Louisiana · statute · La. Rev. Stat. tit. 2 · 152 active provisions
For the purposes of this Title, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Abandoned aircraft" means any aircraft which has been left on any property for a period of more than ninety days without the consent of the owner or operator of the property. (2) "Aeronautics" means any activity that involves, makes possible, o…
A. Subject to the provisions of Subsection C of this Section and except as otherwise provided by law: (1) The state shall have exclusive jurisdiction to regulate all unmanned aircraft systems and all unmanned aerial systems. (2) State law shall supersede and preempt any rule, regulation, code, or ordinance of any polit…
A. There is hereby created within the Department of Transportation and Development the Louisiana Advanced Aviation and Drone Advisory Committee. B.(1) The secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development shall create the Louisiana Advanced Aviation and Drone Advisory Committee and it shall be comprised of…
The secretary and employees of the department designated by him shall supervise and direct all aeronautic activities and facilities, except those activities pertaining to aircraft registration, identification, equipment, and enforcement delegated to the secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections or hi…
A. The department shall foster air commerce within the state of Louisiana and the department shall have supervision over the aeronautical activities and facilities, which authority shall include supervision and control over all airports, landing fields, landing strips, air instruction, air marking, air beacons, and all…
The department shall assist in the development of aviation and aviation facilities for the purpose of safeguarding the interests of those engaged in all phases of the industry and of the general public and of promoting aeronautics. Accordingly, the department may expend any or all the moneys allocated and deposited for…
The Department of Transportation and Development may, subject to legislative appropriation of sufficient funds, enter into a contract or contracts to maintain, repair, and use such air navigation aids as the department deems necessary to operate a statewide aeronautical navigation system. A plan for such a system shall…
All proposed airports, landing fields, air schools, flying clubs, air beacons, or other navigation facilities, shall first be approved by the department before they are so used or operated. No airport, landing field, air school, flying club, air beacon, or other air navigation facility, except airports and landing fiel…
The secretary or any person designated by the secretary may hold investigations, inquiries, and hearings concerning matters covered by the provisions of this Chapter, and all accidents in aeronautics, except for aircraft registration, identification, equipment, and enforcement delegated to the Department of Public Safe…
To facilitate the making of investigations by the secretary, in the interest of the public safety and the promotion of aeronautics, the reports of investigations or hearings, or any part thereof, or any testimony given thereat, shall not be admitted in evidence or used for any purpose in any suit, action, or proceeding…
The department shall keep on file with the secretary of state and at the principal office of the department, a copy of all its rules and regulations pertaining to aeronautics for public inspection. Acts 1985, No. 889, §1. {{NOTE: SEE ACTS 1985, NO. 889, §3.}}
Both departments, their members and employees, and every state, parish, and municipal officer charged with the enforcement of state and municipal laws, shall enforce and assist in the enforcement of this Chapter. Both departments are further authorized to enforce the provisions of this Chapter by injunction in the dist…
In any case where the department rejects an application for permission to operate or establish an airport, landing field, air school, flying club, air beacon, or other air navigation facility, or in any case where the department shall issue any order requiring certain things to be done, it shall set forth its reasons a…
Any person against whom an order has been entered may, within ten days after service, appeal to the district court for the parish in which property affected by the order is located, for the purpose of having the reasonableness or lawfulness of the order inquired into or determined. Acts 1985, No. 889, §1. {{NOTE: SEE A…
The party taking the appeal shall file a praecipe in the office of the clerk of court for the parish in which the property affected by the order is located, and summons shall thereupon be issued by the clerk and shall be served upon the secretary of the department or the deputy secretary for public safety services. Upo…
If no appeal is taken from the order of the departments within the period fixed, the party against whom the order was entered shall have waived the right to have the reasonableness or lawfulness of the order reviewed by any court, and there shall be no trial of that issue in court in which suit may be instituted for th…
Whoever fails to comply with the requirements of, or violates any of the provisions of this Chapter or the rules and regulations for the enforcement of this Chapter, made by the departments shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than ninety days, or both, except in those instances…
The department of public works in behalf of and in the name of the state, out of funds available for such purposes, may plan, establish, construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, equip, operate, regulate, protect, and police airports and air navigation facilities within the state. The department may construct, install, eq…
For the purposes set forth in R.S. 2:81 the department of public works by purchase, donation, lease, or condemnation may acquire property or an interest therein, including servitudes in airport hazards or land outside the boundaries of an airport, necessary to permit safe and efficient operation of the airports, to per…
A. The department may dispose of any airport, air navigation facility, and portion thereof, or any interest therein. The disposal shall be in accordance with the laws governing the disposition of property of the state; except that disposal to a political subdivision of the state or to the United States for aeronautical…
The department of public works may act as agent for any municipality or parish in Louisiana in applying for, accepting, receiving, receipting for, and disbursing any federal funds made available to finance, in whole or in part, the planning, acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance, or operation of any munic…
The governing authority of any municipality or parish may authorize the department of public works to act as its agent for the purposes set forth in R.S. 2:84.
The department of public works, as principal for the state and as agent for any municipality or parish when authorized in writing, may contract with the United States or its subdivisions as required in connection with a grant or loan of federal funds for airport or air navigation facilities.
The department of public works shall deposit in the state treasury funds received pursuant to R.S. 2:84 and R.S. 2:86. Unless otherwise prescribed by the authority from which the moneys are received, the funds shall be kept in a separate fund designated according to the purposes for which the funds are made available.…
A. "Political subdivision" as used in this Part means any parish of this state as well as any city or county of another adjoining or adjacent state which is authorized by the law of that state to engage in a joint endeavor for the creation and operation of an airport district with a political subdivision of this state.…