Water restrictions in Orleans Parish, LA — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
New Orleans does not impose routine day-of-week or odd/even lawn-watering restrictions. The Sewerage & Water Board supplies water and may issue temporary conservation or boil-water advisories, but there is no standing drought-irrigation ban like in arid Western cities.
New Orleans sits in a high-rainfall coastal climate, and neither the City Code nor the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans (SWBNO), which provides the parish's drinking water, runs a permanent watering schedule for residential irrigation. Conservation asks are episodic — tied to water-main breaks, low pressure, or system events, when SWBNO may issue a temporary conservation notice or boil-water advisory. Owners should still follow any active SWBNO advisory. There is no county/parish drought watering ordinance; the parish is coextensive with the city, so SWBNO and City policy govern parish-wide.
No standing watering-schedule penalty exists; ignoring a temporary SWBNO conservation or boil-water advisory is a public-health/utility matter rather than a landscaping code fine.
Other ordinances people look up for this city. Green dot = verified primary-source excerpt.
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It is unlawful to be in a public park or playground supervised by the parkway and park commission between 10:30 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. New Orleans also enforces ...
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The CZO caps spillover light at your property line: no more than 0.5 foot-candle at a residential property line and 1.0 foot-candle at a non-residential or p...
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The CZO requires exterior lighting to be fully shielded and directed downward. Light poles and building-mounted fixtures must use fully shielded luminaires, ...
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Temporary garage/yard sale signs are allowed without a permit but may not exceed 9 square feet each. They may go up no more than 24 hours before the sale and...
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Political and non-commercial message signs are allowed in every zoning district without a permit. They are capped at 6 square feet in residential districts a...
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New Orleans has no special tiny-home category. A permanent tiny house on a foundation is regulated as a dwelling or accessory dwelling unit under the CZO and...
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