East Baton Rouge Parish, LA Special Events & Permits: Parade Permits (2026)

Sec. 11:273 sets the trigger for a street-use permit at two size thresholds: a funeral, procession, or parade reaches the permit requirement once it contains 200 or more persons or 50 or more vehicles. Below either threshold, no permit is required under this section. The permit itself must be issued by the chief of police, and the group must also follow whatever other regulations in this chapter apply to processions on parish streets. The exemption list is narrow: the armed forces of the United States, the military forces of Louisiana, and police or fire department forces may occupy, march, or proceed along a street without this permit regardless of size.

The surrounding sections in the same chapter fill out the procession rules a permitted or exempt group must still follow: Sec. 11:271 requires each driver in a funeral or other procession to stay near the right-hand edge of the roadway and follow the vehicle ahead as closely as is practicable and safe, and Sec. 11:272 requires a funeral procession to identify itself with a pennant or other insignia on each vehicle, or another identification method set by the traffic division. A prior section on driving through a funeral procession, former Sec.

11:270, was repealed by Ord. No. 17062 in 2019 and is now marked reserved. Because Sec. 11:273 sits in the general Title 11 traffic code rather than the bicycle chapter, its enforcement runs through the traffic code's general violation provisions rather than the $25 bicycle-chapter fine.