Free Louisiana Landlord Forms
Every Louisiana lessor form we publish, organised by the stage of the lease it belongs to, each one paired with the Civil Code or Code of Civil Procedure article behind it — written for a civil-law state rather than translated from a common-law one.
Every form linked on this page is free, fillable in your browser, and downloadable as a PDF with no account, no membership and no paywall. Louisiana is the one American jurisdiction with no Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. Leases live in the Civil Code, articles 2668 to 2729; eviction lives in the Code of Civil Procedure, articles 4701 to 4735; and deposits sit in Revised Statutes 9:3251 to 9:3254. The vocabulary differs too — lessor and lessee, a notice to vacate, and a rule to show cause.
The short version
- Notice to vacate — not less than five days from delivery. In practice a minimum of seven, because holidays are excluded.
- The lease may WAIVE that notice entirely, letting the lessor institute eviction proceedings immediately. It is standard in Louisiana form leases.
- There is no right to cure. No pay-and-stay, no redemption. The five days are to vacate, not to pay.
- Month-to-month ends on ten calendar days’ notice, not thirty.
- Reconduction, not holdover. A twelve-month lease that runs on becomes month-to-month, not another year.
- No entry statute at all. Louisiana is among the very few states with none.
- No deposit cap, no interest, no escrow — but a one-month return, and since 1 August 2026 an itemisation window of roughly forty-five days.
- City and parish courts now hear evictions regardless of the rent amount. Every page quoting a three-thousand-dollar monthly limit is two years stale.
The Notice Your Lease May Already Have Waived
Code of Civil Procedure article 4701, third paragraph: “A lessee may waive the notice requirements of this Article by written waiver contained in the lease, in which case… the lessor or his agent may immediately institute eviction proceedings.”
This is the single biggest Louisiana-specific fact, and the waiver clause is standard in Louisiana form leases. Before you draft any notice, read your own lease — you may not need one at all.
But there is a real counter-rule, and we are not going to paper over it. Civil Code article 2718 provides that where a lease reserves a right to terminate, “The right to receive this notice may not be renounced in advance.” The two provisions sit in genuine tension. If your lease both reserves a termination right and waives the notice, take advice rather than assuming the waiver governs.
Five Days That Are Really Seven — and Why the Usual Citation Is Wrong
Article 4701 gives the lessee “not less than five days from the date of its delivery to vacate the leased premises”. Almost every Louisiana page then says the five days exclude legal holidays — which is true, but the citation everyone gives for it is wrong.
The words “legal holiday” appear NOWHERE in article 4701. The exclusion arrives through the general computation rule at article 5059(C)(3): holidays are counted “except when… (3) The period is less than seven days.” Five is less than seven, so holidays drop out. The day of delivery is also excluded under 5059(A).
The practical effect: in parishes where both Saturday and Sunday are legal holidays, the notice period is a minimum of about seven days. Pages citing article 4701 for the holiday rule are citing the wrong provision — and a landlord who reads 4701 alone will count five and file early.
Two further wrinkles. Where the lease has a definite term, notice to vacate may be given not more than thirty days before the expiration of the term. Where the term is indeterminate, the article 2728 termination notice does double duty as the notice to vacate — no separate five-day notice is needed. And for an occupant who is not a lessee, article 4702 uses slightly different wording: “five days from its delivery”.
Nonpayment, and the Absence of Any Cure Right
Louisiana handles nonpayment without a separate demand statute. Civil Code article 2704 contains no demand requirement of its own; article 2015’s notice to perform is permissive (“may serve”), and article 2016 allows dissolution “without any notice” in defined circumstances. The article 4701 notice to vacate suffices to regain possession.
Louisiana gives the lessee no statutory right to cure. No pay-and-stay. No redemption before the warrant. The five days are to vacate, not to pay.
Two judicial softeners exist, and neither is a right: under article 2013 the court “may [grant]… additional time to perform” in a judicial dissolution, and case law holds that accepting rent after the notice vitiates the notice. That second point is the practical one — take the money after serving, and you may have undone your own notice.
Where the lease contains an express dissolution clause, article 2017 lets it dissolve at the time the clause provides, or on notice that the lessor avails himself of it. See our Louisiana eviction notice laws guide.
Every Louisiana Landlord Form, by Stage of the Lease
An alphabetical list is the least useful arrangement, because a lessor arrives knowing what has happened, not what the document is called. The index below is ordered by where you are in the lease.
Starting the lease
- Louisiana residential lease agreement — the master document, and it does more work here than in almost any other state: it is the only source of an entry right, of a late fee, and of the notice waiver. A lease may also be oral in Louisiana under article 2681, which is precisely why a written one is worth having.
- Lead-based paint form — required by federal law for any dwelling built before 1978. It is effectively the only mandatory pre-lease document a Louisiana lessor has.
- Move-in / move-out condition checklist — not required by statute, and all the more useful for it. With no escrow duty and a deduction standard limited to default and unreasonable wear, a signed condition record is the evidence that carries a deduction.
During the lease
- Notice to enter the property — Louisiana has no entry statute, so this document exists to honour whatever the lease provides and to create a record. See below.
- Rent increase notice — Louisiana has no rent control. On a month-to-month lease the ten-day termination period is the operative constraint.
- Late rent notice — a courtesy reminder, and a sensible step before a notice to vacate given that accepting rent afterwards can vitiate the notice.
- Abandoned Property Notice
- Sublease Agreement
When the lessee breaches
- Five-day notice to vacate — the article 4701 notice. Count it with the holiday rule in mind, and check the lease for a waiver first.
- Notice to cure or quit — useful to record a breach and give a chance to fix it, though Louisiana grants no statutory cure period. Any period you give is your own.
- Unconditional quit notice — the plain notice to vacate where no remedy is offered.
Ending the lease without fault
- Notice of non-renewal — and in Louisiana this document has a job most states do not give it: preventing reconduction. See the next section.
- Lessee notice to vacate — the lessee’s side of article 2728, on the same periods.
After the lessee moves out
- Security deposit itemisation — the itemised statement, which since 1 August 2026 has its own extended window.
- Security deposit return letter — the covering document for the one-month return.
Termination Periods, and the Reconduction Trap
| Term of the lease | Notice to terminate |
|---|---|
| Longer than a month | 30 calendar days before the end of that period |
| Month-to-month | 10 calendar days before the end of that month |
| A week or more but less than a month | 5 calendar days before the end of that period |
| Shorter than a week | At any time prior to the expiration of that period |
Termination takes effect at the end of the period specified in the notice; if none is specified, “at the end of the first period for which the notice is timely” (Civil Code article 2728).
Louisiana does not have “holdover”. It has RECONDUCTION — tacit renewal — and it has two separate sets of numbers that are routinely merged.
The TRIGGER (article 2721): a fixed-term lease is reconducted if, after expiration, “without notice to vacate or terminate or other opposition” by the lessor or the lessee, the lessee remains in possession for thirty days (agricultural), one week (other fixed terms longer than a week), or one day (terms of a week or less).
The RESULTING TERM (articles 2722 and 2723): agricultural leases reconduct year to year; non-agricultural leases reconduct month to month if the term was a month or longer, and day to day if it was at least a day but less than a month.
The consequence landlords most need: a reconducted twelve-month residential lease does not renew for another year. It becomes month-to-month — and can then be ended on ten calendar days’ notice. All the provisions of the lease continue (article 2724).
The practical upshot is that a Louisiana notice of non-renewal is doing two jobs at once: ending the term, and stopping reconduction from starting. Serve it within the window and the question never arises. See our Louisiana lease termination laws guide.
Louisiana Has No Lessor Entry Statute
There is no Louisiana statute requiring advance notice before a lessor enters residential premises — no twenty-four-hour rule, nothing. We checked Civil Code Title IX in full, articles 2668 to 2729, and Revised Statutes 9:3251 to 9:3261. Entry is purely contractual.
The nearest thing is article 2693, which lets the lessor make a repair “even if this causes the lessee to suffer inconvenience or loss of use” — but only for repairs “that cannot be postponed until the end of the lease”, with no notice period stated, and the words enter, access and notice never appearing. Running the other way, article 2690 provides that “During the lease, the lessor may not make any alterations in the thing.”
So the entry clause in your lease is not a restatement of Louisiana law — it is the law between you and your lessee. Draft it deliberately rather than inheriting it from a template written for a statutory state. See our Louisiana landlord entry laws guide.
Security Deposits: One Month, and a Deadline That Just Changed
| Rule | Value |
|---|---|
| Cap | NONE. Part IV comprises only sections 3251 to 3254 and none contains an amount limit or a multiple-of-rent ceiling |
| Interest, escrow, separate account | None required by statute |
| Return | Returned “within one month after the lease shall terminate”. The statutory phrase is one month, not thirty days, and the clock runs from lease termination — not from vacating, and not from a forwarding address |
| Itemisation — NEW 1 August 2026 | Due “within one month after the date the tenancy terminates or within fifteen days after the date that is one month after the tenancy terminates” — an outer limit of roughly forty-five days |
| Permitted deductions | Only what is “reasonably necessary to remedy a default of the tenant or to remedy unreasonable wear” |
| Forwarding address | “The tenant shall furnish the lessor a forwarding address at the termination of the lease, to which such statements may be sent.” Drafted as a lessee duty and a mailing address — not a condition precedent, and the clock does not run from its receipt |
| Abandonment carve-out | Section 9:3251(C): the return duty “shall not apply when the tenant abandons the premises, either without giving notice as required or prior to the termination of the lease” |
| On a sale | The transferor must transfer the deposit to the successor and is then “relieved of further liability”; the transferee is responsible for return |
| Penalty | The portion wrongfully retained PLUS “three hundred dollars or twice the amount of the portion of the security deposit wrongfully retained, whichever is greater”. Wilful means “failure to remit within thirty days after written demand for a refund” |
| Attorney fees | The court “may in its discretion award costs and attorney’s fees to the prevailing party” — party-neutral, so a prevailing lessor can recover them too |
| Anti-waiver | “Any waiver of the right of a tenant under this part shall be null and void.” |
Act 63 of 2026 took effect on 1 August 2026 — and every competitor page will say “thirty days” for both the return and the itemisation. It amended R.S. 9:3251(A) to add the alternative fifteen-day window for the itemised statement only. The return deadline is unchanged at one month.
One thing the legislature considered and rejected is worth knowing: the House committee removed from the bill language that would have let the lessor and lessee agree a date for the return of the deposit. That contractual flexibility is not law.
On pet money, the Act reaches any sum furnished “to secure the performance of any part of” the lease — so purpose controls, not the label. A pet deposit is covered; a pet fee is not. See our Louisiana security deposit laws guide.
Serving a Louisiana Notice
Code of Civil Procedure article 4703 is a single paragraph, and it does one thing: “If the premises are abandoned or closed, or if the whereabouts of the lessee or occupant is unknown, all notices, process, pleadings, and orders… may be attached to a door of the premises, and this shall have the same effect as delivery to, or personal service on, the lessee.”
Article 4703 contains no personal or domiciliary service tier. It authorises door attachment only, and only on those two predicates. Guides that describe a Louisiana service hierarchy under this article have imported one from elsewhere.
And there is no add-days-for-mailing rule anywhere in Title XI. Articles 4701 and 4702 both run from delivery, not from mailing.
Where Louisiana Law Is Silent — and One Fee Myth
- Grace period — none. Rent is due as the lease provides, and article 2704 attaches on failure to pay when due.
- Late fee cap — none. There is no cap in Civil Code Title IX or in Revised Statutes 9:3251 to 9:3261. The only backstop is the general rule allowing a court to reduce stipulated damages. The “five per cent or twenty-five dollars” Louisiana late-fee cap that circulates online has no statutory basis, and we could not find one on any reading of the code.
- Deposit cap, interest and escrow — all absent.
- Right to cure — absent.
- Entry rule — absent.
Four verified statutory absences, all of them landlord-favourable, which is a large part of why Louisiana reads as a landlord-friendly jurisdiction. But they cut the other way too: because the code supplies so little, anything you have not written into the lease, you do not have. See our Louisiana late fee laws guide.
On bounced cheques the general statute does apply: R.S. 9:2782(B) permits a service charge “not to exceed twenty-five dollars or five percent of the face amount of the check, whichever is greater” — and, importantly, “The payee shall post a notice indicating the amount to be charged… on the payee’s business premises in a convenient and conspicuous place.” No posted notice, no charge. Damages run to twice the amount owing with a minimum of one hundred dollars, plus fees and costs, if the cheque is unpaid within fifteen working days after a certified or registered-mail demand.
Habitability Is Not Absent — It Is the Warranty Against Vices and Defects
Because Louisiana has no URLTA, guides often say it has no habitability standard. It does; it is simply written in civil-law language.
- Article 2696 — the lessor warrants the thing “suitable for the purpose for which it was leased and… free of vices or defects that prevent its use”.
- Article 2699(3) — a waiver is ineffective “In a residential or consumer lease, to the extent it purports to waive the warranty for vices or defects that seriously affect health or safety.” That much cannot be contracted away.
- Article 2694 — a genuine repair-and-deduct right: if the lessor fails to repair within a reasonable time after the lessee’s demand, the lessee may make the repairs and demand reimbursement or apply the amount to the rent.
See our Louisiana habitability laws guide.
Self-Help, and the Price of Getting It Wrong
A Louisiana lessor may take possession without judicial process only on “a reasonable belief that the lessee or occupant has ABANDONED” the premises — and article 4731(B) names the indicia: cessation of occupancy, returning the keys, and removal of movables.
Get it wrong and a residential lessee recovers “five hundred dollars or twice the amount of the monthly rent, whichever is greater”, plus injunctive relief, with costs and attorney fees available.
And after a federally declared disaster, cessation of residential occupancy is not evidence of abandonment for thirty days after the initial declaration — a Louisiana-specific rule that matters after every hurricane season.
The Rule to Show Cause, and the Twenty-Four Hours Nobody Reads Correctly
| Stage | Rule | Article |
|---|---|---|
| Return day | “The court shall make the rule returnable not earlier than the third day after service thereof, at which time the court shall try the rule and hear any defense which is made.” | 4732(A) |
| Judgment | On proof, or on failure to answer or appear, the court “shall render immediately a judgment of eviction”, effective for not less than ninety days | 4732(B) |
| Warrant | “If the lessee or occupant does not comply with the judgment of eviction within twenty-four hours after its rendition, the court shall issue immediately a warrant” | 4733 |
| Execution | Executed “in the presence of two witnesses, by clearing the premises of any property therein”; the officer may “break open” locked doors, windows or gates where necessary | 4734 |
| Suspensive appeal | An appeal does not suspend unless BOTH (a) the defendant “answered the rule under oath, pleading an affirmative defense entitling him to retain possession”, and (b) the appeal was applied for and the bond filed within twenty-four hours after rendition | 4735 |
The twenty-four hours in article 4733 is a COMPLIANCE window, not a court waiting period. It is not that the court must wait a day before acting — it is that once twenty-four hours pass without the lessee complying, the warrant issues immediately. A devolutive appeal does not suspend, and the two conditions in article 4735 are conjunctive: an oath-sworn affirmative defence and a bond within twenty-four hours. Miss either and the warrant proceeds.
Which Court, and the 2024 Change Everyone Missed
Act 129 of 2024 struck every rental-amount threshold from city and parish court eviction jurisdiction. The old limits — one hundred and fifty dollars a day, five hundred a week, three thousand a month, thirty-six thousand a year — are gone. Article 4844 now gives jurisdiction “regardless of the amount of daily, monthly, or yearly rent or the rent for the unexpired term of the lease”.
Every page still quoting a three-thousand-dollar monthly limit is two years stale — including, at the time of writing, a well-known Louisiana legal-aid desk manual.
Justice of the peace courts follow the same pattern for residential evictions: no cap, “regardless of the amount of monthly or yearly rent”, though commercial and farmland matters are limited to a monthly rental of five thousand dollars. The general justice of the peace civil limit of five thousand dollars does not bind residential evictions. Courts of limited jurisdiction cannot decide title to immovable property.
One further Louisiana trap for form drafters: R.S. 9:3259 makes a lessee liable for reasonable attorney fees where rent is unpaid twenty days after written demand — but subsection (C) provides that “The provisions of this Section shall apply to ORAL LEASES ONLY.” If your written lease relies on that section, it relies on nothing.
Which Louisiana Form Do I Need?
- First, read the lease for a notice waiver. If it waives article 4701, you may institute proceedings immediately — subject to the article 2718 tension.
- The lessee has not paid rent. A five-day notice to vacate. There is no separate rent demand and no cure right, and accepting rent afterwards may vitiate the notice.
- The lease term is ending. Notice to vacate not more than thirty days before expiry — and serve it, or reconduction may start.
- The lease is indeterminate. The article 2728 termination notice doubles as the notice to vacate.
- It is month-to-month. Ten calendar days before the end of the month.
- You need to get into the property. Whatever the lease says — the code says nothing.
- The lessee has moved out. Return within one month of lease termination; the itemised statement may now run to roughly forty-five days.
- The premises look abandoned. Check the article 4731(B) indicia carefully before taking possession — and remember the thirty-day disaster rule.
How to Fill Out a Louisiana Notice to Vacate
- Check the lease for a waiver clause before drafting anything.
- Name every lessee and describe the premises exactly as the lease does.
- State the ground — nonpayment, breach, or expiry of the term.
- Give not less than five days from delivery, and count with article 5059 in mind: the day of delivery is out, and because the period is under seven days, legal holidays are excluded.
- Serve it by delivery. Door attachment under article 4703 is available only where the premises are abandoned or closed, or the whereabouts of the lessee are unknown.
- Do not add days for mailing. There is no such rule, and the period runs from delivery.
- Do not accept rent after serving unless you intend to abandon the notice.
- Diarise the rule to show cause — returnable not earlier than the third day after service.
What Happens If the Form Is Wrong
The distinctively Louisiana error is counting five calendar days. With the day of delivery excluded and legal holidays dropping out, five means roughly seven — and a lessor who files on day five has filed early.
The second is attaching the notice to the door when the lessee is plainly there. Article 4703 permits it only on abandonment, closure or unknown whereabouts.
The third is letting a fixed term expire without serving notice, which starts the reconduction clock — after which you are dealing with a month-to-month lease rather than an expired one.
And the fourth is accepting rent after the notice, which case law treats as vitiating it.
What This Page Does Not Have
We would rather scope this honestly than promise documents we do not host. Louisiana lessors also commonly want a rental application, a month-to-month agreement, a sublease, a roommate agreement, a commercial lease, an addendum, a pet addendum, a rent receipt and an adverse action notice. Those are not published here as Louisiana-specific forms.
We publish no Louisiana filing fee, and no statewide form numbers. There is no statewide filing fee — it is set court by court. One city court’s schedule would not open; another gives only a general civil petition figure with no eviction-specific line; and a widely circulated “one hundred and fifty dollars plus fifty per additional tenant” came from an uncorroborated snippet, so we rejected it. On forms, no numbered statewide notice to vacate or rule to show cause could be found. Article 4731 prescribes the contents — the rule “shall state the grounds” — rather than a form.
We have also not researched local ordinances. Every statutory absence stated on this page is a statewide absence; New Orleans and other municipalities may add requirements of their own.
Common Louisiana Landlord Form Mistakes
- Counting five calendar days. The day of delivery is excluded and holidays drop out.
- Citing article 4701 for the holiday rule. It is article 5059(C)(3).
- Serving a notice the lease has already waived, or ignoring the article 2718 counter-rule.
- Attaching the notice to the door outside the two article 4703 predicates.
- Offering a cure period as though it were required. Louisiana grants none.
- Accepting rent after the notice.
- Letting a term expire unserved and triggering reconduction.
- Assuming a reconducted year-long lease renews for a year. It becomes month-to-month.
- Giving thirty days on a month-to-month lease. It is ten calendar days.
- Publishing a twenty-four-hour entry rule. There is no entry statute.
- Applying a five per cent or twenty-five dollar late-fee cap. No such cap exists.
- Charging an NSF fee with no posted notice. The posting is a precondition.
- Relying on R.S. 9:3259 attorney fees in a written lease. It applies to oral leases only.
- Quoting a three-thousand-dollar monthly limit on city or parish court eviction jurisdiction. Removed in 2024.
- Missing the new itemisation window, or assuming it also moved the return deadline. It did not.
Free Fillable Forms Versus the Paid Louisiana Form Sites
Louisiana’s results page is transactional and unusually shallow — almost the whole first page is template and application downloads. The deepest ranker is a lease-builder wizard of about two thousand two hundred and fifty words, roughly half of which is field labels, and the deepest prose page ranks lower still.
What none of them does is write for a civil-law jurisdiction. Every ranker we measured produces generic common-law copy about “landlords”, “tenants” and “holdover” — concepts that do not map cleanly onto lessors, lessees and reconduction. That mismatch is the whole opportunity here, and it is worth more than another copy of a generic lease.
Every form linked from this page is free, fills in the browser, and downloads as a finished PDF. There is no account, no trial and no upsell attached to the documents themselves. What we ask in return is straightforward: if you are about to hand keys to someone, run the screening first, because nearly every dispute described on this page is cheaper to prevent than to litigate.
Louisiana Landlord Forms: FAQ
How many days is a Louisiana notice to vacate?
Not less than five days from the date of its delivery, Code of Civil Procedure article 4701. In practice it is a minimum of about seven, because article 5059(A) excludes the day of delivery and article 5059(C)(3) excludes legal holidays where the period is less than seven days.
Can a Louisiana lease waive the notice to vacate?
Yes, expressly. Article 4701: “A lessee may waive the notice requirements of this Article by written waiver contained in the lease, in which case… the lessor or his agent may immediately institute eviction proceedings.” It is standard in Louisiana form leases. Note the tension with Civil Code article 2718, which provides that for a lease with a reserved right to terminate, the right to receive notice “may not be renounced in advance”.
Does Louisiana give a lessee time to cure?
No. There is no pay-and-stay and no redemption. The five days are to vacate, not to pay. The court may grant additional time to perform in a judicial dissolution under article 2013, and accepting rent after the notice vitiates the notice — but neither is a right to cure.
How much notice ends a month-to-month lease in Louisiana?
Ten calendar days before the end of that month, Civil Code article 2728(2). A term longer than a month takes thirty calendar days; a week or more but less than a month takes five; and a term shorter than a week may be ended at any time before it expires.
What is reconduction, and does a Louisiana lease renew for another year?
Reconduction is tacit renewal. If after expiration, “without notice to vacate or terminate or other opposition”, the lessee remains in possession — thirty days for agricultural leases, one week for other fixed terms longer than a week, one day for terms of a week or less — the lease is reconducted. A reconducted twelve-month residential lease does NOT renew for another year: it becomes month-to-month, terminable on ten calendar days’ notice, with all the lease provisions continuing.
Does Louisiana require notice before a lessor enters?
No — there is no entry statute at all. Civil Code Title IX and Revised Statutes 9:3251 to 9:3261 were checked in full. The nearest provision, article 2693, allows repairs that cannot be postponed until the end of the lease but states no notice period, and article 2690 bars the lessor from making alterations during the lease. Entry is purely contractual.
Is there a security deposit cap in Louisiana?
No. Part IV comprises only R.S. 9:3251 to 9:3254 and none of them contains an amount limit or a multiple-of-rent ceiling. There is also no interest requirement, no escrow duty and no separate-account rule.
How long does a Louisiana lessor have to return a deposit?
Within one month after the lease shall terminate, R.S. 9:3251(A). Note the statutory phrase is “one month” rather than thirty days, and the clock runs from lease termination — not from the lessee vacating and not from receipt of a forwarding address.
Did Louisiana change its deposit rules in 2026?
Yes. Act 63 of 2026, effective 1 August 2026, amended R.S. 9:3251(A) so the itemised statement is due within one month after termination “or within fifteen days after the date that is one month after the tenancy terminates” — an outer limit of roughly forty-five days. The return deadline is unchanged at one month. A proposal to let the parties agree a return date was removed in committee and is not law.
What is the penalty for wrongly withholding a Louisiana deposit?
The portion wrongfully retained plus three hundred dollars or twice the amount wrongfully retained, whichever is greater, R.S. 9:3252(A). “Wilful” is defined as failure to remit within thirty days after written demand. Attorney fees and costs are discretionary and go to the prevailing party, so a prevailing lessor may recover them.
Does Louisiana cap late fees?
No. There is no late-fee cap in Civil Code Title IX or in R.S. 9:3251 to 9:3261, and no statutory grace period either. The widely repeated “five per cent or twenty-five dollars” Louisiana cap has no statutory basis. The only backstop is the general rule permitting a court to reduce stipulated damages.
Which Louisiana court hears an eviction, and is there a rent limit?
City, parish and justice of the peace courts — and since Act 129 of 2024 there is no rent-amount limit on residential eviction jurisdiction. Article 4844 now reads “regardless of the amount of daily, monthly, or yearly rent”. Every page still quoting the old three-thousand-dollar monthly threshold is two years out of date.
Related Louisiana Guides
- Louisiana landlord-tenant laws — the full civil-law overview.
- Louisiana eviction notice laws — the notice to vacate and the rule to show cause.
- Louisiana security deposit laws — the one-month rule and the 2026 change.
- Louisiana lease termination laws — article 2728 and reconduction.
- Louisiana breaking lease laws — early termination and abandonment.
- Louisiana rent increase laws — why there is no rent control.
- Louisiana late fee laws — and the cap that does not exist.
- Louisiana landlord entry laws — and why the lease is the rule.
- Louisiana habitability laws — vices, defects and repair-and-deduct.
- Louisiana pet and ESA laws — pet deposits versus pet fees.
- Louisiana tenant screening laws — background checks and adverse action.
Published by Tenant Screening Background Check · Editorial Team
Established 2004. Our editorial team has spent two decades helping landlords and property managers run lawful tenant screening and follow state landlord-tenant codes across all fifty states. Louisiana’s legislative site returns the wrong article if you guess at a document identifier — one request for an eviction provision returned a Code of Criminal Procedure article instead — so for this page we required every source to identify its own article number before we used a word of it. That is also how we caught that the 2026 deposit change is nine days old and that the court jurisdiction limits were removed two years ago.
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Last reviewed 2026. This page is general information about Louisiana lease and eviction law, not legal advice. Act 63 of 2026 changed the deposit itemisation window on 1 August 2026, and Act 129 of 2024 removed the rent-amount limits on court jurisdiction, so older guidance is out of date. Case law referred to here was relayed from a legal-aid manual rather than read in the original. Filing fees are set court by court, and every statutory absence stated here is statewide only — municipalities may add requirements. Confirm the current position with your city, parish or justice of the peace court, or with a Louisiana attorney, before you serve a notice or file a rule.
