TITLE 51. TRADE AND COMMERCE

CHAPTER 38. LOUISIANA COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

51:2236      Parishes and municipalities may prohibit discrimination

 A. Parishes and municipalities may adopt and enforce ordinances, orders, and resolutions prohibiting all forms of discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, or age, and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof, such penalties being in addition to the remedial orders and enforcement herein authorized.

 B. Parishes and municipalities may adopt and enforce ordinances, orders, and resolutions prohibiting discrimination, but no ordinance, order, or resolution shall attempt to exempt more transactions from its coverage than are exempted by R.S. 51:2250.

Added by Acts 1988, No. 886, §1. Amended by Acts 1993, No. 820, §9; Acts 1997, No. 1409, §3, eff. Aug. 1, 1997.