---
urn: urn:us-la:rs:48:511
citation: "R.S. 48:511"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 48 › Chapter 2 › Part I › Subpart E"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1989, number: 815, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
---

# Changing public road; penalty

A. No person shall turn, alter, or change any public road as defined in R.S. 48:491 and being a parish or municipal road, except upon order of the governing authority of the parish for a parish road, whether or not within a municipality, or upon order of the governing authority of the municipality for a municipal road.

B. Whoever violates this Section shall be fined one hundred dollars for each month the road is altered or turned out of its old course.