Louisiana Administrative Procedure Act
§965.1. Expenses of administrative proceedings;
right to recover
A. When a small business files a petition seeking: (1) relief from the
application or enforcement of an agency rule or regulation, (2) judicial review
of the validity or applicability of an agency rule, (3) judicial review of an
adverse declaratory order or ruling, or (4) judicial review of a final decision
or order in an adjudication proceeding, the petition may include a claim against
the agency for the recovery of reasonable litigation expenses. If the small
business prevails and the court determines that the agency acted without
substantial justification, the court may award such expenses, in addition to
granting any other appropriate relief.
B. A small business shall be deemed to have prevailed in an action when, in
the final disposition, its position with respect to the agency rule or
declaratory order or ruling is maintained, or when there is no adjudication,
stipulation, or acceptance of liability on its part. However, a small business
shall not be deemed to have prevailed, if the action was commenced at the
instance of, or on the basis of a complaint by, anyone other than an officer,
agent, or employee of the agency and was dismissed by the agency on a finding of
no cause for the action or settled without a finding of fault on the part of the
small business.
C. An agency shall pay any award made against it pursuant to this Section
from funds in its regular operating budget and shall, at the time of its
submission of its proposed annual budget, submit to the division of
administration and to the presiding officer of each house of the legislature a
report of all such awards paid during the previous fiscal year.
D. As used in this Section:
(1) "Reasonable litigation expenses" means any expenses, not exceeding
seven thousand five hundred dollars in connection with any one claim, reasonably
incurred in opposing or contesting the agency action, including costs and
expenses incurred in both the administrative proceeding and the judicial
proceeding, fees and expenses of expert or other witnesses, and attorney fees.
(2) "Small business" means a small business as defined by the Small
Business Administration, which for purposes of size eligibility or other
factors, meets the applicable criteria set forth in 13 Code of Federal
Regulations, Part 121, as amended.
Added by Acts 1982, No. 497,§ 1.
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