Title 51. Trade and Commerce

Chapter 38. Louisiana Commission on Human Rights

51:2237      Local human rights commissions

Any parish or municipality, or one or more parishes and municipalities acting jointly, may create a human rights commission, hereinafter referred to as a “local commission”:

(1) To provide for execution within its jurisdiction of the policies embodied in this Chapter, Chapter 3-A of Title 23 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, and the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 241).¹

(2) To safeguard all individuals within its jurisdiction from discrimination because of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, or age.

Added by Acts 1988, No. 886, § 1. Amended by Acts 1993, No. 820, § 9; Acts 1997, No. 1409, § 3, eff. Aug. 1, 1997; Acts 2014, No. 756, § 1.

Footnotes

1.  See, inter alia, 42 U.S.C.A. § 2000A et seq.