LAC 43:XI.2909. Emergency (Formerly §513)

A. Should the assistant secretary, the director of pipelines or the chief of pipeline safety find an existing emergency due to noncompliance with law or the rules, regulations or orders issued pursuant thereto or due to gas leakage or lack of malodorization which in his judgment requires the issuance of an emergency order or an order for the immediate termination of the offending service without first complying with the procedures set forth herein and without having a hearing, he may issue the emergency order or terminate said offending service and invoke a show cause hearing pursuant to §2907 requiring the operator to show cause why the circumstances giving rise to the emergency should not be corrected. The emergency order or order for termination of the offending service shall remain in force no longer than 15 days from its effective date. In any event, the emergency order shall expire when the order made after notice and hearing with respect to the same subject matter becomes effective. An emergency is defined as the lack of malodorant in gas required to be malodorized or any situation where there is a substantial likelihood that loss of life, personal injury, health or property will result before the procedures under this regulation for notice and hearing can be fully complied with.