Jefferson Parish, LA Mobility & Curb Rules: Red-Light Cameras (2026)
Key Facts
- Program
- Automated red-light camera enforcement, Ch. 36 Art. XI
- Adopted
- Ord. No. 23083, June 20, 2007
- Penalty range
- $75 minimum, $175 cap with costs
- Response window
- 30 days to pay or contest
- Late penalty
- minimum $25 additional
- DMV/insurance reporting
- none (§ 36-313)
- Suspended during
- declared parish evacuations (§ 36-314)
Summary
Jefferson Parish's automated red-light camera program fines the registered owner between $75 and $175 per violation, with 30 days to pay or contest. There is no companion school-zone speed camera program; the parish's only other photo enforcement targets vehicles that pass a stopped school bus.
Sec. 36-309. Imposition of penalty for violations. The parish council finds and determines that a vehicle that proceeds into an intersection when the traffic signal for that vehicle's direction of travel is emitting a steady red signal damages the public by endangering motor vehicle operators and pedestrians alike, by decreasing the efficiency of traffic control and traffic flow efforts, and by increasing the number of serious accidents to which public safety agencies must respond at the expense of the taxpayers. The registered owner of a motor vehicle which proceeds into an intersection at a system location when the traffic control signal for the motor vehicle's direction of travel is emitting a steady red signal shall be liable for a minimum penalty of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) plus any additional costs assessed for the enforcement of this article, but in no event shall the total fine plus enforcement costs exceed one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175.00) per violation.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 20 Update 2).
Full Breakdown
Chapter 36, Article XI of the Code of Ordinances, adopted by Ordinance No. 23083 in June 2007, authorizes photographic traffic signal enforcement systems that capture two images plus a license-plate sub-image of a vehicle running a steady red light at a designated system location (Sec. 36-307). Every alleged violation is reviewed jointly by the camera vendor and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office before a notice goes out, and there is a rebuttable presumption that the registered owner was driving (Sec. 36-308(a)). The owner then has 30 days to pay the fine or contest it; missing that window triggers a second notice plus a minimum $25 late penalty, and continued nonpayment sends the case to the parish's First and Second Parish Courts for review by the district attorney's office, handled like a parking violation rather than a moving one (Sec.
36-308(b)-(d)). The penalty itself is capped: a minimum $75 fine plus enforcement costs, but the fine and costs together cannot exceed $175 per violation (Sec. 36-309). An owner can escape liability by swearing who else was driving, naming that person's address and phone number, though the owner remains on the hook if that person never pays (Sec. 36-310). Critically, Sec. 36-313 blocks any notification to the Louisiana Department of Motor Vehicles or to any insurance company as a result of these camera fines. Enforcement automatically pauses during any parish-president-declared evacuation, voluntary or mandatory (Sec.
36-314), a hurricane-driven feature unique to this program. The parish's only other camera enforcement targets drivers who illegally pass a stopped school bus under Chapter 36, Article XII (Secs. ); this code contains no separate school-zone speed camera ordinance.
Violations & Fines
Failure to pay or contest a red-light camera notice within 30 days adds a minimum $25 late fee and a second notice; continued nonpayment refers the case to the Jefferson Parish First and Second Parish Courts and the district attorney's office for collection, processed the same way as an unpaid parking ticket rather than a criminal moving violation, and carries no DMV or insurance reporting consequence.
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Sources & Official References
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