New Orleans, LA

New Orleans' Building Code sets structural and safety rules for every fence: posts spaced no more than eight feet apart and embedded in concrete under § 427.1, no razor wire or barbed…

Orleans Parish treats retaining walls as structures requiring a building permit from the Department of Safety and Permits. The CZO fence-and-wall height rules govern walls, and where…

The CZO does not ban common fence materials citywide, but front-yard fences must be open fences and, in certain districts, the CZO limits fences to specified materials: iron, wood…

Louisiana Civil Code Articles 685 through 688 establish statewide rules for boundary fences, party walls, and shared fence costs between adjacent landowners. These civil code…

New Orleans's nuisance code requires every property owner, occupant or lessee to cut and mow grass and weeds so they never rise above ten inches, under City Code § 66-312. Violators…

New Orleans requires written approval from the Department of Parks and Parkways before anyone cuts, prunes, treats or removes a tree on city property or in the public right-of-way. The…

Residents can ask the Department of Parks and Parkways in writing to prune or cut back a city tree adjoining their property under Code § 106-219, but the work must be done by a…

New Orleans has no ordinance banning home composting, so residents may compost yard and food scraps. Composting must not create odor, rodent, or nuisance conditions, and dumping grass…

New Orleans requires three separate permits before any dwelling unit can operate as a short-term rental: an owner permit, an operator permit, and, for any platform that books stays, a…

New Orleans requires every short-term rental owner permit holder to carry at least $1,000,000 in commercial general liability insurance per occurrence for each dwelling unit rented…

New Orleans doesn't set its own numeric parking-space count for short-term rentals; instead, City Code § 26-617(c)(4) requires every owner-permit application to include a site plan…

New Orleans doesn't require the owner personally to live in a non-commercial short-term rental, but it does require the designated operator to reside there: City Code § 26-620(a)(1)e…

New Orleans requires the licensed operator of a non-commercial short-term rental to actually live on the property - section 26-620(a)(1)e makes residency a legal duty, not just an…

New Orleans makes short-term rental permit revocation automatic, not discretionary, once a hearing officer finds three separate violations of any one of fifteen listed duties…

Every New Orleans short-term rental carries a stack of city fees on top of state and local taxes: a $50 non-refundable application fee, an annual owner permit fee of $500…

Short-term rentals may not exceed the guest-bedroom, guest-occupancy, and density limits in the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance. Generally occupancy is capped at two guests per bedroom…

New Orleans caps STRs by density rather than nights: in residential and neighborhood-business districts only one large residential STR is allowed per block face, awarded by lottery…

New Orleans bans 'excessive loud sound' from any short-term rental between 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. - defined as noise louder than conversational level or music audible from the…

Any booking platform operating in Orleans Parish must hold a short-term rental platform permit and is legally barred from collecting a fee for any booking at a listing that lacks a…

New Orleans requires every pool, defined broadly as any structure holding water deeper than 18 inches or covering more than 150 square feet, to be surrounded by a fence or barrier at…

New Orleans regulates any above-ground or in-ground pool holding water deeper than 18 inches or covering more than 150 square feet under City Code § 26-448. Owners must keep the pool…

New Orleans allows backyard hens: the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance permits up to six chickens as an accessory use without an acreage requirement. Roosters are prohibited citywide, a…

City Code § 18-341 bans molesting, killing, trapping, hunting, or robbing the nests of any bird in a public square, park, or one of the code's 16 named bird sanctuaries. Section 18-339…

New Orleans Code § 18-7 flatly bans keeping any wild or exotic animal as a pet inside city limits, and § 18-8 bars offering one for sale as a pet. The only carve-out is a sale between…

City Code § 18-306 requires every dog over six months old to be spayed or neutered unless the owner holds an intact-dog permit. Division 5 backs the mandate with escalating per-dog…

New Orleans exempts sterilized, ear-tipped "community cats" from licensing and confinement, but every privately owned indoor/outdoor cat must be microchipped or ear-tipped under §…

New Orleans has no breed ban. City Code § 18-294 expressly says the municipal court judge classifying a dog as potentially dangerous, dangerous, or vicious "shall not base the…

New Orleans does not ban pet stores from selling dogs or cats, but § 18-15 requires all rabbits sold or adopted in Orleans Parish to be spayed or neutered first, bans raffling or…

New Orleans makes it unlawful to feed pigeons or any bird within the four-block area around Jackson Square bounded by Decatur, St. Peter, Royal and St. Ann Streets. Tossing bread…

City Code § 18-14 requires every cat and dog to stay inside a secure four-foot fence or on a proper tether unless the owner is present, and licensed, vaccinated dogs off the property…

Every beekeeper in Louisiana must register every colony and apiary with the Department of Agriculture and Forestry on or before October 1 each year, or before bringing bees into the…

Louisiana has no standalone animal-hoarding statute. Hoarders are charged under simple cruelty to animals, La. R.S. 14:102.1, for failing to provide their animals proper food, drink…

New Orleans prohibits outdoor burning of waste or other combustible material by default, allowing it only in the narrow situations the Fire Prevention Code enumerates, and only where…

New Orleans allows recreational fires in portable chimineas and outdoor fireplaces without a burn permit, but only if an adult supervises, embers are contained by a spark arrester, the…

New Orleans requires anyone producing a commercial fireworks display -- Class B, C, or D pyrotechnic and flame effects -- to hold a license from the New Orleans Fire Prevention…

New Orleans requires every dwelling unit to carry an operable fire detection system and a working carbon monoxide detector under Minimum Property Maintenance Code Sec. 26-230. Alarms…

The Louisiana Liquefied Petroleum Gas Commission regulates propane storage, installation, and dispensing statewide under RS 40:1846 et seq., requiring licensed installers, NFPA 58…

Louisiana authorizes and promotes prescribed burning to reduce wildfire fuel loads. Under La. R.S. 3:17, a burn conducted with a certified prescribed burn manager present on site earns…

New Orleans bans altered mufflers and exhaust systems that push a vehicle's noise past set decibel limits, and it caps moving-vehicle sound at 76 to 90 dBA depending on weight and…

New Orleans bans owners or keepers from letting an animal or fowl make frequent or continuing noise that disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivity. Fines escalate $50, $150…

New Orleans bars operating, running or testing an aircraft engine that creates noise exceeding the Table 1 land-use limits anywhere within an inhabited zone of the city. The rule…

New Orleans bars playing radios, musical instruments or loudspeakers plainly audible to others in parks, playgrounds or recreation areas between 8 p.m. and 10 a.m. unless a permit has…

New Orleans exempts permitted construction and demolition noise from Table 1 limits between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m., but in RS, RD or RM residential districts (or within 300 feet of one)…

Outdoor power equipment (including leaf blowers) may not run in residential zones between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. weekdays (8:00 a.m. weekends); small units are capped at 75 dBA and…

New Orleans caps ambient noise by zone and time of day under City Code § 66-202's Table 1: residential areas can't exceed 60 dBA (L10) / 70 dBA (Lmax) by day, dropping to 55/60 dBA…

New Orleans bars audible sound equipment near residential property between 9 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and 10 a.m., and between 10:30 p.m. Friday/Saturday and 10 a.m. The test is whether…

New Orleans bans stopping or parking in eighteen specific locations without any sign required: within three feet of a driveway curb return, 15 feet of a fire hydrant, on a crosswalk…

New Orleans caps how long vehicles may sit in a signed loading, freight-only, or freight zone: delivery vehicles get 45 minutes, taxicabs hauling merchandise get 25 minutes, and any…

New Orleans can immobilize, tow and impound any unoccupied vehicle carrying an unpaid delinquent parking citation, and the pound releases it only to the registered owner or an…

New Orleans bans parking or storing trucks, semitrailers, buses, tow trucks, dump trucks, and similar large commercial vehicles in every RD, RM, and RS residential district, in B-1…

New Orleans Code § 146-562 requires an operating permit before installing an EV charger in the public right-of-way, limited to homes without off-street parking. Section 146-563…

New Orleans defines an "abandoned vehicle" under City Code § 66-102 as one illegally parked, left inoperable and unattended on public property for more than three days, left on private…

A New Orleans home occupation may display one home occupation sign in accordance with CZO Article 24; additional signs are prohibited. No exterior alteration that changes the…

A New Orleans home occupation must be conducted entirely within the dwelling, be clearly incidental and secondary to residential use, and cannot occupy an accessory structure. It is…

A home daycare is not treated as a home occupation in New Orleans, so it cannot rely on the home-based business acknowledgment. Caring for more than six unrelated children requires a…

Louisiana does not issue a cottage food permit. La. R.S. 40:4.9(A)(1)(a) instead switches off the state Sanitary Code and any other law or regulation requiring particular equipment…

Louisiana issues no microenterprise home kitchen permit. LAC 51:XXIII.501(A) forbids operating a food establishment of any type without a valid permit to operate from the state health…

New Orleans permits accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in most residential districts under the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance. A detached ADU is an accessory structure, so within a…

A backyard shed is a detached accessory structure under the CZO. Within a required yard it may be no more than 14 feet tall and must sit at least 3 feet from any lot line, and all…

Converting a garage into living space is a change of use regulated by the CZO. Converting it to a separate dwelling is treated as an accessory dwelling unit, so it must meet the…

Section 146-533 requires every sidewalk café to hold a sidewalk use permit tied to a validly licensed business. Fees run a $50 application charge plus $350 per table in the core…

New Orleans lets the department of property management waive city facility rental fees for one-day nonprofit, tax-exempt, or educational special events, but Code of Ordinances §…

New Orleans caps carnival parades at 34 permits per season, issues them only to nonprofit carnival organizations, and requires both a police-issued permit with route clearance and a…

Renting a New Orleans gymnasium, pool or recreation center for a party runs $350 for the first four hours plus $100 per additional hour under City Code § 106-171, and the Department of…

Vendors selling goods at a New Orleans street fair or festival need a Department of Finance permit under Code § 110-259, at $500 per location per event for entertainment-tied…

New Orleans requires a city-issued parklet permit before any business converts a parking lane space into customer seating. The department of safety and permits reviews applications…

New Orleans requires written approval from your district councilmember plus a special permit from the Department of Public Works before closing any street for a block party or other…

New Orleans lets any tenant report suspected Healthy Homes or Minimum Property Maintenance Code violations and request a city inspection under § 26-680, then shields that tenant with a…

New Orleans requires every rental housing unit in Orleans Parish to hold a valid certificate of compliance before occupancy. City Code § 26-660 makes it unlawful to rent without one…

Before disturbing lead paint in an occupied building, a New Orleans owner or contractor must warn tenants at least three business days ahead and hand every tenant the EPA pamphlet…

New Orleans applies the 2020 National Electrical Code to all electrical work under Building Code § 2701.1, with the local Chapter 27 amendments controlling in a conflict. Section 2703…

New Orleans requires every elevator, dumbwaiter, hoist, moving stair and chair lift to be inspected by the Director of Safety and Permits and to carry a posted inspection certificate…

Every dwelling unit in New Orleans must have an operable carbon monoxide detector with a long-life sealed battery under City Code § 26-230(b), added by ordinance in October 2024. The…

New Orleans enforces plumbing work through the International Plumbing Code, 2021 Edition, adopted and amended by City Code § 26-15. Any installation, alteration, repair or replacement…

Under City Code § 26-15's amended IBC § 105.1, anyone who intends to construct, alter, repair, move, demolish, or change the occupancy of a building, or install regulated electrical…

New Orleans requires a sequence of Director-conducted inspections during construction -- footing, slab, framing, lath and final -- under Building Code § 110. Work must stay accessible…

New Orleans treats illegal dumping as a vehicle-forfeiture offense: any motor vehicle used to dump or haul illegally dumped material is impounded and subject to forfeiture, with a…

Recycling service in New Orleans carries its own charge under § 138-63, $1.00 a month for residential units and offices, $2.00 for commercial/industrial/manufacturing accounts, billed…

City Code § 146-584 requires a Department of Public Works permit before placing a dumpster or trash container in the public right-of-way, with a $40 application fee, $10/day curb-space…

New Orleans bans yard waste, tree branches and shrubbery from roll carts under § 138-44, routing it instead through the bulky-waste program in § 138-43: bundled limbs under four feet…

New Orleans bills mandatory monthly sanitation service through the Sewerage & Water Board under § 138-57: $24.00 for each residential unit, $24.00 for a business/professional office…

Section 138-39 spells out what New Orleans residents can't do with a cart once it's out for pickup: no loose, uncontained trash, no vandalizing or removing cart lids, no overfilling…

New Orleans bills a monthly recycling service charge on the water bill, $1.00 for residences and offices, $2.00 for commercial/industrial sites, with exemptions for seniors, low-income…

New Orleans requires every eligible home and small business to use a city-owned roll cart under Code of Ordinances § 138-38: 35-gallon carts inside the French Quarter and Downtown…

New Orleans collects normal residential bulky waste once a week, on the second regular collection day, or by on-call request through 311 for larger loads, under § 138-43. Eligible…

New Orleans requires a separate film location permit for any filming that reserves or controls the public right-of-way, uses a public park or other city property, or involves simulated…

The Film Office can approve closing a city street or other public right-of-way for filming under Code of Ordinances § 30-1703(a)(2), but only after consultation with and approval by…

New Orleans confines a film shoot's loudest effects, simulated gunfire and explosions, to what an issued film location permit allows. If that noise happens after 10:00 p.m. or before…

New Orleans bans app-based dockless scooter rental from the public right-of-way outright, permitting scooter rental only from a licensed facility with a physical office where scooters…

New Orleans runs a civil, not criminal, automated traffic enforcement program covering red-light signals, school-zone speed, and school-bus stop-arm violations. The Police Department…

New Orleans bans driving or parking a motor vehicle in a marked bicycle lane except for brief, defined maneuvers like turning or entering a driveway. Violators face a $300 to $500…

Uber and Lyft drivers in New Orleans cannot stop in a designated taxicab stand to pick up or drop off, and none can pick up at Louis Armstrong International Airport without separate…

Louisiana runs golf carts and low-speed vehicles on two separate statutory tracks. La. R.S. 32:299.4(B) prohibits golf carts on public roads outright and then reopens two doors: a…

New Orleans requires pier- or chain-wall-founded homes to set their lowest habitable floor at least 18 inches above the highest point of the curb, per Building Code § 120.2.2, and to…

Building a boat dock, pier or similar structure in Orleans Parish's coastal zone requires a coastal use permit under City Code Sec. 170-221 before work starts. Docks are classified as…

New Orleans' Stormwater Code, Building Code §§ 121.1–121.16, blocks any building, grading or land-development permit until the project meets its requirements. Sites of an acre or more…

New Orleans adopts FEMA's Flood Insurance Rate Maps by ordinance to define its Special Flood Hazard Areas, and Chapter 78 of the Code bars any new construction, substantial improvement…

City Code § 146-582 bars terracing, grading or placing fill on a lot in any way that alters the area's natural drainage pattern or sends runoff onto neighboring property. The…

The State and Local Coastal Resources Management Act of 1978 (La. R.S. 49:214.21 et seq.) requires Coastal Use Permits for development within the Louisiana Coastal Zone. The Department…

New Orleans makes it a misdemeanor to willfully obstruct the free, convenient use of any public sidewalk, street, alley, bridge or building entrance. City Code § 54-401 targets anyone…

New Orleans bars smoking and vaping in specific unenclosed public areas: within five feet of the Bloch Cancer Survivors Plaza and Lafayette Square, in outdoor sports arenas, stadiums…

Within the Downtown Development District, New Orleans bans panhandling after 7:00 p.m. or before 6:00 a.m., within 30 feet of a sidewalk café, within 20 feet of an ATM or bank, and in…

New Orleans bans carrying or drinking from an open glass container on public streets, sidewalks and parks within the French Quarter, the area bounded by Canal, Rampart, Esplanade and…

New Orleans outright bars smoking marijuana anywhere outside a private home or residence under City Code § 66-73.1, part of the Smoke Free Air Act. The ban reaches every street, park…

New Orleans lets the city council remove monuments, statues or plaques from public property after a nuisance-finding hearing, not by staff decision alone. The council must solicit…

New Orleans can declare an occupied home or building 'blighted' or a public nuisance under City Code § 26-237.1 if its condition endangers health, safety or property through fire…

New Orleans requires every real estate owner to keep grass and weeds under 10 inches on their lot and the curb strip in front, rear and alongside it. Violators face a correction…

New Orleans imposes a hotel occupancy privilege tax on every occupied guest room within the city, collected by the hotel operator and remitted to the Department of Finance. Sec…

New Orleans Code §§82-693–82-703 lets the Department of Health inspect and remediate homeless encampments on public property, generally requiring 24-hour written notice before personal…

New Orleans Code § 146-493 bars anyone from depositing, storing or placing tents, household furniture or other semi-permanent structures on streets, sidewalks or other public…

New Orleans makes it unlawful to dump medical waste, hypodermic needles or syringes into any public waterway, lake, bayou, drainage canal or other body of water in the city without…

New Orleans requires every structure and exterior property to stay free of rodent harborage and infestation under Code of Ordinances § 26-161. The owner must eliminate pests before…

Nobody may plant a tree, shrub or plant on New Orleans city property, including neutral grounds and rights-of-way, without prior written permission from the Department of Parks and…

New Orleans bans tattooing outright on Bourbon Street between St. Ann and Canal Streets, part of a Vieux Carré ordinance that also bars massage, adult activity and souvenir/T-shirt…

New Orleans caps non-consent tow fees at the Louisiana Public Service Commission's mandatory tariff and gives vehicle owners a ten-day right to an administrative hearing before NOPD's…

New Orleans requires every junk dealer, anyone buying, selling, or gathering scrap metal, wiring, or other secondhand property for resale, to hold a current Occupational License from…

New Orleans requires a City Council-authorized annual license from the Department of Health to operate any massage establishment. Owners submit fingerprints, photos, a three-year…

New Orleans licenses pawnbrokers through its occupational license tax code rather than a standalone permit article: Sec. 150-963(d)(1) sets a $300.00 minimum annual license tax based…

New Orleans doesn't issue a dedicated tobacco retail license, but City Code §§ 66-75 and 66-77 tightly control where a retailer can operate: no tobacco sales within 300 feet of any…

New Orleans bars adult bookstores from operating within 2,000 feet of any church, school or playground under City Code § 54-257, measured along the sidewalk from property line to…

New Orleans calculates each occupational license tax bill by classifying a business under the schedule that matches the majority of its gross receipts, then applying that single…

New Orleans taxes the right to park, store, or berth a vehicle or watercraft on someone else's property at three percent of the price paid, under Sec. 150-1191. The owner or manager of…

Commercial enterprises in the Vieux Carré Historic and Central Business Districts must keep loudspeakers inside the building and away from doors and windows, with tighter distance…

New Orleans caps amplified music, radios and similar sound devices at an average of 80 decibels measured 50 feet from the source in any public right-of-way, park, playground or…

New Orleans bars stationary air conditioners, air-handling equipment, fans or similar machinery from exceeding Table 1's land-use noise limits measured on the neighbor's property…

New residential and non-residential construction in New Orleans must have its lowest floor at least one foot above the base flood elevation or three feet above the highest adjacent…

New Orleans names automatic license plate readers as regulated surveillance technology in Chapter 147 but does not ban them outright the way it bans face surveillance. Instead, ALPR…

New Orleans prohibits city officials from obtaining, retaining or using any face surveillance system, with a narrow carve-out letting NOPD request facial recognition only when…

General transient-vendor permits for selling goods, wares or merchandise on New Orleans streets are void inside a defined Central Business District, except for a narrower carve-out…

New Orleans caps mobile food truck permits at 100 citywide and requires a Department of Finance permit before a truck can serve the public right-of-way, per City Code § 110-188. The…

New Orleans caps mobile food truck permits at 100 citywide and requires Department of Finance approval plus sign-off from the State Department of Health and Hospitals and the Fire…

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 public right-of-way line…

The CZO requires exterior lighting to be fully shielded and directed downward. Light poles and building-mounted fixtures must use fully shielded luminaires, and unshielded strung bulbs…

Maximum building height is set per district in the CZO. In the Historic Urban Neighborhood Two-Family (HU-RD2) district, the maximum building height is 35 feet. Detached accessory…

The CZO controls buildout through required open space and impervious-surface limits rather than a single lot-coverage cap. In HU-RD2, front-yard impervious surface is capped at 40%…

Required yards (setbacks) are set per zoning district in the CZO. In a Historic Urban Neighborhood two-family district (HU-RD2), the interior side yard for single/two-family homes is 3…

New Orleans requires every owner, agent or occupant to promptly repair broken or leaking plumbing -- from toilets to sewer pipes -- under City Code § 26-117. The Department of Health…

Section 146-532 requires a sidewalk use permit for any private extension of a licensed business onto a sidewalk or public space. Section 146-542 makes the permit revocable at will…

City Code § 146-494 bars obstructing any sidewalk, linear street or public alley, and lets police order a crowd blocking pedestrian passage to disperse. Refusing a police dispersal…

New Orleans property owners aren't automatically on the hook for every sidewalk defect, but under § 146-190 the Department of Public Works can pave or repave a sidewalk when a defect…

New Orleans requires every rental housing unit in Orleans Parish to meet eleven baseline habitability standards under Code § 26-656, working smoke and, where required, carbon monoxide…

New Orleans' Healthy Homes Program bars anyone from renting out a residential unit, long-term or short-term, without first registering it and holding a certificate of compliance from…

Louisiana eviction begins with a written notice to vacate giving the lessee 'not less than five days' under La. C.C.P. art. 4701. If the lessee does not leave, the lessor files a rule…

Louisiana requires no just cause to evict. Under Code of Civil Procedure art. 4701, a landlord may end a lease and recover possession by expiration of term, nonpayment, landlord…

A fixed-term Louisiana lease ends automatically at its term with no notice. For an indeterminate (month-to-month) lease, La. Civ. Code art. 2728 requires 10 calendar days' notice for…

Louisiana has no statewide rent control and no statute capping rent or rent increases. No Louisiana city or parish operates a rent-control program. La. R.S. 9:3258 declares that a…

Louisiana sets no statutory cap on a residential security deposit. Under La. R.S. 9:3251, the landlord must return the deposit, with an itemized statement of any amounts kept, within…

Louisiana uses acquisitive prescription, not adverse possession. Under La. Civ. Code art. 3486, ownership of immovables may be acquired by 30 years' possession with no title or good…

New Orleans limits political campaign signs on the public right-of-way to a tight window: Sec. 134-122(1) of the Code of Ordinances allows placement only 48 hours before an election…

New Orleans lets garage, moving, and rummage-sale signs go up in the public right-of-way, but Sec. 134-122(3) of the Code of Ordinances caps their total display time at 48 hours; any…

Canvassing, soliciting or handing out advertising leaflets on New Orleans streets, sidewalks or house-to-house for a commercial purpose requires a $50.00 department-of-finance permit…

Louisiana RS 9:3551 et seq. grants consumers a three-day right to cancel home solicitation sales over $25, requiring written notice of cancellation rights and applying universally to…

New Orleans exempts private residential "garage sales" and "yard sales" from the secondhand-dealer permit scheme in Code of Ordinances Chapter 130. Sec. 130-36 excludes them outright…

New Orleans bars minors under 18 from public places and business premises during school hours (6:00 a.m.-3:15 p.m. on school days), nightly from 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. depending on season…

City Park in New Orleans opens daily one-half hour before official sunrise and closes one-half hour after official sunset, when everyone must leave. Anyone found in the park after…

Under La. R.S. 40:1046, only nine licensed marijuana pharmacies may dispense therapeutic cannabis statewide, one per Louisiana Board of Pharmacy region. Local governments cannot…

Louisiana prohibits all home cultivation of marijuana for personal use under La. R.S. 40:966. Therapeutic cannabis is grown only by two licensed agricultural centers. No municipality…

Commercial drone use in Louisiana requires an FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate. La. R.S. 14:283.3 and 14:337 add statewide criminal penalties for surveillance over critical…

Recreational drone flight in Louisiana is governed by FAA Part 107 and the Recreational UAS Safety Test (TRUST). State law (La. R.S. 14:283.3 and 14:337) adds privacy and surveillance…

Louisiana defaults to the federal minimum wage and bars political subdivisions from setting local minimum wages, employment benefits, or vacation requirements for private employers.

Louisiana permits concealed handgun carry through state-issued permits and, since July 2024, allows permitless concealed carry for adults 18 and older meeting eligibility requirements.

Louisiana law preempts local firearm regulation, reserving authority over firearms, ammunition, and components to the state legislature with very narrow exceptions.

Louisiana generally permits open carry of firearms by law-abiding adults without a license, subject to location-based restrictions and local discharge ordinances.

Louisiana authorizes casino gambling only on a short list of named rivers and lakes under La. R.S. 27:43 -- the Mississippi, Red outside Rapides Parish, Calcasieu, Mermentau, and…

Louisiana leaves charitable raffles, bingo, and keno to local option: each municipal and parish governing authority decides under La. R.S. 4:706 whether to permit the games at all. A…

Louisiana lets each parish's police jury ban card gambling under La. R.S. 33:4852, but that same statute exempts any private card game held in a private home among family and any…

Louisiana sports wagering is legal only in the 55 of 64 parishes that approved it in the November 3, 2020 statewide referendum. Under La. R.S. 27:608(A), a player placing a wager with…

Louisiana associations collect unpaid dues through a statutory "privilege" (the civil-law lien). Under La. R.S. 9:1145, a privilege arises on a lot or unit for any assessment or fine…

Until 2025 Louisiana had no statewide open meeting rule for homeowners associations. Acts 2024, No. 158 created one. Under R.S. 9:1141.26(B) the meetings of a planned community board…

Louisiana treats recorded covenants as "building restrictions" - real obligations governed by La. Civ. Code arts. 775-783. They are enforced by injunction under art. 779 (mandatory or…

Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1114, added by Acts 2025, No. 224, makes it illegal for a planned community, a condominium association, or a landlord to adopt or enforce any provision…

Louisiana sets no dollar limit on homeowners association fines and requires no hearing before one is imposed. R.S. 9:1141.20(A)(2)(l) of the Louisiana Planned Community Act simply…

Before a Louisiana association can put a privilege on a lot, La. R.S. 9:1146(A) requires a written demand delivered by one of five listed methods, and R.S. 9:1146(B)(1) gives the owner…

Louisiana does not cap how many lots in a subdivision may be leased and it does not ban rental restrictions. Instead, R.S. 9:1141.14(C) of the Louisiana Planned Community Act makes…

Louisiana permits traffic checkpoints, but the Legislature has never written a sobriety checkpoint statute. The word sobriety appears in exactly one section of the entire Revised…

Louisiana never enacted a statute that bans filming police, and its wiretap law is one-party consent, so a bystander who is part of the exchange may record audio as well as video. What…

Louisiana has no stand-alone stop-and-identify statute. The duty is buried in the resisting an officer offence: R.S. 14:108(B)(1)(c) treats refusal by an arrested or detained party to…

Louisiana has no cannabis legalisation act and therefore none of the "lawful possession is not grounds for a search" language that some states put in one. What it has instead is three…

Louisiana's Right to Farm Law (La. R.S. 3:3603) bars local zoning from declaring a lawful, established agricultural operation a nuisance. Parishes retain general zoning authority under…

Louisiana's Right to Farm Law shields established agricultural operations from nuisance lawsuits when they predate complaining neighbors and follow generally accepted agricultural…

Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1255 says no person or entity shall unreasonably restrict the right of a property owner to install or use a solar collector, and it defines a solar…

Louisiana adopts the National Electrical Code via the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code, setting consistent permit and inspection standards for solar PV installations. Local…

Louisiana prohibits the sale, purchase, and possession of tobacco, vapor, and alternative nicotine products by anyone under 21, conforming state law to federal Tobacco 21 standards.

Louisiana does not prohibit flavored tobacco or vapor products statewide, but limits sales to registry-approved electronic nicotine devices and bars youth-targeted marketing.

Louisiana allows a car no more than two fog lamps mounted 12 to 30 inches off the ground, no more than two auxiliary passing lamps at 24 to 42 inches, and no more than two auxiliary…

Louisiana never bans dash cameras; it bans putting things on the windshield. R.S. 32:361.1(B) forbids any object or material affixed to the front windshield or front side windows that…

Louisiana carries the prohibition and the allowance in the same section. La. R.S. 32:191.1(C) says no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent…

La. R.S. 32:53(A)(3) makes it unlawful to apply a covering or any substance to a Louisiana license plate, or to use an electronic device or electrochromatic film, that obscures the…

A radar detector is legal in a private vehicle in Louisiana. The word radar appears in only three sections of the entire Revised Statutes, and every one of them is about equipment used…

Louisiana is not a seasonal-window state. It has no statute that authorizes metal tire studs during any part of the year, and no Louisiana Revised Statute uses the word "studded" at…

Louisiana lets you tint a passenger car to 25 percent light transmission on the front side windows, 25 percent on the side windows behind the driver and 12 percent on the rearmost…