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LA Rev Stat § 25:1101 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1101. Sale and deaccession of university museum collection items

RS 1101 - Sale and deaccession of university museum collection items A. All state university museums shall protect and improve the quality of their collections through the sale, exchange, transfer, or disposal of artifacts. Deaccessioning is the process of permanently removing accessioned artifacts from the museum collections. B. Artifacts in the museum's collections shall be sold or deaccessioned only if they have lost their physical integrity, usefulness, authenticity, or relationship to the museum's purposes, or if their sale would distinctly improve the quality of the museum's collection. C. Museum artifacts are state property and shall be disposed of in compliance with this Chapter and other appropriate state and federal regulations and established museum collections policy. D. No object may be sold or deaccessioned less than two years after its acquisition by the museum. E.(1) Proposals to sell or deaccession collection materials shall be made by the museum professional staff to the museum director who shall make a recommendation to the university's board of supervisors. (2) The university's board of supervisors shall accept or reject the recommendation of the museum director. Acceptance of the recommendation to sell or deaccession shall require a majority vote of those board members voting. F. Deaccessioned objects shall be disposed of by one or more of the following methods: (1) Exchanging, exclusively with nonprofit institutions, for objects of equal or greater monetary or historical value. (2) Transfer to a nonprofit institution or state agency. (3) The sale of objects only through competitive means when the museum's identity may or may not remain anonymous. (4) Destruction of deaccessioned objects which are of a hazardous nature or in a state of deterioration beyond redemption. (5) Transfer of the object to the museum's educational collection. G.(1) Persons, including state university employees, volunteers, members of a museum board, members of a museum support organization or other affiliated associations, or their families or representatives, may acquire deaccessioned objects only by participating in an approved public sale which complies with established museum collections policy and current museum ethics as published by the American Association of Museums. (2) However, no person or member of his immediate family who has the authority to place such object for sale may participate in such a sale or otherwise acquire such an object. Acts 1999, No. 666, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1201 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1201. Museum board authorized

RS 1201 - Museum board authorized  The governing authority of West Baton Rouge Parish may create, by ordinance, a museum board to establish, maintain, operate, and support public museums and related facilities within the parish.  Acts 1991, No. 120, §1, eff. June 30, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1202 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1202. Board purpose

RS 1202 - Board purpose  The board shall be a historical, cultural, and educational entity with the primary purpose of encouraging research, collecting, preserving, and presenting, as an education resource, objects of art, documents, artifacts, and the like that reflect the history, art, and culture of the parish and the surrounding area.  Acts 1991, No. 120, §1, eff. June 30, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1203 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1203. Definitions

RS 1203 - Definitions  As used in the Chapter, the following terms shall have the following meaning, unless the context requires otherwise:  (1) "Association" means the West Baton Rouge Historical Association.  (2) "Board" means the West Baton Rouge Museum Board.  (3) "Director" means the museum director.  (4) "Governing authority" means the West Baton Rouge Parish Police Jury.  (5) "Museum" means any public museum and related facilities under the jurisdiction of the board.  (6) "Parish" means West Baton Rouge Parish.  Acts 1991, No. 120, §1, eff. June 30, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1204 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1204. Funds for acquiring site or construction of buildings; anticipation of revenues; bond issues; special tax; use of maintenance tax

RS 1204 - Funds for acquiring site or construction of buildings; anticipation of revenues; bond issues; special tax; use of maintenance tax  A. For the purpose of acquiring sites or erecting buildings thereon or additions thereto, including furniture, fixtures, and equipment, for a museum, the governing authority may:  (1) Anticipate the revenues of the parish and issue bonds or certificates based thereon, as provided by law.  (2) Issue negotiable bonds and thereafter levy and collect taxes to pay and retire the same, if so authorized by the electorate voting thereon at an election called and held for that purpose in the manner provided by law. (3) Levy a special tax provided by Article VI, Section 32 of the Constitution of Louisiana.  B. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the governing authority may authorize the board to use all or any portion of the millage dedicated for maintenance and support of museums, as provided in R.S. 25:1209(B) for any of the purposes set forth in Subsection A hereof.  Acts 1991, No. 120, §1, eff. June 30, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1205 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1205. Museum board; members; appointment and terms of office; meetings

RS 1205 - Museum board; members; appointment and terms of office; meetings  A. The ordinance creating the museum board shall establish the membership thereof as follows:  (1) Nine members who have a knowledge of or interest in art, history, and cultural preservation who reside and are registered voters of the parish who shall serve three calendar year staggered terms. Persons are to be nominated by the West Baton Rouge Historical Association and selected by the governing authority in such a manner that five members are selected from the membership of the association and four members, who may or may not be members of the association, are selected from the parish at large. The at large members shall be nominated and selected in a manner that will ensure, to the extent possible, representation from all geographic areas of the parish.  (2) The president of the governing authority or his designee, who shall be an ex-officio nonvoting member.  (3) The terms of the initial members shall be set by the governing authority at the time of appointment in such a manner that of the five association members, one shall serve a term of one year, two shall serve a term of two years, and two shall serve a term of three years. Further, of the initial at large members, two shall serve a term of one year, one shall serve a term of two years, and one shall serve a term of three years.  B. The board shall meet at least once each quarter but may meet more frequently if additional meetings are called by the chairman or by a majority of the members of the board. All board meetings shall be held at the West Baton Rouge Museum in Port Allen unless otherwise designated in advance by the board.  C. Appointed members may be removed from the board by the board for three consecutive unexcused absences at regularly called board meetings. D. Any vacancy on the board shall be filled by nomination by the association and selection by the governing authority.  E. A majority of the appointed members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of official business. All official actions of the board shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the appointed members present and voting.  F. Members shall serve without compensation.  Acts 1991, No. 120, §1, eff. June 30, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1206 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1206. Board powers, duties, and functions

RS 1206 - Board powers, duties, and functions  A. The board shall:  (1) Adopt bylaws establishing policies and procedures for its governance, subject to law and ordinances.  (2) Elect and define the responsibilities of the board's officers, including a chairman and vice chairman to serve terms of three years.  (3) Establish when museums will be open to the public.  (4) With the advice of the association, set policies for museums.  (5) Exercise the powers, duties, and functions with respect to accessions, deaccessions, loans, and conservation of museum properties and collections in accordance with law, ordinance, and professional museum practices as established by the American Association of Museums.  (6) With the advice of the association, have custody of and administer, manage, operate, maintain, and preserve the buildings, collections, and exhibitions of the West Baton Rouge Museum complex in Port Allen and any other museum.  (7) Be domiciled in Port Allen. However, additional offices may be established and maintained within other museums.  (8) Cooperate with the parish elementary and secondary schools in the teaching of the history and culture of the parish.  (9) Provide the governing authority with a report of its activities or other information, upon its request.  (10) Pay monthly the expenses or costs of the board's operations, including salaries and all other incidental expenses, out of funds budgeted for such purposes.  B. The board may:  (1) Contract with consulting experts in the fields of museum administration and conservation of paintings, books and papers, and other decorative arts, and with appraisers, buying agents, designers, engineers, attorneys, accountants, construction and financial experts, and other such persons as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the board.  (2) Create from its membership an executive committee.  (3) Create additional committees which it deems necessary or expedient.  (4) Appoint nonboard members to any committee of the board other than the executive committee.  (5) With the advice of the association, set and charge admission and tour fees and user or rental fees to any public museum building or exhibit, as it deems necessary.  Acts 1991, No. 120, §1, eff. June 30, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1207 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1207. Board and staff standards

RS 1207 - Board and staff standards  A. The board and its professional staff shall be governed by the standards of museum ethics promulgated by the American Association of Museums, which are not in conflict with law or ordinance.  B. The board may adopt further standards of ethics for itself and its professional staff which it deems to be in the best interest of the museum which are not in conflict with law, ordinance, or the standards of the American Association of Museums.  Acts 1991, No. 120, §1, eff. June 30, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1208 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1208. Museum director

RS 1208 - Museum director  A. The board shall appoint a professional director who shall have three to five years of experience in the museum field. The director shall serve as executive officer of the board and shall discharge all operational, maintenance, administrative, and executive functions of the board, subject to the control, jurisdiction, and supervision of the board.  B. The board may remove the director by an affirmative vote of a majority of the total appointed membership at a meeting called for that purpose and then only after hearing by the board, if so requested by the director.  Acts 1991, No. 120, §1, eff. June 30, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1209 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1209. Funding

RS 1209 - Funding  A. The board shall be funded through an ad valorem tax levied and administered by the governing authority.  B. In addition to Subsection A, the governing authority may levy a special ad valorem tax, as provided by constitution and law, for the maintenance and support of museums if authorized by the electorate voting thereon at an election called and held for that purpose in the manner provided by law.  C. Funds received by the board, including private donations or grants, shall be used according to the approved budget for the proper operation of the museums according to law, ordinance, and accepted standards of museum operations, following American Association of Museums guidelines, including the provision of a competent, professional, technical and administrative staff.  Acts 1991, No. 120, §1, eff. June 30, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1210 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1210. Annual budget; approval

RS 1210 - Annual budget; approval  The board shall annually submit to the governing authority a budget for its proposed operation during the ensuing fiscal year, which the governing authority may approve, reject, or revise. Once approved by the governing authority, the board shall proceed to act thereunder.  Acts 1991, No. 120, §1, eff. June 30, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1211 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1211. Audit

RS 1211 - Audit  The financial records of the board shall be audited pursuant to R.S. 24:513. A written report of this audit shall be made to the board and to the governing authority. Audit costs shall be borne by the board.  Acts 1991, No. 120, §1, eff. June 30, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1212 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1212. Fiscal year

RS 1212 - Fiscal year  The fiscal year of the board shall be the same as the fiscal year of the governing authority.  Acts 1991, No. 120, §1, eff. June 30, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1213 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1213. Donations and loans; disposition of abandoned loans

RS 1213 - Donations and loans; disposition of abandoned loans  A. The board may solicit and accept funds, governmental and private grants, donations, and contributions of lands, buildings, money, relics, works of art, or other property on behalf of and as additions to the museum either in the form of loans or in the form of donations inter vivos or mortis causa, or may acquire them by purchase, lease, or otherwise, subject to the terms, conditions, or limitations contained in the instrument by which such property is acquired. All gifts or donations conditionally made shall be subject to the approval of the governing authority.  B. The board may enter into any and all contracts with any person, lender, or donor that it may deem fit, proper, and necessary to accept and receive such lands, buildings, money, relics, works of art, or other property on behalf of and as additions to a public museum.  C. The board may serve as beneficiary of any public trust heretofore or hereafter created for such purpose.  D. The board shall have authority of deaccession with respect to any collection of any public museum subject to law or ordinance. With the advice of the association, the board shall establish policies and procedures necessary to carry out this authority in an orderly manner consistent with the standards established by the American Association of Museums.  Acts 1991, No. 120, §1, eff. June 30, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1215.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1215.1. Museum board authorized

RS 1215.1 - Museum board authorized The governing authority of the parish of Jackson is hereby authorized to create, by ordinance, a museum board, referred to in this Chapter as the "board". The authority of the board shall extend throughout all of the territory of the parish of Jackson. The board shall be a political subdivision of the state of Louisiana created to establish, maintain, operate, and support public museums and related facilities within the parish. Acts 2004, No. 424, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1215.2 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1215.2. Board purpose

RS 1215.2 - Board purpose The board shall be a historical, cultural, and educational entity with the primary purpose of encouraging research, collecting, preserving, and presenting, as an education resource, objects of art, documents, artifacts, and the like that reflect the history, art, and culture of the parish and the surrounding area. Acts 2004, No. 424, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1215.3 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1215.3. Museum board; membership

RS 1215.3 - Museum board; membership A. The ordinance creating the museum board shall establish the membership thereof. B. The members of the board shall serve without compensation. Acts 2004, No. 424, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1215.4 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1215.4. Powers of the board

RS 1215.4 - Powers of the board The board shall have and exercise all powers of a political subdivision necessary or convenient for the carrying out of its objects and purposes including but not limited to the following: (1) To incur debt. (2) To sue and to be sued. (3) To adopt, use, and alter at will a corporate seal. (4) To adopt bylaws and rules and regulations. (5) To receive by gift, grant, donation, or otherwise any sum of money, property, aid, or assistance from the United States, the state of Louisiana, or any political subdivision thereof, or any person, firm, or corporation. (6) To enter into contracts, agreements, or cooperative endeavors with the state and its political subdivisions or political corporations and with any public or private association, corporation, business entity, or individual. (7) To appoint officers, agents, and employees, prescribe their duties, and fix their compensation. (8) To acquire by purchase, gift, grant, donation, lease, or otherwise such property as may be necessary or desirable for carrying out the objectives and purposes of the board. (9) To contract with consulting experts in the fields of museum administration and conservation of paintings, books and papers, and other decorative arts, and with appraisers, buying agents, designers, engineers, attorneys, accountants, construction and financial experts, and such other persons as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the board. (10) To establish such funds or accounts as are necessary for the conduct of the affairs of the district*. (11) To exercise the powers, duties, and functions with respect to accessions, deaccessions, loans, and conservation of museum properties and collections in accordance with law, ordinance, and professional museum practices as established by the American Association of Museums. Acts 2004, No. 424, §1. *As appears in enrolled bill.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1215.5 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1215.5. Funding

RS 1215.5 - Funding The governing authority of the parish of Jackson may provide, by ordinance, for the funding of the museum board or for the funding of any public museum or related facilities created by such board. Acts 2004, No. 424, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1215.6 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1215.6. Annual budget; approval

RS 1215.6 - Annual budget; approval The board shall annually submit to the governing authority of the parish of Jackson a budget for its proposed operation during the ensuing fiscal year, which the governing authority may approve, reject, or revise. Once approved by the governing authority, the board shall proceed to act thereunder. Acts 2004, No. 424, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 25:1221 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific|§1221. Legislative recognition

RS 1221 - Legislative recognition A. The Atchafalaya Basin, with its adjacent lands and communities, is a place where natural, scenic, cultural, and historic resources combine to form a cohesive, nationally distinctive landscape arising from patterns of human activity shaped by geography. These patterns make the basin, its people, and surroundings significant in the unfolding of the state's history and representative of the national experience through the physical features that remain and the traditions that have evolved. Continued use of this heritage region by people whose traditions help to shape the landscape enhances its significance. B. The legislature recognizes that: (1) The Atchafalaya Basin region is an assemblage of rich and varied resources representing a unique aspect of Louisiana heritage which can be best managed as such an assemblage through partnerships. (2) The region reflects a complex mixture of people and their origins, traditions, customs, beliefs, and folkways of interest to the state and nation. (3) The region's patterns of natural, scenic, and cultural resource features, qualities, processes, uses, values, and relationships must be conserved. (4) The Atchafalaya Basin and its adjacent lands and waters offer outstanding recreation opportunities, educational experiences, and potential for scientific research. (5) The combination of resource patterns important to the multiple themes of the region must retain their stability, integrity, sustainability, health, and attractiveness to be capable of supporting interpretation. (6) The resources represented in the region must continue to be productive and economically viable, consistent with sound ecosystem management policies and practices. (7) The Atchafalaya region enjoys broad support for state and national designation as a heritage area. (8) Principal organizations and individuals, drawn from a broad cross section of constituencies, are willing to develop partnerships to achieve stated goals and realize a vision consistent with establishment of a heritage area. (9) The heritage area concept enjoys the consent of local governments in the area. Acts 1997, No. 1440, §1, eff. July 1, 1998; Acts 2002, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 112, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2003.