wall…

Ouachita Parish regulates horses, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, donkeys and mules, not chickens or other fowl, which Section 3-30(b) expressly excludes from the range rider's roundup…

All unincorporated Ouachita Parish is a designated dog control zone under Section 3-43(a). Away from its owner's premises, a dog must be leashed and under control whenever it is on…

Ouachita Parish has no breed ban; instead Section 3-47 lets the animal control authority declare an individual dog dangerous or potentially dangerous based on probable cause tied to…

Ouachita Parish does not require every dog or cat owner to sterilize their pet. It does require it of anyone adopting an unredeemed impounded animal: Section 3-55(d) conditions…

Ouachita Parish bans burning any material that releases regulated contaminants within 100 feet of a residential structure in the unincorporated parish under Sec. 15-16. A second rule…

Ouachita Parish Code § 3½-34 bars any owner-occupant, landlord, or sublessor from letting a dwelling unit for occupancy, and bars leaving a vacant dwelling standing, unless it complies…

Ouachita Parish requires a building permit under § 3½-123(a) before constructing a residential swimming pool in the unincorporated parish, though § 3½-123(b)(1)g exempts prefabricated…

Ouachita Parish exempts one-story detached accessory buildings such as tool and storage sheds and playhouses from a building permit only if their floor area is 120 square feet or less…

Anyone peddling, hawking, or taking retail orders door-to-door, store-to-store, or from a temporary display in unincorporated Ouachita Parish must hold an occupational license under…

Ouachita Parish's property standards board can order the demolition and removal of any structure in the unincorporated parish found substandard, at the owner's cost, under Section…