Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:143.1 – Blocking of private driveways, highways and department rights of way, penalties
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:143.1
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Department: means the Department of Transportation and Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
- Driver: means every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
- Highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way or place of whatever nature publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for the purpose of vehicular travel, including bridges, causeways, tunnels and ferries; synonymous with the word "street". See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
- Operator: means every person, other than a chauffeur, who drives or is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle upon a highway or who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
- Owner: means a person who holds a legal title to a vehicle or in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale, lease, or transfer of possession thereof with the right of purchase upon the performance of the conditions stated in the agreement, with the right of immediate possession in the vendee, lessee, possessor, or in the event such similar transaction is had by means of mortgage and the mortgagor of a vehicle is entitled to possession, then the conditional vendee, lessee, possessor, or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner for the purposes of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
- person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
- Right of way: means the privilege of the immediate use of the highway. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
- Vehicle: means every device by which persons or things may be transported upon a public highway or bridge, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
A. No person shall park any vehicle along a highway or department right of way in any residential area so as to block private driveways.
B. Whenever any law enforcement officer finds such an unlawfully parked vehicle as described in Subsection A above, he may move the vehicle, or require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to move it to a legally permissible position away from the private driveway.
C.(1) The owner or operator of any vehicle parked in violation of Subsection A above may, within twenty days after the date when a ticket giving notice of such violation was attached to such vehicle, pay to the chief of police, sheriff, or other chief law enforcement officer, in full satisfaction of such violation, the sum of one dollar plus any towing charges for moving the vehicle.
(2) The owner or operator of any vehicle parked in violation of Subsection A above, who fails to pay the chief of police, sheriff or other chief law enforcement officer the sum of one dollar plus towing charges, as provided herein, shall upon conviction thereof, be fined, according to the discretion of the court, not less than two dollars and fifty cents nor more than twenty dollars plus any towing charges.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 138, §1. Amended by Acts 1977, No. 113, §1, eff. June 22, 1977.