RS 45:842

§842. Provision of emergency alert services A. A parish office of homeland security and emergency preparedness may provide emergency alert services within such parish or may designate an emergency alert provider to provide such services. An emergency alert provider may be a private for-profit entity operating under contract with and at the direction of the parish office of homeland security and emergency preparedness. B. The Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness1 shall certify and issue a certificate to each emergency alert provider. Acts 1997, No. 199, §2, eff. June 13, 1997; Acts 2003, No. 40, §4, eff. May 23, 2003; Acts 2006, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 35, §8, eff. March 1, 2006. 1See Acts 2006, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 35, §8, which changes the term "state office of homeland security and emergency preparedness" to "Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness" and §10, which provides for the termination of the Act and the reversion to the law in effect prior to the Act on July 1, 2010.