Title 33, Municipalities and Parishes
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La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2011 Development of cancer during employment in fire service; occupational disease
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§2011. Development of cancer during employment in fire service; occupational disease A.(1) Because of exposure to heat, smoke, and fumes or carcinogenic, poisonous, toxic, or chemical substances, when a firefighter in the classified service who has completed ten or more years of …
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2012 Fire Service Bill of Rights
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§2012. Fire Service Bill of Rights A. This Section may be referred to as the "Louisiana Fire Service Bill of Rights". B. There is hereby established a Fire Service Bill of Rights to promote the rights of members of the fire service in Louisiana and to insure that their rights are…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2013 Fire suppression employees; city of New Orleans; maximum hiring age requirement
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§2013. Fire suppression employees; city of New Orleans; maximum hiring age requirement A. The fire department of the city of New Orleans shall adopt a written policy establishing a maximum age requirement for any person hired as a fire suppression employee of such department. The…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:202 Charter and ordinances of larger municipality to remain in force
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§202. Charter and ordinances of larger municipality to remain in force When a consolidation becomes effective the constituent municipalities shall consolidate and become one municipality under the name set forth in the election ordinances. The charter or other laws for the govern…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2021 Municipalities and persons affected
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§2021. Municipalities and persons affected R.S. 33:2022 through 33:2042 apply to any municipality, whether existing under special charter or under general law, having a population of less than twenty-five thousand and maintaining a regular fire department with equipment of the va…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2022 Election to authorize disability and relief fund
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§2022. Election to authorize disability and relief fund A special election for the purpose of submitting to the property taxpayers of the municipality the proposition of inaugurating a system of disability and relief payments for its firemen and of creating a special fund known a…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2023 Maintenance of fund
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§2023. Maintenance of fund The governing authority may appropriate and pay into the fund out of the annual revenues of the municipality a sum not to exceed the equivalent of one mill on the dollar of assessed valuation of all property in the municipality. This amount from the gen…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2024 Salary deductions; donations; source of fund
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§2024. Salary deductions; donations; source of fund The municipality shall each month deduct from the salary of each paid fireman one per cent of the amount thereof and pay the amount deducted into the fund. The municipality may receive any donations or bequests to the fund. The …
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2025 Special trust fund
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§2025. Special trust fund The fund shall be set aside as a special trust fund and shall be disbursed only in the manner and for the purposes provided in this Sub-part.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2026 Administration of fund
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§2026. Administration of fund The fund shall be controlled, managed, and administered exclusively by The Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Disability and Relief Fund, hereinafter referred to as "the board". A board created under Act 303 of 19401 and existing on the effective dat…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2027 Board of trustees of fund
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§2027. Board of trustees of fund The board shall be a corporate body politic and shall be composed of: (1) The mayor or chief executive of the municipality. (2) The clerk or secretary of the municipality. (3) The chief of the fire department. (4) Two active firemen, appointed by …
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2028 Term of active firemen on board
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§2028. Term of active firemen on board The two appointed firemen shall hold office for a period of four years.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2029 Review of board action
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§2029. Review of board action The board is a quasi-judicial body. Its action is reviewable only by a writ of certiorari to the courts.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:203 Officers and employees of larger municipality to serve
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§203. Officers and employees of larger municipality to serve The officers and employees of the municipality having the larger population, shall, from the effective date of the consolidation, serve and act as the officers and employees of the consolidated municipality. The officer…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2030 Meetings of board
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§2030. Meetings of board The board shall meet quarterly. A special meeting shall be called on forty-eight hours' notice by the president at the request of any three members.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2031 Powers and duties of board
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§2031. Powers and duties of board The board shall: (1) Make regulations necessary for the administration of the fund; (2) Hear and decide applications for benefits; (3) Retain and provide compensation for legal, medical, clerical, or other services necessary for the conduct of th…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2032 Compensation of board; expenditures to preserve fund
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§2032. Compensation of board; expenditures to preserve fund The members of the board shall receive no compensation from the fund. The board may make payments from the fund for its preservation and administration. These expenditures are limited to what is necessary to safeguard an…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2033 Duties of secretary
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§2033. Duties of secretary The secretary of the board shall keep in books, provided for the purpose, a complete record of all proceedings of the board, particularly with reference to investing money belonging to the fund which proceedings shall be spread upon the minutes in full.…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2034 Investment of funds
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§2034. Investment of funds The board may at any time, after considering the probable current demands upon the fund, determine what portion of the fund may be safely withdrawn from the current cash account for investment for revenue purposes. All proceedings relating thereto shall…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2035 Fund not subject to claims against beneficiary
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§2035. Fund not subject to claims against beneficiary The fund, or any portion thereof, before or after an order for its distribution is issued, shall be exempt from assignment or pledge by a beneficiary of the fund or from seizure by virtue of any judicial process issued against…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2036 Disability, retirement, and death benefits
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§2036. Disability, retirement, and death benefits Pensions and benefits shall be as follows: A. If a volunteer fireman, while in active service, is found by the board to be temporarily, totally disabled, mentally or physically, by reason of his service, he shall receive monthly f…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2037 Effect of receipt of workers' compensation or social security payments
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§2037. Effect of receipt of workers' compensation or social security payments When a person entitled to benefits from the fund is covered by a workers' compensation insurance policy or any other type of insurance policy paid for by the municipality or fire company, or is entitled…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2038 Employment forfeiting benefits
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§2038. Employment forfeiting benefits No person shall receive benefits from the fund if he attaches himself to a paid fire department in any municipality, or accepts public employment for compensation equal to or greater than the benefits herein provided.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2039 Proration of funds when insufficient for full payment
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§2039. Proration of funds when insufficient for full payment Should the fund at any time be insufficient to make all payments properly payable therefrom, the beneficiaries shall not have a right of legal action against the municipality, or its governing authority, or the board, f…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:204 Rights and liabilities of constituent municipalities; taxation
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§204. Rights and liabilities of constituent municipalities; taxation The new municipality shall, when a consolidation becomes effective, be vested with all the rights and properties of the municipalities of which it was formed, and shall be responsible and liable for all contract…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2040 Examination of claimants
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§2040. Examination of claimants In all matters involving the disability or sickness of a fireman, he shall submit to physical and mental examinations when required by the board, and a failure so to do suspends the benefits of the fund until he submits to examination.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2041 Discontinuation of disability and relief system
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§2041. Discontinuation of disability and relief system The governing authority of the municipality may discontinue the fund and the system of disability and relief for firemen. The fund and the system, however, shall continue as to paid firemen of the municipality already in serv…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2042 Conflicting provisions
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§2042. Conflicting provisions R.S. 33:2021 through R.S. 33:2041 do not repeal special laws which establish benefits or relief funds for firemen in any municipality.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2043 Authority to insure volunteer firemen
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§2043. Authority to insure volunteer firemen The governing authority of any municipal corporation may expend out of its public funds the necessary amount to secure insurance or compensation for volunteer firemen killed or injured, while going to, returning from, or attending fire…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:205 Collection of taxes
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§205. Collection of taxes The taxes levied or imposed by one of the constituent municipalities, remaining outstanding and unpaid, and all other moneys due and owing such municipality when the consolidation becomes effective shall be collected by the new municipality and shall be …
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:206 Transfer of funds and other property
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§206. Transfer of funds and other property Immediately upon the consolidation becoming effective, the officers having custody of the funds of the lesser municipality shall deliver same into the custody of the proper fiscal officer of the new municipality, who shall acknowledge de…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:207 Permits and licenses
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§207. Permits and licenses Permits and licenses granted to any place or person by any of the constituent municipalities shall, subject to their conditions, remain in full force and effect and be recognized by the new municipality until the expiration of the term for which they we…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:208 Suit pending wherein constituent municipality a party
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§208. Suit pending wherein constituent municipality a party No suit, action, or proceeding pending in any court or before any board or department, wherein one of the constituent municipalities is a party, or in which it is interested, or by the determination of which it might be …
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:209 City court
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§209. City court The city court of the larger municipality shall, upon consolidation of the two municipalities, have its jurisdiction, both in civil and criminal matters, extended to include the territory within the new corporate limits and shall be authorized to enforce therein …
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:21 Official seal, insignia, symbol, emblem, coat of arms, or logo
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§21. Official seal, insignia, symbol, emblem, coat of arms, or logo A. If a local governmental subdivision by ordinance or resolution adopts an official seal, insignia, symbol, emblem, coat of arms, or logo which contains its name or which contains any device, depiction, or inscr…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2101 Contracts for provision of fire protection services
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§2101. Contracts for provision of fire protection services A. The governing authority of any municipality with a population of not less than seven thousand persons as of the most recent federal decennial census or any parish or fire protection district which maintains a full-time…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2181 Applicability; minimum standards during investigation; penalties for failure to
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§2181. Applicability; minimum standards during investigation; penalties for failure to comply A. Unless context otherwise requires, the following terms when used in this Subpart shall be given the meanings assigned below: (1) "Fire employee" includes any person employed in the fi…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2182 Release of personal information
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§2182. Release of personal information No person, agency, or department shall release to the news media, press, or other public information agency a fire employee's home address, photograph, or any information that may be deemed otherwise confidential, without the express written…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2183 Personnel files
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§2183. Personnel files A. No fire employee shall have any comment adverse to his or her interest entered in his or her personnel file or any other file used for any personnel purposes by his employer without the fire employee having first read and signed the instrument containing…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2184 Disclosure of finances
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§2184. Disclosure of finances No fire employee shall be required to disclose for the purpose of promotion or assignment any item of his or her property, income, assets, debts, or expenditures or those of any member of such fire employee's household. Acts 1997, No. 1436, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2185 Retaliation for exercising rights
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§2185. Retaliation for exercising rights There shall be no penalty nor threat of any penalty for the exercise by a fire employee of his or her rights under this Subpart. Acts 1997, No. 1436, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2186 Investigations
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§2186. Investigations A. Any investigation of a fire employee which is conducted pursuant to this Subpart shall be completed within sixty days, including the conducting of any pre-disciplinary hearing or conference. However, in each political subdivision which is governed by R.S.…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2191 Application of Sub-part
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§2191. Application of Sub-part This Sub-part applies to any paid police department operated by a municipality which has a population of fifty thousand or more.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2192 Division of policemen into platoons; transfer
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§2192. Division of policemen into platoons; transfer A. The officer having management of the department shall divide the members thereof into three platoons. B. The proper authority in the department may transfer a member from one platoon to another, but only for the good of the …
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2193 Substitutes; continuous duty during emergency
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§2193. Substitutes; continuous duty during emergency Salaries of the members of the department shall not be reduced below the level paid on July 27, 1920. Substitutes shall be furnished whenever necessary. In cases of emergency, the officer having the management of the department…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2194 Platoon system inapplicable to superintendent or commanding officer
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§2194. Platoon system inapplicable to superintendent or commanding officer The three-platoon system herein established does not apply to the superintendent of police or commanding officer of the department.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2195 Providing necessary personnel
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§2195. Providing necessary personnel A. The superintendent of police or commanding officer of the department shall provide a sufficient number of officers and men to carry out the objects of this Subpart. B. The superintendent of police or commanding officer of the department may…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2196 Rules and regulations; status of policemen on roll January 1, 1928
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§2196. Rules and regulations; status of policemen on roll January 1, 1928 The superintendent of police or commanding officer of the department may adopt regulations for the government of the department except substitutes. All members of the department whose names appear on the ro…
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2201 Redesignated to R.S
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§2201. Redesignated to R.S. 40:1665.2. See Acts 2014, No. 158, §§3 and 7.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:221 Contracts; taxes
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§221. Contracts; taxes A. If a municipality annexes territory contained in a parochial water, sewer, or fire protection district, hereinafter collectively referred to as special service districts, the municipality and each such special service district are hereby authorized to en…