Debts recoverable from seamen

La. Rev. Stat. § 34:861, under Navigation and Shipping.

La. Rev. Stat. § 34:861

§861. Debts recoverable from seamen No keeper of a public or lodging house for seamen shall, at any time, recover from a seaman any debt exceeding one dollar, and no other person shall recover from any seaman a debt exceeding one dollar, after he has signed articles to proceed to sea, until the voyage for which he shipped is ended.