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La. Rev. Stat. § 40:3 (2026)

State health officer; powers

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§3. State health officer; powers

           The state health officer shall at all times take all necessary steps to execute the sanitary laws of the state and to carry out the rules, ordinances, and regulations as contained in the state sanitary code. He may issue warrants only to arrest or prevent epidemics or to abate any imminent menace to the public health.

           Acts 1976, No. 346, §1Acts 2018, No. 206, §4, eff. August 1, 2018.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1984–2023 · leading case: Adams v. State, Dept. of Health & Human Resources, 458 So. 2d 1295 (La. 1984).
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Adams v. State, Dept. of Health & Human Resources, 458 So. 2d 1295 (La. 1984). “40:4(A) further provides that the state health office, through the DHHR, shall prepare and enforce rules and regulations embodied within the state's sanitary code covering all matters within his jurisdiction as defined and set forth in R.”
Verdun v. State ex rel. Dep't of Health & Human Resources, 598 So. 2d 1091 (La. Ct. App. 1992). “R.S. 40:3 et seq., set forth matters which must or may be regulated by the sanitary code.”
Verdun v. State Through Dhhr, 598 So. 2d 1091 (La. Ct. App. 1992). “R.S. 40:3 et seq., set forth matters which must or may be regulated by the sanitary code.”
5216 Operations, LLC D/B/A 5216 Table & Taps Versus State of Louisiana, Dep't of Revenue, Off. of Alcohol & Tobacco Control, 339 So. 3d 48 (La. Ct. App. 2022). “R.S. 40:3, which provides: The state health officer shall at all times take all necessary steps to execute the sanitary laws of the state and to carry out the rules, ordinances, and regulations as contained in the state sanitary code.”
3525 Prytania Street Condo. Ass'n, Inc. v. Prytania Inv. Props., LLC & Narinder Gupta (La. Ct. App. 2023). “Holmes, 8 Louisiana Civil Law Treatise – Business Organizations, § 40:3 (July 2022 Online Update) outline a theoretical method for collection of the debts.”
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