Louisiana Administrative Code

A. In order to engage in bail enforcement, the following shall be done. 1. Before conducting a bail enforcement, the bail bond producer shall notify local law enforcement in the parish or city where the principal is sought unless exigent circumstances exist. 2. The bail bond prod…

A. No licensed bail bond producer shall improperly withhold, misappropriate, fail to timely remit premiums and reports of bonds written, or convert to one's own use any monies belonging to principals, sureties and underwriters, or others possessed in the course of the business of…

A. The commissioner is vested with the authority to enforce this regulation. The department may conduct investigations or request other state, parish or local officials to conduct investigations. B.1. Violations of this Section are governed by Part I of Chapter 5 (Producers) and …

A. This regulation shall become effective on final publication in the Louisiana Register.

A. Requests for payment must be “person specific” for each Hurricane Katrina or Rita evacuee or other affected individual. The request must contain the following data, if known, for the evacuee or other affected individual: 1. last name; 2. first name; 3. middle initial; 4. Socia…

A. The purpose of this Chapter is to implement the Small Business Innovation Retention Fund Program as established by R.S. 51:2401. B. This Chapter shall be administered to achieve the following purposes: 1. to support and retain Louisiana jobs in STEM and other high-tech industr…

A. Terms not otherwise defined in this Chapter shall have the same meaning given to them in R.S. 51:2401, unless the context clearly requires otherwise. B. In this Chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings provided herein, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise…

A. The following general principles will direct the administration of the program. 1. Awards are not be considered as an entitlement for companies, and the secretary has the final authority to determine whether or not each particular applicant is eligible and meets the criteria o…

A. Eligible applicants for the benefits of this program shall be Louisiana small businesses that receive a Federal Notice of Award on or after June 15, 2022.

A. LED will provide a standard application form which applicants will be required to use to apply for assistance under this program. The application form will contain, but not be limited to, the following: 1. business name; 2. contact person and their title; 3. business physical …

A. LED will consider various factors when determining which applications will be funded. Among the factors which may be taken into consideration are the following; 1. disbursing of funding statewide; 2. availability of funding; and 3. best interests of the state.

A. In the event LED determines that an applicant is eligible, funding is available and a grant would be appropriate, a grant letter will be issued, specifying the amount, the terms and conditions of the grant. B. Grant funds will be disbursed to the approved applicants as follows…

A. R.S. 47:1561.1 provides an alternative means of enforcing collection of income taxes withheld from wages of employees and sales and use taxes collected from customers, should a corporation fail to file returns or fail to remit such taxes, by holding certain officers or directo…

A. Unless otherwise specifically provided, when the due date of any report or return prescribed under the laws administered by the Department of Revenue and Taxation, falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, the report or return shall be considered timely if it is filed o…

A. As authorized by R.S. 47:1520, the following alternate methods for signing, subscribing, or verifying tax returns, statements, or other documents filed by electronic means are allowed and shall have the same validity and consequence as the actual signature and/or written decla…

A. Income tax return preparers may sign original returns and amended returns by means of a rubber stamp, mechanical device, or computer software program. These alternative methods of signing must include either a facsimile of the individual preparer's signature or the individual …

A. Except as provided in R.S. 47:1576(A)(1)(b), any taxpayer protesting the payment of any amount found due by the secretary or the enforcement of any provision of the tax laws in relation thereto, shall remit to the Department of Revenue the amount due, including tax, interest a…

A. In the event a check used to make a remittance of tax under protest pursuant to R.S. 47:1576 is returned unpaid by the bank on which it is drawn for any reason related to the account on which the check is written, such shall constitute a failure to remit taxes.

A. Taxpayers filing claims for refunds or credits of overpayments of tax, penalty or interest as authorized by R.S. 47:1621 and in accordance with R.S. 47:1623 must comply with the following procedures. 1. A claim for refund or credit shall be written in the English language, and…

A. Electronic Funds Transfer Requirements 1. Taxpayers are required to remit their tax payments by electronic funds transfer when the payments made in connection with the filing of any business tax return or report averaged, during the prior 12-month period, more than $5,000 per …

A. Definitions. For the purposes of these rules, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section. Courier⎯a messenger other than the United States Postal Service that delivers parcels, packages and the like containing returns, reports, other documents…

A. Definitions 1. For purposes of this rule, the following terms shall have the meaning ascribed to them. Attorney General⎯the Attorney General of the state of Louisiana. Collection Contractor⎯the attorney general or one or more private persons, companies, associations, or corpor…

A. General. R.S. 47: 1623(G) provides for an extension of the prescriptive period applicable to certain individual income tax refunds. Taxpayers who received a federal income tax refund pursuant to the Combat-Injured Veterans Tax Fairness Act of 2016 are entitled to an extension …

A. Time Tax Payable. The total amount of tax due on a tax return shall be paid no later than the date the return is required to be filed without regard to any extension of time for filing the return. An extension of time to file a return is not an extension of time to pay the tax…

A. The carrier/self-insured employer authorizes private rehabilitation firms to provide professional services including consultation, assessment, and follow-up to assist claimants in returning to suitable gainful employment, as provided by R.S. 23:1226. B. The professional servic…

A. No duplicate payment will be made for medical reports prepared by physicians and submitted through the counselor. Such reports are requested from the treating physician by the counselor and payment for these reports is made by the carrier/self-insured employer. B. No payment w…

A. This reimbursement schedule indicates maximum allowances which constitute payment in full for the services. No additional charge to the claimant is allowed. No charge shall be submitted to the carrier/self-insured employer before the service has been performed. All procedures …

A. For billing Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant Services, the following locally assigned HCPCS codes will be used. Code Description X0710 Professional fee, per hour X0720 Professional Fee (Travel Time/Wait Time), per hour X0730 Mileage, per mile X0740 Long Distance Calls X075…

A. The 2016 Louisiana Farm Recovery Grant Program is hereby established. B. The 2016 Louisiana Farm Recovery Grant Program provides a 100 percent grant to agricultural producers for working capital expenses related to the 2017 planting year for the purpose of aiding in the recove…

A. An agricultural producer experiencing a 2016 flood related loss shall be eligible to receive money from the 2016 Louisiana Farm Recovery Grant Program upon meeting all of the following requirements. 1. The farm upon which a loss occurred must be located in one of the following…

A. The application period shall be publicly announced or published in a manner that fairly puts agricultural producers on notice of the 2016 Louisiana Farm Recovery Grant Program and the start and end of the application period. B. Only application forms prepared by LAFA for this …

A. After the LAFA staff has approved an application, the proceeds of the grant shall be disbursed by LAFA’s staff upon the signing of the grant documents by the applicant and LDAF’s director of grant recovery programs. B. If the total amount of proceeds to be disbursed under the …

A. Grant proceeds may be used to pay current year working capital expenses that are related to the preparation, planting, management and harvesting the current year crop including, but limited to feed, bait, seed, fertilizer, fuel, chemicals, herbicides, crawfish traps, office su…

A. This Section allows applicants to submit requests allowing for experimental operations for new technology (e.g., use of alternate daily cover) prior to submitting a permit application or modification. No experimental operations for new technologies shall be implemented without…

A. A person who generates a solid waste, as defined in LAC 33:V.109, shall determine if that waste is a hazardous waste in accordance with LAC 33:V.1005.A. B. The hazardous waste determination for each solid waste shall be made at the point of waste generation, before any dilutio…

A. Preadmission screening shall be performed for all individuals seeking admission to a Medicare or Medicaid-certified nursing facility, regardless of the source of payment for the nursing facility services or the individual’s known diagnoses. The purpose of the preadmission scre…

A. Evaluative data for medical certification (level of care determination) must be submitted to the Office of Aging and Adult Services (OAAS) or its designee for all initial admissions to and requests for continued stays in Medicare or Medicaid-certified nursing facilities, regar…

A. In order to assure timely and appropriate care for applicants, the level II authority may make an advance group determination by category that takes into account that certain diagnoses, levels of severity of illness or need for a particular service clearly indicates the need f…

A. An individual who is being discharged from a hospital and is seeking nursing facility admission may be exempt from preadmission screening if all of the following criteria are met: 1. the individual is being admitted to a nursing facility (NF) directly from a hospital after rec…

A. The nursing facility shall notify the parish Medicaid office via the BHSF Form 148 of the following changes in a resident’s circumstances: 1. change in the level of care; 2. transfer to another nursing facility; 3. change in payer source; 4. hospital/home leave and returns; or…

A. If an individual is determined not to need nursing facility services and is denied admission, the individual has a right to appeal the decision through the department’s established appeal procedures. 1. A denial notice will be sent to the individual and he/she may use that let…

A. Pursuant to Title 2 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, specifically the Aviation Division, hereafter DOTD, manages and administers the airport project process and grant award procedures.

A. Application Requirements. Airport sponsors shall submit an Airport Project Grant Application to DOTD for review and funding protocol, upon request, notification of Airport Construction and Development Priority Program approval, or otherwise in accordance with the Louisiana Avi…

A. Upon receipt and successful review of the airport’s grant application, DOTD will develop and transmit an eligible grant award through a Sponsor State Agreement to the airport sponsor for the DOTD approved funding amount for the project. The grant shall be fully executed with t…

A. Within 15 business days, the airport sponsor shall notify DOTD of any legal disputes or contract breaches on any projects that have state funds allocated to them through the Airport Construction and Development Priority Program. B. DOTD’s participation in the project shall in …

A. The airport sponsor shall submit the request for reimbursement to the DOTD. The request shall only be submitted for work that has been completed and eligible expenses incurred that have been paid in full by the airport sponsor. The request for reimbursement shall not exceed on…

A. The airport sponsor shall submit all final billings for all phases of work within three months after the final inspection of the project, unless prior arrangements have been made with DOTD. Failure to submit these billings prior to the completion of this three-month period sha…