Building permits

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RS 140.22 - Building permits

Whenever the planning commission has recommended to the City Council and the Police Jury, and the City Council or Police Jury has adopted in whole or in part, a building permit plan, including both the full text of a building permit ordinance and the map or maps, showing the districts or zones in which building permits will be required, then and thereafter no building shall be erected in those areas without first having secured the required building permit.

NOTE: §140.22 as amended by Acts 2020, No. 294, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.

RS 140.22 - Official map; additions and changes

The city council may add to the official map by placing thereon, from time to time, the lines of streets in accordance with the plat of any subdivision which have been approved by the planning commission. The city council may make, from time to time, other additions to or modifications of the official map by placing thereon the lines of planned new streets or street extensions, widenings, narrowings, or vacations. The placing of any street or street line upon the official map shall not, in or of itself, constitute or be deemed to constitute the opening or establishing of any street or the taking or accepting of any land for street purposes.

Acts 1962, No. 52, §22; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.



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