The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-10-13
Police Jury Proeeedins
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Section 2. Be it further ordained,
etc, that the said drainage district
shall be known as the EuAiceC houpi-
que Drainage District Of the parish Of
st. Landry and under said name and
style the said drainage district is
hereby constituted and declared to be
a body corporate in law. 1t shall have
perpetual existence and shall enjoy
and exercise all the right, powers and
privileges hereinafter set forth, as
we'll as those which have been grant
ed, or which may hereafter be grant
ed by the constitution and laws of the
state of Louisiana to corporations of
this character with full authority to
contract, sue and be sued, plead and
be implicated, appear, answer and
prosecute in all courts of justice Of
this state or elsewhere, to make and
use a corporate seal. The domicile
of this corporation shall be the town
of Eunice, parish of St. Landry, state
of Louisiana. All citations and other
president and in his absence upon the
vice-president. and in his absence
then upon the secretary. 1t shall
keep at fits domicile all its official
books and records.
Section 8. Be it further ordained,
etc, that said corporation through its
board of drainage commissioners, shall
have the power to receive by donation
or to buy or expropriate property
when 1t deems 1t necessary to use
such property in carrying out the
plans and purposes for which said
drainage district was created. It
shall have the power to purchase or
rent machinery that in it's Judgment
may be found necessary for the pur-
pose Of draining any or all OF the
land situated within said drainage
district and have the work executed
under their own supervision and shall
own the right-of-way for canals and
bitches anil all sites which are acquired
either by donation, purchase Of expro-
priation in full ownership. 1t Is here
by vested with full power and 1t shall
be its duty to open, straighten and
clean out all natural drains which in
its Judgment it may deem necessary
or proper, and to perform any and all
other work incidental to or connect
ed Herewith which may be needful
to render the natural drains OF said
drainage district more perfect and eff
effective. It shall have the power and
authority to cut and open new drains
1r canals. The drainage commits
,ioners for the purpoe Of securing
proper outlet for the waters of the
,aid drainage district shall have the
.ull power and authority to extend
drainage bitches or canals beyond the
Of the said drainage dis
.rict with the same power and author
ty to appropriate the right-of-way in
he same manner and to the same eX-
,ent as though such canals or bitches
we're situated within the boundaries
II the said district. 1t shall have the
power to make and execute, contract
and to do and perform any and all
acts necessary to carry out the plans
md purposes for which it is created,
namely: To design, construct, COM
oIete and maintain a comprehensive
gravity drainage system within its
It shall have the power
% divide the district into one and
more sub-drafnage districts as confer
red upon Act No. 227 Of the Acts OF
The General Assembly Of the state OF
Louisiana of 1914, as well as any and
ali amendments thereto.
Section 4. Be 1t further ordained,
etc, that all the corporate powers and
the administration of the affairs OF
The said Eunice-Choupique Drainage
District shall be vested in and con-
.rolled by a board Of commissioners TO
be known as 1.-THE Board of Commits
zioners of the Eunice-ChOupique
Drainage District" and said Board OF
Drainage Commissioners shall be COM
nosed OF five members who, or whose
wives. shall own real estate situated
within the boundaries Of said drainage
district assessed for not less than five
hundred dollars ($500.00), or must be
the representatives of some corpora
ton owning real estate within the
said drainage district assessed Ior not
less than five hundred dollars ($5OO.-
OO). Persons possessing such quail
fications may be appointed drainage
whether they be resi-
dents or non-residents of said drain
age district. The police jury shall
have the power to appoint three COM
missioners, one to serve for term OF
four years and two to serve for term
Of two years each. The remaining
two commissioners shall be appointed
by the governor Of the state to serve
for a term of four years each and All
appoinments of drainage commission
ers by the said police jury Thereafter