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- RS 39:2204 · Contracts for public work
- RS 40:1 · Assistant secretary
- RS 40:2 · State health officer
- RS 40:3 · State health officer; powers
- RS 40:3.1 · Confidentiality of public health investigations; prohibited disclosure and discovery; civil penalties
- RS 40:4 · Sanitary Code
- RS 40:4.1 · Cochon de lait; preparation in traditional manner
- RS 40:4.2 · Jambalaya; preparation in traditional manner
- RS 40:4.3 · Hard- and soft-shell crabs; preparation in traditional manner for public consumption
- RS 40:4.4 · Italian food; preparation in traditional manner for public consumption
- RS 40:4.5 · Exemptions
- RS 40:4.6 · Exemption; benefits for zoos
- RS 40:4.7 · New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
- RS 40:4.8 · Voluntary sanitary inspections of food booths
- RS 40:4.9 · Low-risk foods; preparation in home for public consumption
- RS 40:4.9.1 · Louisiana Small Wild Catfish Processor's Act; preparation for direct sale to the consuming public
- RS 40:4.10 · Public notice of infectious medical waste storage by landowner
- RS 40:4.11 · Community-type sewage systems and public water systems; permits
- RS 40:4.12 · Water distribution in certain facilities
- RS 40:4.13 · Repealed by Acts 2021, No. 98, §2.
- RS 40:4.14 · Not-for-profit entity or charitable organization; receipt or use of certain meats or fish in food or meal distribution
- RS 40:4.15 · Minimum disinfectant residual level of free or total chlorine throughout public water systems; rules and regulations; reporting
- RS 40:4.16 · Water systems; iron and manganese control
- RS 40:5 · General powers and jurisdiction
- RS 40:5.1 · Sanitation; inspection of railroad property
- RS 40:5.2 · Limitations
- RS 40:5.3 · Molluscan shellfish sanitation requirements; opening and closing of molluscan shellfish growing areas; adoption of guidelines to regulate molluscan shellfish industry; authority to collect samples for bacteriological analysis; testing of oysters; Calcasieu Lake
- RS 40:5.3.1 · Repealed by Acts 2011, No. 1, §2, eff. on May 20, 2011.
- RS 40:5.4 · Testing of private water wells
- RS 40:5.5 · Sanitary inspections of certain food service establishments; food safety certificates
- RS 40:5.5.1 · Food service establishments; self-service buffets
- RS 40:5.5.2 · Seafood safety
- RS 40:5.5.3 · Seafood Safety Task Force; creation; purpose
- RS 40:5.5.4 · Imported crawfish and shrimp; notice to patrons of food service establishments required
- RS 40:5.6 · Safe drinking water; inspections and tests; cost
- RS 40:5.6.1 · Safe drinking water; pilot program for water testing at schools; reporting; termination
- RS 40:5.7 · Sanitary inspections of individual, privately owned water wells; fees
- RS 40:5.8 · Definitions
- RS 40:5.9 · Enforcement of drinking water regulations; administrative compliance orders; civil actions; receiverships
- RS 40:5.9.1 · Community water system accountability process; creation of letter grade schedule; penalties for failing systems
- RS 40:5.9.2 · Community water system accountability; federal funds
- RS 40:5.10 · Oyster Sanitation Dedicated Fund Account
- RS 40:5.10.1 · Imported Seafood Safety Fund
- RS 40:5.11 · Water fluoridation program
- RS 40:5.12 · Cancer investigation and intervention
- RS 40:5.13 · Rules for administration of medical activities under Emergency Use Authorization
- RS 40:6 · Penalties for violation of state Sanitary Code
- RS 40:7 · Communicable disease epidemic; procedure
- RS 40:8 · Investigations; entry on and inspection of premises; order to compel attendance of witnesses or production of documents
- RS 40:9 · Arrests for violations
- RS 40:9.1 · Repealed by Acts 1987, No. 927, §1.
- RS 40:10 · Preparation for emergency
- RS 40:11 · Distribution of funds to parish health units or departments
- RS 40:12 · Parish health units
- RS 40:13 · Expenses of parish health units
- RS 40:14 · Parish health units; jurisdiction
- RS 40:15 · Quarantine by parish health officer
- RS 40:16 · Parish health units to act in harmony with state health officer
- RS 40:16.1 · Proceeds of any sale of the state facilities owned by the Louisiana Department of Health, office of behavioral health
- RS 40:16.2 · Repealed by Acts 2018, No. 612, §22, eff. July 1, 2020.
- RS 40:16.3 · John J. Hainkel, Jr., Home and Rehabilitation Center; lease
- RS 40:16.4 · Louisiana Department of Health's Facility Support Fund Number 2
- RS 40:17 · Mandatory medical examination; confinement; when allowed; emergency certificate
- RS 40:18 · Communicable disease; isolation and report to state health officer; quarantine
- RS 40:19 · Domicile of parish health unit
- RS 40:20 · Appointment of parish health officer; qualifications; Orleans Parish health director
- RS 40:21 · Establishment of health district; district health officer
- RS 40:22 · Removal of parish or district health officer; Orleans Parish health director
- RS 40:23 · Salaries of parish or district health officers; unclassified
- RS 40:24 · Issuance of warrants by health officer; general duties of officer
- RS 40:25 · Entry on and inspection of premises
- RS 40:26 · Contractual agreement on establishment and maintenance of parish health unit
- RS 40:27 · Salaries and personnel benefits of health unit
- RS 40:28 · Tubercular individuals; free diagnostic clinics
- RS 40:29 · State health laboratories; fee schedule
- RS 40:30 · Provisions of this Chapter not to affect Louisiana Department of Agriculture
- RS 40:31 · Costs of court not charged against state or parish health officers
- RS 40:31.1 · Reye's Syndrome disease; mandatory reporting
- RS 40:31.2 · Repealed by Acts 2008, No. 815, §5.
- RS 40:31.3 · Adolescent school health initiative; health centers in schools
- RS 40:31.11 · Purpose
- RS 40:31.12 · Definitions
- RS 40:31.13 · Development of immunization registry and tracking and recall system; standards
- RS 40:31.14 · Authorization of release of immunization records
- RS 40:31.15 · Rulemaking
- RS 40:31.16 · Parental consent; parental responsibility for immunization; exemptions
- RS 40:31.21 · Legislative intent, declaration of policy
- RS 40:31.22 · Admission; general provisions
- RS 40:31.23 · Admissions; voluntary; involuntary
- RS 40:31.24 · Ex parte judicial order for custody; grounds; civil liability
- RS 40:31.25 · Adversarial judicial commitment; procedure
- RS 40:31.26 · Judicial hearings; general provisions
- RS 40:31.27 · Judicial commitment; review
- RS 40:31.28 · Discharge
- RS 40:31.29 · Costs
- RS 40:31.31 · Definitions
- RS 40:31.31.1 · Export certificate fees
- RS 40:31.32 · Individual sewage fees
- RS 40:31.33 · Safe drinking water fee; exemptions
- RS 40:31.34 · Infectious waste permits