Louisiana Administrative Code Title 4 - ADMINISTRATION
Here’s a refined overview of the Louisiana Administrative Code – Title 4: Administration, organized by its parts and highlighting key chapters and topics:
📘 Title 4 – Administration
Part I: General Provisions
Includes foundational rules such as:
Chapter 1: Rulemaking Petitions – Procedures for submitting and considering agency rulemaking requests.
Chapter 3: Fees – Public records fee schedule (e.g., $0.25/page) (doa.la.gov, doa.la.gov).
Chapter 4: Department of State
Chapter 5: Incentive Award Program
Chapter 7: Electronic Signatures
Chapter 8: Disability Accommodations for Open Meetings (regulations.justia.com).
Part III: Payroll
Governed by the Division of Administration, focusing on employee and vendor payment structures:
Deductions, direct deposit (employees & vendors), recoupment of overpayments
403(b) annuity program, charitable campaign deductions
Rulemaking petitions specific to payroll (regulations.justia.com).
Part V: Policy and Procedure Memoranda
Defines development, issuance, and distribution of fiscal, operational, and policy memoranda (PPMs) across state agencies (doa.la.gov).
Part VII: Governor’s Office
Contains administrative rules related to operations and procedures of the Governor’s Office.
Part IX: Telecommunications
Sets the policy for state executive branch telecom services, including usage restrictions, equipment, billing, and standards (doa.la.gov).
Part XIII: Statewide Reporting and Accounting Policy
Includes rules on financial reporting, accounting practices, schedules, and rulemaking for accounting procedures .
Part XV: Information Technology
Covers the role of the state CIO, IT governance, master plans, and frameworks such as electronic bidding processes .
Part XVII: Records Management Policies and Practices
Deals with retention schedules, storage, transfers, archival, destruction of public records, microfilm and imaging standards (doa.la.gov).
Part XIX: Address Confidentiality Program
Outlines procedures for protecting the residential addresses of program participants.
Part XXI: GUMBO – Broadband Opportunities
Administers grants and policies to expand broadband access in underserved Louisiana municipalities.
Part XXIII: ADA Accessibility
Focuses on ensuring compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act in public and state agency contexts.
✅ Summary Table
Part
Focus
I – General Provisions
Rulemaking petitions, fees, electronic signatures, public meeting accommodations
III – Payroll
Employee and vendor payment systems, deductions, annuities
V – PPMs
Policy memoranda issuing & management
VII – Governor's Office
Internal governance of the governor’s staff
IX – Telecommunications
State telecom service governance
XIII – Reporting & Accounting
Financial procedures and reporting standards
XV – IT
Statewide IT governance, electronic bidding
XVII – Records Management
Archiving, storage, and record destruction
XIX – Address Confidentiality
Privacy protections for program participants
XXI – GUMBO
Broadband expansion initiatives
XXIII – ADA Accessibility
Disability access compliance policies
📅 Updates & References
The most recent consolidated PDF (February 2025) reflects ongoing revisions across Parts I, III, V, IX, XV, and XVII (doa.la.gov, regulations.justia.com, law.cornell.edu, regulations.justia.com).
Official, full, and up-to-date source material can be accessed from the Division of Administration’s official LAC site (sos.la.gov).
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