RS 40:1265.1

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RS 40:1265.1

PART III. MARKET PLACES

§1265.1. Public markets; location, inspection, and operation; exemptions; market zones

A.(1) Municipal corporations may regulate the location, inspection, and operation of all public markets, subject to the superior right of inspection and regulation of the Louisiana Department of Health.

(2)Permanent open-air public market buildings built prior to 1950 which are designated as historic and located in the city of New Orleans shall be exempt from LAC 51:XXIII.1501, 1701, and 3505(A). The lessor shall develop food service operational guidelines after consultation and periodic review with the Louisiana Department of Health. Such food service operational guidelines shall be incorporated into the lease agreements with lessees who operate food service establishments in the exempted area. The lessor shall enforce such food service operational guidelines through leases with their lessees.

B. They may fix market zones around public markets. However, these market zones shall be limited to a radius of three thousand feet walking distance of the public market and shall not apply within a radius of three hundred lineal feet from the center of all public railroad passenger depots.

Amended by Acts 1978, No. 786, §5, eff. July 17, 1978; Acts 2006, No. 397, §1; Acts 2011, 1 st Ex. Sess., No. 12, §1, eff. June 12, 2011; Redesignated from R.S. 40:1241 by HCR 84 of 2015 R.S.