Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:3103 – Relocation services
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:3103
- Agency: means the state of Louisiana, its municipalities or parishes, or the agencies of any of them, including particularly, but not exclusively, the Department of Transportation and Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:3101
- Business: means any lawful activity, excepting a farm operation, conducted primarily--
(a) for the purchase, sale, lease and rental of personal and real property, and for the manufacture, processing, or marketing of products, commodities, or any other personal property;
(b) for the sale of services to the public;
(c) by a nonprofit organization; or
(d) solely for the purpose of Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:3101
- Farm operation: shall mean any activity conducted solely or primarily for the production of one or more agricultural products or commodities, including timber, for sale and home use, and customarily producing such products or commodities in sufficient quantity to be capable of contributing materially to the operator's support. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:3101
- Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation or association. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:3101
The agency may provide a relocation advisory assistance program which may include such measures, facilities, or services as may be necessary or appropriate in order:
(1) To determine the needs, if any, of displaced persons for relocation assistance;
(2) To assure that, within a reasonable period of time, prior to displacement there will be available, to the extent that can be reasonably accomplished, in areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities and at rents or prices within the financial means of the families and individuals displaced, housing meeting the standards established by the agency head for decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings, equal in number to the number of, and available to, such displaced persons and reasonably accessible to their places of employment; except that the agency head may prescribe by regulation for instances where such requirements may be waived.
(3) To assist a displaced person displaced from his business or farm operation in obtaining and becoming established in suitable replacement locations;
(4) To supply current and continuing information concerning the Federal Housing Administration home acquisition program under Section 221(d)(2) of the National Housing Act,1 the small business disaster loan program under Section 7(b)(3) of the Small Business Act,2 and other programs of this State or the Federal Government, and information concerning availability, prices and rentals of comparable housing and commercial properties.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 116, §1, emerg. eff. June 14, 1971.
112 U.S.C.A. §1715 L (d)(2).
215 U.S.C.A. §636(b)(3).