RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 159 (HB 270) 2023 Regular Session Willard
New law authorizes the governing authority of Orleans Parish to enact ordinances regulating
or prohibiting the growth or accumulation of grass, trash, or other deleterious matter on
property within the parish, excluding railroad rights-of-way. Prohibits the parish governing
authority from undertaking the removal of deleterious matter unless the owner has failed to
do the work himself within five days after notice has been given to him by advertisement in
the official journal of the parish or by registered or certified mail. Authorizes the parish
governing authority to charge the costs of such work to the property owner.
New law authorizes the parish governing authority to undertake such work if the property
owner has been notified pursuant to new law at any time during the immediately preceding
24 months.
New law requires the parish to furnish the owner with an invoice for the cost of the work
performed. Authorizes the parish, if the cost is not paid within one month, to furnish the
owner, by registered or certified mail or by domiciliary or personal service, a written
statement showing the outstanding cost. Provides that if the statement is not paid within one
month thereafter, the amount shall be included in the property owner's taxes.
Effective August 1, 2023.
(Adds R.S. 33:5062.2)