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Louisiana regulations: details

Copied from the state’s website on September 24, 2026. Check the official page before you rely on a rule.

What is here

26,719 numbers of the Louisiana Administrative Code, converted by us from the 154 Word files the Office of the State Register posted, fetched September 24, 2026: 26,547 sections, 83 numbers printed as Reserved and 89 reserved ranges of numbers. 26,495 sections carry text; 52 print no text under the heading, 9 of them only an empty table grid.
It is not the official text. The publisher calls the Louisiana Administrative Code the state-certified publication. This is GLO's conversion of the Word files the Office of the State Register posts, not a certified copy; certified copies come from the LAC editor.
Each title or title-part file has its own Last Amended Date. Every section shows the date for its file, exactly as the publisher lists it. That date never means the text is current.
Citations are title, Part and section, as in LAC 22:I.101. Asking for a title and number with no Part, as in 22:101, lists every section with that number in any Part; we never pick one for you.
Three section numbers are printed more than once in the same Part (41:II.419 twice, 49:I.115 five times, 49:I.1153 twice). Every printing comes back, in file order, never renumbered.
Asking for a number that falls inside one of the 89 reserved ranges returns that range, marked as such.

How we checked it

Two programs written separately, one reading the Word files’ own XML and one reading Microsoft Word’s rendering of them, read every file. Every place they disagreed was read by hand and named.
We tested under a plan frozen before the test. The result was CLEAN.
A person read 150 random sections against Word’s own rendering of the posted files and found none wrong in this copy. At that sample size the true error rate could still be as high as 2.5%. This checks our copying, not the publisher’s text. 186 more sections read the same way, chosen for their harder features, also had none wrong.
A separate check compared 1,790 sections printed whole in the Louisiana Register, a separate publication of the same office, with their latest amendment from January 2023 to December 2025. 1,670 match word for word under the comparison’s normalisation. Of the other 120, 48 show a difference between the two publications (10 a real change of words, reported as found and never corrected) and 72 differ only because of our comparison tools. That covers only that group, says nothing about the 1,190 sections last amended in 2026, and is never combined with the check above.

What it can't tell you

Whether a rule is current, valid or in force.
Whether the text matches the certified publication.
Anything the publisher changed after a file’s Last Amended Date, or after September 24, 2026.

Known gaps

Bullets in the Word file are not shown. No row is marked for this, so any list may have lost its bullet marks.
Automatic list numbers are shown only where GLO could render them from the file's own numbering; numbered paragraphs inside tables or text boxes carry no number.
Where the Word file prints a table, each table row is shown as one line with its cells in order, separated by tabs; a line break inside a cell starts a new line. Column layout is not shown, and no row is marked for this.
Form blanks drawn as tab leaders (lines or dots to write on) are not shown.
Editor's Notes stay in the section text, as printed.
The publisher’s Part, Subpart and Chapter headings are not carried. A Part lookup lists the Part’s numbers with their captions.
99 sections are longer than 40,000 characters and come back cut off, marked as cut off.
Keyword search reads section text only. Captions, Authority and Historical notes, Reserved numbers and reserved ranges are not searched.

Notes you may see on an entry

9 printings of the 3 numbers printed more than once: “The file prints this section number more than once in the same Part. Every printing is shown under the number as printed, in file order, and none is renumbered; printing says which one this is.”
14 sections whose heading is printed in another style: “The Word file prints this section's heading in a style other than its section-heading style. It was checked by hand and kept as this section's heading.”
1,407 sections whose Part comes from the listing, confirmed by the file: “This file prints no Part heading above this section. The Part in its citation is the one the publisher's listing names for the file, and the file's own text names the same Part.”
458 sections whose Part comes from the listing label alone: “This file prints no Part heading and never names its Part. The Part in this citation comes from the publisher's listing label alone.”
22 sections whose Part the file's own contents and cross-references name: “The file prints no Part heading where this group of sections starts its numbering over. The Part in this citation is the one the file's own table of contents and cross-references name.”
22 sections whose Part the agency's rule notices name: “The file prints no Part heading for this group of sections. The Part in this citation is the one the agency's own rule notices use for these sections; this file does not print it.”
31 sections under an irregularly printed Part heading: “The file prints this group's Part heading in an irregular form, such as "Part. XXXI." or "Part XV" with no period. The Part in this citation is the one that heading names.”
41 sections with an irregular note label: “An Authority or Historical note in this section carries its label in an irregular form in the file, such as a misspelling or a missing colon. It is shown as that note, with its label as printed.”
2 sections whose Historical note continues: “A paragraph right after the Historical note that begins with "LR" or "(" is shown as part of that note.”
19 sections with text-box text: “Text from a text box in the Word file is shown once, as its own paragraph after the paragraph that holds the box.”
39 sections with automatic numbering or bullets: “Some paragraphs in this section are numbered or bulleted automatically in the Word file. Bullets are not shown, and an automatic number is shown only where GLO could render it from the file's own numbering; check the posted file for list numbering.”
69 sections with a symbol that has no mapping: “A symbol in this section has no mapping in GLO's conversion. It is shown as the Word file's private character code, not as the publisher's font draws it; where the conversion recorded it, symbol_codes gives the font and code.”
17 sections with a pending tracked change: “The posted file shows a pending tracked change in this section: an inserted paragraph break, or in one place a single inserted space. No words are pending.”
9 sections that print only an empty table grid: “The posted file prints only an empty table grid under this heading, then the notes. There is no text to show, and none was left out.”
43 sections that print no text under the heading: “The posted file prints no text under this heading.”
83 numbers printed as Reserved: “The publisher prints this number as Reserved. Its caption, and any text under it, are shown as printed.”
89 reserved ranges: “The publisher's heading reserves this range of numbers. No rule text is printed under it.”
A number inside a reserved range: “No section is printed under this number; it falls inside this reserved range, shown as the publisher prints it.”
A citation with no Part: “No Part was given. These are every section of this title printed with that number, in any Part; the same number repeats across Parts, so choose by Part and caption. None is chosen for you.”
A number not in this copy: “Not printed in this copy of the Louisiana Administrative Code (the Word files the Office of the State Register posted, fetched 2026-09-24). That NEVER means the rule does not exist: a rule adopted, changed or repealed after the file's Last Amended Date may differ or be absent here.”
A lookup of Louisiana Revised Statutes: “That is Louisiana statute law, not the Louisiana Administrative Code. The lookup says so rather than returning nothing.”

Nothing here is legal advice or a judgment that a rule is in force. Full counts for software: the defect_floor field on every Louisiana result (source=la).