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LA Rev Stat § 33:4162 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4162. Power to own and operate; power to lease

RS 4162 - Power to own and operate; power to lease A. Any political subdivision authorized by the Constitution of Louisiana or by law to issue bonds may construct, acquire, extend, or improve any revenue-producing public utility and property necessary thereto, either within or without its boundaries, and may operate and maintain the utility in the interest of the public. B. A municipal corporation may lease waterworks systems, electric light and power plants, combined water and electric systems, garbage plants, sewerage works, electric street and interurban railways, gas plants, and distributing systems. C. No municipal corporation may lease or purchase gas fields, wells, lands, or holdings for the purpose of drilling and operating gas wells. D. A parish may lease gas plants, gas distributing systems, gas wells, gas lands, and holdings. Acts 2014, No. 158, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4163 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4163. Sale and distribution of commodity or service; establishment of rates and regulations

RS 4163 - Sale and distribution of commodity or service; establishment of rates and regulations  The municipal corporation, parish, political subdivision, or taxing district may sell and distribute the commodity or service of the public utility within or without its corporate limits and may establish rates, rules, and regulations with respect to the sale and distribution.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4164 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4164. Contracts for obtaining water or electricity from another political subdivision or private person

RS 4164 - Contracts for obtaining water or electricity from another political subdivision or private person  A. Municipalities, parishes and waterworks districts, including the Bayou Lafourche Fresh Water District, or any other political subdivision or governing authority may make contracts extending over a period not exceeding forty years, with any municipality, parish, waterworks district, other political subdivision, or governing authority, for the sale or purchase of an adequate supply of water, either treated or untreated, to meet their requirements on such terms and conditions as may be specified in the contract; and may own, construct, maintain and operate the necessary pipe lines, canals, viaducts, pole lines and equipment beyond their corporate limits or area to obtain or furnish such a source of supply. The rate at which such water is sold may be different for parties within the political subdivision furnishing the water as compared to parties of the same class located outside the political subdivision furnishing the water, provided that the rates charged the various classes outside the subdivision shall be equal and uniform and shall not be in combination with or contingent upon the rate for any other service. The governing authority of the political subdivision contracting for the sale or purchase of water may bind such political subdivision, themselves and their successors in office to carry out the terms of any such contract. B. Municipalities may obtain water or electric current under contracts extending over a maximum period of fifteen years with private persons, on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the parties. The governing authority of the municipality contracting for such water supply or electric current may bind the municipality, the governing authority and its successors in office to carry out the terms of any such contract. Amended by Acts 1962, No. 489, §1; Acts 1974, No. 708, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4165 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4165. Contracts between municipalities for electric interurban railways; proration of ownership

RS 4165 - Contracts between municipalities for electric interurban railways; proration of ownership  Municipalities may cooperate, combine, and make contracts with each other and with municipalities in other states in the ownership, construction, acquiring, leasing, operation, and maintenance of electric interurban railways between points in this state, or between points in this state and other states, and electric power or hydroelectric power plants necessary in connection therewith. The ownership of the interurban electric railway system shall be prorated, allotted, or distributed among the different municipalities that take advantage of the authority granted in this section in proportion to the amount invested by each municipality. The profit from the operation of electric interurban railways, or the loss sustained thereby, shall be divided in proportion to the amount invested by each municipality.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4166 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4166. Municipal contracts for obtaining gas

RS 4166 - Municipal contracts for obtaining gas  Municipalities may make contracts covering a period of years with each other relative to the purchase, sale, and distribution of gas. They may make contracts extending over a period of years with producers of gas and those engaged in the business of transporting gas through pipe lines, for the purchase of an adequate supply of gas and may own, construct, maintain, and operate the necessary gas pipe lines beyond their corporate limits to obtain the gas.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4167 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4167. Parish contracts for obtaining gas; expropriation

RS 4167 - Parish contracts for obtaining gas; expropriation  Parishes may make contracts covering a period of years with each other relative to the distribution and sale of gas. They may make contracts covering a period of years with owners of gas plants, gas wells, gas fields, gas lands, gas leases, gas holdings, gas pipe line companies, or gas distributing companies for the purchase or use of some or all of their products, or for the leasing or purchase of gas wells, gas fields, gas lands, gas leases, or gas holdings for the purpose of drilling and operating gas wells. They may expropriate, in the manner provided by law, existing gas plants, gas wells, gas distribution systems, or other property, within their respective boundaries, needed for the operation of the gas plants or distributing systems.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4168 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4168. Prohibition of garbage dumps and burning dumps

RS 4168 - Prohibition of garbage dumps and burning dumps  A municipality of over three hundred thousand population which has established garbage plants or incinerators under the provisions of this Sub-part shall not maintain or allow within its corporate limits any garbage or refuse disposal dumps or maintain or allow any burning dumps or dump heaps. The duty of enforcing the provisions of this Section shall be upon the officers or employees charged with the maintenance of public health and safety by the municipal charter. Whoever violates this Section shall, upon first conviction be fined not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned not less than one day nor more than fifteen days, and upon any subsequent conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars, or to imprisonment for a term of not less than fifteen days and not more than six months, or both.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4168.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4168.1. Prohibition of municipally owned, operated, or contracted incinerators in residential or commercial areas; certain municipalities

RS 4168.1 - Prohibition of municipally owned, operated, or contracted incinerators in residential or commercial areas; certain municipalities  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no municipality with a population of more than five hundred thousand shall maintain any municipally owned, operated, or contracted garbage plants or incinerators in any area of the municipality zoned for residential or commercial use. Any such garbage plant or incinerator located in any such area on September 1, 1984 shall be relocated within one year pursuant to this Section. Acts 1984, No. 517, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 1984.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4169.2 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4169.2. Contracts for sewage and liquid and solid waste treatment and disposal; parishes with populations of one hundred thousand or more

RS 4169.2 - Contracts for sewage and liquid and solid waste treatment and disposal; parishes with populations of one hundred thousand or more  A. Any parish having a population of one hundred thousand or more according to the last federal census of record for which official figures have been made public may contract with public or private entities for the treatment and disposal of sewage and liquid and solid wastes and related services and may pledge or dedicate any parish revenues legally available for such purposes, including sales and use taxes, taxes, fees, and charges, as the governing authority may deem appropriate to the payment of the parish's obligations under such contract. Such contract shall contain such terms or provisions as the parish governing authority may deem appropriate, except that any contract or renewal thereof shall not exceed forty years. The contract and pledge of revenues by the parish shall be authorized by appropriate ordinance or resolution of the governing authority, which authorization shall be preceded by a public hearing, said hearing having been advertised in a newspaper of general circulation in the parish at least once and at least thirty days before adoption of the resolution or ordinance, without the requirement of any election, approval, or ratification of the electorate or any state board, commission, agency, authority, or office, except as may be required in the respective parish charters of such parishes, it being the intention of this Section to provide such parish with the greatest latitude in the negotiation and consummation of such contracts in order to take early advantage of rapidly changing business conditions. B. All immunity of the state of Louisiana from liability under antitrust law is hereby extended to any parish acting within the scope of the grants of authority contained in this Section, and when so acting, a parish shall be presumed to be acting in furtherance of state policy. Acts 1986, No. 350, §1, eff. June 30, 1986.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4170 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4170. Agreements with private utility companies

RS 4170 - Agreements with private utility companies  Any one or more municipalities owning and operating a revenue producing electrical utility as defined in R.S. 33:4161 of this Part, is hereby authorized to engage with one or more electric public utility companies as defined in R.S. 45:121, or with any one or more other municipalities owning and operating a revenue producing electrical utility, as aforesaid, or with a Rural Electric Association Cooperative on intrastate or interstate basis, in the financing, construction, maintenance, and operation of joint electric power generation and transmission facilities as owners or otherwise. All arrangements and agreements made under the authority of this Section shall be reduced to writing, and shall include, among other provisions, the proportionate share of the cost to be borne by the municipality. Any municipality and/or the electric public utility company or companies may construct or acquire the jointly owned facilities by negotiated contract without public advertisement or other limitations of the public contract law or other laws and title to such facilities shall vest in the parties to the written agreement in the proportion or manner set forth in such agreement. Notwithstanding any other provision of Louisiana law relative to the right of partition available to owners of property or portions of property, the right of partition shall not be available to any party with respect to any property acquired or held subject to the terms of said agreement; however, the agreement may provide for the sale, lease or other disposition of such property on such terms and conditions as may be set forth in the agreement. None of the property or facilities jointly owned, acquired or held, or property and facilities of a participant covered by the agreement shall be subject to expropriation by a party to the agreement or another party to any agreement entered into hereunder. The agreement shall be authorized by ordinance adopted by the governing body of the municipality or municipalities which are a party to the agreement and the ordinance shall be published in the official journal of the municipality, in the same manner as are other proceedings of the governing body. Notice of intention to adopt said ordinance shall be given by the governing body of the municipality, and shall be published one time in the official journal of the municipality at least seven days prior to the adoption of the ordinance. Added by Acts 1975, No. 425, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4171 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4171. Financing agreements

RS 4171 - Financing agreements  Any municipality entering into an agreement pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 33:4170 may appropriate such sums as are necessary to fulfill its obligations under the terms of such agreement, and may incur debt and issue bonds for the purpose of providing the municipality's share of the cost of the construction and operation of joint generation and transmission facilities authorized under the provisions of R.S. 33:4170. Added by Acts 1975, No. 425, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4172 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4172. Public power authorities; creation; powers; financing

RS 4172 - Public power authorities; creation; powers; financing  Under the provisions of Article 6, Section 19 of the Constitution of 1974, the governing authority of any municipality may create a public power authority as a political subdivision of the state of Louisiana constituting a legal entity separate and apart from the municipal corporation. Prior to the creation of any such public power authority, the governing body of the municipality shall give a notice of intention, and hold a public hearing on such proposal. Such notice shall be published once a week for four successive weeks and the first publication shall be not less than thirty days before the date fixed for hearing. The notice shall be published in the official journal of the municipality creating the authority. Said authority shall be created as a body corporate under such corporate name and style as shall be provided by an ordinance which may grant to such authority any rights, powers, and authorities which may be possessed or exercised by the municipality under law. Specifically, said authority shall have all rights granted to the municipality by R.S. 33:4170 and may incur debt and issue bonds in its name for the purposes and in the manner established for the municipality in R.S. 33:4171. The governing authority of the municipality shall be the governing authority of the public power authority. The public power authority may contract with the municipality creating it or any other municipality, public power authority or electric public utility company for the generation, transmission, or sale of electric power for a term not exceeding forty years on such terms and conditions as may be specified in a written contract which may be negotiated and executed without any proceedings, notice or approval except as provided in this Section. The public power authority and its governing authority shall have power to sue and be sued and shall continue its existence until all bonds, including refunding bonds, issued by such authority have been finally paid and discharged. Each such public power authority shall have such powers relative to the construction, acquisition, improvement, operation and management of any public power project or improvement as shall be provided in the ordinance creating the same or as said ordinance shall thereafter be amended by the governing authority of the creating municipality. Added by Acts 1975, No. 425, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4173 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4173. Bonds; procedures for issuance

RS 4173 - Bonds; procedures for issuance  A. Where a joint undertaking authorized by R.S. 33:4170 or R.S. 33:4172 is between a single municipality or single public power authority, and one or more electric public utility companies and is to be funded by the municipality or its public power authority through the issuance of bonds, said bonds shall be issued substantially in compliance with the procedure established by Subpart C, Part I, Chapter 10, Title 33 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, but without need of holding a referendum on the issuance of the bonds unless twenty-five percent of the registered voters sign a petition calling for a referendum which must be presented at the public hearing held to authorize the issuance of bonds as specified in R.S. 33:4252. B. Where a joint undertaking authorized by R.S. 33:4170 or R.S. 33:4172 is among more than one municipality, or more than one public power authority, and one or more electric public utility companies and is to be funded by the municipalities or the public power authorities through the issuance of bonds, said bonds shall be issued substantially in compliance with the procedure established by Subpart C, Part I, Chapter 10, Title 33 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, but without need of holding a referendum on the issuance of the bonds unless twenty-five percent of the registered voters sign a petition calling for a referendum which must be presented at the public hearing held to authorize the issuance of bonds as specified in R.S. 33:4252. Added by Acts 1975, No. 425, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4174 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4174. Liberal construction

RS 4174 - Liberal construction  These provisions shall be liberally construed, to the end that, through the use of arrangements and agreements provided for herein between one or more municipalities, public power authority, and/or one or more electric public utility companies, greater economy and efficiency in the providing of electrical and energy services to the citizens of the municipality may be achieved; and further to this end, the governing authority of the municipality or public power authority entering into any joint agreement as authorized hereby shall be empowered to adopt such other ordinances and resolutions, take such other action and charge and collect such fees as may be contemplated or necessary by the said agreements, all for the purpose intended. Added by Acts 1975, No. 425, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4221 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4221. Bond issue

RS 4221 - Bond issue  Any municipal corporation, the City of New Orleans excepted, or any district created for the purpose of supplying the public with a public utility may, for the purpose of constructing, acquiring, extending, or improving any revenue producing public utility, within or without the limits of the municipality or district, issue bonds secured exclusively, principal and interest, by mortgage on the lands, buildings, machinery, and equipment, and by pledge of the income and revenues of the public utility.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4222 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4222. Resolution ordering election; notice of election

RS 4222 - Resolution ordering election; notice of election  Whenever the governing authority of any municipal corporation or district desires to issue bonds to be secured as provided in R.S. 33:4221 it shall, by resolution adopted by a vote of two-thirds of its members, order an election to be held to determine whether or not it is the sense of the qualified resident electors of the municipality or district that the bonds be so issued and secured. The resolution shall set forth specifically the amount of bonds proposed to be issued, the number of years they shall run, the maximum rate of interest which they shall bear, the purpose for which they are to be issued, and a particular description of the property to be mortgaged and the income and revenues which are to be pledged for the security of the bonds, and shall designate the date of the election and the polling places. Notice of the election shall be given by publication for thirty days in a newspaper published in the municipality or district; or if there be no newspaper published in the municipality or district, then in a newspaper published in the parish. Publication for four successive weeks shall be deemed sufficient if thirty days intervene between the first publication and the date of the election. If there be no newspaper published in the parish, then the notice may be given by posting for thirty days prior to the election in five public places within the municipality or district. The notice shall embrace substantially all matters required to be set forth in the resolution ordering the election, and shall be signed by the chief executive officer of the municipality or of the district.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4223 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4223. Election

RS 4223 - Election  Commissioners shall be appointed and the election shall be held and the returns thereof made to the governing authority calling the election and the results promulgated in so far as practicable, in the same manner as provided by law for elections to authorize the issue of bonds secured by special taxes.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4224 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4224. Materials for election; form of ballot

RS 4224 - Materials for election; form of ballot  The governing authority of the municipality or of the district shall furnish the commissioners of election with a list of electors qualified to vote in the municipality or district, certified by the registrar of voters of the parish, and with ballots, tally sheets, blanks for making returns, and all paraphernalia necessary for properly holding the election. Ballots shall be substantially in the following form: "Shall the governing authority of the (City, Town, Village, _____ District) of _________ be authorized to issue bonds in the sum of ______ Dollars, to run for _____ years, bearing interest not exceeding _____ percentum per annum, payable annually or semi-annually, for the purpose of _____, to be secured by a mortgage of _____ and by pledge of the income and revenue of such property or properties?"  To vote in favor of the proposition, the voter YES will make a cross mark (X) in the space under ____ the word "Yes" and to vote against it, the  voter will make a cross mark (X) in the space  NO  underneath the word "No". ____