La. Rev. Stat. § 2:1004
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Marking of communication facility
Official statutory text
A.(1) For the purposes of this Section, the following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(a) "Communication facility" shall have the same meaning as provided in R.S. 2:1001.
(b) "Cultivated field" means any open space or pasture larger than five acres in which a plant or tree nursery is located, or in which an agricultural crop, including cotton, corn, grain, grapes, beets, peanuts, and rice, but not including grass grown for hay, is grown on a continuing basis.
(2) The absence of plants, seedlings, or a crop on a temporary basis due to crop rotation or other farm management techniques shall not remove an open area from the definition of "cultivated field".
B. A person who proposes to construct a communication facility that is at least one hundred feet, but not more than two hundred feet in height above ground level, which is located in a cultivated field or within one hundred feet of a cultivated field, shall mark the highest guy wires on the facility, if any, with two warning spheres each.
Acts 2004, No. 57, §1.
(a) "Communication facility" shall have the same meaning as provided in R.S. 2:1001.
(b) "Cultivated field" means any open space or pasture larger than five acres in which a plant or tree nursery is located, or in which an agricultural crop, including cotton, corn, grain, grapes, beets, peanuts, and rice, but not including grass grown for hay, is grown on a continuing basis.
(2) The absence of plants, seedlings, or a crop on a temporary basis due to crop rotation or other farm management techniques shall not remove an open area from the definition of "cultivated field".
B. A person who proposes to construct a communication facility that is at least one hundred feet, but not more than two hundred feet in height above ground level, which is located in a cultivated field or within one hundred feet of a cultivated field, shall mark the highest guy wires on the facility, if any, with two warning spheres each.
Acts 2004, No. 57, §1.
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