Louisiana Administrative Code

A. Appendix A and Appendix B contain model COB provisions that shall be used in group and individual contracts or subscriber agreements. That use is subject to the provisions of Subsections B, C, and D of this Section and to the provisions of

A. When a person is covered by two or more plans, the rules for determining the order of benefit payments are as follows. 1. The primary plan shall pay or provide its benefits as if the secondary plan or plans did not exist. 2. If the primary plan is a closed panel plan and the s…

A. When a plan is secondary, it shall reduce its benefits so that the total benefits paid or provided by all plans during a claim determination period or plan year are not more than 100 percent of total allowable expenses as provided for in §303.A, Allowable Expense, a-e. The sec…

A. Plan shall in its explanation of benefits provided to covered persons, include the following language. “If you are covered by more than one health benefit plan, you should file all your claims with each plan.” Additionally, notice to obtain a copy of Appendix C, as provided fo…

A. A secondary plan that provides benefits in the form of services may recover the reasonable cash value of the services from the primary plan, to the extent that benefits for the services are covered by the primary plan and have not already been paid or provided by the primary p…

A. If any Section or provision of Regulation 32 or the application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity or determination shall not affect other Sections or provisions or the application of Regulation 32 to any persons or circumstances that can be given e…

A. A contract that provides health care benefits and that was issued before the effective date of this regulation shall be brought into compliance with this regulation, by January 2019. B. This amended regulation is applicable to every group and individual contract or subscriber …

A. Model COB Contract Provisions COORDINATION OF THIS CONTRACT’S BENEFITS WITH OTHER BENEFITS The Coordination of Benefits (COB) provision applies when a person has health care coverage under more than one Plan. Plan is defined below. The order of benefit determination rules gove…

A. Consumer Explanatory Booklet Coordination of Benefits COORDINATION OF BENEFITS IMPORTANT NOTICE This is a summary of only a few of the provisions of your health plan to help you understand coordination of benefits, which can be very complicated. This is not a complete descript…

A. Explanation for Secondary Plans on the Purpose and Use of the Benefit Reserve COORDINATION OF BENEFITS The purpose of coordination of benefits is to ensure that a covered person does not receive more than 100% of the total allowable expenses. Any plan that has been determined …

A. This Chapter establishes regulatory permits as authorized by R.S. 30:2054(B)(9). Regulatory permits may be used to authorize emissions of air contaminants as defined in LAC 33:III.111 from the sources and activities identified in this Chapter by notifying the department of the…

A. Regulatory permits cannot be used to authorize construction of a major source, as defined in LAC 33:III.502, or a major modification, as defined in LAC 33:III.504.K and 509.B. B. Use of a regulatory permit may be precluded by specific permit conditions contained within a Part …

A. No operation of any source or activity addressed by a regulatory permit shall commence until the appropriate permit fee has been paid and the administrative authority has notified the applicant that the application (i.e., notification form) submitted in accordance with LAC 33:…

A. Applicability. This regulatory permit authorizes the operation of temporary separators, tanks, meters, and fluid-handling equipment, including loading facilities, necessary to test the content of a subsurface stratum believed to contain petroleum liquids or natural gas and/or …

A. Applicability. This regulatory permit authorizes the release of natural gas from pipelines and associated equipment resulting from metering, purging, and maintenance operations, subject to the requirements established herein, upon notification by the administrative authority t…

A. Applicability 1. This regulatory permit authorizes the installation and use of stationary internal combustion engines, including, but not limited to, electrical power generators, firewater pumps, and air compressors, subject to the requirements established herein, upon notific…

A. Applicability 1. This regulatory permit authorizes the installation and use of portable air curtain incinerators, subject to the requirements established herein, upon notification by the administrative authority that the application (i.e., notification form) submitted in accor…

A. Applicability 1. This regulatory permit authorizes the construction and operation of facilities engaged in the manufacture of ready-mixed portland cement concrete, including central-mixed concrete, shrink-mixed concrete, and truck-mixed concrete, subject to the requirements es…

A. Applicability 1. This regulatory permit authorizes the construction and operation of rock, concrete, and asphalt crushing facilities, subject to the requirements established herein, upon notification by the department that the application (i.e., notification form) submitted in…

A. Applicability 1. This regulatory permit authorizes the flaring of gaseous materials other than natural gas (e.g., propane, ethylene, propylene, ammonia) resulting from metering, purging, and maintenance operations, subject to the requirements established herein, upon notificat…

A. Applicability 1. This regulatory permit authorizes the construction and use of storage vessels, subject to the requirements established herein, upon notification by the department that the application (i.e., notification form) submitted in accordance with Subsection G of this …

A. Applicability 1. This regulatory permit authorizes the construction and use of boilers and process heaters, subject to the requirements established herein, upon notification by the department that the application (i.e., notification form) submitted in accordance with Subsectio…

A. Applicability 1. This regulatory permit authorizes the construction and use of cooling towers, subject to the requirements established herein, upon notification by the department that the application (i.e., notification form) submitted in accordance with Subsection G of this S…

A. Applicability 1. This regulatory permit authorizes the construction and use of stationary combustion turbines, subject to the requirements established herein, upon notification by the department that the application (i.e., notification form) submitted in accordance with Subsec…

A. The Medicaid Program provides reimbursement for physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy rendered in rehabilitation clinics to recipients under the age of 21. B. Effective for dates of service on or after February 1, 2013, reimbursement shall not be made for s…

A. No person shall operate a rendering plant without first obtaining a permit to operate from the parish health unit in the parish in which it operates. B. [formerly paragraph 11:005] In applying for a permit, the applicant shall submit detailed plans for the rendering plant, sho…

A. The hauling of any dead animal, or of offal, shall be done in a truck, or other conveyance having a water tight floor and sides made of an impervious material capable of being washed and scrubbed to eliminate any residues. It shall be provided with a tight covering to prevent …

A. None of the products of any rendering plant shall be utilized in any food products for human consumption. B. [formerly paragraph 11:013] No person shall keep, throw into, or place in any public water, street, or any other place, other than a facility designed for processing or…

A. All grease and other products of a rendering plant not utilized in fertilizers but packed for use in, or transportation to, some other locality, shall be branded, marked, tagged or otherwise identified on every package with a conspicuous label, printed in read ink, as follows:…

A. In all instances where responsibility for fiscal review of proposed disbursements has been assigned to an employee subordinate to the agency administrator, and where such employee in practice must act to approve or disapprove proposed disbursements, that employee will be held …

A. Unless otherwise defined in this Chapter, the definitions for key terms in this Chapter are provided in R.S. 44:402. Approved Retention Schedule―a retention schedule which has been approved by the state archivist or his designee. Records Series―a group of related or similar re…

A. To facilitate the development of agency retention schedules in compliance with R.S. 44:411, each agency shall: 1. review the functions and activities of the agency; 2. develop a list of records produced, received, and maintained by the agency; 3. identify the inclusive dates, …

A. Each agency shall submit a draft retention schedule to the state archivist for review and approval. 1. The agency will conduct adequate research to determine the length of time each record series needs to be maintained based on its administrative, legal, fiscal, operational, e…

A. Each agency shall review its retention schedule annually to identify any record series requiring an addition, amendment, or deletion to the agency's approved schedule. Events that may require amendments to the schedule include but are not limited to new legislation that change…

A. An agency schedule, once approved by the Louisiana State Archives, will be valid for five years from the date of approval. Ninety days prior to the five year anniversary of a schedule's approval, each agency shall submit the schedule for renewal.

A. Every parish and municipality shall perform a biennial risk assessment in the form and format prescribed by the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for the at-risk population with the results thereof to be provided to the Governor's Office of Home…

A. The evacuation and sheltering of private nursing home residents and private hospital patients is and shall remain the primary responsibility of the host health care facility.

A. The municipal risk assessment shall consist of a survey of the people living within the corporate limits to identify the people in each category of the at-risk population defined herein and the essential workers as defined herein, and to determine whether the individuals so id…

A. The parish risk assessment shall consist of a survey of the people living outside the corporate limits of any municipality to identify the people in the each category of the at-risk population defined herein and the essential workers as defined herein, and to determine whether…

A. Every parish and municipality shall prepare an inventory in the form and format prescribed by the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness of all local modes of transportation subject to the parish president’s emergency powers, including but not limite…

A.1. The parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management established pursuant to R.S. 29:727(B), using the combined list of at-risk population and essential workers and the combined list of available means of transportation, shall develop an evacuation and sheltering …

A. The authority of this manual is given in Act No. 682 of the Regular Session of the State Legislature of 1989. Under normal budgetary conditions, the vegetation control guidelines as described herein should be followed as closely as possible. However, during times of severe bud…

A. General Conditions for All Highway Systems 1. DOTD will encourage the growth, planting and preservation of wildflower areas. 2. The district roadside development coordinator shall monitor and coordinate planting of all wildflower areas. He will record locations of the planting…

A. Laws and Regulations. The Federal Insecticide and Rodenticide Act as amended in 1972 (FIFRA) requires individuals who apply restricted use pesticides to be certified applicators. National standards for the certification of applicators are found in Title 40, Part 171 of the Cod…

A. Herbicide Types 1. Soil-active (residual) herbicides are active in the soil and stop plant growth of germinated seeds and roots in the following manner. Soil-active herbicides are moved into the root zone by water. The herbicide is absorbed by the root system and translocated …

A. General 1. Louisiana and the Department of Transportation and Development are embarking on a statewide plan for the planting and preservation of wildflowers along its rights-of-way. The Department of Transportation and Development and Louisiana Project Wildflower are working v…

A. General 1. Highway landscape design should begin with an analysis and the inventory of the landscape features in order to identify, evaluate and locate the features to be conserved, further developed and/or incorporated in the highway corridor. 2. Careful and proper landscapin…

A. General. The Department of Transportation and Development recognizes that the presence of vegetation on highway rights-of-way has a positive value for Louisiana. Trees benefit the state by mitigating the impact of the highway system, increasing soil stabilization, providing wi…

A. Purpose. The purpose of this directive is to establish a general policy governing the treatment of significant trees by the department within the highway right-of-way, zone of construction or operational influence. B. Definitions Historic Tree―a tree that stands at a place whe…

A. Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, the following words and terms used in this Part of the sanitary code and all other Parts which are adopted or may be adopted, are defined for the purposes thereof as follows. Business Building―any structure which is used in any wa…