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La. R.S. 3:2391

Agents of corporation as special police officers; compensation; aid from regular police force

Known as the Louisiana Abandoned Animals Act

The act spans §§ 3-1821 to 3-2511 (189 sections).

Acts 2008, No. 920, §1, eff

PART II. CORPORATIONS FOR PREVENTION OF

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

§2391. Agents of corporation as special police officers; compensation; aid from regular police force

Whenever, in any incorporated city or town or in any parish, a corporation for the prevention of cruelty to animals shall be organized, the mayor of the city or town and the police jury of the parish, respectively, as the case may be, shall appoint and commission as special police officers such agents as the corporation for the prevention of cruelty to animals may nominate; and agents being so commissioned shall have the usual power of policemen and peace officers. No city, town, or parish shall be liable hereunder for any compensation to the special officers, and the police force of all incorporated cities and towns in the state shall aid any such corporation, its members or agents, in the enforcement in its respective locality of all laws enacted for the protection of animals.

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