La. Rev. Stat. § 4:71

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Buildings and structures; exceeding seating capacity in sale of tickets or issuance of invitations

Official statutory text

All buildings or other structures used for the purposes of this chapter shall be properly ventilated and provided with exits and fire escapes conforming with the laws, ordinances, and regulations of the city or parish. No club shall hold, conduct or give a boxing or wrestling contest or exhibition unless a certificate of the safety of the building or other structure has been issued by the city engineer and fire inspector. Any club which sells or causes to be sold more tickets, or gives out more invitations, than the seating capacity of the building, structure, or arena, shall for the first offense be fined three hundred dollars and for a second offense five hundred dollars. The commission shall recover this money in the manner provided for in this chapter. For a second offense the club also forfeits its license.

Acts 1974, No. 553, §1.

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