Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 48, § 261. Maintenance work by department employees; exceptions

A. (1) The department shall maximize third-party contracts for maintenance of the state highway system.

(2) At the request of the governing authority of a municipality, a parish having a municipal type government, or a parish located within a standard metropolitan statistical area having a population of one million or more as determined by the latest federal decennial census or by the division of business and economic research of Louisiana Tech University under the most recent federal-state cooperative program for local population estimates, whichever is more recent, the work may be contracted out to such municipality or parish, but all such maintenance costs not to exceed the previous year's pro rata mileage cost of each category of state highway maintenance, shall be paid for by the state, provided that the state shall not be responsible for the maintenance of sewers, street lighting, gas and water mains, and other public utilities.

(3) At the request of the governing authority of a parish having a consolidated form of government, the work of roadside vegetation and drainage maintenance may be contracted out to the governing authority of such parish and shall be paid for by the state.

(1) Have committed violent infractions while in prison; or

(2) Have been convicted one or more times of the crimes of aggravated or first degree rape, homicide in the first or second degree, armed robbery, kidnapping, aggravated escape, or any attempt to commit any of the above enumerated offenses.