Louisiana
Louisiana Revised Statutes — Title 14, Criminal Law
710 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 14 — TITLE 14. CRIMINAL LAW
- § 14:1 — TITLE 14. CRIMINAL LAW
- § 14:10 — Criminal intent
- § 14:100 — Hit-and-run driving
- § 14:100.1 — Obstructing public passages
- § 14:100.11 — Legislative findings; purpose
- § 14:100.12 — Definitions
- § 14:100.13 — Operating a vehicle without lawful presence in the United States
- § 14:100.14 — Giving false information regarding lawful presence in the United States in order to obtain a driver's license
- § 14:101 — Desecration of graves
- § 14:101.1 — Purchase or sale of human organs
- § 14:101.2 — Unauthorized use of sperm, ovum, or embryo
- § 14:102 — Definitions; cruelty to animals
- § 14:102.1 — Cruelty to animals; simple and aggravated
- § 14:102.10 — Bear wrestling; penalty
- § 14:102.11 — Illegal contact sports; penalty
- § 14:102.12 — Definitions
- § 14:102.13 — Hearing to determine if dog is dangerous or vicious
- § 14:102.14 — Unlawful ownership of dangerous dog
- § 14:102.15 — Unlawful ownership of a vicious dog
- § 14:102.16 — Seizure and destruction or disposition of dangerous or vicious dogs
- § 14:102.17 — Registration of dangerous dogs; fees
- § 14:102.18 — Seizure and disposition of dogs which cause death or inflict bodily injury
- § 14:102.19 — Hog and canine fighting prohibited; penalties
- § 14:102.2 — Seizure and disposition of animals cruelly treated
- § 14:102.20 — Sport killing of zoo or circus animals prohibited
- § 14:102.21 — Unauthorized use of the identity of a deceased soldier
- § 14:102.22 — Harboring or concealing an animal which has bitten or inflicted serious bodily injury on a human
- § 14:102.23 — Cockfighting
- § 14:102.24 — Participation in cockfighting
- § 14:102.25 — Unlawfully supplying any product for the purpose of falsifying a screening test
- § 14:102.26 — Unlawful restraint of a dog; definitions; penalties
- § 14:102.27 — Unlawful sale of a live dog or cat at certain locations
- § 14:102.28 — Transporting live feral swine prohibited; penalties
- § 14:102.29 — Unlawful possession, transfer, or manufacture of animal fighting paraphernalia
- § 14:102.3 — Search warrant; animal cruelty offenses
- § 14:102.4 — Confined animals; necessary food and water
- § 14:102.5 — Dogfighting; training and possession of dogs for fighting
- § 14:102.6 — Seizure and destruction or disposition of dogs and equipment used in dogfighting
- § 14:102.7 — Search warrant for dogfighting offenses
- § 14:102.8 — Injuring or killing of a police animal
- § 14:102.9 — Interference with animal research; research laboratory or farm
- § 14:103 — Disturbing the peace
- § 14:103.1 — Emanation of excessive sound or noise; exceptions; penalties
- § 14:103.2 — Amplified devices in public places; quiet zones; penalties
- § 14:103.3 — Disturbing the peace; residences
- § 14:104 — Keeping a disorderly place
- § 14:105 — Letting a disorderly place
- § 14:106 — Obscenity
- § 14:106.1 — Promotion or wholesale promotion of obscene devices
- § 14:106.2 — Sexual acts prohibited in public; penalties
- § 14:106.3 — Unlawful exhibition of sexually explicit material in a motor vehicle; penalties
- § 14:107 — Repealed
- § 14:107.1 — Ritualistic acts
- § 14:107.2 — Hate crimes
- § 14:107.3 — Criminal blighting of property
- § 14:107.4 — Unlawful posting of criminal activity for notoriety and publicity
- § 14:107.5 — Solicitation of funds or transportation for certain unlawful purposes
- § 14:108 — Resisting an officer
- § 14:108.1 — Flight from an officer; aggravated flight from an officer
- § 14:108.2 — Resisting a police officer with force or violence
- § 14:109 — Approaching a peace officer lawfully engaged in law enforcement duties
- § 14:11 — Criminal intent; how expressed
- § 14:110 — Simple escape; aggravated escape
- § 14:110.1 — Jumping bail
- § 14:110.1.1 — Out-of-state bail jumping
- § 14:110.1.2 — Providing false, nonexistent, or incomplete declaration of residence for bail
- § 14:110.2 — Tampering with electronic monitoring equipment
- § 14:110.3 — Tampering with surveillance, accounting, inventory, or monitoring systems; definitions; penalties
- § 14:111 — Assisting escape
- § 14:112 — False personation
- § 14:112.1 — False personation of a peace officer or firefighter
- § 14:112.11 — Definitions
- § 14:112.12 — Unlawful entry or reentry into the state of Louisiana by an alien
- § 14:112.13 — Abatement or termination of prosecution on basis of an immigration status determination
- § 14:112.2 — Fraudulent portrayal of a law enforcement officer or firefighter
- § 14:112.3 — Aiding and abetting the fraudulent portrayal of a law enforcement officer or firefighter
- § 14:112.4 — Unlawful production, manufacturing, distribution, or possession of unauthorized peace officer badges
- § 14:113 — Treason
- § 14:114 — Misprision of treason
- § 14:115 — Criminal anarchy
- § 14:116 — Flag desecration
- § 14:116.1 — Flag burning
- § 14:117 — Flag desecration; exceptions
- § 14:117.1 — Paramilitary organizations; prohibitions
- § 14:118 — Public bribery
- § 14:118.1 — Bribery of sports participants
- § 14:118.2 — Falsifying information on racing license applications
- § 14:119 — Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 797, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2011.
- § 14:119.1 — Bribery of parents of school children
- § 14:12 — Criminal negligence
- § 14:120 — Corrupt influencing
- § 14:121 — Informers granted immunity
- § 14:122 — Public intimidation and retaliation
- § 14:122.1 — Intimidation and interference in the operation of schools
- § 14:122.2 — Threatening a public official or law enforcement officer; penalties; definitions
- § 14:123 — Perjury
- § 14:124 — Inconsistent statements; perjury
- § 14:125 — False swearing
- § 14:125.1 — False swearing in paternity cases
- § 14:125.2 — False statements concerning paternity
- § 14:126 — Inconsistent statements; false swearing
- § 14:126.1 — False swearing for purpose of violating public health or safety
- § 14:126.1.1 — False communication with the intent to cause an emergency response
- § 14:126.2 — False statements concerning denial of constitutional rights
- § 14:126.3 — False statements concerning employment in a nursing or health care facility
- § 14:126.3.1 — Unauthorized participation in medical assistance programs
- § 14:126.4 — False certification of arrest documents
- § 14:127 — Limitation of defenses
- § 14:128 — Completion of affidavit
- § 14:128.1 — Terrorism
- § 14:128.2 — Aiding others in terrorism
- § 14:129 — Jury tampering
- § 14:129.1 — Intimidating, impeding or injuring witnesses; injuring officers; penalties
- § 14:129.2 — Recording, listening to, or observing proceedings of grand or petit juries while deliberating or voting
- § 14:13 — Infancy
- § 14:130 — Jury misconduct
- § 14:130.1 — Obstruction of justice
- § 14:131 — Compounding a felony
- § 14:131.1 — Failure to report the commission of certain felonies
- § 14:132 — Injuring public records
- § 14:133 — Filing or maintaining false public records
- § 14:133.1 — Obstruction of court orders
- § 14:133.1.1 — Election fraud or forgery
- § 14:133.2 — Misrepresentation during booking
- § 14:133.3 — Falsification of drug tests
- § 14:133.4 — Misrepresentation during issuance of a misdemeanor summons or preparation of a juvenile custodial agreement
- § 14:133.5 — Filing a false complaint against a law enforcement officer
- § 14:133.6 — Filing a false lien against a law enforcement or court officer
- § 14:133.7 — Publication of certain criminal record information or juvenile record information prohibited
- § 14:134 — Malfeasance in office
- § 14:134.1 — Malfeasance in office; sexual conduct prohibited with persons in the custody and supervision of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections
- § 14:134.2 — Malfeasance in office; tampering with evidence
- § 14:134.3 — Abuse of office
- § 14:135 — Public salary deduction
- § 14:136 — Public salary extortion
- § 14:137 — Repealed by Acts 1979, No. 700, 8
- § 14:138 — Public payroll fraud
- § 14:139 — Political payroll padding
- § 14:139.1 — Political payroll padding by sheriff; sale of assets of sheriff's office prohibited
- § 14:139.2 — Transfer of capital assets of clerk of court's office prohibited
- § 14:14 — Insanity
- § 14:140 — Public contract fraud
- § 14:141 — Prohibited splitting of profits, fees or commissions; exceptions
- § 14:142 — Offenses committed prior to effective date of Code
- § 14:143 — Preemption of state law; exceptions
- § 14:15 — Intoxication
- § 14:16 — Mistake of fact
- § 14:17 — Mistake of law
- § 14:18 — Justification; general provisions
- § 14:19 — Use of force or violence in defense
- § 14:2 — Definitions
- § 14:20 — Justifiable homicide
- § 14:20.1 — Investigation of death due to violence or suspicious circumstances when claim of self-defense is raised
- § 14:201 — Collateral securities, unauthorized use or withdrawal prohibited; penalty; proof of intent; of personal advantage
- § 14:202 — Contractors; misapplication of payments prohibited; penalty
- § 14:202.1 — Residential contractor fraud; penalties
- § 14:202.2 — Solar electric and solar thermal system contractors; solar tax credit fraud
- § 14:203 — Electrical appliances, sale without original factory serial number prohibited; penalty
- § 14:204 — Fire-raising on lands of another by criminal negligence; penalty
- § 14:204.1 — Fire-raising in a correctional facility; penalty
- § 14:205 — Fire-raising on lands of another with malice; penalty
- § 14:206 — Fire prevention interference; penalty
- § 14:206.1 — Engaging in life safety and property protection contracting without authority prohibited; penalty
- § 14:207 — Motor vehicles, alteration or removal of identifying numbers prohibited; sale, etc., of motor vehicle with altered identifying numbers prohibited; penalty; application of Section
- § 14:208 — Operas, performance or representation without consent of owner prohibited; penalty
- § 14:209 — Seals, breaking prohibited; penalty
- § 14:21 — Aggressor cannot claim self defense
- § 14:210 — Taxicabs, tampering with meter forbidden; penalty
- § 14:211 — Repealed by Acts 2017, No. 281, §3.
- § 14:212 — Forest products, false statement prohibited; penalty
- § 14:213 — False packing of cotton bales and other agricultural products; penalty
- § 14:214 — Fishing or hunting contest fraud
- § 14:215 — Repealed by Acts 1962, No. 310, III (3)
- § 14:217 — Purchase or sale of seafoods prohibited under certain conditions; penalties
- § 14:218 — Seafood sales and purchases; commercial license required of seller; penalties
- § 14:219 — Removal of building or structure from immovable property subject to a conventional mortgage or vendor's privilege
- § 14:22 — Defense of others
- § 14:220 — Rented or leased motor vehicles; obtaining by false representation, etc.; failure to return; defenses; penalties
- § 14:220.1 — Leased movables; obtaining by false representation; failure to return or surrender; penalties; restitution
- § 14:221 — Avoiding payment for telecommunications services, cable television services, or multipoint distribution system service
- § 14:222 — Possession, manufacture, sale or transfer of devices for avoidance of payment for telecommunications services or related offenses; seizure of devices
- § 14:222.1 — Unauthorized interception, interference with, or retransmission of services offered over a cable television system
- § 14:222.2 — Cellular telephone counterfeiting
- § 14:222.3 — Unlawful use of a cellular tracking device; penalty
- § 14:223 — Sound reproductions without consent prohibited
- § 14:223.1 — Terms defined
- § 14:223.2 — Exceptions
- § 14:223.3 — Penalties
- § 14:223.4 — Civil remedies preserved
- § 14:223.5 — Recording of performances without consent prohibited
- § 14:223.6 — Rental or sale of improperly labeled articles prohibited
- § 14:223.7 — Counterfeiting or possessing counterfeit labels prohibited
- § 14:223.8 — Possessing of tools and equipment used for manufacturing unauthorized sound recordings prohibited
- § 14:223.9 — Unlawful operation of a recording device
- § 14:224 — Transportation of water from St. Tammany Parish prohibited; penalties
- § 14:225 — Institutional vandalism
- § 14:226 — Protection of owners of crayfish farms; penalties
- § 14:227 — Identification number, personal property, alteration or removal prohibited
- § 14:228 — Interference with animal research facilities or animal management facilities