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LA Rev Stat § 38:1660 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1660. Consolidation of adjacent districts

RS 1660 - Consolidation of adjacent districts  Any two or more adjacent drainage districts organized or reorganized under the provisions of this Part, whether in the same or different parishes, may be united and consolidated into one drainage district and the new district and the board of commissioners thereof shall have all of the rights, powers, privileges, and duties of any other drainage district created and organized under this Part.  In order to effect the consolidation, the land owners owning a majority of the acreage in each of the drainage districts shall present a joint petition to that effect approved by the board of commissioners and the chief engineers of the drainage districts to the police jury of the parish in which the districts are situated, or if they are situated in more than one parish, then to the policy jury of the parish in which the majority of land in the proposed consolidated district is situated. The petition shall also contain a statement showing the names and boundaries of the original districts, the name and boundaries of the proposed consolidated district, and shall be accompanied by a certificate as to land owners and acreage as provided in R.S. 38:1604, and the approval of the board of state engineers as provided in R.S. 38:1605.  The police jury shall adopt an ordinance creating the consolidated drainage district and appointing commissioners therefor in the same manner as provided in this Part for creating original drainage districts. The ordinance shall be recorded by the clerk of court and recorder of each parish in which is situated any land in the consolidated drainage district in the drainage district record of his office.  The consolidated drainage district shall then be subject in all respects to the provisions of this Part, and all of the lands and property in the new district shall be subject to the same liens, liabilities, and obligations that may have existed against the lands and property in the original districts composing the new district.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1661 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1661. New or amended reclamation plans; additional assessments and taxes

RS 1661 - New or amended reclamation plans; additional assessments and taxes  Where the works set out in plan for reclamation of any drainage district organized under this Part is found insufficient to reclaim in whole or in part any or all of the land and other property of the district, the board of commissioners may formulate new or amended plans containing new ditches, levees or other works, or providing for the enlargement of existing ditches, levees, or other works. The additional assessments may be made in conformity with the provisions of R.S. 38:1623 and subsequent sections of this Part and in proportion to the increased benefits accruing to the lands and other property because of the additional works. If it should be found at any time that the amount of total tax levied under the provisions of R.S. 38:1631 is insufficient to pay the cost of works set out in plan for reclamation or additional work done under the provisions of this Section, the board of commissioners may make an additional levy to provide funds to complete the work, provided the total of all levies of the tax does not exceed the total amount of benefits assessed.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1662 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1662. Connection of ditches; drainage systems, and watercourses with works and improvements of district

RS 1662 - Connection of ditches; drainage systems, and watercourses with works and improvements of district  At the time of the construction in any district organized under this Part of the plan for reclamation hereinbefore referred to, all ditches or systems of drainage already constructed in the district and all watercourses shall, if necessary to the drainage of any of the lands in the district, be connected with and made a part of the works and improvements of the plan for reclamation of the district. No ditches, drains or systems of drainage constructed in the district after the completion of the plan for reclamation of the district, shall be connected therewith, unless the consent of the board of commissioners shall be first obtained. The consent shall be in writing and shall particularly describe the method, term, and conditions of the connection, and shall be approved by the chief engineer. The connection, if made, shall be in strict accord with the methods, terms, and conditions laid down in the consent. If the land owners wishing to make the connection are refused by the board of commissioners or decline to accept the consent granted, the land owners may bring suit against the board of commissioners for the connection, in the district court having jurisdiction, and the matter in dispute shall be decided in a summary manner by the courts. No connection with the works or improvements of the plan for reclamation of the district or with any ditch, drain or artificial drainage wholly within the district, shall be made, caused, or effected by any land owners, company, or corporation, municipal or private, by means of or with any ditch, drain, cut, fill, roadbed, levee, embankment, or artificial drainage, wholly without the limits of the district, unless the connection is consented to by the board of commissioners, or in the manner hereinbefore provided.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1663 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1663. Advance payment of tax in full

RS 1663 - Advance payment of tax in full  Any land owner owning lands or other property assessed for taxes under the provisions of this Part, shall have the privilege of paying the total tax assessment provided under R.S. 38:1631 to the secretary-treasurer of the board of commissioners at any time on or before a date to be fixed by the board of commissioners, and the amount to be paid shall be the full amount of the tax levied, less any amount added thereto to meet interest. The board of commissioners shall fix the time after which the privilege of paying the total tax assessment shall not exist, which shall not be subsequent to the date of any bonds that may be issued and shall give notice of the date by publication once a week for two consecutive weeks in the manner provided in R.S. 38:1616. When the tax assessment has been paid, the secretary-treasurer of the board shall enter upon the drainage tax record opposite each tract for which payment is made the words "paid in full", and the tax assessment shall be deemed satisfied. The secretary-treasurer of the board of commissioners shall also make or cause to be made the same entry opposite each tract for which payment is made in the table included in the certificate filed in the office of the clerk of court and recorder of mortgages, under the provisions of R.S. 38:1632.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1664 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1664. Reorganization of existing districts permitted

RS 1664 - Reorganization of existing districts permitted  Any drainage district heretofore organized, or any drainage district now in process of organization, under any previous or existing law of the state, for the purpose of draining and reclaiming the undrained marsh, swamp or overflowed lands of the state that must be leveed and pumped in order to be drained and reclaimed, may reorganize, or any two or more drainage districts may consolidate and reorganize under the provisions of this Part. The reorganized district shall be deemed created under this Part, and entitled to the benefit of all the provisions of this Part.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1665 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1665. Reorganization procedure

RS 1665 - Reorganization procedure  The owners of a majority of acreage of the lands in each drainage district, desiring to reorganize or to consolidate and reorganize under the provisions of this Part, shall present a petition to that effect to the police jury of the parish in which the drainage district or districts is situated, or if situated in more than one parish, then to the police jury of the parish in which the greater portion of the lands of the district or districts is situated. The petition shall contain a statement showing the name and boundaries of the drainage district or districts, the name desired for the reorganized drainage district, and shall be accompanied by a certificate as to the land owners and acreage as provided in R.S. 38:1604. The petition shall be approved by the board of commissioners of each drainage district, and shall be accompanied by the approval of the Department of Public Works as provided in R.S. 38:1605.  The police jury shall adopt an ordinance creating the reorganized drainage district, and appointing commissioners therefor in the same manner as provided in this Part for creating new drainage districts.  The ordinance shall be recorded by the clerk of court and recorder of each parish in which is situated any land in the reorganized drainage district in the drainage district record of his office.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1666 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1666. Powers and duties of boards of commissioners of reorganized districts

RS 1666 - Powers and duties of boards of commissioners of reorganized districts  The reorganized drainage district shall then be subject in all respects to the provisions of this Part, and a plan for reclamation may be prepared as is herein provided, except that the board of commissioners of the reorganized drainage district will not be required to follow the steps or requirements of this Part which are inconsistent with or rendered unnecessary by the work that has already been done prior to reorganization. The drainage commissioners of any reorganized drainage district may continue the work of reclamation and drainage through any existing sub-drainage district, or sub-drainage districts, or they may if they deem it necessary for the more effective drainage and reclamation of the lands in the reorganized drainage district, consolidate any one or more existing sub-drainage districts with each other, or with other land or lands in the reorganized drainage district, and may cause to be prepared and adopted a plan for reclamation in the manner as provided for by this Part, embracing all or any portion of the lands in the reorganized drainage district, including any one or more existing sub-drainage districts, and may levy taxes against the lands and issue bonds as herein authorized including refunding bonds under R.S. 38:1670 through 38:1673 and, without regard to the boundaries of the previously existing sub-drainage district. No reorganization of an existing drainage district, or the consolidation of subdrainage districts of a reorganized district, shall have the effect of in any way invalidating any indebtedness, liability, or contract of any nature incurred under the former organization of any reorganized drainage district or any sub-drainage district, but all indebtedness, liability, or contract shall attach to and become the debt and liability of the new organization or of the respective sub-drainage district originally liable, until the indebtedness, liability, or contract is fully paid and discharged.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1667 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1667. Obligations of former district assumed by reorganized districts

RS 1667 - Obligations of former district assumed by reorganized districts  All debts owing to and all property or contract rights, privileges, and immunities held or enjoyed by the old district or districts, or any sub-district thereof under former organization, shall be held and enjoyed by the new district or the respective sub-district thereof, when the district shall reorganize under the provisions of this Part. No right of action shall exist nor remedy be allowed against any reorganized drainage district, or sub-drainage district thereof by virtue of any contract or contracts made by or on behalf of any reorganized drainage district, or sub-drainage district thereof prior to its reorganization as herein provided for, which did not exist or was not allowed by statute against the drainage district or sub-drainage district prior to the time of its reorganization as herein provided for. Where any drainage district or districts have heretofore been reorganized under the provisions of this Part, and one or more of the sub-drainage districts thereof have been consolidated with each other or with other lands, and one plan for reclamation has been provided for and adopted therefor, taxes have been levied and bonds issued under the provisions of this Part, the plan for reclamation, the taxes and the bonds are hereby declared to be valid and legal, and binding on the reorganized drainage district. Each and every act of the drainage commissioners is hereby declared to have been done and performed in accordance with law, and the plan for reclamation, taxes, bonds, and acts are hereby validated and declared legal and binding upon the district and the landowners thereof.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1668 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1668. Chief engineer of reorganized district

RS 1668 - Chief engineer of reorganized district  When any existing drainage district or districts have been reorganized, and a board of commissioners has been appointed and qualified, the board shall employ a chief engineer, and thereafter all proceedings relative to the reclamation, assessment, taxation, and maintenance of the lands of the reorganized drainage district shall be had as provided in this Part in the case of a new district. The engineer of the reorganized drainage district in preparing the plan for reclamation thereof, or of any sub-district thereof, shall prepare a plan that will afford complete and entire reclamation and drainage of the district or sub-district, and which will provide for the completion of any work of reclamation or drainage undertaken prior to reorganization, as well as the restoration, enlargement or improvement of any works theretofore constructed, or the construction of new works.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1670 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1670. Issuance of funding or refunding bonds

RS 1670 - Issuance of funding or refunding bonds  Any drainage district or any sub-district, may for the purpose of readjusting, funding, refunding, extending or unifying any or all of its authorized indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, or both, may issue and sell funding or refunding bonds and with the proceeds of the sale thereof, pay the indebtedness, or may exchange the funding or refunding bonds with the holders of the outstanding indebtedness, in payment thereof in the manner hereinafter provided.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1671 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1671. Form and terms of bonds; denominations

RS 1671 - Form and terms of bonds; denominations  The board of commissioners of any drainage district mentioned in R.S. 38:1670, when petitioned to that effect by the owners of a majority of the acreage of the lands in the district or sub-district thereof, as the case may be, after adopting a resolution to that effect, may issue funding or refunding bonds for the purpose of readjusting, funding, refunding, extending, or unifying any or all of the authorized indebtedness of the district or sub-district. Funding or refunding bonds shall be in any denominations of one hundred dollars or multiples thereof, shall bear interest, represented by coupons, at a rate not to exceed six per cent per annum, payable annually or semiannually, shall run for a period not to exceed forty years, and shall mature and be payable annually, beginning not more than ten years after their date, all as may be determined by the board of commissioners. Both principal and interest shall be payable at some convenient banking house or trust company's office to be named in the bonds. The bonds shall be signed by the president of the board of commissioners, attested by the signature of the secretary of the board and the seal of the district, and shall show on their face the purpose for which issued. The coupons on the bonds shall be signed by the facsimile signature of the officers. The delivery at any time thereafter of any bonds and coupons so executed shall be valid, although before the date of delivery the persons signing the bonds or coupons shall have ceased to hold office.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1672 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1672. Sale or exchange of bonds; use of proceeds

RS 1672 - Sale or exchange of bonds; use of proceeds  The bonds may be sold, or exchanged at not less than par and accrued interest with the holders of the outstanding indebtedness in payment thereof. If sold, the funding or refunding bonds shall be sold in the same manner and under the same provisions as provided in R.S. 38:1653, and the proceeds thereof dedicated exclusively to the retirement of the existing indebtedness of the district or sub-district.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1673 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1673. Payment and retirement of bonds

RS 1673 - Payment and retirement of bonds  The funding or refunding bonds shall be payable out of any funds of the district or sub-district, as the case may be, not otherwise dedicated. The board of commissioners may levy, in the manner provided in R.S. 38:1631, taxes up to the full amount of the total benefits assessed against the lands of the district or sub-district if necessary, sufficient to pay and retire the bonds in principal and interest. The proceedings for the total levy, the annual levy and the collection of taxes shall be the same as heretofore provided in this Part, in the case of new districts created and organized under this Part. In the case of reorganized drainage districts which have issued funding or refunding bonds to fund or refund their indebtedness existing prior to reorganization they shall provide for retiring the bonds in the manner provided in R.S. 38:1669.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1674 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1674. Waiver of procedural rights; recordation of consent

RS 1674 - Waiver of procedural rights; recordation of consent  Any notice, publication, or delay, provided to be given by this Part, or the right to contest any proceeding taken under the provisions of this Part, may be waived by the written consent of any land owner or other persons interested. The consent shall be spread on the record of the board of commissioners of the drainage district, and be recorded in the drainage district record book of the clerk of court in each parish in which any lands of the district are situated.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1674.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1674.1. Construction of drainage projects; financing

RS 1674.1 - Construction of drainage projects; financing  The board of commissioners is authorized to construct projects for the drainage of lands in the district by the construction, improvement, extension, renewal and/or replacement of drainage facilities, including canals, ditches, pumps, levees and related buildings, machinery, rights-of-way and sites, and to finance all or part of the cost thereof by the levy of local or special assessments and the issuance and sale of drainage certificates, in the manner hereinafter set forth. All of such projects, works and improvements are hereby determined to be works of public improvement as contemplated by and included in Article X, section 13 of the Louisiana Constitution for the year 1921, as amended, and drainage districts created and organized under this Part are likewise determined to be subdivisions under such constitutional provision.  Added by Acts 1962, No. 144, §1. Amended by Acts 1970, No. 617, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1674.3 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1674.3. Plans and specifications; advertisement for bids

RS 1674.3 - Plans and specifications; advertisement for bids  The board of commissioners, after having given notice of its intention as above set forth, and after hearing and disposing of all objections and having decided to order the construction of such improvements, may without further delay have the necessary plans and specifications for said work prepared and adopt a resolution authorizing the advertisement for bids therefor by the giving of notice to be signed by the president or vice-president of the board, to be published for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the district; or, if there be none, in some newspaper of general circulation in the parish wherein the district is located. Said notice shall contain a general description of the work contemplated, and the advertisement for bids shall conform with the general law relative to the advertisement for bids under R.S. 38:2211 through R.S. 38:2217.  Added by Acts 1962, No. 144, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1674.4 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1674.4. Opening of bids; award of contract

RS 1674.4 - Opening of bids; award of contract  The board of commissioners shall meet in open session on the date and at the place and hour named in the notice calling for bids, and shall proceed to open the bids and award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder who can furnish satisfactory security, in conformity with the said provisions of R.S. 38:2211 through R.S. 38:2217, but the board may, however, reject any and all bids.  Added by Acts 1962, No. 144, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1674.6 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1674.6. Issuance of Certificates

RS 1674.6 - Issuance of Certificates  The board of commissioners of any drainage district complying with the provisions of R.S. 38:1674.1 through R.S. 38:1674.10 shall be and is hereby authorized to issue, execute, negotiate, sell and deliver negotiable interest bearing drainage certificates of the district in an amount not exceeding the total amount of the installments or deferred payments, as provided for in R.S. 38:1674.5, said certificates to bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding the maximum rate provided for conventional interest by the Louisiana Civil Code as the same now exists or may be hereafter amended, payable annually, and to mature serially over a period not exceeding twenty years, but in no event shall said 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. Said certificates shall be of such form, date, denomination and payable in principal and interest at such time and place as the board may determine, and such certificates shall be secured by and payable in principal and interest from the irrevocable pledge and dedication of the funds derived from the levying and collection of the said local or special assessments, as hereinabove provided, and 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 said certificates. Said certificates shall be issued in compliance with the provisions of Article X, Section 13 of the Louisiana Constitution and shall be secured as therein and herein provided.  Added by Acts 1962, No. 144, §1. Amended by Acts 1970, No. 617, §4.