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LA Rev Stat § 38:1795 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1795. Expenses of surveys; change in acreage tax; joint enterprise

RS 1795 - Expenses of surveys; change in acreage tax; joint enterprise  All expenses for preliminary surveys to determine the cost of draining, shall be advanced by the land owners petitioning the drainage commissioners for drainage, and shall be reimbursed to the owners by the drainage commission out of any funds realized from the sale of bonds if the drainage of the lands is proceeded with as contemplated in this Part. The total cost of all legal expenses incurred in organizing a drainage or subdrainage district and issuing bonds therefor shall never exceed one and one-half per centum of the total bond issue, where the bond issue is less than three hundred thousand dollars, and shall not exceed one per cent where the bond issue is three hundred thousand dollars or more. The cost and expenses for engineering work for the survey, designs, plans, specifications, assistance in letting contracts, the general supervision and final inspection of the work shall not exceed six per cent of the cost of the drainage work; except that special services for work beyond the above enumerated usual engineering services may be reimbursed to the engineer. The acreage tax may be increased or diminished from time to time as the needs of the district may require but the amount thereof shall not exceed the amount voted. No tax which secured an issue of bonds shall be reduced or diminished before the bonds are fully paid. The governing authorities of gravity drainage districts and gravity subdrainage districts may contract and agree with other gravity drainage districts or gravity subdrainage districts, and drainage districts, and subdrainage districts, organized under Article XV of the Constitution of Louisiana for the year 1921 and with municipal corporations, to undertake and complete as a joint enterprise, works which are of mutual benefit, but the proportion which each gravity drainage district, gravity subdrainage district, drainage district, subdrainage district, or municipal corporation, shall contribute shall be determined in advance. The work so jointly undertaken shall belong to the gravity drainage district, gravity subdrainage district, drainage district, or subdrainage district and municipality contributing to the construction thereof, in proportion to the contribution. The governing authorities of gravity drainage districts and gravity subdrainage districts may submit to the voters the question of the construction of drainage works as a joint enterprise with the municipalities or other gravity drainage districts, gravity subdrainage districts, drainage districts, and subdrainage districts, and also to submit to the voters the question of constructing the drainage works in connection with the construction of other improvements, but the authority to submit these questions shall not deprive the governing authority of the power to act without submitting the question.  Amended by Acts 1958, No. 334, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1796 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1796. Contract for use of drainage or other works; purchase or expropriation

RS 1796 - Contract for use of drainage or other works; purchase or expropriation  The governing authority of any gravity drainage district, or gravity sub-drainage district, may contract with the owner of any drainage or other works for the privilege of using the works in connection with the drainage works of the district, or sub-district. The governing authority of any gravity drainage district, or gravity sub-drainage district may purchase, or expropriate, from the owner of any drainage, or other works, the title to the works and pay to the owner in cash therefor the amount agreed upon, or fixed in the judgment or expropriation.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1797 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1797. Duties of Department of Public Works

RS 1797 - Duties of Department of Public Works  The Department of Public Works shall upon request advise, without cost, the governing authority of any gravity drainage district or gravity sub-drainage district, as to the desirability, sufficiency, and practicability of any contemplated works and may make the necessary surveys and examinations therefor.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1798 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1798. Dissolution of district before issuance of bonds

RS 1798 - Dissolution of district before issuance of bonds  Any time before any bonds are issued, the governing authority may submit to the property taxpayers therein the question whether any forced contribution or acreage tax previously voted therein shall be repealed and terminated, and may also submit at the election the question whether the gravity drainage district or gravity sub-drainage district shall be dissolved. In the event that the proposition receives a majority in number and amount of the votes of the qualified taxpaying voters thereon at the election the governing authority of the district or sub-district shall give notice by publication in a newspaper published in the parish or if there be none, then in a newspaper published in an adjoining parish, requiring creditors and claimants to present their claims within sixty days from the date of the first publication of the notice. The notice shall continue once a week during the period of sixty days. At the termination thereof, the gravity district or gravity sub-drainage district shall be deemed to be dissolved except so far as it is necessary to continue the district to levy a tax for the purpose of paying any claims and demands established against the district. For the purpose of paying the claims and demands, the governing authority shall continue to levy any forced contribution or acreage tax which shall have been authorized hereunder. No proceeding shall be taken to dissolve any gravity drainage district or gravity sub-drainage district so long as the district shall have outstanding and unpaid any bonds secured by a forced contribution or acreage tax or by an ad valorem tax.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1799 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1799. Inclusion of contiguous or adjacent lands in district

RS 1799 - Inclusion of contiguous or adjacent lands in district  The police juries of the various parishes, the parish of Orleans excepted, shall with the approval of the board of drainage commissioners, include any contiguous or adjacent lands in any gravity drainage district or gravity sub-drainage district, when the lands proposed to be included lie within the drainage basin, upon a petition signed by a majority of the land owners who are qualified electors of the area or areas proposed to be included. The majority of land owners shall also own more than fifty per cent of the number of acres lying in the area or areas proposed to be included. In the event there are no land owners who are qualified electors in the area or areas proposed to be included, or in the event there are land owners who are qualified electors but do not own more than fifty per cent of the number of acres lying in the area or areas proposed to be added, then, the petition shall be signed by a majority of the land owners, if any, who are qualified electors of the area or areas proposed to be added, together with the owners of more than fifty per cent of the number of acres lying in the area or areas proposed to be included, whether they be qualified electors of the area or areas or not. The adjacent or contiguous area or areas proposed to be so included shall themselves be contiguous or else there shall be a separate petition and a separate action in each case. The notice required in R.S. 38:1756 shall be published and after publication of the notices if no objections are urged thereto, the lands shall immediately become subject to all ad valorem taxes or forced contributions or acreage taxes theretofore levied and imposed against the lands in the district or subdistrict in which the lands have been included. The petition praying the inclusion of lands in the gravity drainage district or gravity sub-drainage district shall expressly state that the petitioners are the owners of the lands so sought to be included and that they consent to the imposition thereon of the same taxes whether ad valorem or by way of forced contribution or acreage taxes as borne, or to be borne by the other lands in the district or subdistrict. Any owner of land lying in the area proposed to be included who has not signed the petition shall have the right within a period of sixty days after the publication of the notice in the official journal of the parish in which the said area is located to contest before the police jury of the parish the inclusion of his lands, and in case it be established that his lands will not be benefited by the drainage, they shall not be included.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1800 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1800. Reorganization of gravity drainage districts

RS 1800 - Reorganization of gravity drainage districts  Any drainage district, or sub-drainage district organized under existing laws, which are composed wholly of land which drain naturally, or by gravity, may avail itself, of the provisions of this Part and reorganize under the provisions hereof, by making the facts known to the police jury or juries of the parish, or parishes, in which the drainage, or sub-drainage district may be located. Upon application from the drainage board of the drainage district, or sub-drainage district, the police jury, or juries, shall immediately reorganize the district under the provisions of this Part, and commissioners shall be appointed for the district, or sub-district, as hereinbefore provided. Any drainage or sub-drainage district so reorganized under the provisions of this Part must assume all the debts and obligations of the old district, or sub-district, and the debts and obligations must be liquidated and adjusted with the creditors of the district, or sub-district and paid out of any funds that may be turned over to the new district as herein organized from the old district, or sub-district, or any funds that may be realized under the provisions of this Part by the levying and collecting of taxes or forced contributions, issuing of bonds, or in any other manner herein provided. They may carry out any contract that may have been entered into by the old district or sub-district, which they supplant, in the same manner as though the old district or sub-district had been continued in existence.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1802 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1802. Application of provisions; effect on existing laws

RS 1802 - Application of provisions; effect on existing laws  The provisions of this Part shall apply to gravity drainage or sub-drainage districts authorized to be created under Article XIV of the Constitution of 1921, and created or reorganized under its provisions; and shall not apply to any drainage district created under Article XV of the Constitution of 1921, except as herein otherwise provided in R.S. 38:1801. This Part shall be considered as the general law governing gravity drainage districts or gravity sub-drainage districts under which they must organize in the future. But all laws or parts of laws, general or special, appertaining to drainage or subdrainage districts shall remain in force as to the drainage or subdrainage districts now existing, which are not reorganized under the provisions of this Part.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1805 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1805. Livingston Parish Gravity Drainage District No. 1; levy of sales and use tax; bonds

RS 1805 - Livingston Parish Gravity Drainage District No. 1; levy of sales and use tax; bonds  A. Subject to the approval of a majority of the electors within the Livingston Parish Gravity Drainage District No. 1 at a special election called for the purpose, the police jury of Livingston Parish as the governing authority of the district is hereby authorized to levy a sales and use tax not exceeding three quarters of one percent within the district. The tax shall be imposed by ordinance of the police jury and shall be levied upon the sale at retail, the use, the lease or rental, the consumption, the distribution and storage for use or consumption, of tangible personal property, and upon the sales of services within the district, all as presently or hereafter defined in R.S. 47:301 through 317. This tax shall be in addition to all other taxes currently levied in Livingston Parish, and except where inapplicable, the procedure established by R.S. 47:301 through 317 shall be followed in the imposition, collection, and enforcement of the tax. Procedural details necessary to supplement the provisions of those sections and to make said provisions applicable to the tax herein authorized shall be fixed in the ordinance of the police jury imposing the tax.  B. Before any tax is levied under the provisions of this Section, there shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the area within the district at a special election called for that purpose a proposition to authorize the imposition of the sales and use tax including the purpose, rate, and duration of the tax at an election to be conducted in accordance with the general election laws of the state of Louisiana, and a majority of those voting in the election shall have voted in favor of the proposition. In addition, the proposition may also include provisions authorizing the funding of the sales and use tax into negotiable bonds or certificates of indebtedness payable solely from an irrevocable pledge and dedication of all or a portion of the proceeds of the tax subject to the prior payment of the costs and expenses of administration and collection of the tax.  C. The proceeds of the tax authorized by and levied in accordance with the provisions of this Section shall be used exclusively to acquire drainage works; rights of way for canals and ditches; flood prevention works; equipment and facilities necessary to construct, maintain, and operate outlets for the waters of the district; and to prevent flooding.  D. The district is further authorized to execute local service agreements with the governing authorities of municipalities located within the district which would provide that those municipalities would pay a portion of the cost of the drainage improvements.  Acts 1984, No. 168, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1805.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1805.1. Livingston Parish Gravity Drainage District No. 6; levy of sales and use tax; bonds

RS 1805.1 - Livingston Parish Gravity Drainage District No. 6; levy of sales and use tax; bonds A. Subject to the approval of a majority of the electors within the Livingston Parish Gravity Drainage District No. 6 at a special election called for the purpose, the parish council of Livingston Parish as the governing authority of the district is hereby authorized to levy a sales and use tax not exceeding one-half of one percent within the district. The tax shall be imposed by ordinance of the parish council and shall be levied upon the sale at retail, the use, the lease or rental, the consumption, the distribution and storage for use or consumption, of tangible personal property, and upon the sales of services within the district, all as presently or hereafter defined in R.S. 47:301 through 317. This tax shall be in addition to all other taxes currently levied in Livingston Parish, and except where inapplicable, the procedure established by R.S. 47:301 through 317 shall be followed in the imposition, collection, and enforcement of the tax. Procedural details necessary to supplement the provisions of those sections and to make the provisions applicable to the tax herein authorized shall be fixed in the ordinance of the parish council imposing the tax. B. Before any tax is levied under the provisions of this Section, there shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the area within the district at a special election called for that purpose a proposition to authorize the imposition of the sales and use tax including the purpose, rate, and duration of the tax at an election to be conducted in accordance with the general election laws of the state of Louisiana, and a majority of those voting in the election shall have voted in favor of the proposition. In addition, the proposition may also include provisions authorizing the funding of the sales and use tax into negotiable bonds or certificates of indebtedness payable solely from an irrevocable pledge and dedication of all or a portion of the proceeds of the tax subject to the prior payment of the costs and expenses of administration and collection of the tax. C. The proceeds of the tax authorized by and levied in accordance with the provisions of this Section shall be used exclusively to acquire drainage works; rights of way for canals and ditches; flood prevention works; equipment and facilities necessary to construct, maintain, and operate outlets for the waters of the district; and to prevent flooding. Acts 2011, No. 57, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1809 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1809. St. Charles Gravity Drainage District No. 2; bonds

RS 1809 - St. Charles Gravity Drainage District No. 2; bonds  The St. Charles Parish Council, acting as the governing authority of the Gravity Drainage District No. 2 of the parish of St. Charles, may incur debt and issue general obligation bonds on behalf of said district for the purpose of paying any outstanding and unpaid judgment rendered against said district, the accrued interest thereon, and all costs incurred in connection with the defense of the action which resulted in such judgment. Said bonds shall be issued in the manner provided in R.S. 39:551 et seq., and shall be issued only after being approved by the majority of qualified electors voting at an election ordered by the governing authority of the district and held in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 18:1281 et seq. Acts 1988, No. 386, §1, eff. July 10, 1988.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1810 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1810. Immunity from civil liability

RS 1810 - Immunity from civil liability A. No gravity drainage or sub-drainage district shall be liable for an act or omission of a person that arises from his execution of a contract with the district for the clearing or spraying of vegetation, and which causes harm to the property on which the vegetation is being cleared or on which the spraying of herbicide, pesticide, or other weed or vegetation control chemical occurs. The provisions of this Section shall be limited to immunity for damage to property only, and shall not be construed to relieve the contractor from any liability. B. The immunity provided by this Section shall be in addition to any other immunity, defense or remedy provided by law to the gravity drainage or sub-drainage district or to its officers or employees. Acts 2005, No. 120, §1, eff. June 22, 2005.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1841 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1841. Creation of districts by parishes; territory included

RS 1841 - Creation of districts by parishes; territory included  Any parish, on its own initiative, may adopt a resolution, creating one or more consolidated gravity drainage districts, in the parish. The consolidated gravity drainage districts shall include in the boundaries thereof, two or more gravity drainage districts and also may include therein territory or lands not included in any other drainage districts. No consolidated gravity drainage district shall be created hereunder with the boundaries thereof co-existent with the boundaries of a parish. Parishes shall create consolidated gravity drainage districts and describe and define the boundaries thereof, upon being furnished with certified copies of resolutions adopted by two or more drainage districts requesting the parish to create a consolidated gravity drainage district in the parish and describing and defining the boundaries thereof.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1842 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1842. Designation of districts; political subdivisions of state

RS 1842 - Designation of districts; political subdivisions of state  The consolidated gravity drainage districts so created shall be known and designated as "Consolidated Gravity Drainage Districts No. _____ of the parish of _____, Louisiana. Consolidated gravity drainage districts created under the authority of this Part shall be political subdivisions of the state and shall have all the rights, powers and privileges granted under the Constitution and laws of this state.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1843 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1843. Board of commissioners

RS 1843 - Board of commissioners  A. The police jury, in the resolution creating a consolidated gravity drainage district, shall appoint five resident property taxpayers of the district, all of whom shall be registered voters, as a board of commissioners to be the governing body of the consolidated gravity drainage district. Each commissioner shall serve for a term of four years, or until his successor is appointed by the police jury. The domicile of the board of commissioners shall be the parish seat. The police jury shall by resolution designate the time and place for the first meeting of the commission. At this meeting the commissioners shall elect a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer. The office of secretary-treasurer may be combined. The officers thus elected shall perform the duties which usually are required of corporate bodies.  B. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection A, the board of commissioners of Consolidated Gravity Drainage District No. 1 of Vermilion Parish shall consist of six members, subject to all other requirements of qualification for office provided in Subsection A.  C. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection A of this Section, the boards of commissioners of the consolidated gravity drainage districts of Calcasieu Parish may consist of seven members, subject to all other requirements of qualifications for office provided in Subsection A of this Section.  Acts 1983, No. 131, §1; Acts 2019, No. 23, §1, eff. May 30, 2019.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1843.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1843.1. Vermilion Parish Consolidated Gravity Drainage District Number One

RS 1843.1 - Vermilion Parish Consolidated Gravity Drainage District Number One  Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 38:1843, the Vermilion Parish Police Jury shall appoint six resident property taxpayers of Consolidated Gravity Drainage District Number One, all of whom are registered voters, as a board of commissioners, which shall be the governing body of the district. The board shall be governed by the laws set forth in this Part.  Added by Acts 1983, No. 80, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1843.2 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1843.2. Vermilion Parish Consolidated Gravity Drainage District No. Two

RS 1843.2 - Vermilion Parish Consolidated Gravity Drainage District No. Two Notwithstanding any provision of R.S. 38:1843 to the contrary, the board of commissioners of Consolidated Gravity Drainage District Number Two of Vermilion Parish shall consist of six members all of whom shall be resident property taxpayers and registered voters of the district. The board shall be governed in all other respects by the provisions of this Part.  Acts 1984, No. 122, §1.