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Can a landlord charge for a pet in Louisiana, and what does the law require for an assistance animal?

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Louisiana has no pet-deposit, pet-rent or pet-fee statute and no general deposit cap, so a landlord may charge what the lease says.

Cited to La. R.S. § 9:3251 (A) and 30 more cited sources · Verified September 20, 2026

A refundable pet deposit is still money furnished to secure performance, so it must be returned within one month with an itemized statement for anything kept, while a charge the lease calls a non-refundable pet fee falls outside that law. A person with a service dog may not be charged extra for the dog and is liable for damage it does, but that bar reaches a trained or in-training dog only: no Louisiana statute bars a charge for an emotional support animal. Since August 1, 2024 the state has regulated the letter instead of the landlord. A support-animal letter is good only from a Louisiana-licensed or compact-licensed health-care provider qualified to diagnose, after a therapeutic relationship of at least thirty days, at least two sessions in person or remotely and a clinical evaluation at least thirty days before, and it must carry its date, the license number and the license type. Nothing tells a landlord what it may ask. Misrepresenting an animal as a service dog to a residential dwelling's owner, or falsely claiming to need a support animal, carries a civil penalty of up to five hundred dollars for a first offense, rising to two thousand five hundred. No lease has to state a pet policy, and no statute touches breed, size or weight.

Louisiana pets & assistance animals at a glance

Which law governs The money and lease rules are codal: the Civil Code's lease title, articles 2668 through 2729, supplies the duties of lessor and lessee, and the Lessee's Deposit Act, sections 9:3251 through 9:3254 of the Revised Statutes, governs the return of any advance or deposit. Louisiana has no residential landlord-tenant act with written-rules or mid-term-change machinery. The assistance-animal answer sits in two separate chapters of Title 46: chapter 23, sections 46:1951 through 46:1959, the service-dog access and charge chapter, which reaches housing accommodations in terms, and chapter 24, sections 46:1971 through 46:1978, the Louisiana Support and Service Animal Integrity Act of 2024, which binds the health-care provider who writes support-animal documentation and the business that sells the animal or the letter. The state fair-housing duty is the Louisiana Equal Housing Opportunity Act, section 51:2601 and following. Local authority is bounded by article VI, section 9 of the constitution and by section 9:3258.
Where in the state the answers differ Every money rule on this page is statewide and unconditioned, because no money rule exists. The assistance-animal duties are not: the service-dog housing right reaches every housing accommodation except a single-family residence whose occupants rent, lease or furnish for compensation not more than one room in it (section 46:1952, subsection 1), while the state fair-housing accommodation duty does not reach a private owner of not more than three single-family houses renting without a real estate broker or salesperson, or an owner-occupied building of four or fewer families living independently of each other (section 51:2604, subsection B). A reader finds which side he is on by counting houses owned, counting families in the building and asking whether the owner lives in one of them.
Which landlords are covered Every residential landlord, by two different chains. The service-dog housing right binds every housing accommodation, meaning any immovable property used or intended as a home, residence or sleeping place, and excludes only a single-family residence whose occupants rent or furnish for compensation not more than one room in it (section 46:1952, subsection 1): no unit threshold and no owner-occupied exemption, so it reaches more landlords than the federal act does. The state fair-housing accommodation duty is narrower: it does not reach a private owner of three or fewer single-family houses who rents without a broker or salesperson, or an owner-occupied building of four or fewer families (section 51:2604, subsection B). A landlord outside the fair-housing act still owes the service-dog duty. The money rules carry no exemption at all, because no money rule exists.
Pet deposit

Yes, with no statutory limit.

No Louisiana statute mentions a pet deposit, and Louisiana caps no deposit of any kind: the Lessee's Deposit Act regulates the return of a deposit, not its size, so a pet deposit is lawful and unlimited in amount. A refundable pet deposit rides that Act's one-month return, its itemized statement, which since August 1, 2026 may be sent within fifteen days after the date one month after the tenancy ends, and its penalty of the amount wrongfully kept plus three hundred dollars or twice that amount, whichever is greater (section 9:3252, subsection A). A waiver of the tenant's rights under the Part is null and void (section 9:3254). Money denominated a non-refundable pet fee is not security and the Act does not reach it. The one exemption is not a deposit rule at all: a person with a service dog may not be required to pay extra compensation for the dog (section 46:1954, subsection C).

Refundability: No section addresses a pet deposit's refundability. Money a tenant furnishes to secure the performance of any part of a written or oral lease or rental agreement is inside the Lessee's Deposit Act whatever the lease calls it, so a refundable pet deposit must be returned within one month after the lease terminates, with an itemized statement for anything kept (section 9:3251, subsection A). A charge the lease styles as a non-refundable pet fee is not security for performance and falls outside that Act.
Pet rent and pet fees

Yes — no statute caps, authorizes or forbids pet rent or a pet fee.

Nothing caps pet rent or a one-time pet fee, nothing requires either to be reasonable, and nothing requires a landlord to state pet charges anywhere. A pet charge that is security for performance rides the return and itemized-statement machinery in section 9:3251; a charge denominated a non-refundable fee falls outside it and is governed by the lease. The only charge Louisiana law forbids is extra compensation for a service dog (section 46:1954, subsection C), and no Louisiana statute bars a charge for a support animal.

Monthly pet rent: No statute addresses a recurring monthly pet charge. It is an ordinary lease term, enforced as written, and it is neither capped nor characterized as rent by any Louisiana text.

A one-time pet fee: No statute addresses a one-time pet fee, refundable or not, and Louisiana has no general bar on non-refundable fees for such a fee to run into. The application-fee disclosure section, 9:3258.1, reaches an application fee, says nothing about pets and carries an express clause that no cause of action arises under it.
Pet policy in the lease, and changing it mid-tenancy

No — no statute requires a lease to state a pet policy, and no written-rules provision governs one.

No statute or rule requires a Louisiana lease to say whether pets are allowed, requires a pet attachment, supplies a pet default, limits the number of animals or governs a change to a pet rule during the term. A pet clause is an ordinary contract term, and changing it needs the consent of both parties (Civil Code article 1983); there is no counterpart to the written-rules and notice machinery other states put in a landlord-tenant act. Louisiana also has no publicly financed housing mandate of the kind several states enacted: the community affairs title of the Administrative Code, the housing title, carries no animal provision at all.

When the lease is silent: Nothing about pets. The general codal defaults apply: a contract has the effect of law for the parties and must be performed in good faith (Civil Code article 1983); the lessee must use the thing as a prudent administrator and in accordance with the purpose for which it was leased, and return it in the same condition except for normal wear and tear (article 2683, paragraph 2); and if the lessee uses the thing for another purpose or in a manner that may cause damage, the lessor may obtain injunctive relief, dissolution of the lease and damages (article 2686).
Breed, size and weight restrictions

Yes.

No Louisiana statute bans, limits or authorizes a breed, size or weight rule in a tenancy, in any housing class, and there is no assistance-animal carve-out from a breed rule because there is no breed rule to carve out of. Nothing preempts a parish or municipal breed ordinance either: the dangerous and vicious dog provisions in the criminal title, sections 14:102.13 through 14:102.18, are animal control and say nothing about tenancies. Louisiana has no statute barring an insurer from underwriting on a dog's breed.
Assistance animals: the state instrument and who it binds

Yes — a state statute or rule sets what a landlord may request or what a certifier must meet for an assistance animal in housing. The operative rules are statutory. State law incorporates a federal statute or codified regulation by reference.

Every person with a disability is entitled to full and equal access, as other members of the general public, to all housing accommodations offered for rent, lease or compensation in the state, subject to conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons (section 46:1954, subsection A); nothing in the section requires a landlord to modify the property or to provide a higher degree of care (subsection B). A person with a service dog is entitled to the same access, may not be required to pay extra compensation for the dog, and is liable for any damage the dog does to the premises or to a person on them (subsection C). Withholding, denying or depriving a person of a right under that chapter, or interfering with it, is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of one hundred to five hundred dollars or up to six months, with actual damages for economic loss and discretionary costs and attorney fees (section 46:1956). The 2024 Louisiana Support and Service Animal Integrity Act, sections 46:1971 through 46:1978, contains no landlord right, no landlord duty, no rule about what a landlord may ask and no charge rule: it binds the provider who writes the documentation and the business that sells the animal or the letter. Beside them sits the state fair-housing act, under which discrimination includes a refusal to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices or services when they may be necessary to afford a person with a disability equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling (section 51:2606, subsection A, paragraph 6, subparagraph c). No Louisiana text states a presumption, an interactive process or a deadline for a landlord's answer.

Who it binds: Two chains, and they do not merge. The service-dog housing right in section 46:1954 binds every housing accommodation except a single-family residence whose occupants rent, lease or furnish for compensation not more than one room in it (section 46:1952, subsection 1): no unit threshold and no owner-occupied exemption, so it reaches more landlords than the federal act does. The state fair-housing accommodation duty in section 51:2606 does not reach a private owner of not more than three single-family houses renting without a real estate broker or salesperson, or an owner-occupied building of four or fewer families living independently of each other (section 51:2604, subsection B); a person is in the business of renting dwellings if, among other things, he owns a dwelling occupied by five or more families (subsection C). The 2024 chapter's rules bind the health-care provider and the seller, not the landlord, so they carry no landlord exemption to state.
What counts as an assistance animal A service dog is a dog who has been trained or is being trained to do work or perform a task for a person with a disability, in seven named roles including a hearing dog, a guide dog, a seizure alert dog, a mobility dog and an autism service dog (section 46:1952, subsection 3) — a dog, and only a dog. A support animal is the other chapter's term: an animal other than a service dog that does work, performs tasks or provides assistance or therapeutic emotional support for individuals with disabilities (section 46:1973, subsection 6), so an emotional support animal is inside that term and outside the first one. A therapeutic relationship means health-care services provided in good faith and with actual knowledge of the individual's disability and of that individual's disability-related need for a support animal, and expressly excludes services by anyone who issues a certificate, license, letter or similar document purporting to confirm a disability or a need without conducting a meaningful assessment (subsection 7). Housing accommodations and person with a disability are defined in the older chapter (section 46:1952, subsections 1 and 2), and disability in the 2024 chapter takes the federal Americans with Disabilities Act's meaning and includes a handicap as the federal Fair Housing Act and 24 CFR 100.201 define it (section 46:1973, subsection 1). The split between the two terms is the Louisiana answer and it must not be merged.
Documentation a landlord may request, and what a certifier must meet

No state text lists the questions a landlord may ask; what the state regulates is the documentation and its source.

A licensed or qualified professional must certify. The law tests the certifier's conduct before issuing. A treatment relationship is required. The certifier's own rule requires a relationship with the person of at least thirty days before writing the documentation. Telehealth documentation is allowed.

Who may certify: Only a health-care provider, as the medical-malpractice act defines that term and the 2024 chapter imports it (section 46:1973, subsection 2, from section 40:1231.1), who holds an active and valid Louisiana license, or an active license in a health-care profession that has a licensure compact, to perform the services being offered, and who is qualified and licensed to evaluate and diagnose disabilities and has performed a disability assessment of the individual (section 46:1974, subsection A, paragraphs 1 and 2). There is no proviso for an out-of-state provider outside a compact. The documentation itself must carry its effective date, the provider's license number and the type of professional license held (paragraph 3).

The relationship test: A therapeutic relationship must have been established no less than thirty days before the documentation is produced, and a clinical evaluation performed no less than thirty days before it (section 46:1974, subsection A, paragraphs 4 and 6). Therapeutic relationship is itself a defined term and excludes anyone who issues a certificate, license or letter without conducting a meaningful assessment (section 46:1973, subsection 7).

Telehealth: The provider must have engaged with the individual in person or remotely in at least two sessions before issuing documentation determining that the individual requires a support animal (section 46:1974, subsection A, paragraph 5). The statute does not use the word telehealth; remote sessions count on the face of the text, and no license class is treated differently.

The certifier's duties: A health-care provider may not produce documentation relating to a person's need for a support animal at all unless every condition in section 46:1974, subsection A is met, and may not represent or attempt to represent that an individual has a disability requiring a support animal when the individual is not disabled or does not need one (subsection B). A business that sells or provides an animal for use as a support animal, or a certificate or letter for one, must give a written notice, in bold print of no less than twelve-point font, on the receipt, on the product or on a separate piece of paper, saying that the animal lacks the special training required to qualify as a service dog and is not entitled to a service dog's rights, or that the item does not entitle a support animal to those rights (section 46:1976). A breach carries the civil penalty ladder in section 46:1977. No professional board has written any of this into its own rules.

Louisiana regulates the writer of the letter, not the landlord. No statute or rule says what a landlord may ask, what it may require, whether it may demand records, whether it must answer or by when, whether it may require proof of vaccination, or whether an online certificate is enough: every landlord-side question is unwritten, and that is the finding rather than a gap. What the law does set is a wall in front of the provider — an active Louisiana license or a compact license, qualification to diagnose, a completed disability assessment, a therapeutic relationship of at least thirty days, at least two sessions in person or remotely, a clinical evaluation at least thirty days before, and a document carrying its effective date, the license number and the license type. The rule a landlord is most likely to meet in practice is the seller's bold twelve-point notice that a bought certificate confers no service-dog rights. The no-documentation sentence often quoted at landlords, section 46:1953, subsection E, paragraph 2, binds public entities in public facilities and not lessors.
Charges for an assistance animal

Under state law, yes — the state bar reaches only a trained service, guide, hearing or assistance dog, or a certified animal; the federal rules still govern an emotional support animal; the bar is an express no-extra-charge clause, in a statute.

A person with a service dog may not be required to pay extra compensation for the dog, and a trainer or puppy raiser gets the same rule in the places and facilities the chapter covers (sections 46:1954, subsection C, and 46:1955). The bar hangs on a definition that reaches a trained or in-training dog and nothing else, so no Louisiana statute bars a pet deposit, a pet fee or pet rent for an emotional support animal. For a support animal the only routes are the state fair-housing act's reasonable-accommodation duty, applied case by case, and the federal rules. The 2024 chapter, the one a reader expects to carry a charge rule, creates none.

The definition it hangs on: 'Service dog' means 'a dog who has been trained or is being trained to do work or perform a task for a person with a disability' (section 46:1952, subsection 3), and the charge bar in section 46:1954, subsection C runs to 'such dog' alone.

Remedy: Withholding, denying or depriving a person with a disability of a right under the chapter, or intimidating, threatening, coercing or punishing her for exercising one, is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred and not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment of not more than six months, or both; the person may also recover actual damages for economic loss, and the court may award costs and attorney fees to the prevailing party (section 46:1956, subsections A, C and D).
Damage caused by an assistance animal

The tenant is liable for damage the animal causes like any other tenant, by express words.

A person with a service dog is expressly liable for any damage done to the premises or to any person on the premises by the dog, and a trainer or puppy raiser likewise (sections 46:1954, subsection C, and 46:1955). Behind that sits the general rule that the owner of a dog is strictly liable for damages for injuries to persons or property caused by the dog that the owner could have prevented and that did not result from the injured person's provocation (Civil Code article 2321, subsection B). The ordinary deposit remains available for damage to the premises.
Misrepresenting an assistance animal

An offense or sanction that reaches a misrepresentation made to obtain housing: a civil penalty, reaching the person claiming the animal, the certifier who signs, and a vendor of false documents. Penalty terms: no more than $500 for the first offense; no more than $1,000 for the second offense; and no more than $2,500 for the third or any subsequent offense.

No individual may misrepresent an animal to be a service dog or a service dog in training to a person or entity that owns or operates a public accommodation or a residential dwelling (section 46:1975), and no individual may represent or attempt to represent to a third party that he has a disability requiring a support animal when he is not disabled or does not require one (section 46:1974, subsection C). A health-care provider may not make the same false representation (subsection B), and a business that sells a support animal, or a certificate or letter for one, must give the bold twelve-point notice (section 46:1976). Every breach of the chapter carries the same ladder: no more than five hundred dollars for a first offense, one thousand for a second and two thousand five hundred for a third or later one (section 46:1977). No prior warning is required, no eviction ground is created, no fees are shifted, no private action is given, and the chapter names nobody to collect the fine.

The landlord-side offense: The older chapter runs the other way as well: a person, firm or corporation, or an agent or employee, who withholds, denies or deprives a person with a disability of a right under that chapter, including the housing access and no-extra-charge rights, or who otherwise interferes with those rights, commits a misdemeanor punishable by one hundred to five hundred dollars or up to six months, plus actual damages for economic loss and discretionary costs and attorney fees (section 46:1956).

Where the words leave the reach open: The ladder in section 46:1977 is written once for the whole chapter, its subject being any individual, business or health-care provider that violates its provisions, so the same three steps apply to a tenant's misrepresentation, a provider's false documentation and a seller's missing notice alike; the enacted words do not say whether the steps are counted against a person across all of those breaches or breach by breach.
Can cities add their own rules

In part — state law preempts the kinds of local rule named as barred, and any power named is one state law grants.

Three things, kept apart. A parish or municipality may not enact an ordinance governing private or civil relationships except as provided by law, and the state's police power is never abridged (article VI, section 9 of the constitution). Separately, a lessor's rights under the Civil Code's lease title may not be altered, abridged or diminished except by state law, subject to the reasonable exercise of the police power (section 9:3258). A local ordinance capping pet deposits, banning breed rules in rentals or requiring private landlords to accept pets would do both of the things those texts forbid. Running the other way, and narrowly, the service-dog chapter expressly preserves any local ordinance mandating full and equal access for a person with a disability, housing accommodations included (section 46:1959), and the 2024 chapter is subordinated to state and federal law on reasonable accommodation and equal access to housing (section 46:1978). No Louisiana city appears in the locality pages for this topic, and no parish or city pet-in-housing ordinance was met.

Another express preemption: No local governmental subdivision may, except as provided by law, enact an ordinance governing private or civil relationships; the state's police power is expressly not abridged by the article. Text: La. Const. art. VI, § 9 · (A)(2), (B).

The whole landlord-tenant field occupied: A lessor's rights, including all rights granted to lessors by the Civil Code's lease title, may not be altered, abridged or diminished except by state law, subject to the reasonable exercise of the police power. Text: La. R.S. § 9:3258.

The fair-housing act preserves or devolves local ordinances: The service-dog chapter is not to be construed to amend, repeal, conflict with or supersede any federal or state law, rule or regulation or local ordinance mandating full and equal access for a person with a disability, housing accommodations included. Text: La. R.S. § 46:1959.
Housing classes with their own pet rule No manufactured-home park, publicly financed, public-housing or senior-housing rule departs from the answers above
Insurance and dog breeds No statute restricts an insurer's use of dog breed in underwriting
How state law refers to the federal rules Louisiana's own text references federal law in three places. The 2024 chapter defines disability in accordance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and provides that the term includes a handicap as defined by the federal Fair Housing Act and 24 CFR 100.201 (section 46:1973, subsection 1) — an incorporation of a definition. The same chapter is expressly not to be construed to restrict or modify federal or state law on reasonable accommodation and equal access to housing, naming the state fair-housing act, the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act (section 46:1978). The older service-dog chapter is likewise subordinated to any federal or state law, rule or regulation, or local ordinance, mandating full and equal access, housing accommodations included (section 46:1959). No Louisiana statute or rule incorporates any federal agency notice or joint statement; the federal section of the 50-state page carries the federal instruments and their status.
Changes already signed into law No signed act is waiting to change these answers
Leading court decisions Henderson v. Five Properties, LLC, No. 2:24-cv-00750, R. Doc. 93 (E.D. La. July 16, 2025) (residential setting; bears on charges for an assistance animal): A tenant in a Louisiana apartment asked that a non-refundable animal fee of four hundred dollars be waived for her emotional support animal. The court gave the landlord summary judgment on her claims under the federal Fair Housing Act and the state fair-housing act's reasonable-accommodation provision, holding that she had not raised a genuine issue of fact on whether waiving the fee was necessary and reasonable; the fee came to a little under three percent of the total housing cost over the fifteen-month term. The court expressly limited itself, saying it did not hold that animal fees can always be enforced against someone with an emotional support animal, or even that this fee can be enforced against every resident.

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Louisiana Pet & Assistance Animal Laws (verified September 20, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/pets/louisiana/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Everything above is cited in the citations section below.

Louisiana assistance-animal documentation at a glance

Each row is what the state's own statute or rule says about that slot; a row that reads not stated is a slot no state text addresses. The full text of each slot, with its section, is in the table above.

Slot What the state's text says
Who may certify, and on what test A licensed or qualified professional must certify. The law tests the certifier's conduct before issuing. A treatment relationship is required.
The certifier's minimum relationship period Thirty days
Telehealth Allowed
Online registration or certificate Not stated
Form Not stated
Medical records Not stated
Written answer from the landlord Not stated
Annual re-evaluation Not stated
Proof of vaccination or licensing Not stated

Federal law on pets and assistance animals, in every state

The federal layer for the pets and assistance-animals topic, carried once for the whole site. It is a dated history rather than a single rule: the Fair Housing Act's accommodation duty has not changed since 1988 and the regulation under it has never contained the word animal, while the HUD guidance that most writing on this subject still quotes was withdrawn in September 2025, permanently rescinded in May 2026, and replaced by an enforcement position that governs HUD's own cause determinations and nothing else. Every row names who it binds, and most of the rows that carry real figures bind only federally assisted, public or rural-development housing. 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 does. The full text of each row, with its citations, is on the 50-state page.

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Louisiana pets & assistance animals

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

Can a landlord charge a pet deposit in Louisiana, and is there a limit?
Yes, with no statutory limit. No Louisiana statute mentions a pet deposit, and Louisiana caps no deposit of any kind: the Lessee's Deposit Act regulates the return of a deposit, not its size, so a pet deposit is lawful and unlimited in amount.
Can a landlord charge pet rent or a non-refundable pet fee in Louisiana?
Yes — no statute caps, authorizes or forbids pet rent or a pet fee. Nothing caps pet rent or a one-time pet fee, nothing requires either to be reasonable, and nothing requires a landlord to state pet charges anywhere.
Does a Louisiana lease have to state a pet policy?
No — no statute requires a lease to state a pet policy, and no written-rules provision governs one. No statute or rule requires a Louisiana lease to say whether pets are allowed, requires a pet attachment, supplies a pet default, limits the number of animals or governs a change to a pet rule during the term.
Can a Louisiana landlord restrict pets by breed, size or weight?
Yes. No Louisiana statute bans, limits or authorizes a breed, size or weight rule in a tenancy, in any housing class, and there is no assistance-animal carve-out from a breed rule because there is no breed rule to carve out of.
Does Louisiana have its own assistance-animal law for rentals?
Yes — a state statute or rule sets what a landlord may request or what a certifier must meet for an assistance animal in housing. The operative rules are statutory.
What documentation can a Louisiana landlord ask for when a tenant requests an assistance animal?
No state text lists the questions a landlord may ask; what the state regulates is the documentation and its source. A licensed or qualified professional must certify.
Can a Louisiana landlord charge a pet deposit or pet rent for an emotional support animal?
Under state law, yes — the state bar reaches only a trained service, guide, hearing or assistance dog, or a certified animal; the federal rules still govern an emotional support animal; the bar is an express no-extra-charge clause, in a statute. A person with a service dog may not be required to pay extra compensation for the dog, and a trainer or puppy raiser gets the same rule in the places and facilities the chapter covers (sections 46:1954, subsection C, and 46:1955).
What is the penalty for falsely claiming an assistance animal in Louisiana?
An offense or sanction that reaches a misrepresentation made to obtain housing: a civil penalty, reaching the person claiming the animal, the certifier who signs, and a vendor of false documents. Penalty terms: no more than $500 for the first offense; no more than $1,000 for the second offense; and no more than $2,500 for the third or any subsequent offense.

Citations

How this record was verified: Direct reading of the Louisiana Revised Statutes, the Civil Code and the state constitution on the Legislature's own site, in the print view of each section, with every credit line read against today: sections 9:3251 through 9:3254 and 9:3258 (the Lessee's Deposit Act and lessors' rights); Title 46 chapter 23, sections 46:1951 through 46:1959, and chapter 24, sections 46:1971 through 46:1978, read in full; sections 51:2602 through 51:2607, the Louisiana Equal Housing Opportunity Act, read in full with its exemption sections; section 21:52; section 22:1270; Civil Code articles 1983, 2321, 2683 and 2686 and the lease title, articles 2668 through 2729; and article VI, section 9 of the constitution. Whole-title catchline enumerations were read for Title 9 (2,356 sections), Title 14 (731), Title 22 (2,651), Title 37 (2,015), Title 40 (3,336), Title 46 (1,240), Title 51 (1,238) and the Civil Code (2,517 entries), because the site's own full-text index is missing sections it contains, including the whole fair-housing chapter. The act rolls for the 2024, 2025 and 2026 regular sessions and every extraordinary session in range were read number by number with no gaps, and the enrolled acts and digests for Acts 2024, No. 558 and Acts 2026, No. 63 were read as filed, together with the 2024 effective-date roll that carries Act 558's August 1, 2024 date. Nine whole titles of the Louisiana Administrative Code were taken from the Division of Administration and read end to end for every animal and pet term, each hit read in context; the publisher prints no register or currency line, so the only currency statement is each title's last-modified date, the newest of which is September 14, 2026. The state appellate opinion archive was searched for assistance-animal and service-animal housing decisions across the Supreme Court and all five circuits, and Henderson v. Five Properties, LLC was read in full from the opinion as filed.

What was read to state each absence on this page: