Louisiana

Louisiana Revised Statutes — Title 32, Motor Vehicles and Traffic

872 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 32:354 — Mirrors
• § 32:355 — Fire extinguishers
• § 32:356 — Windshields must be equipped with wiping and washing systems
• § 32:357 — Windshields required
• § 32:358 — Motorcycle windshields
• § 32:359 — Safety glass required
• § 32:360 — Safety glass defined
• § 32:361 — Approved types of safety glass
• § 32:361.1 — View outward or inward through windshield or windows; obscuring prohibited
• § 32:361.2 — Medical exemption
• § 32:361.3 — Security exemption
• § 32:362 — Restrictions as to tire equipment
• § 32:363 — Fuel tank caps
• § 32:364 — Fenders and mudguards
• § 32:365 — Television
• § 32:366 — Required equipment of tow cars
• § 32:367 — Certain vehicles to carry flares or other warning devices
• § 32:368 — Display of warning devices when vehicle disabled
• § 32:369 — Red flags, use in parking certain vehicles
• § 32:370 — Warning devices must be approved by commissioner prior to sale or use thereof
• § 32:371 — Enforcement of Part
• § 32:372 — Warning devices, submission to commissioner; fee
• § 32:373 — Removal of warning device
• § 32:374 — Violation of regulations of commissioner
• § 32:375 — Air conditioning equipment
• § 32:376 — Special lights for certain department vehicles
• § 32:377 — Slow moving vehicle, identification
• § 32:378 — School bus body, hood, and bumpers; color of paint; back-up audible alarms
• § 32:378.1 — Display of patently obscene words, photographs, and depictions
• § 32:378.2 — Ignition interlock devices; condition of probation for certain DWI offenders; restricted license
• § 32:378.3 — Installation of sound amplification systems to exterior of vehicle; prohibited
• § 32:378.4 — Autonomous vehicle equipment requirements
• § 32:379 — Applicability; regulations in excess of R.S. 32:380 through R.S. 32:386 prohibited
• § 32:380 — Width; projecting loads on vehicles
• § 32:381 — Height
• § 32:381.1 — Prohibited vehicle modifications; wheel well
• § 32:382 — Length; special length limits
• § 32:383 — Loads on vehicles; care required thereto; penalties; definition
• § 32:383.1 — Loads of loose materials on vehicles; care required thereto; penalties
• § 32:384 — Trailers and towed vehicles
• § 32:385 — Farm vehicles and equipment; exemptions
• § 32:385.1 — Recreational vehicles; exemptions
• § 32:386 — Weight
• § 32:386.1 — Blanket oversize yearly permit; fees
• § 32:387 — Special permits
• § 32:387.1 — Escort vehicles; permit to operate required
• § 32:387.10 — Special permit; vehicles transporting timber cutting or logging equipment
• § 32:387.11 — Semiannual critical off-road equipment permit; authorization
• § 32:387.12 — Annual noncritical off-road equipment permit; authorization
• § 32:387.13 — Repealed by Acts 2011, No. 162, §2.
• § 32:387.14 — Special permit; heavy equipment
• § 32:387.15 — Repealed by Acts 2011, No. 162, §2.
• § 32:387.16 — Special permit; sealed containerized cargo for export; containerboard, kraft liner, and roll pulp; limitations
• § 32:387.17 — Special permit; containerized cargo intended for export; rules and regulations; ports in Ouachita Parish
• § 32:387.18 — Repealed by Acts 2011, No. 162, §2.
• § 32:387.19 — Special permit; bagged rice for export; rules and regulations; Port of Lake Charles
• § 32:387.2 — Special permits; vehicles or tandem loads hauling divisible or nondivisible container imports or exports to port facilities
• § 32:387.20 — Special permit; ready-mixed concrete trucks
• § 32:387.21 — Special permit; trucks transporting earthen materials for government funded levee projects
• § 32:387.22 — Special permit; ten percent weight variance for trucks, trucks and trailers hauling raw input materials for concrete and finished concrete products
• § 32:387.23 — Special permit; twelve percent weight variance for single unit dump trucks.
• § 32:387.3 — Repealed by Acts 2011, No. 162, §2.
• § 32:387.4 — Equipment destined to or from any oil or gas facility or petrochemical complex; Interstate highways
• § 32:387.5 — Special permits; authorization to travel on portions of Interstate 49
• § 32:387.6 — Special permits; trucks hauling cotton modules
• § 32:387.7 — Special permits; vehicles hauling sugarcane
• § 32:387.8 — Vehicles requiring steering axle permit; interstate highways
• § 32:387.9 — Special permit; vehicles hauling agronomic or horticultural crops
• § 32:387.9.1 — Special permits; vehicles hauling agronomic or horticultural crops; authorization to travel upon segment of Interstate 49 as alternate route to US 71 and US 167
• § 32:388 — Penalties; payments
• § 32:388.1 — Penalties; multiple violations
• § 32:389 — Weights and standards police; enforcement procedure; payment and collection procedures; administrative review
• § 32:390 — Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) System
• § 32:390.21 — Louisiana Truck Center; creation; purpose
• § 32:390.22 — Services and assistance
• § 32:390.23 — Agency representatives
• § 32:390.24 — Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 428, §3, eff. July 1, 2005.
• § 32:391 — Appearance upon arrest
• § 32:392 — Impounding of vehicles; prohibitions
• § 32:392.1 — Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 512, §1.
• § 32:393 — Persons charged with traffic violations; time for disposition, licenses, reports, and records to be sent to Department of Public Safety and Corrections; fee charged; record of unpaid traffic fines and parking fines
• § 32:393.1 — Records of convictions; extracts; fees
• § 32:393.2 — Reports; diplomatic immunities and privileges; U.S. Department of State; deadlines
• § 32:394 — Flagrant violations; courts to give details on request of department
• § 32:395 — Police officers not impeded by this chapter
• § 32:396 — Commissioner to publish records
• § 32:397 — Commissioner to furnish forms and receive accident reports
• § 32:397.1 — Accident reports; citizens right to privacy
• § 32:398 — Crash reports; when and to whom made; information aid; fees for copies; fees for crash photographs and videos
• § 32:398.1 — Traffic citations; form; issuance
• § 32:398.10 — Collection and reporting of statistical information relating to traffic stops
• § 32:398.2 — Disposition of traffic citations; unlawful acts; records
• § 32:398.3 — Illegal cancellation of traffic citation; penalty; audit of citation records; publication
• § 32:398.4 — When copy of citation shall be deemed a lawful complaint
• § 32:398.5 — Applicability
• § 32:399 — Citation
• § 32:4 — Authority of departments to summon witnesses
• § 32:400.1 — Definitions
• § 32:400.2 — Controlling authority; compliance
• § 32:400.3 — Operation; criteria
• § 32:400.4 — Owners and operators of an autonomous commercial motor vehicle
• § 32:400.5 — Reporting an accident
• § 32:400.6 — Remote drivers; teleoperations; compliance
• § 32:400.7 — Teleoperations; operation; criteria
• § 32:400.8 — Liability; jurisdiction
• § 32:401 — Definitions
• § 32:402 — Mandatory licensure; exceptions; violations
• § 32:402.1 — Driver education; required
• § 32:402.2 — Repealed by Acts 2011, No. 294, §6.
• § 32:402.3 — Motorcycle Safety, Awareness, and Operator Training Program; dedicated fund account
• § 32:403 — Application; fee; duration of license
• § 32:403.1 — Application of persons sixty years of age or above
• § 32:403.2 — Application of persons with physical disability or mental disability
• § 32:403.3 — Identification stickers and decals; deaf and hard of hearing; autism spectrum disorder; mental, physical, or developmental disability
• § 32:403.4 — Medical evaluation report required of persons driving a commercial motor vehicle
• § 32:403.5 — Application of persons using bioptic telescopic lenses
• § 32:404 — Operation of motor vehicles by nonresidents, students, and military personnel and dependents; reciprocity agreements with foreign countries
• § 32:404.1 — Commercial driver's license applicant; domiciliary of state requirement; time limits; reciprocity
• § 32:405 — Application must be verified
• § 32:405.1 — Age requirements
• § 32:406 — Licensee must give notice of change of address
• § 32:407 — Applications of minors; revocation; applications of persons less than twenty-one years of age
• § 32:408 — Examination of applicants required; classes of licenses
• § 32:408.1 — Third-party testing; proof of testing
• § 32:408.2 — Third party testing; limitation of liability
• § 32:409 — Filing of applications; use of abbreviations; release of information
• § 32:409.1 — Application or special certificate applications; penalties for false information
• § 32:41 — Power of local municipal authorities; exception
• § 32:410 — Form of license; photograph, signature of licensee, anatomical gift statement, declaration of life-sustaining procedures, and additional information on license
• § 32:410.1 — Novelty or unofficial credentials; prohibited
• § 32:410.2 — International driver's license
• § 32:411 — Deposit of license in lieu of security upon arrest; receipt; licensee to have license or receipt in immediate possession; notification to vehicle owner; surrender of license; issuance of temporary permits
• § 32:411.1 — Licensee to have license in immediate possession; notification to vehicle owner; surrender of license; issuance of temporary permits
• § 32:412 — Amount of fees; credit or refund; duration of license; veteran designation; special needs or accommodation designations; disbursement of funds; renewal by mail or electronic commerce of Class "D" or "E" drivers' licenses; disposition of certain fees; exception
• § 32:412.1 — Handling charges
• § 32:412.2 — Disabled veteran exemption
• § 32:412.3 — Office of Motor Vehicles Driver's License Escrow Fund; Office of Motor Vehicles Handling Fee Escrow Fund
• § 32:413 — Loss or destruction of licenses; duplicate driver's license
• § 32:414 — Suspension, revocation, renewal, and cancellation of licenses; judicial review
• § 32:414.1 — Unlawful use of license
• § 32:414.2 — Commercial motor vehicle drivers and drivers with a commercial learner's permit; disqualification; issuance of Class "D" or "E" license; alcohol content in breath and blood; implied consent
• § 32:414.3 — Commercial motor vehicle drivers; employer responsibilities
• § 32:414.4 — Commercial motor vehicle operator; notification requirements
• § 32:414.5 — Information falsified by aliens; cancellation of drivers' licenses and special identification cards
• § 32:414.6 — Office of motor vehicles issued credentials; qualifications of voters; notice; restriction code
• § 32:415 — Operating vehicle while license is suspended; offenses in other states; record of offenses given other states
• § 32:415.1 — Economic and medical hardship appeal of driver's license suspension
• § 32:415.2 — Operating vehicle while under suspension or revocation; removal of license plate
• § 32:415.3 — Ex-offender provisional driver's license
• § 32:416 — Unlawful operation by persons under the age of seventeen; parents responsible
• § 32:416.1 — Unlawful operation by persons less than seventeen years of age; operation of motor vehicles and power cycles between certain hours prohibited
• § 32:417 — Allowing unlicensed person under the age of seventeen to drive
• § 32:418 — Selective Service registration; age restrictions
• § 32:419 — Department may for cause refuse to license applicant; judicial review
• § 32:42 — Power of local parish authorities
• § 32:420 — Exemptions
• § 32:421 — False swearing; obtaining two licenses; unlawful
• § 32:422 — Learner's license; driving school instruction permit; special restrictions on motorcycles
• § 32:422.1 — Repealed
• § 32:422.2 — The Louisiana Advisory Council on Driver Education
• § 32:423 — Restricted license
• § 32:424 — Department may compel examination of suspected incompetents; prohibited disclosure of information; exceptions
• § 32:425 — REPEALED BY ACTS 1989, NO. 293, 2, EFF. JUNE 27, 1989.
• § 32:426 — Disposition of fees; surplus funds
• § 32:427 — Penalty
• § 32:428 — Failure to enforce requirement
• § 32:429 — Office of motor vehicles field offices; authorization of fees
• § 32:429.1 — Toll-free hotline
• § 32:429.2 — Office of Motor Vehicles Customer Service and Technology Fund; uses of the monies
• § 32:429.3 — Collection and reporting of statistical information relating to migration of residents
• § 32:429.4 — Installment agreement; outstanding penalties, fines, and fees owed to the office of motor vehicles
• § 32:43 — Automated speed enforcement devices; prohibition
• § 32:430 — Suspension, revocation, and denial of driving privileges; hardship license; insurance rates
• § 32:431 — Driving is a privilege; expulsion or suspension from school, cause for suspension of license
• § 32:431.1 — School attendance as condition of driving privileges; authorized local policy
• § 32:432 — Suspension or denial of driving privileges; failure to pay child support
• § 32:44 — Required notification for red light cameras
• § 32:441 — MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
• § 32:442 — Definitions
• § 32:443 — Storage on collector's property; requirements
• § 32:444 — Equipment requirements
• § 32:445 — Sale or trade; not contingent upon vehicle being in operating condition
• § 32:446 — Repealed by Acts 2024, No. 718, §4
• § 32:447 — Rules and regulations
• § 32:45 — Required notification for automated speed enforcement devices and mobile speed cameras
• § 32:451 — Declaration of purpose
• § 32:452 — Street rod; definition
• § 32:453 — Licensing requirements; exemptions
• § 32:454 — Rules and regulations
• § 32:455 — Street cruiser; definition
• § 32:456 — Registration; licensing
• § 32:457 — Authorized rules
• § 32:46 — Electronic enforcement devices; school zone restrictions
• § 32:461 — Imposition of road usage fee; electric vehicles; hybrid vehicles; administration and collection; use of proceeds
• § 32:47 — Use of speed recording devices; restrictions
• § 32:471 — Definitions
• § 32:472 — Parking motor vehicles; seizure of; payment of costs
• § 32:473 — Seized vehicles; penalties for illegal parking and for the impounding and detention of vehicles illegally parked
• § 32:473.1 — Abandoned vehicle; removal
• § 32:474 — Authority to take possession of abandoned motor vehicles