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LA Rev Stat § 33:7704 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7704. Notice of intention to create; public hearing; boundaries

RS 7704 - Notice of intention to create; public hearing; boundaries  Before any such consolidated special service district is finally created, the governing authority of the parish shall publish in the official journal of the parish at least once not less than fifteen days prior to the date of the hearing a notice of its intention to create the district and fixing a date for the holding of a public hearing at which all persons interested may be heard on the question of the advisability of creating the consolidated district. The notice of hearing shall set forth the proposed name and boundaries of the district, list the districts to be so consolidated, define the boundaries of any territory not then within the boundaries of an existing district of the same type which territory is proposed to be included in the consolidated district, state the amount of outstanding indebtedness of each district to be consolidated, and the time and place fixed for the hearing. Upon conclusion of the hearing, the governing authority, in its discretion, may proceed to create the consolidated district with boundaries as set out in the notice of intention or may refrain from creating the consolidated district. Added by Acts 1975, No. 94, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7705 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7705. Notice of creation; incontestability after unchallenged delay; interim authority to call an election to issue bonds, levy taxes or assume indebtedness

RS 7705 - Notice of creation; incontestability after unchallenged delay; interim authority to call an election to issue bonds, levy taxes or assume indebtedness  After the creation of any consolidated special service district, notice of the creation, stating the boundaries of the district, shall be published one time in the official journal of the parish. Thirty days after such publication, the creation of the district shall become incontestable, and no court shall have jurisdiction to entertain litigation questioning the legality of the creation of such district. If the governing authority desires to call an election in any such district to authorize the issuance of bonds, the levy of special taxes, or the assumption of indebtedness, it may call such election and publish notice thereof prior to the expiration of the thirty-day period. Added by Acts 1975, No. 94, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7706 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7706. Assumption of rights and responsibilities of districts consolidated

RS 7706 - Assumption of rights and responsibilities of districts consolidated  At the expiration of the thirty-day period provided for in R.S. 33:7705, existing districts of the same type included in any such consolidated district shall no longer have the right to issue bonds or other obligations, and all books and records and assets thereof shall be transferred to the consolidated district. The governing authority of the consolidated district shall cause taxes to continue to be levied for the payment of the outstanding indebtedness of each underlying district of the same type which has not been assumed by the consolidated district, as hereinafter provided, in all respects as would have been required had such consolidation not been effected. In addition, if such indebtedness of any underlying district consists of revenue bonds or special assessment certificates payable from service charges or assessments, the governing authority of the consolidated district shall continue to impose and collect such service charges or assessments, as well as any special taxes previously authorized and legally dedicated by covenant with bondholders to the payment of maintenance or operation expenses. Added by Acts 1975, No. 94, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7707 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7707. Continuation of rights and obligations of districts

RS 7707 - Continuation of rights and obligations of districts  The creation of a consolidated special service district hereunder shall not affect or impair in any manner contract rights enjoyed by the holders of any outstanding bonds or obligations of the underlying districts, and to the extent required by such contract rights, taxes, service charges, and assessments on the property subject to the payment of principal of and interest on such bonds or obligations shall continue to be levied and collected as above provided; however, any consolidated special service district may assume all or any indebtedness of its underlying districts in the manner and with the effect provided by R.S. 39:661 et seq. for the assumption of indebtedness by parishes. Added by Acts 1975, No. 94, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7708 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7708. Refunding bonds

RS 7708 - Refunding bonds  Any consolidated special service district created hereunder, in addition to its right to issue bonds or other obligations for the purposes and in the manner elsewhere provided in the constitution and laws of this state, may issue its refunding bonds for the purpose of refunding any outstanding revenue bonds or obligations of one or more of its underlying districts or, in its discretion, may authorize and deliver a single issue of revenue bonds for both improvement and refunding purposes. Refunding bonds so authorized shall be authorized and issued in the manner provided by law for the issuance of the bonds or other obligations refunded and shall be secured in the same manner as the bonds or obligations refunded, except that the governing authority, in its discretion, may provide for changes in the source of payment of such bonds or obligations as it considers desirable, and except that any refunding bonds so authorized either may be sold and the funds realized from the sale thereof applied exclusively to the payment of the bonds or obligations refunded or may be delivered in exchange for a like principal amount of the bonds or obligations refunded or may be sold in part or exchanged in part. Such refunding bonds also may be sold and the proceeds thereof escrowed to be used in paying the bonds or obligations refunded on the date on which they become payable through maturity or call for redemption. Refunding bonds so issued shall not exceed in principal amount the principal amount of the bonds or obligations to be so refunded.  Added by Acts 1975, No. 94, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7711 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7711. Consolidated waterworks and sewerage districts

RS 7711 - Consolidated waterworks and sewerage districts  The governing authority of any parish may, in the same manner, by use of the same procedure and provisions, and with the same effects as provided in Chapter 22 of this Title for consolidated special service districts, create one or more consolidated waterworks/sewerage districts within that parish. Any such district shall be comprised of one or more existing waterworks districts, sewerage districts, consolidated waterworks districts, consolidated sewerage districts, or consolidated waterworks/sewerage districts. Acts 1987, No. 944, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7721 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7721. Creation of districts as political subdivisions

RS 7721 - Creation of districts as political subdivisions  The governing authority of any parish may by ordinance create mosquito abatement districts composed of any part or all of the territory lying wholly within the parish. Such districts shall be political and legal subdivisions of the state, with power to sue and be sued in their corporate names. Added by Acts 1975, No. 512, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7722 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7722. Purposes

RS 7722 - Purposes  The purposes for which mosquito abatement districts may be organized and the nature of the business to be carried on by them are as follows: the abatement, control, eradication, and study of mosquitoes and other arthropods of public health importance, and all activities incidental thereto. Added by Acts 1975, No. 512, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7723 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7723. Board of commissioners; membership; qualifications and terms

RS 7723 - Board of commissioners; membership; qualifications and terms  A. When any such district is created, the parish governing authority creating it shall appoint a board of commissioners, composed of five members, to govern its affairs, and shall fix the domicile of the board at any point within the parish. The members of the board shall be qualified electors of the district, two of whom shall be appointed for terms of two years and three for terms of three years, dating from the date of the adoption of the ordinance creating the district. Thereafter, all appointments of the members shall be for terms of three years. Such boards shall serve without compensation, but the members shall be reimbursed for reasonable expenses incurred in connection with their official duties.  B. Notwithstanding Subsection A of this Section, the term of members appointed to the commission after the initial appointments may be up to five years as established by home rule charter or parish ordinance. If so authorized and the term is longer than the term of a member serving on January 1, 2018, the additional period of the longer term may be applied to consecutive terms of the member, as determined by the governing authority.  Added by Acts 1975, No. 512, §1; Acts 2018, No. 476, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7724 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7724. Powers of board

RS 7724 - Powers of board  A. Each board of commissioners has authority to manage and control the affairs of its district, to adopt ordinances reasonably necessary to further the purposes for which the district is created, and to fix penalties for violations of such ordinances by fine or imprisonment within the limits fixed by law for violations of ordinances of the parish governing authority. B. Each board has authority to purchase, maintain, and operate machinery and equipment necessary or useful in the eradication, abatement, or control of mosquitoes and other arthropods of public health importance, and to maintain an adequate administrative staff. Added by Acts 1975, No. 512, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7725 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7725. Combination of administrative personnel of two or more districts; approval of ordinances by state health officer

RS 7725 - Combination of administrative personnel of two or more districts; approval of ordinances by state health officer  To effect economy of operation, any two or more districts may combine the use of administrative and operative personnel and equipment upon such basis of compensation therefor as is mutually agreed to by all such boards of commissioners participating. The methods to be used in the eradication, abatement, and control of mosquitoes and other arthropods shall be submitted to the division of health of the Louisiana Health and Human Resources Administration annually for approval by the state health officer or his successor, and the ordinances of any such board of commissioners hereinabove referred to shall not be legally effective without such approval.  Added by Acts 1975, No. 512, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7726 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7726. Service charges for mosquito control

RS 7726 - Service charges for mosquito control  A. A mosquito abatement district created under the provisions of this Chapter may levy and collect special taxes, including monthly service charges to customers of waterworks districts within the mosquito control district, to finance its programs. It may use legal, proper, necessary, and expedient means to collect and enforce the collection of such taxes, including the contracting with a waterworks district located within the same parish to collect a monthly service charge for mosquito control. B. Any monthly service charge so levied shall be uniform upon the customers of the waterworks district, but each separate water meter or connection to the waterworks district's water supply lines shall be treated as a separate customer for purposes of the service charge. The waterworks district, acting as collection agency for special taxes of the mosquito abatement district, may add the tax levied by said mosquito abatement district to the water bills of its customers. On or before the tenth day of the month following the collection of the taxes, the waterworks district shall remit to the mosquito abatement district all funds collected for the purposes of mosquito control, less a small and reasonable service charge for administrative purposes of collection. Acts 1969, No. 155, §§1, 2. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 613, §1; Acts 1975, No. 512, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7727 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7727. Boards of commissioners in Ouachita Parish; appointment of additional members

RS 7727 - Boards of commissioners in Ouachita Parish; appointment of additional members  Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:7723, the governing authority of Ouachita Parish is hereby authorized to increase the membership of boards of commissioners of mosquito abatement districts in Ouachita Parish from five to seven members. The two additional members authorized by this Section shall be appointed by the governing authority of Ouachita Parish and shall serve initial terms of two and three years respectively; thereafter, their successors shall serve three-year terms as provided in R.S. 33:7723. All other provisions of law relative to members of the board shall apply to the additional members and their successors. Acts 1984, No. 549, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7729 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7729. Board of commissioners of the Cameron Parish Mosquito Abatement District No. 1 in Cameron Parish; appointment of additional members

RS 7729 - Board of commissioners of the Cameron Parish Mosquito Abatement District No. 1 in Cameron Parish; appointment of additional members Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:7723, the governing authority of Cameron Parish is hereby authorized to increase the membership of the board of commissioners of Mosquito Abatement District No. 1 in Cameron Parish from five to seven members. The two additional members authorized by this Section shall be appointed by the governing authority of Cameron Parish and shall serve initial terms of two and three years respectively; thereafter, their successors shall serve three-year terms as provided in R.S. 33:7723. All other provisions of law relative to members of the board shall apply to the additional members and their successors. Acts 2008, No. 680, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7751 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7751. Fire ant abatement districts; creation

RS 7751 - Fire ant abatement districts; creation  The governing authority of any parish may by ordinance create fire ant abatement districts composed of any part or all of the territory lying wholly within the parish. Such districts shall be political and legal subdivisions of the state, with the power to sue and be sued in their corporate names. Acts 1992, No. 198, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7752 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7752. Purposes

RS 7752 - Purposes  The purposes for which fire ant abatement districts may be organized and the nature of the business to be carried on by them are as follows: the abatement, control, eradication, and study of fire ants. Acts 1992, No. 198, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7753 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7753. Board of commissioners; membership; qualifications and terms

RS 7753 - Board of commissioners; membership; qualifications and terms  When any such district is created, the parish governing authority creating it shall appoint a board of commissioners, composed of five members, to govern its affairs, and shall fix the domicile of the board at any point within the parish. The members of the board shall be qualified electors of the district, two of whom shall be appointed for terms of two years and three for terms of three years, dating from the date of the adoption of the ordinance creating the district. Thereafter, all appointments of the members shall be for terms of three years. Such boards shall serve without compensation, but the members shall be reimbursed for reasonable expenses incurred in connection with their official duties. Acts 1992, No. 198, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7754 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7754. Powers of board

RS 7754 - Powers of board   A. Each board of commissioners has authority to manage and control the affairs of its district, to adopt ordinances reasonably necessary to further the purposes for which the district is created, and to fix penalties for violations of such ordinances by fine or imprisonment within the limits fixed by law for violations of ordinances of the parish governing authority.  B. Each board has authority to purchase, maintain, and operate machinery and equipment necessary or useful in the eradication, abatement, or control of fire ants and to maintain an adequate administrative staff.  C. The methods to be used in the eradication, abatement, and control of fire ants shall be submitted to the Louisiana Department of Health annually for approval by the state health officer and the commissioner of agriculture. The ordinances of the board of commissioners shall not be legally effective without such approval.  Acts 1992, No. 198, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7755 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7755. Service charges for fire ant abatement

RS 7755 - Service charges for fire ant abatement  A. A fire ant abatement district created under the provisions of this Chapter may levy and collect special taxes, or assess special fees or service charges to residents and property owners within the fire ant abatement district to finance its programs. However, the question of the imposition of any such tax, fee, or charge shall have been submitted to the qualified electors of the district at an election to be conducted in accordance with the election laws of the state and the majority of those voting in said election shall have voted in favor of the imposition of said tax, fee, or charge. It may use legal, proper, necessary, and expedient means to collect and enforce the collection of such taxes, including the contracting with a waterworks district located within the same parish to collect special fees or service charges for fire ant abatement. B. Any special fee or service charge so levied shall be uniform upon the customers of the waterworks district, but each separate water meter or connection to the waterworks district's water supply lines shall be treated as a separate customer for purposes of such special fee or service charge. The waterworks district, acting as collection agency for special taxes of the fire ant abatement district, may add the tax levied by said fire ant abatement district to the water bills of its customers. On or before the tenth day of the month following the collection of the taxes, the waterworks district shall remit to the fire ant abatement district all funds collected for the purposes of fire ant abatement less a reasonable service charge for administrative purposes of collection. Acts 1992, No. 198, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7756 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7756. Combination of administrative personnel of two or more districts; approval of ordinances by state health officer

RS 7756 - Combination of administrative personnel of two or more districts; approval of ordinances by state health officer  To effect economy of operation, any two or more districts may combine the use of administrative and operative personnel and equipment upon such basis of compensation therefor as is mutually agreed to by all such boards of commissioners participating. Acts 1992, No. 198, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7801 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7801. Definitions

RS 7801 - Definitions  As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:  (1) "Board" means the Board of Commissioners of St. Bernard Parish Water and Sewer Commission. (2) "Commission" means the St. Bernard Parish Water and Sewer Commission. (3) "Districts" means, collectively, Sewer District No. 1, Sewer District No. 2, Water District No. 1 and Water District No. 2, all of the parish of St. Bernard, state of Louisiana. (4) "Parish" means the parish of St. Bernard, state of Louisiana. (5) "Sewer District No. 1" means Sewer District No. 1 of the parish of St. Bernard, state of Louisiana. (6) "Sewer District No. 2" means Sewer District No. 2 of the parish of St. Bernard, state of Louisiana. (7) "Water District No. 1" means Water District No. 1 of the parish of St. Bernard, state of Louisiana. (8) "Water District No. 2" means Water District No. 2 of the parish of St. Bernard, state of Louisiana. Acts 1986, No. 377, §1, eff. July 2, 1986.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7802 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7802. Creation of commission; territorial jurisdiction

RS 7802 - Creation of commission; territorial jurisdiction  The creation of the commission, pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement executed on November 13, 1985 between the parish and the districts, is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved. The commission is hereby constituted and declared to be a body politic and political subdivision of the state of Louisiana, as defined in Article VI, Section 44 of the Constitution of Louisiana. Pursuant to Article VI, Section 19 of the Constitution of Louisiana, the commission is hereby granted the rights, powers, and authorities herein described, including, but not limited to, the power of taxation and the power to incur debt and issue bonds. The powers of the commission shall be exercised within the boundaries of the parish, as the boundaries of the parish are presently constituted. Acts 1986, No. 377, §1, eff. July 2, 1986.
LA Rev Stat § 33:7803 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§7803. Purpose

RS 7803 - Purpose  The commission is hereby created for the object and purpose of providing economy and efficiency in the furnishing of water, sewer, and sewage disposal services to the citizens of the parish, and it shall have the authority to plan, finance, construct, acquire, improve, operate, and maintain water, sewer, and sewage disposal improvements and facilities within the parish. Acts 1986, No. 377, §1, eff. July 2, 1986.