Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2012.1 – Monitoring equipment operation liability
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2012.1
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Department: means the Department of Environmental Quality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
- Person: means any individual, municipality, public or private corporation, partnership, firm, the United States Government, and any agent or subdivision thereof or any other juridical person, which shall include, but not be limited to, trusts, joint stock companies, associations, the state of Louisiana, political subdivisions of the state of Louisiana, commissions, and interstate bodies. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
A. Any person who operates monitoring equipment or allows such equipment to be placed on his property, where such equipment is operated for the purpose of voluntarily providing monitoring data at the request of and on behalf of the department, shall not be liable to any third party for damages of any kind resulting from the data or information obtained from the operation of such monitoring equipment or from the failure to obtain such monitoring data.
B. The department shall not be liable for damages of any kind resulting from the operation of or failure to operate monitoring equipment owned by the department but placed or located on the property of another when the equipment is operated by anyone other than a department employee.
C. Nothing in this Section shall limit the liability of any person required by the department to report any data under any air, water, or waste permit issued to that person.
Acts 1999, No. 1333, §1.