Louisiana rent increase law

No Louisiana statute read sets a notice period or a limit for raising rent. During the lease, the rent is the amount the parties fixed; a month-to-month lease ends only on the written termination notice the Civil Code requires.

La. Civ. Code art. 2676 La. Civ. Code art. 2728

• The rent must be fixed by the parties in a sum certain or determinable by an agreed method. La. Civ. Code art. 2676
• An amendment to a lease made without intent to create a new contract does not create a new lease. La. Civ. Code art. 2726

No statewide rent control appears in the Louisiana laws read for this page. A state law says a lessor's rights under the Civil Code lease title may not be altered, abridged or diminished except by state law, subject to the reasonable exercise of the police power. Local codes were not read.

La. R.S. 9:3258

• Parishes and cities have their own housing, building and fire codes; none was read for this page. La. R.S. 9:3258

None of the Louisiana lease and eviction laws read for this page bars retaliation in general, but the fair housing law bars interfering with anyone for exercising fair housing rights. In a building of six or more homes, you may not end a lease, refuse to renew or issue a notice to vacate because domestic abuse occurred on the premises and the victim is a tenant or household member.

La. R.S. 9:3261.1 La. R.S. 51:2609

• The Civil Code lease title, the Revised Statutes lease sections and the eviction articles read for this page contain no general anti-retaliation rule. La. Civ. Code arts. 2668 to 2729 La. C.C.P. arts. 4701 to 4735
• Louisiana's fair housing law makes it unlawful to coerce, intimidate, threaten or interfere with anyone because they exercised a fair housing right, such as filing a discrimination complaint, or helped someone else exercise one. La. R.S. 51:2609