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LA Rev Stat § 33:3076 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3076. Legislative findings; purpose

RS 3076 - Legislative findings; purpose  The legislature hereby finds and determines that in the event the lawsuit challenging the incorporation of the city of St. George within East Baton Rouge Parish is unsuccessful, a state of emergency will exist in the municipality until cash flow can be developed through the levy and collection of municipal sales and use taxes to fund the expenses of municipal government. As a result of the foregoing, the legislature determines it essential and necessary to authorize the continuation of the parish tax within the area incorporated, to authorize the continuation of the provision of services by the parish within the area incorporated, and to create a financial assistance district and provide for it a source of revenue in order that it may engage in cooperative endeavors, enter into contracts for the provision of essential public services, and raise revenue to assist the municipality in funding the delivery of essential public services to its citizens and to assist the municipality in preventing cash flow difficulties.  Acts 2020, No. 361, §1, eff. June 12, 2020.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3077 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3077. Definitions

RS 3077 - Definitions  Whenever used in this Part, unless a different meaning clearly appears in the context, the following terms, whether used in the singular or plural, shall be given the following interpretations:  (1) "Board" means the board of directors of the district or any successor thereto.  (2) "District" means the St. George Transition District or any successor thereto.  (3) "Mayor-president" means the mayor-president of the city of Baton Rouge and parish of East Baton Rouge.  (4) "Municipality" means the city of St. George in East Baton Rouge Parish.  (5) "Municipal tax" means the two percent sales and use tax levied by the city of St. George as provided in R.S. 33:3079(D)(5).  (6) "Parish" means East Baton Rouge Parish.  (7) "Parish tax" means the two percent sales and use tax levied in the unincorporated areas of the parish.  Acts 2020, No. 361, §1, eff. June 12, 2020.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3078 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3078. Continued levy of tax by East Baton Rouge Parish

RS 3078 - Continued levy of tax by East Baton Rouge Parish  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, in the event the city of St. George, as approved by the voters on October 12, 2019, is incorporated, the parish may continue to levy and collect the parish tax within the corporate limits of the municipality pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement between the parish and municipality for the purpose of providing essential public services to, or funding essential public services for, the citizens within St. George until the St. George Transition District levies and collects a two percent sales and use tax, the municipality levies and collects a two percent sales and use tax, the end of the quarter following the election to impose the municipal tax if the proposition is not approved by the electorate, or twelve months after the incorporation becomes final, whichever occurs first.  Acts 2020, No. 361, §1, eff. June 12, 2020.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3080 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3080. Liberal construction

RS 3080 - Liberal construction  This Part does and shall be construed to provide a complete method for the doing of the things authorized by this Part. The provisions of this Part shall be liberally construed for the accomplishment of its purposes.  Acts 2020, No. 361, §1, eff. June 12, 2020.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3111 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3111. Ad valorem taxes for volunteer fire departments; voter notification requirements

RS 3111 - Ad valorem taxes for volunteer fire departments; voter notification requirements  The notice of intent and proposition for ad valorem taxes levied to fund volunteer fire departments shall include a statement that a portion of the tax proceeds is required to be contributed to state and statewide retirement systems as provided in R.S. 11:82.  Acts 2018, No. 406, §1, eff. May 23, 2018.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3301 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3301. Street improvements authorized

RS 3301 - Street improvements authorized Municipalities, including those operating under a home rule or special legislative charter, may construct, pave, surface, resurface with concrete, cement, asphalt, brick, gravel, crushed stone, shell, or any paving material, and repair or otherwise improve streets, roads, sidewalks, and alleys, together with the necessary ditching, curbing, guttering, aprons, drains, and headers within their corporate limits, including such streets, alleys or other public ways which may be entirely within the limits or boundaries of such municipality, but along the boundary or limit thereof in such manner that abutting property on one side of such street or other public way is situated wholly or partly outside of such municipality, and may levy and collect local or special assessments on the real property abutting the improvements, including such property as may be located outside the municipal limits but abutting a street or other public way located within the municipal limits, sufficient in amount to defray the total cost of the works, including street intersections, in the form and manner and subject to the limitations and restrictions as follows provided, however, that all such work shall be done under the provisions of R.S. 38:2211. Amended by Acts 1950, No. 192, §1; Acts 1975, No. 46, §1, eff. June 23, 1975.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3302 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3302. Resolution and notice of proposed improvements; publication or posting

RS 3302 - Resolution and notice of proposed improvements; publication or posting A. Any municipality taking advantage of this Subpart shall adopt a resolution giving notice of its intention to make proposed improvements. The resolution shall contain a general description of the improvements contemplated and the manner of paying for them and shall state whether the improvements will be constructed under private contract or undertaken by the municipality. Such resolution shall be signed by the authorized officer of the municipality. B.(1) The notice shall contain substantially all things set forth in the resolution. However, if there will be a penalty for prepayment of assessments levied against individual property owners pursuant to R.S. 33:3306, such penalty provisions shall be stated directly and without ambiguity so as to be understandable to a reasonable man. The notice shall set forth further that the municipal governing authority ordering the giving of notice will, in open session, at the date, hour, and place named, hear all objections to the proposed improvements, the manner of paying for them, and the manner in which the improvements shall be made. (2) The notice of intention shall be published three times within at least two consecutive weeks, the first publication being not less than thirteen days before the date fixed for the hearing of objections and the last publication being in the last week. The notice shall be published in a newspaper published in the municipality or, if there is none, then in some newspaper published in the parish where the municipality is located or by posting in three public places within the corporate limits of the municipality thirteen days before the date of the hearing. C. After hearing and passing on the objections, the municipal governing authority may order the improvements constructed in the manner hereinafter provided. Amended by Acts 1980, No. 295, §1; Acts 1986, No. 912, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3303 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3303. Advertising for bids; contents of notice

RS 3303 - Advertising for bids; contents of notice The governing authority, after having given due notice of intention to make the proposed improvements and after disposing of all objections and after deciding to order the construction of the improvements, may without further delay have prepared the necessary plans and specifications for the work, and adopt a resolution or ordinance authorizing the advertisements for bids therefor, by giving notice, calling for sealed bids for the construction of the work. The notice shall be signed by an authorized officer of the municipality, and shall be published three times in at least two consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the municipality or, if there is none, publication may be made in any newspaper having a general circulation in the parish where the municipality is located. The first insertion shall be not less than thirteen days prior to the reception and opening of the bids and the last publication shall be in the last week. The notice shall contain a general description of the work contemplated, shall refer to the plans and specifications which shall be placed on file with the clerk or secretary of the municipality, and shall designate the hour, date, and place for the reception and opening of the bids. It may provide that the contractor be required to accept certificates of the municipality in payment for the work performed and may stipulate that the right is reserved to reject any and all bids. Where the municipality has undertaken to construct the improvements, instead of being required to advertise for bids and award the contract for the construction of the work as prescribed in this Section, the governing authority may advertise in the manner hereinabove provided for sealed bids for the purchase of the materials, equipment, and supplies, but the prices at which the purchases are made shall not be greater than those specified in the lowest sealed bid received for the materials, equipment, and supplies, or any of them. Where no bids are received, the purchases may be made at market prices without further advertisement. The total cost of the improvement, including labor, materials, equipment, and supplies, together with engineers' and attorneys' fees, and all other expenses incidental to the cost of the improvements shall be assessed and paid in the manner and form provided in this Subpart. Amended by Acts 1980, No. 295, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3304 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3304. Awarding the contract

RS 3304 - Awarding the contract The governing authority shall meet in open session on the date and at the place and hour named in the notice calling for sealed bids for the construction of the works, and open the bids and award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder who can furnish satisfactory security. They may, however, reject any and all bids, and at any time, within a period of thirty days from the date of the reception and opening of the bids, award the contract for the works without further advertisement, provided that no contract shall be let for an amount greater than that specified in the lowest sealed bid received from a responsible bidder. Any contract awarded under the provisions of this Sub-Part, shall be authorized by resolution empowering the authorized officer of the municipality, and the clerk or secretary to execute the contract, on behalf of and in the name of the municipality. It shall not be necessary to set forth the contract in full in the resolution, but it shall be sufficient if the resolution refers to a copy of the contract on file in the office of the clerk or secretary where it is available for public inspection. The resolution shall be published in one issue of the official journal of the municipality and a certified copy thereof shall be filed with the clerk of court of the parish in which the municipality is located and shall be by him duly recorded in the mortgage records of the parish without expense to the municipality. Where the work is undertaken by the municipality, the bids received for materials, equipment and supplies shall be opened, and awarded or rejected as hereinabove provided. Amended by Acts 1956, No. 430, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3305 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3305. Statement of cost of improvement; liability of abutting property

RS 3305 - Statement of cost of improvement; liability of abutting property The municipality, upon award of any contract under the provisions of this Sub-part may, and upon completion of such work, whether under contract or undertaken by the municipality, shall forthwith, require of the engineer of the municipality a duly certified statement or report, showing in detail, the total cost of the improvements, including street intersections, engineers' and attorneys' fees, and all other expenses incidental to the cost. The report shall also show the amount of the cost chargeable to each lot or parcel of real estate abutting the improvements in proportion that its frontage bears to all of the abutting lots or parcels of real estate to be improved and shall give a brief description of each parcel or lot of real estate with sufficient clearness to identify it; and the foregoing provisions shall affect and include lots or parcels of real estate located outside of the municipality abutting a street inside such municipality which has been or may be improved under the provisions of this Sub-part. Amended by Acts 1950, No. 192, §2; Acts 1956, No. 407, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3307 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3307. Issuance of certificates for payment of cost

RS 3307 - Issuance of certificates for payment of cost Municipalities complying with the provisions of this Sub-part may issue, execute, negotiate, sell, and deliver negotiable interest bearing coupon certificates of the municipality in an amount not exceeding the total amount of the installments or deferred payments as provided for in R.S. 33:3306, the certificates to bear interest not exceeding six per centum per annum payable annually and maturing serially over a period not exceeding twenty years. In no event shall the certificates extend over a longer period of time than that provided for by the ordinance levying the local or special assessments which may be payable in annual installments. The certificates shall be of such form, date, denomination, and payable in principal and interest at such time and place as the governing authority may determine; the certificates shall be secured by and paid from, in principal and interest, the irrevocable pledge and dedication of the funds derived from the levy and collection of the special assessments on the real property abutting the improvements and shall be payable in annual installments or deferred payments as provided for by this Sub-part, which funds shall be set aside in a separate fund and shall not be drawn upon for any other purpose than to pay the principal and interest of the certificates. Amended by Acts 1950, No. 525, §2; Acts 1960, No. 325, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3308 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3308. Additional assessment to meet deficiency; enforcement

RS 3308 - Additional assessment to meet deficiency; enforcement In the event the local and special assessments originally levied are insufficient to pay the principal or interest or both in any one year, of the certificates outstanding at their respective maturity dates, then the municipality issuing the certificates, through its governing authority, shall levy and collect, at such time as may be necessary, an additional local or special assessment on each lot or parcel of real estate abutting the street, road, sidewalk or alley improved, sufficient in amount to pay in full the principal or interest or both of the certificates at their respective maturity dates. The amounts assessed in the ordinance shall be due and collectible immediately on its passage and if not paid within thirty days from the date of its adoption, the municipality shall proceed against the property for the collection of the amount of the additional local or special assessment so levied, plus interest thereon and ten per cent additional for attorney's fees. A certified copy of each ordinance providing for the levy and collection of the additional local or special assessment shall be filed with the clerk of court of the parish in which the municipality 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 the ordinance shall operate as a lien and privilege against all the real estate therein assessed.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3309 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3309. Form of certificates; registration

RS 3309 - Form of certificates; registration  The certificates shall be signed by the chief executive officer of the municipality and by its clerk or secretary, on behalf of and in the name of the municipality and under the seal thereof. The interest coupons shall be signed with the facsimile signature of the said officers, and before delivery, shall be registered in the mortgage record of the parish in which the municipality is located as to the serial number, or numbers, amount, rate of interest, dates due, and streets, roads, or alleys, or parts thereof improved. Each of the certificates shall bear the following endorsement:  "This certificate registered in the Mortgage Records of the Parish of __________ on this the _____ day of _______________, 20___. _______________________________ Clerk of Court and Ex-Officio Recorder of Mortgages, Parish of _________________"
LA Rev Stat § 33:3310 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3310. Delivery of certificates; use of proceeds

RS 3310 - Delivery of certificates; use of proceeds The governing authority of the municipality issuing the certificates, may, by resolution, authorize the chief executive officer, and the clerk or secretary, to negotiate and deliver the paving certificates and collect the purchase price therefor and do any and all things necessary and incidental thereto, or authorize delivery to the contractor of all or any of the certificates in payment of their contractual obligation covering the improvements. The funds derived from the sale of the paving certificates shall be expended solely in payment of the costs of the improvements, and shall not be drawn upon for any other purpose.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3311 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3311. Certificates to have requisites of negotiable paper

RS 3311 - Certificates to have requisites of negotiable paper 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.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3312 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3312. Final inspection of work; completion of payments

RS 3312 - Final inspection of work; completion of payments The governing authority of any municipality taking advantage of the provisions of this Sub-part, shall, upon the completion of any contract awarded as provided for herein, provide for the final inspection of the work performed and the improvements made, and if the work is found to have been completed satisfactorily in accordance with the contract, as evidenced by a certificate of the engineer for the municipality, the governing authority shall, by ordinance, approve and accept the work and fulfill their obligations under the contract by full payment of all amounts due the contractor, including all retained percentages of payments previously made thereon on engineer's estimates, which percentages were retained pending the completion of the work.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3313 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3313. Engineer to prepare specifications; inspections and reports; employing attorney; transcript of record of proceedings

RS 3313 - Engineer to prepare specifications; inspections and reports; employing attorney; transcript of record of proceedings Municipalities which take advantage of the provisions of this Sub-part may through their governing authorities engage the services of an engineer and provide for his payment. This engineer shall prepare all plans and specifications for the work, and the governing authority shall approve them by a resolution. The engineer shall inspect the work as let in accordance with contracts hereunder and shall issue to the contractor, his estimates thereon from time to time as the work progresses, which estimates may be paid by the municipality either in full or by the retention of twenty per cent thereof as retained percentage; provided that where the work is undertaken by the municipality the engineer so employed shall inspect the work as it progresses and shall be responsible for the performance and completion thereof in accordance with the plans and specifications. Upon final completion of the work the engineer shall render a report to the governing authority of the municipality as to the completion of the work in a satisfactory manner, which report shall be duly certified, and in addition, the engineer shall perform all engineering duties required of him in this Sub-part. The governing authority of the municipality may employ an attorney to handle all legal work in connection with the improvements, and provide for the payment of his fee. The attorney, in addition to his other duties, shall prepare a complete transcript of the record of the proceedings covering each project completed hereunder and shall file the same with the clerk or secretary of the municipality. This filed transcript shall constitute a permanent record of the municipality.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3314 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3314. Portion to be paid by owner of railway track in street

RS 3314 - Portion to be paid by owner of railway track in street In the event a railway bed or track, other than one owned by the municipality, occupies a portion of a street, road or alley, the owner of the railway shall pay of the total cost of the work, the proportion that the area occupied by the railroad bears to the total area of the street, road or alley to be improved and also the cost of the extra work made necessary by the presence of the track in the street, road or alley.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3315 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3315. Certificates not included in computing indebtedness

RS 3315 - Certificates not included in computing indebtedness 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.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3316 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3316. Certificates to be tax exempt

RS 3316 - Certificates to be tax exempt All certificates issued under the provisions of this Sub-part shall be exempt from taxation. They shall be acceptable as security for any deposit of public funds.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3317 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3317. Construction and maintenance by parish government of streets and roads within municipality

RS 3317 - Construction and maintenance by parish government of streets and roads within municipality Wherever streets and roads within a municipality are constructed and maintained by the parish government and not by the city government, the parish government shall have all of the powers and duties otherwise imposed on municipalities by the provisions of R.S. 33:3301 through 33:3316. Added by Acts 1950, No. 397, §1.