Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:256 – Compliance
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:256
- Agency: means any state office, department, board, commission, institution, division, officer or other person, or functional group, heretofore existing or hereafter created, that is authorized to exercise, or that does exercise, any functions of the government of the state in the executive branch, but not any governing body or officer of any local government or subdivision of the state, or any parochial officer who exercises functions coterminous with the municipality in which he performs those functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
An agency failing to comply with the provisions of this Part shall file a report with the division of administration and the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget stating the reasons it is unable to comply. The commissioner of administration shall withhold from the appropriations of any agency failing to comply with the provisions of this Part an amount equal to five percent of the amount appropriated to the agency for energy costs only if approved by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget. The commissioner of administration shall release any amounts withheld upon an agency’s compliance with the provisions of this Part less the amount used by the division of administration for collecting energy data from the non-complying agency. The use and expenditure of such amounts by the division of administration are subject to approval by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.
Acts 1984, No. 662, §1, eff. July 1, 1984; Acts 1986, No. 255, §1, eff. July 1, 1986; Acts 2001, No. 1184, §1, eff. June 29, 2001.