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What must a Louisiana landlord disclose to a tenant, and what must the lease say?

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A Louisiana lease may be oral, no statute sets a length above which it must be written, and nothing requires the landlord to give the tenant a copy of a written one.

Cited to La. Civ. Code art. 2681 (Form) and 12 more cited sources · Verified September 13, 2026

The state requires no tenant-rights document, no required lease contents, no owner or manager identity disclosure, no move-in condition report, no deposit notice at signing, no utility disclosure and not one hazard disclosure: nothing on lead beyond the federal rule, and nothing at all on mold, bed bugs, radon, methamphetamine or asbestos. The most flood-exposed state in the country requires no flood disclosure to a renter either, and its property disclosure document reaches a lease only when the lease carries an option to purchase. The one thing a Louisiana landlord must disclose is a foreclosure: any pending foreclosure action must be disclosed in writing before and during the lease, and a seizure notice with prescribed wording must reach every tenant within seven days, on pain of two hundred dollars. No roster of prohibited clauses exists; a handful of clauses are void, and one clause other states void is expressly permitted, shifting responsibility for the condition of the premises to the tenant unless the owner knew or was told of the defect.

Louisiana lease disclosures at a glance

Which law governs Louisiana is a civil-law state with no landlord-tenant act. Residential lease law is Civil Code Title IX on lease, articles 2668 through 2729, which sets the form of a lease, the parties' obligations, the warranty against vices and defects and the effect of a transfer of the property. A statutory overlay sits in Revised Statutes Title 9, sections 3201 through 3261.2, and carries the scattered duties that matter here: the lessee's deposit part, the lessors' rights part, the residential lease application requirements, the lessee's right to notification of a foreclosure action, and the military, domestic abuse and sexual assault termination sections. Two further pieces sit outside both. The property disclosure chapter at sections 3196 through 3200 of Title 9 is a sales chapter, and it reaches a lease only where the lease carries an option to purchase. And the electronic transactions act in Title 9 governs whether a lease and the notices under it may be signed and delivered electronically. There is no statute of frauds for leases at all.
Who is covered Statewide. Civil Code Title IX governs every lease, and a lease is residential when the thing is to be occupied as a dwelling; where a thing is leased for more than one purpose, the dominant or more substantial purpose determines which rules apply. Two duties carry their own unit envelopes inside their own sections. The ban on lease clauses penalizing a tenant for summoning law enforcement or emergency assistance applies only to a lease for a residential dwelling in a building or structure of six or more separate residential dwellings, and does not apply where the structure has ten or fewer units and one of them is occupied by the owner or lessor. The application-fee notice binds all lessors of property to be used as a lessee's primary residence except owner-occupied buildings of no more than four units. The foreclosure disclosure has no threshold at all and reaches every residential lessor, including those whose dwellings are subject to a federally related mortgage loan and those with a federal housing assistance payments contract.
Written lease, copy and signature rules

No statute requires a residential lease to be in writing, so an oral tenancy is lawful. No statute requires the landlord to give the tenant a copy of the lease.

A lease may be made orally or in writing, and Louisiana has no writing threshold for a lease of any length. The rule that a transfer of immovable property needs a written act does not reach a lease, because a lease is not a transfer of the immovable, and there is no Louisiana version of the common-law rule that a lease of more than a year must be written. Nothing requires the lessor to give the lessee a copy of a written lease: there is no copy duty at all, with or without a deadline. Where the parties agree no term, a lease of an immovable, or of a movable to be used as a residence, is month to month. New since August 1, 2026, and a recordation rule rather than a disclosure: a lease of an immovable has effect against third persons from the time it is filed for registry. No statute or rule requires a lease or any notice in a language other than English.

Format and plain-language rules: Louisiana prescribes no type size, no plain-language act and no placement rule for a lease as a whole. It prescribes one conspicuousness standard, attached to a single clause: the warranty against vices or defects may be waived, but only by clear and unambiguous language that is brought to the attention of the lessee.

Electronic leases and signatures: Louisiana's uniform electronic transactions act validates an electronically signed lease, but it carves out several notices by subject and two of them matter to a residential tenancy. The act does not apply to any notice of the cancellation or termination of utility services, including water, heat and power, and it does not apply to any notice of default, acceleration, repossession, foreclosure or eviction, or of the right to cure, under a credit agreement secured by, or a rental agreement for, the primary residence of an individual. So the lease itself may be signed electronically while the notices that end it may not be delivered that way under the act. One statute runs the other way and says so expressly: the application-fee notice may be delivered, stored and presented electronically if the electronic means meet the act's requirements.
Owner and agent identity

No.

Louisiana requires a lessor to tell the lessee nothing about who owns or manages the property. Nothing in the 65 articles of the Civil Code lease title, and nothing in the Revised Statutes lease overlay, requires the lessor's name, address, telephone number or the identity of any manager to be disclosed, in the lease or anywhere else. The nearest provision is a default rule about where money goes rather than a duty to identify anyone: in the absence of a contrary agreement, usage or custom, the rent is payable at the address provided by the lessor, and failing that at the address of the lessee. There is no statewide landlord or rental registration: of the 398 sections across all 53 titles whose headings mention registration, the only ones touching leasing at all concern prospective mineral leaseholders, sales-tax dealers who rent through online forums and a New Orleans short-term-rental occupancy tax, and none produces a notice to a tenant. Louisiana also has no rule making a manager the owner's agent for service where the owner was not disclosed; the provisions that look like that address how papers are served, not who must be named.
Required statements and lease text

No.

Louisiana prescribes no general tenant-rights statement, no summary of the law, no handbook, no model lease, no agency form of general application and no duty to tell the lessee where the law can be read. It prescribes no content a residential lease must carry either: what the law does instead is make a handful of clauses ineffective and expressly permit one. The state's one piece of prescribed statutory text is location-specific and belongs to the foreclosure row, and the one prescribed document that touches a lease binds a licensed real estate agent rather than a landlord. A second licensee item is worth knowing and is not a Louisiana document at all: an agent may, but need not, hand a buyer a mold information pamphlet at or before the time a lease, rental agreement or contract for sale is entered into, and the pamphlet the Commission has approved is the federal environmental agency's own guide.

Listed, but not a general duty counted above:

Customer Information Form — What Customers Need to Know When Working with Real Estate Brokers or Licensees — a state-prescribed document to be handed over or attached; issued by the Louisiana Real Estate Commission. A licensed real estate agent must provide the agency disclosure informational pamphlet or the agency disclosure form to all parties to a real estate transaction involving the sale or lease of real property, and must do it at the time substantive contact is made, meaning anything beyond a ministerial act. The recipient signs and dates it, the agent signs as a witness, and the agent keeps it for five years; where the recipient refuses to sign, the agent prepares and keeps written documentation of the refusal for the same period. It may be sent by email or other electronic means if the recipient acknowledges receipt in a document verifying the time and date. The form itself carries signature blocks for a buyer or lessee and for a seller or lessor. The duty binds the licensee and not the landlord, and the sanction is license discipline rather than anything the tenant can enforce, so the item is listed here without counting toward the count above. Where no licensee is involved, no Louisiana lease carries this document at all. Revision: AgencyForm Rev. 05/21, printed in the footer of both pages; the file served from the Commission's site carries a file date of October 3, 2024. Two pages, English only. Given before signing, delivered electronically or on paper. Languages: English. Threshold: Only where a licensed real estate agent performs services for a party to the lease. Agency page. (LAC 46:LXVII.3703(A), (C)–(F)) Not counted as a general duty.
Move-in condition report

No.

Louisiana requires no move-in condition statement, checklist, inventory, walk-through or photographs, and no right to see a previous tenant's damage list. Nothing turns on the absence of one: no deposit consequence attaches, because the deposit statute conditions nothing on a move-in record. The Civil Code allocates responsibility for condition without generating any document. The lessor is bound to deliver the thing at the agreed time and in good condition suitable for the purpose for which it was leased, and the lessee is bound to return it at the end of the lease in the same condition as when it was delivered, except for normal wear and tear. Louisiana also prescribes no signing-time deposit notice of any kind, no receipt and no statement of where the deposit is held; the only writing the deposit statute requires comes after the tenancy ends, and it is on the deposits page.
Hazard disclosures

No in-force state hazard disclosure duty applies at signing beyond the federal lead-paint rule. No state duty exists for lead, mold, bed bugs, radon, methamphetamine, asbestos, or any other hazard.

Every state duty and every stated absence, hazard by hazard:

Lead (state add-on to the federal rule) — no state duty. Louisiana adds nothing to the federal lead-paint disclosure: no state form, no registry, no certificate and no re-disclosure. Its lead law is a licensing, accreditation and abatement program, together with a lead-poisoning prevention program and a restriction on the sale and use of lead-based paint. The two reporting duties in it run to the state, not to a tenant: health care providers report positive blood-lead results for people engaged in lead hazard reduction work to the state health officer, and where a child-occupied facility, meaning a licensed day care, preschool or elementary school, is involved, the owner and the inspector jointly notify the secretary and the state health officer in writing within ninety days and post a copy prominently at the facility. A day care is not a dwelling. The one notice that does reach tenants belongs to the state health officer, not the landlord: after an inspection under the lead poisoning control rules, the findings are reported in writing immediately to the parent or guardian, the owner or operator of the building, all affected tenants, the person managing the poisoning case and the state health officer.

Mold — no state duty. No Louisiana statute or rule requires a landlord to disclose mold. One provision comes close and it is permissive and belongs to someone else: the Real Estate Commission was directed to approve a mold information pamphlet that a licensed agent may distribute, and if the agent chooses to deliver it, it must go to the buyer at or before the time a lease, rental agreement or contract for sale is entered into. The pamphlet the Commission approved is not a Louisiana document; the rule names the federal environmental agency as the official source. The rest of the state's mold law is a task force that studied the subject, a liability limitation for contractors and architects, and licensing for mold remediation contractors.

Bed bugs — no state duty. Louisiana has no bed-bug law of any kind: not one section heading in any of the 53 Revised Statutes titles mentions them, the full-text search returns nothing, and none of the thirteen administrative code titles read for this topic contains the term. Nothing is owed to a tenant before or at signing, and an infestation is handled under the Civil Code's warranty against vices and defects.

Radon — no state duty. Louisiana has no radon program that touches a lease. No section heading in any of the 53 titles mentions radon, and the only two sections that mention it anywhere are a state health laboratory fee schedule and the maximum contaminant levels for drinking water. The administrative references are radiation licensing provisions. Nothing must be tested, disclosed or handed over.

Methamphetamine — no state duty. Louisiana neither bars renting a property contaminated by a methamphetamine laboratory nor requires a lessor to tell a lessee about one. What it has instead is a public list: law enforcement reports contamination to the Department of Environmental Quality, the department maintains a listing and makes it available to the public on a website, bidders at a sheriff's sale are notified, and a property comes off the list when it has been remediated, after which the owner is not required to report or otherwise disclose the past contamination. The statute also states that no cause of action arises against anyone for failing to comply with it. The only disclosure the regime feeds is a question on the sales-side property disclosure document, which asks whether an illegal laboratory for producing methamphetamine was ever located on the property, and that document does not reach a plain lease. The department was authorized to adopt remediation standards by rule and has never done so.

Asbestos — no state duty. No asbestos disclosure is owed to a Louisiana tenant. The state's asbestos law is a school asbestos program, a detection and abatement program, a fund, a liability limitation and a prescription period for abatement actions. The matching administrative regime binds abatement contractors and its notifications go to the state. Nothing in any of it requires anything to be told to a person renting a home.

Other hazard notices (pesticide, ordnance, pool, pest control) — no state duty. Louisiana requires no pesticide-application notice, no military ordnance or noise-zone notice, no pool notice, no pest-control-contract disclosure, no contaminated-site notice and no shoreline or coastal notice to a residential tenant. Nothing of the kind appears in the Civil Code lease title, in the lease overlay in the Revised Statutes, in the headings of any of the 53 titles or in the administrative code titles read for this topic.
Flood disclosure

No.

The most flood-exposed state in the country requires no flood disclosure to a tenant of any kind. The word does not appear anywhere in the 65 articles of the Civil Code lease title. Of the 23 section headings across all 53 Revised Statutes titles that mention flooding, every one is levees and flood control, coastal protection, flood insurance regulation, a prescription suspension for the 2016 flooding disaster or careless boat operation in flood conditions, and not one is a lease disclosure. The sales-side property disclosure chapter does not reach a plain lease: it applies to the transfer of any interest in residential real property, whether by sale, exchange, bond for deed, lease with option to purchase, or any other option to purchase. The provision that comparison tables most often mistake for a renter's flood notice is an insurance rule: before placing residential flood coverage with an authorized or surplus lines insurer for a property covered by the national flood insurance program, a producer must give the applicant a written notice, to be signed by the applicant, explaining that the program's rate is subsidized and that a full-risk rate may apply if the coverage lapses. That binds an insurance producer to an insurance applicant, not a landlord to a tenant.
Disclosures about the property's situation Louisiana has one situation-based disclosure and it is about foreclosure. During, and prior to entering into, a lease agreement for a residential dwelling, the lessor must disclose in writing to the lessee and to any prospective lessee any pending foreclosure action to which the dwelling is subject, and the lessee's right to receive notice of a foreclosure action. Then, within seven calendar days after being served with a notice of seizure in a foreclosure action, the lessor must give written notice of the seizure to all lessees. That second notice is the one the statute shapes: it must be signed by the lessor and must state the district court in which the action is pending, the case name and the docket number, and must carry this paragraph. This is not a notice to vacate the premises. This notice does not mean ownership of the building has changed. All lessees are still responsible for payment of rent and other obligations under the rental agreement. The lessor is still responsible for his obligations under the rental agreement. You will receive additional notice if there is a change in owner. A lessee who establishes a violation in a civil proceeding recovers two hundred dollars in damages, in addition to any other damages or remedies and costs. There is no threshold: the section reaches all lessors in residential leases, including those leasing dwellings subject to a federally related mortgage loan and those with a federal housing assistance payments contract, and all lessees including voucher holders, and it exempts only a federally insured financial institution asserting its rights as an assignee of a lessor or as a mortgage holder. Separately, a lease that carries an option to purchase is not a plain lease for these purposes: the state's property disclosure chapter reaches the transfer of any interest in residential real property by sale, exchange, bond for deed, lease with option to purchase or any other option to purchase, so a lessor granting an option owes the buyer's disclosure document, including its question about whether an illegal methamphetamine laboratory was ever located on the property. Nothing else is required: no sex-offender notice, no notice of a death in the unit, no demolition or condominium-conversion notice, and no military noise or ordnance notice.
What need not be disclosed None — no statute says a fact about the property need not or may not be disclosed in a rental, or bars a claim over its non-disclosure.
Utility, fee and payment disclosures Louisiana has no utility disclosure at all: no shared-meter or submetering rule, no ratio-billing disclosure, no rule about fees in the lease or a total monthly payment, no rent-receipt duty, no payment-method or payment-location rule beyond the default that rent is payable at the address the lessor provides, and nothing about concessions, renter's insurance, smoking policy or rent reporting. Not one section heading in any of the 53 titles matches submetering or a shared meter. The one written notice a Louisiana lessor owes before a lease is made sits at the application stage. Before requiring payment of an application fee, the lessor must give written notice of the amount of the fee, of whether the lessor considers credit scores, employment history, criminal history or eviction records in deciding whether to rent, of the applicant's right to share in good faith a statement of two hundred words or less explaining financial hardship from a state or federally declared disaster or emergency and how it affected the applicant's credit, employment or rental history, and that notice about the hardship statement must reference the pandemic and hurricanes. It may be delivered, stored and presented electronically. It does not bind an owner-occupied building of no more than four units. And it has no teeth by design: the statute says no person has a cause of action against a lessor or the lessor's agents or employees for any alleged violation of it, and declares them immune. The fee itself and the screening rules are on the application and screening page; deposits and late fees are on their own pages.
Lease clauses that are void or prohibited

No enumerated list — Louisiana has no enumerated roster of prohibited lease provisions. What it has is four general or targeted controls and one express permission. Two are in the Civil Code and reach every contract or every lease: the nullity of an advance limitation of liability for intentional or gross fault or for physical injury, and the narrow conditions on waiving the warranty against vices and defects, which in a residential lease can never be waived as to defects that seriously affect health or safety. Two are statutory and narrow: a real anti-waiver rule that covers the deposit part only, and a clause ban about summoning emergency help that applies only inside a six-or-more-unit envelope, with an owner-occupied exception. A fifth rule makes the servicemember termination right non-waivable. Against all that sits the assumption-of-condition permission described above, which the legislature wrote to override the Civil Code article for that one clause.

Sanction as the statute states it: The clause is void or ineffective and nothing more. No damages, no multiple of rent, no cure window and no agency sanction attaches to including a prohibited clause in a Louisiana lease. The two two-hundred-dollar figures elsewhere in the law attach to failing to give the foreclosure notice and to violating the servicemember termination section, not to using a clause.

The general provisions:

• Any clause that in advance excludes or limits one party's liability for intentional or gross fault causing damage to the other, and any clause that in advance excludes or limits liability for causing physical injury to the other party, is void (Civil Code article 2004).

• A waiver of the warranty against vices or defects is effective only by clear and unambiguous language brought to the attention of the lessee, and is ineffective as to defects the lessee did not know about and the lessor knew or should have known about, as to anything contrary to article 2004, and, in a residential or consumer lease, as to defects that seriously affect health or safety (Civil Code article 2699).

• Any waiver of a tenant's rights under the lessee's deposit part is null and void (section 9:3254 of the Revised Statutes; the part covers the deposit's return, the itemized statement, the transferee's assumption of it, the damages provision and the fee award).

• A lease may not limit the lessee's right, or anyone else's right, to summon a law enforcement officer or other emergency assistance in response to an emergency or following an incident of domestic abuse on the premises, and may not assess monetary or other penalties for doing so; such a provision is void and unenforceable. This applies only to a lease for a dwelling in a building of six or more separate residential dwellings, and not where the structure has ten or fewer units and the owner or lessor occupies one (section 9:3261.1).

• The early-termination right for servicemembers may not be waived or modified by agreement of the parties under any circumstances (section 9:3261).

Expressly permitted: Louisiana expressly permits a clause its own Civil Code would otherwise limit. Notwithstanding article 2699, where premises are leased under a contract by which the lessee assumes responsibility for their condition, the owner is not liable for injury caused by a defect to the lessee or to anyone on the premises deriving the right to be there from the lessee, unless the owner knew or should have known of the defect, or had received notice of it and failed to remedy it within a reasonable time (section 9:3221). Any summary of Louisiana's void clauses that leaves this out overstates the protection.
Attorney-fee clauses

Prevailing-party attorney fees are discretionary or conditioned and limited to named actions. Scope: Two statutes, pulling opposite ways, each confined to its own corner. In an action brought under the security-deposit damages section, the court may in its discretion award costs and attorney's fees to the prevailing party: discretionary, running to whichever side wins, and limited to deposit actions. Separately, where the lessee of an apartment building, house, motel, hotel or other such dwelling fails to pay delinquent rent within twenty days after a written demand correctly setting out the amount due, the lessee is liable for reasonable attorney fees for prosecuting and collecting the claim when judgment is rendered for the claimant, and that demand may be made by certified mail, by personal delivery or by tacking on the door. That second statute runs one way, to the lessor, and it carries a limit that is easy to miss: by its own terms it applies to oral leases only.

Nothing in Louisiana law converts a one-way attorney-fee clause into a reciprocal one, and there is no general prevailing-party statute for lease actions. A clause in a written Louisiana lease making the tenant pay the lessor's fees therefore stands as written, and the lessor's own fee statute stops at the door of a written lease. Two further fee provisions sit outside this topic: the private action under the domestic-abuse section is limited to injunctive relief with no damages, and a guest of a short-term rental has a fee award under the surveillance-camera statute.
When, how, and what happens on a failure Louisiana's duties are few and their timing is easy to state. Before a lease is entered into, and continuing during it, the lessor must disclose in writing any pending foreclosure action and the lessee's right to be notified of one; because the duty runs during the lease as well as before it, it fires again whenever a foreclosure becomes pending. Within seven calendar days of being served with a notice of seizure, the lessor must give written notice to all lessees, signed by the lessor and carrying the court, the case name, the docket number and the paragraph the statute prescribes. Before accepting an application fee, the lessor must give the written application notice, which may be delivered electronically. And the warranty waiver, if the lease has one, must be in clear and unambiguous language brought to the attention of the lessee at signing. Where a licensed agent is involved, the agency form goes to the parties at the time of substantive contact, is signed and dated by the recipient and witnessed by the agent, and is kept for five years. No signed acknowledgment is required of any lessor-side disclosure; the only signature the statutes require is the lessor's own on the seizure notice. Nothing recurs annually or at renewal, and nothing is owed to the tenant when the building changes hands: the Civil Code articles on a transfer by the lessor impose no notice duty on either the transferor or the transferee, and the deposit moves to the successor without one. The remedies are thin by design. A foreclosure-notice violation carries two hundred dollars in damages in addition to any other damages, remedies and costs. A prohibited clause is simply void. The application-fee notice carries an express statutory immunity, so there is no remedy at all. The domestic-abuse section's private action is injunctive relief only, with no damages and a one-year limit. Outside this topic, a willful failure to return a deposit carries three hundred dollars or twice the amount wrongfully retained, whichever is greater, and a servicemember termination violation carries two hundred dollars.
Can cities add their own rules Louisiana's preemption is constitutional, not merely statutory. No local governmental subdivision may, except as provided by law, enact an ordinance governing private or civil relationships, and a residential lease is a private and civil relationship, so a parish or municipal ordinance dictating lease content or lease-signing disclosures needs a state statute behind it. The same article adds that notwithstanding anything in it, the police power of the state is never abridged. On top of that sits a statute: every lessor has the rights of ownership, control, use, enjoyment, protection and disposal of private property, including alienation by lease, and those rights include all rights granted to lessors by the Civil Code's lease title and may not be altered, abridged or diminished except by state law, subject to the reasonable exercise of the police power. Itemized: local lease-content and lease-disclosure ordinances are preempted; rent control has no enabling statute anywhere in the 53 titles, and the same two provisions are what such an ordinance would have to clear; and local housing-code enforcement is preserved and was expanded on August 1, 2026, when the legislature extended administrative adjudication of blighted property, abandoned property and violations of public health, housing, fire code, environmental and historic district ordinances to any municipality or parish, removing the old population limit. That is code enforcement under the police power, not lease regulation. No Louisiana city carries a lease packet on this page.
How state law refers to the federal rules Louisiana law points at the federal rules in three places. The foreclosure disclosure applies to lessors of dwellings subject to a federally related mortgage loan, using the federal definition of that term, and to lessors with a federal housing assistance payments contract and to lessees holding vouchers. The domestic-abuse section states that, notwithstanding the federal rule it names, it does not supersede the federal violence-against-women housing regulations as amended from time to time. And the Real Estate Commission's own rule makes the federal environmental agency the official source of the mold information pamphlet a licensed agent may hand over, which means Louisiana adopted a federal document rather than writing one. Louisiana has no state add-on to the federal lead-paint lease disclosure, which is carried elsewhere on this site.
Changes already signed into law No signed act is waiting beyond any not-yet-in-force duty already stated on this page
Leading court decisions This page rests on the statutes and rules cited below

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Louisiana Lease Disclosure Laws & Required Lease Terms (verified September 13, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/lease-disclosures/louisiana/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Everything above is cited in the citations section below.

Louisiana hazard disclosures at a glance

No row below is an in-force state duty to disclose, hand over, attach or post a hazard notice; the federal lead-paint rule still applies to housing built before 1978. Each row's full text, trigger, threshold and remedy are in the table above.

Hazard Status When Form Prescribed document
Lead (state add-on to the federal rule) None — — —
Mold None — — —
Bed bugs None — — —
Radon None — — —
Methamphetamine None — — —
Asbestos None — — —
Other hazard notices (pesticide, ordnance, pool, pest control) None — — —

Documents named in the required-statements row: Customer Information Form — What Customers Need to Know When Working with Real Estate Brokers or Licensees (Louisiana Real Estate Commission) — listed, not counted.

Where the published code text differs from the enacted law

On this page, a section is printed before its effective date.

The Legislature's own site prints part of the property disclosure chapter in a form that does not take effect until January 1, 2027, with no caption, bracket or warning of any kind, and it does it unevenly. Sections 9:3196 through 9:3199 and section 9:3198.1 are served in the form given them by a 2026 act whose own credit line says it is effective January 1, 2027, and the proof is on the face of the page: the definitions section already carries a definition of vacant residential property that the act's own digest says the act adds. Meanwhile another section amended by the same act is still served in its pre-amendment form. The current text of the clause that matters on this page, the one setting who the property disclosure chapter reaches, was therefore taken from the enrolled 2018 act that last reproduced it, and the answer is the same either way: the chapter reaches sales, exchanges, bonds for deed and leases with an option to purchase, and not a plain lease. A reader checking a Louisiana section against the code page should read its credit line's effective date before relying on it.

Federal rules that apply in every state

The federal layer for the lease-disclosures topic, carried once for the whole site. Every row names who it binds: most federal lease attachments bind only a landlord who takes a voucher or holds HUD-assisted or HUD-insured property, and the one rule that binds every landlord (the lead-paint disclosure rule) is a floor that state law may add to. No state record restates these rows; a state record says only where its own law references or extends them. Each row below says who it binds before it says what it requires. The full text of each row, with its citations, is on the 50-state page.

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Louisiana lease disclosures

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

Does Louisiana require a landlord to give the tenant a written statement of tenant rights?
No. Louisiana prescribes no general tenant-rights statement, no summary of the law, no handbook, no model lease, no agency form of general application and no duty to tell the lessee where the law can be read. It prescribes no content a residential lease must carry either: what the law does instead is make a handful of clauses ineffective and expressly permit one.
Does a Louisiana landlord have to disclose the owner's name and address?
No. Louisiana requires a lessor to tell the lessee nothing about who owns or manages the property. Nothing in the 65 articles of the Civil Code lease title, and nothing in the Revised Statutes lease overlay, requires the lessor's name, address, telephone number or the identity of any manager to be disclosed, in the lease or anywhere else.
Is a move-in inspection checklist required in Louisiana?
No. Louisiana requires no move-in condition statement, checklist, inventory, walk-through or photographs, and no right to see a previous tenant's damage list. Nothing turns on the absence of one: no deposit consequence attaches, because the deposit statute conditions nothing on a move-in record.
What hazards must a Louisiana landlord disclose to a tenant?
No in-force state hazard disclosure duty applies at signing beyond the federal lead-paint rule. No state duty exists for lead, mold, bed bugs, radon, methamphetamine, asbestos, or any other hazard.
Does Louisiana require flood disclosure to renters?
No. The most flood-exposed state in the country requires no flood disclosure to a tenant of any kind. The word does not appear anywhere in the 65 articles of the Civil Code lease title.
Does Louisiana void or prohibit specific lease clauses?
No enumerated list — Louisiana has no enumerated roster of prohibited lease provisions. What it has is four general or targeted controls and one express permission.

Citations

How this record was verified: Direct reading of the Louisiana Civil Code, Revised Statutes, Code of Civil Procedure and Constitution on the Legislature's own site, which prints no currency sentence anywhere. Currency was therefore established three ways. First, a per-section credit-line read: each of the 65 articles of Civil Code Title IX on lease (articles 2668 through 2729, plus 2681.1, 2681.2 and 2713.1) was opened individually and its credit line read, and the same was done for every Revised Statutes section relied on. Second, a gap-checked roll of the acts of the 2026 regular session, acts 1 through 972 with no missing number, and of the 2025 (516) and 2024 (792) sessions and all four extraordinary sessions since 2024. Third, the Legislature's own roll of effective dates, read against the act roll. Every act touching lease law was read in its enrolled text and in its résumé digest, and each act's disposition and effective date was taken from its own bill page rather than from a list. Statutory negatives rest on a full enumeration: the section lists of all 53 Revised Statutes titles were enumerated, 46,407 sections with their catchlines, and searched term by term, with every property-relevant hit opened and the material ones read. The Legislature's full-text search was used only as corroboration, because it has a proven index gap: several distinctive phrases that appear verbatim in the sales-disclosure chapter return nothing. The Louisiana Administrative Code was taken from the Office of the State Register as thirteen whole-title documents, and searched term by term with per-title counts recorded; the lead poisoning control chapter and the Real Estate Commission's disclosure chapters were read in full. The Real Estate Commission's own form page was opened for the prescribed agency form, its face revision and its file date. The Legislature's site serves some sections of the sales-disclosure chapter in their 2027 form today with no flag of any kind, so the current text of the scope clause that matters here was recovered from the enrolled 2018 act that last reproduced it. No court decision was needed for any value here. Louisiana adjourned sine die June 1, 2026 with no carryover. Verified September 13, 2026.

What was read to state each absence on this page: