§ 30:548 — Exercise of powers

§548. Exercise of powers
The secretary of conservation shall exercise his powers so as to provide, under the
priorities hereinafter set forth, to the maximum extent practicable, for:
(1) Protection of public health, safety, and welfare (including maintenance of
hospitals, juvenile and adult correctional institutions, nursing homes, dormitories, hotels,
motels, and residential heating, such as individual homes, apartments, and similar occupied
dwelling units);
(2) Maintenance of agricultural operations, and the processing of agricultural
products, including farming, ranching, dairy, water conservation and commercial fishing
activities, and services directly related thereto, and maintenance of food processing plants,
businesses and facilities processing products for human consumption;
(3) Operations and encouragement of exploration, production, processing, and
refining efforts to attain maximum production or extraction of oil, intrastate natural gas and
other hydrocarbons;
(4) Maintenance of all public services (including facilities and services provided by
municipal, cooperative, or investor owned utilities or by any state or local government or
authority, and including transportation facilities and services which serve the public at large);
(5) Maintenance of commercial and industrial, business, plant and facility operations,
particularly to minimize economic dislocation of business, and industry, and employment
therein;
(6) Preservation of an economically sound and competitive petroleum, petro-chemical and chemical industry;
(7) Assistance to private industry in obtaining the most efficient and safe
transportation of intrastate natural gas from the sources of supply and reserves to the different
parts of the state through intrastate pipelines, regardless of the ownership of the intrastate
pipelines, to obtain maximum utilization of all existing intrastate pipelines within the state
of Louisiana, the intent of this Chapter being to encourage, direct, mandate and enforce the
use of excess capacity of intrastate pipelines to foster the movement of intrastate gas about
the state of Louisiana.

Legislative History

Added by Acts 1973, Ex.Sess., No. 16, §1, emerg. eff. Dec. 8, 1973, at 9:55 A.M. Amended by Acts 1974, No. 501, §2; Acts 1977, No. 547, §1, eff. July 15, 1977; Acts 2025, No. 458, §1, eff. Oct. 1, 2025.