The Metro Council added an ordinance letting the City-Parish designate electric-vehicle parking spaces, enforced like handicap spaces, with a $50 fine for non-EV violators. Free public charging stations were installed downtown. The UDC (Ch. 17) sets no residential EV-charging mandate.
Baton Rouge's Metro Council amended the parking ordinances (Title 11, Ch. 28) to authorize the City-Parish to designate reserved electric-vehicle parking spaces, handled similarly to accessible (handicap) spaces, with a $50 fine for improper parking. This paired with the installation of free public charging stations in downtown Baton Rouge. There is no parish-wide requirement forcing homeowners to install EV chargers, and the Unified Development Code's parking chapter does not mandate residential charging infrastructure. Home charger installation is governed instead by the adopted electrical/building code and permitting. Because the exact designated-space section text could not be opened from the official portal, no verbatim excerpt is quoted here.
Parking a non-electric vehicle in a designated EV space carries a $50 fine, enforced by Parking Control under Title 11.
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