§ 33:140.33 — Grant of power

Louisiana § 33:140.33

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 33: Municipalities and Parishes

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§140.33. Grant of power
For the purposes of promoting the public health, safety, morals, convenience, order,
prosperity, and general welfare, the city council is hereby empowered, in accordance with
the conditions and procedures specified in this Subpart, to adopt housing codes prescribing
minimum standards for the area, volume, light, air, ventilation, illumination, occupancy and
density of occupancy, and sanitation of dwellings and dwelling places; to adopt building
codes, plumbing codes, electrical codes and related measures to regulate the construction,
reconstruction, alteration, extension, conversion, or maintenance of buildings; to regulate by
building and housing codes or other measures or ordinances conditions of sanitation,
including requirements for water supply and sewerage disposal and drainage; and to adopt
such other ordinances, regulations, and plans as, in their judgment, are necessary to effect the
rehabilitation of substandard dwellings and blighted areas within the municipality.

Legislative History

Acts 1962, No. 52, §33; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.