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urn: urn:us-la:rs:49:73
citation: "R.S. 49:73"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 49 › Chapter 1 › Part IV"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 2004, number: 116, section: 2, effective_date: 2005-01-01, role: enactment }
  - { year: 2008, number: 769, section: 2, effective_date: 2008-07-06, role: amendment }
---

# Persons to whom applicable; exceptions

Except as otherwise provided in this Part relative to a principal or employer of a lobbyist, the provisions of this Part shall apply only to persons who are lobbyists as defined in R.S. 49:72. The provisions of this Part shall not apply to an elected or appointed public official or any designee of such an official, when such designee is a public employee and when such elected or appointed official or public employee is acting in the performance of his or her official public duties.