§ 13:2493.1 — Housing court division; jurisdiction; powers of judge; environmental docket

Louisiana § 13:2493.1

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 13: Courts and Judicial Procedure

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§2493.1. Housing court division; jurisdiction; powers of judge; environmental docket
A. The council of the city of New Orleans is hereby authorized to create, subject to
the approval of the majority of the judges of the Municipal and Traffic Court of New
Orleans, the Housing and Environmental Court Division of the Municipal and Traffic Court
of New Orleans, hereinafter referred to as the "housing court division". In the ordinance
creating the housing court division, the council shall designate the effective date of the
creation of the court. The housing court division shall be assigned, and its jurisdiction shall
be limited to, all violations of the provisions of the following:
(1) The Building Code of the city of New Orleans, Ordinance No. 17,525 C.C.S., as
amended.
(2) The Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the city of New Orleans, Ordinance
No. 4264 M.C.S., as amended.
(3) Chapters 28, 30, 37, 48, and 54 1 of the City Code of the city of New Orleans.
(4) The Fire Code of the city of New Orleans, Ordinance No. 4912 M.C.S.
B. All cases involving violations of the provisions of the Building Code, The
Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, or Chapters 28, 30, 37, 48, and 54 of the City Code of
the city of New Orleans, or the Fire Code presently pending before the Municipal and Traffic
Court of New Orleans, shall be transferred to the housing court division for further
proceedings in accordance with law.
C. Upon creation of the housing court division, one of the judges of the Municipal
and Traffic Court of New Orleans now provided for by R.S. 13:2492 shall be assigned to
serve as the judge of the housing court division of the Municipal and Traffic Court of New
Orleans.
D.(1) The jurisdiction of the Municipal and Traffic Court of New Orleans, the
Housing and Environmental Court Division of the Municipal and Traffic Court of New
Orleans shall extend to the trial of violations of an ordinance of the city of New Orleans and
the violations of state statutes which are not triable by a jury for criminal prosecutions
provided in R.S. 14:107.3, and any other authority provided by law or home rule charter for
the civil enforcement of health, safety, and welfare ordinances, including but not limited to
the authority provided in R.S. 13:2575 for administrative adjudication for violations of public
health, housing, fire code, environmental building code, zoning, historic district, permitting
vegetation, and nuisance ordinances, as provided for and defined in R.S. 33:1374. In Orleans
Parish, the public authority may enforce health, safety, and welfare statutes or ordinances or
otherwise seek to eliminate blighted property, unsafe structures and equipment, unlawful
structures and structures unfit for human occupancy, housing violations, or public nuisances
additionally in the Municipal and Traffic Court of New Orleans.
(2) A separate environmental docket of the Housing and Environmental Court
Division of the Municipal and Traffic Court of New Orleans is established into which the
public authority, as defined in R.S. 33:1374, or other party, may request allotment or transfer
of cases brought pursuant to R.S. 33:1374.
1 In par. (3) of subsec. A, as the enumeration appears in the original bill and enrolled
Act.

Legislative History

Added by Acts 1982, No. 128, §1, eff. July 11, 1982; Acts 2010, No. 472, §1; Acts 2014, No. 845, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2017.