§ 49:953 — Louisiana Administrative Code and Louisiana Register; publication; distribution;

Louisiana § 49:953

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 49: State Administration

Text

§953. Louisiana Administrative Code and Louisiana Register; publication; distribution;
copies; index; interagency rules
A. The office of the state register shall compile, index, and publish a publication to
be known as the Louisiana Administrative Code, containing all effective rules adopted by
each agency subject to the provisions of this Chapter, and all boards, commissions, agencies,
and departments of the executive branch, notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
contrary. The office of the state register shall also publish all executive orders issued by the
governor. The Louisiana Administrative Code shall be supplemented or revised as often as
necessary and at least once every two years.
B. The Office of the State Register shall publish at least once each month a bulletin
to be known as the Louisiana Register which shall set forth the text of all rules filed during
the preceding month and such notices as shall have been submitted pursuant to this Chapter.
It shall also set forth all executive orders of the governor issued during the preceding month
and a summary or digest of and fiscal note prepared for each such order as required by the
provisions of R.S. 49:215. In addition, the Office of the State Register may include in the
Louisiana Register digests or summaries of new or proposed rules; however, if any conflict
should arise between the written digest of a rule and the rule, the rule shall take precedence
over the written digest.
C. The Office of the State Register shall publish such rules, notices, statements, and
other such matters as submitted by the rulemaking agency without regard to their validity.
However, the Office of the State Register may omit from the Louisiana Register or Louisiana
Administrative Code any rule the publication of which would be unduly cumbersome,
expensive, or otherwise inexpedient, if the rule in printed or processed form is made
available on application to the adopting agency, and if the Louisiana Register or Louisiana
Administrative Code, as the case may be, contains a notice stating the general subject matter
of the omitted rule and stating how a copy thereof may be obtained.
D. One copy, or multiple copies if practical, of the Louisiana Register and Louisiana
Administrative Code shall be made available upon request to state depository libraries free
of charge, and to other agencies or persons at prices fixed by the Office of the State Register
to recover all or a portion of the mailing and publication costs. Notwithstanding the
provisions of R.S. 49:951(2) to the contrary, the Office of the State Register shall provide
free copies of the Louisiana Register and the Louisiana Administrative Code to the David
R. Poynter Legislative Research Library, the Senate Law Library, and the Huey P. Long
Memorial Law Library.
E. The Office of the State Register shall prescribe a uniform system of indexing,
numbering, arrangement of text and citation of authority and history notes for the Louisiana
Administrative Code.
F. The Office of the State Register may publish advertisements for bids and other
legal notices in the Louisiana Register in addition to other publications thereof required by
law.
G. The Office of the State Register is hereby authorized and empowered to
promulgate and enforce interagency rules for the implementation and administration of this
Section.
H. The governor shall be the publisher of the Louisiana Administrative Code and
Louisiana Register provided for through the Office of the State Register.
NOTE: Former R.S. 49:953 redesignated as R.S. 49:961 by Acts 2022, No. 663, §1.

Legislative History

Added by Acts 1974, No. 284, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1975. Amended by Acts 1975, No. 730, §1; Acts 1976, No. 279, §1; Acts 1978, No. 252, §1; Acts 1982, No. 687, §1, eff. Aug. 2, 1982; Acts 1988, No. 604, §1, eff. July 14, 1988; Acts 1988, No. 937, §1, eff. July 26, 1988; Acts 1990, No. 9, §2; Acts 1993, No. 119, §1; Acts 2013, No. 220, §23, eff. June 11, 2013; Acts 2014, No. 791, §18; Acts 2022, No. 663, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 49:954.1.