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LA Rev Stat § 33:3958 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3958. Installment payments and notes for deferred payments

RS 3958 - Installment payments and notes for deferred payments The governing authority of the municipality may provide, in the ordinance accepting the work and making the assessment, that the property owners therein assessed, availing themselves of the privilege within ten 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 such deferred payments, the property owners 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 ten days after the passage of the ordinance accepting the work, maturing respectively, one, two, three and four years from that 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 hereinabove provided for. The assessments and the notes, executed by the property owners pursuant to the provisions of this Sub-part, may be transferred by the municipality without recourse, to the contractor, at their face value, and the contractor, or any transferee thereof, shall enjoy the lien and privilege and all other rights provided in this Sub-part accruing to the municipality authorizing and ordering the work.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3959 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3959. Objections to proceedings

RS 3959 - Objections to proceedings For a period of thirty days from the date of the promulgation of the ordinance creating the sewerage district as hereinabove described, any person in interest may contest the legality of the proceedings after which time no one shall have any cause or right of action to contest the legality, formality, or regularity of the proceedings for any cause. If the validity of any of the proceedings provided for herein shall not be contested within the thirty days herein prescribed, the authority to act and the regularity of all proceedings shall be conclusively presumed, and no court shall have jurisdiction to inquire into such matters.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3960 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3960. Municipality to own and operate sewerage system

RS 3960 - Municipality to own and operate sewerage system After the sewerage system has been completed and accepted, the full ownership thereof shall vest in the municipality, which shall thereafter maintain and operate it at its own expense and as a part of its sewerage system and a public utility of the municipality and at no further cost or charge to the abutting property owners. The governing authority of any municipality acting under the provisions of this Sub-part may assist the sewerage district by paying in part for the installation and erection of a sewerage system out of its available funds.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3961 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3961. Creation, consolidation or enlargement of sewerage districts and sub-districts; ordinance; publication; judicial review

RS 3961 - Creation, consolidation or enlargement of sewerage districts and sub-districts; ordinance; publication; judicial review Any municipality desiring to avail itself of the provisions of this Sub-part may by ordinance of its governing authority create, consolidate or enlarge a sewerage district or districts, and create, consolidate or enlarge sub-district or sub-districts within said districts, irrespective of whether said sub-districts be contiguous or not, for the purpose of purchasing, constructing, improving or maintaining a sewerage system or systems; all ordinances creating, consolidating or enlarging said district or districts, sub-district or sub-districts shall be published for thirty days in a newspaper published in the municipality in which the sewerage district is situated. Four publications in the newspaper for four consecutive weeks shall be considered as published for thirty days, and within thirty days from the date of the first publication any owner of property within the limits of said sewerage district or sub-district shall have the right to appeal to the courts for the purpose of contesting the action of the governing authority of the municipality, after which time such action of said governing authority shall be incontestable for any cause whatsoever, and no court shall be vested with jurisdiction to entertain any cause of action which calls into question the validity or regularity of the action of the governing authority of the municipality in creating, consolidating, or enlarging said district or sub-district. Acts 1950, Ex.Sess., No. 6, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3962 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3962. Districts as political subdivisions of state; powers

RS 3962 - Districts as political subdivisions of state; powers Sewerage districts and sub-districts when created under this Sub-part shall be political divisions of the state which possess and have the following powers, to-wit: (1) To contract for, to install, to maintain and operate a sewerage system within their respective limits and to exercise the powers of expropriating, both within and without their limits, for the purpose of laying and installing and operating said system and all appurtenances necessary thereto. (2) To incur indebtedness and to issue and sell negotiable bonds for the purpose of acquiring or installing such systems or plants in the manner hereafter provided. (3) To levy assessments. (4) To fix sewerage charges and to negotiate notes all for the purpose of acquiring or installation of sewerage systems, and all in the manner hereinafter provided. (5) To maintain and operate such systems, make all contracts therefor, and to protect the public health of said districts or sub-districts. (6) To enact all rules and regulations as may be necessary or advantageous to the installing, maintenance, operation and use of said systems or plants. (7) To negotiate, pledge and hypothecate property owners' notes or monthly sewerage charges for the property provided for in this Sub-part. (8) To borrow money, incur indebtedness, and issue negotiable bonds therefor, to an amount not exceeding ten per cent. of the assessed valuation of property within said district or sub-district, as may be provided by the Constitution of the State of Louisiana. Acts 1950, Ex.Sess., No. 6, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3963 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3963. Board of sewerage commissioners; powers; terms of office

RS 3963 - Board of sewerage commissioners; powers; terms of office The governing authority of the municipality creating said districts or sub-districts shall appoint a board of sewerage commissioners to consist of five members, all residents of the district or sub-district owning property to be served by the sewerage improvements and authorized to vote under the laws of Louisiana in the municipality in which the district or sub-district is located. Said board, subject to the supervision of the governing authorities of the municipality, shall manage the affairs of the district and let all contracts for the construction, maintenance, improvement and operation of the said district or sub-district; said commissioners shall hold office for a term of four years and until their successors have been appointed by the governing authority of the municipality in which their district or sub-district is located. The governing authority of any sewerage district shall likewise be the governing authority of any sub-district located in said district. Acts 1950, Ex.Sess., No. 6, §3.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3964 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3964. Districts previously created not affected; construction

RS 3964 - Districts previously created not affected; construction This Sub-part shall not affect any sewerage districts heretofore created, but said sewerage districts shall continue to operate under the provisions of the statutes under which such districts were created and this Sub-part shall be construed as an additional means whereby sewerage districts or sub-districts may be created, enlarged or consolidated, and may accomplish the objects and purposes herein provided for. Acts 1950, Ex.Sess., No. 6, §4.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3965 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3965. Improvements; notice of intention; publication; hearing; objections

RS 3965 - Improvements; notice of intention; publication; hearing; objections A. Any sewerage district or subdistrict desiring to take advantage of this Subpart through its governing authority shall, after securing the approval of the governing authority of the municipality in which it is located, adopt a resolution giving notice of its intention to purchase, construct, improve, or maintain such sewerage system or systems and embody therein in a general way the improvement contemplated and the manner of payment therefor and what portion thereof, if any, shall be paid by assessment on the property within said district or subdistrict, what portion, if any, shall be paid by taxes on property in the district levied pursuant to R.S. 33:3980.1, and what portion shall be paid by the monthly sewerage charges hereinafter provided for, if any, and whether the municipality in which said district or subdistrict is located shall issue its own notes secured by the above named sources of revenue or incur debt or issue bonds secured by taxes on property pursuant to R.S. 33:3980.1. Such notice shall be signed by the governing authority of the sewerage district or subdistrict and approved by the governing authority of the municipality in which such district or subdistrict is located and shall set forth further that the authority ordering the giving of such notice will be in open session at a date, hour, and place, and said authority, on such date, hour, and place, shall proceed to hear any and all objections to the proposed improvements and the manner of payment therefor, which objections shall be in writing and filed with the governing authority prior to the hearing. B. Only property owners owning property within the sewerage district or subdistrict, and who are qualified to vote in the municipality in which the district or subdistrict is located under the laws of Louisiana shall have the right to file objections. C. After hearing and passing upon all such objections, and finding that not more than forty percent of the property owners within the district or subdistrict, in number and assessed value, qualified to object have objected and refused to withdraw their objections, said authority shall proceed, if it so determines, to order such improvements constructed, maintained, or acquired in the manner hereinafter provided for. D. Such notice of intention shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks and shall be made in a newspaper published within the district, or, if there be none published, in some newspaper in the parish where the district is located. Acts 1950, Ex.Sess., No. 6, §5; Acts 1999, No. 1167, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3966 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3966. Plans and specifications; advertisement for bids; publication

RS 3966 - Plans and specifications; advertisement for bids; publication The governing authority of such district or sub-district, after having given notice of its intention as above set forth and after having decided to order the construction of such improvement, may without further delay have the necessary plans and specifications for said work prepared and adopt a resolution or ordinance authorizing the advertisement for bids therefor by the giving of notice calling for sealed bids for the construction of said work, such notice to be signed by the governing authority and approved by the governing authority of the municipality in which said district or sub-district is located and shall be published for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper in the district or sub-district, and if there be none published therein, then in some newspaper of general circulation in the parish wherein the district or sub-district is located. Such notice shall contain a general description of the work contemplated, which refers to the plans and specifications which shall be placed on file with the clerk or secretary of the said governing authority of the municipality in which said sewerage district or sub-district is located, and shall designate the hour, date and place for the reception and opening of bids and may provide that the contractor be required to accept the indebtedness of the property owners within the district flowing from the lien hereinafter provided for or the notes issued by said property owners as hereinafter provided for, or the municipality may issue its own notes payable solely by pledge of the funds derived from the square foot assessment notes of the property owners and the monthly sewerage charges hereinafter provided for, or either of them. Acts 1950, Ex.Sess., No. 6, §6.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3967 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3967. Opening of bids; awarding of contract; resolution; publication

RS 3967 - Opening of bids; awarding of contract; resolution; publication The governing authority of the said district or sub-district 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 said bids and award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder, who can furnish satisfactory security or it may reject any and all bids, and at any time within a period of thirty days from date of reception and opening of said bids may award a contract for said work without further advertisement provided that no such contract shall be let for an amount greater than that specified in the lowest sealed bid received from a responsible bidder. Any contract awarded under the provisions of this Sub-part shall be authorized by resolution authorizing and empowering the governing authority of said sewerage district or sub-district to execute the said contract for and on behalf of and in the name of the district or sub-district and a copy of the said contract shall be set forth in full in said resolution and the said resolution shall be published in full in one issue of a newspaper published in said district or sub-district or, if there be none, published in some newspaper in the parish wherein the district or sub-district is located and a certified copy thereof filed in the office of the clerk of court of the parish in which the district or sub-district is located and same shall be recorded in the mortgage records of said parish. Acts 1950, Ex.Sess., No. 6, §7.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3968 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3968. Engineer's statement of costs of improvement and charges; contents

RS 3968 - Engineer's statement of costs of improvement and charges; contents Any sewerage district or sub-district, upon the completion and acceptance of such contract, shall forthwith require of the engineer of the said sewerage district or sub-district within thirty days of said completion and acceptance a statement showing in detail the total cost of said improvement, including street intersections, engineering, legal and other fees and all expenses incidental to the cost of said improvements and the said engineer shall also show the amount thereof chargeable to each lot or parcel of real estate in the district or sub-district in which the improvement was located in the proportion that its area bears to the total area within said district or sub-district and shall give a legal description of each such lot or parcel of ground with sufficient clearness to identify same and shall further show the proportion of said cost as previously fixed in the resolution calling for bids that shall be paid for by the monthly sewerage charges. Acts 1950, Ex.Sess., No. 6, §8.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3970 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3970. Monthly sewerage charges; collection; cost of collection; application for service

RS 3970 - Monthly sewerage charges; collection; cost of collection; application for service The governing authority of said district or sub-district shall have the power, if it so desires and has given notice thereof in the notice of intention provided for in R.S. 33:3961, to levy a monthly sewerage charge proportioned upon the number of water outlets maintained by the user of each sewer connection. The charges to be so made shall be in such amounts as the governing body shall determine in each year and shall be sufficient to provide for the proportionate cost of constructing, operating and maintaining the utility as set forth in the notice of intention provided by R.S. 33:3961. No such charge shall be made against the owner of any property which is not a user of the utility. A list of the names of all owners against whom charges so made and amounts of charges made against each such user shall be certified by the governing authority to the official in charge of the assessment of taxes against such property at such time and in such manner in each year as to permit the amount of such charge to be carried upon the assessment roll of the real property within the municipal corporation. Each such charge shall be carried on said roll as a special item due by the owner of the property individually and shall be identified on the roll as special sewerage charge of ________ (inserting the name of the municipal corporation in which the district or sub-district is located). Such charge shall be paid to the official who collects the general taxes assessed against the municipal property located within the municipal corporation and shall be collected at the same time and in such manner as the general taxes are paid and collected. Where a non-user of the utility during the year shall change to a user thereof, the municipal corporation in which said sewerage district or sub-districts are located may require said user seeking sewerage service to apply therefor by proper application, wherefore the charges to be so imposed upon such user shall be assessed in the manner hereinabove provided. The municipal corporation may pay the tax-collecting official the same commission on the amounts collected by him as the sheriff and ex-officio tax collector for the parish in which the district is located receives for the collection of ad valorem taxes and may pay the assessing official a sum sufficient to reimburse him for the additional expense occasioned by reason of listing the charges on the assessment roll. The amounts to be paid to the assessor and collector shall be considered one of the costs of purchasing, constructing or operating and maintaining the utility. Acts 1950, Ex.Sess., No. 6, §9.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3971 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3971. Negotiable interest bearing coupon certificates of municipality; payment; pledge and dedication of funds

RS 3971 - Negotiable interest bearing coupon certificates of municipality; payment; pledge and dedication of funds The governing authority of the municipality in which said sewerage district or sub-districts are located shall have authority and are hereby authorized to issue, execute, negotiate, sell and deliver negotiable interest-bearing coupon certificates of the municipality in an amount not exceeding the total amount of the funds necessary for the purchase, construction or maintenance of the sewers in said sewerage district or sub-districts; said certificates to bear interest not to exceed six per cent per annum, said interest to be paid annually in installments and to mature serially over a period not exceeding ten years and in no event shall said certificates extend more than ninety days longer than the period of time provided for by the ordinance levying the local or special assessments hereinabove provided. Said certificates shall be payable in annual installments and payable solely from the funds derived from the pledged sewerage charges and/or square-foot assessments, and shall be in such form, date, denomination, and payable in principal and interest at such time and places as the governing authority of the municipality may provide. Such certificates are to be secured in principal and interest by the irrevocable pledge and dedication of the funds derived from the levying and collecting of the local and special assessments on the real property within said sewerage district or sub-districts as provided for by this Sub-part, and, if the governing authorities so desire, the irrevocable pledge and dedication of the funds derived from the sewerage charges provided for in this Sub-part and either or both of said funds if pledged to secure said certificates shall be set aside in a separate fund and shall not be drawn upon for any other purpose than to pay the interest and principal of said certificates. Acts 1950, Ex.Sess., No. 6, §11.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3972 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3972. Form of sewer certificates

RS 3972 - Form of sewer certificates  The said sewer certificate shall be signed by the mayor on the behalf of and in the name of the municipality and under the seal thereof. The interest coupons shall be signed with facsimile signature of the said officer and before delivery thereof the certificate shall be registered in the mortgage records in the parish in which said district or sub-districts are located, as to the serial number or numbers, amount, rate of interest, dates due and sewer district or districts improved. Each of said certificates shall bear the following endorsement: "This certificate registered in the mortgage records of the Parish of ______ on this the _____ day of ___________, 20___, (Signature Line--) Clerk of Court and Ex-Officio Recorder of Mortgages, Parish of _______________".  Acts 1950, Ex.Sess., No. 6, §12.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3973 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3973. Negotiation and delivery of sewer certificates; sale; disposition of proceeds

RS 3973 - Negotiation and delivery of sewer certificates; sale; disposition of proceeds The governing authority of the municipality may by resolution empower and authorize the mayor to negotiate and deliver such sewer certificates and collect the purchase price thereof and do any and all things necessary and incidental thereto, or authorize delivery to the contractor of all or any part hereof of the said sewer certificates in payment of the contractual obligation covering such improvements. The funds derived from the sale of said sewer certificates shall be expended solely in payment of the cost of the improvement herein authorized and shall not be drawn upon for any other purpose whatsoever, provided that any surplus funds remaining after the cost of such improvement and incidental expenses expended therewith shall be expended for any purpose whatsoever for the improvement or maintenance of the sewer system of the district or sub-districts involved. Acts 1950, Ex.Sess., No. 6, §13.