Caddo Parish, LA Special Events & Permits: Parade Permits (2026)

Section 36-39 of the parish's parks and recreation chapter bars any person from erecting a structure, staging a performance, conducting a race, athletic contest or parade, holding a meeting, or making a speech or oration in any parish park or on any park street, except by permit from the director of parks and recreation. The written application must be signed by the person responsible for the event and submitted at least 15 days before the proposed activity, and it must set out the desired date, time and place along with a detailed description of what will happen.

As with the general facility-reservation permit in § 36-36, the director cannot issue a permit for any activity that Chapter 36 otherwise prohibits, such as political activity under § 36-37. This provision traces to Code 1985 § 16-34 and governs parades and organized activities that take place within or use parish park property and park streets in the unincorporated area. A parade that runs on public roads outside parish parkland, rather than through a park, is not reached by this specific section; organizers of such routes would need to look to the parish's separate roadway-use and traffic-control provisions instead.

Because Caddo Parish's noise article separately exempts 'any public performance, gathering or parade for which a permit has been obtained from the parish' under § 32-164(9), holding this § 36-39 permit also lifts the parish's general sound-level caps for the duration of the permitted event.