Unsigned minutes record Police Jury direction to narrow RV ordinance scope

Vermilion Parish police jurors directed their legal counsel to remove references to temporary housing other than RVs from the parish's RV ordinance and made approval conditional on that correction, according to the unsigned minutes of their October 21, 2026 meeting. The record documents a conditional decision; it does not supply the corrected ordinance or establish an effective date.

The unanimously carried motion, recorded on page 9 of the October 21 minutes, authorized legal counsel to narrow the ordinance's scope. A separate unanimous motion authorized counsel to update code terminology from the permit specialist. The minutes do not reproduce those terminology changes.

What the decision leaves open

The scope instruction matters to residents following rules for temporary housing: the recorded action distinguishes RVs from other forms of temporary accommodation. The October 21 minutes do not show the resulting definitions or tell a property owner which structures qualify. They do not establish the treatment of park models, existing sites, permit applications or any grandfathering provision.

The same page records a presentation of park-model information between the two motions. That presentation is not recorded as an adopted definition or exemption. Neither motion supplies a revised lot limit, inspection standard or fee schedule. Earlier draft provisions should not be assumed to have survived the ordered corrections unchanged.

For a resident considering a site or housing purchase, the next useful document is the corrected ordinance itself, together with its effective date and any official implementation instructions. The Police Jury's official website lists its meeting records and parish contact number, 337-898-4300. Those are routes for checking the current record; this report does not establish that a particular property or structure is approved.

A recorded action, with an unsigned record

The official October 21 minutes are posted in a file marked NOT SIGNED, with blank signature lines on the final page. This account attributes the motions to that posted record. A corrected ordinance, its publication and its present enforceability have not been independently established here.

The RV-scope action is separate from the levee-district recommendations, ordinance-fine proposal and drainage-election request described in Vermilion Boom's October 21 meeting advance. Those subjects do not establish the contents of the corrected RV ordinance.