Jefferson Parish, LA Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

Three sections of the roads and bridges chapter each name a single high-speed crossing and ban pedestrian traffic on it outright. Section 29-89 makes it unlawful for a pedestrian or bicycle rider, including someone walking a bicycle rather than riding it, to cross or attempt to cross the Lapalco Boulevard bridge where it spans the Harvey Canal and Bayou Segnette. Sections 29-90 and 29-91, adopted in 2009 and 2010, extend the same ban to the Causeway Boulevard overpass crossing above Veterans Boulevard and to the separate Causeway Boulevard overpass crossing above Interstate 10, and each bars a person from crossing, attempting to cross, or simply standing on the overpass.

These structures carry fast-moving traffic with no pedestrian lane or crosswalk, so the parish treats foot or bicycle traffic on them as a standalone hazard rather than folding it into general traffic rules. Violations of these sections are punished under the general Code penalty in section 1-10, since none of the three sections sets its own fine. Outside these three named crossings, Louisiana's state traffic law, not a parish ordinance, governs where and how a pedestrian must cross a street, so a resident asking about jaywalking on an ordinary parish street should look to state law rather than parish law for the answer.