2026-09-10 · Louisiana · Legislation

What happened. Louisiana had no flag-display statute for community associations until last year. Act 224 of the 2025 Regular Session enacted R.S. 9:1114, effective August 1, 2025. It passed the House 96–0 and the Senate 38–0 and was signed on June 10, 2025.

What the statute says

“A. Notwithstanding any covenant, declaration, contractual provision, lease, or rental agreement, no planned community, condominium association, or lessor shall adopt or enforce any provision outlawing or restricting an individual from displaying a removable, portable flag of the United States.
B. Nothing in this Section shall prevent a planned community, condominium association, or lessor from adopting or enforcing reasonable provisions as to the size, time, place, and manner of displaying the flag of the United States.
C. Injunctive relief shall be available when a violation of this Section occurs. In the event that injunctive relief is granted, court costs and reasonable attorney fees shall also be made available.”

Three features are worth naming precisely. It reaches lessors as well as associations, which is unusual. It protects a “removable, portable” US flag — not a state flag, not a service flag, and not a permanently installed flagpole. And the remedy is an injunction, with costs and fees riding on it.¹

The limit that is not in the statute

Section 2 of the enrolled Act reads:

“Section 2. The provisions of this Act shall be given prospective application only to any new covenant, declaration, contractual provision, lease or rental agreement constructed after the effective date of this Act.”

That sentence is not printed in the codified section. Anyone reading R.S. 9:1114 alone — on the Legislature's own law page, or in a client alert, or in a board packet — sees an unqualified prohibition. The Act says it applies only to documents created after August 1, 2025.²

1. La. R.S. 9:1114 — flag of the United States; display, as enacted by Acts 2025, No. 224 ↩
2. Act No. 224, 2025 Regular Session (HB 56) — enrolled Act text, including the Section 2 prospectivity clause ↩
3. La. R.S. 9:1141.37 — Rules, including subsection (D) on flag rules and federal law ↩
4. Acts of the 2026 Regular Session — complete index, Louisiana Legislature ↩