St. Tammany Parish officials may enforce building and zoning rules, inspect property, order fixes, and violators may be fined or jailed.
§4776. St. Tammany Parish; enforcement of building and zoning ordinances and regulations; penalty for violations A. In case any building or structure is erected, structurally altered, or maintained, or any building, structure, or land is used in violation of any St. Tammany Parish building code ordinance, any parish land use regulation zoning ordinance, any parish subdivision regulatory ordinance, or any ordinance or regulation made under the authority of Act 518 of the 1954 Regular Session of the Legislature of Louisiana, the St. Tammany Parish Police Jury, in addition to other remedies, may institute any appropriate action or proceedings, including but not limited to the issuance of misdemeanor summons or citations, to prevent such unlawful erection, structural alteration, maintenance, or use; to restrain, correct, or abate such violation; to prevent the occupancy of the building, structure, or land; or to prevent any illegal act, conduct, business, or use in or about such premises. B. The regulations shall be enforced by officers commissioned and designated by the St. Tammany Parish Police Jury, who are empowered to cause any building, structure, place, or premises to be inspected and examined and to order in writing the remedying of any condition found to exist therein in violation of any provision of the regulations and ordinances referred to in this Section. C. The owner or general agent of a building or premises where a violation of any regulation has been committed or exists, the lessee or tenant of an entire building or entire premises where the violation has been committed or exists, the owner, general agent, lessee, or tenant of any part of the building or premises in which the violation has been committed or exists, the general agent, architect, builder, contractor, or any other person who commits, takes part in, or who assists in any violation or who maintains any building or premises in which any violation exists shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than five hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than thirty days for each day that the violation continues. Acts 1988, No. 388, §1.