GOHSEP Elected_Officials_Manual_2015

LSA-R.S. 29:721 – 739 Page 46
(2) A person who refuses to comply with a mandatory evacuation order may remain in his home
and not be forcibly removed from his home; however, all public services are suspended during a
mandatory evacuation, and anyone failing to comply with a mandatory evacuation order may not
be rescued or provided other lifesaving assistance. During a hurricane, a person failing to comply
with evacuation orders may not be rescued or provided other lifesaving assistance after the onset of
and during tropical storm winds or higher at the Louisiana coast.
(3) Exceptions to a mandatory evacuation are essential workforce or critical workforce. Any
nonessential person found traveling through the area will be subject to arrest or escorted out of and
not permitted to reenter the area.
E. (1) When a mandatory or forced evacuation is ordered, it shall be lifted, in whole or in part, only
at such time as public services are available in the area and that area is opened for reentry as determined
by the parish homeland security and emergency preparedness agency.
(2) Once out of the evacuation area, no unauthorized person, including residents, shall be permitted
to return until conditions permit and the evacuation order is lifted, and the area opened for
reentry, as determined by the parish homeland security and emergency preparedness agency.
(3) An unauthorized person found to be on the property of another or on a public street, place, or
other public property shall be subject to arrest or forcible removal from the evacuation area.
F. During a declared disaster or state of emergency, the parish president may in the proclamation
for evacuation or a separate proclamation impose a curfew prohibiting anyone who is not designated
as essential workforce or critical workforce to be on a public street or place. The curfew may
be for the entire parish or for certain areas of the parish, and the curfew may be for an unlimited
period of time or may be for certain periods of time during each twenty-four-hour period. The
proclamation shall specify the geographical area or areas and the period during each twenty-four-hour
period to which the curfew applies. The proclamation imposing a curfew may regulate
and close places of amusement and assembly, prohibit the sale and distribution of alcoholic
beverages, and regulate and control, subject to the provisions of R.S. 29:738, the possession,
storage, display, sale, transport, and use of firearms and other dangerous weapons and ammunition.
G. During a mandatory or forced evacuation, a twenty-four hour per day curfew shall automatically
be imposed in the evacuation area prohibiting the presence on a public street or in a public
place of anyone who is not designated as essential workforce or critical workforce until such
curfew is lifted or amended by the parish homeland security and emergency preparedness agency.
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