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LA Rev Stat § 33:140.50.10 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§140.50.10. Master plan

RS 140.50.10 - Master plan  A. It is the function and duty of the commission to make and recommend to the town council and the police jury a master plan for the physical development of the municipality, including any areas outside of its boundaries which, in the commission's judgment, bear relation to the planning of the municipality.  B. The master plan, consisting of maps, plats, charts, and descriptive and explanatory matter, shall show the commission's recommendations for such physical development, and may include, among other things, the general location, character and extent of streets, bridges, viaducts, parks, parkways, waterway and waterfront developments, playgrounds, airports, and other public ways, grounds, places, and spaces; the general location of public buildings, schools and school sites, and other public property; the general location and extent of public utilities and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned, for water, power, heat, light, sanitation, transportation, communication, and other purposes; the acceptance, widening, removal, extensions, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, or change of use of any of the foregoing public ways, grounds, places, spaces, buildings, properties, utilities, or terminals; a zoning plan for the regulation of the height, area, bulk, location, and use of private and public structures and premises, and of population density; the general location, character, layout, the extent of the neighborhood units and communities or groups of neighborhood units, of neighborhood and community centers; and of the general character, extent, and layout of the replanning of blighted districts and slum areas.  C. The commission may, from time to time, recommend amendments to extend or add to the plan.  Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:140.50.11 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§140.50.11. General purpose of the plan

RS 140.50.11 - General purpose of the plan  In the preparation of the master plan, the commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of the existing conditions and probable future growth of the municipality and its environs. The plan shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted, and harmonious development of the metropolitan planning area which will, in accordance with existing and future needs, best promote public health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity, or the general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development.  Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:140.50.12 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§140.50.12. Adoption of master plan

RS 140.50.12 - Adoption of master plan  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 § 33:140.50.13 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§140.50.13. Miscellaneous powers of the commission

RS 140.50.13 - Miscellaneous powers of the commission  A. The commission may make reports and recommendations relating to the plan and development of the area within its jurisdiction to public officials and agencies; public utility companies; civic, educational, professional, and other organizations; and citizens.  B. The commission may recommend to the executive or legislative officials of the municipality and parish, and to other public or semi-public boards, commissions, agencies, or other bodies, programs for public improvements and the financing thereof. All public officials shall, upon request, make available to the commission, within a reasonable time, such available information as it may require for its work.  C. Members and employees of the commission, in the performance of their functions, may enter upon any land, make examinations and surveys, and place and maintain necessary monuments and marks thereon.  D. The commission shall have such additional powers as granted by ordinances adopted by the town council or the police jury, as the case may be.  Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:140.50.14 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§140.50.14. Legal status of plan

RS 140.50.14 - Legal status of plan  A. After adoption of the master plan or any part thereof, no street, park, or any public way, ground, place, or space, no public building or structure, school or school site, and no public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, shall be constructed or authorized in the area of the adopted plan until and unless the location and extent thereof has been submitted to and approved by the commission; in the case of disapproval, the commission shall communicate its reasons to the town council or police jury, as appropriate, and the town council or police jury, by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its entire membership, shall have the power to overrule such disapproval and, upon such overruling, the town council, police jury, or the appropriate board or officer shall have the power to proceed. However, if the public way, ground, place, space, building, structure, school or school site, or utility be one the authorization or financing of which does not, under the law or charter provisions governing the same, fall within the province of the town council or police jury or other body or official of the municipality or of the parish, then the submission to the commission shall be by the board or official having such jurisdiction, and the commission's disapproval may be overruled by such board by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its entire membership or by such official.  B. The acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, change of use, acquisition of land for, or sale or lease of any street or other public way, ground, place, property, or structure shall be subject to similar submission and approval, and the failure to approve may be similarly overruled. The secretary of the commission or his deputy shall issue a receipt showing the date, time, and sufficient description to identify any document submitted to it for approval.  C. The failure of the commission to act within sixty days from the date of official filing shall be deemed approval, unless a longer period be granted by the town council, police jury, or other submitting agency or official, provided that the acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, change of use, acquisition of land for, or sale or lease of any street, or other public way, ground, place, property, or structure by the police jury or by the town council, as the case may be, need not be submitted for approval by the commission unless in conflict with such master plan.  Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:140.50.15 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§140.50.15. Effective date

RS 140.50.15 - Effective date  A. In creating a commission pursuant to this Subpart, the town council and the police jury shall, by mutual agreement, designate the date upon which the powers, duties, and authority of the commission shall take effect. Until such time, the planning commission for the town of Haughton shall be continued with all its powers and duties, and by the designated date, the planning commission for the town of Haughton shall turn over to the commission all of its records, plans, studies, or other instruments of its work and planning.  B. Upon the designated date, the powers of the planning commission for the town of Haughton in conflict with the provisions of this Subpart shall cease to exist; however, such plans or parts thereof as have been lawfully adopted by the planning commission for the town of Haughton, including but not limited to the subdivision regulations, major street plan, and zoning plan, shall continue in effect and shall be administered by the commission until repealed or replaced by the commission in accordance with this Subpart.  Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:140.50.16 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§140.50.16. Commission as platting authority

RS 140.50.16 - Commission as platting authority  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 § 33:140.50.17 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§140.50.17. Subdivision regulations

RS 140.50.17 - Subdivision regulations  A. In exercising the powers granted to it by this Subpart, the commission shall recommend regulations governing the subdivision of land within the metropolitan planning area. Such regulations may provide for the harmonious development of the metropolitan planning area; for the coordination of streets within subdivisions with other existing or planned streets or with other features of the master plan or official map of the metropolitan planning area; for adequate open spaces for traffic, recreation, light, and air; and for the distribution of population and traffic which will tend to create conditions favorable to health, safety, convenience, or prosperity.  B. Such regulations may include requirements as to the extent to which and the manner in which streets shall be graded and improved and water, sewer, and other utility mains, piping, connections, or other facilities shall be installed as a condition precedent to the approval of the plat. The regulations or practice of the commission may provide for the tentative approval of the plat previous to such improvement and installation, but any such tentative approval shall not be entered on the plat. Such regulations may provide that, in lieu of the completion of such work and installations previous to the final approval of a plat, the commission may accept a bond, in an amount and with surety and conditions satisfactory to it, providing for the securing to the municipality and the parish, as appropriate, the actual construction and installation of such improvements and utilities within a period specified by the commission and expressed in the bond, and the town council and the police jury are hereby granted the power to enforce such bonds by all appropriate legal and equitable remedies.  C. Such regulations may provide, in lieu of the completion of such work and installations previous to the final approval of a plat, for an assessment or other method whereby the municipality or parish, as appropriate, is put in an assured position to do such work and make such installations at the cost of the owners of the property within the subdivision.  D. Before recommending its subdivision regulations or any amendments thereto, the commission 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 and in the parish; certified copies of these regulations shall be filed with the town council, police jury, and the clerk of court. The commission shall then present its recommendation for subdivision regulations to the town council or the police jury for adoption by the town council or the police jury, as the case may be.  Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:140.50.18 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§140.50.18. Procedure on subdivision plats; appeals

RS 140.50.18 - Procedure on subdivision plats; appeals  A.(1) The secretary of the commission or his deputy shall issue a receipt showing the date, time, and sufficient description to identify any plat submitted to it for approval.  (2) The commission shall approve or disapprove the plat within sixty days thereof, otherwise the plat shall be deemed to be approved and a certificate to that effect shall be issued by the commission on demand; however, the applicant for commission approval may waive this requirement and consent to the extension of such period.  (3) The ground of disapproval of any plat shall be stated upon the records of the commission, with the recorded vote of each member included in the records.  (4) No plat shall be disapproved by the commission without affording a hearing thereon.  B. Any applicant or other person may appeal commission approval or disapproval of a subdivision plat to the town council or the police jury, as the case may be, under such procedures and provisions as shall be established in the subdivision regulations.  Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:140.50.19 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§140.50.19. Effect of plat approval on status of dedications

RS 140.50.19 - Effect of plat approval on status of dedications  The approval of a plat by the commission shall not be deemed to constitute or affect any acceptance by the municipality or parish or public body of the dedication of any street or other ground shown upon the plat.  Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:140.50.20 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§140.50.20. Penalties for transferring lots in unapproved subdivisions

RS 140.50.20 - Penalties for transferring lots in unapproved subdivisions  A. 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 the commission and recorded in the office of the clerk of court and recorder of the parish, he shall be subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each lot so transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to be sold. 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.  B. The municipality or parish, as appropriate, 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 2019, No. 75, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:140.50.21 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§140.50.21. Acceptance of and improvements in unapproved streets

RS 140.50.21 - Acceptance of and improvements in unapproved streets  After the adoption of a master plan, in whole or in part, as provided in R.S. 33:140.50.16, the municipality or parish or other public body shall not accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave, or light any street within the area covered by the adopted plan, in conflict with the plan unless such street has been accepted or opened as, or has otherwise received the legal status of, a public street prior to the adoption of a master plan, or unless such street corresponds in its location and lines with a street shown on a subdivision plat approved by such commission or on a street plat made by and adopted by such commission. However, the town council or, in the case of a street outside of the municipality, the police jury may locate and construct or may accept any other street if the ordinance or other measure for such location and construction or for such acceptance be first submitted to such commission for its approval, and if disapproved by the commission, be passed by not less than two-thirds of the entire membership of the town council or police jury, as appropriate. A street approved by the commission upon such submission, or constructed or accepted by such two-thirds vote after disapproval by the commission, shall have the status of an approved street as fully as though it has been originally shown on a subdivision plat approved by the commission or on a plat made and adopted by the commission.  Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:140.50.22 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§140.50.22. Building permits

RS 140.50.22 - Building permits  After the commission has recommended to the town council and the police jury and the town council or police jury has adopted in whole or in part a building permit plan, including both the full text of a building permit ordinance and the map or maps showing the districts or zones in which building permits will be required, no building shall be erected in those areas without first having secured the required building permit.  Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:140.50.23 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§140.50.23. Platting of street lines by commission

RS 140.50.23 - Platting of street lines by commission  After the commission has recommended and the town council and the police jury have adopted a master plan in whole or in part which includes at least a major street plan, or has progressed in its master planning to the state of the making and recommending a major street plan, the commission may make or cause to be made, from time to time, plats on which are indicated the locations of the lines recommended by the commission as the planned or mapped lines of future streets, street extensions, street widenings, or street narrowings. The making or certifying of a plat by the commission shall not in and of itself constitute or be deemed to constitute the opening or establishment of any street or the taking or acceptance of any land for street purposes.  Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:140.50.24 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§140.50.24. Establishment of official map

RS 140.50.24 - Establishment of official map  A. After the town council and the police jury have adopted a master plan which includes at least a major street plan, or the commission has progressed in its master planning to the state of the making and recommending of a major street plan, and shall have certified a copy of such major street plan to the town council and one to the police jury, then the town council and the police jury may establish an official map of the municipality, in the case of the town council, and that part of the parish within the area included within the adopted plan but outside the municipality, in the case of the police jury.  B. The official map shall show the location of the streets existing and established by law as public streets. Such official map may also show the location of the lines of streets on plats of subdivisions which have been approved by the commission. The town council and the police jury shall certify the fact of the establishment of the official map to the clerk of court and recorder of the parish.  Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:140.50.25 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§140.50.25. Official map; additions and changes

RS 140.50.25 - Official map; additions and changes  The town council and the police jury may add to the official map, each in its own jurisdiction, by placing thereon, from time to time, the lines of streets in accordance with the plat of any subdivision approved by the commission. The town council and the police jury may make, from time to time, other additions to or modifications of the official map by placing thereon the lines of planned new streets or street extensions, widenings, narrowings, or vacations. The placing of any street or street line upon the official map shall not, in or of itself, constitute or be deemed to constitute the opening or establishing of any street or the taking or accepting of any land for street purposes.  Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:140.50.26 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§140.50.26. Regulation of buildings in bed of mapped streets

RS 140.50.26 - Regulation of buildings in bed of mapped streets  A. For the purpose of preserving the integrity of the official map, the town council and the police jury may provide by general ordinance or other legislative action that no permit shall be issued for any building or structure or part thereof on any land located between the mapped lines of any street as shown on the official map.  B. Any such ordinance or legislative act shall provide that the board of adjustment, as provided for in this Subpart, shall have the power, upon an appeal filed with it by the owner of any such land, to authorize the grant of a permit for a building or structure or part thereof within any such mapped street location in any case in which such board finds, upon the evidence and arguments presented to it upon such appeal that the property of the appellant of which such mapped street location forms a part will not yield a reasonable return to the owner unless such permit be granted, or that balancing the interest of the municipality or parish in preserving the integrity of the official map and the interest of the owner in the use and benefits of his property, the grant of such permit is required by considerations of justice and equity.  C. Before taking any such action, the board of adjustment shall hold a hearing thereon, at least ten days notice of the time and place of which shall be given to the appellant by mail at the address specified by the appellant in his appeal petition. If the board of adjustment decides to authorize a building permit, it shall have the power to specify the exact location, ground area, height, and other details and conditions of extent and character, and also the duration of the building, structure or part thereof to be permitted.  Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.