Louisiana Administrative Code

A. A licensee transferring a category 1 or category 2 quantity of radioactive material to a licensee of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or an agreement state shall meet the license verification provisions listed below instead of those listed in LAC 33:XV.340.D. 1. Any licensee …

A. For shipments of category 1 quantities of radioactive material, each shipping licensee shall comply with the requirements for physical protection contained in LAC 33:XV.1645.A and E; LAC 33:XV.1647; LAC 33:XV.1649.A.1, B.1, and C; and LAC 33:XV.1651.A, C, E, G, and H. B. For s…

A. Each licensee who plans to transport, or deliver to a carrier for transport, licensed material that is a category 1 quantity of radioactive material outside the confines of the licensee's facility or other place of use or storage shall: 1. preplan and coordinate shipment arriv…

A. As specified in Paragraphs A.1 and A.2 of this Section, each licensee shall provide advance notification to the Office of Environmental Compliance by telephone at (225) 765-0160, and in writing, of the shipment of licensed material in a category 1 quantity, through or across t…

A. Shipments by Road 1. Each licensee who transports, or delivers to a carrier for transport, in a single shipment, a category 1 quantity of radioactive material shall: a. ensure that movement control centers are established that maintain position information from a remote locati…

A. The shipping licensee shall notify the appropriate LLEA and the Office of Environmental Compliance by telephone at (225) 765-0160 within one hour of its determination that a shipment of category 1 quantities of radioactive material is lost or missing. The appropriate LLEA woul…

A. Each record required by this Chapter shall be legible throughout the retention period specified by each department regulation. The record may be the original or a reproduced copy or a microform, provided that the copy or microform is authenticated by authorized personnel and t…

A. Licensees shall maintain the records that are required by the regulations in this Chapter for the period specified by the appropriate regulation. If a retention period is not otherwise specified, these records shall be retained until the department terminates the facility's li…

A. Each licensee shall afford to the department at all reasonable times opportunity to inspect category 1 or category 2 quantities of radioactive material and the premises and facilities wherein the nuclear material is used, produced, or stored. B. Each licensee shall make availa…

Appendix A—Category 1 and Category 2 Threshold Radioactive Material Category 1 (TBq) Category 1 (Ci) Category 2 (TBq) Category 2 (Ci) Americium-241 60 1,620 0.6 16.2 Americium-241/Be 60 1,620 0.6 16.2 Californium-252 20 540 0.2 5.40 Cobalt-60 30 810 0.3 8.10 Curium-244 50 1,350 0…

A. As used in Chapter 16, the following terms have the meanings described below. Commissioner―Deputy Secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Public Safety Services. Department―Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Office of Motor Vehicles. Driver Priv…

A. R.S. 47:532.1 authorizes the commissioner to establish a system of public tag agents authorized to collect the registration license taxes, as well as applicable sales and use taxes, and issue registration certificates and license plates to motor vehicles. An agent may be eithe…

A. Public tag agents may collect a convenience in addition to any other fee or tax collected when processing a transaction for the department. The convenience fee shall not exceed the amount authorized in R.S. 47:532.1(C) and shall be retained by the public tag agent.

A.1. The assistant secretary or his designee may suspend, revoke, cancel, or terminate the public tag agent's contract upon a violation by the agent or any agent's officers, directors, employees, owners, or other representatives of any responsibility or requirement established pu…

A. Qualifications for a Public Tag Agent Owner. To contract with the department as a public tag agent, the owner/applicant shall: 1. be a citizen of the United States or be lawfully present in the United States; 2. have earned at least a high school diploma, GED or its equivalent…

A. Those persons interested in becoming a public tag agent may inquire at the following address. Attention: PTA Administration Office of Motor Vehicles Post Office Box 64886 Baton Rouge, LA 70896 Or by email at PTAAdmin@la.gov B. Initial Application Process for a public tag agent…

A. Contracts shall be issued for two years and be renewable on a biennial basis. The initial contract will be valid from the date of issuance until May 31st of the year closest to but not to exceed two years. B. Contracts shall be nontransferable. In the event of a change of owne…

A. Every initial application or renewal for a public tag agent shall be accompanied by an application fee of $100 per year, collected biennially, per location. B. An $8 fee shall be assessed when a public tag agent relocates and a new certificate is issued or if a duplicate certi…

A. Every owner, employee, officer, directors, managers, or representative who will have access to restricted areas of the contracted location, information or data regulated by the Driver Privacy Protection Act, or paperwork or documents submitted to the public tag agent as a resu…

A. The business location of a PTA must be approved prior to being contracted to do business at that location. B. The PTA office cannot be co-located with other business such as insurance companies, driving schools, tow facilities, etc. unless the PTA office is separated by a perm…

A. A public tag agent will be audited on a biennial basis. B. PTA may also be audited on an as needed basis or when additional services are requested by the PTA prior to a biennial audit being conducted. C. A final audit with an error rate greater than or equal to 20 percent will…

A. The following actions by a public tag agent, or by any of the public tag agent's employees, officers, directors, managers, representatives, or owners, may subject the public tag agent to suspension, revocation, or cancellation of the public tag agent's authority by the departm…

A. No public tag agent shall display any sign, logo, business name, or trade name, or cause to be advertised any sign, logo, business name, or trade name which includes the words "office of motor vehicles," "motor vehicle office," or "motor vehicles office," or any similar phrase…

A. Every applicant for a driver's license, certificate of title, or for a new or renewed vehicle registration at a public tag agent's place of business shall be given the opportunity to prohibit the disclosure of personal information as defined in LAC 55, Part III, Chapter 5, §55…

A. All public tag agents other than municipal and parish governing authorities shall furnish security for the faithful performance of their duties as follows. 1. Each public tag agent other than a municipal governing authority shall execute a good and sufficient surety bond with …

A. The commissioner and public tag agents other than municipal and parish governing authorities may enter into contracts which shall state the required procedures for the implementation of LAC 55, Part III, Chapter 16. Such contracts may terminate upon violation of R.S. 47:532.1,…

A. Any person desiring a ruling on the applicability of any statute, or the applicability or validity of any rule in LAC 55, Part III, Chapter 15, Subchapter B, regarding public tag agents, shall submit a written petition to the deputy secretary. The written petition shall cite a…

A. A public tag agent may contract with the department to administer the necessary tests and issue, or renew identification cards, handicap hang tag identification cards, and driver's licenses transactions deemed acceptable by the department. The written knowledge test and the dr…

A. The department may contract with public tag agents to perform other transactions authorized in R.S. 47:532.1. In such case, the public tag agent shall use the equipment and procedures required by the department to process these transactions. The public tag agent shall use an a…

A. The department may immediately suspend, revoke, or cancel this contract upon written notice to the public tag agent if the public tag agent that has more than one payment (whether in the form of an electronic ACH debit or paper draft) dishonored or returned to the department a…

A. All regulations outlined in this Chapter or in any contract between the public tag agent and the department shall be adhered to by the public tag agent and its employees. DPS may suspend or revoke any public tag agent contract issued under these rules and regulations upon disc…

A. In the event a public tag agent is found to be in violation of R.S. 32:707.2, R.S. 47:531.1 et seq., applicable administrative rules, contract terms or department policy, the Office of Motor Vehicles may impose sanctions. The sanctions shall include, but are not limited to, ad…

A. The Campaign Finance Disclosure Act provides that the board shall function as the Supervisory Committee on Campaign Finance Disclosure.

A. The name of a political committee shall not be the same as, nor deceptively similar to, the name of any other political committee. B. The name of a political committee organized to support one candidate shall contain the name of that candidate. C. The name of a political commi…

A. A fee of $100 shall be remitted to the supervisory committee with each statement of organization required to be filed by a political committee. B. The $100 fee shall be due only once per calendar year per committee. In the event that an amended statement of organization is fil…

A. The staff shall prepare and provide upon request, forms for the registration and reporting by political committees and reporting by candidates. The forms may be provided on paper or in electronic format. B. No registration or report submitted by a political committee or report…

A. Any political committee or candidate who submits a registration or report that is not on the required form shall have 10 days, from the date of receipt by the staff of the information submitted, to file the required form. If the provisions of §1605 are met, then the registrati…

A. The staff may, without board action, request additions and corrections to any registration or report filed by a political committee or report filed by a candidate or other person which would constitute a minor violation of the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act. However, the staf…

A. The staff shall establish a procedure for the dating, indexing, and filing of all registrations and campaign finance disclosure reports received by the board as supervisory committee.

A. A legislator who wishes to accept a contribution, loan, or transfer of funds during a regular legislative session as a candidate for an office described in R.S. 18:1505.2Q(3)(b) must open a bank account, separate from any existing campaign or personal accounts, into which such…

A. A governor who wishes to accept a contribution, loan, or transfer of funds during a regular legislative session or within 30 days thereafter as a candidate for an office described in R.S. 18:1505.2R(3)(b), must open a bank account, separate from any existing campaign or person…

1. If a political committee, other than a principal or subsidiary campaign committee of a candidate, chooses to file campaign finance disclosure reports on a monthly basis, written notification must be provided to the supervisory committee no less than 45 days prior to the next c…

A. The language of R.S. 18:1511.11 of “the violation is contained in a report…” shall mean that the alleged campaign finance violation shall be evident on the face of the report, without further investigation or information provided from another source, in order for the one-year …

A. If there is a tie vote in a general election, candidates, political committees and other persons required to file campaign finance disclosure reports, shall file the following additional reports: 1. Special Reports for the twenty-day period preceding the tie vote election purs…

A. Candidate, political committee or other persons who are required to file campaign finance disclosure reports have 10 days from receipt of a contribution to take the following actions: 1. deposit the contribution into their designated campaign account; or, 2. return the contrib…

A. Redesignation is an action taken by a candidate or his campaign committee and/or the contributor to designate an excess contribution to another election in which the contributor has not exceeded the contribution limits. 1. Redesignation of a contribution designated by the cont…

A. The first and primary natural environment for all people is the family. Children, regardless of the severity of their disability, need families and enduring relationships with adults in a nurturing home environment. As with all children, children with developmental disabilitie…

Child―an individual under the age of 18. Developmental Disability—defined in accordance with the Developmental Disability Law at R.S. 28:451.2(12). Emotional Disturbance Severity Screening Instrument―a tool selected and used by the Local Governing Entity (LGE) providing behaviora…

A. Applications for Flexible Family Fund will be accepted by email, fax, mail and in person in the office of the local governing entity (LGE) for the region in which the child resides. There is no closing date for accepting applications. B. The responsible caregiver is responsibl…

A. The local governing entity (LGE) shall be responsible for determination of eligibility of all applicants for the flexible family fund for which they have responsibility. B. To be found eligible for the flexible family fund on the basis of a qualifying intellectual/developmenta…