The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Louisiana
- Level
- State
- Authority
- La. Const. art. III; Acts 1976, No. 346, sec. 1, as amended
- Effective
- standing throughout 2020 Q2 to 2021 Q3
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Quarantine and isolationStanding dutyOther
- Addressees
- persons generally; owners or persons in control of premises; permit holders and food establishments
- Character
- order penalty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Louisiana DUT-LA
Operative words
Whoever violates those provisions of the sanitary code dealing with the isolation or quarantine of communicable disease, or any person... who, after having been officially isolated or quarantined... violates the provisions of the isolation or quarantine shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.
Penalty
(A) first offense: fine up to $25 or imprisonment up to 10 days, escalating for later offenses; (B) isolation or quarantine violations: $50 to $100 or imprisonment up to two years, or both; (C) injunction by the district attorney at the request of the state health officer or the Secretary 'when necessary to arrest or prevent epidemics or to abate any imminent menace to the public health'; (D) civil fines up to $100 per day per violation and $10,000 per violator per year, in addition to criminal prosecution
What it required
Every person must comply with the Sanitary Code and with every isolation or quarantine imposed by the state or a local health officer, on pain of criminal prosecution, injunction and civil fines.
Retrieval noteOfficial statute page rendered Sept. 28, 2026. Subsection (C) verbatim: 'In addition to a criminal prosecution, the district attorney may, upon request of the state health officer or secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, or his duly authorized representative, petition the district court, and the district court may, upon such petition and for cause, restrain any person by temporary or permanent injunction for the violation of any provision of the state Sanitary Code when necessary to arrest or prevent epidemics or to abate any imminent menace to the public health.'.