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Updated: 
November 21, 2023

How does the housing law define "sexual assault"?

For the purposes of defining a victim of sexual assault under this law, “sexual assault” is defined as any nonconsensual sexual contact, as well as obscenity or voyeurism if that the obscenity or voyeurism occurred in the rented home.1

1 La. Rev. Stat. § 9:3261.2(A)(3)