§ 40:1666.1 — Extra compensation

Louisiana § 40:1666.1

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 40: Public Health and Safety

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§1666.1. Extra compensation
A.(1) In addition to the compensation now paid by any municipality, parish, fire
protection district, or other political subdivision maintaining a fire department, or by the
Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana or the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, hereinafter referred to
as "tribe", or by any nonprofit corporation contracting with any such political subdivision to
provide fire protection services to every paid, regularly employed employee, as distinguished
from part-time employees and volunteers of such fire department, who are carried on the
payroll of such fire department, and every employee as defined in this Subsection who is paid
from funds of the parish or municipality or tribe obtained through lawfully adopted bond
issues, lawfully assessed taxes, or other funds available for such purpose, either directly or
through a board or commission set up by law or ordinance of the parish or municipality or
tribe, shall be paid extra compensation by the state in the amount of six hundred dollars per
month for each such paid employee who has completed or who hereafter completes one year
of service. The provisions of Paragraph (5) of this Subsection shall govern the requirements
for length of service for employees who were ordered to active military duty in the armed
services of the United States during their initial term of employment.
(2) The term "employee" as used herein expressly excludes any person hired
primarily to perform secretarial and clerical duties, switchboard operators, secretaries, record
clerks, maintenance personnel, and mechanics; it shall expressly exclude employees hired
after March 31, 1986, who have not completed and passed a certified fireman's training
program from a Pro Board accredited agency or an International Fire Service Accreditation
Congress approved entity equal to National Fire Protection Association Standard 1010 or
1001 Firefighter I Certification validated by the Louisiana Fire and Emergency Training
Academy in accordance with R.S. 40:1541 et seq.; and it shall also expressly exclude
part-time employees and volunteers of such municipal, parish, tribe, or fire protection district
fire departments.
(3)(a) A municipality, parish, fire protection district, or other political subdivision
maintaining a fire department, or the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana or the Coushatta Indian
Tribe of Louisiana, or any nonprofit corporation contracting with any such political
subdivision to provide fire protection services may enhance the first-year salary of every
paid, regularly employed employee in the amount equivalent to the state supplemental pay,
or any portion thereof, that the employee shall be entitled to be paid after one year of service
pursuant to this Part, so long as the first-year salary, exclusive of the enhancement, meets the
minimum wage obligations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.
(b) Any such municipality, parish, fire protection district, or other political
subdivision maintaining a fire department, or the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana or the
Coushatta Indian Tribe of Louisiana, or nonprofit corporation contracting to provide fire
protection services shall disclose, in writing, at the time the employee is hired that such
enhancement shall be paid only during the first year of employment.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no municipality,
parish, fire protection district, or other political subdivision maintaining a fire department,
or the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana or the Coushatta Indian Tribe of Louisiana, or any such
nonprofit corporation contracting to provide fire protection services, shall be subject to
penalty for reducing the salary of any employee whose salary has been enhanced pursuant
to this Paragraph for one year by an amount not exceeding the amount of such enhancement.
Any such reduction shall not be void as provided in R.S. 40:1666.4.
(4)(a) Every fire protection officer who is employed on a full-time basis by a port
authority headquartered in the city of New Orleans shall be paid by the state extra
compensation in the amount of six hundred dollars per month in addition to the
compensation now paid to him by his employer out of self-generated revenue attributable to
the agency employing such fire protection officers. To be eligible for the extra
compensation, each such fire protection officer shall have completed one year of service, and
any such fire protection officer hired after March 31, 1986, shall also have completed and
passed a certified fireman's training program from a Pro Board accredited agency or an
International Fire Service Accreditation Congress approved entity equal to National Fire
Protection Association Standard 1010 or 1001 Firefighter I Certification validated by the
Louisiana Fire and Emergency Training Academy in accordance with R.S. 40:1541 et seq.,
or other state or federally approved maritime firefighter training program.
(b) In the event that supplemental pay is increased as provided for in Paragraph (1)
of this Subsection, then the same amount of supplemental pay shall be increased for the
officers provided for in this Paragraph.
(5)(a) An employee who was ordered to active military duty in the armed services
of the United States before the completion of one year of service, and who had completed
and passed a certified fireman's training program required under this Subsection prior to such
military service, shall be eligible to receive extra compensation beginning one year from his
initial hiring date.
(b) An employee who was ordered to active military duty in the armed services of
the United States before the completion of one year of service, and who had not yet
completed and passed a certified fireman's training program required under this Subsection
prior to such military service, shall be eligible to receive extra compensation immediately
upon returning to employment and completion of a certified fireman's training program
required under this Subsection.
(6)(a) Every fire protection officer who is employed on a full-time basis by the
Plaquemines Port Harbor and Terminal District shall be paid by the state extra compensation
in the amount of six hundred dollars per month in addition to the compensation now paid to
him by his employer out of self-generated revenue attributable to the agency employing the
fire protection officers. To be eligible for the extra compensation, each fire protection officer
shall have completed one year of service, and any fire protection officer hired after March
31, 1986, shall also have completed and passed a certified fireman's training program from
a Pro Board accredited agency or an International Fire Service Accreditation Congress
approved entity equal to National Fire Protection Association Standard 1010 or 1001
Firefighter I Certification validated by the Louisiana Fire and Emergency Training Academy
in accordance with R.S. 40:1541 et seq., or other state or federally approved maritime
firefighter training program.
(b) In the event that supplemental pay is increased as provided for in Paragraph (1)
of this Subsection, then the same amount of supplemental pay shall be increased for the
officers provided for in this Paragraph.
(7)(a) Every fire protection officer who is employed on a full-time basis by the Port
of South Louisiana shall be paid by the state extra compensation in the amount of six
hundred dollars per month in addition to the compensation now paid to him by his employer
out of self-generated revenue attributable to the agency employing the fire protection officers.
To be eligible for the extra compensation, each fire protection officer shall have completed
one year of service, and any fire protection officer hired after March 31, 1986, shall also have
completed and passed a certified fireman's training program from a Pro Board accredited
agency or an International Fire Service Accreditation Congress approved entity equal to
National Fire Protection Association Standard 1010 or 1001 Firefighter I Certification
validated by the Louisiana Fire and Emergency Training Academy in accordance with R.S.
40:1541 et seq., or other state or federally approved maritime firefighter training programs.
(b) In the event that supplemental pay is increased as provided for in Paragraph (1)
of this Subsection, then the same amount of supplemental pay shall be increased for the
officers provided for in this Paragraph.
B. In computing the period of service required by Subsection A of this Section, prior
service of employees who have returned or who hereafter return to such service shall be
included; provided that service in any municipal, parish, tribe, or fire protection district fire
department, whether with the same fire department or not, shall be used in computing such
prior service. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection A of this Section to the contrary,
any employee who received state supplemental pay prior to March 31, 1986, and returns to
such service shall be entitled to receive state supplemental pay whether or not such employee
completes and passes a certified fireman's training program from a Pro Board accredited
agency or an International Fire Service Accreditation Congress approved entity equal to
National Fire Protection Association Standard 1010 or 1001 Firefighter I Certification
validated by the Louisiana Fire and Emergency Training Academy in accordance with R.S.
40:1541 et seq.
C.(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the compensation
for tribal officers of the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana shall be for no more than ten such
firemen.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the compensation for
tribal officers of the Coushatta Indian Tribe of Louisiana shall be for no more than ten such
firemen.

Legislative History

Acts 1963, No. 82, §2A. Amended by Acts 1964, No. 349, §1; Acts 1968, No. 588, §1; Acts 1968, No. 614, §1; Acts 1970, No. 533, §1; Acts 1971, No. 4, §1; Acts 1973, No. 187, §1; Acts 1975, No. 496, §1; Acts 1975, No. 740, §1; Acts 1975, No. 761, §1; Acts 1979, No. 236, §8, eff. Sept. 1, 1979; Acts 1980, No. 634, §2, eff. Sept. 1, 1980; Acts 1981, No. 525, §1; Acts 1986, No. 657, §1, eff. July 1, 1986; Acts 1986, No. 861, §1, eff. July 1, 1986; Acts 1991, No. 1000, §1, eff. July 24, 1991; Acts 1992, No. 1063, §1, eff. July 14, 1992; Acts 1996, No. 37, §1, eff. July 1, 1996; Acts 1997, No. 513, §1, eff. July 1, 1997; Acts 1997, No. 853, §1; Acts 1999, No. 964, §1, eff. July 1, 1999; Acts 2001, No. 521, §1, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2006, No. 789, §1, eff. July 1, 2006; Acts 2007, No. 275, §1, eff. Nov. 19, 2007; Acts 2007, No. 281, §1, eff. July 1, 2007; Acts 2008, No. 664, §1, eff. July 1, 2009; Acts 2008, No. 729, §1; Acts 2009, No. 387, §1, eff. July 1, 2009; Acts 2012, No. 453, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2002. See Acts 2014, No. 158, §§3 and 7; Acts 2014, No. 869, §1; Acts 2015, No. 88, §1, eff. June 19, 2015; Acts 2019, No. 95, §1, eff. July 1, 2020; Acts 2022, No. 231, §3; Acts 2023, No. 298, §1, eff. July 1, 2023; Acts 2023, No. 320, §2, eff. July 1, 2023; Acts 2024, No. 513, §1, eff. July 1, 2024; Acts 2025, No. 166, §1, eff. June 8, 2025.