Shreveport, LA

Shreveport requires a building permit before installing or altering any swimming pool, and Chapter 22 imposes an unusually hard rule during construction: an in-ground pool excavation…

Shreveport treats hot tubs alongside swimming pools. UDC section 7.3.W keeps a private hot tub out of the front yard and out of required side setbacks, and construction must follow the…

Discharging, selling or igniting fireworks anywhere in Shreveport is illegal year-round except inside three windows set by Sec. 30-91: noon June 16 to 10 p.m. June 20, noon July 1 to…

Shreveport has no wildfire hazard severity zones, no wildland-urban interface code and no defensible-space program. Louisiana does not map fire severity the way western states do, and…

Shreveport's Unified Development Code ties smoke detector installation to short-term rental licensing. Every permitted short-term rental must keep smoke detectors, carbon monoxide…

Open burning of any matter outside a building is banned across unincorporated Caddo Parish under § 32-90, with narrow exceptions for attended yard-waste burning, agricultural…

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

Shreveport doesn't set a decibel limit for short-term rentals; instead it bans the events that cause noise complaints outright. Weddings, corporate functions, and other large…

Shreveport's Unified Development Code makes short-term rental fees a City Council matter and requires hosts to collect and remit City and Parish sales taxes plus any occupancy tax on…

Renting out a spare bedroom or a backyard garage apartment to overnight guests while still living in the home is Shreveport's Type A short-term rental, a distinct permit track from…

Guests at a Shreveport short-term rental cannot park on the lawn or landscaped areas. Both Type A and Type B permits carry the identical rule: parking is prohibited in any landscaped…

Shreveport's Type A short-term rental permit is built around a resident host: on a property with an accessory dwelling unit, the resident can live in either the primary house or the…

Shreveport limits how many people can stay in a short-term rental based on permit type. A Type A rental, where the host keeps living on site, may not exceed two adults per bedroom…

No one may operate or advertise a short-term rental in Shreveport without a permit first. City Code requires the property owner to obtain a Type A, Type B-1, or Type B-2 short-term…

Shreveport bans vehicle sound amplification devices, including car stereos, whose noise is plainly audible more than 50 feet from the vehicle in any direction, under Code of Ordinances…

Shreveport's noise ordinance sets hard decibel ceilings measured at the receiving property line: 55 dBA daytime and 50 dBA nighttime for residential property, 60 dBA around the clock…

Shreveport bars anyone from running sound equipment audible beyond a residential property line between 10:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m. under Code of Ordinances § 58-29(d). The curfew applies…

Shreveport does not regulate leaf blowers by name and bans no equipment type. Leaf blowers fall under the noise ordinance's exemption for landscaping and yard maintenance equipment…

Shreveport Code § 14-17 bans keeping any animal that unreasonably disturbs neighbors, naming excessive barking specifically. Most nuisance complaints give an owner 24 hours to correct…

Shreveport rewrote its noise law in November 2023 with hard decibel limits by property type. Any loudspeaker used out of doors or on a vehicle requires a city permit, and enforcement…

Shreveport exempts construction, maintenance, repair, demolition and excavation noise from its noise ordinance only between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. on weekdays and 7:00 a.m. to 9:00…

Shreveport Code § 14-49(5) requires every horse kept inside city limits to carry a permanent ID marker: a microchip, freeze band, or tattoo. Skipping it draws escalating fines, from…

Shreveport Code § 14-6 lists tigers, wolves, primates, venomous snakes, alligators and dozens of other wild or exotic species and bans keeping any of them as a pet, for display, or for…

Shreveport Code § 14-10 makes trap-neuter-return the city's preferred way to manage free-roaming cats. Once a community cat is sterilized, ear-tipped and vaccinated, a registered…

Shreveport Code § 14-16(4)(h) caps outdoor dogs at four per dwelling, with an exception for a litter of pups under five months old. Exceed the limit and an owner can apply for a…

Shreveport's UDC lets residents keep bees as an accessory use, but only in the rear yard, 10 feet off the lot line and the house. Hives must be removable-frame, colonies need water on…

Shreveport allows up to eight hens per lot in the R-A, R-E, R-1-12, R-1-10, and R-1-7 zoning districts. Roosters are prohibited, hogs are banned citywide, and hoofed livestock face…

Shreveport has no ordinance that bans feeding wild animals. Keeping wildlife as a pet is prohibited under section 14-6, and feeding that draws rats or creates odors is reached through…

Shreveport's code has no breed-specific ban. Section 14-2 defines a 'vicious dog' by what it has done: an attack, a repeat at-large violation after a dangerous classification, or…

Shreveport does not require every pet spayed or neutered, but a second at-large impoundment does: Code of Ordinances Sec. 14-40(5)(c) forces sterilization and microchipping before the…

Shreveport bans molesting, trapping, shooting or killing any native song or insectivorous bird, or destroying its nest or eggs, under Code of Ordinances Sec. 14-51, with narrow…

Shreveport's UDC classifies pet grooming facilities as part of the broader 'Animal Care Facility' zoning use, alongside veterinary offices, boarding, and training. Under Section 6.1.B…

Shreveport Code § 14-36 bans letting a dog run at large on unenclosed land or trespass onto anyone else's property, enclosed or not. An at-large dog is subject to impoundment, and no…

Shreveport requires owners of trees, shrubs and hedges on sidewalks or overhanging public rights-of-way to keep them trimmed to at least seven feet above sidewalks and fifteen feet…

Shreveport's Unified Development Code treats a compost pile as a permitted accessory use in every residential and non-residential district. No building permit is required, but the pile…

Shreveport's code contains no rainwater-harvesting ordinance, no permit and no cistern rules. Rain barrels are lawful. The binding constraint is the Property Standards Code's…

Shreveport does not require native landscaping. Required trees and plantings must come from the Tree and Plant Palette in UDC Section 10.12, and the MPC Executive Director may approve…

Shreveport caps grass, weeds and wild growth at 12 inches on every occupied, vacant, residential and nonresidential property. Fines escalate from $150 to $350, and city abatement adds…

Shreveport has no ordinance that permits or bans artificial turf by name. UDC Section 10.8 requires every part of a lot not covered by structures or paving to be landscaped with living…

A tree removal permit in Shreveport is required for trees 30 inches or larger in caliper in street rights-of-way and other public grounds. Removing a tree on your own lot needs no city…

Shreveport's traffic engineer designates passenger and commercial vehicle loading zones by ordinance and must post signs stating each zone's hours. Passenger zones cap stops at 15…

When Shreveport's fire chief or the state fire marshal designates a fire lane, the property owner where that lane sits must paint the curb in a color the fire chief chooses to mark its…

Shreveport's downtown development authority runs five numbered permit parking zones where a valid monthly permit exempts a vehicle from meter charges, and some blocks are permit-only…

Shreveport imposes no EV-charging mandate. The Unified Development Code affirmatively allows charging spaces in any parking lot or structure and lets them count toward the minimum…

Shreveport sets no general overnight limit on parking a passenger car on a residential street. The restrictions target size and surface: commercial vehicles and RVs face a 9 p.m. to 9…

Shreveport gives wrecked or inoperable vehicles 48 hours on private property before they become an abatable nuisance. Inoperable vehicles must be fully enclosed in a garage. The…

Shreveport prohibits parking in front of any public or private driveway, within an intersection, or alongside any curb painted red, among 19 listed no-parking places. Every vehicle…

Shreveport's Unified Development Code lets a recreational vehicle sit on a residential lot, but it cannot become a second home. Section 8.11 bars using an RV for living, sleeping, or…

Shreveport lets residential lots park only on a paved or clearly bordered permanent parking area within the front yard; grass, dirt or an undefined patch does not qualify. That…

Shreveport bans parking any bus, truck or trailer bigger than a three-quarter-ton pickup on residential, semi-commercial or commercial streets and alleys, except for active loading…

A tow company may not haul a car out of a Louisiana parking area unless a law enforcement agency authorized the tow, the vehicle was tagged for removal with a dated sticker naming the…

Every fence in Shreveport, new construction or a repair to an existing one, needs a building permit under the UDC's general fence requirements. No principal building has to exist…

Shreveport permits wood, plastic, metal, wire mesh and masonry fences, but every fence, including repairs to an existing one, needs a building permit. Barbed and razor wire are…

Shreveport treats retaining walls as miscellaneous construction requiring a building permit, and the engineering department requires a separate land-altering permit with a grading plan…

Residential fence height in Shreveport depends on the yard and the fence type. Solid fences are capped at 3 feet in the front yard and 6 feet on corner and reverse-corner sides, open…

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…

Shreveport requires a certificate of occupancy for any home-based business, renewed every two years, and confines it to a resident-operated activity conducted entirely inside the house…

Louisiana's cottage food exemption, La. R.S. 40:4.9, lets Shreveport residents sell home-prepared low-risk foods without a health license. Shreveport controls only the zoning side…

Shreveport's Unified Development Code permits a day care home by right in every residential zoning district. The single zoning condition is that the dwelling keep its original…

Shreveport bans any sign, display, or activity that shows from outside a house that it's being used for a home-based business. The UDC's home occupation standard requires the use to be…

A Shreveport home-based business may see no more than four clients, patients, pupils, or customers at any one time, and every visit must be scheduled by appointment between 7:00 a.m…

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…

Shreveport's UDC allows one accessory dwelling unit per lot under Section 6.1.O, whether attached to the main house, built into an existing garage, or fully detached, including…

Shreveport zoning sets no minimum dwelling floor area, so a small permanent house is legal wherever single-family homes are. A tiny house on wheels is treated as a travel trailer and…

The space above a Shreveport detached garage's parking spaces cannot include a kitchen or sleeping area under the UDC, only an office or recreation room, unless it is approved as an…

A backyard shed in Shreveport is an accessory structure the Unified Development Code lets you build without a permit, as long as it has no permanent foundation. The UDC's accessory-use…

Shreveport requires an erosion and sedimentation control permit from the Department of Engineering and Environmental Services before clearing, grading, excavating or filling anywhere…

New and substantially improved residential structures in Shreveport's special flood hazard areas must have their lowest habitable floor built at least one foot above the base flood…

Before any construction or development begins in a Shreveport area of special flood hazard, the owner must get a development permit from the director of public works under Sec. 34-46…

Property owners along Cross Lake need a city permit before building a pier, boathouse or dock within the lake's 172-foot contour line, under Code of Ordinances section 78-357(a)…

Shreveport sits on the Red River in northwest Louisiana, far outside the state Coastal Zone, so no Coastal Use Permit is required. Development near water is instead controlled by the…

Shreveport's stormwater quality ordinance bans any discharge to the city storm drainage system, Cross Lake or its tributaries that is not composed entirely of stormwater, and lists…

Shreveport requires pedestrians to cross only at a marked or unmarked crosswalk in the business district, and bars crossing anywhere else there entirely. Outside the business district…

Shreveport makes it a criminal offense to urinate or defecate on any street, sidewalk, gutter, alley or driveway within the city. Code of Ordinances Sec. 50-156 carries a fine of up to…

Willfully blocking a sidewalk, street, alley, or the entrance to a public building in Shreveport is a crime under Code of Ordinances Sec. 50-140. Anyone who impedes, hinders, or…

Shreveport punishes simple marijuana possession with a fine-only summons, not a custodial arrest. Under Code of Ordinances Sec. 50-122, anyone caught with marijuana, THC or its…

Shreveport's Smokefree Air Act reaches outdoors too: Sec. 50-212 bans smoking in any playground or park, within 25 feet of a city or parish building entrance, and anywhere on hospital…

Shreveport doesn't ban panhandling outright, but Code of Ordinances Sec. 50-166 bars soliciting within 15 feet of ATMs, pay phones, bus stops, and building entrances, on posted private…

Roller skates, roller blades and skateboards are banned outright on any public street, sidewalk, park or other public place inside Shreveport's B-4/Central Business District, with a…

Shreveport Code § 10-190 bans drinking or carrying an open alcoholic beverage on any public street or sidewalk, in a business parking lot, or in public view outside an enclosed…

Operating a food truck in Shreveport requires a food truck and trailer vendor's license from the Metropolitan Planning Commission at $200 per year, plus insurance, a hold harmless…

Selling from a sidewalk cart in Shreveport is legal only inside the B-4 central business district, and only with a sidewalk vendor's license from the Downtown Development Authority…

Shreveport food trucks may only operate where a permanent business already holds a certificate of occupancy, in zoning districts the Use Matrix allows. Vacant lots and single-family or…

Door-to-door solicitation in Shreveport requires an annual permit for both the company and each individual solicitor, costing $100.00 and backed by a criminal background report…

Shreveport gives residents a posted-sign remedy rather than a city registry. Permitted solicitors must stop immediately on seeing a no-solicitation sign, and door-to-door work is…

Shreveport doesn't give delivery and pick-up trucks their own noise rule; Sec. 58-28(a) folds them into the general noise ordinance, which caps sound at 55 dBA daytime and 50 dBA…

Shreveport gives permitted bars, clubs and restaurants their own decibel ceiling instead of the standard residential/commercial limits. Sec. 58-28(d)(5)-(6) allows 75 dBA from 7:00…

Shreveport authorizes nonprofit and health-department needle exchange programs under Sec. 50-220, covering sharps disposal, naloxone kits and disease-prevention education at no cost to…

New business buildings, curb markets and farmers' markets in Shreveport must be built ratproof under chapter 58's rodent control article. The health officer can inspect any business…

Every pawnshop and pawnbroker operating in Shreveport must file a daily transaction record with the police department covering jewelry, clothing, firearms, furniture, auto parts and…

Anyone buying, selling or trading used property in Shreveport, from jewelry and tools to salvaged building components, is a secondhand dealer under Code of Ordinances Sec. 42-217 and…

Selling vapor products, e-cigarettes, vape juice or related devices in Shreveport requires a city permit from the police department before opening, split into a Class VS permit for…

Any towing company that wants a spot on Shreveport's police rotational list needs a tow truck permit under section 102-140(a), issued separately for each vehicle and good for one year…

Operating a sexually oriented business in Shreveport without a license is unlawful under chapter 72. Owners apply in person to the chief of police, submit a floor diagram, and pay a…

Shreveport flatly bars repairing or servicing vehicles or heavy machinery as a home-based business. The UDC also blocks storing tractor trailers, semi-trucks, or commercial…

Shreveport's Unified Development Code treats tattoo parlors and piercing studios as a single 'Body Modification Establishment' use. Section 5.3 defines the use, and the Table 5-1 Use…

Shreveport allows new electronic billboards only in C-2, C-3, C-4, I-1 and I-2 districts or within 660 feet of an interstate or primary highway on commercial or industrial land, and…

Shreveport has no ordinance governing holiday decorations, no seasonal date windows and no removal deadline. The UDC expressly carves temporary holiday decorations out of its…

Shreveport lets you post one garage sale sign on the property holding the sale, with no permit. Off-premise directional signs at intersections are prohibited outright and the city may…

Shreveport treats political signs as yard signs: permitted in every zoning district, no permit, no cap on how many. The code adds a seven-day post-event removal clause and, in…

Window signs need no permit in Shreveport, but they are not unlimited. UDC Section 9.6 caps every window sign, temporary or permanent, at 30 percent of the surface of each window…

New billboards in Shreveport are confined to commercial and industrial corridors that sit within 660 feet of a federal interstate or primary aid highway, or to the C-4, I-1, and I-2…

Shreveport requires a parade permit from the chief of police or a designee before any parade may march or proceed along a city street. Organizers must apply at least one week ahead…

Holding a meeting, performance, race, athletic contest or parade in a Shreveport city park needs a permit from the director of public assembly and recreation. Applications must go in…

Shreveport has no ordinance for parklets built in parking spaces, but downtown restaurants can occupy adjoining sidewalk space under the sidewalk cafe and bistro permit in section…

Caddo Parish subdivision residents can close subdivision streets for a neighborhood block party only with a permit issued by the sheriff, under Code of Ordinances § 40-12; closing…

Outdoor dining counts as a separate principal use under the Caddo Parish Unified Development Code and can only be added alongside a bar or restaurant. Seating must stay on private…

Anyone wanting to build, place or extend something over, under or into a Shreveport street, alley, sidewalk or public right-of-way needs an encroachment permit, authorized by city…

Shreveport bans two specific ways of blocking or defacing its sidewalks: painting, chalking or imprinting any letter, word, sign or picture on a sidewalk, and leaving a keg, barrel…

Shreveport treats loud garbage-dumpster loading as a declared noise nuisance. Under Sec. 58-46, hauling vehicles cannot dump or load a dumpster between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. within…

Shreveport residents set tree limbs, grass clippings, garden waste and shrubbery at the curb before the scheduled pickup day, and every load must be containerized under Code of…

Shreveport collects household garbage once a week from a 96-gallon cart on the route day set by the city's collection map. Curbside recycling is suspended. A $7 monthly fee rides on…

Shreveport runs no curbside recycling. The city suspended the program in October 2020 after its hauler contract and the local processing facility both ended, and it delivers no new…

The city issues each residence one wheeled cart of up to 96 gallons for weekly collection plus a 64-gallon recycling cart. Carts go out no earlier than 24 hours before pickup and must…

Shreveport bans dumping dirt, rubbish or any waste, liquid or solid, on any public way, in any river, canal, drain or sewer, or anywhere it could wash into one, under Code of…

Bulk pickup in Shreveport is by appointment only through Public Works. One pile per request, capped at 15 feet long by 6 feet wide and 6 feet high. Building materials, stumps and…

Caddo Parish runs no curbside pickup route in the unincorporated parish. Residents haul household garbage and trash themselves to parish-operated solid waste collection sites, capped…

Apartment buildings in Shreveport with three or more dwelling units and no automatic sprinkler system must install an automatic stove-top fire suppression device over every stove under…

Shreveport enforces the Louisiana State Plumbing Code, incorporated by reference through Sec. 22-26, and Sec. 22-2 requires every plumber to register annually with the permits and…

Anyone who wants to do electrical work in Shreveport must register annually with the permits and inspections division before taking on a job, per Sec. 22-2. Master electricians pay a…

Shreveport requires anyone doing business in construction, remodeling or repair work regulated by the Louisiana Uniform Construction Code to hold both a city registration and a…

Every short-term rental in Shreveport must keep working carbon monoxide detectors, smoke detectors, and fire extinguishers in place at all times the property is occupied by guests…

Every building, electrical, HVAC and plumbing permit Shreveport issues carries an inspection fee of $68.25, whether the work is inside or outside the city limits, under Sec…

Shreveport's Property Standards Code bars propane cooking devices from use inside any dwelling or dwelling unit, effectively pushing propane grills and camp stoves onto the patio or…

Every rental dwelling in Shreveport has to meet the maintenance floor set out in section 38-12 of the Property Standards Code. Owners must keep foundations, exterior walls, roofs…

Rent control is barred in Shreveport. La. R.S. 9:3258 shields a lessor's lease rights from being altered except by state law, so the city cannot cap rents or limit increases. Rent is…

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…

Shreveport runs no rental registration or landlord licensing program. Leased housing is policed through Chapter 38 property standards on complaint, and a tenant can force an interior…

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…

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 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…

When someone complains about an inoperable vehicle sitting on a Shreveport property, the department of property standards doesn't just issue a warning and move on. Section 38-31(c)…

Reporting a property-standards violation in Shreveport doesn't require ownership or a lease. Section 38-82(3)a lets any person ask the department of property standards to send an…

Shreveport's Unified Development Code creates the R-A Rural Agricultural Zoning District specifically to permit single-family homes within agricultural areas while protecting farming…

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

Shreveport's D-1 Downtown Zoning District applies Table 4-6 design standards to new construction and major facade rehabilitation across six downtown sub-districts. UDC Section 4.4.D.1…

Shreveport's UDC treats data centers as a zoning use limited by size and distance to housing. Section 6.1.L requires a special use permit for any data center within 200 feet of a…

Billboard lighting in Shreveport is tightly numeric. UDC Section 9.8.E requires every electronic billboard to run a dimmer and a photocell that reads ambient light automatically, and…

Shreveport draws a hard numeric line on spillover: the maximum allowable footcandle at any lot line is one footcandle, and no glare onto adjacent properties is permitted…

Shreveport has adopted no dark-sky ordinance, no International Dark-Sky Association standard and no lamp color-temperature ceiling. Unified Development Code Section 7.2 still delivers…

Recreational drone flying in Shreveport is governed by FAA rules, not a city ordinance, because Louisiana preempts local drone regulation. The one live local rule is that model…

Shreveport has no commercial drone ordinance and cannot adopt one. Louisiana claims exclusive jurisdiction over unmanned aircraft and preempts every local drone rule, leaving FAA Part…

Louisiana forbids any person or entity from unreasonably restricting a property owner's right to install a solar collector. The protection does not override zoning, servitudes, or…

Shreveport allows building-mounted and freestanding solar panels in every district as an accessory use. A building permit under the adopted state construction code applies, and the UDC…

Shreveport runs blight enforcement through the department of property standards and an administrative environmental court. Inspectors serve notices, hearing officers order abatement…

Owners of vacant lots must cut grass and weeds once growth reaches 12 inches, clear vegetation on the abutting sidewalk, and keep junk and debris off the property. Wooded parcels…

Shreveport imposes no snow or ice clearing duty on property owners; the code contains no such provision. Abutting owners instead must keep sidewalks in good repair, sweep them daily…

Shreveport has no dispensary provisions at all. Neither the Code of Ordinances nor the Unified Development Code mentions marijuana as a land use. Retail access runs entirely through…

Louisiana permits no home cultivation of marijuana, medical or otherwise. Producing or manufacturing a Schedule I substance is a felony under state law, and Shreveport's local…

Shreveport bars anyone under 18 from public property and public businesses between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m., with the curfew starting at midnight on Friday and Saturday. Parents and…

Shreveport city parks close at 9:00 p.m. in standard time and 10:00 p.m. during daylight saving time, opening at 5:00 a.m. A second tier closes at 8:00 p.m., and several riverfront…

Required front, interior side, corner side and rear setbacks in Shreveport come from Unified Development Code Table 4-1 and change district by district. Article 7 then lists which…

Every Shreveport residential zoning district caps building height at 35 feet, measured from grade to the highest point of the roof. Commercial and industrial districts run higher, and…

Shreveport's Unified Development Code sets two separate caps on every lot: maximum building coverage and maximum impervious surface. Table 4-1 fixes both by zoning district, so a…

Shreveport designates no heritage, landmark or specimen trees. Neither the Unified Development Code nor Chapter 98 creates a protected-tree list, a diameter-based designation on…

Want to plant a tree in the parkway strip between the curb and the sidewalk? Shreveport's UDC requires notifying the Public Works Department or the Parks and Recreation agency, SPAR…

Shreveport requires a cyclist to use a bicycle path once one has been built alongside a roadway, rather than riding in the street. Riders otherwise keep to the right side of the…

Shreveport prohibits operating any electric low-speed scooter, defined as a rental or commercial scooter under 100 pounds capable of exceeding five miles per hour, on sidewalks…

Shreveport's only automated photo enforcement is a school-zone speed camera program run by the police department, not red-light cameras at intersections. Devices operate only on school…

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…

Shreveport's director of public works must obtain and record the actual elevation of the lowest habitable floor of every new or substantially improved structure in a flood hazard area…

Shreveport classifies most businesses under the state's occupational license tax schedule by direct reference to R.S. 47:341-363, but chain stores get their own local classification…

Shreveport levies no vacancy tax. Owners of blighted, vacant structures must instead register with the city within 90 days of notice and pay a fee, starting at $250 to $500 and…

The Caddo Parish Confederate Monument at 501 Texas Street is codified as an individually designated historic property in Shreveport's Local Register, Chapter 37 of the city code…

Shreveport caps garage, yard, estate, lawn, porch, patio, and rummage sales at three events per year per property, with a maximum of three days per event. The rule sits in the Unified…

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 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…