§3391.7.  Quarantine

A.  In order to preserve public health and welfare and to prevent the dissemination or spread of Formosan termites into uninfested areas of the state, the commissioner shall have the power to declare and enforce a quarantine of any infested structure, premises, or regulated article in any parish or municipality.

B.  A quarantine shall go into effect immediately upon being declared by the commissioner, unless a later effective date is stated in the declaration of quarantine. Upon declaring the quarantine, the commissioner shall cause the quarantine to be published, within five working days of declaration, in the official journal of the state and shall publish the quarantine in the next available Louisiana Register. Failure to publish the quarantine as provided shall cause the quarantine to expire twenty-one days from the date of declaration.

C.  The commissioner may lift a quarantine by publishing a declaration lifting the quarantine in the same manner as required for declaration of a quarantine.

D.  The declaration of quarantine shall detail a concise statement of the facts supporting the declaration, the geographical area of quarantine, the date the quarantine is to begin, and the objectives of the quarantine.

E.  The shipment or movement of regulated articles from any quarantine area of the state is prohibited until such time as the quarantine has been lifted, unless such shipment or movement is in accordance with procedures for the shipment or movement of regulated articles established by the commissioner by rule or such shipment or movement is by special written permission of the commissioner.

Acts 1999, No. 486, §1, eff. June 21, 1999.