# Louisiana — What a newspaper may legally charge to publish a legal notice — by US state

For Louisiana, maximum chargeable rate is a maximum of ninety percent of the commercial display advertising rate charged by the newspaper for a similar volume of business; how the cap is measured is a percentage of the newspaper's commercial display rate; statute is La. R.S. 43:205(A), recorded from its source on 2026-08-19.

- **State:** Louisiana _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Maximum chargeable rate:** a maximum of ninety percent of the commercial display advertising rate charged by the newspaper for a similar volume of business _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **How the cap is measured:** a percentage of the newspaper's commercial display rate _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Statute:** La. R.S. 43:205(A) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> A. In all parishes, the cost of all advertisements in relation to judicial proceedings, or in the sale of property under judicial process, or in any other legal proceedings of any kind, shall be a maximum of ninety percent of the commercial display advertising rate charged by the newspaper for a similar volume of business. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the cost of advertisements charged to a state agency when said publication is required by law in all parishes which do not contain a city of over one hundred thousand population shall not exceed the rate of five dollars per square of one hundred words or a fraction thereof.

## Source

- https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/LawPrint.aspx?d=99596

Last verified: 2026-08-19. Review by: 2027-08-19.
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