Just cause eviction rules in Shreveport, LA — sometimes called tenant protection or "for cause" eviction ordinances — list the specific legal reasons a landlord can end a tenancy.
Shreveport has no just-cause eviction ordinance. Louisiana lets a landlord end a lease and evict without stating a reason, using a written notice to vacate of at least five days followed by a rule for possession.
Eviction in Shreveport runs entirely on state law, heard in Shreveport City Court and the First Judicial District Court in Caddo Parish. Under La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 4701 the lessor delivers a written notice to vacate giving the tenant not less than five days; a month-to-month lease terminates on ten days' notice under La. Civ. Code art. 2728. If the tenant remains, the landlord files a rule for possession under arts. 4731 and 4732. No reason must be given, and no city ordinance adds a good-cause standard, relocation payment, or renewal right. The lessor still owes the Civil Code repair and fitness duties of arts. 2682 and 2691.
A landlord who ousts a tenant without a judgment of possession faces a wrongful-eviction damages suit. A tenant who ignores a possession judgment is removed by the constable or sheriff.
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