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LA Rev Stat § 38:513 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§513. Levee districts reorganized, merged into, and consolidated with a parish

RS 513 - Levee districts reorganized, merged into, and consolidated with a parish  A. In addition to any rights, revenues, resources, jurisdiction, powers, authority, and functions granted by applicable provisions of this Chapter, any levee district reorganized, merged, and consolidated with a parish pursuant to Article VI, Sections 16 and 38 of the Constitution of Louisiana shall continue to have the rights, revenues, resources, jurisdiction, powers, authority, functions, and duties, including the levy and collection of any local assessment or forced contribution, authorized by law at the time of the reorganization, merger, and consolidation with a parish.  B. Only the provisions of R.S. 38:301(A) and (C)(1), 306(A) and (C), 314, 317, and 325, and Parts VI, and VII of this Chapter shall apply to levee districts reorganized, merged, and consolidated with a parish. To the extent that the provisions of this Chapter are applicable to such levee districts, the term "levee district" means the parish succeeding to the merged levy district, and the term "levee board" means the governing authority of the successor parish. The composition of the governing authority of any successor parish shall not be affected by this Chapter.  Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985.
LA Rev Stat § 38:514 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§514. §§514 to 1480.9 Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985.

RS 514 - §§514 to 1480.9 Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1481 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1481. Designation of place other than domicile for holding meetings

RS 1481 - Designation of place other than domicile for holding meetings  Hereafter, whenever the board of commissioners for any drainage district has organized by meeting at its domicile as designated by the police jury creating the drainage district, the board of commissioners for the drainage district, by unanimous vote of all of the commissioners composing the board, at a meeting of the board held at the domicile, may designate a public place for holding their meetings other than the domicile of the board. The public place so designated shall be either at the parish seat of the parish within which the drainage district is located or at the nearest town, which the drainage commissioners deem most convenient to the drainage board and the people having business transactions therewith.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1482 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1482. Improvement of canals for navigation purposes

RS 1482 - Improvement of canals for navigation purposes  Where any canals within a drainage district are suitable for the purpose of navigation, or by any additional works and expenditures may be made suitable to the purposes of navigation, the commissioners of the drainage district may enter into contracts with the commissioners of any navigation district, municipalities, corporations, or private individuals for the purpose of improving or maintaining of the canals. They may make rules and regulations for the use of the canals and impose any tolls they may deem proper for the maintenance of the canals. No part of the acreage or millage taxes which may have been imposed for the purpose of paying for the cutting of canals or for the retirement of the principal and interest on any bonds, or for the maintenance of drainage canals shall be used for the purpose of making the canals navigable. All additional revenues which may be derived from any contract under which the canals have been extended, widened, or deepened for the purpose of navigation, or any moneys received from tolls may be used not only for the purpose of maintaining the canals as navigable canals but for the betterment of the drainage system.  The commissioners of the drainage districts may construct along the banks of the canals, or contract in the same manner as provided in this Section with other parties to construct along and over the canal bank roads, trams, or other means of transportation which will enable the freer use of the canals and also furnish better means of transportation in the territories contiguous to the canals.  The drainage districts may resort to expropriation proceedings in the same manner and under the same conditions as they are now authorized to do for acquisition of the land necessary for the cutting of the canals as well as the land contiguous thereto necessary as banks of the canals.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1491 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1491. Drainage channels or outfall canals; Tangipahoa Parish

RS 1491 - Drainage channels or outfall canals; Tangipahoa Parish A. All drainage channels or outfall canals in the parish of Tangipahoa created pursuant to law shall be public drainage channels or outfall canals. B. On July 1, 2003, all drainage channels or outfall canals in the parish of Tangipahoa that have been or thereafter are kept up, maintained, or worked for a period of three years by authority of the governing authority of the parish or the governing board of any drainage district located in the parish shall be public drainage channels or outfall canals. C.(1) The governing board of any drainage district located in the parish which has control over any public drainage channel or outfall canal provided for in Subsections A and B of this Section shall have authority to share the use of such public drainage channels or outfall canals with any sewerage district located in the parish if the sharing of such public drainage channels or outfall canals is for the benefit of the general population of the parish. (2) The governing board of any drainage district located in the parish which holds a servitude over any drainage channel or outfall canal shall have the authority to share the use of such drainage channel or outfall canal with any sewerage district located in the parish if the sharing of such drainage channel or outfall canal is for the benefit of the general population of the parish. D. If the governing board of any drainage district located in the parish grants the use of any drainage channel or outfall canal under its authority to any sewerage district located in the parish, the drainage district shall not be held liable for any act or omission of such sewerage district resulting in damage or injury to any such drainage channel or outfall canal or any component thereof. Acts 2003, No. 1102, §1, eff. July 1, 2003.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1501 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1501. Repealed by Acts 2020, No. 25, §1.

RS 1501 - Repealed by Acts 2020, No. 25, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1502 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1502. Copying and indexing records; recording and indexing proceedings

RS 1502 - Copying and indexing records; recording and indexing proceedings  Each clerk of court without the right to make any charge for the service shall copy and properly index into the book of drainage records any and all proceedings heretofore recorded in the mortgage records of his parish, and affecting any drainage or sub-drainage district. He shall record and index in the book any and all subsequent proceedings taken by any drainage or sub-drainage district, which are now required to be recorded in his mortgage records. For the recordation of subsequent proceedings, the clerk shall be entitled to collect from each drainage or sub-drainage district the recording charges now provided by law.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1503 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1503. Recording in drainage records

RS 1503 - Recording in drainage records  Whenever any law of this state now requires any proceeding of any drainage district or sub-drainage district to be recorded in the mortgage records of the parish or parishes in which the drainage or sub-drainage district is located, the proceedings shall not be recorded in the mortgage records but shall be recorded in the book of drainage records. This recordation shall be a full compliance on the part of the clerk and recorder with the requirement of the law designating the proceedings to be recorded in his mortgage office, and shall be a full compliance with the requirement of any provision of the drainage laws requiring any proceeding to be recorded in any mortgage office.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1504 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1504. Mortgage certificates

RS 1504 - Mortgage certificates  In furnishing a mortgage certificate in the name of any owner of any land located in any drainage or sub-drainage district within any parish, the clerk of court and ex-officio recorder of mortgages of the parish shall not set forth on the mortgage certificate any of the proceedings incident to the organization or bond issue of the drainage or sub-drainage district, but when the tax roll of any drainage or sub-drainage district has been filed with him for record, the clerk of court and ex-officio recorder of mortgages shall set forth on the mortgage certificate any delinquent or unpaid drainage tax owing by the land owner, just as he would report any delinquent state or parish tax on the mortgage certificate.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1521 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1521. Boards authorized to borrow money and pledge revenues

RS 1521 - Boards authorized to borrow money and pledge revenues  The board of commissioners of drainage districts may anticipate the current revenues of each year, in advance of their availability, by borrowing the sums which in their judgment may be required for the needs of the district for the current year, upon the terms they may see fit, at rates of interest not exceeding six per cent per annum, and secure the loans by a pledge of the revenues of the district for the current year.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1522 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1522. Form of pledge; filing; rights of pledgees

RS 1522 - Form of pledge; filing; rights of pledgees  The pledge shall be either by notarial act or by act under private signature, duly acknowledged, and a copy thereof shall be filed with the fiscal agent of the drainage district, and another copy shall be filed with the State Auditor. Upon filing, the pledgee shall be entitled to payment of the sums advanced upon the pledge, out of the revenues of the current year as collected, by preference and priority over all persons whatsoever, subject only to the legal rights of the holders of any bonds theretofore issued by the drainage district.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1541 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1541. Funding or refunding bonds

RS 1541 - Funding or refunding bonds  Any drainage district created or organized prior to the year 1921, or any sub-district of a drainage district, may, issue funding or refunding bonds, for the purpose of adjusting, readjusting, funding, refunding, extending, or unifying any or all of its authorized indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, or both, incurred in draining and reclaiming by means of levees and pumps any or all of the lands in the drainage district or sub-district.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1542 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1542. Denominations; form and terms; funds from which payable

RS 1542 - Denominations; form and terms; funds from which payable  The board of commissioners of any drainage district or of any sub-district, when petitioned to issue funding or refunding bonds by the owners of a majority of the acreage of the lands in the district or sub-district, after adopting a resolution to that effect, may issue funding or refunding bonds for the purpose of adjusting, readjusting, funding, refunding, extending, or unifying any or all of the authorized indebtedness bonded or otherwise, of the district or sub-district incurred in draining and reclaiming by means of levees and pumps any or all of the lands in the drainage district or sub-district. The funding or refunding bonds shall be in 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 semi-annually, 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, which shall be signed by the president of the board of commissioners, attested by the signatures 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 may be signed by the facsimile signatures 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 person signing the bonds or coupons shall have ceased to hold office. The funding or refunding bonds shall be payable out of any funds of the district or sub-district, not otherwise dedicated, and shall be secured by a tax on all of the lands in the drainage district or sub-drainage district, or on the portion of the lands specified in the petition of the property owners.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1543 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1543. Acreage tax or forced contribution

RS 1543 - Acreage tax or forced contribution  The board of commissioners of the drainage district or sub-drainage district, so long as any of the bonds are outstanding shall, in addition to all other taxes, annually levy, assess, and order the collection of, until the funding or refunding bonds are fully paid, an acreage tax or forced contribution against each acre of land in the drainage district or sub-drainage district, as the case may be, or on each acre of land as specified in the petition of the property owners in an amount sufficient to pay the bonds in principal and interest, plus ten percent for emergencies. The acreage tax or forced contributions shall not exceed two dollars and fifty cents per acre per annum. The levy of the acreage tax shall be a tax lien on the land against which it is assessed.  The secretary of the drainage district or sub-drainage district shall prepare each year a tax assessment book assessing the annual tax, and shall file a copy of the book with the clerk of court and recorder and a copy with the sheriff and tax collector of each parish in which any lands so assessed with and liable for the acreage tax are situated. The acreage tax shall be collected and payment enforced in the same manner provided for the collection of other taxes.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1544 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1544. Funding or refunding bonds

RS 1544 - Funding or refunding bonds  Any drainage district or sub-drainage district organized prior to the adoption of the Constitution of 1921, and not reorganized under the provisions of the Constitution of 1921, and the laws carrying same into effect, which have heretofore, upon petition of the property taxpayers and in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of Article 281 of the Constitutions of 1898 and 1913, and the laws carrying the Constitutions into effect, incurred debts against the lands within the drainage district or sub-drainage district, for the purpose of reclaiming the lands therein, and issued negotiable bonds to represent the indebtedness, may, for the purpose of readjusting, funding, refunding, extending or unifying any or all of its authorized indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, or both, 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, bonded or otherwise, in payment thereof, all in the manner as hereinafter provided.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1545 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1545. Resolution by board of commissioners; form and terms of bonds; sale or exchange

RS 1545 - Resolution by board of commissioners; form and terms of bonds; sale or exchange  Funding or refunding bonds shall be issued by the board of drainage commissioners of the drainage district or sub-drainage district, by resolution to that effect, adopted upon the petition of not less than a majority in acreage of the property taxpayers, resident and non-resident, in the drainage district or sub-drainage district. The funding or refunding bonds shall be in any denomination or denominations of one hundred dollars, or multiples thereof and shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding five per cent per annum, payable annually or semi-annually. They shall run for a period not to exceed forty years, and shall mature and be payable annually, beginning not more than five years after their date of issue, as may be determined by the board of drainage commissioners. Bonds due each year, after they begin to mature, shall be for such amount that when the annual interest is added thereto the total amount to be paid each year, including principal and interest, shall be as nearly equal as practicable. The funding or refunding bonds shall be sold or exchanged at not less than ninety per cent of par. The amount due in any year in principal and interest of the bonds, which together with the cost of maintaining the drainage of the district or sub-district shall not be greater than the amount which will be realized from a forced contribution or acreage tax not to exceed three dollars fifty cents per acre per annum levied or to be levied for the year upon all of the lands of the district or sub-district. A certified copy of the resolution of the board of drainage commissioners authorizing the issuance of the funding or refunding bonds shall be published in two successive issues, within a period of ten days, of the official journal of the parish in which the drainage district or sub-drainage district is situated. Publication shall constitute due notice of the action to all persons interested.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1546 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1546. Forced contribution or acreage tax

RS 1546 - Forced contribution or acreage tax  The board of drainage commissioners of any drainage district or sub-drainage district issuing funding or refunding bonds as above provided shall, as long as any bonds remain outstanding, levy annually upon the lands in the drainage district or sub-drainage district, forced contributions or acreage taxes in an amount sufficient to maintain the drainage of the land and to pay interest annually, or semi-annually, and the principal of funding or refunding bonds falling due each year, or the amount which may be required for any sinking fund providing for the payment of the funding or refunding bonds at maturity. The forced contributions or acreage taxes for all purposes shall never exceed three dollars and fifty cents per acre per annum. The taxes shall be assessed and collected in the same manner provided in R.S. 38:1789, 38:1790 and 38:1791.  The assessors shall receive as compensation for making the assessment roll the fees fixed by law on all ad valorem taxes and the sum of seventy five dollars for the listing of property to serve as a basis to collect the acreage tax which shall be paid him by the drainage district. The fee of seventy five dollars shall constitute the total charge for all rolls made for the district or subdistrict therein and the cost shall be divided between the original district and any subdrainage districts therein issuing bonds or levying a tax.  The tax collectors shall receive for all services rendered in collecting and paying the taxes provided for in this Part one-tenth of one per centum on the amount collected and paid in.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1547 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1547. Adjustment, compromise and settlement of claims

RS 1547 - Adjustment, compromise and settlement of claims  In issuing, funding or refunding bonds under the provisions of this Part, the board of drainage commissioners of any drainage district or sub-drainage district may enter into any agreement or agreements with holders of outstanding bonds or other indebtedness, for the settlement, adjustment, and compromise of all amounts due thereunder or thereupon, as well as to adjust, compromise, and settle any and all claims against any and all bondholders or other persons who may own lands within the drainage district or sub-drainage district, whether growing out of the levy and assessment of acreage taxes against the lands, or otherwise, to the end of causing the redemption of lands located in any drainage district or sub-drainage district theretofore adjudicated to the state, or the drainage or sub-drainage district, all with a view of rehabilitating and reestablishing the integrity of the drainage district or sub-drainage district and placing the lands of the district upon the assessment rolls.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1548 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1548. Contest of validity of proceedings

RS 1548 - Contest of validity of proceedings  Whenever funding or refunding bonds have been ordered to be issued, and forced contributions and acreage taxes have been levied, or authorized to be levied, any land owner having property situated within the limits of any drainage district or sub-drainage district during sixty days next following the date of publication of the resolution, as required in this Part, may appeal to the courts for the purpose of testing the regularity, formality, legality, constitutionality, or validity of the proceeding, of the funding or refunding bonds authorized to be issued, and of the forced contributions or acreage taxes levied or authorized to be levied. After this time the regularity, formality, legality, constitutionality, and validity of the proceeding shall be conclusively presumed, shall be absolutely incontestable, and no one shall have any right or cause of action to contest the regularity, formality, legality, constitutionality, or validity of the proceedings, of the funding or refunding bonds authorized to be issued, or of the forced contributions or acreage taxes levied or authorized to be levied. If the regularity, formality, legality, constitutionality, or validity of the proceedings, of the funding or refunding bonds, or of the forced contributions or acreage taxes, are not questioned within the sixty days the authority of the board of drainage commissioners of any drainage district or sub-drainage district to issue and sell or exchange the funding or refunding bonds, the legality and constitutionality of the bonds, as well as the legality and constitutionality of the acreage taxes or forced contributions, levied or authorized to be levied, to pay the bonds, shall be conclusively presumed and no court may inquire into any of these matters.