Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:416.1 – Unlawful operation by persons less than seventeen years of age; operation of motor vehicles and power cycles between certain hours prohibited
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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:416.1
- Motor vehicle: means and includes automobiles, trucks, truck-tractors, trailers, semitrailers, and motorcycles, propelled by steam, gasoline, electricity, or any other source of energy other than muscular power, except electric-assisted bicycles, farm implements temporarily operated or moved on a highway or vehicles operated only on rails or tracks constructed therefor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
- person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
- Power cycle: means every motor vehicle propelled by an engine developing not more than five brake horse power, designed to travel on not more than three wheels, at a speed under thirty-five miles per hour, and equipped with brakes adequate to stop such vehicle upon a reasonably clean, dry, level surface within forty-five feet from the spot where the brakes were first applied when the vehicle is travelling at twenty miles per hour. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
It shall be unlawful for any person who is less than seventeen years of age to drive a motor vehicle or a power cycle upon any highway, street, public road, or public thoroughfare at any time between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. except when accompanied by a parent, tutor, or any other person twenty-one years of age or older, having custody of the minor.
Added by Acts 1968, No. 273, §13. Amended by Acts 1974, No. 266, §1; Acts 1981, No. 775, §1; Acts 1997, No. 725, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.