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LA Rev Stat § 34:341 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§341. Canals and locks useful to vessels in sea food industries; free navigation

RS 341 - Canals and locks useful to vessels in sea food industries; free navigation The commissioner of wildlife and fisheries is authorized to acquire by lease, purchase, or expropriation, from the owners thereof, any system or systems of canals and locks, or any canal or lock located in the coastal parishes of the state bordering the Gulf of Mexico, useful to vessels engaged in the sea food industries of this state, and to cause such canals and locks to be operated so that the same shall be open to free navigation by all vessels.
LA Rev Stat § 34:342 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§342. Acquisition of same by expropriation

RS 342 - Acquisition of same by expropriation For the public purposes contemplated in R.S. 34:341, the commissioner of wildlife and fisheries shall endeavor to acquire the needed canals and locks by amicable agreement with the owners thereof, failing which he may expropriate the needed properties in accordance with the general expropriation laws of the state. An agreement of purchase or lease contemplating the acquisition of the needed properties may be made by the commissioner upon a basis of annual or semi-annual installment payments bearing not more than seven per centum per annum interest with vendor's privilege or other security clauses; he may also execute the necessary acts of purchase or lease and issue the required interest-bearing notes or evidences of indebtedness, which notes or other evidences of indebtedness shall be properly paraphed for identification with the acts of purchase or lease. The commissioner may provide in his annual budget for the payment of the obligations so incurred.
LA Rev Stat § 34:343 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§343. Purpose of law

RS 343 - Purpose of law Whereas the commissioner of wildlife and fisheries derives large revenues from licenses paid by motor boats engaged in the fishing industry and from severance taxes imposed by law upon the sea food products coming from the coastal parishes of this state, the purpose of R.S. 34:341 and 34:342 is to foster and develop these sea food industries by affording free navigation and lockage in the canals and locks to be acquired, controlled, and operated, under the provisions thereof, while benefiting, in like manner, all other users of said canals and locks.  Because of the equities involved the provisions of R.S. 34:341 and 34:342 shall be broadly construed.
LA Rev Stat § 34:344 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§344. Navigation locks in Mississippi River; operation and maintenance

RS 344 - Navigation locks in Mississippi River; operation and maintenance The Department of Public Works shall maintain and operate all navigation locks, lock facilities and appurtenances thereto when they form a part of a levee system, including the navigation locks, lock facilities and appurtenances constructed in the main line Mississippi river levee near Empire, in the Parish of Plaquemines, and the navigation locks in the main line Mississippi river levee situated near Ostrica, in the Parish of Plaquemines.
LA Rev Stat § 34:345 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§345. Private canals; charges for vessels publicly owned

RS 345 - Private canals; charges for vessels publicly owned Wherever the right of expropriation has been, or may be, exercised in the location of a canal for the transportation of vessels or carriers, the owners thereof, or those in control thereof, shall not charge for the transportation, or passage through the canal, of any boat or vessel belonging to the State of Louisiana, or any board or commission or subdivision thereof, more than five cents per linear foot of the boat or vessel, for a single passage one way.
LA Rev Stat § 34:346 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§346. Canal companies; right of way through state lands

RS 346 - Canal companies; right of way through state lands Any domestic corporation established for the purpose of cutting canals in this state shall have the right of way through any land belonging to the state for the canal and the use of the banks thereof to deposit the dirt excavated therefrom.
LA Rev Stat § 34:361 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§361. Navigation canals and improvement of water courses by municipalities and parishes; title to vest in the public

RS 361 - Navigation canals and improvement of water courses by municipalities and parishes; title to vest in the public The constructing, deepening, widening, improving and maintaining of navigation canals, and navigation channels, and the deepening, widening, improving and maintaining of existing streams, lakes and other water courses for navigation purposes, and the acquiring of property for such purposes, including the acquiring of adjoining property for industrial development, but no part of which shall be more than one-half mile from the center of such canals, channels, streams, lakes, and other water courses are declared to be works of public improvement, the title to which shall vest in the public and for public purposes.  Amended by Acts 1950, No. 398, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 34:362 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§362. Acquisition of property and construction of works; authority

RS 362 - Acquisition of property and construction of works; authority The municipalities, as well as the parishes of the state are authorized to acquire property for any of the works of public improvement, enumerated in R.S. 34:361, either by purchase, donation, or expropriation, and to make any of the said works and anything connected therewith as they may deem necessary in order to make the same effective; and, having acquired the same, to lease such portion of said property as they deem proper for industrial development. For this purpose they are especially authorized to enter into contracts for these works, or to purchase machinery and to supervise the making of these works, and other acts necessary to carry out this grant.  In the case of municipalities, this authority exists, whether the works lie wholly within or wholly without their corporate limits, or partly within and partly without their corporate limits.  Amended by Acts 1950, No. 398, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 34:363 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§363. Co-operation with state or federal government; financial aid

RS 363 - Co-operation with state or federal government; financial aid The municipalities or parishes are further authorized to cooperate with the state or federal government in performing any of the works, and to receive from, and furnish to the federal government, any financial aid or assistance for the completion and maintenance of any of the said works.
LA Rev Stat § 34:364 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§364. Acquisition of property and donation to federal government

RS 364 - Acquisition of property and donation to federal government When the works authorized in this Part, are undertaken solely by the federal government, the governing authorities of the municipalities or parishes are authorized to acquire by purchase, donation or expropriation, any property necessary for the federal government in the construction of such works, and to donate to the federal government the property so acquired.
LA Rev Stat § 34:365 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§365. Bond issues; special taxes

RS 365 - Bond issues; special taxes The said municipalities or parishes, through their governing authorities, are authorized to incur debt and issue negotiable bonds for the construction of the works of public improvement, and for such other public purposes outlined in this Part; and to that effect, they are authorized to call any special elections that are necessary to levy taxes, incur debt, and to issue and sell negotiable bonds, all in conformity with the constitution and other laws.
LA Rev Stat § 34:366 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§366. Board of advisors

RS 366 - Board of advisors The governing authorities of the several municipalities or parishes are authorized to appoint three responsible citizen tax payers as a board of advisors, to serve without compensation, to assist them in letting contracts, performing and supervising the works authorized and in the expenditures of public funds therefor.
LA Rev Stat § 34:368 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§368. Special taxes; annual levy

RS 368 - Special taxes; annual levy The special taxes imposed for the purpose of providing for the payment of principal and interest on the bonds of any municipality or parish issued for any purpose herein authorized, shall, each year be levied, assessed and collected on the property taxed, under the same terms and conditions and at the same time as state and parish taxes; the said taxes shall bear the same liens upon the property as state, parish, municipal, and other special taxes; the property shall be sold for delinquent taxes in the same manner as property is sold for delinquent state, parish, municipal, and other taxes.
LA Rev Stat § 34:369 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§369. Collection of special taxes; duties of parish collector

RS 369 - Collection of special taxes; duties of parish collector The provisions of the constitution and all laws regulating the collection of taxes, the creation of tax liens, mortgages, tax penalties and sales, shall apply to and regulate the collection of special taxes for the purposes enumerated in this part.  Where the taxes have been levied by a parish, the sheriff and ex-officio tax collector for the parish in which the property is located shall make monthly settlements with the parish treasurer and receive from him a receipt for the amount of the special taxes paid over, in the same manner as the tax collectors are required to settle with the auditor of the state, and he shall receive from the parish treasurer the same quietus for a full settlement of taxes due and exigible in a given year and account for the delinquents or deductions in the same manner as though accounting to the auditor of the state for state taxes. The sheriff and ex-officio tax collector shall retain from the special taxes collected by him, when paying over proceeds of the same, the commission thereon, and shall deposit the said commission with the parish treasurer to the credit of the sheriff's salary fund, all as provided by law. Upon failure of the tax collector to comply with the provisions of this Section, the governing authorities of the parish shall proceed against him and the sureties on his official bond, for the collection of whatever amount may be due the parish.
LA Rev Stat § 34:370 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§370. Parish of Orleans, provisions inapplicable

RS 370 - Parish of Orleans, provisions inapplicable The provisions of this Part shall not apply to the Parish of Orleans.
LA Rev Stat § 34:381 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§381. Duty of agency to construct facility

RS 381 - Duty of agency to construct facility Whenever any agency of the state undertakes the construction or creation of a lake it shall construct adequate permanent public access and boat launching facilities and parking areas on or for the lake. Such facilities and parking areas shall be constructed at the time of the creation or construction of the lake.  Acts 1968, No. 652, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 34:382 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§382. Areas requiring facility; connection to public road

RS 382 - Areas requiring facility; connection to public road Publicly owned access sites consisting of at least one boat launching ramp and one parking area shall be constructed or provided where the tracts of land are comprised of at least five acres and shall be located on the shoreline of the new lake, adjacent to public roads or connected to a public road by right of way acquired for public use.  Acts 1968, No. 652, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 34:383 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§383. Number of access sites

RS 383 - Number of access sites The number of access sites which shall be constructed shall be determined by the size of the lake as follows: (1) For lakes of less than two thousand, five hundred acres, at least one access site; (2) For lakes of from two thousand, five hundred to five thousand acres, at least two access sites; and (3) For lakes of over five thousand acres, at least two access sites for the first five thousand acres and one access site for each additional ten thousand acres.  Acts 1968, No. 652, §3.
LA Rev Stat § 34:401 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§401. General application of provisions

RS 401 - General application of provisions The provisions of this Part shall apply to all navigation districts created or which may hereafter be created by the legislature.
LA Rev Stat § 34:402 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§402. Corporate status and powers; suits and service of citation

RS 402 - Corporate status and powers; suits and service of citation Navigation districts created by the legislature shall be political corporations invested with all the powers, privileges, rights and immunities conferred by law upon other corporations of like character. They shall have authority to sue and to be sued, and to stand in judgment under their corporate name.  All legal process shall be served upon the president, or in his absence upon the vice-president, and in the absence of both, upon the secretary, at the domicile of the district; and all suits or proceedings initiated by the district shall be brought in the corporate name through the president.
LA Rev Stat § 34:403 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§403. Board of commissioners as governing authority; terms and compensation; vacancies; meetings; quorum

RS 403 - Board of commissioners as governing authority; terms and compensation; vacancies; meetings; quorum Navigation districts shall be governed by a board of commissioners whose qualifications, appointment and initial terms of office shall be established by the laws creating each district.  At the first meeting of the board of commissioners, which shall be held as soon after the election and appointment of all commissioners as practicable, the commissioners shall determine their respective terms of office by lot. Thereafter their successors shall be appointed, or elected, to serve for a term of four years. All commissioners shall serve until their successors are appointed or elected and qualified, and in event of a vacancy, a commissioner to fill the unexpired term shall be appointed or elected by the authority from whom the former member derived his appointment or election.  The commissioners of said district shall serve without compensation, but they shall be entitled to receive all necessary expenses incurred in attending meetings of the board, or while attending to the business of the board. In event the secretary should be also a commissioner of the district, he shall be paid a salary for his services, to be fixed by the board.  The board of commissioners may meet at the domicile or elsewhere within the district, at their discretion.  A majority of the members of the board of commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
LA Rev Stat § 34:404 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§404. Officers and employees of board

RS 404 - Officers and employees of board The board of commissioners shall elect a president and a vice-president from among their number, who shall serve for a term of not more than two years, and a secretary who may or may not be a member of the board. The board shall employ such other officers, attorneys, engineers and employees as may, in its discretion, be necessary, and fix their compensation.
LA Rev Stat § 34:405 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§405. Bond of secretary of board

RS 405 - Bond of secretary of board The secretary of each board of commissioners shall give bond, with a surety company authorized to transact business in Louisiana as surety, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties and accounting for all funds of the district, in a sum to be fixed by the board, the premium on such bond to be paid out of the funds of the district.
LA Rev Stat § 34:406 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§406. General powers

RS 406 - General powers Navigation districts have authority to buy, expropriate or otherwise acquire and hold, and to sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of property of every description; to make and execute contracts and generally, to do and perform all acts necessary to carry out the objects for which they are created.
LA Rev Stat § 34:407 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§407. Improvement and maintenance of navigation; advice of department of public works; cooperation with federal and state agencies

RS 407 - Improvement and maintenance of navigation; advice of department of public works; cooperation with federal and state agencies Navigation districts shall have, with respect to the improvement and maintaining of navigation, the advice of the Department of Public Works, and it shall be the duty of the department to make such surveys, inspections and investigations; render such reports, estimates and recommendations; and furnish such plans and specifications as the board of commissioners of the district may request. Navigation districts may cooperate with the government of the United States, and contribute financially to the expense of such improvements and projects as may be adopted by the federal government; they may cooperate also with all agencies of this state in all undertakings, the result of which will be the furtherance of the objects for which the districts are created.
LA Rev Stat § 34:408 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§408. Cooperation with federal government or other agencies

RS 408 - Cooperation with federal government or other agencies A. Part II of Chapter 10 of Title 38 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 19501 shall apply to navigation districts.  B. The boards may undertake such work with their own organization subject, however, to the provisions of Part II, Chapter 10 of Title 38 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 19501; they may also contribute to the cost of any work undertaken by the government of the United States, or agencies of the state of Louisiana, which will further the objects for which districts are created.  Amended by Acts 1978, No. 56, §1. 1R.S. 38:2211 et seq.
LA Rev Stat § 34:409 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§409. Elections to levy special tax

RS 409 - Elections to levy special tax For the purpose of providing funds to carry out the objects and purposes for which created, navigation districts through their board of commissioners, after approval of the qualified electors of the district at an election held in accordance with Chapter 6-A of the Louisiana Election Code,1 may levy by resolution annually a special tax not to exceed one mill on the dollar upon all the taxable property within the district, to run for a period of not more than ten years.  The board shall not be required to levy the full one mill tax, but their failure to levy the full tax in any one year shall not permit them to exceed the one mill tax for any subsequent year.  Amended by Acts 1978, No. 56, §1. 1R.S. 18:1281 et seq.
LA Rev Stat § 34:410 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§410. §§410 to 421 Repealed by Acts 1978, No. 56, §3

RS 410 - §§410 to 421 Repealed by Acts 1978, No. 56, §3
LA Rev Stat § 34:422 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§422. Assessment and collection of tax; procedure

RS 422 - Assessment and collection of tax; procedure A copy of the resolution levying the tax, certified by the secretary of the board of commissioners of the district, shall be transmitted to the tax assessor of each parish within the district on or before June 1st of the year in which the tax is to be assessed and collected, and it shall be the duty of each assessor to assess the tax and extend the same upon the tax rolls of his parish. The tax shall be collected by the sheriff and ex officio tax collector of each parish in the same manner as taxes levied by the state. The several tax collectors shall make settlements for taxes so collected with the Division of Administration and state treasurer for the account of the respective navigation districts, and the funds so derived shall be withdrawn upon the warrant of the secretary of the respective boards of commissioners, countersigned by the president or vice president thereof. The taxes assessed shall constitute the same liens upon the property assessed; shall bear the same penalties; and collection thereof shall be enforced in the same manner and at the same time as parish taxes.  Amended by Acts 1978, No. 56, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 34:423 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§423. Levee boards, provisions not to affect

RS 423 - Levee boards, provisions not to affect Nothing contained in this Chapter shall deprive the levee boards of their authority with respect to levees within their respective districts.  Added by Acts 1975, 1st Ex.Sess., No. 48, §1, eff. Feb. 20, 1975.
LA Rev Stat § 34:441 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§441. Creation of district; purpose

RS 441 - Creation of district; purpose There is created a navigation and river improvement district which shall be known as the "Red River Navigation District of Louisiana" composed of the Parishes of Caddo and Bossier, for the purpose of improving Red River with respect to the navigation thereof within the State of Louisiana.
LA Rev Stat § 34:442 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§442. Domicile

RS 442 - Domicile The domicile of the district shall be fixed by the board of commissioners provided for in R.S. 34:444 and may be changed at the pleasure of the board; the domicile shall be within the district, where the secretary shall reside and at which domicile shall be kept all the books and records of the district.
LA Rev Stat § 34:443 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping|§443. Incidental powers of district

RS 443 - Incidental powers of district For the purpose of improving and maintaining navigation on Red River, the Red River Navigation District may own, lease or operate dredge boats, snag boats, pile drivers, barges and such other equipment and machinery as may be necessary therefor.