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Search Louisiana Laws. Laws have been updated through the 2024 Second Extraordinary Session. This website contains provisions of law and annotations which are provided for informational purposes. Updating this information is an ongoing process, and no guarantee is made as to its accuracy. This information is maintained primarily for legislative ...
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The laws in the Louisiana Laws are passed by the Louisiana State Legislature, which consists of the Louisiana House of Representatives and the Louisiana Senate. The House of Representatives contains 105 members, while the Senate contains 39 members. The members of each chamber serve four-year terms, and they are limited to three consecutive terms.
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Law in the state of Louisiana is based on a more diverse set of sources than the laws of the other 49 states of the United States. Private law —that is, substantive law between private sector parties, principally contracts and torts—has a civil law character, based on French and Spanish codes and ultimately Roman law, with some common law ...
May 17, 2023 · For information regarding a specific legal issue affecting you, please contact an attorney in your area. Welcome to the Louisiana Laws section of FindLaw's State Law collection. This section contains user-friendly summaries of Louisiana laws as well as citations or links to relevant sections of Louisiana's official online statutes.
Louisiana residents are subject to Louisiana state and U.S. federal laws. Federal laws apply in Louisiana as they do across all 50 states. In addition to the U.S. Constitution, which is the supreme law of the U.S., federal laws include statutes that are periodically codified in the U.S. Code. Federal laws also include decisions by courts that interpret federal laws.