La. Rev. Stat. § 39:642 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 642
Issuance and sale of bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness
Status: in_force

A. Bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness issued hereunder by the governing authority of any parish shall be authorized and issued by a resolution of the governing authority and shall be of such series, bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times not exceeding forty years from their respective dates, bear interest at such rate or rates, be in such denominations, be in such form, either coupon or fully registered without coupons, carry such registration and exchangeability privilege, be payable in such medium of payment and at such place or places, and be subject to such terms of redemption not exceeding 105% of the principal amount thereof, as such resolution or resolutions shall provide. The bonds shall be signed by the president and secretary of the governing authority, one of which signatures may be a facsimile, and coupon bonds shall have attached thereto interest coupons bearing the facsimile signatures of such officers of the governing authority. Any such bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness may be issued and delivered notwithstanding that one or more of the officers signing such bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness or the officer or officers whose facsimile signature or signatures appear upon the coupons shall have ceased to be such officer or officers at the time such bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness shall actually have been delivered. The bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness shall be sold for not less than par and accrued interest to the highest bidder, at public sale, after advertisement at least once a week for three weeks, with the first publication to be not less than twenty-one days prior to the date of sale, in a newspaper of general circulation within the parish, in one or more daily newspapers published in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana and in a financial newspaper or journal published in the city of New York or the city of Chicago, reserving to the governing authority the right to reject any and all bids and to readvertise for bids.

B. Bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness issued hereunder shall be exempt from all taxation for state, parish and municipal purposes, and savings banks and insurance companies are authorized to invest the funds in their hands therein. In addition, the bonds, notes and certificates of indebtedness may be used for deposit with any officer, board, municipality or other political subdivision of the State of Louisiana in any case where under any present or future laws deposit of security is required. The bonds, notes and certificates of indebtedness shall be deemed to be negotiable instruments and incontestable in the hands of bona fide holders, for value; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as pledging the credit of the State of Louisiana for the payment of the bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness or be construed as constituting the bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness obligations of the State of Louisiana.

C. The resolution or resolutions authorizing any bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness hereunder shall be promulgated by one insertion in a newspaper of general circulation in the parish. For a period of thirty days from the date of publication by the governing authority of a resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness, any person or persons in interest shall have the right to contest the legality of the resolution and the legality of the bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness for any cause, after which time no person shall have any cause or right of action to contest the legality of the resolution or of the bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness authorized thereby for any cause whatsoever. If no suit, action or proceedings are begun to contest the validity of the bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness within the thirty day period herein prescribed, the authority to issue the bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness and to provide for the payment thereof, the legality thereof and of all of the provisions of the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness shall be conclusively presumed, and no court shall have any authority to inquire into such matters.

D. Any bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness issued under this authorization may be refunded by the governing authority, provided the total of the principal and interest to be paid on any refunding bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness shall not exceed the total of the principal amount of the bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness to be refunded, the premium, if any, payable upon their redemption and the interest which would have been paid upon such bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness were they not to be refunded. The refunding of bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness shall be authorized in all respects as original bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness are herein provided to be authorized.

E. The resolution or resolutions pledging not to exceed one-half of the moneys to the credit of and receivable by a parish from the Parish One Cent Gasoline Fund to the payment of bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness herein authorized shall provide that the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness shall be a first charge on not to exceed one-half of the moneys so to be received by the parish, and such moneys, upon receipt shall be set aside for the purpose by the governing authority of the parish to the extent provided in the resolution or resolutions authorizing the issuance of bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness.

Acts 1970, No. 101, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:234 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 234
Form and use of treasury pay-in vouchers
Status: in_force

The commissioner of administration shall prescribe the form of pay-in vouchers, which shall be the only form to be used in depositing public moneys in the state depositories. The blank forms shall be numbered and shall be issued by the commissioner of administration to collectors of revenue and to other public officers, and other persons, who receive or collect moneys on behalf of the state. The commissioner of administration shall also cause a record to be made of the numbers of the blank forms issued to each person or agency and shall hold each such person and agency accountable for each form so issued and recorded. For each deposit made in a designated depository, at least two copies of the prescribed form of pay-in voucher shall be prepared, of which one copy shall be lodged with the depository receiving the deposit and one copy shall show the date of deposit, and be signed by an agent of the depository. The depositor shall retain one of the copies so stamped and signed.

Amended by Acts 1952, No. 58, §24; Acts 1956, No. 42, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1366 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1366
Duties of state treasurer
Status: in_force

(1) The state treasurer shall arrange for notice and sale of bonds issued by the State Bond Commission. Notice of sale and advertisement shall be at least seven days in advance of the date of sale, in newspapers or financial journals published at such places as the State Bond Commission may determine. The state treasurer may cancel or postpone the sale to an indefinite date by public announcement made prior to or at the time and place fixed for the sale of the bonds.

(2) The state treasurer shall deliver or cause to be delivered bonds sold by the State Bond Commission that are payable from the Bond Security and Redemption Fund, upon payment in full therefor. In the event the purchase price is not paid, the bonds so sold but not paid for may be resold by the State Bond Commission upon notice as provided in the original sale.

(3) The proceeds derived from the issue and sale of bonds and notes or other obligations shall be deposited in a special fund in the state treasury to be known as the Capital Improvement Bond Fund and shall be used solely for the purposes for which the bonds or obligations are authorized. The state treasurer shall invest all or any part of bond proceeds in the Capital Improvement Bond Fund in accordance with law. Any interest or profit derived from the investment of such bond proceeds shall be credited to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund.

The state treasurer shall disburse such proceeds from the sale of bonds or notes payable from the Bond Security and Redemption Fund to the appropriate agency at such time or times as such funds are required for the purposes for which said bonds or notes were issued.

(4) The state treasurer, directly or through state fiscal agent banks or a Louisiana trust company or companies, or other duly authorized agents, shall make payment of principal and interest on bonds and notes issued by the State Bond Commission and payable from the Bond Security and Redemption Fund on the respective dates of maturity of said bonds and notes, or on the dates fixed for the prior redemption, and on the respective due dates of all coupons or interest payment dates pertaining to any of said bonds and notes, other than coupons cancelled because of the redemption of any of said bonds prior to maturity.

(5) The state treasurer shall maintain records on the debt of the state and its agencies with respect to amounts authorized, issued, outstanding, schedule of payments, fiscal agents, amounts held in reserve, ratings of bonds, costs of issuing bonds, disposition of bond proceeds and all other related matters.

(6) The state treasurer shall advise the governor, the legislature, and other public officials with respect to the issuance and sale of bonds and all other related matters, and shall provide comprehensive and continuing reporting to rating services, financial institutions, prospective bond buyers, other interested persons, and the general public on all matters relating to the issuance and sale of bonds, the debt structure, and the management of the debt of the state of Louisiana and its agencies. Any expense incurred in performance of duties as specified in this Section shall be paid from the Bond Security and Redemption Fund.

(7) The state treasurer shall inform the Division of Administration of amounts due from the Bond Security and Redemption Fund for the payment of interest on bonds and notes and for bond retirement and redemption in each ensuing fiscal year and of any plans to redeem bonds in advance of maturity, to refund bonds, or to establish reserve or sinking funds to meet future bond payments.

Added by Acts 1968, Ex.Sess., No. 27, §1. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 124, §1; Acts 1975, No. 764, §1; Acts 2004, No. 93, §1, eff. July 1, 2004.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1410.50 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1410.50
No full faith and credit debt created
Status: in_force

Notes shall be payable solely from the revenues pledged thereto, and the registered owners or holders of the notes may not look to any other source for repayment of the principal of or interest on the notes. In every case, the revenues pledged shall be those which are the subject of appropriation for the current fiscal year and are yet to be credited to the applicable fund. The cash, income, and receipts authorized to be pledged to the repayment of the notes authorized hereby, which are not issued in accordance with the provisions of Article VII, Section 6(A) of the Constitution of Louisiana, are the cash, income, and receipts derived from those sources described in Article VII, Section 6(C) of the Constitution of Louisiana. "An undertaking" within the meaning of said Section 6(C) is hereby defined to include the operation and business of the state. Unless issued in accordance with the provisions of Article VII, Section 6(A) of the Constitution of Louisiana, the notes shall not constitute a full faith and credit obligation or indebtedness of the state within the meaning of any provision of the constitution or statutes.

Acts 1991, No. 827, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:558 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 558
Drainage district purposes
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of drainage and sub-drainage districts may incur debt and issue negotiable bonds of the districts to construct gravity drainage works for the districts or sub-districts, and for no other purpose. The title to the works shall be in the public.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:551.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 551.2
Industrial districts; creation authorized and powers defined
Status: in_force

The authority conferred by R.S. 39:551.1 on parishes, wards, and municipalities shall apply with the same provisions to any legally constituted industrial districts hereafter created, which are hereby authorized to be created by the governing authority of any parish of the state. Any such district may comprise an entire ward, a combination of or parts of parishes, wards, or municipalities either, both, or severally; however, no municipality may be included in any industrial district without the consent of the governing body of the municipality, to be evidenced by a resolution duly and properly adopted by such governing body. Industrial districts so created shall be political and legal subdivisions of the state, with full power to sue and be sued in their corporate names, to incur debt and to contract obligations, to have a corporate seal, and to do and perform all acts in their corporate capacity and in their corporate names necessary and proper to carry out the purposes of this Section. Each such industrial district shall be given a name at the time of its creation which shall include the words "industrial district" and shall have as its governing authority the governing authority of the parish creating it, and the parish treasurer shall be the treasurer of the district.

Added by Acts 1975, No. 154, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:15.12 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 15.12
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this Part, these terms shall have the following meanings:

(1) "Commission" means the Louisiana Cybersecurity Commission.

(2) "Critical infrastructure sectors" includes the following sectors which the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency of the federal Department of Homeland Security has identified as critical:

(a) Chemical.

(b) Commercial facilities.

(c) Communications.

(d) Critical manufacturing.

(e) Dams.

(f) Defense industrial base.

(g) Emergency services.

(h) Energy.

(i) Financial services.

(j) Food and agriculture.

(k) Government facilities.

(l) Healthcare and public health.

(m) Information technology.

(n) Nuclear reactors, materials, and waste.

(o) Transportation systems.

(p) Water and wastewater systems.

(q) Any other sector which the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency deems to be critical in the future.

Acts 2023, No. 245, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:100.59 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 100.59
Louisiana Port Relief Fund
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby created in the state treasury, as a special fund, the "Louisiana Port Relief Fund", hereinafter referred to in this Section as the "fund". Monies in the fund shall be used to provide economic support to Louisiana port authorities in accordance with the provisions of the Louisiana Port Relief Program as provided in R.S. 39:100.44.2.

B. The treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to transfer fifty million dollars from the Louisiana Rescue Plan Fund into the fund. Monies in the fund shall be invested in the same manner as monies in the state general fund. Interest earned on the investment of monies in the fund shall be deposited in and credited to the fund.

C. Any remaining balance in the fund on January 1, 2022, shall be transferred to the Louisiana Rescue Plan Fund.

Acts 2021, No. 410, §1, eff. June 17, 2021.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:14 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 14
Exceptions
Status: in_force

The following shall not be subject to the provision of R.S. 39:11 and 12 but shall be subject to the provisions of R.S. 39:13:

(1) Lands and waterbottoms leased by the State Mineral and Energy Board in accordance with the provisions of Subtitle I of Title 30 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 including but not limited to leases for the exploration and production of oil, gas, and other hydrocarbons, and related mineral activities.

(2) Management, acquisition, and operation of the Alexander State Forest at Woodworth and other state lands by the Department of Agriculture and Forestry.

(3) Management, acquisition, and operation of wildlife management and refuge areas by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

(4) Any immovable property under the management, operation, and control of any higher education institution or board.

(5) Management and operation of forests under the jurisdiction of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Prison Enterprise Board.

(6) Management, acquisition, and operation of forests and lands under the jurisdiction of the Military Department, state of Louisiana.

(7) Any interest in immovable property, with the exception of the acquisition of full ownership, including but not limited to temporary easements, rights-of-way, rights-of-entry, predial servitudes, and personal servitudes acquired by the state for the purposes of integrated coastal protection as defined in R.S. 49:214.2.

Acts 1989, No. 282, §3, eff. June 27, 1989; Acts 1992, No. 118, §1; Acts 1995, No. 88, §2, eff. June 12, 1995; Acts 1995, No. 545, §1; Acts 1997, No. 175, §1, eff. July 1, 1997; Acts 2009, No. 196, §5, eff. July 1, 2009; Acts 2010, No. 734, §4.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:517 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 517
No other statutes applicable
Status: in_force

This Part shall be a complete and additional method for the issuance and sale of bonds by any governmental entity, and this Part shall constitute full authority for the issuance and sale of the bonds authorized herein. No ordinance, resolution, filing, registration, approval, publication, election, or right of referendum in respect to the issuance of any bonds hereunder or for the perfection of the statutory lien provided herein shall be necessary, except such as may be required by this Part. The recordation of any resolution, ordinance, or other proceeding relating to the issuance of bonds, except for any mortgage securing bonds, shall not be required by this Part. Any publication prescribed hereby may be made in the official journal or in any newspaper of general circulation within the governmental entity.

Acts 2018, No. 569, §1, eff. July 1, 2018.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:502 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 502
Purposes, rules of construction
Status: in_force

A. The purposes of this Part are to clarify, modernize, and make uniform the laws relating to the powers of parishes, municipalities, school boards, school districts, and other political subdivisions of the state to incur debt and to issue bonds and other evidences of indebtedness.

B. This Part shall be liberally construed so as to give effect to its intended purposes.

C. Except as provided in Subsection D of this Section, any parish, municipality, school board, school district, or other political subdivision of the state, acting through its governing authority, is authorized to employ the provisions of this Part, including the laws referenced in this Part relating to the issuance of bonds, as a complete and additional method for the issuance of bonds.

D. This Part shall not apply to nor be utilized by the city of New Orleans or its agencies, boards, authorities, and commissions, including the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans, except as specifically provided herein.

E. Bonds issued under any provision of Subpart B of this Part shall be entitled to the rights and benefits conferred generally by Subpart A of this Part.

F. The issuer, owner, or holder of any bond issued by any governmental entity prior to July 1, 2018, shall be subject to the provisions of prior law under which the bond was originally issued.

Acts 2018, No. 569, §1, eff. July 1, 2018.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:25 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 25
Public meetings
Status: in_force

A. All sessions and meetings of the Revenue Estimating Conference shall be open to the public as provided in R.S. 42:11 et seq.

B. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, in the event the economist principal of the Revenue Estimating Conference develops a medical condition which prevents such principal from being present at a session or meeting of the Revenue Estimating Conference, such principal shall designate a faculty member of the faculty of a university or college in Louisiana who has expertise in forecasting revenues as an ad hoc member of the Revenue Estimating Conference to attend the session or meeting and act on his behalf. In the event the economist principal is incapacitated to the extent that he is unable to designate the ad hoc member as provided in this Subsection, the president of the college or university of which the economist principal is a faculty member shall make the designation on behalf of the economist principal.

Acts 1989, No. 836, §1, eff. July 1, 1989; Acts 2012, No. 37, §1, eff. May 4, 2012.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1358.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1358.3
Termination of appointment of limited jurisdiction fiscal administrator
Status: in_force

A. The limited jurisdiction fiscal administrator shall monitor revenues and expenditures of the political subdivision under the adopted budget and make supplemental reports which he considers necessary, but not less than required pursuant to R.S. 39:1352(B)(1), until the emergency has been resolved. The supplemental reports shall be subject to adoption, approval, and court review as provided in R.S. 39:1352.

B. The appointment of the limited jurisdiction fiscal administrator shall terminate upon his own motion, or upon the motion of the attorney general or the political subdivision, if the court finds that the emergency has been resolved.

Acts 2025, No. 96, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:2165.12 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 2165.12
Whistleblower protection and cause of action
Status: in_force

A. No employee shall be discharged, demoted, suspended, threatened, harassed, or discriminated against in any manner in the terms and conditions of his employment because of any lawful act engaged in by the employee or on behalf of the employee in furtherance of any action taken pursuant to this Chapter in regard to a person from whom recovery is or could be sought. Such an employee may seek any and all relief for his injury to which he is entitled under state or federal law.

B. No individual shall be threatened, harassed, or discriminated against in any manner by a business organization, government agency, or other person because of any lawful act engaged in by the individual or on behalf of the individual in furtherance of any action taken pursuant to this Chapter in regard to a person from whom recovery is or could be sought. Such an individual may seek any and all relief for his injury to which he is entitled under state or federal law.

C.(1) An employee of a private entity may bring his action for relief against his employer in the same court as the action or actions were brought pursuant to this Chapter.

(2) A person aggrieved of a violation of Subsection A or B of this Section shall be entitled to treble damages.

D. A qui tam plaintiff shall not be entitled to recovery pursuant to this Section if the court finds that the qui tam plaintiff instituted or proceeded with an action that was frivolous, vexatious, or harassing.

Acts 2010, No. 658, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:251 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 251
Short title
Status: in_force

This Part may be cited as the "Energy Management Act of 2001".

Acts 1984, No. 662, §1, eff. July 1, 1984; Acts 1986, No. 255, §1, eff. July 1, 1986; Acts 2001, No. 1184, §1, eff. June 29, 2001.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:99.44 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 99.44
Bond and other proceeds received by the state
Status: in_force

All proceeds and monies received by the state, whether received as purchase price for assets sold or as the residual interests or in any other way pursuant to this Subpart, shall be deposited in and credited to the Coastal Protection and Restoration Fund.

Acts 2007, No. 249, §1, eff. July 6, 2007; Acts 2017, No. 357, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1557.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1557.1
Change orders; recordation
Status: in_force

Each change order to a contract which adds an amount of ten percent or more of the original contract amount and which additional amount is at least ten thousand dollars or all change orders to a contract aggregating to an amount of twenty percent or more of the original contract amount and which additional amount is at least ten thousand dollars shall be recorded by the governmental body which entered into the contract in the office of the recorder of mortgages in the parish where the work is to be done or where the entity is domiciled not later than thirty days after the date of the change order which requires that the recordation take place. In addition, the original contract shall be recorded together with the amendments or other revisions if not previously recorded. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to the office of facility planning and control, and the office of state procurement.

Acts 2011, No. 343, §3; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:333 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 333
Scope of part
Status: in_force

This Part shall govern the duties and authorities of the commissioner of administration relating to the powers, functions, duties, and programs affecting appropriations control, heretofore vested in and exercised by the state comptroller but merged and consolidated with said Division of Administration by Act No. 690 of 1972 (R.S. 49:316).

Added by Acts 1976, No. 649, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:2181 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 2181
Applicability; definitions
Status: in_force

A. This Chapter shall apply to any contract or cooperative endeavor agreement that results from any bid or other award governed under Chapter 17 of this Title. However, provided that other applicable provisions of the Procurement Code are followed, this Chapter shall not apply to any purchase by a state agency directly from a vessel manufacturer or an outboard motor manufacturer.

B. For the purpose of this Chapter, "public entity" shall mean any agency, board, commission, department, or public corporation of the state, created by the constitution or statute or pursuant thereto, or any political subdivision of the state, including but not limited to any political subdivision as defined by Article VI, Section 44 of the Constitution of Louisiana, and any public housing authority, public school board, or any public officer whether or not an officer of a public corporation or political subdivision.

Acts 2010, No. 376, §2; Acts 2012, No. 752, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:871 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 871
Municipal and parochial corporations and state subdivisions; authority to borrow money
Status: in_force

Municipalities and parishes, public boards, districts and other political corporations and subdivisions of the state, when authorized to do so by the laws or the constitution of the state, may borrow money, incur debt, and issue bonds with the consent of the State Bond and Tax Board, all as provided in Part I of Chapter 2 of Sub-title III of Title 47.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:99.31 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 99.31
Corporate existence; dissolution
Status: in_force

The corporation shall have perpetual existence; provided, however, the board shall dissolve and terminate the existence of the corporation no later than two years after the date of final payment of all outstanding bonds and the payments or satisfaction of all other outstanding obligations and liabilities of the corporation, except to the extent necessary to remain in existence, and only for such additional time, as shall be necessary to fulfill any outstanding covenants or agreements with holders or other parties made in accordance with the provisions of this Subpart. Upon dissolution of the corporation, title to all assets and properties of the corporation shall vest in and become the property of the state of Louisiana and shall be deposited in and credited to the Coastal Protection and Restoration Fund, and the corporation shall execute all necessary conveyances, assignments or other documents to establish and evidence such transfer and ownership, including all conveyances or assignments of all rights, title and interest to the offshore royalty revenues.

Acts 2007, No. 249, §1, eff. July 6, 2007.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:2165.8 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 2165.8
Administrative or civil action
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Chapter, the attorney general may elect to pursue an administrative or civil action against a qui tam defendant through any alternative remedy available to the attorney general.

Acts 2010, No. 658, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:237 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 237
Monthly statements from state depositories
Status: in_force

The president or cashier of each state depository bank or trust company, on the first day of each month, shall cause a statement over his official signature to be furnished to the various officials and budget units having money on deposit in the depository, showing the amount of public moneys received and paid out of the depository during the preceding month and the balance then remaining to the credit of the official or budget unit. Any state depository which fails or refuses to comply, in any month, with the provisions of this section shall be notified, in writing by mail, on or before the tenth day of the month, of such failure or refusal, and be requested so to comply by the interested official or budget unit. Any state depository which persists in such failure or refusal for a period of ten days after the mailing of the notice and request, shall be disqualified as a state depository, and the treasurer and the other budget units shall forthwith withdraw the state's deposits in the depository by transfer to some other depository. Any bank or trust company disqualifying hereunder as a state depository shall be ineligible for designation again as a state depository for two years thereafter.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1230 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1230
Deposit of proceeds of bonds; not subject to foregoing rules
Status: in_force

Local depositing authorities which have the right to deposit public funds and which may have bonds for sale, may, pursuant to an agreement with the purchaser of the bonds, deposit the proceeds of the bonds, until used, in any bank located within or without the state which purchased the bonds or which may be designated by the purchaser of the bonds. The deposit shall be upon such terms and conditions, including security, as may be provided in the agreement; provided that the amount of security required shall at all times be equal to one hundred per cent of the balance on deposit, and the kind of security required shall be the same as that specified in R.S. 39:1221.

The provisions of R.S. 39:1220 shall not apply to any deposit made pursuant to this Section.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1358.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1358.2
Adoption of budget amendments to address emergencies
Status: in_force

A. Within seven days after receipt of the initial report, the governing authority of the political subdivision shall adopt in an open meeting the comprehensive budget, or amendments to the original comprehensive budget of the political subdivision, as proposed in the report of the limited jurisdiction fiscal administrator, which are necessary to address the emergency during the remainder of the current fiscal year and the following fiscal year.

B. If the governing authority of the political subdivision fails to adopt the budget or budget amendments, or if the revisions made by the governing authority of the political subdivision are not approved by the limited jurisdiction fiscal administrator, then the attorney general shall file a rule to show cause in the manner provided in R.S. 39:1351, why the court should not order the adoption and implementation of the budget without the unapproved revisions. The court shall order the adoption and implementation of the budget proposed by the limited jurisdiction fiscal administrator which includes the revisions by the governing authority of the political subdivision, except the revisions which the court finds with reasonable certainty that the political subdivision will not have sufficient funds to address the emergency.

Acts 2025, No. 96, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1965 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1965
Noncompliance; penalty
Status: in_force

If a person, firm, corporation, or business does not substantially comply with a contract required under this Chapter, the state may withhold payment, debar as defined by R.S. 39:1556(8), suspend, or terminate the contract, and subject the contractor to civil penalties of ten percent of the amount of the contract or five thousand dollars, whichever is less. Willful repeated violations exceeding a single violation may disqualify the contractor from further participation in state contracts for a period of one year.

Acts 1984, No. 653, §1, eff. July 1, 1984; Acts 1992, No. 797, §2, eff. July 1, 1992.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:704 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 704
Proceeds of special tax
Status: in_force

The proceeds of any special tax shall constitute a trust fund to be used exclusively for the objects and purposes for which the tax was levied. The records of the taxing authority shall clearly reflect the objects and purposes for which the proceeds of the tax are used.

Acts 1986, No. 687, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1311 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1311
Budgetary authority and control
Status: in_force

A. The adopted budget and any duly authorized adopted amendments shall form the framework from which the chief executive or administrative officers and members of the governing authority of the political subdivision shall monitor revenues and control expenditures. The chief executive or administrative officer for a political subdivision subject to public participation as provided in R.S. 39:1307 shall advise the governing authority or independently elected official in writing when:

(1) Total revenue and other sources plus projected revenue and other sources for the remainder of the year, within a fund, are failing to meet total budgeted revenues and other sources by five percent or more.

(2) Total actual expenditures and other uses plus projected expenditures and other uses for the remainder of the year, within a fund, are exceeding the total budgeted expenditures and other uses by five percent or more.

(3) Actual beginning fund balance, within a fund, fails to meet estimated beginning fund balance by five percent or more and fund balance is being used to fund current year expenditures.

B. The written notification as required by this Section as well as any responsive action taken by the governing authority or independently elected official shall be transmitted to and retained by the chief executive or administrative officer. The written notification as required by this Section and the resulting budget amendment shall only be statutorily required for a special revenue fund with anticipated expenditures that equal or exceed five hundred thousand dollars. Furthermore, only the written notification of Paragraph (A)(2) of this Section shall be required for special revenue funds whose revenues are expenditure driven.

C. The adopted budget and any duly authorized amendments required by this Section shall constitute the authority of the chief executive or administrative officers of the political subdivision to incur liabilities and authorize expenditures from the respective budgeted funds during the fiscal year.

D. Nothing in this Chapter shall prevent the making of contracts for governmental services or for the capital outlay for a period exceeding one year if such contracts are allowed otherwise by law. Any contracts so made shall be executory only for the amounts agreed to be paid for such services to be rendered in succeeding years.

E. Notwithstanding any provision of this Section to the contrary, the elected chief of police in a municipality shall advise the municipal governing authority in writing when total actual expenditures plus projected expenditures for the remainder of the year within the police department exceed the total budgeted expenditures by five percent or more, and shall make recommendations in writing to the governing authority for responsive action.

Added by Acts 1980, No. 504, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 1980. Amended by Acts 1981, No. 474, §1; Acts 1982, No. 475, §1. Acts 1984, No. 186, §2; Acts 1999, No. 775, §2, eff. July 2, 1999; Acts 2004, No. 552, §1, eff. June 25, 2004; Acts 2006, No. 363, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:461.8 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 461.8
Allocation from state general fund
Status: in_force

An amount sufficient to pay indebtedness incurred during the preceding fiscal year under the authority of Article VII, Section 7 of the Louisiana Constitution shall be allocated, as a first priority, each year from the state general fund.

Added by Acts 1982, No. 502, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:991 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 991
Authorization to issue revenue bonds
Status: in_force

In addition to any other authority conferred by the constitution and statutes of the state of Louisiana, any municipal corporation or any parish or any other political subdivision or taxing district authorized to issue bonds under R.S. 39:551.1, R.S. 39:551.2, or R.S. 34:340.1 through R.S. 34:340.6, all of which are hereinafter in this Part referred to as municipal corporation or municipality may, in order to encourage the location of or addition to industrial enterprises therein or adjoining thereto, issue revenue bonds and use the funds derived from the sale of such bonds to acquire, purchase, lease, rent, construct, or improve industrial plant sites and industrial plant buildings, including facilities for the generation of electricity and production of steam and other forms of energy, and pollution abatement and control facilities, and necessary property and appurtenances thereto, and may sell, lease, sublease, or otherwise dispose of, by suitable and appropriate contract, to any enterprise locating or existing within or adjoining such municipality, such sites, buildings and/or facilities, and appurtenances thereto, all or severally. The funds derived from the sale of such bonds may be disbursed in whole or in part upon completion of the facilities or any partial completion thereof as shall be provided in the contract between the municipality and the industrial enterprise to be aided, encouraged, or benefited. For the purposes of this Part, the governing body of the municipal corporation shall be the body empowered to authorize and issue other bonds of the municipal corporation under the provisions of R.S. 39:551.1, R.S. 39:551.2, or R.S. 34:340.1 through R.S. 34:340.6, and other constitutional and statutory authority supplemental thereto.

Acts 1964, No. 520, §1. Amended by Acts 1974, No. 620, §1; Acts 1975, No. 155, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:74 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 74
Avoidance of cash flow deficits
Status: in_force

A. If the state treasurer and the commissioner of administration determine that the projected cash balance of monies available to pay appropriations is insufficient to pay anticipated warrants for appropriations in any month, they shall notify the governor and the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

B. Upon receiving notification, the governor may direct the commissioner of administration to reduce or disapprove warrants in such a way as to prevent a cash deficit.

C. The state treasurer shall not honor warrants drawn upon the state treasury in excess of the amount approved by the commissioner of administration under the provisions of this Section.

Acts 1989, No. 836, §1, eff. July 1, 1989.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:351 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 351
Cancellation of erroneous assessments
Status: in_force

The Tax Commission, upon determination and notification to the parish or district collector of taxes that an assessment has been corrected, shall authorize and direct the recorder of mortgages of the appropriate parish or parishes to change the inscription of the tax mortgage. If property erroneously assessed has been sold for taxes and adjudicated to a third party, the Tax Commission shall authorize and direct the recorder of mortgages to cancel the sale. However, if the property has been bid for in adjudication to the state, the register of the state land office shall cancel the sale upon his records and direct the appropriate recorder of mortgages to cancel the act or deed of adjudication upon his records.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 649, §1. Acts 1984, No. 256, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:16.11 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 16.11
Duties of the commissioner relative to the dedicated funds database
Status: in_force

A. The commissioner shall ensure the website includes a dedicated funds database that is electronically searchable by the public.

B. All state agencies shall be required to provide information pursuant to this Subpart that contains the electronic database of reports supported by appropriations from dedicated funds required by R.S. 49:308.5(B).

C. The dedicated funds database shall include access to the report on special funds prepared by the state treasurer as required by R.S. 49:308.3(E).

NOTE: §16.11. as amended by Acts 2023, No. 446, eff. July 1, 2026, or the day after the commissioner of ad ministration and the legislative auditor report to the legislature that the transition is complete, whichever is earlier.

§16.11. Repealed by Acts 2023, No. 446, §4, see Act.

Acts 2018, 2 nd Ex. Sess., No. 1, §1, eff. July 1, 2018; Acts 2023, No. 446, §4, see Act.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:79 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 79
Sworn statements to be provided; quarterly report of receivables and debts owed the state
Status: in_force

A. All state agencies and component reporting units shall provide to the commissioner of administration between the first and forty-fifth day following the close of the fiscal year a sworn statement of all monies received and from what sources, all monies expended and for what purposes, all revenue due and not collected, and all obligations incurred and not paid. "State agency" shall mean the state of Louisiana and any department of or corporation, agency, political subdivision, or instrumentality heretofore or hereafter created, designated, or established by the state of Louisiana. "Component reporting units" include those governmental entities for which oversight responsibility rests with the state of Louisiana. A copy of the sworn statement shall be furnished to the legislative auditor.

B. The sworn statement shall be prepared in the format devised or approved by the commissioner of administration.

C.(1) Beginning July 1, 1996, and during each fiscal year thereafter, each state agency and component reporting unit shall communicate to the commissioner of administration and to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget on a quarterly basis all relevant information regarding debts and receivables owed to the state agency or component reporting unit. The information reported shall include but not be limited to the total amount of such debts or receivables by major revenue source, the age, the collectibility, and all relevant billing and collection activity on such debts or receivables. The commissioner of administration shall develop the format for reporting of this information and shall submit such format to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget for its review and approval not later than April 15, 1996. Any subsequent revisions in the reporting format shall also be subject to the review and approval of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

(2) In addition, each state agency and component reporting unit shall maintain for each quarterly report the detailed data on each debt or receivable included in the report sufficient to analyze such debts and receivables and the effectiveness of collection procedures. Such data shall be maintained in accordance with the confidentiality requirements of each agency or reporting unit; however, reporting of receivables and debt owed the state of Louisiana shall not include receivables due under Louisiana Employment Security Law.

Acts 1989, No. 836, §1, eff. July 1, 1989; Acts 1995, No. 745, §1; Acts 2001, No. 1032, §13.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:999 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 999
Refunding bonds
Status: in_force

For the purpose of refunding any bonds issued hereunder, the governing body of any municipality may authorize the issuance of refunding bonds in a principal amount not exceeding the sum of the expenses incurred in connection with the refunding and the greater of (1) the principal of and redemption premiums, if any, on the refunded bonds or (2) an amount which together with investment income on such amount, but without further reinvestment, will be sufficient to pay principal of, interest on, and redemption premiums, if any, on the refunded bonds as the same may become due. Refunding bonds may be issued for any public purpose including but not limited to: (1) reducing the total debt service requirement of the issuer; (2) releasing the issuer from provisions of the resolution, ordinance or bond indenture authorizing the issuance of the refunded bonds; and (3) extending and/or unifying the whole or any part of the issuer's outstanding debt. The refunding bonds may be issued alone or combined with additional bonds issued hereunder into a single issue. The refunding bonds may be issued in an additional principal amount for the purpose of paying all or any part of the interest to accrue on the refunding bonds to the maturity or earlier redemption date of the refunded bonds. The refunding bonds may either be sold and the proceeds applied to or deposited in escrow for the retirement of the outstanding bonds, or may be delivered in exchange for the outstanding bonds. The refunding bonds shall be authorized in all respects as original bonds are herein required to be authorized and sold at private sale after advertisement in the manner provided by this Part. The governing body, in authorizing the refunding bonds, shall provide for the security, the sources from which the bonds are to be paid and for the rights of the holders thereof in all respects as herein provided for other bonds issued under the authority of this Part. The governing body may also provide that the refunding bonds shall have the same priority of lien on the revenues pledged for their payment as was enjoyed by the bonds refunded.

Acts 1964, No. 520, §9. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 433, §1; Acts 1977, No. 391, §2, eff. July 10, 1977.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:100.256 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 100.256
Local Infrastructure Fund
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby established in the state treasury, as a special fund, the Local Infrastructure Fund, hereafter referred to in this Section as the "fund".

B. After allocation of money to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund as provided in Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana, the treasurer shall deposit into the fund any monies transferred or appropriated by the legislature. The treasurer shall also deposit into the fund any grants, donations, gifts, or other monies which may become available.

C. Monies in the fund shall be invested in the same manner as monies in the state general fund. Interest earned on investment of monies in the fund shall be credited to the fund. Unexpended and unencumbered monies in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund.

D. Monies in the fund shall be appropriated to the division of administration, office of community development, for the reimbursement of qualifying expenses of a political subdivision incurred in the repair or mitigation of damage caused by the expansion of broadband services.

E. The division of administration, office of community development, shall develop guidelines for the administration of monies in the fund and shall submit such guidelines for review and approval by the Water Sector Commission prior to implementation. The office of community development shall submit a quarterly report to the Water Sector Commission on the monies expended from the fund.

Acts 2025, No. 365, §3, eff. June 20, 2025.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1790 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1790
Refunding bonds
Status: in_force

The corporation may provide for the issuance of its bonds for the purpose of refunding any bonds or any series of bonds then outstanding, including the payment of any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of redemption and purchase or maturity of such bonds. All such refunding bonds shall be subject to the provisions of this Chapter in the same manner and to the same extent as other bonds issued pursuant to this Chapter.

Acts 1985, No. 893, §1, eff. July 23, 1985.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1734 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1734
Assistance to small businesses
Status: in_force

The commissioner of administration and the executive director of the Louisiana division of minority and women's business enterprise in Louisiana Economic Development shall publicize the provisions of the set-aside program, attempt to locate small businesses able to perform set-aside procurement awards, and encourage participation. When the commissioner of administration determines that a small business is unable to perform under a set-aside contract, the commissioner of administration shall so inform the secretary of economic development, who shall assist the small business in attempting to remedy the causes of the inability to perform a set-aside award. In assisting the small business, the executive director of the Louisiana division of minority and women's business enterprise, in cooperation with the commissioner of administration, shall use any management or financial assistance programs that may be available by or through the Louisiana division of minority and women's business enterprise or other state or governmental agencies.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 715, §1, eff. July 1, 1980. Acts 1984, No. 653, §4, eff. July 1, 1984; Acts 1992, No. 797, §2, eff. July 1, 1992; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:554 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 554
School district purposes
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of school districts may incur debt and issue bonds of the districts for the following purposes and none other: acquiring and/or improving lands for building sites and playgrounds, including construction of necessary sidewalks and streets adjacent thereto; purchasing, erecting and/or improving school buildings, teachers' homes and other school related facilities, and acquiring the necessary equipment and furnishings therefor. The title to all the lands, buildings and improvements shall be in the public.

Amended by Acts 1963, No. 41, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:100.48 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 100.48
Critical Infrastructure Workers Hazard Pay Rebate Fund
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby created and established in the state treasury, as a special fund, the Critical Infrastructure Workers Hazard Pay Rebate Fund, hereinafter the "rebate fund". The treasurer is authorized and directed to transfer twenty-five million from the Coronavirus Local Recovery Allocation Fund and twenty-five million from the Louisiana Main Street Recovery Fund for deposit to the rebate fund.

B. The monies in the rebate fund shall be invested in the same manner as monies in the state general fund. Interest earned on the investment of monies in the rebate fund shall be deposited in and credited to the rebate fund. If applicable under federal guidelines, unexpended and unencumbered monies in the rebate fund shall remain in the rebate fund.

C. Monies in the rebate fund shall be appropriated to the state treasurer to be used to provide a one-time hazard pay rebate to essential critical infrastructure workers as provided in Act No. 12 of the 2020 First Extraordinary Session of the Legislature. Any unobligated balance in the rebate fund on June 30, 2021, shall be transferred to the State Coronavirus Relief Fund.

Acts 2020 1 st Ex. Sess., No. 10, §6, eff. July 13, 2020; Acts 2021, No. 114, §9, eff. June 7, 2021.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1410.48 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1410.48
Contest period
Status: in_force

A. Within thirty days after publication of the notice of intention to issue notes, any person in interest may contest the legality of the resolution, any provision of the notes to be issued pursuant to it, the provisions securing the notes, and the validity of all other provisions and proceedings relating to the authorization and issuance of the notes, by filing, answering, or intervening into a motion for judgment as provided for at R.S. 13:5121 et seq.

B. If no action or proceeding is instituted within this thirty-day period, no person may contest the validity of the notes, the provisions of the resolution pursuant to which the notes were issued, the security of the notes, or the validity of any other provisions or proceedings relating to their authorization and issuance, and the notes shall be presumed conclusively to be legal. Thereafter, no court shall have authority to inquire into such matters.

C. If an action or proceeding is instituted within this thirty-day period, a final decree or judgment of any court of competent jurisdiction shall constitute a permanent injunction against the institution by any person of any action or proceeding contesting the validity of the notes or any other matter adjudicated or which might have been called into question in such proceedings. Thereafter, no court, regardless of whether the thirty-day period shall have expired, shall have authority to inquire into such matters.

Acts 1991, No. 827, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1425 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1425
Maximum interest rates for securities previously authorized at an election
Status: in_force

Any bonds heretofore authorized at an election at which the proposition approved by the electors specified a maximum interest rate higher than the maximum interest rate permitted by laws in effect at the time of said election may be issued at a maximum rate of interest not exceeding the rate set forth in said proposition subject to the approval of the State Bond Commission.

Acts 1975, 1st.Ex.Sess., No. 19, §5, eff. Jan. 28, 1975.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:326 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 326
Regulations of commissioner governing inventories, inventory reports, other records; sanctions for noncompliance
Status: in_force

A. The commissioner is authorized to make regulations governing the manner in which inventories shall be conducted, the maintenance of the files, and the information to be included therein, in addition to the information required by this Part.

B. The commissioner shall make regulations establishing systems of accounting for property, keeping of records, submission of reports and the forms thereof, in addition to the procedures, records and reports otherwise required by this Part. The commissioner may furnish any of such forms and require their use by property managers.

C. The commissioner, by regulations applying uniformly to all budget units, may designate:

(1) Categories or particular items of property which shall be considered to be movable for purposes of this Part even though connected with, attached to, or placed upon immovable property; and

(2) Categories or particular items of property which shall be considered nonconsumable for purposes of this Part.

D. In addition to other powers, the commissioner shall have the authority to invoke any or all of the following sanctions when an agency is found by the commissioner to be in noncompliance with this Part or with the regulations adopted in accordance herewith:

(1) Call in the performance bond filed with the commissioner by the agency's property manager or, if the agency has more than one property manager, the property manager responsible for the activities or property found to be in noncompliance.

(2) Until compliance is accomplished, restrict the acquisition by the agency of property or require the approval of the commissioner for such acquisition.

(3) At the agency's expense, contract for the resources necessary to accomplish compliance by the agency.

(4) Take other action or combination of actions as authorized until compliance by the agency is accomplished.

Acts 1983, No. 167, §1; Acts 1995, No. 1082, §1, eff. June 29, 1995.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1648 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1648
Medicaid contracts or subcontracts for pharmacy benefit manager services
Status: in_force

A. Contracts for pharmacy benefit manager services, either directly with the Louisiana Department of Health or as a subcontractor or subsidiary of a managed care organization that has a contract with the Louisiana Department of Health, shall be awarded based only on the following provisions:

(1) Any contract for pharmacy benefit manager services shall be limited to a transaction fee only, based on a set rate established by the Louisiana Department of Health to be paid to the pharmacy benefit manager for each Medicaid pharmacy claim processed.

(2) No pharmacy benefit manager may retain any portion of state supplemental rebates or credits submitted to the state by any pharmaceutical manufacturer.

(3) No pharmacy benefit manager may retain any portion of "spread pricing". For purposes of this Section, "spread pricing" shall mean any amount charged or claimed by a pharmacy benefit manager to a managed care organization that is in excess of the amount paid to the pharmacy that filled the prescription.

B. Any Louisiana Department of Health contract in existence on August 1, 2018, with a pharmacy benefit manager or with a managed care organization that subcontracts or has a subsidiary pharmacy benefit manager may be amended to comply with the provisions of this Section. The department may terminate the contract with any managed care organization or pharmacy benefit manager who is not willing to amend their contract to comply with the provisions of this Section, and the provision of this service shall be opened for bid to other pharmacy benefit managers in accordance with the Louisiana Procurement Code, R.S. 39:1551 et seq.

C.(1) After August 1, 2018, any subsequent requests for proposal issued by the Louisiana Department of Health for Medicaid managed care organization services that include the provision of pharmacy or pharmacy benefit manager services shall include the provisions of Subsection A of this Section.

(2) The Louisiana Department of Health may procure and negotiate pharmacy benefit manager contracts through the use of a reverse auction pursuant to R.S. 39:1600(D) and 1600.1 and the requirements of this Section.

D. No pharmacy benefit manager or Medicaid managed care organization that subcontracts or has a subsidiary pharmacy benefit manager shall deny any Louisiana licensed pharmacy or Louisiana licensed pharmacist the right to be a participating provider in the managed care organization or pharmacy benefit manager's provider network if the pharmacy or pharmacist meets all requirements of participation in the state Medicaid program.

E. The Louisiana Department of Health shall promulgate rules as may be necessary to comply with the provisions of this Section in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, R.S. 49:950 et seq.

Acts 2018, No. 483, §1; Acts 2021, No. 102, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1227 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1227
Failure of depository; depositing authority holding own notes; right to set-off
Status: in_force

Any depositing authority which holds its own note as security, in whole or in part, for its deposits in any bank, shall, if the bank fails, have the right to set-off its deposits against its note; and shall have the same right with respect to evidence of participation by its own note held by it as security, provided the right of set-off does not affect the rights of other holders of evidence in the notes.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1598 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1598
Emergency procurements
Status: in_force

A. Conditions for use. The chief procurement officer or his designee above the level of procurement officer may make or authorize others to make emergency procurements when there exists an imminent threat to the public health, welfare, safety, or public property under emergency conditions as defined in accordance with regulations.

B. Written quotations. Every effort shall be made to obtain quotations from three or more vendors when supplies, services, or major repairs are to be purchased on an emergency basis, except for standard equipment parts for which prices are established. Immediate purchasing shall be discouraged as much as is practicable. When supplies, services, or major repairs are urgently required and time does not permit the obtaining of written quotations, the procurement officer may obtain quotations by telephoning or otherwise, but such quotations shall be made on the relative purchase requisitions. So far as practicable, quotations shall be secured from institutions of the state as provided by law.

C. Determination required. The chief procurement officer shall make a written determination of the basis of the emergency that includes the facts and circumstances leading to the conclusion that such procurement was necessary as well as a written determination detailing the steps taken prior to selecting a particular contractor and the basis for the final selection. The written determination shall be included in the contract file either prior to contracting or as soon thereafter as practicable.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 715, §1, eff. July 1, 1980; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:817 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 817
School District No. 4 of Cameron Parish; imposition of parcel fee, submission to voters; amount; collection; use of proceeds
Status: in_force

A. School District No. 4 of the parish of Cameron, hereinafter referred to in this Section as the district, may levy and collect a parcel fee within the boundaries of the district which shall not exceed two hundred dollars per parcel per year. The parcel fee shall be imposed by resolution of the school board of the parish, the governing authority of the district, only after the question of the imposition of the parcel fee and the purpose, rate, and duration of the parcel fee has been approved by a majority of the voters of the district voting at an election held therein. The proceeds of such parcel fee shall be expended for the purposes of operating, maintaining, and improving the public school system in the district, and for all purposes incidental thereto, including the payment of any debt obligation of the district incurred for such purpose. Any parcel fee imposed pursuant to this Section shall be levied and collected and be due and owing annually. The fee may be carried on the tax rolls for Cameron Parish and collected at the same time as parish ad valorem taxes.

B.(1) If any parcel fee is not paid when due, the board shall proceed against the parcel for the collection of the amount of the fee unpaid and delinquent, any collection costs incurred by the board, plus interest at a rate not exceeding twelve percent on the unpaid amount of the parcel fee, and, in the event legal proceedings are necessary to effect collection, court costs and reasonable attorney fees. However, attorney fees shall be payable by the parcel owner only if demand by the school board of the parish has been made on the parcel owner by registered or certified mail, and such parcel owner has failed to pay the amount due within ten days after such demand.

(2) A judgment obtained for nonpayment of a parcel fee, upon being recorded in the mortgage records of Cameron Parish, shall prime all other liens except those for taxes and prior recorded local or special assessments. If there are one or more property mortgages on such parcel and the mortgage holder or holders have notified the tax collector in Cameron Parish of such recorded mortgage or mortgages in accordance with the requirements of R.S. 47:2180.1, the board, prior to proceeding against such parcel for failure to pay a parcel fee, shall give notice to each mortgagee of the amount of the parcel fee due and owing on such parcel and that such parcel fee must be paid within twenty days after the mailing of the notice or proceedings will be commenced against the parcel. The notice shall be sent to each such mortgage holder by certified mail, return receipt requested, or be made by personal or domiciliary service on such mortgage holder. In the event such notice is given, the board shall not commence such proceedings until at least twenty days after the mailing of such notice.

(3) Alternatively, the lien authorized by this Section may be enforced by assessing the amount of the lien against the parcel as a tax against the property. The lien may be collected in the manner fixed for collection of taxes and shall be subject to the same civil penalties for delinquencies. After the school board of the parish has incurred such costs and expenses as together with any amount of the parcel fee which remains unpaid and delinquent constitute the lien on the property, including any costs of court, attorney fees, and interest, the governing authority may send an attested bill of such unpaid amount, costs, and expenses to the assessor of Cameron Parish who shall add the amount of such bill to the next tax bill of the property owner. The lien shall prime all other liens or privileges against the property, except other tax liens, filed after the statement specified in this Section is filed with the recorder of mortgages, regardless of the date on which the lien is perfected.

Acts 2001, No. 686, §1, eff. June 25, 2001.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:372 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 372
Powers; policies; reports
Status: in_force

A.(1) The review board is hereby empowered to require all state agencies to submit a report of all banking and checking accounts and the balances in each. All banking and checking accounts opened or to be opened by state agencies must have the approval of the review board in writing for authorization for the account and the method of compensation. Quarterly, all state agencies shall report all banking and checking accounts and the balances in each account to the review board to be compiled into one report and forwarded to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget as further provided in Subsection D of this Section.

(2) For purposes of this Chapter, "state agency" shall mean each state agency, department, board, or commission required to deposit monies in the state treasury in accordance with Article VII, Section 9(A) of the Constitution of Louisiana.

B. All state agencies shall furnish full and complete information, as may be requested by the review board, regarding the policies and procedures for its handling of receipts and disbursements, and otherwise shall fully cooperate with the review board.

C. The review board shall approve the cash management policies and procedures adopted by each state agency.

D. Each state agency shall adopt a cybersecurity plan and financial security procedures relative to cash management. Within ninety days of the enactment of this Subsection, each agency shall submit its cybersecurity plan and financial security procedures to the review board. Thereafter, each agency shall submit to the review board any revisions to its approved plan or procedures. The review board shall review and approve such plans, procedures, and revisions. The review board may review implementation of such plans and procedures and make ongoing assessments of the sufficiency of such plans and procedures. Discussion and records of the review board regarding financial security and cybersecurity plans, procedures, assessments, and implementations shall be confidential and shall not be subject to production in accordance with the Louisiana Public Records Law.

E. The review board shall make a written report to the legislature as the review board deems necessary prior to the beginning of each regular session of such recommendations for changes in cash management law and practices as deemed appropriate. In addition to the other reporting requirements of this Subsection, the review board shall quarterly make a written report to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget relative to the banking and checking accounts of all state agencies, as follows:

(1) The state depositing authority as defined in R.S. 49:319.

(2) The banking or checking account name, account type, and, if there is more than one account with the same name, the account number.

(3) The approval date for the banking or checking account and the name of the fiscal agent bank.

(4) The banking or checking account investments, interest earnings, and fee payments.

(5) The account balance as of the beginning and the end of the quarter.

(6) The source of the funds in the account.

(7) The purpose of the banking or checking account.

(8) If a banking or checking account is closed during the quarter, the date of the closure, the balance of the account on the date of the closure, and documentation from the bank that the account has been closed.

F. The Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget shall hold a hearing on the number and types of banking or checking accounts, the need for the agency to have one or more banking or checking accounts, the source of funds and the balances in the banking or checking accounts, and whatever other information is deemed necessary by the chairman.

G. The Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget shall forward a copy of the reports that it receives from the review board, with whatever changes it deems necessary, to the Revenue Estimating Conference for its use in estimating fees and self-generated revenues for the official forecast.

H. The review board is hereby empowered to review all state agency requests for the establishment of escrow funds in the state treasury, and if warranted, to approve the requests in writing. The monthly reports required by the provisions of R.S. 49:320.2(C) for all state agencies with escrow funds in the state treasury shall be submitted to the review board, who shall compile the agency reports into one report and forward it to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

I. The legislative auditor shall review each state agency's compliance with the review board's approved cash management policies and procedures. Any noncompliance shall be reported to the Legislative Audit Advisory Council and to the cash management review board.

Acts 1990, No. 468, §1, eff. July 1, 1990; Acts 2016, No. 587, §1, eff. June 17, 2016; Acts 2017, No. 361, §1, eff. July 1, 2017; Acts 2021, No. 66, §1, eff. June 4, 2021.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:58 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 58
Revolving working capital appropriations
Status: in_force

A. Appropriations for financing the operations of industries, farms, dining halls, dormitories, book stores, refreshment booths, and other activities conducted as business enterprises and not primarily for rendering public services shall be known as revolving working capital appropriations and shall be subject to the succeeding provisions of this Section.

B. All receipts from the operations of any activity so financed shall be deposited in a special revolving fund account. The amount so credited to this account may be expended for the purposes thereof, in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter governing expenditures.

C. The entire net worth of any working capital appropriation, as represented by any excess of assets over liabilities of the appropriation, at the end of any year, shall be included as a resource of the fund from which the original appropriation was made, available for appropriation for the next succeeding year.

Acts 1989, No. 836, §1, eff. July 1, 1989.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:100.94 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 100.94
Grants for Grads Program; grants; recapture of grant funds under certain circumstances
Status: in_force

A. Application for the grant. A graduate who has registered for the program shall apply for a grant during the period of time which starts on the due date of the filing of his fifth Louisiana state individual income tax return since graduation and ends on the ninetieth day thereafter. A married person shall apply as an individual and shall indicate whether his spouse is registered for the program.

(1) The application shall include information as determined by the agency for the awarding of a grant, but at a minimum shall include:

(a) Evidence that the graduate has paid Louisiana state individual income taxes through the timely filing of five Louisiana state individual income tax returns over five consecutive taxable years following the year of his graduation, each of which must indicate a tax liability owed to the state by the graduate. For married persons, the tax returns must indicate a tax liability on the part of both spouses in order for them to receive the higher grant award available for married persons.

(b) Evidence that the graduate has maintained his primary residence and employment within the state since his registering for the program.

(2) A graduate who, at any time during the period from his program registration until his application for a grant, has been deemed by the state to be delinquent in the payment of individual income taxes shall lose his registration status and shall be deemed ineligible to receive a grant pursuant to this Subpart.

(3) The agency shall review each application for compliance and accuracy and shall determine whether a graduate shall receive a grant, and the amount thereof, based on the information provided to the agency in the application. An application found to be insufficient by the agency may be resubmitted by the graduate within the ninety-day period of time for which he may apply for a grant.

B. Grant award. (1) Grant awards shall be provided from monies appropriated by the legislature. A grant award shall be given to a graduate whose application has been deemed by the agency to be timely, authentic, and complete and who has been selected as one of one hundred grantees in a random lottery conducted by the agency by January thirty-first of each year. The lottery pool shall include all graduate applicants who have filed applications within the last calendar year. If there are less than one hundred applicants for grant awards in a given calendar year, then the requirement of a lottery shall be dispensed with and all applicants shall be awarded grants. At the time of the awarding of a grant to a married person, if his spouse has registered for the program, then the spouse's participation in the program shall be combined with the grantee spouse's application for purposes of this Subpart. The awarding of a grant shall be evidenced by written notification to the grantee, which notification shall clearly state the amount of the grant and the start and end dates of the award period. The agency shall provide such notification within sixty days after completion of the lottery. The award period shall be from the start date through the last day of the thirty-sixth month thereafter. Once a grant has been awarded to a married person, then there shall be no eligibility for any additional award or increment of an award to his spouse.

(2) The amount of each awarded grant or cash payment shall be calculated as follows:

(a) For an individual, an amount equal to the total cumulative Louisiana state individual income tax paid by the grantee as evidenced by the tax information contained in his application, or ten thousand dollars, whichever is less.

(b) For a married person, an amount equal to the total cumulative Louisiana state individual income tax paid by the grantee and his spouse, filing jointly or separately, as evidenced by the tax information contained in his application, or fifteen thousand dollars, whichever is less.

(3) The grant shall be provided as a cash payment to be received by the grantee when obtaining a mortgage loan, such amount to be applied only to pay a portion of the closing costs or required down payment on the purchase of his home. There shall be no cash back to the grantee at the time of closing. The grantee must take receipt of the grant within thirty-six months of the date of the award, after which time the grant will expire.

C. Recapture of grant funds. If the Louisiana Housing Corporation finds that a grantee or grant recipient fails to comply with the criteria of home ownership as provided for in R.S. 39:100.91(B)(4), then the grantee or grant recipient's state income tax for the applicable taxable period shall be increased by an amount necessary for the recapture of the amount of the grant awarded according to the provisions of this Section. An action to recapture grant funds shall be initiated within three years from December thirty-first of the year in which the grant was awarded.

Acts 2008, No. 748, §1, eff. July 6, 2008; Acts 2011, No. 408, §5(B), eff. July 5, 2011; Acts 2012, No. 834, §9, eff. July 1, 2012.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:88.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 88.3
Collection by sale or securitization; direction to the commissioner
Status: in_force

A. The term "collection" as used in this Subpart shall include the sale or securitization of long-term delinquent accounts receivable and all other obligations subject to the provisions of this Subpart.

B. The collection policy and procedure required by R.S. 39:88.2 shall include a policy and procedure for the sale or securitization, in pools, after appraisal or evaluation of the value of each pool, of long-term delinquent accounts receivable and all other obligations subject to this Subpart.

C. Pools of these accounts and obligations, including those made up of the accounts and obligations of various state agencies, shall be approved for sale or securitization by the Cash Management Review Board upon recommendation of the commissioner of administration, the attorney general, or its own decision, and, after such approval, carried out and implemented by the commissioner.

D.(1) During each of calendar years 2013 and 2014, the commissioner of administration is directed to recommend and present to the Cash Management Review Board, for sale or securitization approval, and thereafter implementation, pools of such long-term accounts and obligations of not more than twenty-five percent of the aggregate face dollar amount of such accounts and obligations existing as of the first day of each such year, and shall report the results of such sale or securitization to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget prior to the end of each year. However, notwithstanding provisions to the contrary, this Subsection shall no longer be of any effect on December 31, 2014, unless reestablished or replaced by appropriate legislative enactment.

(2) The commissioner of administration is authorized to exclude, at his discretion, any debt that he deems to be uncollectible.

(3) The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any debt owed to the state due to medical treatment rendered at a state-owned hospital.

E. The attorney general is authorized to exclude, at his discretion, any debt that he deems uncollectible pursuant to debt collection activities undertaken by the attorney general.

Acts 2012, No. 500, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:99.45 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 99.45
Pledge and agreement
Status: in_force

A. The state covenants and agrees with the corporation, and the holders of the bonds in which the corporation has included such pledge and agreement, that the state will (i) irrevocably direct the U.S. Department of the Interior or any successor agency to transfer all conveyed Offshore Royalty Revenue payments directly to the corporation or its assignee, (ii) enforce the corporation's rights to receive the Offshore Royalty Revenue payments to the full extent permitted by the law, (iii) not amend the state law in any manner that would materially impair the rights of the holders, (iv) not limit or alter the rights of the corporation to fulfill the terms of its agreements with such holders, and (v) not in any way impair the rights and remedies of such holders or the security for such bonds until such bonds, together with the interest thereon and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceeding by or on behalf of such holders, are fully paid and discharged.

B. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or statute applicable to or constituting any limitation upon the sale of bonds or notes, or upon the execution of related documentation and agreements, any parish and other local governing entity that is a coastal political subdivision is hereby authorized to sell to the corporation all or a portion of their twenty percent of the allocable share due the state of Louisiana pursuant to the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006.

Acts 2007, No. 249, §1, eff. July 6, 2007; Redesignated from R.S. 39:99.43 pursuant to Acts 2017, No. 357, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:99.17 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 99.17
Bonds exempt from taxation
Status: in_force

The bonds, their transfer and the income therefrom, including any profit made on the sale thereof, shall at all times be free and exempt from taxation by the state of Louisiana and by any other political subdivision of the state.

Acts 2001, No. 1145, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:16.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 16.2
Duties of the commissioner relative to the Louisiana Fiscal Transparency Website
Status: in_force

The commissioner, subject to legislative appropriation, shall establish and maintain the Louisiana Fiscal Transparency Website, a centralized, searchable website, hereinafter to be referred to as "Louisiana Checkbook", that provides information to the public about data and reports of state expenditures, contracts, incentive expenditures, revenues, and other financial matters. The website shall serve as an interactive portal for the public to access state fiscal information.

NOTE: §16.2 as amended by Acts 2023, No. 446, eff. July 1, 2026, or the day after the commissioner of administration and the legislative auditor report to the legislature that the transition is complete, whichever is earlier.

§16.2. Duties of the commissioner relative to state transparency

The commissioner shall provide all databases to the legislative auditor for reporting to the Louisiana Transparency Portal as provided in Part III of Chapter 8 of Title 24 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

Acts 2018, 2 nd Ex. Sess., No. 1, §1, eff. July 1, 2018; Acts 2023, No. 446, §3, see Act.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1447 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1447
Security for refunding bonds
Status: in_force

A. The refunding bonds issued to refund outstanding revenue bonds or limited tax bonds may be secured in the same manner as the securities being refunded or may be secured in such other manner as may be prescribed by the governing body of the issuer; provided, however, if such refunding bonds are to be secured by the full faith and credit of the issuer, they must be authorized at an election held by the issuer in accordance with the requirements of the constitution and laws of Louisiana pertaining to elections for the issuance of general obligation bonds.

B. Any general obligation refunding bonds issued to refund outstanding general obligation securities shall be authorized in accordance with Article VI, Section 33(A) of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974 and, subject to the provisions thereof, shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.

Acts 1984, No. 352, §1, eff. July 2, 1984.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:340 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 340
Examination of witnesses on oath
Status: in_force

Whenever the commissioner of administration finds it necessary for the proper settlement of any account, he or his authorized representative may examine the parties and others on oath or affirmation, touching any fact material to be known in the settlement of the account, and for that purpose may cause a subpoena to issue to compel witnesses to attend before him and give evidence in the manner provided by law.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 649, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1798.4 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1798.4
Membership of board of directors; vacancies; compensation; expenses
Status: in_force

A. The governor shall appoint five persons to serve as the directors and members of this corporation, with one member appointed from a list of three persons nominated by the president of the Senate and with one member appointed from a list of three persons nominated by the speaker of the House of Representatives.

B. Members of the board of directors shall serve without compensation, but the corporation may reimburse such members for necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties.

Acts 1989, No. 805, §1, eff. July 8, 1989.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:471.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 471.1
Certain home rule charter parishes
Status: in_force

Pursuant to Article VI, Section 6 of the Constitution of Louisiana, in any parish which operates under a home rule charter which provides for the governing authority of any road, subroad, waterworks, subwaterworks, sewerage, gravity drainage, subdrainage, fire protection, hospital service, or other special district lying wholly within the parish, such charter provisions and any other charter provisions relating to the organization and structure of parish governance shall supersede the provisions of R.S. 39:471 or any other statutory provision.

Acts 1999, No. 1079, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1604.4 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1604.4
Preference for goods manufactured, or services performed by individuals with disabilities through supported employment providers; definitions; coordinating council
Status: in_force

A. Every agency shall give a preference in its purchasing practices to goods manufactured and services performed by individuals with disabilities through supported employment providers, provided such goods manufactured or services performed are equal in quality and reasonable in the rate charged based upon those goods and services available from other providers.

B. There is hereby created within the Louisiana Department of Health, the "State Use Council for the Purchase of Goods and Services Provided by Individuals with Disabilities", hereinafter referred to as "council", whose function shall be to coordinate and facilitate carrying out the provisions of this Section and the provisions of R.S. 38:2261.

(1) The membership of the council shall be determined by the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health.

(2) The council shall have authority to designate and contract with a central nonprofit agency to assist supported employment providers in submitting applications for the selection of suitable goods and services, to facilitate the allocation of orders among qualified supported employment providers, and otherwise to assist the council in performing its functions.

(3) The council shall solicit and evaluate competitive sealed proposals pursuant to R.S. 39:1595 at least every five years to designate and contract with a central nonprofit agency.

C. The Louisiana Department of Health may adopt, promulgate, and enforce such rules and regulations as are necessary and appropriate to implement the provisions of this Section and the provisions of R.S. 38:2261. The regulations shall be promulgated in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, R.S. 49:950 et seq.

D. For the purposes of this Section, the following terms are defined as follows:

(1) "Central nonprofit agency for individuals with disabilities" means an agency that:

(a) Is incorporated under the Louisiana Nonprofit Corporation Law and operated in the interests of individuals with disabilities, and the income of which does not inure in whole or in part to the benefit of any shareholder or other private individual.

(b) Complies with any applicable occupational health and safety standards provided by the statutes or regulations of this state and of the United States.

(2) "Client" means an individual with a disability who is employed by a supported employment provider.

(3) "Direct labor" means all labor involved in the manufacture of goods or the performance of services except for supervision, instruction, administration, and shipping.

(4) "Goods manufactured and services performed by individuals with disabilities" means goods and services for which not less than forty percent of the man-hours of direct labor required for manufacture or performance is provided by individuals with disabilities.

(5) "Individuals with disabilities" means individuals with a physical, behavioral, developmental, intellectual, sensory, mental, or addictive disorder which constitutes a substantial obstacle to their employment.

(6) "Supported employment provider" means a nonprofit organization, program, or entity as defined by R.S. 12:201 et seq., which provides gainful, competitive, integrated employment, training, and rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities in compliance with a central nonprofit agency for individuals with disabilities. In Fiscal Years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021, "supported employment provider" shall also include any sheltered workshop transitioning to a model of gainful, competitive, integrated employment, training, and rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities.

Acts 1984, No. 109, §1; Acts 2010, No. 939, §6, eff. July 1, 2010, and Subsections (C) and (D) eff. Jan. 1, 2011; Acts 2014, No. 811, §21, eff. June 23, 2014; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015; Acts 2019, No. 312, §3, eff. July 1, 2019.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:252 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 252
Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of this Part is to provide for development and implementation of a state energy management policy regarding all state-owned buildings and facilities in a manner which will minimize energy consumption and ensure that buildings and facilities are operated with maximum efficiency of energy use.

Acts 1984, No. 662, §1., eff. July 1, 1984; Acts 1986, No. 255, §1, eff. July 1, 1986; Acts 2001, No. 1184, §1, eff. June 29, 2001.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:15.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 15.3
Office of technology services; offices and staff; duties
Status: in_force

A. The office of technology services shall consist of executive offices and staff as deemed necessary for effective information technology governance, acquisition and operation.

B. The state chief information officer shall manage and direct the office of technology services, with roles, duties, and activities including but not limited to the following:

(1) Establishing and coordinating all information technology systems and information technology services affecting the management and operations of the executive branch of state government. The office of technology services shall, subject to the provisions of this Subpart, have sole authority and responsibility for defining the specific information technology systems and information technology services to which the provisions of this Subpart shall be applicable. Information technology systems, including equipment and related services, and information technology services shall mean the equipment, services, and means necessary to provide, including but not limited to the following:

(a) Telecommunications systems and services.

(b) Network systems and services.

(c) Server systems and services.

(d) Storage systems and services.

(e) Information technology security systems and services, including the security systems required in R.S. 39:249.

(f) Related peripheral systems and services.

(g) Software and software application services.

(h) Infrastructure and platform systems and services.

(i) Desktop computing systems and services.

(j) Geographic information systems and services.

(k) Mobile device systems and services.

(l) Video systems and services, except those video systems and services specifically reserved to the Louisiana Educational Television Authority pursuant to R.S. 17:2501.

(m) Radio systems, to include but not be limited to two-way radio systems; however, the operational abilities and priorities of two-way communications of the departments in the executive branch shall not be impeded.

(n) Any and all systems and services based on emerging and future information technologies relating to Subparagraphs (a) through (k) of this Paragraph.

(2) Overseeing and implementing a state master information technology plan on an annual basis.

(3) Establishing and directing the implementation of information technology standards, architecture, and guidelines suitable for statewide application for hardware, software, services, contractual arrangements, consolidation of systems and management of systems.

(4) Reviewing, coordinating, and standardizing information technology strategic business technology planning, information technology procurement, information technology budgeting (both executive and capital outlay), and information technology personnel and training.

(5) Implementing strategic information technology planning, including the review and approval of the planning, initiation, design, acquisition, and operation of information technology systems.

(6) Assessing the performance of information technology systems and technology operations and personnel including establishing accountability, performance measurement, and benchmarking policies and procedures.

(7) Overseeing and coordinating the centralization of the technology systems and data processing systems, including consolidation, outsourcing, and sharing statewide government information technology resources and services.

(8) Overseeing all telecommunication systems.

(9) Assuring compatibility and connectivity of Louisiana's information systems.

(10) Facilitating and fostering innovative applications of emerging technologies that provide cost-effective solutions for improving government operations and services.

(11) Reviewing and overseeing information technology projects and systems for compliance with statewide strategies, policies, and standards, including alignment with state government's business goals, investment, and other risk management policies.

(12) Providing support and technical assistance to the office of state procurement, the office of facility planning and control, and the office of planning and budget.

(13) Overseeing and coordinating access to state information that is electronically available online from agency web sites.

(14) Facilitating a process among state agencies to identify services that are favorable for electronic delivery, and maintaining an electronic directory of state services.

(15) Providing direction to the Louisiana Geographic Information Systems Council and the Louisiana Geographic Information Center (LAGIC) for coordination of geographic data, geographic technology, and geographic standards of the state.

(16) Identifying information technology applications that should be statewide in scope, and ensuring that these applications are not developed independently or duplicated by individual state agencies of the executive branch.

(17) Reviewing and approving the receipt by executive agencies of information technology goods and services and telecommunication systems and services from non-appropriated sources, including but not limited to grants, donations, and gifts.

(18) Preparing annual reports and plans concerning the status and result of the state's specific information technology plans and submitting these annual reports and plans to the governor and the legislature.

(19) Facilitating and fostering the identification of the policy and planning data needs of the state.

(20) Charging respective user agencies for the cost of the information technology systems and information technology services provided by the office of technology services and may include all or part of the cost of the operation of the office. These costs shall be charged in a consistent and equitable manner.

(21) Acting as the sole centralized customer for the acquisition, billing, and record keeping of information technology systems or information technology services provided to state agencies. The ownership of such systems procured by the office of technology services may vest in the respective agency, but control of the systems shall be retained by the office of technology services.

(22) Developing coordinated information technology systems or information technology services within and among all state agencies and require, where appropriate, cooperative utilization of information technology systems and information technology services by aggregating users. However, nothing provided in this Section shall apply to the authority for operation of the National Crime Information Center.

(23) Reviewing, coordinating, approving, or disapproving requests by state agencies for the procurement of information technology systems or information technology services including information technology proposals, studies, and contracts.

C. To accomplish the work of the office of technology services, all agencies as defined in R.S. 39:2 shall cooperate with the office of technology services and provide assistance as required. However, nothing in this Subpart shall apply to the authority of any statewide elected official relative to his authority to implement information technology plans, systems, or services for any agency under his jurisdiction.

D. The information, technology, personnel, agency resources, and records of the Integrated Criminal Justice Information System as established by R.S. 15:1228 through 1228.8 and its components shall be excluded from the provisions of this Part and shall not be under the authority of the office of technology services.

E. Beginning October 1, 2014, the state chief information officer shall report quarterly to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget on the status of the consolidation of the information technology functions of the executive branch of state government. The report shall provide information on organizational changes within the division of administration, as well as organizational changes between the office of technology services and the other executive branch agencies. The report shall include information and data on personnel changes, changes in purchasing and procurement, and any budgetary changes that have occurred.

F. On or before October first of each year, the chief information officer shall report to the Joint Legislative Committee on Technology and Cybersecurity, in executive session, regarding the operational readiness and procurement requirements of the state in cybersecurity and other information-security-related categories including but not limited to the relationship to applicable and prevailing industry standards.

Acts 2001, No. 772, §1, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2009, No. 409, §4, eff. July 1, 2010; Acts 2013, No. 184, §8(A); Acts 2014, No. 712, §2, eff. July 1, 2014; Acts 2014, No. 864, §§4 and 5; Acts 2018, No. 669, §1; Acts 2021, No. 288, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1800.35 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1800.35
Dissolution of corporation; title to the property to vest in successor
Status: in_force

Upon dissolution of the corporation, title to all property owned by the corporation shall vest in the successor corporation created by the legislature, if any, if such successor corporation qualifies under Section 103 of the Federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, to issue obligations the interest on which is exempt from federal income taxation. If no such successor corporation is so created, title to such property shall vest in the state of Louisiana.

Acts 2010, No. 556, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1031 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1031
Purposes, rules of construction
Status: in_force

A. The purposes of this Part are to:

(1) Clarify and modernize the laws relating to the issuance of bonds by the city of New Orleans (the "City") and its agencies, boards, authorities, and commissions, except the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans, so as to enable the City and such entities to utilize advanced and creative techniques of public finance in the issuance of bonds.

(2) Standardize certain procedures with respect to the adoption and approval of proceedings relating to the issuance of bonds and the sale thereof.

(3) Make general state laws relating to the authorization, issuance and sale of bonds by political subdivisions of the state applicable to the City and certain of its agencies, boards, authorities, and commissions.

B. This Part shall be liberally construed so as to give effect to its intended purposes.

Acts 1985, No. 674, §1, eff. July 16, 1985.

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La. Rev. Stat. § 39:88.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 88.1
Short title; legislative intent
Status: in_force

A. This Subpart may be cited as the "Louisiana Collection Policy and Procedure Act".

B. It is the intent of the legislature that a comprehensive collection policy and procedure for collection of obligations due to the state be established for use by all state agencies.

Acts 2001, No. 904, §1, eff. June 26, 2001.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:2171 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 2171
Louisiana Initiative for Veteran and Service-Connected Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Entrepreneurships; intent
Status: in_force

A. The legislature hereby establishes the Louisiana Initiative for Veteran and Service-Connected Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Entrepreneurships (the Veteran Initiative), hereinafter referred to in this Chapter as the "initiative", to facilitate the growth and stability of Louisiana's economy by fostering utilization by state interests of the business offerings available for state procurement and public contracts from Louisiana's veteran and service-connected disabled veteran-owned small entrepreneurships, and providing a clearinghouse of information to these entrepreneurships. Veterans of the United States Armed Forces have served the state of Louisiana and the United States, often at great risk, to preserve the American dream of freedom and prosperity. Given the magnitude of the state's procurement and public contracting activity, state government is uniquely situated to create an environment where veteran and service-connected disabled veteran-owned small entrepreneurships have an opportunity to thrive and ultimately enhance the stability of Louisiana's economy.

B. The provisions of this Chapter are intended to encourage business opportunities for veteran and service-connected disabled veteran-owned small entrepreneurships. The criteria for certification as a veteran and service-connected disabled veteran-owned small entrepreneurship for the purposes of the initiative shall be as established in R.S. 39:2176, and as may be additionally refined by administrative rule.

Acts 2009, No. 167, §1; Acts 2018, No. 585, §1, eff. May 28, 2018.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:99.19 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 99.19
Pledge and agreement
Status: in_force

The state covenants and agrees with the corporation, and the holders of the bonds in which the corporation has included such pledge and agreement, that the state will (i) irrevocably direct the escrow agent and independent auditor under the master settlement agreement to transfer all conveyed tobacco settlement payments directly to the corporation or its assignee, (ii) enforce the corporation's rights to receive the tobacco settlement payments to the full extent permitted by the terms of the master settlement agreement, (iii) not amend the master settlement agreement in any manner that would materially impair the rights of the holders, (iv) not limit or alter the rights of the corporation to fulfill the terms of its agreements with such holders, and (v) not in any way impair the rights and remedies of such holders or the security for such bonds until such bonds, together with the interest thereon and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceeding by or on behalf of such holders, are fully paid and discharged.

Acts 2001, No. 1145, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1423 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1423
Application of provisions
Status: in_force

The provisions of this Chapter, relating to maximum interest rates and advertising for bids shall supersede: (1) those provisions of the Louisiana Constitution of 1921 continued as statutes under the authority of Article XIV of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974; and (2) all other laws of the state of Louisiana relating to the issuance of securities by public entities.

Acts 1975, 1st Ex.Sess., No. 19, §3, eff. Jan. 28, 1975.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:332.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 332.1
State Buildings and Lands Highest and Best Use Advisory Group; creation
Status: in_force

A. The State Buildings and Lands Highest and Best Use Advisory Group, hereinafter referred to as the "Advisory Group" is hereby created to be composed of the director of the office of facility planning and control, the director of the office of state lands, the director of the office of risk management, and the director of the office of statewide reporting and accounting policy or their designees.

B. The Advisory Group shall advise the commissioner of administration on all matters relating to state-owned property and development opportunities for the state to enter into public-private development partnerships with private, nonprofit or public partners, chosen by competitive bid, in order to develop and manage state-owned real estate in a manner that achieves the highest and best use of the property.

C.(1) By the first of November each year, each agency in the executive branch, including each higher education agency which is funded or proposed by the Board of Regents to be funded through the higher education funding formula, working in cooperation with the parish planning authority or parish governing authority of the parish in which the property is located, shall report to the Advisory Group any land or buildings under the control of such agency that, in the estimation of the agency, is being underutilized or may represent an opportunity to be developed in accordance with the highest and best use of the property.

(2) The Advisory Group shall review and analyze the various reports and shall, not later than January fifteenth of each year, make recommendations to the commissioner of administration regarding which properties present the most promise for development including public-private development.

(3) The commissioner shall review the list of properties recommended by the Advisory Group and finalize the list of properties by accepting the list or by removing properties from the list. At the regular March meeting of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget, the commissioner of administration shall present the final list of such properties with a plan for the development of the highest and best use of such properties.

Acts 2010, No. 73, §1, eff. July 1, 2010.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:551.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 551.1
Parish, ward, or municipality; power to incur debt and issue bonds to encourage industrial enterprises
Status: in_force

Any parish, ward, or municipality of this state, in order to encourage the location of or addition to industrial enterprises therein, may incur debt and issue negotiable bonds under the provisions of and in accordance with the existing laws relating to incurring debt and issuing bonds, and may use the funds derived from the sale of such bonds, which shall not be sold for less than par or bear a greater rate of interest than that authorized in Act No. 19 of the First Extraordinary Session of 1975, R.S. 39:1421 to 1426, as the same now exists or may be hereafter amended, payable annually or semiannually, to acquire industrial plant sites and other necessary property or appurtenances for and to acquire or construct industrial plant buildings located within such parish, ward, or municipality, as the case may be, and may sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of a plant site, appurtenances and plant building, or buildings, either, both, or severally, by suitable and appropriate contract, to any enterprise locating or existing within such parish, ward, or municipality. Bonds so issued shall not exceed in the aggregate twenty percent of the assessed valuation of the taxable property of such parish, ward, or municipality, including both (i) homestead exempt property which shall be included on the assessment roll for the purposes of calculating debt limitation and (ii) nonexempt property, to be ascertained by the last assessment for parish, ward, or municipal purposes previous to delivery of the bonds representing such indebtedness, regardless of the date of the election at which said bonds shall have been voted. Such bonds shall not run for a longer period than twenty-five years from date thereof. Any income or revenue accruing to the parish, ward, or municipality from such contract shall be deposited in the sinking fund dedicated to the payment of any debt incurred herein. In addition, before the calling and holding of an election to incur debt and issue bonds for such purpose, any existing similar and directly competing industry situated within such parish, ward, or municipality, as the case may be, must first have filed with the governing authority calling the election a written consent to the incurring of debt and issuing of bonds for the purpose of encouraging the location therein of such industrial enterprise, and, before calling an election to vote on incurring debt and issuing bonds to carry out any plan to encourage the location of or additions to industrial enterprise, the State Bond Commission or its successor in function shall certify its approval of any proposed contract between the parish, ward, or municipality and industrial enterprise to be aided, encouraged, or benefitted. A municipality may incur debt, issue negotiable bonds, and use the funds derived from the sale of the bonds under the provisions of this Section to encourage the location of or addition to industrial enterprises in an adjoining area or area outside the corporate limits of the municipality but within the parish in which the municipality is located.

Added by Acts 1975, No. 154, §1; Acts 2014, No. 549, §1, eff. July 1, 2014.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1
Division of administration
Status: in_force

A division of administration is hereby created as a division of the office of the governor and shall exercise those powers and functions as hereinafter set forth and as may be further provided by law.

Amended by Acts 1952, No. 58, §1; Acts 1956, No. 42, §1; Acts 1989, No. 836, §1, eff. July 1, 1989.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:39 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 39
Transportation Trust Fund; submission of suggested budget
Status: in_force

The House Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works and the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works shall annually meet and function as a joint committee for the purpose of developing a suggested budget for expenditure of monies from the Transportation Trust Fund in the ensuing fiscal year. In development of the budget to be submitted, the Department of Transportation and Development and other agencies, boards, commissions, and departments of the state shall assist the joint committee and furnish such information, reports, aid, services, and assistance as may be requested by the joint committee, all without any cost or charge of any nature to the joint committee. The joint committee shall submit its suggested budget to the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance no later than fourteen days after the beginning of each regular session of the legislature for consideration by those committees during budget deliberations.

Acts 1991, No. 384, §2, eff. July 1, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:99.35 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 99.35
Exclusive jurisdiction and venue; service of process; bond validation actions
Status: in_force

The Nineteenth Judicial District Court for the state of Louisiana shall have exclusive jurisdiction and venue of any suit or action of any nature brought by or against the corporation. Any suit or action to determine or contest the validity of bonds of the corporation shall be brought and conducted only in accordance with Louisiana R.S. 13:5121, et seq.

Acts 2007, No. 249, §1, eff. July 6, 2007.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:97.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 97.1
Short title
Status: in_force

This Subpart shall be known and may be cited as the "Louisiana Asbestos Detection and Abatement Act".

Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 140, §1, eff. May 5, 1998.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:100.221 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 100.221
Public Safety and Crime Prevention Fund
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby created in the state treasury the Public Safety and Crime Prevention Fund, hereinafter referred to in this Section as the "fund". The source of monies in the fund shall be any monies appropriated by the legislature including federal funds, donations, gifts, or grants, and any other monies which may be provided by law. All unexpended and unencumbered monies in the fund at the end of the year shall remain in the fund. Monies in the fund shall be invested by the treasurer in the same manner as monies in the state general fund, and any interest earned on the investment shall be deposited in and credited to the fund.

B. Subject to appropriation, monies in the fund shall be used by the office of state police for public safety services, including patrol and law enforcement, in any parish having a population of not less than two hundred eighty thousand persons and not more than four hundred twenty thousand persons according to the latest federal decennial census.

Acts 2023, No. 410, §4, eff. June 15, 2023.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1410 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1410
Transfer of certain functions of the State Bond Commission to the division of administration
Status: in_force

A. All the powers, duties, and functions transferred by the provisions of R.S. 39:1409(B) from the State Bond and Building Commission to the State Bond Commission, which relate to the expending of funds for and the administration of construction are hereby transferred to the division of administration in order to exercise supervision over the expenditure of funds and the construction projects as provided in Part III of Chapter 1 of Subtitle I of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

B. All the powers, duties, and functions transferred by the provisions of R.S. 39:1407(B) from the Capital Construction and Improvement Commission to the State Bond Commission which relate to the expending of funds for and the administration of construction are hereby transferred to the division of administration in order to exercise supervision over the expenditure of funds and the construction projects as provided in Part III of Chapter 1 of Subtitle I of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

C. All the powers, duties, and functions heretofore vested in and exercised by the Capital Outlay Budget Board under the provisions of Act 15 of 1969, 1 as amended, which relate to the expending of funds for and the administration of construction are hereby transferred to the division of administration in order to exercise supervision over the expenditure of funds and the construction projects as provided in Part III of Chapter 1 of Subtitle I of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

D. Nothing herein shall be construed as transferring those powers, functions and duties of the State Bond Commission which do not relate to the expending of funds for and administration of construction projects, specifically those functions contained in Acts 26 2 and 27 3 of the 1968 Extraordinary Session and those functions of the State Board and Tax Board transferred to the State Bond Commission by R.S. 39:1408.

E. The obligations heretofore incurred by the State Bond and Building Commission, the Capital Construction and Improvement Commission, the Capital Outlay Budget Board and the State Bond Commission in connection with any construction contract or agreement shall be preserved and discharged by the Division of Administration.

All books, papers, records, money and other property heretofore possessed, controlled or used by the State Bond and Building Commission, the Capital Construction and Improvement Commission, the Capital Outlay Budget Board and the State Bond Commission in the exercise of the functions hereby transferred, and, to the extent practicable and needed for purpose hereof, all employees heretofore engaged in the performance of such functions, are hereby transferred to the Division of Administration.

F. The transfer provided for in this section shall be accomplished not later than January 1, 1974, and those funds made available to the State Bond Commission and the Capital Outlay Budget Board which were to be expended by them in carrying out those functions hereby transferred shall be transferred to and used by the Division of Administration in carrying out these functions.

G. The special fund account created by the provisions of Section 3 of Act 73 of the 1965 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature 4 is hereby abolished and all funds on deposit in said account, including future monies derived from the sources specified in Act 73 of the 1965 Regular Session of the Legislature of Louisiana, shall be deposited into the state treasury in accordance with Article VII, Section 9 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974.

Acts 1973, No. 164, §§1 to 6, emerg. eff. June 19, 1973 at 4 P.M. Amended by Acts 1976, No. 560, §1; Acts 1989, No. 836, §1, eff. July 1, 1989.

1 R.S. 39:1402 note.

2 R.S. 39:1401-39:1406.

3 R.S. 39:1361-39:1366.

4 R.S. 39:465.3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:993 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 993
Mortgage and pledge; rights of bond holders
Status: in_force

Any bonds issued under the authority of this Part shall be payable from and secured by a pledge of the revenues herein above described and may be secured by a mortgage covering all or any part of the project or facility from which the revenues so pledged may be derived. The governing authority may, by resolution, empower the presiding officer and secretary or clerk to issue, execute, sign, seal, negotiate, and deliver the bonds and to make and execute in the name and under the seal of the municipality an act of mortgage and pledge to secure the payment of the bonds in principal and interest, and when the act of mortgage and pledge has been executed, the property to the extent mortgaged thereby and not released according to the terms of the mortgage and the income and revenues therefrom thus pledged, shall remain mortgaged and pledged for the security of the bonds, in principal and interest, until they have been fully paid and discharged: or in the alternative, the governing authority of the municipality or district may deposit with the trustee, as provided in the act of mortgage, cash or United States government bonds in a sufficient amount to fully pay the then outstanding bonds and interest thereon, and, upon such deposit being made, the trustee may cancel the mortgage. Any holder of the bonds or of any of the coupons thereto attached may by appropriate legal action compel performance of all duties required of the governing body and officials of the municipality by the provisions of this Part. In case default is made in payment of bonds, or any of them, in whole or in part, or of any installment of interest thereon, when the same becomes due, the holder of the bonds may proceed against the governing authority of the municipality to enforce the pledge of income and revenues and foreclose the mortgage by seizure and sale of the property mortgaged, as if proceeding against a private person. But, bonds issued under the provisions of this Part and the liability arising therefrom shall not be a charge upon the other income and revenues of the municipality issuing the bonds, and shall not be included in computing the indebtedness of the municipality for the purpose of determining any constitutional or statutory limitation.

Acts 1964, No. 520, §3. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 433, §1; Acts 1974, No. 620, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1472 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1472
Application of provisions
Status: in_force

The powers and rights conferred by this Chapter shall be in addition to the power and rights conferred by any other general or special law. The provisions of this Chapter shall be liberally construed for the accomplishment of its purpose.

Acts 1984, No. 102, §1, eff. June 15, 1984.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1465 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1465
Sale of refunding bonds; interest rate
Status: in_force

The refunding bonds shall be sold in such manner, at either public or nonpublic sale, as may be determined by the State Bond Commission, for such price and bearing interest at such rate or rates as will create for the refunding bonds an effective interest rate which is lower than that of the refunded bonds. No refunding bonds authorized hereunder shall be delivered unless the state treasurer has certified that the effective interest rate on the refunding bonds is a lower effective interest rate than the effective interest rate on the refunded bonds. This certification shall be conclusive. In computing the effective interest rate for the purposes of this Act, there shall be taken into consideration all costs and expenses of issuance of the refunding bonds, including fees for bond counsel and other consultants and, to the extent paid from sources other than the proceeds of such refunding bonds, redemption premiums, if any, on the refunded bonds.

Added by Acts 1978, No. 382, §1, eff. July 12, 1978.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1755 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1755
General provisions
Status: in_force

The following general provisions shall apply to all procurements under this Part:

(1) No contracts entered into shall have an initial effective date earlier than the date on which such contract receives approval as required by this Part.

(2) All changes, modifications, and amendments to any contract hereunder shall be approved in advance by the office of telecommunications management and the state purchasing office, in addition to any other approvals required by law.

(3) Where written proposals or bids are submitted by vendors, the proposal or bid of the successful vendor shall be incorporated into the final contract consummated with that vendor.

(4) All contracts must contain the following annual appropriation dependency clause: "The continuation of this contract is contingent upon the continuation of an appropriation of funds by the Legislature to fulfill the requirements of the contract. If the Legislature fails to appropriate sufficient monies to provide for the continuation of a contract or if such appropriation is reduced by the veto of the governor or by any means provided in the appropriations act to prevent the total appropriations for the year from exceeding revenues for that year or for any other lawful purpose and the effect of such reduction is to provide insufficient monies for the continuation of the contract, the contract shall terminate on the last day of the fiscal year for which funds were appropriated."

(5) Repealed by Acts 2021, No. 288, §3.

Added by Acts 1982, No. 152, §1, eff. July 12, 1982. Acts 1984, No. 616, §2, eff. July 12, 1984; Acts 1997, No. 1098, §1, eff. July 14, 1997; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015; Acts 2020, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 52, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2021; Acts 2021, No. 288, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:371 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 371
Cash management review board; creation
Status: in_force

The cash management review board is hereby created to be composed of the state treasurer, the legislative auditor, the commissioner of administration, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, and the chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, or their designees.

Acts 1990, No. 468, §1, eff. July 1, 1990; Acts 2006, No. 2, §1; Acts 2017, No. 361, §1, eff. July 1, 2017.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:99.36 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 99.36
Sale of offshore royalty revenue assets
Status: in_force

A. The State Bond Commission subject to approval of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget and subject to approval by a majority vote of the legislature if the legislature is in session and by mail ballot during the interim, is authorized to sell and convey, from time to time, a portion of the state allocation to the corporation, up to one hundred percent thereof from and after such date, and, in particular, to execute and deliver an agreement on the closing date. The agreement shall provide, among other matters, that the purchase price payable by the corporation to the state for the offshore assets sold, up to one hundred percent of the state allocation from and after such date, shall consist of the net proceeds, after financing costs, of the first issue of Offshore Royalty Revenue bonds and the residual interests to be paid and transferred semiannually pursuant to the provisions of this Subpart.

B. Any sale of Offshore Royalty Revenue assets hereunder shall be treated as a true sale and absolute conveyance and transfer of the property, and all of the right, title and interest in and to such property, so conveyed and transferred, and not as a pledge or any other security interest or lien for borrowing. The characterization of such a sale as an absolute transfer by the parties and herein shall not be negated or adversely affected if less than all of the state allocation is conveyed and transferred, nor by the state's acquisition of residual interests or a subordinate interest in the Offshore Royalty Revenue assets, nor by any characterization of the corporation or its bonds for purposes of accounting, taxation or securities regulation, nor by any other factor whatsoever.

Acts 2007, No. 249, §1, eff. July 6, 2007.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:89.4 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 89.4
Nongovernmental entity database requirements
Status: in_force

A.(1) The head of each state agency distributing or awarding appropriated funds to a nongovernmental entity shall ensure compliance with the nongovernmental entity database requirements as provided in R.S. 39:16.15.

(2) Information to be provided for inclusion in the nongovernmental entity database shall include but not be limited to the following:

(a) The name and physical address of the nongovernmental entity, excluding the physical address of an entity that is confidential under state or federal law, rule, or regulation.

(b) The amount of the contract or appropriation and total means of finance, including state and federal sources, if applicable.

(c) The contract effective date and the contract end date.

(d) The purpose of the contract or appropriation and an outcome assessment by the state agency administering the contract of whether the nongovernmental entity has completed the purposes of the contract or appropriation or met performance goals as defined in a cooperative endeavor agreement.

(e) A keyword index for the category of service the nongovernmental entity is providing.

(f) The compliance status of all reports submitted pursuant to R.S. 39:89.3(A).

B. Each state agency distributing or awarding appropriated funds to nongovernmental entities shall comply with the requirements of this Section and submit all documentation as prescribed herein upon receipt and by rules promulgated by the commissioner of administration pursuant to R.S. 39:16.3(A).

Acts 2025, No. 467, §1, eff. June 30, 2025.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1410.61 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1410.61
Approval of application; special fiscal elections
Status: in_force

Before incurring any debt, holding any election to authorize the incurring of any debt or the levy of any special tax, borrowing any money for any purpose whatever, issuing any bonds or other evidences whatever of debt, levying any tax or pledging any tax or revenue or income for the payment of any such bonds or debt, where they are authorized so to do by the constitution and the laws of this state, every such governmental agency of the state of Louisiana named in R.S. 39:1410.60 shall obtain the consent and approval of the commission.

Acts 1990, No. 500, §1, eff. July 18, 1990.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1336 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1336
Format of budget submission
Status: in_force

A. Standard forms to be used for annual budget submission by licensing agencies shall be developed jointly by the legislative auditor and the legislative fiscal office and submitted to the committee for its approval. These forms shall be based to the extent practicable on the forms for agency budget requests as required by R.S. 39:45,* shall conform to the fiscal year of the state, and shall include but not be limited to the following:

(1) A budget message signed by the budget preparer which shall include a summary description of the proposed financial plan, policies, and objectives and assumptions.

(2) Narrative explanations describing the purpose and functions of the licensing agency.

(3) Statements for the last completed fiscal year, estimates covering the entire current fiscal year, and projections for the ensuing fiscal year, as follows:

(a) A statement showing fund balances of the licensing agency at the beginning of each year and at the conclusion of each fiscal year.

(b) A statement of revenues and receipts, itemized by source.

(c) Detailed comparative statements of expenditures itemized by source of funds and expenditure category by each major function, program, or service.

(d) Clearly defined indicators of the quantity and quality of performance of agency functions, including number of individuals certified, number and complexity of investigations conducted, number of revocations or suspensions of licensure, number of certification examinations performed, and other indicators relevant to the licensing functions performed.

(e) Participation of agency personnel and board members in state employee benefit programs, including insurance and retirement programs.

B. The legislative auditor is hereby empowered and directed to promulgate and distribute to licensing agencies the standard forms approved by the committee for use in annual budget submission to the committee.

Acts 1989, No. 751, §2, eff. July 8, 1989.

*NOTE: PRIOR TO AMENDMENT BY ACTS 1989, NO. 836, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:322 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 322
Appointment of property managers
Status: in_force

The head of each agency shall designate one of its officers or employees as property manager for the agency. If an agency has a large amount of property or if its property is kept in more than one location, or is used in pools, the commissioner may authorize the appointment of more than one property manager and the division of responsibility among the property managers in the agency. The heads of agencies shall allow property managers the necessary time and provide them with the necessary supplies and assistance for performance of their duties under this Part, and the heads of the agencies shall be responsible for seeing that the provisions of this Part are carried out.

Added by Acts 1964, No. 115, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1451 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1451
Publication of resolution or ordinance; peremption
Status: in_force

A. Any resolution or ordinance authorizing the issuance of refunding bonds shall be published one time in the official journal of the issuer or, if the issuer does not have an official journal, one time in a newspaper of general circulation within the jurisdiction of the issuer; however, it shall not be necessary to publish any exhibits to such resolution or ordinance if the same are available for public inspection and such fact is stated in the publication.

B. For thirty days after the date of publication, any person in interest may contest the legality of the resolution or ordinance, any provision of the refunding bonds to be issued pursuant to it, the provisions therein made for the security and payment of the refunding bonds and the validity of all other provisions and proceedings relating to the authorization and issuance of such bonds.

C. After the said thirty days, no person may contest the regularity, formality, legality or effectiveness of the resolution or ordinance, any provisions of the refunding bonds to be issued pursuant to it, the provisions for the security and payment of the refunding bonds and the validity of all other provisions and proceedings relating to their authorization and issuance, for any cause whatever. Thereafter, it shall be conclusively presumed that the refunding bonds are legal and that every legal requirement for the issuance of the refunding bonds has been complied with. No court shall have authority to inquire into any of these matters after the said thirty days.

Acts 1984, No. 352, §1, eff. July 2, 1984.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:133 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 133
Receipt and deposit of federal funds
Status: in_force

Pursuant to Section 9(A) of Article VII of the Constitution of Louisiana and except as otherwise provided therein, all federal funds shall be deposited in the state treasury upon receipt by any state agency. Such funds shall be withdrawn only pursuant to appropriation by the legislature as provided in this Part. Detailed and accurate accounting records shall be maintained for such federal funds.

Acts 1989, No. 836, §1, eff. July 1, 1989.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:508 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 508
Applicability of general bond laws
Status: in_force

Bonds issued under this Part shall be further subject to R.S. 39:244, Chapters 13, 13-A, and 14 of Subtitle III all of this Title, provided that in the event of any conflict between this Part and the provisions of said R.S. 39:244, Chapters 13, 13-A, or 14, then the provisions of this Part shall apply to any bonds issued under this Part.

Acts 2018, No. 569, §1, eff. July 1, 2018.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:100.58 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 100.58
Louisiana Small Business and Nonprofit Assistance Fund
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby created in the state treasury, as a special fund, the "Louisiana Small Business and Nonprofit Assistance Fund", hereinafter referred to in this Section as the "fund". Monies in the fund shall be used to provide grants to small businesses and nonprofits for the administration of COVID-19 response and relief efforts in accordance with the provisions of the Louisiana Small Business and Nonprofit Assistance Program as provided in R.S. 39:100.44.2.

B. The treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to transfer ten million dollars from the Louisiana Rescue Plan Fund into the fund. Monies in the fund shall be invested in the same manner as monies in the state general fund. Interest earned on the investment of monies in the fund shall be deposited in and credited to the fund.

C. Any remaining balance in the fund on June 30, 2023, shall be transferred to the Louisiana Rescue Plan Fund.

Acts 2021, No. 410, §1, eff. June 17, 2021.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1735 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1735
Determination of disadvantaged
Status: in_force

The commissioner of administration shall promulgate regulations, rules, standards, and procedures for certifying that small businesses and small businesses owned and operated by socially or economically disadvantaged persons are eligible to participate under the requirements of R.S. 39:1733 and 1734. The procedure for determination of eligibility may include self-certification by a business, provided that the commissioner retains the ability to verify a self-certification. The commissioner shall promulgate other regulations and rules as may be necessary to carry out the duties set forth in this Part.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 715, §1, eff. July 1. 1980. Amended by Acts 1981, No. 691, §2; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1988 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1988
Complaints
Status: in_force

A. Complaints regarding certification of enterprises may be submitted and shall be processed according to rules and regulations adopted by the division pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, R.S. 49:950 et seq.

B. Any individual, firm, agency, or other person who believes that an enterprise certified as a minority business enterprise or as a women's business enterprise does not qualify under the standards of eligibility for certification may file a complaint with the division.

C. The division shall investigate each complaint as promptly as resources allow. In no event shall the investigation period, from the time of receipt of a complaint to the time of completion of the investigation, exceed sixty days. The enterprise shall cooperate fully in the investigation. The division shall notify the enterprise of the complaint by certified mail, return receipt requested. No enterprise shall be decertified based on a complaint without first having an opportunity to respond to the complaint. Failure of the enterprise to respond to the complaint within twenty calendar days of mailing from the division may result in suspension of certification or decertification.

D. The executive director may, at his discretion, suspend the certification of the enterprise pending the outcome of the investigation after providing the enterprise seven calendar days' notice by certified mail, return receipt requested, to show cause in writing why the suspension of certification should not occur. No suspension shall last more than sixty calendar days.

E. After the investigation is completed, the division shall issue a written decision either rejecting the complaint or revoking the certification. The written decision shall be mailed to the enterprise involved and to the complainant, if known.

Acts 1984, No. 653, §1, eff. July 1, 1984; Acts 1992, No. 797, §2, eff. July 1, 1992.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1412 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1412
Effectuation of R.S. 39:1411
Status: in_force

Each department, commission, board, institution, agency and political subdivision of the state and the officers thereof which are empowered to extend financial assistance to any program or activity, by way of grant, loan, or contract other than a contract of insurance or guaranty, shall effectuate the provisions of R.S. 39:1411 with respect to such program or activity by issuing rules, regulations, or orders of general applicability which shall be consistent with achievement of the objectives of the statute authorizing the financial assistance in connection with which the action is taken. No such rule, regulation, or order shall become effective unless and until approved by the governor. Compliance with any requirement adopted pursuant to this section may be effectuated by any means authorized by law; provided, however, that no such action shall be taken until the department or agency concerned has advised the appropriate person or persons of the failure to comply with the requirement and has determined that compliance cannot be secured by voluntary means.

Added by Acts 1972, No. 540, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1001 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1001
Part as full authority
Status: in_force

This Part shall constitute full authority for the accomplishment of all acts herein authorized to be done. No other law restricting the carrying out of the acts authorized to be done shall be construed as applying to any proceedings had or acts done pursuant to this Part.

Acts 1964, No. 520, §11.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1800.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1800.1
Title
Status: in_force

This Chapter shall be referred to and may be cited as the "Louisiana Corrections Private Management Act".

Acts 1989, No. 360, §1, eff. June 28, 1989.

{{NOTE: ACTS 1989, NO 360, §2, PROVIDES AS FOLLOWS:

"Section 2. If, for any reason, the provisions of this Act which provides that no contract shall be entered into unless the contract is approved by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget is declared unconstitutional or invalid, the other provisions of this Act shall be deemed separable and shall not be affected in any manner thereby. In such event, any contract meeting the other conditions and requirements of the Act may be entered into without approval by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget and any such contract previously entered into with approval of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget shall not be invalidated solely on the basis of such approval and shall remain in full force and effect pursuant to the terms and conditions of the contract and of this Act."}}
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1684 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1684
Suspension or debarment proceedings
Status: in_force

A. Scope. This Section applies to a review by the commissioner of a decision under R.S. 39:1672.

B. Time limitation on filing an appeal. The aggrieved person shall file its appeal with the commissioner within fourteen days of the receipt of a decision under R.S. 39:1672(D).

C. Decision. The commissioner shall decide within fourteen days whether, or the extent to which, the debarment or suspension was in accordance with the constitution, statutes, regulations, and the best interests of the state, and was fair. Any prior determination by the state chief procurement officer or his designee shall not be final or conclusive.

D. Notice of decision. A copy of the decision under Subsection C of this Section shall be mailed or otherwise furnished immediately to the debarred or suspended person or any other party interviewing.

E. Finality of decision. A decision under Subsection C of this Section shall be final and conclusive unless one of the following applies:

(1) The decision is fraudulent.

(2) The debarred or suspended person has timely appealed an adverse decision of the Commissioner to the court in accordance with R.S. 39:1691(B).

Added by Acts 1979, No. 715, §1, eff. July 1, 1980; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1432 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1432
Legislative intent
Status: in_force

The intent of the Legislature in enacting this Chapter is to establish uniform provisions for the issuance, execution, registration, and transfer of securities of public entities in fully registered form, and to permit such public entities to use the most technologically advanced and efficient techniques for issuance, transfer, and registration processes.

Added by Acts 1983, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 34, §1, eff. Jan. 19, 1983.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:2159 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 2159
Administrative or civil action
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Chapter, the attorney general may elect to pursue an administrative or civil action against a qui tam defendant through any alternative remedy available to the attorney general.

Acts 2006, No. 479, §1, eff. June 22, 2006.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1647 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1647
Procurement of seats in public seating areas of state buildings; requirements for seats with arms; exceptions
Status: in_force

A. Except as provided in Subsection B of this Section, when the procurement officer of a using agency covered by this Chapter makes any purchase of seats for public seating areas following the renovation or construction of a state building, no fewer than five percent of the total seats purchased shall have arms.

B. This Section shall not apply to any of the following:

(1) Seating located in instructional spaces at public educational institutions.

(2) Seating areas located in stadiums, coliseums, arenas, or similar buildings used as sport or entertainment venues.

(3) Cafeterias or other food service areas.

Acts 2014, No. 416, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1313 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1313
Budget filing
Status: in_force

The chief executive or administrative officer shall retain and file certified copies of the adopted budget, budget adoption instrument, duly authorized budget amendments, and copies of supporting schedules and correspondence related to the budget at the domicile of the governing authority.

Added by Acts 1980, No. 504, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 1980. Amended by Acts 1981, No. 643, §1; Acts 1982, No. 116, §1. Acts 1984, No. 186, §2; Acts 1999, No. 775, §2, eff. July 2, 1999.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:121.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 121.1
Timely submission of invoices
Status: in_force

Any entity administering a capital outlay project included in the comprehensive capital outlay budget may require all parties performing any portion of planning and designing, including engineers and architects, or parties contracted with for the construction of a capital outlay project to submit invoices for the payment of services rendered or performed within one hundred eighty days of the date that the services were rendered or performed. Failure of a party to timely submit an invoice for services rendered or performed shall result in the party's claim for reimbursement or payment from the state being denied.

Acts 2023, No. 82, §1, eff. July 1, 2024.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1173 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1173
To whom certificates of indebtedness may be issued
Status: in_force

For the purpose of evidencing the indebtedness, the governing authorities of parishes, school boards and municipal corporations, subject to the conditions hereinafter prescribed in this Chapter, may issue to any creditor, his representative, assignee, or transferee, a certificate of indebtedness for the amount of the debt due him; provided that two or more debts may be combined and a certificate issued for the whole.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1603 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1603
Limitations on consultants competing for contracts
Status: in_force

A. Any person contracting with an agency for the purposes of developing bidding documents, requests for proposals, or any other type of solicitation related to a specific procurement shall be prohibited from bidding, proposing, or otherwise competing for award of that procurement. Such persons shall further be prohibited from participating as subcontractors related to the award of that procurement.

B. For the purposes of this Section, the following activities shall not be considered "developing bidding documents, requests for proposals, or any other type of solicitation":

(1) Architectural and engineering programming.

(2) Master planning.

(3) Budgeting.

(4) Feasibility analysis.

(5) Constructability review.

(6) Furnishing specification data or other product information.

(7) Any other services that do not establish selection qualifications or evaluation criteria for the procurement of an architect or engineer.

Acts 2008, No. 598, §2, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2009, No. 433, §2; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.

NOTE: Redesignated in part and amended by Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:2163 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 2163
Whistleblower protection and cause of action
Status: in_force

A. No employee shall be discharged, demoted, suspended, threatened, harassed, or discriminated against in any manner in the terms and conditions of his employment because of any lawful act engaged in by the employee or on behalf of the employee in furtherance of any action taken pursuant to this Chapter in regard to a person from whom recovery is or could be sought. Such an employee may seek any and all relief for his injury to which he is entitled under state or federal law.

B. No individual shall be threatened, harassed, or discriminated against in any manner by a business organization, government agency, or other person because of any lawful act engaged in by the individual or on behalf of the individual in furtherance of any action taken pursuant to this Chapter in regard to a person from whom recovery is or could be sought. Such an individual may seek any and all relief for his injury to which he is entitled under state or federal law.

C.(1) An employee of a private entity may bring his action for relief against his employer in the same court as the action or actions were brought pursuant to this Chapter.

(2) A person aggrieved of a violation of Subsection A or B of this Section shall be entitled to treble damages.

D. A qui tam plaintiff shall not be entitled to recovery pursuant to this Section if the court finds that the qui tam plaintiff instituted or proceeded with an action that was frivolous, vexatious, or harassing.

Acts 2006, No. 479, §1, eff. June 22, 2006.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:552 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 552
Parish purposes
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of parishes may incur debt and issue negotiable bonds of the parish for the following purposes: Constructing and maintaining public roads, highways and bridges; drains, drainage canals, pumps and pumping plants, dykes, and levees; constructing waste disposal facilities; sewers and sewerage disposal works; waterworks system; and facilities for pollution control and abatement; courthouses; jails; hospitals; auditoriums; golf courses; stadiums; live stock arenas and show rings; agricultural and live stock exhibition buildings; buildings of like and similar nature, and other public buildings; acquiring buildings, machinery and equipment, including both real and personal property, to be used in giving fire protection to the property in the parish; acquiring and/or improving lands for industrial parks; and such other works of public improvement as the legislature may expressly authorize. Debt may be incurred and bonds may be issued for the necessary equipment and furnishings for the works, buildings and improvements. The title to all works, buildings and improvements shall be in the public.

Amended by Acts 1968, No. 619, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1342 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1342
State agencies, political subdivisions; assistance to committee
Status: in_force

All agencies, boards, commissions, and departments of the state, whether budget or nonbudget units, and of any of its political subdivisions, shall assist the committee in its work and furnish such information, reports, aid, services, and assistance as may be requested by the committee, all without any cost or charge of any nature to the committee.

Acts 1989, No. 751, §2, eff. July 8, 1989.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:2002 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 2002
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this Chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1) "Agency" or "state agency" means any department, office, division, commission, council, board, bureau, committee, institution, agency, government corporation, or other establishment or official of the executive or judicial branches of state government.

(2) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of administration.

(3) "Contract" or "public contract" means all types of state agreements, regardless of what they may be called, for personal services, professional services, consulting services, or social services, or the purchase of materials, supplies, services, or major repairs, or for the making of any public works. It includes awards and notices of award; contracts of a fixed-price, cost, cost-plus-a-fixed-fee, or incentive type; contracts providing for the issuance of job or task orders; leases; letter contracts; and purchase orders. It also includes supplemental agreements with respect to any of the foregoing.

(4) "Contractor" means any person having a contract with a state agency.

(5) "Data" means recorded information, regardless of form or characteristic.

(6) "Goal" means a numerically expressed objective relating to state procurements and public works contracts that a state agency or contractor is encouraged to make a good faith effort to achieve.

(7) "Procurement" means the buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, or otherwise obtaining any materials, supplies, services, or major repairs, personal services, professional services, consulting services, or social services. It also includes all functions that pertain to the obtaining of any public procurement, including description of requirements, selection and solicitation of sources, preparation and award of contract, and all phases of contract administration.

(8) "Public work" means the erection, construction, alteration, improvement, or repair of any public facility or immovable property owned, used, or leased by a state agency.

(9) "Small entrepreneurship" means any corporation, partnership, individual, sole proprietorship, joint stock company, joint venture, or any other legal entity which meets the criteria for certification by the secretary of Louisiana Economic Development pursuant to R.S. 39:2006.

Acts 2005, No. 440, §1, eff. July 11, 2005; Acts 2018, No. 585, §1, eff. May 28, 2018.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1964 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1964
Interference; penalty
Status: in_force

If a person, firm, corporation, business, union, or other organization prevents or interferes with a contractor's or subcontractor's compliance with this Chapter or with any rule adopted under this Chapter, or submits false or fraudulent information to the state concerning compliance with this Chapter or with any rule, or violates this Chapter or any rule adopted under this Chapter, the offender shall be subject to a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars in addition to any other penalty or sanction prescribed by law.

Acts 1984, No. 653, §1, eff. July 1, 1984; Acts 1987, No. 935, §1; Acts 1992, No. 797, §2, eff. July 1, 1992.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:562.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 562.1
Provisions of R.S. 39:562 inapplicable to certain debts and bonds
Status: in_force

The limitations contained in R.S. 39:562 shall not apply to (1) debts assumed under any general law which authorizes any parish to assume the debt of any road district, subroad district, consolidated road district, drainage district, irrigation district, levee district, waterworks district, road lighting district, fire protection district, airport district, hospital service district, recreation district, or sewerage district created by the governing authority of a parish, or school district, wholly within such parish, and if any such district is composed of territory located in more than one parish to assume that proportion of the debt of such district or districts which bears against that territory wholly within such parish upon the condition that the assumption of such debt or proportion of such debt shall be authorized by a vote of a majority of the electors of such parish who vote at an election held for that purpose; (2) debts assumed in accordance with Subpart C of Part 3 of Chapter 4 of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 as amended; or (3) to any refunding bonds issued for the purpose of readjusting, refunding, extending, or unifying the whole or any part of any such assumed indebtedness which may be issued as authorized by law.

Added by Acts 1975, No. 518, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:462.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 462.3
Louisiana Rural Infrastructure Revolving Loan Program Fund
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby established a revolving loan fund in the state treasury to be known as the "Louisiana Rural Infrastructure Revolving Loan Program Fund", hereinafter referred to in this Chapter as the "fund", which shall be maintained and operated by the department. The source of monies deposited in and credited to the fund shall be all grants, gifts, and donations received by the state for the purpose of funding the fund; any money appropriated by the legislature to the fund; the repayment of principal of and interest on loans and other obligations made to local governments financed from the fund; administrative fees; and other revenues as may be provided by law.

B. Money in the fund shall be invested by the state treasurer in the same manner as money in the state general fund. Interest earned on the investment of the money in the fund shall be credited to the fund after compliance with the requirements of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana relative to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund. All unexpended and unencumbered money in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall remain in the fund.

C. The repayment of principal of and interest on loans and other obligations made to local governments financed from the fund shall be deposited into the fund and may be used to finance loans and obligations for projects of other local governments if reserves for expenditures for the administration of the fund that the department deems necessary and prudent are retained in the fund.

D. The department may, by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceedings, protect and enforce any covenant relating to and the security provided in connection with any indebtedness issued pursuant to this Chapter and may, by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceedings, enforce and compel performance of all duties required to be performed by the governing body and officials of any borrower and in any proceedings authorizing the issuance of bonds or other evidences of indebtedness.

E. The department shall promulgate rules and regulations in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, as are necessary, for the following:

(1) To adopt a schedule of reasonable fees and charges to pay for the costs of administering the fund.

(2) To respond to emergency requests and to consider loan applications for eligible emergency projects that have an anticipated useful life of less than twenty years and a value or cost of less than fifty thousand dollars.

(3) To implement the provisions of this Chapter.

F. The department may enter into contracts and other agreements in connection with the operation of the fund.

Acts 2023, No. 424, §1, eff. July 1, 2023.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:196 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 196
Application of Part: responsibility for determining; state chief information officer
Status: in_force

A. The provisions of this Part shall be applicable to all state agencies in the executive branch, as defined in R.S. 36:3(1), except for any agency of a statewide elected official, with respect to the purchase, lease, and rental of all information technology equipment, related services, and software.

B. The office of technology services shall, subject to the provisions of this Part, have sole authority and responsibility for defining the specific information technology systems and information technology services to which the provisions of this Part shall be applicable. Rules and regulations shall be promulgated as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Part.

C.(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law of this Part or any other law to the contrary, any public postsecondary education institution seeking to utilize its own group purchasing and cooperative purchasing procurement provisions shall submit a request for and obtain approval of its management board and the Board of Regents.

(2)(a) The requesting public postsecondary education institution shall adopt its own group purchasing and cooperative purchasing procurement provisions pursuant to rules and regulations in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 49:966(B)(19), the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this Subsection shall be submitted to the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Appropriations for review.

(b) Such rules shall include provisions for adequate public notice in the procurement process.

(3) Authority of an institution to participate in its own group purchasing and cooperative purchasing procurement provisions shall be for an initial term of three years. After the initial term, the institution may be authorized to participate in its own procurement provisions under this Section for an additional term of five years upon approval of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

(4) A report of all group purchasing or cooperative purchasing contracts by each institution authorized under these provisions shall be provided to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget no later than ninety days after the end of each fiscal year. Such report shall, at a minimum, include a measurement of the savings derived from the utilization of the group purchasing or cooperative purchasing process.

D. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the purchase, lease, and rental of all information technology equipment, related services, and software by Louisiana Economic Development shall be exempt from this Part, and the oversight and procurement authority of the chief information officer and office of technology services provided for in R.S. 39:15.1 et seq., except Louisiana Economic Development shall be required to continue as a LaGov agency for use of the enterprise resource planning. Louisiana Economic Development shall develop rules and regulations for the purposes adopted in this Subsection in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. Louisiana Economic Development and the office of technology services shall establish a transition plan that shall be completed by June 30, 2025. The actions taken pursuant to this Subsection shall be subject to the approval of the commissioner of administration before they are sent to committees required for review of agency rules in R.S. 49:966(B)(1).

Acts 1983, No. 478, §2, eff. July 6, 1983; Acts 2001, No. 772, §6, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2014, No. 700, §1, eff. July 1, 2014; Acts 2014, No. 712, §2, eff. July 1, 2014; Acts 2024, No. 590, §2, eff. June 11, 2024.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1563 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1563
Appointment and qualifications
Status: in_force

The state chief procurement officer shall be in the classified service of the state and shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Article X, Section 7 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974. The state chief procurement officer shall have had a minimum of eight years experience in the large scale procurement of supplies, services, or personal, professional, consulting, or social services, involving specification development, the preparation of bid proposals and bid evaluation and award, including at least three years of supervisory experience. Preference shall be given to such experience in governmental purchasing.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 715, §1, eff. July 1, 1980; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:100.41 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 100.41
Legislative intent
Status: in_force

It is the intent of the legislature to provide economic support to Louisiana political subdivisions and businesses for costs incurred for and continued response to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic from federal funds provided pursuant to Section 5001 of the CARES Act, which created the Coronavirus Relief Fund from which the state received over one billion eight hundred million dollars (CARES Act), of which the state's portion is over nine hundred ninety-one million dollars. The state desires to use a portion of the remaining portion of the CARES fund monies in the amount of five hundred eleven million one hundred seventy-eight thousand seven hundred four dollars for economic support through the Coronavirus Local Recovery Allocation Program for local government units to be administered by the division of administration and the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. The state further desires to use a portion of the CARES fund monies in the amount of three hundred million dollars for the Louisiana Main Street Recovery Program for economic support for eligible businesses to be administered by the state treasurer, all as established in this Subpart. The State further desires to use a total of fifty million dollars, of which twenty-five million dollars shall come from the Coronavirus Local Recovery Allocation Fund and twenty-five million dollars shall come from the Louisiana Main Street Recovery Fund, for the funding of a one-time hazard pay rebate for essential critical infrastructure workers.

Acts 2020, No. 311, §1, eff. June 12, 2020; Acts 2020 1 st Ex. Sess., No. 10, §6, eff. July 13, 2020.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:991.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 991.1
Authorization to issue revenue bonds; South Louisiana Port Commission
Status: in_force

In addition to any authority conferred by other laws, the South Louisiana Port Commission created and now operating under the provisions of Chapter 30, Title 34 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, shall constitute a municipal corporation or municipality for the purposes of this Part and may issue its revenue bonds as provided in this Part for purposes set forth in this Part and/or for the purpose of constructing, acquiring or improving port facilities, including those capital improvements described in R.S. 34:2473(C). Such revenue bonds shall be issued in the name of the commission and shall not be general obligations secured by a pledge of the full faith and credit of the state, the commission or the parishes contained within its port area, and the issuance thereof shall not constitute the incurring of state debt under the constitution. The revenue bonds shall be limited obligations of the commission. The principal, interest and redemption premiums on the revenue bonds, if any, shall be payable solely from the income and revenue derived from the sale, lease or other disposition of the project or facility so financed including all or part of the dockage or other fees received by the commission as a result of such project or facility, all as more fully set forth in this Part. Also, in the discretion of the commission the bonds may be additionally secured by a mortgage covering all or any part of the project or facility as more fully set forth in this Part. Notwithstanding other provisions of law to the contrary, title to the sites, projects and/or facilities, and appurtenances thereto acquired and purchased through the issuance of the revenue bonds herein authorized shall vest solely in the commission and shall not vest in the state of Louisiana. The commission may sell, lease, sublease or otherwise dispose of by suitable and appropriate contract the sites, projects and/or facilities, and appurtenances thereto, all or severally, financed by said revenue bonds in the manner provided by this Part. The revenue bonds shall be sold on behalf of the commission by the State Bond Commission in accordance with law and the provisions of this Part. In all other respects the South Louisiana Port Commission is authorized and empowered to issue its revenue bonds to finance projects or facilities as herein described under the authority contained in this Part without the limitations of other laws and the commission may contract with respect to such projects or facilities as herein provided.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 503, §1, emerg. eff. Aug. 1, 1976.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1430.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1430.1
Security interests by public entities
Status: in_force

Any pledge of and grant of security interest in taxes, income, revenues, monies, loan payments, reimbursement payments, or receipts, including without limitation water, gas, garbage, electricity or sewer charges, fees, receipts, rates, rentals, excess revenues, general fund monies or hospital revenues, or loan agreements, reimbursement agreements, or other financing agreements or related contract rights, made by a public entity in connection with the issuance of securities shall be valid, binding, and perfected from the time when the pledge is made. The taxes, income, revenues, monies, payments, or receipts or agreements or contract rights so pledged and then held or thereafter received by the public entity or any fiduciary shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge and security interest without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of such pledge and security interest shall be first priority and valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the public entity, whether or not such parties have notice thereof. Neither the resolution nor any trust agreement or issuing document by which such pledge and security interest is created need be filed or recorded. No filing with respect to such pledge and security interest made by a public entity need be made under Chapter 9 of the Louisiana Commercial Laws, R.S. 10:9-101 et seq., for the perfection or priority of such pledge and security interest.

Acts 2001, No. 128, §14, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2004, No. 303, §4.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:619 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 619
Political subdivisions may not file petitions in federal court for confirmation of readjustment plans without the consent of the state
Status: in_force

No political subdivision, public board or corporation, parish, municipality, road or subroad district, school district, sewerage district, drainage or subdrainage district, levee district, waterworks or sub-waterworks district, irrigation district, road lighting district, harbor or terminal district, or other taxing district, shall, without the consent, approval and authority of the state through the governor and the Attorney General, file any petition in any court of the United States for confirmation of any plan of readjustment of its debts, or take any action to carry out any plan of readjustment of its debts, confirmed by any court of the United States. The term "debts" as herein used shall include, but shall not be limited to, bonds, notes, certificates of indebtedness, open accounts, or other indebtedness.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:338 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 338
Compromise of tax claims on property adjudicated to the state
Status: in_force

The commissioner of administration shall have full power and authority to compromise all claims of the state for taxes due on property adjudicated to the state by remission of all interest and costs, conditional upon payment by the owner of the property of all taxes due; however, this Section shall apply only to properties of the value of one thousand dollars and less, and shall not apply to taxes with respect to which the tax privilege or mortgage has not prescribed.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 649, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1564 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1564
Authority of the state chief procurement officer
Status: in_force

A. Central procurement officer of the state. The state chief procurement officer shall serve as the central procurement officer of the state.

B. Power to adopt rules. Consistent with the provisions of this Chapter, the state chief procurement officer may adopt rules governing the internal procedures of the central purchasing agency.

C. Duties. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Chapter, the state chief procurement officer shall, within the limitations of regulations promulgated by the commissioner:

(1) Procure or supervise the procurement of all supplies, services, major repairs, and personal, professional, consulting, and social services needed by the state.

(2) Exercise supervision over all inventories of warehoused supplies belonging to the state.

(3) Establish and maintain programs for the inspection, testing, and acceptance of supplies, services, and major repairs.

(4) To provide for contractual forms and specifications to be used in the confection of all contracts provided for in this Chapter.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 715, §1, eff. July 1, 1980; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:100.65 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 100.65
Special Education Classroom Monitoring Fund
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby created in the state treasury, as a special fund, the Special Education Classroom Monitoring Fund, hereinafter referred to as the "fund." The fund shall consist of any monies appropriated, allocated, or transferred to the fund.

B. Monies in the fund shall be invested in the same manner as monies in the state general fund. Interest earned on investment of monies in the fund shall be credited to this fund. Unexpended and unencumbered monies in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund.

C. Subject to an appropriation by the legislature, monies in the fund shall be solely used for the installation of cameras in classrooms as provided for in R.S. 17:1948 and 3996(B)(65).

Acts 2022, No. 167, §4, eff. May 30, 2022.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:461.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 461.3
Fiscal information
Status: in_force

A. The board shall submit to the Legislative Fiscal Office and the division of administration a copy of each request that is made to the board within twenty-four hours of receipt of such request to allow sufficient time for a written analysis of each request to be made. Prior to each meeting of the board, the secretary of the board shall submit to each member of the board an agenda with a copy of the analysis prepared by the Legislative Fiscal Office and the division of administration. No request shall be considered without such analysis having been made available to each board member prior to each meeting.

B. Upon approval of a specific request by the board, a copy of the analysis of that request made by the Legislative Fiscal Office and the division of administration shall be transmitted, together with other documents required herein to each member of the legislature along with the ballot.

C. The board may request the division of administration or other such public official or agency as the board may determine to make available a report showing the anticipated receipt from all sources of state revenue for the period for which such funds are sought.

D. The board shall provide the head of the agency requesting funds from the board and the person charged with approving the program for which such funds shall be expended full opportunity to be heard and to make recommendations thereon to the board.

E. The clerk of the House of Representatives and the secretary of the Senate shall cause to be submitted to each member of the legislature a quarterly report showing the balance on hand of the interim emergency fund as well as a list of approved projects for the preceding quarter.

Acts 1974, Ex.Sess., No. 10, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1975. Amended by Acts 1981, No. 620, §3, eff. July 1, 1981; Acts 1982, No. 502, §3; Acts 2008, No. 427, §1, eff. June 21, 2008.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1797.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1797.1
Limitations of actions against the corporation
Status: in_force

A. In any action for damages for an offense or quasi offense against the corporation, its officers, or employees, the corporation, its officers, or employees are entitled to assert any defense or limitation available to the state or an agency thereof, including but not limited to the provisions of Part XV of Chapter 32 of Title 13 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

B. In any claim or lawsuit against the corporation or its officers or employees for damages arising out of personal injury or death of an official or employee of the state, its agencies, boards or commissions, the exclusive, compulsory and obligatory relief shall be limited to the remedies and relief afforded under Chapter 10 of Title 23 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, including but not limited to R.S. 23:1034.

Acts 2001, No. 1058, §1, eff. June 28, 2001.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:373 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 373
Exemption
Status: in_force

The provisions of this Chapter shall in no way prescribe other sections of law in regard to the cash management responsibilities of the state treasurer or the commissioner of administration.

Acts 1990, No. 468, §1, eff. July 1, 1990.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1991 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1991
Change in ownership
Status: in_force

A change in ownership resulting in less than fifty-one percent ownership shall be reported to the division, and the enterprise shall immediately be decertified. Failure to report shall result in a fine of not less than one thousand dollars, and, if the enterprise continues to operate as a minority-owned business or as a women's business enterprise, failure to report shall result in a fine of not less than five thousand dollars and immediate decertification.

Acts 1984, No. 653, §1, eff. July 1, 1984; Acts 1992, No. 797, §2, eff. July 1, 1992.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:344 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 344
Warrants; form
Status: in_force

A. In all cases of accounts which are audited and allowed against the state, and in all cases of grants, salaries, and expenses allowed by law, the commissioner of administration shall draw a warrant upon the state treasurer for the amount due.

B. This warrant shall contain a certification showing the amount due by the state, the reason therefor, to whom it is due, and a direction to the state treasurer to pay this sum out of funds appropriated for that purpose.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 649, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1992 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1992
Alternative certification procedure
Status: in_force

A. In lieu of the certification procedures established in this Part or by administrative rules, the division may accept documentation from the applicant that it is certified by one of the following:

(1) The Department of Transportation and Development.

(2) The United States Small Business Administration's 8-A program for certification of minority-owned firms or women-owned firms, provided that the applicant meets the definition of "minority business enterprise" or "women's business enterprise" in R.S. 39:1952.

B. The documentation accepted pursuant to Subsection A of this Section, along with any other documentation as required by this Part or by administrative rule which the division deems necessary, shall be sufficient to qualify the applicant as eligible for certification.

Acts 1992, No. 797, §2, eff. July 1, 1992.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:782 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 782
Time and place of election; persons entitled to vote
Status: in_force

A. The special election shall be held under the general election laws of the state, so far as applicable, and at the polling places at which the last preceding general or congressional election was held, and not sooner than thirty days after the official publication of the ordinance ordering the election.

B. It shall not be necessary that the registration office be kept open prior to any election held under the authority of this Part, and Section 19, Article XIV of the Constitution of 1921, and all special elections heretofore held without that formality, are hereby confirmed, validated and ratified.

C. All persons who become qualified voters under this Part and the constitution of the state, after the close of the last general registration, shall be allowed to vote by the commissioners of the election whether their names appear on the poll books or not.

Amended by Acts 1952, No. 127, §14.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:4 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 4
Functions
Status: in_force

A. The functions of the division of administration shall comprise all administrative functions of the state in relation to the duties outlined in law, except as otherwise expressly provided.

B. The provisions of this Chapter shall not apply to the judiciary of the state, except the office of the Attorney General to which they shall apply, nor to the legislature.

C. The division of administration shall exercise such other duties and functions germane to its primary functions as may be prescribed by law or as directed by the governor by executive order.

Amended by Acts 1952, No. 58, §4; Acts 1954, No. 37, §1; Acts 1956, No. 42, §1; Acts 1958, No. 458, §1; Acts 1976, No. 659, §1; Acts 1989, No. 836, §1, eff. July 1, 1989.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1708 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1708
Public procurement units in compliance with code requirements
Status: in_force

Where the public procurement unit or external procurement activity administering a cooperative purchase complies with the requirements of this Chapter, any public procurement unit participating in such a purchase shall be deemed to have complied with this Chapter. Public procurement units may not enter into a cooperative purchasing agreement for the purpose of circumventing this Chapter.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 715, §1, eff. July 1, 1980; Acts 2014, No. 864, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:621 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 621
Enactment declared to be under powers reserved to state by federal constitution and laws
Status: repealed

The legislature declares that it enacts R.S. 39:619 through 622 in the exercise of the powers reserved to the state by the tenth amendment to the constitution of the United States and by the Act of Congress approved May 24, 1934, c. 345, 48 Stat. 798, and in order to keep unimpaired the obligations of the contracts of the state, its political subdivisions, public boards and corporations, parishes, municipalities, and other taxing districts, and in their enforcement and payment to afford the holders of such contracts the due process of law guaranteed to them by the constitutions of the United States and the State of Louisiana. The legislature also declares that it enacts this legislation in furtherance of the condition imposed by the Congress of the United States for the confirmation of any plan of readjustment of debts authorized by the Act of Congress approved May 24, 1934, c. 345, 48 Stat. 798, which condition is that no such plan shall be confirmed by the courts of the United States unless the taxing district, as defined in said Act, is authorized by law, upon confirmation of the plan, to take all action necessary to carry out the plan.

Amended by Acts 1950, No. 316, §10.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:505 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 505
Authorization, sale, execution, and registration of bonds
Status: in_force

A. Each governing authority shall have authority to adopt all proceedings necessary for the authorization, sale, and delivery of bonds, including the right to enter into all contractual arrangements as may be necessary to effectuate the purpose for which the bonds are being issued upon terms determined by the governing authority. Bonds issued under this Part may be issued by either resolution or ordinance, unless the use of a resolution or the use of an ordinance is specifically required by law or home rule charter.

B. Bonds issued under this Part may be sold at a public or private sale upon such terms, in the manner and by following such procedures as may be determined by the governing authority of the governmental entity. No bond issued under this Part shall be required to be registered with the secretary of state or any other office or official.

C. Bonds issued under this Part may be secured additionally by credit enhancement, or be entitled to the benefits of a financial products agreement, the cost of which, upon a finding of benefit therefrom by the governing authority, may be paid from the proceeds of the bonds or other lawfully available funds. Bonds may also be secured by a trust agreement or trust indenture by and between the governmental entity and one or more corporate trustees.

D. In addition to the foregoing, the proceedings authorizing the issuance of bonds may provide that such bonds will be of such series, bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or rates payable at such times, be in such denominations, be in such form, carry such registration and exchangeability privileges, be payable in such medium and at such place or places within or without the state, be subject to such terms of prepayment or redemption, be entitled to such priorities on the pledged taxes, revenues, or other source of security, as such proceedings may provide. Bonds shall be executed in the name of the governmental entity by the manual or facsimile signatures of such official or officials of the governmental entity designated by the governing authority in said proceedings. At least one signature on each bond shall be a manual signature, which manual signature may be an authenticating signature by a designated bank or other financial institution or person, and facsimile signatures may be used in the manner provided by law. The seal, or a facsimile thereof, of the governmental entity may, but is not required to be affixed, imprinted, engraved, or otherwise reproduced upon each bond. The delivery of any bonds so executed at any time thereafter shall be valid, although before the date of delivery, any person or persons signing the bonds shall cease to hold office.

Acts 2018, No. 569, §1, eff. July 1, 2018.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1410.52 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1410.52
Exemption from taxes
Status: in_force

All notes authorized to be issued pursuant to the provisions of this Part, together with interest thereon, income therefrom, and gain upon the sale thereof, shall be exempt from state and local taxes.

Acts 1991, No. 827, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:2201 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 2201
Title
Status: in_force

This Chapter shall be known as the "Louisiana First Hiring Act".

Acts 2012, No. 414, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1798 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1798
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this Chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates or requires another or different meaning or intent:

(1) "Act" means this Office Facilities Corporation Act.

(2) "Bonds" means bonds, notes, or any other evidence of indebtedness issued by the corporation.

(3) "Certificates" means certificates of participation executed and delivered by a trustee evidencing ownership interests in any lease entered into by the state, as lessee, and the corporation, as lessor.

(4) "Corporation" means the nonprofit corporation authorized to be formed by this Chapter, or any corporation succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to which the powers conferred upon the corporation by this Chapter shall be given by law. It is further declared that any such corporation shall not constitute a state agency, board, or commission.

(5) "Public facilities" means buildings, parking garages, and related facilities used or to be used to house personnel, equipment, and/or services of the various agencies of the state government.

(6) "Division of administration" means the division of administration created within the office of the governor by Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

(7) "Lease-purchase financing" is the financing and acquisition of property by a corporation pursuant to an arrangement under which such corporation acquires title to property and enters into a lease-purchase agreement with the state providing for the leasing of the property by such corporation to the state and acquisition by the state at the end of the lease period of title to the property.

(8) "Project" means the acquisition, purchase, construction, renovation, improvement, or expansion of a public facility by the corporation, to be financed with funds provided in whole or in part pursuant to this Chapter.

(9) "Annual appropriation dependency clause" shall mean a clause which shall be included in any lease-purchase financing document which provides that if, after a diligent and good faith effort by the state to appropriate funds for the payment of sums due under a lease-purchase financing agreement, such funds are not appropriated, such lease-purchase agreement shall terminate in accordance with the terms of the lease-purchasing financing agreement and the state shall not be liable for the payment of further sums due on such agreements past the then current fiscal year; provided possession of the project is returned to the corporation. Such lease-purchase financing document shall further provide that in the event of an inability to appropriate sufficient funds such inability shall not constitute a default under such agreement.

(10) "State" means the state of Louisiana or any agency or instrumentality thereof.

Acts 1989, No. 805, §1, eff. July 8, 1989.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:125 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 125
Acceptance of project; guarantee period
Status: in_force

A. The facility planning and control section shall be responsible for directing final payment for work done on each project. However, if upon final inspection of any project it shall be found that the plans, specifications, contract, or change orders for the project shall not have been fully complied with, the facility planning and control section shall, until such compliance shall have been effected or adjustments satisfactory to it shall have been made, refuse to direct such payment.

B. Upon completion of the project the facility planning and control section shall release it to the agency. The facility planning and control section shall be responsible for making an inspection of the project prior to the expiration of the guarantee period to observe any defects which may appear within one year after completion of the contract. The facility planning and control section shall give prompt written notice to the contractor of defects which are due to faulty materials and workmanship.

Acts 1989, No. 836, §1, eff. July 1, 1989.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1800.30 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1800.30
Bonds and certificates; payment; no liability of state or political subdivision
Status: in_force

Neither bonds nor certificates shall be deemed to constitute a debt or liability of the state of Louisiana or of any agency, board, or political subdivision thereof or a pledge of the full faith and credit of the state of Louisiana or of any such agency, board, or political subdivision.

Acts 2010, No. 556, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1219 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1219
Fiscal agent banks; trust funds and security
Status: in_force

Any fiscal agent bank, operating under the laws of this state for the purpose of paying bonds and coupons of this state, of any political subdivision, or of any depositing authority, shall set aside all such funds deposited by any depositing authority as trust funds, and it shall deposit and maintain with an unaffiliated bank, the security designated in R.S. 39:1221 in the same manner provided in R.S. 39:1221; R.S. 39:1223; R.S. 39:1224. This security shall be for the account of the depositing authority, and, as a guarantee against loss to either the depositing authority or the holders of the bonds and coupons, it shall at all times be equal to one hundred per cent of the balance on deposit in the trust funds.

The provisions of this Section shall apply, except as they may be in conflict with the laws of other states, to all funds deposited in any bank located in any state other than this state, where money is deposited or paid for the purpose of paying bonds and coupons of any depositing authority.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:53 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 53
Adoption of financial plan
Status: in_force

A. The financial plan presented in the executive budget shall be adopted by the passage of such appropriation and revenue acts and such other acts as the legislature may deem necessary to make the financial plan effective and with such amendments as may be determined by the legislature.

B. The financial plan so adopted by the legislature shall be evidenced by the state budget and described by the legislative summary of appropriations for the year which are to be prepared in accordance with the provisions of this Part.

C. The legislature may review and modify the program budget format of the general appropriation bill and other appropriation bills. The format so adopted shall be implemented by the division of administration as prescribed.

D. The fiscal year of the state shall commence on the first day of July of each year and end on the thirtieth day of June of the year next following.

Acts 1989, No. 836, §1, eff. July 1, 1989.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:462.8 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 462.8
Subject to appropriation
Status: in_force

The implementation of this Chapter shall be subject to the appropriation of funds by the legislature for this purpose.

Acts 2023, No. 424, §1, eff. July 1, 2023.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:343 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 343
Accounts, vouchers, and documents to be preserved; copies
Status: repealed

The commissioner of administration shall preserve in his office all accounts, vouchers and documents settled by him, and give copies thereof, duly authenticated, to any interested person.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 649, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:57.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 57.1
Allocation of expenditures
Status: in_force

A. The commissioner of administration shall notify each budget unit as to the nature and amount of appropriations contained in the General Appropriation Act or other acts for such unit, including the sources of funding supporting such appropriations, no later than two weeks after the effective date of such act.

B. Additionally, the commissioner may review and approve the initial allocation of expenditures for each appropriation for a fiscal year.

Acts 1997, No. 1403, §2, eff. July 1, 1997.
La. Rev. Stat. § 39:1226 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 39 / Section 1226
Additional security; failure to provide
Status: in_force

If the security required under the provisions of R.S. 39:1221, R.S. 39:1223, R.S. 39:1224, or R.S. 39:1225 is not furnished by a fiscal agency or depository bank, the depositing authority may require such additional or other security as shall bring the total to the required amount. If any bank fails to comply, within five business days from receipt of demand for such additional security, a meeting of the depositing authority may forthwith convene and declare the contract cancelled. If cancelled the depositing authority shall immediately proceed in the same manner as in the case of original letting, and relet the deposits of the bank for the unexpired term of the agency, under the terms and upon the conditions provided in this Chapter.