La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2481.5 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 2481.5
Deputy chief of police; competitive appointment; city of Alexandria
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3 of Act No. 748 of the 2010 Regular Session of the Legislature, the governing authority of the city of Alexandria may create, by ordinance, the position of deputy chief of police in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 33:2481.4.

Acts 2012, No. 247, §1, eff. May 25, 2012.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:140.71 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 140.71
Railroad Development District; creation; territorial jurisdiction
Status: in_force

A. The governing authorities of two or more parishes may by ordinance create a railroad development district composed of any part or all of the territory wholly within the boundaries of the parishes. The railroad development district, hereinafter referred to as the "district", if created, is hereby constituted and is declared to be a body politic and political subdivision of the state of Louisiana, as defined in Article VI, Section 44 of the Constitution of Louisiana. Pursuant to Article VI, Sections 19 and 21 of the Constitution of Louisiana, the district, acting through its board of commissioners, the governing authority of said district, is hereby granted all of the rights, powers, privileges, and immunities granted to political subdivisions for economic development purposes, including but not limited to the power of taxation, the power to incur debt and issue revenue and general obligation bonds, certificates of indebtedness, bond and certificate anticipation notes, and refunding bonds, subject to the limitations hereinafter provided.

B. The district created pursuant hereto shall be established for the primary object and purpose of promoting and encouraging development of rail service in the area of the parishes to stimulate the economy through renewed commerce, industry, and for the utilization and development of natural and human resources of the area by providing job opportunities.

C. Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 198, §2, eff. June 29, 2005.

Acts 2004, No. 435, §1, eff. June 24, 2004; Acts 2005, No. 198, §2, eff. June 29, 2005.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:1351 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 1351
Short title
Status: in_force

This Subpart shall be known and may be cited as the "Local Housing Authority Self-Insurance Act of 1981."

Added by Acts 1981, No. 802, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4729 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4729
Conflicting regulations; higher standards to apply
Status: in_force

Wherever the regulations made under authority of R.S. 33:4721 through R.S. 33:4729 require a greater width or size of side yards, courts, or other open spaces, or require a lower height of building or less number of stories, or require a greater percentage of lot to be left unoccupied, or impose other higher standards than are required in any other statute or local ordinance or regulation, the provisions of the regulations made under authority of R.S. 33:4721 through R.S. 33:4729 shall govern. Wherever the provisions of any other statute, local ordinance, or regulation require a greater width or size of yards, courts, or other open spaces, or require a lower height of building or a less number of stories, or require a greater percentage of lot to be left unoccupied, or impose other higher standards than are required by the regulations made under authority of R.S. 33:4721 through R.S. 33:4729 the provisions of such statute, local ordinance, or regulation shall govern.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2740.88 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 2740.88
Exemption of certain parishes
Status: in_force

The provisions of this Subpart shall not apply to the parishes of Lincoln, Jackson, and Ouachita.

Acts 2003, No. 904, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4066.11 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4066.11
Special assessments; installment notes; effect of default; assessment lien
Status: in_force

A. Upon receipt of the certified statement or report of the engineer of the parish, sewerage district, or commission as provided for in the preceding Section, the governing authority shall review said certified statement or report, including the proposed local or special assessments, and thereafter shall make a determination as to whether each lot or parcel of real estate to be assessed will be benefited to an amount of not less than the proposed local or special assessment. Proposed assessments that are found by the governing authority to have been erroneously assessed or for which the governing authority does not find said benefit shall be deleted from said certified statement or report. The deletion of such proposed assessments from said certified statement or report for either of said reasons shall in no way invalidate or affect the legality of the contract awarded for the construction of said proposed improvements nor shall such deletions constitute a violation of the public contracts law of this state.

B. Following said review and finding as to benefit by said governing authority, there shall be mailed to each property owner to be assessed a notice advising each property owner of his proposed assessment and the manner and time for payment thereof. Said notice shall set forth a general description of the proposed improvements, such description of the property to be assessed, and the location thereof as the governing authority may deem necessary and shall notify the property owner to advise the governing authority in writing within five days from date of said notice if inaccuracies exist in the proposed assessment. The aforesaid notice shall be given by depositing said written notice in the United States mail, postage paid, and addressed to the property owner at his address as it appeared on the last approved tax roll on which the property owner was assessed for taxes by the governing authority. The certificate of the clerk or secretary of the governing authority levying any such assessments that the aforesaid notice has been given in writing to all property owners to be assessed shall establish a conclusive legal presumption that all requirements of notice as set forth hereinabove have been legally satisfied. The property owner to be assessed may waive the sending of this notice at or prior to the public hearing held pursuant to Section 4066.9 hereof.

C. After fifteen days have elapsed from the date of mailing, if not waived, of the proposed assessment, the governing authority shall adopt an ordinance levying a local special assessment on each lot or parcel of real estate to be improved. The assessment on each lot or parcel shall be based on the total cost of constructing and maintaining the individual sewerage system, including engineers' and attorneys' fees and all other costs of the project, on the particular lot or parcel to be improved.

D.(1) The amount assessed in said ordinance shall be due and collectible immediately on its passage, and if not paid within thirty days from the date of the adoption of said ordinance, it will be conclusively presumed that any property owner whose property is affected thereby, exercise the right and option, which is hereby authorized, to pay the amount due in equal annual installments bearing interest at a rate or rates not exceeding the maximum rate provided for conventional interest by Article 2924 of the Louisiana Civil Code as the same now exists or may hereafter be amended, payable annually and extending over a period not exceeding twenty years, all within the discretion of the governing authority of said parish, sewerage district, or commission, and as provided for in the ordinance levying such local or special assessments. The first installment shall become due on December thirty-first of the then current year or one year after the date of the assessment ordinance herein provided for, in the discretion of the governing authority of the parish, sewerage district, or commission, and annually thereafter. The failure to pay any installment or interest thereon when due shall ipso facto cause all other installments and the interest thereon to become due and payable and the parish, sewerage district, or commission may within thirty days from date of such default, proceed against the property for the collection of the total amount due thereon, including interest, plus twenty percent additional on principal and interest of the past due installment or installments or twenty percent of the amount sued for, and in the event judgment is necessary to effect collection, twenty percent of the amount of the judgment rendered as attorneys' fees. However, said attorneys' fees shall be payable by the property owner only if demand by the governing authority through registered or certified mail has been made on the property owner and he has failed to pay the amount due within ten days after such demand.

(2) The option to pay in equal annual installments may be converted into the option of the property owner to pay such annual installments in advance in twelve monthly installments pursuant to a written agreement with assessing entity. A certified copy of said ordinance levying the local or special assessments on the real estate as aforesaid shall be filed with the clerk of court in the parish in which the parish, sewerage district, or commission is situated, who shall forthwith record the same in the mortgage records of the parish, and when so filed and recorded shall operate as a lien and privilege against all real estate therein assessed, and which aforesaid lien and privilege shall prime all other claims except taxes and prior recorded local or special assessments levied for streets or sewerage or water.

E. The payments made in cash shall be expended for no purpose other than the payment of the cost of said improvements. Any errors in descriptions or amounts in any assessment ordinance adopted pursuant to this Section may be corrected by the adoption of an amendatory ordinance which need set forth only the corrected descriptions or amounts and which amendatory ordinance shall be recorded in the same manner as the original ordinance levying the assessments. The adoption of any such corrective ordinance shall serve only to postpone the thirty-day period for cash payment in full of the assessment actually affected and corrected by such amendatory ordinance, and the due dates of the installments of such assessments so corrected as are not paid in full in cash within thirty days from the date of adoption of the amendatory ordinance shall be the same as the due dates of the installments of the assessments levied in the original ordinance and not affected or corrected by any such amendatory ordinance or ordinances.

Acts 1987, No. 919, §1, eff. July 20, 1987.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:3063 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 3063
Financing prepayments
Status: in_force

Any governing authority may borrow money for the purpose of financing any advance payment of the cost of insurance or in the case of an interlocal risk management agency, to establish reserves for risk sharing or for reinsurance purposes. Such borrowing shall be for a term not exceeding ten years, shall bear interest at such rate or rates determined by the governing authority and shall be authorized by appropriate ordinance or resolution of the governing authority or board of trustees of an interlocal risk management agency. The resolution or ordinance authorizing such borrowing may contain appropriate covenants requiring the governing authority to budget in future years sufficient revenues to meet all anticipated expenditures, and may otherwise contain such other covenants as the governing authority deems appropriate including but not limited to covenants regarding expenditure of revenues, accounting, and reporting. The interest on such borrowing shall be exempt from all taxation in the state of Louisiana and no court shall have authority or jurisdiction to inquire into the legality of such borrowing and the terms thereof if the validity thereof is not raised within thirty days of the publication of the resolution or ordinance authorizing such borrowing.

Acts 1986, No. 973, §1, eff. July 14, 1986.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4780.33 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4780.33
Restrictions on authority
Status: in_force

Nothing in this Subpart shall be construed to authorize property use contrary to existing zoning classifications or to authorize the reclassification of such zones.

Acts 1988, No. 505, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2183 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 2183
Personnel files
Status: in_force

A. No fire employee shall have any comment adverse to his or her interest entered in his or her personnel file or any other file used for any personnel purposes by his employer without the fire employee having first read and signed the instrument containing the adverse comment indicating that he or she is aware of such comment, except that such entry may be made if, after reading such instrument, the fire employee refuses to sign it. Should a fire employee refuse to sign, that fact shall be noted on the document and signed or initialed by such fire employee.

B. A fire employee shall have thirty days within which to file a written response to any adverse comment entered in his or her personnel file. Such written response shall be attached to and shall accompany the adverse comment.

Acts 1997, No. 1436, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4600.7 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4600.7
Notice; public hearing; majority protest
Status: in_force

A. If a tourist commission proposes to levy a new or increased business assessment pursuant to this Chapter, notice shall be mailed to the owners of the businesses proposed to be assessed. A protest may be made orally or in writing by any interested person. Every written protest shall be filed with the tourist commission at or before the time fixed for the public hearing. The tourist commission may waive any irregularity in the form or content of any written protest. A written protest may be withdrawn in writing at any time before the conclusion of the public hearing. Each written protest shall contain a description of the business in which the person subscribing the protest is interested sufficient to identify the business and, if a person subscribing is not shown on the official records of the city as the owner of the business, the protest shall contain or be accompanied by written evidence that the person subscribing is the owner of the business or the authorized representative. A written protest that does not comply with the requirements of this Subsection shall not be counted in determining a majority protest.

B.(1) If written protests are received from the owners or authorized representatives of businesses in the proposed tourism recovery and improvement district who will pay more than sixty-seven percent of the assessments proposed to be levied or represent more than sixty-seven percent of the total assessed businesses by number, then no further proceedings to levy the proposed assessment against such businesses shall be taken for a period of one year from the date of the finding of a majority protest by the tourist commission.

(2) In the case of a protest weighted by the number of owners of businesses or authorized representatives of businesses who will pay more than sixty-seven percent of the assessments to be levied, the amount of assessment attributable to a business owned by the same business owner that is in excess of fifty percent of the amount of all assessments proposed to be levied, shall not exceed the value of fifty percent in determining whether the petition is signed by business owners who will pay more than sixty-seven percent of the total amount of assessments proposed to be levied.

Acts 2021, No. 319, §1, eff. June 15, 2021.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:9038.61 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 9038.61
Tax increment financing; certain purposes; city of Baton Rouge
Status: in_force

A. The provisions of this Section shall be applicable to the city of Baton Rouge. The provisions of this Part not in conflict with this Section shall apply to the city of Baton Rouge.

B. Creation. The governing authority of a city may create a special taxing district and political subdivision of the state, referred to in this Section as the "district", to fund construction of or renovations to a hotel and related facilities in the city.

C. Boundaries. Notwithstanding any provision of this Section to the contrary, the boundaries of any such district or districts created pursuant to the provisions of this Section in the city of Baton Rouge shall only be in the following lots or parcels of ground:

(1) A certain lot or parcel of ground composed of two (2) fractional lots, together with the building and improvements, situated in that subdivision of the City of Baton Rouge, known as BEAUREGARD TOWN and being designated according to the official map of said city made by F. F. Pillet, C. E., adopted by the Commission Council on October 21, 1930 as the West one-half (W-1/2) of Lots One (1) and Two (2), Square Twenty-nine (29), said Beauregard Town, said lot herein described measuring sixty-four (64) feet front on the South side of North Boulevard by a depth of one hundred twenty-eight (128) feet between equal and parallel lines and along St. Ferdinand Street.

(2) One certain lot or parcel of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the parish of East Baton Rouge, state of Louisiana, in that subdivision known as HICKEY, DUNCAN & MATHER TOWN, and begin designated on the official plan of said subdivision, on file and of record in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of said parish and state, as Lot Number Five (5), Square Two (2) or Ninety-four (94), said subdivision, said lot herein described measuring sixty-four (64) feet front on Lafayette Street by a depth of one hundred twenty-eight (128) feet between equal and parallel lines and along Convention Street, said lot containing 8,192 square feet or 0.188 acres.

D. Purpose. The district shall have as its purpose cooperative economic development between the city, the hotel in the district, the district, and the state in order to provide for the renovation, restoration, and development of a hotel in the city.

E. Governance. In order to provide for the orderly development of the district and effectuation of the purposes of the district, the district shall be administered and governed by a board of commissioners established by the municipal governing authority in the ordinance creating the district.

F. Rights and powers. The district, acting by and through its board of commissioners, shall have and exercise all powers of a political subdivision and special taxing district necessary or convenient for the carrying out of its objects and purposes including but not limited to the following:

(1) To sue and to be sued.

(2) To adopt bylaws and rules and regulations.

(3) To receive by gift, grant, donation, or otherwise any sum of money, property, aid, or assistance from the United States, the state of Louisiana, or any political subdivision thereof, or any person, firm, or corporation.

(4) For the public purposes of the district to enter into contracts, agreements, or cooperative endeavors with the state and its political subdivisions or political corporations and with any public or private association, corporation, business entity, or individual.

(5) To appoint officers, agents, and employees, prescribe their duties, and fix their compensation.

(6) To acquire by gift, grant, purchase, lease, or otherwise such property as may be necessary or desirable for carrying out the objectives and purposes of the district and to mortgage and sell such property.

(7) In its own name and on its own behalf to incur debt and to issue bonds, notes, certificates, and other evidences of indebtedness. For this purpose the district shall be deemed and considered to be an issuer for purposes of R.S. 33:9037 and shall, to the extent not in conflict with this Section, be subject to the provisions of R.S. 33:9037.

(8) Establish such funds or accounts as are necessary for the conduct of the affairs of the district.

G. Tax. (1) In order to provide funds for the purposes of the district, the district, acting by and through its board of commissioners, is hereby authorized to levy and collect a tax upon the occupancy of hotel rooms, motel rooms, and overnight camping facilities within the district. The tax rate for such tax shall be at least equal to the aggregate rate of all such taxes levied and collected within the parish by the state of Louisiana, local governmental subdivisions, and other political subdivisions or special taxing districts.

(2)(a) The word "hotel" as used in this Subsection shall mean and include any establishment, both public and private, engaged in the business of furnishing or providing rooms and overnight camping facilities intended or designed for dwelling, lodging, or sleeping purposes to transient guests where such establishment consists of two or more guest rooms and does not encompass any hospital, convalescent, or nursing home or sanitarium, or any hotel-like facility operated by or in connection with a hospital or medical clinic providing rooms exclusively for patients and their families.

(b) The tax shall be paid by the person who exercises or is entitled to occupancy of the hotel room, and shall be paid at the time the rent or fee of occupancy is paid. The word "person" as used in this Subsection shall have the same meaning as contained in R.S. 47:301(8).

(3) The tax so authorized shall be imposed by ordinance adopted by the district, acting by and through its board of commissioners, without the need of an election.

(4) It is hereby recognized that without the accomplishment of the purposes of the district that there would be no collection of a hotel occupancy tax by any taxing authority within the district. Accordingly, except as otherwise provided in this Section, if the district elects to levy and collect the tax authorized in this Subsection, such levy shall be deemed to supersede and be in lieu of any other tax on hotel occupancy within the district except for any such tax which is based on a per head or per person basis.

H. Hotel occupancy tax financing. (1)(a) The district may issue revenue bonds payable from an irrevocable pledge and dedication of up to the full amount of hotel occupancy tax increments, in an amount to be determined by the district and other revenues generated by the district by means other than the levy of taxes, to finance or refinance any project or projects, or parts thereof, which are consistent with the purposes of the district. A hotel occupancy tax increment shall consist of that portion of the hotel occupancy tax revenues collected by the district in an amount determined by the board of commissioners and which is in lieu of other such taxes levied by other taxing authorities. The occupancy tax authorized by R.S. 33:4574.1.1(A)(6) relating to Visit Baton Rouge shall be collected in addition to the occupancy tax authorized in this Section and the proceeds of the avails of the occupancy taxes authorized in R.S. 33:4574.1.1(A)(6) shall be dispersed and used for the purposes set forth therein and as further provided in R.S. 33:4574.1.1(L).

(b) Dedication of hotel occupancy tax increments to pay the revenue bonds, shall not impair existing obligations of the district and shall not include tax revenues previously dedicated by the district for a special purpose.

(2) The district may pledge the taxes collected under the authority of this Section to any financing of the hotel property in furtherance of the purposes of the district. Such financing may include but shall not be limited to loans, mortgages, the issuance of bonds, or the issuance of certificates of indebtedness.

(3) The authority granted to the district pursuant to the provisions of this Section shall be subject to the limitations provided in R.S. 33:9038.42.

I. Term. The district shall dissolve and cease to exist one year after the date all bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebtedness of the district, including refunding bonds, are paid in full as to both principal and interest; however, under no event shall the district have an existence of less than three years or more than thirty years.

J. Liberal Construction. This Section, being necessary for the welfare of the city and its residents, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.

Acts 2007, No. 453, §1, eff. July 11, 2007; Acts 2011, 1 st Ex. Sess., No. 20, §1, eff. June 12, 2011; Acts 2012, No. 256, §4, eff. May 25, 2012.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:130.545 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 130.545
Fees and ad valorem tax; borrowing money
Status: in_force

NOTE: R.S. 33:130.545 repealed by Acts 2001, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 2, §3, eff. upon transfer to the military department of the state pursuant to R.S. 29:33.2. See Section 5 of Act 2.

A. The board of commissioners may, when necessary, levy annually an ad valorem tax not to exceed fifteen mills on the dollar of assessed valuation of all property within the boundaries of the parish of Rapides, provided that the amount, term, and the purpose of said tax, as set out in a proposition submitted to a vote in accordance with the Louisiana Election Code, shall be approved by a majority of the qualified electors voting in a special election held for that purpose.

B. All funds derived under this Section may be used for any expenses or purposes of the district. The board of commissioners shall establish and maintain, in addition to all necessary and normal accounts, the following special accounts:

(1) A revolving loan or loan guarantee fund, to be used to make industrial port, harbor, or terminal development loans to the extent permitted by the Constitution of Louisiana under the following guidelines:

(a) Loan or loan guarantees shall be made only when adequate financing for the project is unavailable through normal lending channels and the project represents a sound business venture that is financially and economically feasible.

(b) Loan or loan guarantees shall be used to assist an identifiable business concern to finance plant construction, conversion, or expansion and acquisition of land, existing structures, machinery, or equipment, and to provide operational funds.

(c) The terms and rates shall be compatible with loans offered by local lending institutions. In addition, the district shall attempt to obtain the most favorable security available under the circumstances to protect and ensure the recovery of its commitment under the loan or loan guarantee.

(d) Loan or loan guarantees shall be evaluated for their economic impact in terms of the number and types of jobs created or saved, the wage and income levels of the positions, the likelihood of placement of these positions with persons from specific groups, such as the long-term unemployed, low income, women, or minorities, and the tax dollars generated.

(e) Loan or loan guarantees shall be made to leverage other sources of private and public capital to attain the greatest economic impact possible with the limited funds available.

(f) Loan or loan guarantees may be targeted to export industries, manufacturing firms, and wholesale distribution and service firms.

(g) The lending or underwriting principals shall have such demonstrated experience, ability, and net worth as would allow for the success, continuation, security, and solvency of the program. Prudent lending and underwriting standards shall be applied in order to comply with the primary objectives of this Section.

(2) An industrial development operational fund for the development and attraction of industries to accomplish the following:

(a) The operational fund shall be used for operating expenses necessary in the creation of industrial and commercial development, in hiring sufficient staff to accomplish the purposes set out in this Subpart, and other related expenses.

(b) The operational fund may also be utilized in contracting for services as may be required by the district including but not limited to: planning assistance, surveys, land use studies, technical services, and other services necessary to effectuate a unified industrial development plan.

(3) An account for the maintenance and operation of a governmental procurement center to provide necessary information to companies and individuals engaged in providing services and goods to accomplish the following:

(a) Pinpoint and identify potential buying centers and aid in placing the company on a bidder's list for these centers and assist companies in obtaining specifications for their products or services.

(b) Provide trained counselors to assist in acquiring solicitation and bid packages and conduct seminars designed to disseminate other information needed by the target companies and individuals.

Acts 1995, No. 986, §1; Acts 2001, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 2, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:130.878 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 130.878
Exemption from taxation
Status: in_force

The district and all properties at any time owned by the district and the income therefrom and all bonds, certificates, and other evidence of indebtedness issued by the district under this Subpart and the interest or income therefrom shall be exempt from all taxation by the state of Louisiana.

Acts 2020, No. 320, §1, eff. June 12, 2020.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4545.21 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4545.21
Status of bonds
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Chapter or any recitals in any bonds issued under this Chapter, all such bonds shall be deemed to have all the qualities of registered instruments under the commercial laws of the state, subject only to the provisions of the bonds pertaining to registration.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 772, §1, eff. July 20, 1979.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2214 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 2214
Annual vacation; sick leave; recovery from third persons
Status: in_force

A.(1) Each employee of the police departments of the municipalities embraced by this Subpart, except the city of Westwego, shall, after having served one year with a respective department, be entitled and given with full pay an annual vacation leave of fifteen days during each calendar year, which shall not be denied to any such employee for any reason whatsoever.

(2) This Subsection shall also apply to municipalities having a population of more than two hundred fifty thousand.

B.(1) Each employee of the police departments of the municipalities covered by this Subpart, except the city of Westwego, shall be entitled to and given with full pay a sick leave aggregating not less than fifty-two weeks during any calendar year when the conditions actually warrant. Any police department employee who draws such full pay during sick leave shall have such pay decreased by the amount of workers' compensation benefits actually received by such employee.

(2) An employee of the police department, for purposes of this Subsection, shall not include personnel employed primarily to perform purely clerical or nonenforcement duties, including but not limited to the following: typographical duties, office machine operators, switchboard operators, filing clerks, stenoclerk, stenographers, and secretaries.

C.(1) When the cause for the granting of such sick leave is injury or disease sustained under circumstances creating in some third person other than the municipality a legal liability to pay damages in respect thereto, the municipality may bring suit against such third person to recover any amount which it has paid to its employee as sick leave under the provisions of this Section. If either the employee or the municipality brings suit against such third person, he or it shall forthwith notify the other in writing of this fact and of the name of the court in which the suit is filed, and such other may intervene as party plaintiff in the suit.

(2) In the event the municipality or the employee becomes party plaintiff in a suit against such third person and damages are recovered, such damages shall be so apportioned in the judgment that the claim of the municipality for the sick leave actually paid shall take precedence over that of the employee. If the damages are not sufficient or are sufficient only to reimburse the municipality for the sick leave which it has paid, such damages shall be assessed solely in its favor. However, if the damages are more than sufficient to so reimburse the municipality and to also reimburse it any other sums due it by such third person under the Workers' Compensation Act, then the excess shall be assessed in favor of the employee, and upon payment thereof to the employee, the liability of the municipality for additional sick leave beyond that already paid, insofar as relates to such injury or disease, shall cease to the extent of the amount actually so paid by such third person to the employee.

(3) No compromise with such third person by either the municipality or the employee shall be binding upon or affect the rights of the other.

D. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the provisions of Subsections B and C of this Section shall be applicable to the employees of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport Police/Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting unit.

Amended by Acts 1968, No. 97, §1; Acts 1983, 1st Ex.Sess., No. 1, §6; Acts 1986, No. 671, §1; Acts 1995, No. 446, §1; Acts 2001, No. 370, §1.

NOTE: See Acts 1995, No. 446, §2 making Act applicable only to employees hired after 1/1/96.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2740.79 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 2740.79
General powers
Status: in_force

The district shall have, and the board may exercise, the following powers:

(1) To sue and be sued in the name of the district; to adopt and use a seal and authorize the use of a facsimile thereof; to acquire, by purchase, gift, devise, or otherwise, and to dispose of, immovable and movable property; and to make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of its powers.

(2) To contract for the services of consultants to perform planning, engineering, financial, legal, or other appropriate services of a professional nature.

(3) To borrow money and accept gifts; to apply for and use grants or loans of money or other property from the United States, the state, a unit of local government, or any person for any district purposes and enter into agreements required in connection therewith; and to hold, use, and dispose of such monies or property for any district purposes in accordance with the terms of the gift, grant, loan, or agreement relating thereto.

(4) To adopt bylaws prescribing the powers, duties, and functions of the officers of the district; the conduct of the business of the district; and the maintenance of records.

(5) To maintain an office at such place or places as it may designate within a parish in which the district is located, which office must be reasonably accessible to the landowners. Meetings shall be held at such office or such other location as may be designated by the board.

(6) To hold, control, and acquire by donation, purchase, or condemnation, or dispose of, any public servitudes or dedications to public use, and to make use of such servitudes or dedications, for any of the purposes authorized by this Subpart.

(7) To lease as lessor or lessee to or from any person, firm, corporation, association, or body, public or private, any projects of the type that the district is authorized to undertake and facilities or property of any nature for the use of the district to carry out any of the purposes authorized by this Subpart.

(8) To borrow money and issue bonds, certificates, warrants, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness as hereinafter provided; to levy such special assessments as may be authorized; and to charge, collect, and enforce fees and other user charges.

(9) To raise, by user charges or fees authorized by resolution of the board, amounts of money which are necessary for the conduct of the district activities and services and to enforce their receipt and collection in the manner prescribed by resolution not inconsistent with law and solely within the boundaries of the district as provided for in R.S. 33:2740.74 of this Subpart.

(10) To cooperate with, or contract with, other governmental agencies as may be necessary, convenient, incidental, or proper in connection with any of the powers, duties, or purposes authorized by this Subpart.

(11) To determine, order, levy, impose, collect, and enforce special assessments pursuant to this Subpart.

(12) To exercise all of the powers necessary and proper in connection with any of the powers, duties, or purposes authorized by this Subpart.

Acts 2003, No. 904, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:9106.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 9106.3
Fixed rate service charge; St. Bernard Parish
Status: in_force

A. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:9106, the St. Bernard Parish 911 Communications District may levy the emergency telephone service charge authorized by that Section on a uniform flat fee schedule of fixed rates not based on any tariff rate charged in the parish.

B. If the governing authority converts to such a rate schedule for its service charge, such rates shall be equal to the applicable tariff-based rate at the time of conversion unless a higher rate is approved by the voters of the district.

C. Such service charge shall not exceed one dollar per month for each residential line, two dollars and seven cents per month for each commercial line, and one dollar and twenty-six cents per month for each cellular or other wireless telecommunications service.

D. If such service charges are levied on a flat fee schedule of fixed rates, rates shall be uniform for each of the following classes of service: residential, commercial, cellular, commercial mobile radio service (CMRS), or other wireless telecommunications service.

E. For cellular or other non-fixed location wireless telecommunications service users, such service charge shall be assessed against each cellular or other wireless phone number for which the billing address is within the boundaries of the district. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the application of such service charge to any mobile telecommunications service, as defined in R.S. 47:301(29)(p), shall apply only if the customer's place of primary use is located within the boundaries of the political subdivision levying such CMRS emergency telephone service charge. For purposes of this Subsection, the provisions of R.S. 47:301(29)(p) shall apply in the same manner and to the same extent as such provisions apply to the taxes levied pursuant to R.S. 47:302(C) and 331(C) on a mobile telecommunications service.

Acts 2012, No. 341, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4581 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4581
Jefferson Davis Parish Flyway Byway District
Status: in_force

A. Creation. There is hereby created the Flyway Byway District in Jefferson Davis Parish, referred to in this Section as the "district", which shall be a body politic and corporate and a political subdivision of the state of Louisiana.

B. Boundaries. The boundaries of the district shall be as follows: beginning at the southern edge of the point where United States Interstate 10 intersects with the Calcasieu-Jefferson Davis Parish line, proceed southward down the parish line, past the Cameron Parish line, proceeding down the 93 rd meridian line to a point that connects with the southwestern edge of the Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge projected due west to the 93 rd meridian, turning east at this point proceed eastward along the southern edge of the projected line from the southwestern edge of the Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge and continue along the southern boundary of the wildlife refuge, proceed northeast along the western edge of the Mermentau River and Lake Arthur to a point where the southern end of La. Highway 26 is projected due south to intersect with this southern boundary line, proceed northward along the eastern edge of the southern projection of Highway 26 to Highway 26 itself and continue along the eastern edge of the highway up to the point where it intersects with United States Interstate 10, proceed westward along the southern edge of United States Interstate 10 back to the point where it intersects with the Calcasieu-Jefferson Davis Parish line.

C. Purpose. The purpose of the Flyway Byway District is to stimulate economic development and tourism within the district.

D. Governance. (1) The Flyway Byway District shall be governed by a board of commissioners, referred to in this Section as the "board". The board shall be composed as follows:

(a) Two members appointed by the governing authority of Jefferson Davis Parish.

(b) Two members appointed by the Jefferson Davis Parish Tourist Commission.

(c) One member appointed by the governing authority of the town of Welsh.

(d) One member appointed by the Jefferson Davis Parish Economic Development Commission.

(e) One member appointed by the Jefferson Davis and Cameron Parish legislative delegation.

(f) The secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development, or his designee, and the secretary of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, or his designee, neither of whom shall be voting members nor count towards the presence of a quorum for the conduct of business.

(2) The members of the board of commissioners shall serve four-year terms. Members shall serve until their successors have been appointed and qualified.

(3) A vacancy on the board shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.

(4) Members shall be eligible for reappointment.

E. Organization. (1) All members of the board shall serve without compensation but may receive reimbursement for expenses directly related to the governance of the district.

(2) The domicile of the board shall be in the town of Jennings in Jefferson Davis Parish.

(3) The board is authorized to adopt bylaws for its governance and conduct and shall elect from its own membership a chairman and a vice chairman.

(4) The board shall hold regular meetings as provided for in its bylaws and may hold special meetings at such times and places within the district as provided in the bylaws.

(5) The board shall keep minutes of all meetings.

(6) A majority of the voting members of the board shall constitute a quorum for conducting business.

F. Powers and duties of the district. The district, through the board of commissioners, shall have all the rights, powers, privileges, and immunities granted to political subdivisions, including but not limited to the following:

(1) To sue and be sued.

(2) To adopt, use, and alter at will a corporate seal.

(3) To receive contributions, donations, grants, and appropriations of money or other things of value from any public or private source.

(4) To enter into cooperative endeavors by written agreement with the state or with any other public or private entity.

(5) To employ such persons and to enter into such contracts for services as it deems advisable.

(6) To develop and implement a plan for the preservation, beautification, and promotion of scenic routes and the natural, historic, and cultural sites and attractions of such routes with the assistance of the Department of Transportation and Development, the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, and the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

(7) To acquire servitudes adjacent to scenic routes for the preservation of the natural beauty of the area, but such authority shall not include the acquisition of rights-of-way for the construction of any scenic highway.

(8) To adopt rules and regulations providing for the utilization and administration of the servitudes herein authorized to be acquired.

G. Cooperation with state entities. State departments and agencies, particularly the Department of Transportation and Development, the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, and the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, are authorized to provide such advice and services to the board of commissioners as will help achieve the purpose of this Section.

Acts 2010, No. 482, §1; Acts 2011, No. 276, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:9036 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 9036
Encouragement of private enterprise
Status: in_force

A. Consistent with the purposes of this Chapter and the needs of the local governmental subdivision, a corporation shall encourage the full participation of private enterprise in the development and construction of residential, commercial, retail, industrial, institutional, recreational, and other facilities, structures, and appurtenances necessary or convenient in the connection with an economic development project, and, to afford the maximum opportunity for such full participation, shall formulate such rules and regulations consistent with the purposes of this Chapter and the goal of encouraging private enterprise as the corporation deems necessary for these purposes.

B. A cooperative economic development project may be undertaken by the state or any agency or corporation acting on behalf of the state, with the prior written approval of the commissioner of administration. However, the title to any immovable property owned by the state shall remain with the state, and such projects shall be located within a downtown development district in the cities of Baton Rouge or Shreveport. In addition, the state or any agency or corporation acting on behalf of the state may lease or rent its properties located in such downtown development districts by negotiation, provided such lease or rental agreements are approved in writing by the commissioner of administration.

Acts 1990, No. 1082, §1; Acts 1999, No. 1090, §1; Acts 2011, 1 st Ex. Sess., No. 20, §1, eff. June 12, 2011.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2740.66 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 2740.66
Bawcomville Economic Development District
Status: in_force

A. Creation. The Bawcomville Economic Development District, referred to in this Section as the "district", is hereby created in the parish of Ouachita. The district shall be a political subdivision of the state created for the purpose of developing the area included within the district to promote, encourage, and participate in economic development activities in the district in order to provide for substantial economic activity and employment opportunities.

B. Boundaries. The district shall be comprised of all the territory outside the municipal limits of the city of West Monroe and included within the following boundaries: the northern boundary shall be the Illinois Central Railroad tracks from Steep Bayou to Louisiana Highway 617, the eastern boundary shall be Louisiana Highway 617 from the Illinois Central Railroad tracks south to Louisiana Highway 34 and Louisiana Highway 34 south to Cheniere Creek, the southern boundary shall be Cheniere Creek and Cheniere Lake and the western boundary shall be Steep Bayou.

C. Governance. (1) In order to provide for the orderly planning, development, acquisition, construction, and effectuation of the services, improvements, and facilities to be furnished by the district and to provide for the representation in the affairs of the district of those persons and interests immediately concerned with and affected by the purposes and development of the district, the district shall be managed by a five-member board of commissioners, referred to in this Section as the "board". The members of the board shall be appointed by the governor from a list of nominations submitted as follows:

(a) One member shall be nominated by the state representative for House District No. 15.

(b) One member shall be nominated by the state representative for House District No. 13.

(c) One member shall be nominated by the state senator for Senate District No. 32.

(d) One member shall be nominated by the state senator for Senate District No. 35.

(e) One member shall be nominated by the Ouachita Economic Development Corporation.

(2)(a) Members of the board shall serve three-year terms after initial terms as provided by Subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph.

(b) Three members shall serve an initial term of two years and two members shall serve an initial term of three years, as determined by lot at the first meeting of the board.

(c) Any vacancy which occurs prior to the expiration of the term for which a member of the board has been appointed shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment.

(3) The board shall elect from its members a chairman, a vice chairman, a secretary-treasurer, and such other officers as it may deem necessary. The duties of the officers shall be fixed by the bylaws adopted by the board.

(4) The minute books and archives of the district shall be maintained by the secretary of the board. The monies, funds, and accounts of the district shall be in the official custody of the board.

(5) The board shall adopt such rules and regulations as it deems necessary or advisable for conducting its business affairs. It shall hold regular meetings as shall be provided in the bylaws and may hold special meetings at such times and places within the district as may be prescribed in the bylaws.

(6) A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The board shall keep minutes of all meetings and shall make them available through the secretary of the board.

(7) The members of the board shall serve without compensation.

D. District plan. (1) The board shall prepare or cause to be prepared a plan or plans, referred to in this Section as the "plan", specifying the public improvements, facilities, and services proposed to be furnished, constructed, or acquired for the district and shall conduct public hearings, publish notice with respect thereto, and disseminate information as it, in the exercise of its sound discretion, may deem to be appropriate or advisable and in the public interest.

(2) Any plan may specify and encompass any public services, capital improvements, and facilities which the parish of Ouachita is authorized to undertake, furnish, or provide under the constitution and laws of the state of Louisiana, and such specified public services, improvements, and facilities shall be special and in addition to all services, improvements, and facilities which the parish of Ouachita is then furnishing or providing or may then or in the future be obligated to furnish or provide within the district.

(3) Any plan shall include an estimate of the annual and total cost of acquiring, constructing, or providing the services, improvements, or facilities set forth therein.

(4)(a) Any monies received by the district must be used exclusively for the development of the district plan.

(b) The district shall have no power of taxation.

(5) The board shall submit the plan to the governing authority of the parish of Ouachita. The governing authority of the parish shall review and consider the plan, but the board need not receive approval of the parish governing authority prior to implementing such plan.

E. Services and improvements. (1) All services to be furnished within the district pursuant to any plan finally and conclusively adopted may be furnished, supplied, and administered by the parish of Ouachita through its regularly constituted departments, agencies, boards, commissions, and instrumentalities. All capital improvements and facilities to be acquired, constructed, or provided within the district may likewise be so acquired, constructed, or provided by the parish of Ouachita through its regularly constituted departments, agencies, boards, commissions, and instrumentalities, it being the intention of this Paragraph to avoid the duplication of administrative and management efforts and expense in the implementation of any plan adopted for the benefit of the district.

(2) In order to provide services or provide, construct, or acquire capital improvements or facilities, the board may enter into intergovernmental local service contracts with the parish of Ouachita.

Acts 2006, No. 477, §1, eff. June 22, 2006.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2543 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 2543
Classification plan
Status: in_force

As soon as practicable, but in all events within a period not to exceed eighteen months after this Part takes effect, each board shall adopt a classification plan for the fire and police service under its jurisdiction. Each classification plan shall consist of classes to be designated either by standard titles, ranks or a combination thereof for all positions included in the classified service for the fire and police service. The classification plan may be divided into groups of classes. The various classes of position shall be arranged in each classification plan so as to show the principal and natural lines of promotion and demotion. The classification plan shall be adopted as rules of the board, in the manner provided by this Part for the adoption of rules. Rules creating the classification plan, future classifications, abolition of any classification, any amendment thereto, or revision thereof shall be adopted by a board only after consultation with the appointing authority, and the state examiner. The original classification plan to be established when this Part takes effect in a municipality, parish or fire protection district shall be prepared after consultation with the appointing authority, and shall be submitted by the state examiner to the board for its approval and adoption. The board may amend or revise the classification plan before adopting it. The state examiner shall advise and assist the board in all future classifications whenever requested to do so.

Acts 1964, No. 282, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2740.45 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 2740.45
Public cemeteries; ad valorem tax; Morehouse Parish
Status: in_force

A. In addition to the ad valorem tax authorized by R.S. 33:2740.1, the governing authority of Morehouse Parish may levy ad valorem taxes in any ward in Morehouse Parish not to exceed three mills, to be used for the acquisition, improvement, maintenance, and upkeep of public cemeteries located in such ward. The taxes shall be levied only after the question of the imposition of the taxes has been submitted to the qualified electors of such ward at an election to be conducted in accordance with the general election laws of the state of Louisiana and a majority of those voting in the election have voted in favor of the imposition of the taxes.

B. In addition to any previously authorized purposes, the governing authority of Morehouse Parish may use unexpended proceeds of any tax levied pursuant to this Section in tax years prior to 2025 for the acquisition and improvement of public cemeteries located in any such ward.

Acts 1998, No. 11, §1, eff. June 22, 1998; Acts 2025, No. 493, §1, eff. June 30, 2025.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:447.13 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 447.13
Mayor's court; town of Rosepine; additional court costs
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the mayor of the town of Rosepine may impose court costs not to exceed thirty dollars for each offense, as defined by ordinance, on any defendant convicted of a violation of a municipal ordinance. The court costs authorized by this Section shall be in addition to the court costs authorized by R.S. 33:441.

Acts 2014, No. 365, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:3551 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 3551
Improvement of street adjacent to stream or canal; assessment of property farthest from stream; petition of property owners
Status: in_force

In all cases where a public thoroughfare, located within the limits of any municipality (the City of New Orleans excepted) having a population exceeding one thousand, or within the limits of any incorporated parish seat, is adjacent to or bordering upon, or, when not adjacent to or bordering upon, is so near, or in such proximity, to a stream or canal that the property between the side of the street nearest the stream or canal is insufficient in value to warrant the imposition of paving assessments under existing laws, and is worth less than the cost of its proportionate share of the paving proposed for the street, the governing authority of the municipality may pave, gravel, macadamize, resurface, repair, or otherwise improve the public thoroughfares, (or any part thereof, not less than one block or more in length) and may levy and collect special taxes or local assessments on the property abutting the thoroughfare, for the purpose of defraying the cost of the work, repair, or improvement, which special taxes and local assessments shall be levied entirely against the property abutting on the side of the street farthest from the bank of the stream or canal, provided, that the owners of not less than sixty per cent of the lineal front footage of the property abutting on the side of the stream farthest from the bank of the stream or canal shall petition for the improvement, in writing, and shall state in the petition that in their opinion the property lying between the side of the street next to the stream, and the bank of the stream or canal, is insufficient in value to warrant its assessments for the paving under existing laws. On petition of the same percentage of the property owners on the side of the street farthest from the bank of the stream or canal, the property on both sides of the street may be assessed as now provided by existing laws, and if the property between the public thoroughfare, and the stream or canal should not be bid in at sheriff's sale in foreclosure of the paving assessment for an amount sufficient to pay the assessment against it, then, the entire costs shall be paid by the owners of the property on the side of the street farthest from the stream, or canal; and, in that event, the municipality and its transferees, shall have a lien and privilege on the property on the side of the street farthest from the stream, or canal, to secure the cost of paving the street.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:3981 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 3981
Establishment of system
Status: in_force

The governing authority of any sewerage district, either within or without the corporate limits of a municipal corporation, is hereby vested with full power and authority to establish, acquire, construct, improve, extend and maintain within said district a sewerage system or systems, including such sewerage disposal facilities as may be required, with all necessary equipment and installations in connection therewith, including such extensions as may be proper to connect said system or systems with the sewerage disposal facilities of the said district or any other disposal facilities whether within or without any such district, and it shall have full power and authority to levy and collect local or special assessments on the real property to be benefited thereby within the said district, or the area served within the said district, sufficient in amount to defray the total cost of said work, including the cost of street intersections and installations and connections necessary to connect said system with the main sewer system of the district or necessary to connect said system with any disposal facilities whether within or without the district, including the cost of establishing, constructing, improving and extending any such disposal facilities, whether by purchase, lease or otherwise, or including the cost of the construction of complete sewerage disposal facilities, either within or without the said district, all within the form and manner and subject to the limitations and restrictions herein contained.

Amended by Acts 1950, No. 462, §1; Acts 1954, No. 622, §1; Acts 1958, No. 395, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:140.155 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 140.155
Changes or amendments
Status: in_force

The regulations, restrictions and boundaries may, from time to time, be amended, supplemented, changed, modified or repealed. However, in case of a protest against a change duly signed and acknowledged by the owners of twenty percent or more either of the areas of land (exclusive of streets and alleys) included in the proposed change or within an area determined by lines drawn parallel to and two hundred feet distant from the boundaries of the district proposed to be changed, the amendment shall not become effective unless at least three-fifths of all the members of the governing authority of the parish shall vote in favor thereof. The provisions of R.S. 33:140.154 relating to public hearing and official notice shall apply equally to all changes or amendments.

Acts 1988, No. 570, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4102 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4102
New Orleans; proceeds of bond sale
Status: in_force

The proceeds of all sales of bonds issued under the authority of R.S. 33:4097, except refunding bonds which shall be governed by the provisions of the resolution of the Board of Liquidation, City Debt, fixing the details thereof, shall be held by the Board of Liquidation, City Debt, and paid over on the warrants of the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans in the manner and under the conditions provided in R.S. 33:4094 with reference to disbursements of said tax funds, and shall be used solely and exclusively for the construction and extension of the sewerage, water and drainage systems of the city of New Orleans, in such proportions as to the construction and extension of each of said systems as the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans may determine.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 167, §1. Acts 1985, No. 731, §1, eff. July 16, 1985.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:1993 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 1993
Payment of salaries; city of Lafayette and the Fire Protection District Number One of the parish of Ouachita; city of Crowley and city of Baton Rouge and fire protection districts within the parish of East Baton Rouge
Status: in_force

A. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:1992, the city of Lafayette and the Fire Protection District Number One of the parish of Ouachita may pay the salaries of firemen either on a semimonthly basis, not later than the fifth and the twentieth day of the month, or on a biweekly basis.

B. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:1992, the governing authority of the city of Crowley and the city of Baton Rouge and of any fire protection district located wholly within the parish of East Baton Rouge may pay the salaries of firemen employed by such governing authority on a biweekly basis.

Acts 1986, No. 639, §1; Acts 1987, No. 175, §1; Acts 1995, No. 32, §1, eff. May 25, 1995; Acts 2016, No. 235, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:322 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 322
Election to adopt mayor-board of aldermen form of government
Status: in_force

The legislative body of any municipality not governed by this Part may by a majority vote call an election to become governed by the provisions of this Part. The election shall be held in accordance with the procedures specified in R.S. 18:1300 and other applicable provisions of the Louisiana Election Code. If a majority of the legal votes cast are for adopting the provisions of this Part, the municipality shall be governed by its provisions, and the result of the election shall be certified to the secretary of state, who shall make a record of the same in his office. If a majority of the votes cast are against adopting the provisions of this Part, the legislative body may not call another election on the question for at least twelve months after the date of the election.

Acts 1986, No. 1076, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1987; Acts 2010, No. 861, §15.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:3663 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 3663
Certificates not included in computing indebtedness
Status: in_force

Certificates issued under the provisions of this sub-part shall not be included in computing the indebtedness of the municipality for the purpose of determining any constitutional or statutory limitation of indebtedness.

Added by Acts 1967, No. 117, §7.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:9091.13 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 9091.13
Maple Area Residents Security Tax District
Status: in_force

A. Creation. There is hereby created within the parish of Orleans, as more specifically provided in Subsection B of this Section, a body politic and corporate which shall be known as the Maple Area Residents Security Tax District, referred to in this Section as the "district". The district shall be a political subdivision of the state as defined in the Constitution of Louisiana.

B. Boundaries. The boundaries of the district shall be that area within and including the following perimeter streets and avenues: the middle of South Carrollton Avenue to Willow Street, the middle of Willow Street to Audubon Street, the middle of Audubon Street to St. Charles Avenue, the middle of St. Charles Avenue to the middle of South Carrollton Avenue.

C. Purpose. The district is established for the purpose of promoting and encouraging security in the area included within the district and promoting and encouraging the beautification and overall betterment of the district.

D. Governance. (1) The district shall be governed by a nine-member board of commissioners, referred to in this Section as the "board". The board shall be composed as follows:

(a) The president of the Maple Area Residents, Inc., referred to in this Section as the "association".

(b) The board of directors of the association shall appoint four members.

(c) The mayor of the city of New Orleans shall appoint one member from a list of nominations submitted by the association.

(d) The member of the governing authority of the city of New Orleans whose council district encompasses all or the greater portion of the area of the district shall appoint one member from a list of nominations submitted by the association.

(e) The member of the Louisiana House of Representatives whose district encompasses all or the greater portion of the area of the district shall appoint one member from a list of nominations submitted by the association.

(f) The member of the Louisiana Senate whose district encompasses all or the greater portion of the area of the district shall appoint one member from a list of nominations submitted by the association.

(2) All members of the board shall own immovable property or be a registered voter within the district.

(3)(a) Board members serving pursuant to Subparagraphs (1)(b) through (f) of this Subsection shall serve four-year terms after initial terms as provided in this Subparagraph. Two members shall serve initial terms of one year; two shall serve initial terms of two years; two shall serve initial terms of three years; and two shall serve initial terms of four years, as determined by lot at the first meeting of the board.

(b) The member serving pursuant to Subparagraph (1)(a) of this Subsection shall serve during his term of office as president of the association.

(c) Any vacancy which occurs prior to the expiration of the terms for which a member of the board has been appointed shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment. Board members shall be eligible for reappointment.

(4) The board shall elect from its members a chairman, a vice chairman, a secretary-treasurer, and such other officers as it may deem necessary. The duties of the officers shall be fixed by the bylaws adopted by the board.

(5) The minute books and archives of the district shall be maintained by the secretary-treasurer of the board. The monies, funds, and accounts of the district shall be in the official custody of the board.

(6) The board shall adopt such rules and regulations as it deems necessary or advisable for conducting its business affairs. Rules and regulations of the board relative to the notice and conduct of meetings shall conform to applicable law, including, if applicable, R.S. 42:11 et seq., relative to open meetings. The board shall hold regular meetings as shall be provided for in the bylaws and may hold special meetings at such times and places within the district as may be prescribed in the bylaws.

(7) A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The board shall keep minutes of all meetings and shall make them available through the secretary-treasurer of the board.

(8) Each member of the board shall have one vote, and the vote of a majority of the members of the board present and voting, a quorum being present, shall be required to decide any question upon which the board takes action.

(9) The members of the board shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for their reasonable out-of-pocket expenses directly related to the governance of the district.

E. Powers and duties. The district, acting through its board, shall have the following powers and duties:

(1) To sue and be sued.

(2) To adopt, use, and alter at will a corporate seal.

(3) To receive and expend funds collected pursuant to Subsection F of this Section and in accordance with a budget adopted as provided by Subsection H of this Section.

(4) To enter into contracts with individuals or entities, private or public.

(5) To provide or enhance security patrols in the district, to provide for improved lighting, signage, or matters relating to the security of the district, to provide for the beautification of and improvements for the district, or to provide generally for the overall betterment of the district.

(6) To enter into contracts and agreements with one or more other districts for the joint security, improvement, or betterment of all participating districts.

(7) To provide for such services and make such expenditures as the board deems proper for the upkeep of the district.

(8) To acquire or lease items and supplies which the board deems instrumental to achieving the purposes of the district.

(9) To acquire, lease, insure, and sell immovable property within the boundaries of the district in accordance with district plans.

(10) To procure and maintain liability insurance against any personal or legal liability of a board member that may be asserted or incurred based upon his service as a member of the board or that may arise as a result of his actions taken within the scope and discharge of his duties as a member of the board.

(11) To perform or have performed any other function or activity necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of the district or for the overall betterment of the district.

F. Parcel fee. (1) The governing authority of the city of New Orleans is hereby authorized to impose and collect a parcel fee within the district subject to and in accordance with the provisions of this Subsection.

(2) The amount of the fee shall be as requested by duly adopted resolution of the board. The fee shall be a flat fee per improved parcel of land not to exceed four hundred dollars per year for each improved parcel for calendar year 2009; however, the maximum shall be increased twenty-five dollars per year for each calendar year after 2009.

(3) The fee shall be imposed on each improved parcel located within the district except as provided in Paragraph (5) of this Subsection.

(a) For purposes of this Section, "parcel" means a lot, a subdivided portion of ground, an individual tract, or a "condominium parcel" as defined in R.S. 9:1121.103.

(b) The owner of each parcel shall be responsible for payment of the fee.

(4)(a) The fee shall be imposed only after the question of its imposition has been approved by a majority of the registered voters of the district who vote on the proposition at an election held for that purpose in accordance with the Louisiana Election Code. The amount of the fee may be changed by duly adopted resolution of the board, not to exceed the maximum amount authorized as provided in this Subsection. No other election shall be required except as provided by this Paragraph.

(b) The initial election on the question of the imposition of the fee shall be held at the same time as a regularly scheduled election in the city of New Orleans.

(c) If approved, the fee shall expire on December 31, 2014, but the fee may be renewed if approved by a majority of the registered voters of the district voting on the proposition at an election as provided in Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph. Any election to authorize the renewal of the fee shall be held only at the same time as the mayoral primary election for the city of New Orleans. If the fee is renewed, the term of the imposition of the fee shall be as provided in the proposition authorizing such renewal, not to exceed eight years.

(5) No fee shall be imposed upon any parcel whose owner qualified for the special assessment level provided by Article VII, Section 18(G)(1) of the Constitution of Louisiana.

(6) The fee shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as ad valorem taxes on property subject to taxation by the city are collected.

(7) Any parcel fee which is unpaid shall be added to the tax rolls of the city and shall be enforced with the same authority and subject to the same penalties and procedures as unpaid ad valorem taxes.

(8)(a) The proceeds of the fee shall be used solely and exclusively for the purpose and benefit of the district; however, the city may retain one percent of the amount collected as a collection fee.

(b) The city of New Orleans shall remit to the district all amounts collected not more than sixty days after collection.

G. Additional contributions. The district is authorized to solicit and accept additional voluntary contributions and grants to further the purposes of the district.

H. Budget. (1) The board shall adopt an annual budget in accordance with the Local Government Budget Act, R.S. 39:1301 et seq.

(2) The district shall be subject to audit by the legislative auditor pursuant to R.S. 24:513.

I. Miscellaneous. It is the purpose and intent of this Section that any additional security patrols, public or private, or any other security or other services or betterments provided by the district shall be supplemental to and not be in lieu of personnel and services to be provided in the district by the state or the city of New Orleans or its departments or agencies or by other political subdivisions.

J. Dissolution. (1) The district may be dissolved without the vote of the registered voters of the district if a majority of the area covered by the district becomes included in another district that serves similar purposes but includes additional parcels of property adjacent to the district, if approved by the affirmative vote of not less than five members of the board. If the district is dissolved in accordance with this Paragraph, the funds of the district that relate to the portion of the district that is included in the new district, together with any other funds collected by the city of New Orleans pursuant to this Section that relate to such portion of the district, shall be transferred to the new district to be used for purposes of the new district. The remaining portion of funds, if any, shall be transmitted by the board to the city of New Orleans and such funds shall be used only for law enforcement, security, improvement, and beautification purposes of the area that was formerly within the district but is not included in the new district.

(2) If the district is dissolved pursuant to Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, the authority for the imposition of the parcel fee provided in Subsection F of this Section shall cease.

K. Indemnification and exculpation. (1) The district shall indemnify its officers and board members to the fullest extent permitted by R.S. 12:227, as fully as if the district were a nonprofit corporation governed thereby, and as may be provided in the district's bylaws.

(2) No board member or officer of the district shall be liable to the district or to any individual who resides, owns property, visits, or otherwise conducts business in the district for monetary damages for breach of his duties as a board member or officer, provided that the foregoing provision shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a board member or officer for any of the following:

(a) Acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law.

(b) Any transaction from which he derived an improper personal benefit.

(3) To the fullest extent permitted by R.S. 9:2792 et seq., including R.S. 9:2792.1 through 2792.9, a person serving the district as a board member or officer shall not be individually liable for any act or omission arising out of the performance of his duties.

Acts 2008, No. 866, §1, eff. July 9, 2008.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2702 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 2702
Form of petition; rate and duration of tax
Status: in_force

The petition mentioned in R.S. 33:2701 shall be in writing and shall designate the object and rate of the tax to be levied each year and the number of years during which it shall be levied. The tax shall not exceed in any one year one mill, and shall not run for more than ten years.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:3829 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 3829
Additional local or special assessments
Status: in_force

In the event the local and special assessments originally levied or the water rates originally provided are insufficient for any cause whatsoever, to pay the principal and interest, or the principal or interest, in any one year of the said waterwork certificates outstanding at their respective maturity dates, or to make timely payments in connection with any amortized promissory notes issued, then in such event the political subdivision issuing such waterworks certificates or amortized notes under the provisions of R.S. 33:3822 through 33:3835, through its governing authority, is hereby authorized, empowered and obligated by ordinance to levy and collect, at such time or times as may be necessary, additional local or special assessments on each lot or parcel of real estate in the political subdivision or area involved, on a front foot basis, sufficient in amount to pay in full the said principal and interest, or the principal or interest of such waterwork certificates at their respective maturity dates or the necessary payments in connection with any amortized promissory notes issued. The amounts assessed in such ordinance or ordinances shall be due and collectible immediately on its passage and if not paid within thirty days from the date of its adoption, the governing authority of the political subdivision shall proceed against the property for the collection of the amount of the additional local or special assessments so levied, plus interest thereon and 10% additional for attorney's fees. A certified copy of each ordinance providing for the levy and collection of such additional local or special assessments shall be filed with the clerk of court of the parish in which the political subdivision is located promptly upon its adoption, who shall forthwith record the same in the mortgage records of the parish, and when so filed and recorded shall operate as a lien and privilege against all the real estate therein assessed and shall prime all other liens except taxes, and prior recorded local or special assessments levied for streets, sewerage or waterworks improvements.

Acts 1962, No. 313, §8. Amended by Acts 1966, No. 18, §1, eff. June 2, 1966, at 2:32 P.M.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4564.8 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4564.8
Recreation districts in St. Mary Parish; per diem
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:4564(B), the members of the boards of commissioners of recreation districts in St. Mary Parish may each receive a per diem of not less than ten dollars nor more than sixty-five dollars for attending meetings of the board for a maximum of twelve meetings each year. Per diem paid pursuant to this Section shall be paid out of the funds of the district.

Acts 2022, No. 211, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:3689.16 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 3689.16
Exemption of certificates from taxation; acceptability as security
Status: in_force

All paving certificates issued under the provisions of R.S. 33:3689.1-33:3689.17 shall be exempt from taxation. They shall be acceptable as security for any deposits of public funds.

Acts 1952, No. 430, §16.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4066.9 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4066.9
Election to participate
Status: in_force

Property owners who desire to fund the acquisition, construction, and maintenance of the individual sewerage system through this program shall affirmatively elect to participate in the program and shall submit to the engineer for the program his election to participate in the program together with the type of approved individual treatment system he desires to fund. The individual sewerage system that is funded through this program shall comply with all guidelines established by the governing authority of the parish, sewerage district, or commission. This election to participate may also provide for the property owner to fund the purchase of the individual sewerage system through the issuance of bonds by the parish, sewerage district, or commission as hereinafter provided. This election to participate may be done on a monthly basis.

Acts 1987, No. 919, §1, eff. July 20, 1987.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:3689.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 3689.2
Notice of intention
Status: in_force

Any parish taking advantage of R.S. 33:3689.1 to 33:3689.17, shall, through its police jury as the governing authority thereof, be required to adopt a resolution giving notice of its intention to construct, pave, surface or otherwise improve, together with the necessary curbing, guttering, aprons, headers, and drains, the street or streets, road or roads, sidewalk or sidewalks, alley or alleys, or any part thereof, proposed to be so improved, and embody therein in a general way the improvements contemplated and the manner of payment therefor. Such notice shall be signed by the president of the police jury, duly attested by the secretary thereof and shall contain substantially all things set forth in said resolution, and shall set forth further that the police jury will, in open session, on the date and at the time and place named, proceed to hear any and all objections to the proposed improvements and the manner of payment therefor, and after hearing and passing on such objections, proceed if it so determines, to order such improvements constructed in the manner hereinafter provided. Such notice of intention shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the parish, and the first publication shall be made not less than fifteen days before the date fixed for the said hearing of objections.

Acts 1952, No. 430, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4061 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4061
Sewerage Control Commission of East Baton Rouge Parish
Status: in_force

A. The Metropolitan Council of the parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, hereinafter referred to as "the council," with the approval of the mayor-president of the city of Baton Rouge under the plan of government of the parish of East Baton Rouge and the city of Baton Rouge, effective January 1, 1949, is hereby authorized to create a commission to be known as the "Sewerage Control Commission of East Baton Rouge Parish" which shall be composed of twelve members, one from each of the councilmanic districts, appointed by the mayor-president with the approval of the council. The members shall serve without compensation.

B. Members of the commission shall serve terms concurrent with the term of office of the appointing mayor-president and the council. In the event any member shall cease to be a member of the commission for any reason, his successor shall be appointed by the mayor-president and approved by the council for the unexpired term of office. Each commissioner shall be a citizen of the United States and a qualified voter of East Baton Rouge Parish.

C.(1) The commission may authorize a reasonable travel allowance for its members in the performance of their official duties to the extent that funds are appropriated and available from the city of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish.

(2) The commission may employ such officers, agents, and employees as it may find necessary in the performance of its duties to the extent such employment is approved by the council and funds are appropriated and available therefor.

D.(1) The commission shall elect from among their number a president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary, and other officers as they may deem necessary. At the option of the commission, the offices of secretary and treasurer may be held by one person.

(2) The commission shall meet in regular session once each year and shall also meet in special session at the call of the president of the commission or on written request of five members of the commission, or on written request of the mayor-president.

(3) A majority of the membership shall constitute a quorum and all actions or resolutions of the commission shall be approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of those members present and voting.

E. The commission shall adopt such rules and regulations as may be necessary and shall keep a record of its proceedings through the office of the secretary, who shall be assisted by the commission administrator. The parish attorney shall serve as the commission's regular legal counsel and the various offices of the city-parish shall provide such services and assistance to the commission as the commission may request and require in the carrying out of the intention and purpose of R.S. 33:4061 through 33:4063.

F. All action and minutes adopted by the commission shall be promptly transmitted to the council and the mayor-president for approval, and no action by the commission shall become effective until and unless such action is approved and adopted by the council.

G. The commission shall exercise the powers herein described as conferred upon it by the council.

Acts 1984, No. 546, §1.

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La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2925 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 2925
Penalty for violations
Status: in_force

Any officer violating R.S. 33:2921 through R.S. 33:2924 shall be imprisoned or fined, or both. The fine shall not exceed one thousand dollars or the imprisonment one year.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2740.71 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 2740.71
Short title
Status: in_force

This Subpart may be cited as the "Business Improvement District Act".

Acts 2003, No. 904, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4053 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4053
Effect of consolidation on authority to issue bonds; transfer of records to consolidated district; assumption of outstanding indebtedness; rights and privileges of consolidated district
Status: in_force

At the expiration of such thirty day period, sewerage districts included in any such consolidated district shall no longer have the right to issue bonds and all books and records and assets thereof shall be transferred to the consolidated district. Unless such consolidated district shall vote to assume the indebtedness of each underlying district as hereinafter provided, it shall be the duty of the governing authority of the consolidated district to cause taxes to continue to be levied for the payment of the outstanding indebtedness of each underlying district in all respects as would have been required had such consolidation not been effected, except that where such indebtedness of any underlying district consists of revenue bonds payable from service charges or obligations payable from the proceeds of special assessments, the governing authority shall continue to impose and collect such service charges and assessments. Such taxes as may be levied by the governing authority of the consolidated district in the underlying districts shall be entitled to the benefit of the exemption and to the reimbursal authorized by R.S. 39:253.

Consolidated sewerage districts created under this Sub-part shall have all rights, powers and privileges granted to and enjoyed by other sewerage districts under the constitution and laws of Louisiana.

Added by Acts 1958, No. 276, §1, pars. 3, 4.

NOTE: Former R.S. 39:253 was repealed by Act No. 10 of the 1972 Extraordinary Session.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4043 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4043
Apportionment of cost
Status: in_force

The entire cost of all the sewerage connections, closets, equipment, pipes, water connections, service pipes, labor, engineering, etc., shall be ascertained by the engineer and the costs to each property shall be assessed according to the material used, and work done under contract in connecting the property with the public sewer and water main. The engineering expenses shall be charged in the proportion that the costs of each connection bears to the whole and the costs of the connection and engineering shall be borne accordingly by each property connected with the public sewer unless such are funded by ad valorem taxes or parcel fees pursuant to R.S. 33:3980.1.

Acts 1999, No. 1167, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:140.5 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 140.5
Organization; rules; staff
Status: in_force

A. The commission shall elect its chairman from among its members. The term of the chairman shall be one year with eligibility for reelection. The commission shall adopt rules for the transaction of business and shall keep a record of its resolutions, transactions, findings, and determinations, and the recorded vote of each member to be included, and each record shall be a public record.

B. The commission may appoint such employees and staff as it deems necessary for its work, and where, for convenience, economy, or effectiveness in the administration of plans, ordinances, or other measures, such as zoning, the commission desires to delegate certain authority to its employees and staff to act in its behalf, it may do so when such authority is specified in the plan, ordinance or other measure.

C. The commission may contract with city planners and other consultants for such services as it may require.

Acts 1962, No. 52, §5; Acts 1990, No. 699, §1. eff. July 20, 1990; Acts 1990, No. 890, §1; Acts 1990, No. 953, §1; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:7721 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 7721
Creation of districts as political subdivisions
Status: in_force

The governing authority of any parish may by ordinance create mosquito abatement districts composed of any part or all of the territory lying wholly within the parish. Such districts shall be political and legal subdivisions of the state, with power to sue and be sued in their corporate names.

Added by Acts 1975, No. 512, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4081.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4081.1
Lead service line replacement; right of entry
Status: in_force

A. A municipality may adopt an ordinance that allows the municipality or municipal water system, or any agent thereof, to enter a property within the municipality to perform a lead service line replacement, provided that the municipality provides the owner and any residents of the property with notice at least seven days before entering the property, unless in the case of an emergency as determined by the municipality or municipal water system. A municipality may not enter into a property that is not directly related to performing a lead service line replacement.

B. For the purposes of this Section, notice to the owner and any residents of the property shall include an attempt to inform the owner and any residents in person of the date and time of the lead service line replacement, and if the owner or a resident is unable to be reached in person, the municipality shall send, by certified mail, a letter to the owner and any residents or post a written notice in a prominent location on the property which shall include:

(1) The scheduled date and time of the lead service line replacement and who will be performing the replacement.

(2) The likely extent of water service disruption.

(3) Nearby locations where the municipality or a public water system is distributing supplementary drinking water, if any.

(4) Any remedies that the municipality shall take if the municipality or municipal water system, or an agent thereof, is unable to access the property.

C. In addition to the notice requirements of Subsection B of this Section, a municipality shall send, by certified mail, the owner a letter after the completion of the replacement stating the approximate time that the replacement occurred and providing a brief summary of the work performed.

D. As used in this Section:

(1) "Municipal water system" means a municipal utilities authority, water district, waterworks, water commission, joint meeting, or any other political subdivision of the state authorized pursuant to law to operate or maintain a public water system or to construct, rehabilitate, operate, or maintain water supply facilities or otherwise provide water for human consumption.

(2) "Service line" means the pipe, tubing, and fittings connecting a municipal water main to a building or structure and also includes the water meter for the property.

Acts 2024, No. 527, §1, see Act.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:140.17 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 140.17
Penalties for transferring lots in unapproved subdivisions
Status: in_force

If the owner or the agent of the owner of any land located within the area covered by the adopted plan transfers or sells or agrees to sell or negotiates to sell such land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat of subdivision of such land before such plat has been approved by such commission and recorded in the office of the clerk of court of Caddo Parish, the owner or the agent of the owner shall be subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each lot so transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to be sold; and the description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from such penalties. The municipality, through its attorney or other designated official, may enjoin such transfer of sale or agreement by action for injunction or may recover the penalty by civil action.

Acts 1962, No. 52, §17; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4813 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4813
Removal of remains of dead by police jury
Status: in_force

The ordinance shall provide that, if the remains are not removed within forty days, or within such longer time as the ordinance may allow, after the first publication of the adoption of the ordinance in the official journal, the police jury shall have the right to remove the remains. The ordinance may also provide that the cost of removal shall be at the expense of the parish or at the expense of the record owner of the property in which the bodies are interred.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:130.505 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 130.505
Taxes; borrowing money
Status: in_force

A. The board may, when necessary, levy annually an ad valorem tax, provided that the amount, term, and purpose of said tax, as set out in a proposition submitted to a vote in accordance with the Louisiana Election Code, shall be approved by a majority of the qualified electors voting on the proposition at a special election held for that purpose.

B.(1) The board may, subject to approval of a majority of the electors voting on the proposition at an election held for the purpose, levy and collect a sales and use tax within the boundaries of the district for such purposes and at such rate as provided by the proposition authorizing its levy, not exceeding one percent, which tax may exceed the limitation set forth in Article VI, Section 29(A) of the Constitution of Louisiana.

(2) The tax shall be levied upon the sale at retail, the use, the lease or rental, the consumption, the distribution and storage for use or consumption of tangible personal property, and upon the sales of services within the district, all as presently defined in R.S. 47:301 through 317.

(3) Except where inapplicable, the procedure established by R.S. 47:301 through 317 shall be followed in the imposition, collection, and enforcement of the tax, and procedural details necessary to supplement those Sections and to make them applicable to the tax herein authorized shall be fixed in the resolution imposing the tax.

(4) The tax shall be imposed and collected uniformly throughout the district.

C. Any tax levied under this Section shall be in addition to all other taxes which a parish or any municipality or other political subdivision within the parish of East Carroll is now or hereafter may be authorized to levy and collect.

D. All funds derived under this Section may be used only for expenses or specified purposes of the district. The board shall establish and maintain, in addition to all necessary and normal accounts, the following special accounts:

(1) A revolving loan guarantee fund, to be used to guarantee industrial or business terminal development loans to the extent permitted by the Constitution of Louisiana under the following guidelines:

(a) Loan guarantees shall be made only when adequate financing for the project is unavailable through normal lending channels and the project represents a sound business venture that is financially and economically feasible.

(b) Loan guarantees shall be used to assist an identifiable business concern to finance plant construction, conversion, or expansion and to finance acquisition of land, existing structures, machinery, or equipment and to provide operational funds.

(c) The terms and rates shall be compatible with loans offered by local lending institutions, and the guarantee shall never exceed forty percent of the cost of the total project. In addition, the district shall attempt to obtain the most favorable security available under the circumstances to protect and ensure the recovery of its commitment under the guarantee.

(d) Loan guarantees may be evaluated for the economic impact in terms of the number and types of jobs created or saved.

(e) Loan guarantees shall be made to leverage other sources of private and public capital to attain the greatest economic impact possible with the limited funds available.

(f) Loan guarantees shall be targeted to industries, manufacturing firms, and wholesale distribution firms and service firms.

(g) The lending or underwriting principals shall have such demonstrated experience, ability, and net worth as would allow for the success, continuation, security, and solvency of the program. Prudent lending and underwriting standards shall be applied in order to comply with the primary objectives of this Section.

(2) An economic development operation fund, for the development and attraction of industries to accomplish the following:

(a) The operational fund shall be used for operating expenses necessary in the creation of industrial and commercial development, in hiring sufficient staff to accomplish the purposes set out in this Subpart, and other related expenses.

(b) The operational fund may also be utilized in contracting for services as may be required by the district, including but not limited to planning assistance, surveys, land use studies, professional and technical services, and other services necessary to effectuate a unified industrial development plan.

(3) An account for the maintenance and operation of a governmental procurement center to provide necessary information to companies and individuals engaged in providing services and goods to accomplish the following:

(a) Pinpoint and identify potential buying centers and aid in placing the company on a bidder's list for these centers and assist companies in obtaining specifications for their products or services.

(b) Provide trained counselors to assist in acquiring solicitation and bid packages and conduct seminars designed to disseminate other information needed by the target companies and individuals.

Acts 1995, No. 115, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4364 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4364
Contents of petition
Status: in_force

The petitions so to be presented to the police jury shall contain:

(1) The designation or description of the road upon which it is proposed to have the railway constructed.

(2) The term for which the franchise is to be granted.

(3) The termini of the proposed railway.

(4) Terms, conditions, and specifications relating to the franchise which the property holders see fit to require.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2013 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 2013
Fire suppression employees; city of New Orleans; maximum hiring age requirement
Status: in_force

A. The fire department of the city of New Orleans shall adopt a written policy establishing a maximum age requirement for any person hired as a fire suppression employee of such department. The written policy shall provide that no person shall be hired by the department as a fire suppression employee who exceeds thirty-five years of age at the time the person is hired as a fire suppression employee. Such maximum age requirement shall not apply to a person hired by the department as a fire suppression employee who is a fireman as defined in R.S. 33:1991 immediately prior to being so hired.

B. The provisions of this Section shall be superseded by any applicable state or federal law governing age discrimination.

Acts 2005, No. 436, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:130.357 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 130.357
Revenue bonds
Status: in_force

A. In addition to the authority contained herein, the district and any subdistrict of the district created pursuant to R.S. 33:130.355(A)(12) may, in order to encourage the location or addition to commercial, research, or industrial or other enterprises authorized by this Subpart within the jurisdiction of the district, or respective subdistrict, issue revenue bonds to acquire, purchase, lease, construct, or improve commercial, research, industrial, or other plant sites and buildings, or other capital improvements authorized in this Subpart, including 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 the jurisdiction of the district, or the respective subdistrict, such sites, buildings, 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 delivery of the bonds as shall be provided in the contract between the district, or respective subdistrict, and the commercial, research, industrial, or other enterprise to be aided, encouraged, or benefitted.

B. Bonds issued under this Section shall be authorized by resolution of the district, or the respective subdistrict, and shall be limited obligations of the district, or respective subdistrict, the principal of and interest on which shall be payable solely from the income and revenue derived from the sale, lease, or other disposition of the project or facility to be financed by the bonds issued hereunder, or from the income and revenue derived from the sale, lease or other disposition of any existing project or facility acquired, constructed, and improved under the provision of this Subpart. However, in the discretion of the district, or respective subdistrict, the bonds may be additionally secured by mortgage covering all or part of the project from which the revenues so pledged may be derived. Any refunding bonds issued pursuant to this Section shall be payable from any source described above or from the investment of any of the proceeds of the refunding bonds authorized under this Section shall not constitute an indebtedness or pledge of the general credit of the district, or respective subdistrict, within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation of indebtedness and shall contain a recital to that effect. Bonds of the district, or respective subdistrict, shall be issued in such form, shall be in such denominations, shall bear interest, shall mature in such manner and be executed by one or more members of the board of the body as provided in the resolutions authorizing the issuance thereof. Such bonds may be subject to redemption at the option of and in the manner determined by the board in the resolution authorizing the issuance thereof.

C. No bonds or other evidences of indebtedness may be issued under this Section without the prior approval of the State Bond Commission of the terms and provisions thereof.

D. Bonds issued under this Section shall be issued, sold, and delivered in accordance with the terms and provisions of a resolution to be adopted by the board. The resolution shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the jurisdiction of the district, or respective subdistrict, and for a period of thirty days after said publication, any interested citizen may bring an action to contest the bonds and the security therefor, as provided in Article VI, Section 35(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana. If, after the expiration of thirty days, no suit has been filed, the issuance, sale, and security of the bonds shall be incontestable, and no court shall have authority to entertain any action questioning or contesting such matters.

Acts 1991, No. 142, §1, eff. June 30, 1991
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2585.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 2585.3
Ballots; election procedures; counting; determination of whether the election was conducted according to duly established procedures
Status: in_force

A. The administrative head shall arrange the names of the candidates in alphabetical order and shall assign a number to each. He shall place the name of each candidate who meets the requirements for candidacy in alphabetical order on the ballot, together with the number assigned to each. The ballot shall be uniform. Election procedures other than those provided by law shall be established by rule of each municipal or parochial civil service board. Such rules shall provide for secret ballots; for the time, place, and manner for ballot collection; for procedures to assure that no otherwise eligible person is prevented from voting by reason of physical incapacity, blindness, or illiteracy; and for procedures to assure that only eligible voters are allowed to vote and that ballot counting is accurate and proper.

B. All ballots shall be counted by a ballot-counting committee composed of two classified municipal or parochial employees named by each candidate and such additional number of classified municipal or parochial employees, named by each candidate, as the administrative head determines is necessary to complete the count.

C. The governing authority of the parish or municipality, with the assistance of the administrative head, shall determine if the election was held and the ballots counted according to law and the rules of the municipal or parochial civil service board.

D. Any ballot which is not timely returned, or which is returned in an envelope without a signature slip or with a signature slip improperly signed shall be marked "Rejected" by the ballot counting committee and shall not be counted by the ballot counting committee. In addition, the ballot counting committee shall reject any ballot upon which the name of more than one candidate is marked.

Added by Acts 1980, No. 563, §1. Amended by Acts 1981, No. 253, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:3460 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 3460
Negotiability, validity and incontestability of coupon certificates
Status: in_force

Certificates issued hereunder shall have all the requisites of negotiable paper, and shall not be invalid for any irregularity or defect in the proceedings for their issuance, sale or delivery, and shall be incontestable in the hands of bona fide purchasers or holders for value.

Added by Acts 1970, No. 21, §1, emerg. eff. June 11, 1970, at 12:00 Noon.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:135.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 135.3
Additional powers; certain commissions
Status: in_force

A regional planning commission in any regional urbanized area with a population in excess of one million shall:

(1) Be authorized to provide transportation design and transportation engineering services in support of the metropolitan transportation plan, the capital outlay program, and such related projects as may be requested and approved by member governmental entities.

(2) Not exceed five hundred thousand dollars for engineering fees or design costs for any individual project.

(3) Coordinate all transportation design and engineering with affected governmental entities, including concurrence of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development prior to performing any transportation design or transportation engineering services involving a state highway. Should federal funds be involved, any such projects shall be confined to the federal-aid network and shall require prior approval by the Federal Highway Administration.

Acts 2003, No. 783, §1, eff. July 1, 2003.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4755.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4755.1
Creation; purpose
Status: in_force

A. The New Orleans Housing Commission is hereby created as an administrative agency of the city of New Orleans. However, the New Orleans Housing Commission, hereinafter referred to as "the commission," shall not exercise any of the powers conferred upon it by this Subpart until and unless the governing authority of the city of New Orleans has by resolution authorized the commission to exercise such powers as further provided herein.

B.(1)(a) No later than ninety days after the effective date of this Subpart, the governing authority of the city of New Orleans, hereinafter referred to as "the city governing authority," shall by resolution call a public hearing on the activation of the commission.

(b) Notice of the hearing shall be published at least ten days prior to the date of the hearing in the official journal of the city, and a full opportunity to be heard shall be given to all interested residents of the city at the hearing.

(c) If the city governing authority finds it to be in the public interest to activate the commission, the city governing authority shall adopt a resolution so finding and declaring and shall transmit notice of the resolution to the mayor of the city.

(2) Upon receipt of the notice of the resolution, the mayor shall appoint, with the approval of the city governing authority, members of the commission as further provided herein. A certificate stating that the city governing authority made the finding and declaration and that the mayor has appointed the initial members of the commission shall be signed by the mayor and the initial members and shall be filed with the secretary of state. Upon such filing, the commission shall be authorized to exercise all powers conferred by this Subpart.

C. The purpose of the commission shall be to enforce those ordinances and regulations of the city applicable to vacant substandard structures, including but not limited to the Building Code of the city of New Orleans, Ordinance No. 17525 C.C.S., as amended, the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the city of New Orleans, Ordinance No. 4264 M.C.S., as amended, Chapters 28, 30, 37, 48, and 54 of the City Code of the city of New Orleans, and the Fire Code of the city of New Orleans, Ordinance No. 4912 M.C.S. It is the intent of this Subpart not to preempt any other mechanism of enforcement of such ordinances and regulations presently utilized by the city but to provide through the commission an alternative method of such enforcement.

Acts 1984, No. 920, §1, eff. July 20, 1984.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:9031.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 9031.1
Validation of cooperative endeavor agreements
Status: in_force

In order to provide a uniform, expeditious, and equitable procedure, with due regard for the public fisc and rights of persons in interest, for the judicial determination of the validity of any cooperative endeavor agreements authorized under this Chapter or generally by Article VII, Section 14(C) of the Louisiana Constitution and the transactions contemplated thereby; the provisions of Part XVI of Chapter 32 of Title 13 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950*, as amended, shall be applicable thereto, and suits to determine the validity of such cooperative endeavor agreements may be filed thereunder in the district court having jurisdiction for any party thereto as though such agreements constituted the issuance of bonds of a governmental unit.

Acts 2002, No. 78, §2, eff. June 25, 2002.

*R.S. 13:5121 et seq.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4144 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4144
New Orleans; continuation of board; application of proceeds
Status: in_force

The Board of Liquidation, City Debt, as now organized and created, and with the powers, duties and functions prescribed by existing laws and by the Louisiana Constitution, shall be continued while any bonds authorized by Section 4138 of this Part are outstanding and unpaid, and all taxes which may be levied for the payment of said bonds, shall day by day as collected be paid over to said board and shall by it be applied in payment of the principal and interest of said bonds.

Added by Acts 1978, No. 419, §1, eff. July 1, 1978.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4434 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4434
Rights of transferee
Status: in_force

The transferee under the transfer so authorized shall have the same rights and privileges and become subject to the same responsibilities as if a separate, assignable franchise embodying the part of the franchise transferred had been granted originally by the municipality and the separate, assignable franchise had been so transferred. The transferor, as a result of the transfer so authorized, shall be deemed thereby to have retained only the rights and privileges, and to have remained charged with only the duties, contained in the part of the franchise owned by the transferor and not so transferred.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:130.829 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 130.829
Exemption from taxation
Status: in_force

The district and all properties at any time owned by the district and the income therefrom and all bonds, certificates, and other evidence of indebtedness issued by the district under this Subpart and the interest or income therefrom shall be exempt from all taxation by the state of Louisiana.

Acts 2009, No. 420, §1, eff. July 1, 2009.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4501 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4501
Licensing drivers of public vehicles for hire in cities of 10,000 to 100,000
Status: in_force

All municipal corporations having a population of more than 10,000 inhabitants and less than 100,000 inhabitants, may:

(1) issue licenses to all drivers of public vehicles for hire,

(2) provide that no person shall drive a public vehicle for hire without a license,

(3) provide a standard of qualifications of all such drivers,

(4) provide who shall be licensed as drivers,

(5) revoke licenses for cause, and

(6) provide penalties for the violation of any laws passed under the power hereby delegated.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2453 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 2453
Duties of the board
Status: in_force

The civil service board shall review and adopt the classification plan, the pay plan, and the personnel rules developed by the civil service director. In addition thereto, the board shall:

(1) Conduct investigations and take action on complaints by or against any employee in the classified service. Although it is incumbent upon the appointing authority to initiate corrective or disciplinary action, if warranted, in the absence of such action by the appointing authority, the board may order the appointing authority to act and such action shall be taken by the appointing authority.

(2) Hold hearings on dismissals, demotions, and other disciplinary matters as may be provided in the rules. The right to appeal from any decision of the board or from any action taken by the board under these provisions shall lie direct to the court of original and unlimited jurisdiction in the civil suits for the parish of Rapides.

(3) Exercise witness and record subpoena powers.

(4) Appoint a civil service director when a vacancy occurs.

(5) Make any investigations it deems desirable concerning civil service management in the parish service and report its findings to the police jury.

(6) Perform such other policymaking or quasi judicial duties as may be required under the rules developed pursuant to this Section.

(7) Make, alter, amend, and promulgate rules necessary to carry out effectively the classified civil service system.

Acts 1993, No. 387, §1, eff. June 7, 1993.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:130.865 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 130.865
Rights and powers
Status: in_force

The district, acting by and through its board, shall have and exercise all powers of a political subdivision necessary or convenient for the carrying out of its objects and purposes, including but not limited to the following in addition to the other rights and powers set out in this Subpart:

(1) To sue and be sued.

(2) To adopt, use, and alter at will a corporate seal.

(3) To acquire by gift, grant, or purchase all property, including rights-of-way and to hold and use any franchise or property, immovable, movable, mixed, corporeal, or incorporeal, or any interest therein, necessary or desirable for carrying out the objects and purposes of the district.

(4) To enter into contracts for the purchase, lease, acquisition, construction, and improvement of works and facilities necessary in connection with the purposes of the district and to mortgage its properties and enter into leases and other agreements on terms the board approves. Any lease or sublease, including any assignment, extension, or renewal thereof, shall be exempt from the provisions of R.S. 38:2211 et seq. and any other provision of law with respect to the lease or sublease of property by public entities.

(5) To require and issue licenses with respect to properties and facilities owned by the district.

(6) To regulate the imposition of fees and rentals charged by the district for its facilities leased, operated, or owned and services rendered by it.

(7) To appoint agents and employees, prescribe their duties, and fix their compensation.

(8) To enter into cooperative endeavor agreements with any other party, public or private, to accomplish the purposes of this Subpart and to expend its funding within and without the territorial boundaries of the district to accomplish its purpose.

(9) To exercise any and all of the powers granted to an economic development district as if the district were an economic development district established pursuant to Part II of Chapter 27 of Title 33 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. The taxing authority granted to the district by this Paragraph shall not limit any taxing authority granted to the city of New Orleans pursuant to Article VI, Section 29(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana.

(10)(a) To create subdistricts as provided in this Paragraph. The district shall publish notice of its intent to create a subdistrict in the official journal of the district. At least ten days after publication of such notice in the official journal of the district, the board shall conduct a public hearing on the question of creating the subdistrict. Thereafter, the board may designate one or more proposed areas within the boundaries of the district as a subdistrict of the district.

(b) Each subdistrict shall constitute a political subdivision of the state and shall be governed by the board. Each subdistrict shall have the same powers granted to the district, including the powers granted to the district pursuant to Paragraph (9) of this Section. Each subdistrict shall be given a name and designated as "New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority Economic Growth and Development District Subdistrict No._____" or such other suitable name as the board may designate.

Acts 2015, No. 420, §1, eff. July 1, 2015; Acts 2016, No. 457, §1, eff. July 1, 2016.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:130.319 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 130.319
General compliances; enhancement
Status: in_force

A. No provisions of this Subpart shall be construed so as to exempt the district from compliance with the provisions of Louisiana laws pertaining to open meetings, public records, fiscal agents, official journals, dual office holding and employment, public bidding for the purchase of supplies and materials, and construction of public works, the Code of Governmental Ethics, the Right to Property in Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution of Louisiana, and the Louisiana Election Code.

B. The district shall have the power and right to adopt a program or programs awarding contracts to, and establishing set-aside goals and preference procedures for the benefit of, businesses owned or operated by socially or economically disadvantaged persons in accordance with any of the provisions of R.S. 38:2233 and of Chapter 19 of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, entitled "Louisiana Minority Business Enterprise Act".

C. The financial records of the district shall be subject to audit pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 24:513.

Acts 1991, No. 723, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:126 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 126
Meetings
Status: in_force

The chairman of a parish development board shall preside at all meetings of the board. Every board shall hold at least one regular monthly meeting and in addition may meet on call of the chairman as often as necessary to transact its business.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:130.769 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 130.769
Securities
Status: in_force

Bonds, certificates, or other evidences of indebtedness issued by the authority under this Subpart are deemed to be securities of public entities within the meaning of Chapters 13 and 13-A of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, and shall be subject to defeasance in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 14 of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, and may be refunded in accordance with the provisions of Chapters 14-A and 15 of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, and may also be issued as short-term revenue notes of a public entity under Chapter 15-A of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

Acts 2008, No. 918, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4087 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4087
Contractors required to hire residents of New Orleans if available; exceptions; permanent employees to be residents; bond requirement
Status: in_force

All contracts executed by the board for the construction or repair of the public systems of sewerage, water and drainage, shall contain a clause stipulating that the contractor shall give preference in employment to bona fide residents of the City of New Orleans, both as skilled and unskilled laborers, and shall not employ any non-resident laborers, skilled or unskilled (except confidential clerks, chief superintendents and chief engineers) as long as any resident laborer is ready, willing and able to do the work required.

Whoever violates this Section shall forfeit the sum of twenty-five dollars, for each person unlawfully employed, to be deducted by the board from the contract price due the contractor. The general superintendent of the board may dismiss all persons employed in violation of this Section. This Section shall not apply to skilled mechanics and machinists brought to the City of New Orleans by the manufacturers of machinery solely for the purpose of erecting and testing the same.

No person shall be considered a bona fide resident of the City of New Orleans under this Section, unless he has actually resided in the City of New Orleans for one year prior to his employment.

All the permanent employees of the board, who are required to be appointed after civil service examination, shall be of good moral character, and bona fide residents of New Orleans for at least one year prior to their appointment. The board shall require bonds with good and sufficient surety for the faithful performance of their duties from all of its employees who handle money or material, or who fill positions of responsibility.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:7631 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 7631
Short title
Status: in_force

This Chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Cooperative Local Government Incentives Act".

Acts 2014, No. 746, §1, eff. June 19, 2014; Acts 2018, No. 513, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4559 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4559
Municipalities of 100,000 or more authorized to acquire and operate opera houses or dramatic halls
Status: in_force

Any municipality having a population of one hundred thousand or more, may build or acquire, furnish, equip, own, operate and regulate the use of municipal opera houses or dramatic halls and finance them out of its general funds or out of funds specially provided therefor by the sale of bonds issued in the manner provided by law for meeting the cost of public buildings or other public improvements, and establish charges for the use thereof.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:425 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 425
Duties of treasurer
Status: in_force

The treasurer shall receive, safely keep, and pay out according to law, all monies belonging to the municipality. He shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements, and shall make report, in writing to the mayor and board of aldermen, at each regular meeting, of the finances of the municipality; shall perform all other duties that may be prescribed by ordinance; and shall pay out money only on the warrant issued by the order of the mayor and board of aldermen.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4545.4.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4545.4.2
Domicile of directors, parish-council form of government
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Chapter, a director representing a municipality which, together with the parish in which it is located is governed by a parish-council consolidated form of government, need not be domiciled in the said municipality, but shall be either domiciled anywhere within the parish in which the municipality is located or be an employee of the municipality represented.

Acts 1988, No. 520, §1, eff. July 8, 1988; Acts 2016, No. 242, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4495 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4495
Election reinvesting municipality or parish with power to supervise utilities
Status: in_force

Any town, city, or parish which has voted to surrender its powers of supervision, regulation, and control respecting any class of public utilities may reinvest itself with such power by holding an election in the same manner and with all of the same formalities hereinabove provided, and if at the election a majority of the qualified electors voting on any proposition submitted to reinvest the municipality or parish with its powers of supervision, regulation and control the municipality or parish shall be deemed to have reinvested itself with its powers of supervision, regulation and control and such powers shall no longer be exercised by the Louisiana Public Service Commission when the clerk of the municipality or parish files in the office of the Louisiana Public Service Commission and with the Secretary of State a certified copy of the order.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:130.294 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 130.294
Industrial development
Status: in_force

A.(1) The district shall have the power to construct and acquire industrial parks and industrial plant buildings, and subordinate and related facilities, including the acquisition of sites and other necessary property or appurtenances thereto within the district, or outside the district if the project is undertaken conjointly with another state or with other local units of government, under the authority of the local services law, R.S. 33:1321 et seq., or other authorizing authority, and to acquire, construct, improve, operate, maintain, and provide improvements and services necessary therefor, including but not limited to roads, street lighting, bridges, rail facilities, drainage, sewers, sewerage disposal facilities, solid waste disposal facilities, waterworks, and other utilities and related properties.

(2) The district shall also have the authority to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of, by suitable and appropriate contract, to any enterprise locating or existing within the district all or any part of a site, building, or other property owned by the district. In determining the consideration for any contract to lease, sell, or otherwise dispose of lands, buildings, or other property of the district, the board of commissioners may take into consideration the value of the lands, buildings, or other properties involved as well as the potential value of the economic impact of the enterprise being induced to locate or expand within the district. Such economic impact shall include increased employment, increased use of local labor, wages and salaries to be paid, consumption of local materials, products, and resources, and special tax revenues to be generated by the enterprise acquiring or leasing lands, buildings, or other property from the district. The board shall not dispose of any property of the district for less than the fair market value of the property as defined in R.S. 47:2321, at the time of the sale, lease, or contract arrangement without the prior approval of the State Bond Commission. The district shall be empowered to enter into leases having a term, including all renewal terms, not to exceed fifty years in the aggregate. The approval of the State Bond Commission shall be conclusive for purposes of compliance with the requirements of this Paragraph.

(3)(a) The resolution or ordinance adopted by the board of commissioners authorizing any lease, sale, or other disposition of lands, buildings, or other property of the district or any attachment thereto shall set forth, in a general way, the terms of the authorized lease, sale, or other disposition, and such resolution or ordinance shall be published as soon as possible in one issue of the official journal of the district.

(b) For a period of thirty days from the date of publication of any such resolution or ordinance, any interested person may contest the legality of such resolution or ordinance or the validity of the authorized lease, sale, or other disposition of district property, after which time no one shall have any cause of action to contest the legality of said resolution or ordinance or to draw in question the legality of the authorized lease, sale, or other disposition of district property for any cause whatsoever, and it shall be conclusively presumed thereafter that every legal requirement has been complied with and no court shall have authority to inquire into such matters after the lapse of said thirty days.

B. The district shall have the following additional powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary for the performance of those hereinafter stated:

(1) To acquire, whether by purchase, expropriation, exchange, gift, lease, or otherwise, and to construct and improve, maintain, equip, and furnish one or more economic development projects, including all immovable and movable properties which the board of commissioners may deem necessary in connection therewith.

(2) To lease or to contract for the use of any or all of its authorized projects and to charge and collect rent, fees, or charges therefor, and to terminate any such lease or contractual arrangement upon the failure of the lessee or contracting party to comply with any of the obligations thereof all as may be provided for in the lease agreement to which the district may become a party.

(3) To sell, exchange, donate, and convey any or all of its projects upon such terms and conditions as the board of commissioners may deem advisable, including the power to receive for any such sale the first mortgage note or notes of the purchaser of a project representing unpaid installments of the purchase price due by the purchaser to the district whenever the board of commissioners finds any such actions to be in furtherance of the purposes for which the district was organized.

(4) As security for the payment of the principal of and interest on any bonds, notes, or other obligations of the district and any agreements made in connection therewith, to mortgage and pledge any or all of its projects or any part or parts thereof, whether then owned or thereafter acquired, and to pledge the revenues and receipts therefrom or from any other source.

(5)(a) To enter into any cooperative financing of an economic development project between or among the district and the state, any of its local governmental subdivisions, political corporations or public benefit corporations, the United States or its agencies, or any public or private association, corporation, or individual. Said methods of financing shall include loans, loan guarantees, land write-downs, grants, lease guarantees, or any form of financial subsidy or incentive that complies with the provisions of Article VII, Section 14 of the Constitution of Louisiana.

(b) To enter into any cooperative development between or among the district and the state, any of its local governmental subdivisions, political corporations or public benefit corporations, the United States or its agencies, or any public or private association, corporation, or individual. Said methods of cooperative development shall include but not be limited to any number of joint development agreements such as condominiums and cooperative ownership, limited partnerships, and investment syndicates not prohibited by the Constitution of Louisiana. Regardless of the method of financing, the district shall attempt to obtain the most favorable security available in order to protect and ensure recovery of sums loaned or paid pursuant to such financing.

(c) "Cooperative endeavor" means any form of economic development assistance between or among the district and the state, any of its local governmental subdivisions, political corporations or public benefit corporations, the United States or its agencies, or any public or private association, corporation, or individual. The term "cooperative endeavor" shall include but not be limited to cooperative financing, cooperative development, or any other form of cooperative economic development activity.

Acts 1989, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 16, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4720.137 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4720.137
Issuance of bonds
Status: in_force

A. The authority shall have power to issue bonds of the authority from time to time in its discretion to finance its activities or operations under this Chapter, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing the repayment with interest of any advances or loans of funds made to the authority by the federal government, or other source, for any surveys or plans made or to be made by the authority in exercising its powers under this Chapter, and shall also have power to issue refunding or other bonds of the authority from time to time in its discretion for the payment, retirement, renewal, or extension of any bonds previously issued by it under this Section, and to provide for the replacement of lost, destroyed, or mutilated bonds previously issued under this Section.

B. Bonds which are issued under this Section:

(1) May be general obligation bonds of the authority to the payment of which, as to both principal and interest, and premiums, if any, the full faith, credit, and assets, acquired and to be acquired, of the authority are irrevocably pledged.

(2) May be special obligations of the authority which, as to both principal and interest, and premiums, if any, are payable solely from and secured only by a pledge of any income, proceeds, revenues, or funds of the authority derived or to be derived by it or held by it in connection with its undertaking of any project or projects of the authority, including any grants or contributions of funds made or to be made by it with respect to any such project or projects, and any funds derived or to be derived by it or held or to be held by it in connection with its sale, lease, rental, transfer, retention, management, rehabilitation, clearance, development, redevelopment, preparation for development or redevelopment, or its operation or other utilization or disposition of any real or personal property acquired or to be acquired by it or held or to be held by it for any of the purposes of this Chapter, and including any loans, grants, or contributions of funds made or to be made to it by the federal government, in aid of any project or projects of the authority or in aid of any of its other activities or operations.

(3) May be special obligations of the authority which, as to both principal and interest, and premiums, if any, are payable solely from and secured only by a pledge of any loans, grants, or contributions of funds made or to be made to it by the federal government, or other source, in aid of any project or projects of the authority or in aid of any of its other activities or operations.

(4) May be contingent special obligations of the authority which, as to both principal and interest, and premiums, if any, are payable solely from any funds available or becoming available to the authority for its undertaking of the project or projects involved in the particular activities or operations with respect to which such contingent special obligations are issued, but so payable only in the event such funds are or become available as aforesaid.

C. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section, any bonds which are issued under this Section, other than the contingent special obligations covered by Paragraph (B)(4) of this Section, may be additionally secured as to the payment of the principal and interest, and premiums, if any, by a mortgage of any community improvement project or projects, or any part thereof, title to which is then or thereafter in the authority or any other real or personal property, or interest therein, then owned or thereafter acquired by the authority.

D. Bonds which are issued under this Section shall not constitute an indebtedness of the state of Louisiana or the parish of Jefferson, or any public body of this state other than the authority issuing such bonds, are not subject to any constitutional or statutory debt limitation or restriction, and shall not be subject to the provisions of any other act or of the charter of the parish of Jefferson relating to the authorization, issuance, or sale of bonds.

E. Bonds which are issued under this Section are declared to be issued for an essential public and governmental purpose and, together with interest thereon and income therefrom, shall be exempted from all taxes.

F. Bonds which are issued under this Section shall be authorized by resolution or resolutions of the authority and may be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date or dates, be payable upon demand or mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or rates, be in such denomination or denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered or otherwise, carry such conversion or registration privileges, have such rank or priority, be executed in the name of the authority in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, be payable at such place or places, be subject to such callability provisions or terms of redemption with or without premiums, be secured in such manner, be of such description, contain or be subject to such covenants, provisions, terms, conditions, and agreements, including provisions concerning events of default, and have such other characteristics, as may be provided by such resolution or resolutions or by the indenture or mortgage, if any, issued pursuant to such resolution or resolutions. The seal of the authority or a facsimile thereof shall be affixed, imprinted, engraved, or otherwise reproduced upon each of its bonds issued under this Section.

G. Bonds which are issued under this Section shall be executed in the name of the authority by the manual or facsimile signatures of such of its officials as may be designated in the aforesaid resolution or resolutions or trust agreement, indenture, or mortgage. Coupons, if any, attached to such bonds shall bear the facsimile signature of such official of the authority as may be designated as aforesaid.

H. The bonds of the Jefferson Parish Redevelopment Authority may be sold at public or private sale in such manner and from time to time as may be determined by the board of commissioners to be most advantageous.

I. If any of the officials of the authority whose signatures or facsimile signatures appear on any of its bonds or coupons which are issued under this Section shall cease to be such officials before the delivery of such bonds, such signatures or facsimile signatures, as the case may be, shall, nevertheless, be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if such officials had remained in office until such delivery.

J. Any provisions of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bonds which are issued under this Section shall be fully negotiable.

K. In any suit, action, or proceeding involving the validity or enforceability of any bond which is issued under this Section or the security therefor, any such bond reciting in substance that it has been issued by the authority in connection with a community improvement project as herein defined, or any activity or operation of the authority under this Chapter, shall be conclusively deemed to have been issued for such purposes, and such community improvement project or such operation or activity, as the case may be, shall be conclusively deemed to have been initiated, planned, located, undertaken, accomplished, and carried out in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.

L. Pending the preparation of any definitive bonds hereunder, the authority may issue its interim certificate or receipts, or its temporary bonds, with or without coupons, exchangeable for such definitive bonds when the latter shall have been executed and are available for delivery.

M. Persons, firms, or corporations retained or employed by an agency as advisers or consultants for the purpose of rendering financial advice and assistance may purchase or participate in the purchase, or in the distribution of its bonds when such bonds are offered at public sale.

N. No commissioner or other officer of the authority issuing bonds under this Section and no person executing such bonds shall be liable personally on such bonds or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of the issuance thereof.

Acts 2007, No. 390, §1, eff. July 10, 2007.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:3688 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 3688
Installment payments; notes evidencing deferred payments
Status: in_force

NOTE: AS AMENDED BY ACTS 1950, NO. 71, §1:

The governing authority of the parish shall provide in the ordinance accepting the work and making the assessment that the property owners therein assessed, (including the parish where it owns property abutting on the street paved), availing themselves of the privilege within ten days after the passage of the ordinance, may (1) within ten days after passage of the ordinance pay in cash one-fifteenth of the amount of their indebtedness and pay the balance in fourteen equal annual installments. As evidence of these deferred payments the property owners shall sign fourteen promissory notes each for one-fifteenth of the amount due and payable, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen and fourteen years from date respectively or sooner at the option of the maker. The notes shall be made payable to the order of the parish, dated ten days after passage of said ordinance, bearing interest at a maximum rate of five per cent per annum from date until paid, payable annually, and ten per cent attorney's fees if placed in the hands of an attorney for collection after maturity, which notes, when paraphed by the clerk or secretary of the parish police jury to identify them with the ordinance levying the assessment, shall carry with them in the possession of any bona fide owner as to lots or land owned by it abutting on the street or road improved under R.S. 33:3681 through R.S. 33:3689, and the governing authority of the parish shall have the right to issue certificates, notes or other evidence of debt, to represent the deferred payments on its assessment, levied against it in the ordinance accepting the work and levying the assessments therefor and fixing the terms of payment. At the time of the issuance of the certificates, notes, or other evidences of debt the governing authority shall, by ordinance, provide for their payment and set aside, dedicate and pledge so much of the general revenues of the parish in each year for the years through which the certificates, notes or other evidences of debt may run, as may be necessary to pay them in principal and interest as they mature. This dedication and pledge shall be incorporated in the certificates, notes or other evidences of debt when issued, and shall constitute a fixed charge against the general revenues of the parish. The notes may be transferred by the parish, without recourse, to the contractor, at their face value, in payment pro tanto of the work done by him, and the contractor or his transferee shall enjoy the lien and privilege and all other rights accruing to the parish ordering the work.

NOTE: AS AMENDED BY ACTS 1950, NO. 156 §1; ACTS 1950, NO. 316, §7; ACTS 1954, NO. 661, §1:

The police jury may, in their discretion, in the ordinance accepting the work and making said assessments, allow all property owners therein assessed, who, within thirty days after the passage of said ordinance, make written application therefor and pay in cash ten per cent of the amount of their indebtedness, to pay the balance of the indebtedness in nine equal annual installments; provided that as evidence of the deferred payments, the property owner so applying and depositing the ten per cent, shall sign and execute nine promissory notes, payable to the order of the parish, each for ten per cent of the amount due by him, dated thirty days after the passage of the ordinance accepting the work, maturing respectively one to nine years from date, or sooner, at the option of the owner, bearing annual interest from date at the rate fixed by the police jury pursuant to R.S. 33:3686, and ten per cent attorney's fees in event of suit to enforce collection after maturity, which notes, paraphed by the secretary or clerk of the police jury as being "secured by Assessment No. __ of local Assessment Ordinance No. __" shall carry with them the lien and privilege above provided. The notes may be transferred by the parish, without recourse, to the contractor, at their face value, in payment pro tanto of the work done by him.

The said property owner shall have the right at option to pay twenty per centum of his indebtedness in cash, and give notes due at 1, 2, 3 and 4 years for twenty per centum, each, for said indebtedness, said notes to be in all other respects as hereinabove set out.

Amended by Acts 1950, No. 71, §1; Acts 1950, No. 156, §1; Acts 1950, No. 316, §7; Acts 1954, No. 661, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4780.43 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4780.43
Public hearing authorized; prohibited rezoning
Status: in_force

The governing authority of the parish shall, in accordance with the comprehensive plan required by R.S. 33:4780.42, provide for the manner in which the regulations and restrictions and the boundaries of the districts shall be determined, established, enforced, and from time to time, amended. No regulations or restrictions shall become effective until after a public hearing held by said governing authority at which parties in interest have had an opportunity to be heard. Notice of the time and place of the hearing shall be published once a week in three different weeks in the official journal of the parish, and at least fifteen days shall elapse between the first publication and the date of the hearing. In addition to notice by publication, and at least ten days prior to the hearing, a good faith attempt to notify the owner or owners of record of the properties to be zoned or rezoned shall be made by the sending of an official notice by certified mail of the time and place of the hearing and subject matter of the regulations and restrictions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, when more than ten parcels are to be zoned or rezoned by enactment of a zoning ordinance, the advertisement in the official journal required herein shall be considered adequate notice to the property owners.

Acts 1993, No. 201, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1994.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:3933 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 3933
Powers of sewerage districts
Status: in_force

Such sewerage districts shall have the following powers:

(1) To contract, sue and be sued in their corporate names; to own and possess a seal and to change the same at will.

(2) To contract for, install, maintain, and operate a sewerage system within their respective limits; to exercise the power of expropriation both within and without their limits, for the purpose of laying, installing and operating the sewerage system and its necessary appurtenances.

(3) To incur indebtedness and to issue and sell negotiable bonds for the purpose of acquiring or installing such sewerage systems in accordance with the applicable provisions of the state constitution and general laws.

(4) To use for the purpose of maintaining and operating these systems funds which accrue from the tax voted in excess of the amount necessary to retire the bonds and the interest thereon and money appropriated by the municipality under its powers to protect the public health.

(5) To do all such things and to enact all rules and regulations necessary or advantageous to the installing, maintenance, operation and use of the sewerage systems.

(6) To extend the sewerage pipes and mains outside of the limit of the sewerage district, and to use therefor funds which accrue from the tax levied in excess of the amount necessary to retire the bonds and the interest thereon.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:140.50.16 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 140.50.16
Commission as platting authority
Status: in_force

After the commission has recommended and the town council and the police jury have adopted a master plan in whole or in part, no plat of a subdivision of land lying within the area covered by such plan shall be filed or recorded until it has been submitted to and approved by the commission and such approval entered in writing on the plat by the secretary of the commission. The clerk of court and recorder shall not file or record a plat of a subdivision without the approval of the commission as required by this Subpart; a plat of a subdivision filed or recorded without the approval of the commission as required by this Section is void.

Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:130.295 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 130.295
Fees and ad valorem tax; borrowing money
Status: in_force

A. The board of commissioners may, when necessary, levy annually an ad valorem tax not to exceed five mills on the dollar of assessed valuation of all property, provided that the amount, term, and the purpose of said tax, as set out in a proposition submitted to a vote in accordance with the Louisiana Election Code, shall be approved by a majority of the qualified electors voting in a special election held for that purpose.

B. All funds derived under this Section may be used for any expenses or purposes of the district. The board of commissioners shall establish and maintain, in addition to all necessary and normal accounts, the following special accounts:

(1) A revolving loan or loan guarantee fund, to be used to make industrial port, harbor, or terminal development loans to the extent permitted by the Constitution of Louisiana under the following guidelines:

(a) Loan or loan guarantees shall be made only when adequate financing for the project is unavailable through normal lending channels and the project represents a sound business venture that is financially and economically feasible.

(b) Loan or loan guarantees shall be used to assist an identifiable business concern to finance plant construction, conversion, or expansion and acquisition of land, existing structures, machinery, or equipment and to provide operational funds.

(c) The terms and rates shall be compatible with loans offered by local lending institutions. In addition, the district shall attempt to obtain the most favorable security available under the circumstances to protect and endure the recovery of its commitment under the loan or loan guarantee.

(d) Loan or loan guarantees shall be evaluated for their economic impact in terms of the number and types of jobs created or saved, the wage and income levels of the positions, the likelihood of placement of these positions with persons from specific groups, such as the long-term unemployed, low income, women, or minorities, and the tax dollars generated.

(e) Loan or loan guarantees shall be made to leverage other sources of private and public capital to attain the greatest economic impact possible with the limited funds available.

(f) Loan or loan guarantees shall be targeted to export industries, manufacturing firms, and wholesale distribution and service firms.

(g) No project shall be considered unless the project will be constructed and maintained by persons at least eighty percent of whom are residents of Lincoln Parish, and eighty percent of the goods and services for maintenance of the project are obtained from a supplier domiciled within Lincoln Parish, except where not reasonably possible to do so without substantial added expense, substantial inconvenience, or substantial sacrifice in operational efficiency.

(h) The lending or underwriting principals shall have such demonstrated experience, ability, and net worth as would allow for the success, continuation, security, and solvency of the program. Prudent lending and underwriting standards shall be applied in order to comply with the primary objectives of this Section.

(2) An industrial development operational fund for the development and attraction of industries to accomplish the following:

(a) The operational fund shall be used for operating expenses necessary in creation of industrial and commercial development, in hiring sufficient staff to accomplish the purposes set out in this Subpart, and other related expenses.

(b) The operational fund may also be utilized in contracting for services as may be required by the district including but not limited to: planning assistance, surveys, land use studies, technical services, and other services necessary to effectuate a unified industrial development plan.

(3) An account for the maintenance and operation of a governmental procurement center to provide necessary information to companies and individuals engaged in providing services and goods to accomplish the following:

(a) Pinpoint and identify potential buying centers and aid in placing the company on a bidder's list for these centers and assist companies in obtaining specifications for their products or services.

(b) Provide trained counselors to assist in acquiring solicitation and bid packages and conduct seminars designed to disseminate other information needed by the target companies and individuals.

Acts 1989, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 16, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:224 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 224
Annexation and maintenance of parish roads
Status: in_force

Whenever any municipality annexes territory by any of the methods provided for in this Chapter it shall also annex and maintain any parish road which is within the territory proposed to be annexed, but only insofar as the road is within the municipality. Where the road is adjacent to but not within the annexed territory the municipality and the parish shall equally share the maintenance of the road. Any annexation contrary to the provisions of this Section shall be invalid. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any parish in which there is a city-parish form of government.

Added by Acts 1983, No. 123, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4780.41 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4780.41
Creation of districts; powers of authority; uniform regulations within district
Status: in_force

For any and all of the purposes set forth in R.S. 33:4780.40, the governing authority of a parish may divide the parish into districts of such number, shape, and area as may be deemed best suited to carry out such purposes. Within the districts so created, said governing authority may regulate and restrict the erection, construction, alteration, or use of buildings, structures, or land. All such regulations shall be uniform for each class or kind of land and structure throughout each district; however, the regulations of one district may differ from those in other districts.

Acts 1993, No. 201, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1994.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:130.390 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 130.390
General compliances; enhancement
Status: in_force

A. No provision of this Subpart shall be construed so as to exempt the district from compliance with the provisions of Louisiana laws pertaining to open meetings, public records, fiscal agents, official journals, dual officeholding and employment, public bidding for the purchase of supplies and materials and construction of public works, the Code of Governmental Ethics, the Right to Property in Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution of Louisiana, and the Louisiana Election Code.

B. The district shall have the power and right to adopt a program or programs awarding contracts to, and establishing set-aside goals and preference procedures for the benefit of, businesses owned and operated by socially or economically disadvantaged persons in accordance with any of the provisions of R.S. 38:2233 and of Chapter 19 of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

C. The financial records of the district shall be audited pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 24:513.

Acts 1992, No. 929, §1, eff. July 9, 1992.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:3886 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 3886
Domicile of districts; seal; depository
Status: in_force

The domicile of the sewerage district shall be designated at some place within its boundaries in the resolution of the police jury creating said district. The governing authority of the sewerage district shall, at its first meeting, adopt an official seal for said district and shall designate the official journal thereof. They shall select a solvent chartered bank within the parish where the district is organized in which all of the money of the district shall be deposited.

Amended by Acts 1952, No. 495, §2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:441.28 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 441.28
Town of Lutcher; appointment of court magistrate; duties; salary
Status: in_force

The board of aldermen of the town of Lutcher shall, upon request of the mayor, appoint an attorney who shall be designated as court magistrate and who shall serve at the pleasure of the mayor and may from time to time be designated by the mayor to serve in his stead as the presiding official over the mayor's court. Whenever the magistrate is so designated by the mayor to preside over the mayor's court, he shall exercise the powers and authority of the mayor over said court. The magistrate shall receive a salary fixed and paid by the board of aldermen.

Acts 2001, No. 1214, §2, eff. June 29, 2001.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4065.14 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4065.14
Funding
Status: in_force

A. The district may fix and collect compensation from public or private entities which it contracts.

B. Subject to approval of the State Bond Commission, the district may incur debt and issue bonds for the purpose of constructing, acquiring, extending, or improving any facilities, or conducting activities consistent with the purpose for which it has been created. Such bonds shall be authorized and issued in accordance with the provisions of Part XIII of Chapter 4, Chapter 13, and Chapter 13-A, all of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended. Such bond shall be issued in the name of the district and shall not be general obligations of the district, or the state, but shall be limited obligations of the district. The bonds and the income thereof shall be exempt from all taxation in the state.

Acts 2001, No. 1138, §1, eff. June 28, 2001.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4111 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4111
New Orleans; property subject to assessment; interest; certification; collection
Status: in_force

No property in the defined drainage area shall be exempt from such assessments. Property owned in the defined drainage area by the city of New Orleans, by the state of Louisiana or by any board, agency, or subdivision of said city or state shall be subject to such assessments, and such assessments shall be paid by the public agency owning such property. Interest shall be paid on all deferred installments of such assessments at the rate of six and one-half per centum per annum, which interest shall accrue from the date of the adoption of the resolution levying such assessments. No interest shall be paid by any property owner who pays his total assessment within the sixty day period specified in R.S. 33:4110.

The sewerage and water board shall annually certify to the finance department of the city of New Orleans the amount due from each property owner for such assessments, and the finance department shall add the amount so certified to the regular tax bill of each such property owner, which amount shall be collected in the manner fixed by law for the collection of regular city taxes, subject to the penalties for delinquency hereinafter prescribed. All collections of said assessments shall be paid by the said department of finance, as collected, to the sewerage and water board of New Orleans. At the option of the sewerage and water board, it may make all collections of said assessments and provide the details therefor.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 167, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:140.35 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 140.35
Method of procedure
Status: in_force

Except for the adopting of the zoning ordinance or any amendment thereto by the city council, before adopting any code, ordinance, plan, or other measure pursuant to this Subpart, the city council shall hold a public hearing thereon, at least ten days notice of the time and place of which shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality.

Acts 1962, No. 52, §35; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:140.50.12 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 140.50.12
Adoption of master plan
Status: in_force

A. The commission may recommend the adoption of the master plan as a whole, or, as the work of making the whole master plan progresses, may from time to time recommend a part or parts thereof, any such part to correspond generally with one or more of the functional subdivisions of the subject matter of the plan.

B.(1) The adoption of the plan or any part, amendment, or addition shall be by resolution carried by the affirmative vote of a majority of the town council, in the case of its applicability to the municipality, or by the police jury, in the case of its applicability to areas outside of the municipality.

(2) The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps, descriptive matter, and other matters intended by the commission to form the whole or part of the plan, and the action taken shall be recorded on the adopted plan or part thereof by the identifying signature of the secretary of the town council or the police jury, and a copy of the plan or part thereof shall be certified to each of the following: the town council, the police jury, the Bossier Parish school board, and the clerk of court and recorder of the parish, who shall record such plan or part thereof on the conveyance records of the parish.

C. The plan or part thereof shall take effect after the date it has been adopted by the town council, in the case of its applicability to the municipality, or by the police jury, in the case of its applicability to areas outside the municipality.

Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2585.5 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 2585.5
Cost of election
Status: in_force

All costs incurred in connection with the election provided for by Sections 2585 through 2585.9 shall be paid out of funds provided by the particular municipal or parochial civil service for its operations.

Added by Acts 1980, No. 563, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:9091.18 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 9091.18
Pressburg East Neighborhood Improvement and Security District
Status: in_force

A. Creation. There is hereby created within the parish of Orleans, as more specifically provided in Subsection B of this Section, a body politic and corporate which shall be known as the Pressburg East Neighborhood Improvement and Security District, referred to in this Section as the "district". The district shall be a political subdivision of the state as defined in the Constitution of Louisiana.

B. Boundaries. The district shall be comprised of the area of the parish of Orleans lying within the following perimeter: bounded on the north side by the north side of Dwyer Road, bounded on the west side by the west side of Read Boulevard, bounded on the south side by the south side of Chef Menteur Highway, and bounded on the east side by a line parallel to the east side of Nighthart Street which extends in a northerly direction to its intersection with the north side of Dwyer Road and which extends in a southerly direction to its intersection with the south side of Chef Menteur Highway.

C. Purpose. The district is established for the primary object and purpose of promoting and encouraging the beautification, security, and overall betterment of the district.

D. Governance. (1) The district shall be governed by a board of commissioners, referred to in this Section as the "board", consisting of seven members as follows:

(a) The president of the Pressburg East Homeowners/Neighborhood Association, referred to this Section as the "association".

(b) The governing board of the association shall appoint three members, two of whom may be members of the board.

(c) The member of the city council of New Orleans whose district encompasses all or the greater portion of the area of the district shall appoint one member.

(d) The member of the Louisiana House of Representatives whose district encompasses all or the greater portion of the area of the district shall appoint one member.

(e) The member of the Louisiana Senate whose district encompasses all or the greater portion of the area of the district shall appoint one member.

(2) All members shall be residents and qualified voters of the district.

(3)(a) The board member serving pursuant to Subparagraph (1)(a) of this Subsection shall serve on the board during his term of office as president of the association.

(b) Board members serving pursuant to Subparagraph (1)(b) of this Subsection shall serve three-year terms after serving initial terms as follows: one member shall serve an initial term of one year, one member shall serve an initial term of two years, and one member shall serve an initial term of three years, as determined by lot at the first meeting of the board.

(c) Each member serving pursuant to Subparagraphs (1)(c) through (e) of this Subsection shall serve on the board during the term of office of his respective appointing authority.

(4) Vacancies resulting from the expiration of a term or for any other reason shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term in the manner of the original appointment.

(5) The members of the board shall select from among themselves a president and such other officers as they deem appropriate. The responsibilities of the officers shall be as provided by the bylaws of the board.

(6) The members of the board shall serve without compensation.

E. Powers and duties. The district, acting through its board of commissioners, shall have the following powers and duties:

(1) To sue and be sued.

(2) To adopt, use, and alter at will a corporate seal.

(3) To receive and expend funds collected pursuant to Subsection F of this Section and in accordance with a budget adopted as provided by Subsection G of this Section.

(4) To enter into contracts with individuals or entities, private or public, for the provision of security patrols in the district.

(5) To purchase items and supplies which the board deems instrumental to achieving the purpose of the district.

(6) To perform or have performed any other function or activity necessary for the achievement of the purpose of the district.

F. Parcel fee. The New Orleans City Council is hereby authorized to impose and collect a parcel fee within the district subject to and in accordance with the provisions of this Subsection.

(1) The amount of the fee shall be as requested by duly adopted resolution of the board. The fee shall be a flat fee per improved parcel of land not to exceed three hundred dollars per year for each parcel.

(2)(a) The fee shall be imposed on each parcel located within the district.

(b) For purposes of this Section, "parcel" means a lot, a subdivided portion of ground, an individual tract, or a "condominium parcel" as defined in R.S. 9:1121.103.

(c) The owner of each parcel shall be responsible for payment of the fee.

(3)(a) The fee shall be imposed only after the question of its imposition has been approved by a majority of the registered voters of the district voting on the proposition at an election held for that purpose in accordance with the Louisiana Election Code. The amount of the fee may be changed by duly adopted resolution of the board, not to exceed the maximum amount authorized in this Subsection. No other election shall be required except as provided by this Paragraph.

(b) The initial term for the imposition of the fee shall be eight years, but the fee may be renewed if approved by a majority of the registered voters of the district voting on the proposition at an election as provided in Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph. If the fee is renewed, the term of the imposition of the fee shall be as provided in the proposition authorizing the renewal, not to exceed eight years.

(4) The fee shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as ad valorem taxes on property subject to taxation by the city are collected.

(5) Any parcel fee which is unpaid shall be added to the tax rolls of the city and shall be enforced with the same authority and subject to the same penalties and procedures as unpaid ad valorem taxes.

(6)(a) The proceeds of the fee shall be used solely and exclusively for the purpose and benefit of the district; however, the city may retain one percent of the amount collected as a collection fee.

(b) The city of New Orleans shall remit to the district all amounts collected not more than sixty days after collection.

G. Budget. (1) The board of commissioners shall adopt an annual budget in accordance with the Louisiana Local Government Budget Act, R.S. 39:1301 et seq. The budget and all amendments shall be subject to the approval of the New Orleans City Council.

(2) The district shall be subject to audit by the legislative auditor pursuant to R.S. 24:513.

H. Miscellaneous provisions. (1) It is the purpose and intent of this Section that the additional law enforcement or security personnel and their services provided for through the fees authorized in this Section shall be supplemental to and not in lieu of personnel and services provided in the district by the New Orleans Police Department.

(2) If the district ceases to exist, all funds of the district shall be transmitted by the board to the city of New Orleans, and such funds, together with any other funds collected by the city of New Orleans pursuant to this Section, shall be maintained in a separate account by the city and shall be used only to promote, encourage, and enhance the security, beautification, and overall betterment of the area included in the district.

Acts 2011, No. 76, §1; Acts 2024, No. 373, §1, eff. May 28, 2024.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:3821 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 3821
Authority to issue bonds and levy taxes
Status: in_force

Waterworks districts shall be subdivisions of the state and as such may issue bonds and levy taxes in accordance with the provisions of Part III of Chapter 4 of Subtitle II of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

Acts 2014, No. 158, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:2405 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 2405
Status of incumbent of position when allocated
Status: in_force

When any position is first allocated hereunder, or is reallocated to a different class to correct an error in its previous allocation, the employee in the position may continue to serve therein, with the status and all the rights and privileges he would have had under this Part if he had been originally appointed by competitive examination and certification hereunder to a position of the class to which the position has been allocated or reallocated, but the employee may be transferred or promoted without further tests of fitness or certification, to any position of the class to which the position previously was allocated while held by him, or his name may be placed on the reemployment list for the class.
La. Rev. Stat. § 33:4720.62 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 33 / Section 4720.62
Definitions, home loans, bonds, powers, restrictions, presumptions
Status: in_force

A. For the purpose of this Section unless the context clearly otherwise requires, the following definitions shall apply and be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of any of the defined terms:

(1) "Authority" means the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority in and for the city of New Orleans created pursuant to this Chapter.

(2) "Bond resolution" means a resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds pursuant to this Section.

(3) "Development costs" means and includes the sum total of all reasonable or necessary costs incidental to the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, repair, alteration, improvement, and extension of a residential development or other facility authorized pursuant to this Chapter, including without limitation the following: the cost of studies and surveys; plans and specifications; architectural and engineering services; underwriting fees; legal, accounting, marketing, and other special services relating to residential development or incurred in connection with the issuance and sale of bonds; necessary application and other fees to federal, state, and local government agencies for any requisite approvals for construction, for assisted financing, or otherwise; financing, acquisition, demolition, construction, equipment, and site development of new and rehabilitated buildings; the relocation of utilities, public ways, and parks; the construction of recreational, cultural, and commercial facilities; rehabilitation, reconstruction, repair, or remodeling of existing buildings and all other necessary and incidental expenses, including trustee and rating agency fees and an initial bond and interest reserve together with interest on bonds issued to finance a residential development to a date six months subsequent to the estimated date of completion; any premiums for mortgage insurance or insurance with respect to bonds, and such other expenses as the authority may deem appropriate to effectuate the purposes of this Section and this Chapter.

(4) "Home" means real property and improvements thereon located within a community improvement or community development area in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, which may consist of single or multiple dwelling units, or condominium units, owned by one who occupies one of such units; however, newly constructed multiple dwelling units shall not exceed four units.

(5) "Home mortgage" means an interest-bearing loan to a mortgagor for the purpose of purchasing or rehabilitating, reconstructing, or improving a home, evidenced by a promissory note and secured by a mortgage on such home, but shall not include a loan primarily for the purpose of refinancing an existing loan.

(6) "Lending institution" means any bank, trust company, savings bank, national banking association, savings and loan association, building and loan association, government-approved nonprofit lending institution, mortgage banker, housing development corporation, or other financial institution, or governmental agency which customarily provides service or otherwise aids in the financing of mortgages on single-family residential housing or multifamily residential housing located in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, or any holding company for any of the foregoing.

(7) "Mortgage program" means any program established under this Section to provide low-income loans, the proceeds of which shall be used to purchase, rehabilitate, or improve homes.

(8) "Mortgagor" means a person or persons whose adjusted gross aggregate income, together with the adjusted gross aggregate income of all persons who intend to reside with such person or persons in one dwelling unit, shall not have exceeded forty thousand dollars, or such lesser amount or amounts as shall be deemed by the authority to be in furtherance of its public purposes for the immediately preceding taxable year and who has received a home mortgage on a home.

(9) "Residential development" means the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, repair, alteration, improvement, or extension of any land, interest in land, building, structure, facility, system, fixture, improvement, addition, appurtenance, machinery, or equipment or any combination thereof, all real and personal property deemed necessary in connection therewith, and all real and personal property or improvements functionally related and subordinate thereto, substantially for use by or occupied by persons for the purpose of decent, safe, and sanitary housing, and in connection therewith nonhousing facilities which are an integral part of or functionally related to such residential development not to exceed ten percent of the cost of such residential development in accordance with the terms contained in this Chapter. Any such residential development shall be located within a community improvement area.

(10) "Revenue bonds" means any bonds issued pursuant to this Section.

B. The authority is authorized and empowered to establish programs for residential development, including but not limited to low-interest rate home mortgage programs for qualified persons, by issuing mortgage revenue bonds to provide funds to persons to enable them to purchase or to rehabilitate, reconstruct, or improve single or multiple unit owner-occupied or rental family residences in community improvement or community development areas. In order to accomplish such purpose, the authority shall have and is hereby granted the following powers which shall be in addition to all other powers which it may have under this Chapter or general law:

(1) To plan, conduct research, study, develop, and promote the establishment of residential housing.

(2) To acquire, contract, and enter into advance commitments to acquire home mortgages owned by lending institutions at such purchase prices and upon other terms and conditions as shall be determined by the authority or such other person as it may designate as its agent, to make and execute contracts with nonprofit housing development corporations and lending institutions for the origination and servicing of home mortgages, and to pay the reasonable value of services rendered under those contracts.

(3) To make loans to government-approved nonprofit lending institutions and lending institutions under terms and conditions which, in addition to other provisions as determined by the authority, shall require the lending institutions to use substantially all of the net proceeds thereof, directly or indirectly, for the making of home mortgages in an aggregate principal amount substantially equal to the amount of such net proceeds.

(4) To establish, by rules or regulations, in resolutions relating to any issuance of revenue bonds or in any financing documents relating to such issuance, such standards and requirements applicable to the purchase of home mortgages or the making of loans to lending institutions as the authority deems necessary or desirable, including but not limited to:

(a) The location and other characteristics of homes to be financed by home mortgages.

(b) The terms and conditions of home mortgages to be acquired.

(c) The amounts and types of insurance coverage required on homes, home mortgages, and revenue bonds.

(d) The representations and warranties of lending institutions confirming compliance with such standards and requirements.

(e) Restriction as to interest rate or other terms of home mortgages or the return realized therefrom by lending institutions.

(f) Any other matters related to the purchase of home mortgages or the making of loans to lending institutions as shall be deemed relevant by the authority; however, in no such case shall any such lending institution charge and retain an origination fee in excess of three percent of the principal amount of any such home mortgage; and further provided that all such home mortgages shall bear a stated interest rate which, as of the business day immediately preceding the date of execution of a contract for the sale of the related revenue bonds, is at least one and one-half percent less than the stated interest rate being charged as of such day by such lending institution for its ninety-five percent loan-to-value mortgage loans, computed on a weighted average basis if such lending institution has more than one such rate, or if such lending institution does not regularly offer ninety-five percent loan-to-value mortgage loans, at least one percent less than the stated interest rate being charged as of such day by such lending institution for its eighty percent loan-to-value mortgage loans, computed on a weighted average basis if such lending institution has more than one such rate.

(5) To require from each lending institution from which home mortgages are purchased or to which loans are made the submission, at the time of such purchase or loan, of evidence satisfactory to the authority of the ability and intention of such lending institution to make home mortgages and the submission, within the time specified by the authority for making disbursements for home mortgages, of evidence satisfactory to the authority of the making of home mortgages and of compliance with any standards and requirements established by the authority, in connection therewith, the authority may inspect the books and records of such lending institutions.

(6) To issue revenue bonds to defray, in whole or in part, the development costs of any residential development; to issue its revenue bonds to defray, in whole or in part, the costs of purchasing, or funding the making of, mortgages for residential developments, including but not limited to the costs of studies and surveys, insurance premiums, underwriting fees, legal, accounting, and marketing services incurred in connection with the issuance and sale of such revenue bonds, including bond and interest reserve accounts, and trustee, custodian, and rating agency fees; and to designate appropriate names for such bonds. The authority need not acquire or hold title to or any interest in a residential development or home mortgage.

(7) To rent, lease, sell, or otherwise dispose of any residential development or home mortgages, in whole or in part, or to loan sufficient funds to any lending institution to defray, in whole or in part, the development costs of any residential development or the costs of purchasing home mortgages, so that the rents or other revenues to be derived with respect to the residential development or home mortgages, together with any insurance proceeds, reserve accounts and earnings thereon shall be designed to produce revenues and receipts at least sufficient to provide for the prompt payment at maturity of principal, interest, and redemption premium, if any, upon all revenue bonds issued to finance such costs.

(8) To pledge any revenues and receipts to be received from any residential development or home mortgages to the punctual payment of revenue bonds and the interest and redemption premiums, if any, thereof.

(9) To mortgage, pledge, or grant security interests in any residential development, home mortgages, notes, or other property in favor of the holders of revenue bonds issued therefor.

(10) To sell and convey any residential development or home mortgages, including, without limitation, the sale and conveyance thereof subject to a mortgage, pledge, or security interest, if any, as provided in the resolution or ordinance relating to the issuance of the revenue bonds for such prices and at such times as the governing body of the agency may determine.

(11) To issue its revenue bonds in accordance with this Section to refund in whole or in part at any time revenue bonds theretofore issued by the authority pursuant to this Section.

(12) To apply for and accept on its own behalf or on behalf of any person, advances, loans, grants, contributions, guarantees, rent supplements, mortgage assistance, and any other form of financial assistance from the federal government, the state of Louisiana, any parish or municipality, or any other public or quasi public body, corporation, or foundation, or from any other source, public or private, including any lending institution, for any of the purposes of this Chapter, and to include in any contract for financial assistance such conditions as it may deem reasonable and appropriate and which are not inconsistent with the purposes of this Chapter.

(13) To make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of any of the powers granted herein.

C. No lending institution undertaking transactions contemplated by this Chapter shall discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, creed, ancestry, national origin, or physical or mental disability in connection with such transactions.

D.(1) The authority shall authorize revenue bonds by one or more bond resolutions adopted by a majority of its commissioners. Any bond resolution shall be published one time in the official journal of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana; however, it shall not be necessary to publish any exhibits to such bond resolution if the same are available for public inspection and such fact is stated in the publication. For thirty days after the date of publication, any person in interest may contest the legality of the bond resolution, any provision of the revenue bonds to be issued pursuant to it, the provisions therein made for the security and payment of the revenue bonds, and the validity of all other provisions and proceedings relating to the authorization and issuance of such bonds. After that time, no person may contest the regularity, formality, legality, or effectiveness of the bond resolution, any provisions of the revenue bonds to be issued pursuant to it, the provisions for the security and payment of the revenue 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 revenue bonds are legal and that every legal requirement for the issuance of the revenue bonds has been complied with. No court shall have authority to inquire into any of these matters after the thirty days.

(2) The bond resolution shall authorize the program to be financed and, in addition, may contain provisions which shall be a part of the contract with the holders of such issue of revenue bonds, as to:

(a) Pledging all or any part of revenues received or to be received, and agreements to secure the payment of such issue of revenue bonds.

(b) Rates, fees, rentals, or other charges to be established, maintained, and collected, and the use and disposition of revenues, gifts, and funds received or to be received.

(c) The setting aside of reserves or bond retirement funds and the regulation and disposition thereof.

(d) The custody, collection, securing, investment, and payment of any monies held in trust or otherwise for the payment of revenue bonds or in any way to secure the payment of revenue bonds, including the establishment and maintenance of revenue, reserve, or other funds as trust funds.

(e) Limitations or restrictions on the purposes to which the proceeds of sale of any revenue bonds then or thereafter to be issued may be applied.

(f) Limitations or restrictions on the issuance of additional revenue bonds; the terms upon which additional revenue bonds may be issued and secured, or the refunding of outstanding or other revenue bonds, or both.

(g) Vesting in one or more trustees or fiscal agents such property, rights, powers, and duties in trust as the authority may determine.

(h) The acquisition and disposition of property.

(i) The rights and remedies available to the bondholders in the event of default.

(j) Provisions for insurance and for accounting reports and the inspection and audit thereof.

(k) The replacement of mutilated, destroyed, stolen, or lost revenue bonds.

(l) Any other matters of like or different character which in any way affect the security or protection of the revenue bonds.

(3) All revenue bonds issued pursuant to a bond resolution shall be equally and ratably secured by a pledge, charge, and lien upon revenues provided for in the bond resolution. Any pledge made by the authority pursuant to this Section shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made. The revenues, securities, and other monies so pledged and then held or thereafter received by the authority or any fiduciary shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the authority, whether or not such parties have notice thereof.

(4) The bond resolution by which a pledge is created need not be filed or recorded except in the official minutes of the authority and of the State Bond Commission.

(5) The revenue bonds shall be of such series, bear such date or dates, be serial or term bonds, mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or rates payable on such date or dates, 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, be subject to such terms of redemption, and be entitled to such priorities on the revenues of the authority as the bond resolution may provide.

(6) The revenue bonds shall be sold by the authority in such manner and at such prices, at public or private sale, as it may determine. If the authority sells the bonds at public sale, notice of such sale upon sealed proposals shall be published at least once not less than seven days prior to the date of such sale in a publication carrying municipal bond notices and devoted primarily to financial news or to the subject of state and municipal bonds, published in the city of New York, New York, and in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.

(7) The revenue bonds and coupons attached thereto shall be executed in the name of the authority by the manual or facsimile signatures of such official or officials as may be designated in the bond resolution. If any officer whose manual or facsimile signature appears on any revenue bond or coupon ceases to be such officer before the delivery of such revenue bonds, such signature nevertheless shall be valid and sufficient for all purposes as if he had remained in office until such delivery. The bond resolution may provide for authentication of the revenue bonds by the trustees or fiscal agent thereunder.

E. Pending the preparation of definitive revenue bonds, the authority may issue interim receipts or temporary revenue bonds, with or without coupons, exchangeable for definitive revenue bonds when such bonds have been executed and are available for delivery.

F. No commissioner or officer of the authority, and no officer or member of the city of New Orleans or its governing body, or any person executing such revenue bonds shall be liable personally on such revenue bonds.

G. The authority shall have power to purchase its revenue bonds out of any funds available therefor under the bond resolution. It may hold, cancel, or resell such bonds, subject to and in accordance with agreements with holders of its revenue bonds.

H. All revenue bonds and interest coupons appertaining thereto issued pursuant to this Section shall be and are hereby made negotiable instruments within the meaning of and for all of the purposes of the negotiable instruments law of Louisiana, subject only to the provisions of the revenue bonds for registration.

I. All revenue bonds and the income therefrom shall be exempt from all taxation by the state of Louisiana or any political subdivision thereof. The revenue bonds shall be legal and authorized investments for banks, savings banks, insurance companies, homestead and building and loan associations, trustees, and other fiduciaries and may be used for deposit with any officer, board, municipality, or other political subdivision of the state of Louisiana, in any case where, by present or future laws, deposit or security is required.

J. The holders of any revenue bonds issued hereunder shall have such rights and remedies as may be provided in the bond resolution, including, but not by way of limitation, acceleration of payment, appointment of a trustee for bondholders, appointment of a receiver for the redevelopment project or the revenue bond program financed with the proceeds of the revenue bonds or the revenues from such program, or both, and any other available civil action to compel compliance with the terms and provisions of the revenue bonds and the bond resolution.

K. The revenue bonds shall be limited obligations of the authority. The principal of and interest on the revenue bonds shall not be payable from the general funds of the authority nor shall they constitute a pledge, charge, lien, or encumbrance upon any of its property or upon any of its income, receipts, or revenues except the revenues, agreements, and funds pledged under the bond resolution. Neither the credit nor the taxing power of the city of New Orleans or the state of Louisiana shall be pledged for the payment of such principal or interest, and no holder of revenue bonds shall have the right to compel the exercise of the taxing power by the city of New Orleans or the forfeiture of its property in connection with any default thereon. Every revenue bond shall recite in substance that the principal of and interest on such bond is payable solely from the revenues pledged to its payment and the authority is not obligated to pay such principal or interest except from such revenues. The revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this Section shall not constitute a debt of the state of Louisiana or the city of New Orleans, are not subject to any constitutional or statutory debt limitation or restriction and shall not be subject to the provisions of the charter of the city of New Orleans relating to the authorization, issuance, or sale of bonds, and the state of Louisiana shall not be liable thereon.

L. Subject to agreements with the holders of revenue bonds, all proceeds of revenue bonds and all revenue pledged under a bond resolution shall be set aside as received and shall be deposited and held in trust by a trustee appointed by the authority in a fund or funds separate and apart from all other funds of the authority. Subject to the bond resolution, the trustee shall hold the same for the benefit of the holders of the bonds for the application and disposition thereof solely to the respective uses and purposes in such bond resolution.

Acts 2004, No. 349, §1; Acts 2005, No. 437, §1, eff. July 11, 2005; Acts 2014, No. 811, §17, eff. June 23, 2014.