La. Admin. Code tit. 70 § XXV-113
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024
Section XXV-113 - Crescent City Connection Exemptions-Law Enforcement PersonnelA. Free passage across the Crescent City Connection, and the ferries known as Algiers/Canal Street, Gretna/Jackson Avenue, and Lower Algiers/Chalmette shall be granted to all law enforcement personnel who are employed on a full-time basis and have law enforcement agency equipment.B. Law enforcement agency, for purposes of R.S. 40:1392 and LAC 70:XXV.513 shall mean any agency of the state or its political subdivisions and the federal government, who are responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the enforcement of the criminal, traffic, or highway laws of this state or similar federal laws and who are employed in this state. Officers who serve in a voluntary capacity or as honorary officers are not included.C. Agencies which meet the above criteria shall include the Louisiana State Police, enforcement division agents of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, sheriffs' departments of the parishes of this state, municipal police departments, levee board police departments, port police departments, the United States Secret Service, the United States Marshal Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation exclusively.D.1. The right of free passage on and over the Crescent City Connection Bridge at New Orleans for the state police and law enforcement personnel shall be exercised only by means of automatic vehicular identification toll tags.2. Upon the written request of the superintendent of state police or the head of an eligible law enforcement agency and payment of the required deposit, the Crescent City Connection Division for the Department of Transportation and Development shall issue the number of automatic vehicular identification toll tags requested for use in connection with the exemption from tolls.3. A deposit of $25 shall be charged for the issuance of each tag. The deposit shall be refunded upon the return of the tag to the Crescent City Connection Division.4. The use of the automatic vehicular identification toll tags provided shall be limited to bridge crossings made by state police with state police equipment and by designated law enforcement personnel with law enforcement agency equipment. The appropriate law enforcement agency shall be responsible for any crossing made using the automatic vehicular identification toll tag outside the scope of the exemption from tolls.La. Admin. Code tit. 70, § XXV-113
Promulgated by the Department of Transportation and Development, Crescent City Connection Division, LR 23:84 (January 1997), amended 28:875 (April 2002).AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 40:1392 and R.S. 48:26.