The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Louisiana
- Level
- State
- Authority
- La. Const. art. III; Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act, R.S. 29:721 et seq. (Acts 1993, No. 800, as amended)
- Issued
- 1993-06-22 June 22, 1993
- Effective
- standing throughout 2020 Q2 to 2021 Q3 (the 2020 amendments and the 2021 concurrent resolution did not alter subsections (A) or (E) as quoted) (read as 1993-06-22)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since June 22, 1993 (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
- Emergency declarationStanding dutyOther
- Addressees
- persons generally; employers ('any person or representative of any firm, partnership, or corporation'); owners or persons in control of premises
- Character
- order penalty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Louisiana DUT-LA
Operative words
the governor may issue executive orders, proclamations, and regulations and amend or rescind them. Executive orders, proclamations, and regulations so issued shall have the force and effect of law.
Penalty
R.S. 29:724(E): 'In the event of an emergency declared by the governor pursuant to this Chapter, any person or representative of any firm, partnership, or corporation violating any order, rule, or regulation promulgated pursuant to this Chapter, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or confined in the parish jail for not more than six months, or both.'
What it required
Every person, firm, partnership and corporation must obey every executive order, proclamation and regulation the Governor issues under the Act; each has the force and effect of law and violation is a crime.
Retrieval noteOfficial statute page rendered Sept. 28, 2026. Every COVID-19 proclamation in the library (Exs. LA-001 to LA-042) issued under this section and the LHEPA.