Definitions.
New Orleans City Code § 2-972
in effectSec. 2-972. - Definitions.
The following terms, when used in this article, shall have the meanings assigned in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Actual domicile" means a person's principal domestic establishment, the determination of which shall be based upon such actual facts as where a person sleeps, takes his meals, has established his household, and surrounds himself with his family and the comforts of home, as contrasted with a business establishment, a residence that is not a principal home, or a mere declaration of domicile. For the purposes of this article, a person may have only one actual domicile, and that actual domicile shall be deemed to be the residence which meets the following criteria more than any other residence:
(1) He or she usually sleeps there;
(2) He or she keeps most clothing, toiletries, household appliances, and similar personal property of daily utility there;
(3) He or she is registered to vote there;
(4) He or she or a spouse with whom he or she lives has a telephone there in his or her name which is not usually on call forward to another residence;
(5) He or she directly receives and opens most non-city mail addressed to him or her there;
(6) He or she is free to enter the premises without notice to or permission from others.
For the purposes of this article, voters registered in another parish or county are presumed not to have their actual domicile in Orleans Parish.
"City of New Orleans" or "city" means the municipal corporation of the City of New Orleans and all of the attached, unattached and departmental boards and commissions, independent agencies, instrumentalities, and public benefit corporations of the city, including the Sewerage and Water Board, the New Orleans Aviation Board, the Public Belt Railroad Commission, the Audubon Park Commission, and any local public agencies that use employees in the city civil service, receive city appropriations or the proceeds of city taxes or city bonds or that are created, funded, or subject to regulation by the city, including the offices of the clerks of the municipal court and the traffic court.
(M.C.S., Ord. No. 25242, § 1, 3-7-13)
Source: City of New Orleans, Code of Ordinances and Home Rule Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/la/new_orleans/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIICO_CH2AD_ARTXDOEM_S2-972DEFetched: 10/28/2026