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LA Rev Stat § 33:3383 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3383. Liability of municipality

RS 3383 - Liability of municipality The municipality shall pay of the total cost the proportion that the net area of the street intersections bear to the total area of the street, alley or curbing to be improved. In the event a municipally owned railroad is on the street or alley, the municipality shall pay only for the cost of extra work made necessary by the presence of the track in the street or alley to be improved.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3384 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3384. Abutting property owners' liability

RS 3384 - Abutting property owners' liability The abutting property owners shall pay for the balance of the cost of the improvements, in proportion to the respective front footage of the properties owned by them and abutting on the street or alley to be improved.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3385 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3385. Petition for payment of entire cost by property owners

RS 3385 - Petition for payment of entire cost by property owners In lieu of the above and upon the written petition of the owners of more than fifty per cent of the lineal foot frontage of the property abutting on any street or alley, the entire costs of the improvements shall be paid by the owners of real estate abutting on the street or alley to be improved, according to the frontage of the property owned by them, provided that where a railroad bed or track occupies a portion of the street or alley to be improved, the owners thereof shall pay the entire cost of paving of the space occupied by the railroad bed including extra work made necessary by the presence of the track, and provided further that in the event the railroad bed or track is owned by the municipality it shall pay only for the extra work made necessary by the presence of the track in the street.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3386 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3386. Preparation of specifications; ordinance ordering improvement; advertising for bids; awarding and recording contract

RS 3386 - Preparation of specifications; ordinance ordering improvement; advertising for bids; awarding and recording contract Whenever the governing authority of any municipality resolves to make any improvement authorized by this Sub-part, it shall prepare plans and specifications of the work to be placed on file in the office of the clerk or engineer, and shall adopt an ordinance or resolution, ordering and describing in general terms the contemplated improvement and authorizing the clerk or secretary to advertise for bids therefor, which advertisement shall be inserted at least twice in some newspaper published in the municipality, or if there is no newspaper published therein, then in a newspaper having general circulation therein, the first insertion to be not less than ten days prior to the date fixed for the reception of the bids. The advertisement shall contain a general description of the contemplated work and shall designate the hour, date and place for the reception and opening of the bids. The governing authority shall then let the contract to the lowest responsible bidder who can furnish satisfactory security, but shall have the right to reject any and all bids. The contract shall be recorded in the mortgage records of the parish where the work is to be done.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3387 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3387. Acceptance of work; assessment and lien

RS 3387 - Acceptance of work; assessment and lien Upon final and satisfactory completion of the work, the governing authority shall accept the same by ordinance or resolution and provide for the assessment of all abutting real estate, railroad tracks, and road beds in the amount due by the owners thereof, according to the rules of apportionments adopted under the provisions of this Sub-part. A copy of the ordinance containing the assessment, certified by the clerk, shall within thirty days after its passage be filed for record in the office of the recorder of mortgages of the parish, and when so filed and recorded it shall operate as a lien and privilege in favor of the municipality or its transferees against the property therein assessed, and shall be enforceable against the property assessed regardless of any changes of ownership. Amended by Acts 1954, No. 604, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3388 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3388. Enforcement of assessment

RS 3388 - Enforcement of assessment The amounts assessed in the ordinance or resolution, shall be due and eligible immediately upon the passage of the ordinance or resolution and if not paid within thirty days after the passage of the ordinance or resolution, the municipality or its transferees shall have the power to proceed by suit against the assessed properties and the owners to enforce collection of the amounts of the assessments, together with six per cent per annum interest from date of acceptance of the work and ten per cent of the amount of the judgment as attorney's fees. Amended by Acts 1954, No. 605, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3389 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3389. Installment payments; notes evidencing deferred payments

RS 3389 - Installment payments; notes evidencing deferred payments The governing authority of the municipality, however, may provide in the ordinance accepting the work and making the assessment, that the property owners, availing themselves of the privilege within thirty days after the passage of the ordinance or resolution, may pay in cash ten per cent of the amount of their indebtedness and pay the balance in equal annual installments over a period not to exceed fifteen years from the date of said passage. Where the paving is done on petition of the property owners as provided in Section 3385 of this Sub-part, they shall pay in cash ten per cent of the amount of their indebtedness, and may request in their petition that the balance be paid in equal annual installments over some fixed period of time not to exceed fifteen years from the date of passage of the assessment ordinance or resolution, and if such petition is accepted and approved by the governing authority of the municipality, the deferred payments shall be made accordingly. As evidence of the deferred payments in either case, the property owners shall sign and execute promissory notes payable to the order of the municipality in equal annual installments covering the period of time allowed for payment of said balance as set forth in the assessment ordinance or resolution, said notes to be paid on or before maturity, at the option of the property owner, bearing interest not to exceed six per cent per annum from date of said notes, payable annually, and ten per cent attorneys fees if placed in the hands of an attorney for collection after maturity, which notes when paraphed by the municipal clerk or secretary to identify them with the ordinance or resolution levying the assessment, shall carry with them in the possession of any bona fide owner the lien and privilege provided by existing laws. Amended by Acts 1950, No. 525, §4; Acts 1952, No. 280, §1; Acts 1954, No. 606, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3390 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3390. Transfer of assessments and notes to contractor

RS 3390 - Transfer of assessments and notes to contractor The assessments and the notes executed by the property owners, may be transferred by the municipality, without recourse, to the contractor at their face value and the contractor or any of his transferees shall have the lien, privilege and all other rights herein provided, accruing to the municipality.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3391 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3391. Sale of paving certificates

RS 3391 - Sale of paving certificates In order to meet the payments due to the contractor in the amounts represented by deferred payments as provided for in this Sub-part the municipality may issue and sell after due advertisement for not less than fifteen days paving certificates in an amount not exceeding the total of the deferred payments authorized herein. The certificates when issued shall be direct obligations of the municipality secured in principal and interest by the deferred payments due and owing by the several property owners, which deferred payments shall constitute a special fund for this purpose only. The paving certificates shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent per annum payable annually and shall mature in not more than fifteen annual installments of approximately even amounts and may be called for payment in whole or in part at any interest payment period. Amended by Acts 1950, No. 525, §5.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3401 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3401. Street improvements; power to levy tax or assessment

RS 3401 - Street improvements; power to levy tax or assessment The municipalities (the City of New Orleans excepted) having a population exceeding one thousand and all incorporated parish seats, may pave, gravel, macadamize, re-surface, repair or otherwise improve the streets and alleys, or any part thereof not less than one block in length within the corporate limits and may levy and collect special taxes or local assessments on the real estate abutting the street or alley to be improved, for the purpose of defraying a part of the cost of the improvement as hereinafter provided.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3402 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3402. Sharing costs; liability of owner of railway track in street; apportionment of cost on petition for improvement

RS 3402 - Sharing costs; liability of owner of railway track in street; apportionment of cost on petition for improvement The owners of real estate abutting the street or alley to be improved shall pay two thirds of the entire cost of the improvement in proportion to the respective frontages of the abutting property owned by them and the municipality shall pay one third. Where a railway bed and track other than one municipally owned, occupies a portion of the street or alley, the owner shall pay in the proportion that the space occupied by its roadbed bears to the total area of the street or alley to be improved. In the event the railway bed and track is municipally owned, it shall be responsible only for the cost of the extra work made necessary by the presence of the track in the street or alley to be improved. In the event the space occupied by the railroad track is paved with a different material, the entire extra cost of the paving shall be borne by the owner. If the owners of property abutting any street or alley, or any portion thereof one block or more in length, desire to initiate the construction of an improvement to the street, they may, by petition signed by more than one-half of the owners and representing more than one-half the assessed valuation of the property abutting the street, request the governing authority to construct the desired improvement, in which case the total cost of the improvement shall be apportioned as follows: A. In the event a railway bed or track other than one municipally owned, occupies a portion of the street or alley, the owner thereof shall pay of the total cost of the work, the proportion that the area occupied by the roadbed bears to the total area of the street or alley to be improved. B. The municipality shall pay of the total cost, the proportion that the net area of the intersection bears to the total area of the street or alley to be improved. In the event a municipally owned railway be on the street or alley, the municipality shall pay, in addition, only for the cost of the extra work made necessary by the presence of the track in the street or alley to be improved. C. The abutting property owners shall pay for the balance of the cost of the paving or other improvement as herein provided in proportion to the respective frontages of the properties owned by them.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3403 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3403. Advertising for bids; awarding contract; assessment; work done by municipality

RS 3403 - Advertising for bids; awarding contract; assessment; work done by municipality Whenever the governing authority resolves to improve the streets or alleys or any part thereof as herein provided, they shall pass an ordinance or resolution calling for bids for the work notice of which shall be published at least twice, the last insertion appearing not less than ten days prior to the date of the opening of the bids, in a newspaper published in the municipality and shall let the contract to the lowest responsible bidder who can give satisfactory security; provided that the municipality may reject any and all bids. After the contract has been completed the governing authority shall by ordinance or resolution assess all real estate abutting the street or alley, and on railroad tracks as aforesaid or portion thereof to be paved or otherwise improved, apportioning the cost on the basis of the respective frontage of the abutting real estate and on the railroad track in the proportion as set forth in R.S. 33:3402. The ordinance or resolution shall be recorded in the mortgage record of the parish in which the municipality is located not less than thirty days nor more than forty days after the completion and acceptance of the work by the municipality. Instead of letting the contract to the lowest bidder for the paving of a street, alley or portion thereof the municipality may purchase the material and have the work done, in which case the cost of the work when completed, shall be paid for and assessed in the same manner as provided for in R.S. 33:3402. Amended by Acts 1954, No. 652, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3404 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3404. Enforcement of assessments; special privilege; installment payments; notes evidencing deferred payments; transfer to contractor

RS 3404 - Enforcement of assessments; special privilege; installment payments; notes evidencing deferred payments; transfer to contractor The amounts assessed against the real estate and railroad track and roadbed shall be due and collectible within thirty days after the completion of the work and its acceptance by the municipality, and if not paid within thirty days the municipal authorities may proceed by suit against the owners to collect the delinquent assessment. The municipality and its transferees shall have a special privilege on the property assessed to secure the payment of the sum assessed against it with eight per cent per annum interest thereon from the date due until paid. The governing authority, instead of enforcing the assessment within the time fixed, may, upon the written application by the property owner and payment by him of twenty per cent of the amount due, extend the payment of the balance of the indebtedness to make it payable in four equal annual installments. As an evidence of such deferred payments, the property owner shall sign and execute four promissory notes payable to the order of the municipality, each for twenty per cent of the amount due by him, dated thirty days after the passage of the ordinance accepting the work, maturing respectively one, two, three, and four years from date, or sooner, at the option of the owner of the property, bearing a maximum rate of eight per cent yearly interest from date until paid and ten per cent additional as attorney's fees if placed in the hands of an attorney for collection after maturity, which notes, when paraphed by the clerk or secretary as being secured by the assessment covering the work, shall carry with them the lien and privilege above provided, and may be transferred by the municipality, without recourse, to the contractor at their face value in payment pro tanto for the work done by him, carrying with them the lien and privilege above provided. Amended Acts 1954, No. 653, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3421 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3421. Petition for street improvement

RS 3421 - Petition for street improvement Upon the written petition of the property owners of not less than sixty per cent of the lineal frontage of real estate abutting on any street or alley, or portion thereof to be improved, or any two or more connecting streets or alleys, or portions thereof, located in a commercial district, which may be included in and considered as a single unit for improvement under the provisions of this Sub-part, municipalities having a population exceeding one thousand and less than two hundred thousand, or any incorporated parish seat, may pave, gravel, macadamize, resurface, repair, or improve the streets and alleys, or any part thereof, one block or more in length within the corporate limits of the municipality, and may levy and collect special taxes or local contributions on the property abutting the improvement, for the purpose of defraying the entire cost of the improvement. Notice of the filing of a petition for an improvement under the provisions of this Sub-part shall be given by the clerk or engineer of the municipality by publication in the official journal, or by publication in any other newspaper published in the municipality if there be no official journal, or by posting in five conspicuous places if there be no newspaper published in the municipality, and after thirty days from the date of publication or posting all persons shall be barred from contesting the validity or sufficiency of the petition for improvement or interfering with the progress of the improvement as herein provided.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3422 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3422. Abutting owners' liability; liability of owner of railway track in street

RS 3422 - Abutting owners' liability; liability of owner of railway track in street The entire cost of the improvement shall be paid by the owners of real estate abutting thereon, according to the frontage of the property owned by them. If parts of streets or alleys included in a single improvement are of greater or lesser width than other parts, the amount to be paid by abutting property owners shall be proportioned to the varying width. Where a railroad bed or track occupies a portion of a street or alley so improved, the owner of the railway shall pay the entire cost of the improvement of the space occupied by the roadbed, including the extra work made necessary by the presence of the track. In the event the railroad bed or track is owned by the municipality, it shall pay only for the extra work made necessary by the presence of the track.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3423 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3423. Specifications; advertising for bids; awarding contract

RS 3423 - Specifications; advertising for bids; awarding contract Whenever the governing authority of the municipality resolves to make any improvement authorized by this Sub-part, it shall prepare plans and specifications of the work to be placed on file in the office of the municipal clerk or engineer, and shall adopt an ordinance ordering and describing in general terms the contemplated improvement and authorizing the clerk or secretary to advertise for bids therefor. The advertisement shall be inserted at least twice in some newspaper published in the municipality, the first insertion to be not less than ten days prior to the date fixed for the reception of the bids, and it shall contain a general description of the contemplated work and shall designate the hour, date, and place for the reception and opening of the bids. The governing authority shall let the contract to the lowest responsible bidder who can furnish satisfactory security, but may reject any and all bids, in which case the municipality may purchase the material and have the work done, the cost of the work when completed to be assessed and paid for as provided in this Subpart.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3424 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3424. Acceptance of work; assessment of abutting property; assessment lien

RS 3424 - Acceptance of work; assessment of abutting property; assessment lien Upon the final and satisfactory completion of the work, the governing authority shall accept it by ordinance, and provide for the assessment of all abutting real estate and railroad tracks and roadbeds in the amount due by the owner thereof, according to the rules of an apportionment stipulated in this Sub-part. A certified copy of the ordinance containing the assessment shall, within thirty days after its passage, be filed for record in the office of the recorder of mortgages in the parish in which the assessed property is located, and, when filed and recorded, shall operate as a lien and privilege in favor of the municipality or its transferees, against the real estate and railroad tracks therein assessed. Amended by Acts 1954, No. 654, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3425 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3425. Enforcement of assessments

RS 3425 - Enforcement of assessments The amounts assessed in the ordinance shall be due and eligible immediately upon its passage, and if not paid within thirty days thereafter the municipality, or its transferees, shall have the power to proceed by suit against the assessed properties and the owners thereof, to enforce collection of the amounts of the assessments together with six per cent per annum interest from date of acceptance, and ten per cent of the amount of the judgment as attorney's fees. Amended by Acts 1954, No. 655, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3426 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3426. Installment payments; notes evidencing deferred payments

RS 3426 - Installment payments; notes evidencing deferred payments The governing authority of the municipality may provide in the ordinance accepting the work and making the assessment that the property owners availing themselves of the privilege within thirty days after the passage of the ordinance, may pay in cash twenty per cent of the amount of their indebtedness, and pay the balance in four equal annual installments. As evidence of the deferred payments the property owners shall execute four promissory notes payable to the order of the municipality, each for twenty per cent of the amount due by him, dated thirty days after the passage of the ordinance accepting the work, maturing respectively, one, two, three and four years from date, or sooner at the option of the owner, bearing a maximum rate of six per cent yearly interest from date and ten per cent attorney's fees if placed in the hands of an attorney for collection after maturity, which notes, when paraphed by the city clerk or secretary to identify them with the ordinance levying the assessment, shall carry with them in the possession of any owner the lien and privilege above provided. Amended by Acts 1954, No. 656, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3427 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3427. Transfer of assessments and notes to contractor

RS 3427 - Transfer of assessments and notes to contractor The assessments and the notes executed by the property owners may be transferred by the municipality, without recourse, to the contractor at their face value, and the contractor, or his transferees, shall enjoy the lien and privilege and all other rights provided in this Sub-part.