St. Martin Parish, LA Ordinances (2026)

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, large trees or limbs can never go on the neutral ground for pickup by the department of public works. The owner of the premises hauls them off at…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, only the current resident of the property or the waste disposal entity authorized by the parish can remove, pick up or transfer recyclables left at…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, residents must bring registered containers and carts in from the curbside or roadside within 24 hours after collection. In the Stephensville-Belle…

Sec. 36-4 compels every residential household in the unincorporated areas of St. Martin Parish to receive and pay for waste disposal collection under the terms the parish council…

Sec. 36-7 makes it unlawful for a property owner in unincorporated St. Martin Parish to allow, knowingly or unknowingly, trash, refuse or garbage to be dumped on the property. A…

Sec. 36-11 bars placing large trees or limbs, scrap metal, large lumber refuse and other solid waste, including large dead animals, on the neutral ground for department of public works…

In the Stephensville-Belle River Area of unincorporated St. Martin Parish, all solid waste must be stored so it does not attract, harbor or breed insects or rodents. Household cans…

Yard setbacks in unincorporated St. Martin Parish run district by district in the Zoning Ordinance schedule: front yards of 50 feet in A-1 and A-2, 30 feet in R-1, 25 feet in R-2 and…

Unincorporated St. Martin Parish sets building height by zoning district: 35 feet for the main building in R-1, R-2, A-1 and A-2, 50 feet in R-3, R-4 and W-2, and 100 feet in C-2, C-3…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Chapter 34 of the Code treats a massage center, a commercial business not licensed by the state as a massage business, as a sexually oriented…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Sec. 34-4 makes it unlawful to operate a sexually oriented business without a valid license, with a separate license for each place of business…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, a home mechanic who repairs damaged or inoperative vehicles at a private residence, part-time or for a fee, cannot store more than five vehicles in…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, continuous sound on residential property cannot exceed 60 decibels from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. or 50 decibels from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, a domestic animal cannot make more than 60 vocalizations in any ten-minute period, and the decibel limits of Sec. 26-37(a) do not apply to animal…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, the noise article exempts the sound of motor vehicles in motion on a public right-of-way only when they are properly muffled, meaning fitted with a…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, power tools and landscaping and yard maintenance equipment cannot be operated on residential property between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., and all…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, amplified music cannot be plainly audible 50 feet from the source property line, and on a bass complaint the sound measured inside the…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, construction and demolition activities, excluding emergency work, cannot be performed between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. on weekdays or between 10:00…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, continuous sound cannot exceed 60 decibels on residential property from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. or 50 decibels from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., and…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, a home occupation is an accessory use of a service character run inside a dwelling by a resident. It must stay clearly secondary to…

Sec. 8-2(b)(7) adopts the National Electrical Code in unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, as part of the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code. The Sec. 8-5 electrical…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, Sec. 8-1 forbids constructing any structure without a permit from the parish building permit agent. Residential new construction…

Unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, adopts the Louisiana State Plumbing Code in Sec. 8-2(b)(5), and the state health officer keeps his own enforcement authority over it. The…

Developments in unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Louisiana must be drained to numeric storm standards set in St. Martin Parish Code § 14-102. Subsurface storm sewers are designed for…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, a building permit site larger than one acre needs a stormwater pollution prevention plan (SWPPP) that identifies sediment sources and…

Unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Louisiana prohibits fill, new construction, substantial improvements and other development in the adopted regulatory floodway unless a Louisiana…

New residential, nonresidential and manufactured home structures in a special flood hazard area of unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Louisiana must have the lowest floor one foot above…

Building a fence in unincorporated St. Martin Parish falls under the permit requirement for any structure. Code § 8-1 bars construction without a permit from the parish building permit…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, the Code's loitering provisions sit in Chapter 34 and apply to sexually oriented business premises. Under Sec. 34-15 the operator must post…

Section 22-16 of the St. Martin Parish Code bans riding bicycles, skateboards, roller skates, in-line skates, scooters, three or four wheelers, motorcycles, dirt bikes, or similar…

Unincorporated St. Martin Parish splits farmland into two Zoning Ordinance districts: A-1 for floodprone, marginal land and A-2 for field crops and range land. A-2 permits farms and…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, the Parish Council can condemn and demolish an abandoned building that is dilapidated and dangerous, after written notice served at least ten days…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, Sec. 6-26 requires every owner or attendant to keep a domestic animal under restraint at all times. Away from the owner's property the…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, Sec. 6-31 bars any person from owning, possessing, selling or keeping an exotic animal or a wild animal except in strict compliance with…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, dogs are regulated by behavior, not breed: Article III of Chapter 6 names no breed. A dangerous dog is one declared so after unprovoked…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, Article VI of Chapter 6 bans feeding alligators. No person can purposely or knowingly feed or bait an alligator, or leave refuse…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Sec. 32-1 makes it unlawful for an owner of property abutting a parish road to let trees, shrubs, structures or anything whatsoever extend over or…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Sec. 32-2 requires a parish permit before anyone builds a bridge, driveway or culvert-type crossing in, over or upon a road drainage channel, ditch…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Section 22-12 bars intentionally parking so as to obstruct a driveway entrance or exit on a road owned or maintained by the parish council. Section…

Parking in unincorporated St. Martin Parish is banned in places designated by ordinance, on school-zone road areas during the days and times the ordinance sets, and past 30 minutes…

A vehicle left idle for 60 days on public property outside incorporated municipalities in St. Martin Parish, once certified by the sheriff, a deputy, or the parish council president…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, the sponsor, owner or promoter of any gathering expected to exceed 5,000 people must apply for and receive a permit at least 90 days before the…

The outdoor pavilion at Paul Angelle Park can be used only under a written agreement approved and signed by the St. Martin Parish president, and only for a fund-raising or civic event…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, the Sec. 8-5 building permit schedule lists Swimming Pools by name at $3.50 per $1,000.00 based on the cost of construction. The same…

St. Martin Parish levies a four percent tax on the fees charged to transient guests for hotel rooms, motel rooms, bed and breakfast facilities, camping facilities, and houseboats…

Public parks and recreational facilities owned, maintained or operated by the St. Martin Parish Government close from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. every day, with public use allowed only…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, no food or food product may be prepared or sold within Paul Angelle Park, including the pavilion, and the ban names barbeques, crawfish boils and…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, a shed needs a building permit from the parish building permit agent before construction starts. Under St. Martin Parish Code § 8-5…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, section 26-10 bars hauling construction materials, brush, limbs, trees, leaves, tires, trash or other refuse onto property and then burning it…

In unincorporated St. Martin Parish, an occupant cannot let noxious weeds or grass stand over 12 inches, the owner of a vacant lot cannot let them pass two feet, and every lot in a…

Building a solar farm in unincorporated St. Martin Parish requires a parish permit under Section 20-402 before construction, expansion, or substantial alteration. A solar farm is a…