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LA Rev Stat § 33:3992 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3992. Inspection and acceptance of work

RS 3992 - Inspection and acceptance of work The governing authority of any sewerage district taking advantage of the provisions of this Sub-part, shall upon the completion of any contract awarded as provided for herein, provide for the final inspection of the work performed thereunder and the improvements made, and if the work be found to have been completed satisfactorily in accordance with said contract, as evidenced by a certificate of the project engineer, the said governing authority shall by ordinance duly adopted approve and accept the said work and fulfill its obligations under the said contract after compliance with the laws of Louisiana relative to the completion of contracts involving public works, by full payment therefor of any and all amounts and balances due the said contractor, including all retained percentages of payments previously made thereon on engineer's estimates, and which percentages were retained pending the completion of the said work. Added by Acts 1950, No. 462, §12.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3993 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3993. Employment and duties of engineer and attorney

RS 3993 - Employment and duties of engineer and attorney Sewerage districts which take advantage of the provisions of this Sub-part, be and they are hereby authorized through their respective governing authorities if they elect to do so to engage the services of an engineer and provide for his payment, who shall prepare all plans and specifications for said work and improvements herein authorized, and that the governing authority shall approve such plans and specifications by a proper resolution duly adopted. Such engineer, so employed, shall inspect the work as let in accordance with contracts hereunder and shall issue to the said contractor, his estimates thereon from time to time as the said work progresses, which estimates may be paid by the sewerage district either in full or by the retention of ten per cent thereof as retained percentage. The said engineer shall inspect the work as it progresses and shall be responsible for the performance and completion thereof in accordance with the plans and specifications. Upon final completion of the work the said engineer shall render a report to the governing authority of the sewerage district as to the completion of the work in a satisfactory manner, which report shall be duly certified to, and in addition thereto, the said engineer shall do and perform any and all engineering duties required of him in this Sub-part. The governing authority of the sewerage district is also hereby authorized to employ an attorney to handle all legal work in connection with such improvements, herein authorized, and to provide for the payment of his fee and said attorney, in addition to his other duties, shall prepare a complete transcript of the record of the proceedings had covering each and every project completed hereunder and shall file the same with the clerk or secretary of the sewerage district; and said filed transcript shall constitute a permanent record thereof. Added by Acts 1950, No. 462, §13.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3994 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3994. Prescriptive period to question validity of proceedings

RS 3994 - Prescriptive period to question validity of proceedings No contest or proceeding to question the validity or legality of any resolutions or ordinances adopted or proceedings had under the provisions of this Sub-part shall be begun in any court by any person for any cause whatsoever, after the expiration of thirty days from the date when the resolution, ordinance or proceeding was published, and after such time the regularity of such resolution, ordinance or proceeding shall be conclusively presumed. If the validity of any certificates issued under the provisions of this Sub-part is not raised within thirty days from date of publication of the resolution or ordinance issuing said certificates and fixing their terms, the authority to issue said certificates, the legality thereof and of the local or special assessments necessary to pay the same shall be conclusively presumed and no court shall thereafter have authority to inquire into such matters. Added by Acts 1950, No. 462, §14. Amended by Acts 1958, No. 395, §8.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3995 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3995. Validation of present projects

RS 3995 - Validation of present projects Where prior to July 30, 1958 any sewerage district has issued the notice of intention provided for in R.S. 33:3982 and has thereby initiated a sewerage project under this Sub-part, it is expressly provided and declared that such district may proceed with such project and complete same under this Sub-part as amended. Added by Acts 1958, No. 395, §9.
LA Rev Stat § 33:3996 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§3996. Participation in payment of costs

RS 3996 - Participation in payment of costs  Any sewerage district proceeding under the authority of this Subpart may participate in the payment of the total cost of any project authorized hereunder, in such a manner and to such extent that the governing authority of the district may determine, provided that any funds so used by the district shall be in such amounts as it may have available for such purpose and from sources other than the imposition of special assessments. Such participation by the district may be allocated to any one or more projects as the governing authority of the district may determine, and the amount of the district's participation shall be deducted from the total cost of the improvements for the purpose of levying local or special assessments hereunder.  Added by Acts 1964, No. 104, §3.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4001 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4001. General authority for municipalities to construct sewerage system and appurtenances

RS 4001 - General authority for municipalities to construct sewerage system and appurtenances Any municipal corporation may (1) Own, purchase, acquire, construct, extend, equip, operate, and maintain within and without its corporate limits, a sewerage system, sewerage collection system, sewage treatment plant, intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, force mains, pumping stations, ejector stations and all other appurtenances necessary for the collection, treatment, purification and disposal in a sanitary manner of the liquid and solid waste and sewage of the municipal corporation; (2) Acquire by gift, grant, purchase, condemnation or otherwise, all necessary lands, rights of way and property therefor, within and without its corporate limits; and (3) Issue bonds to pay the costs of these public improvements and property in the manner provided for by laws applicable to revenue producing public utilities, public utilities, and works of public improvement.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4002 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4002. Charges for use of sewerage system

RS 4002 - Charges for use of sewerage system Any municipal corporation may by an ordinance or resolution establish, maintain, and collect rates, charges, or connection charges for the use of and service rendered by the sewerage system to be paid by the owner of each parcel of real estate or building that is connected with or in any way uses or is served by the sewerage system of the municipality, and may re-adjust the rates, charges or connection charges from time to time. Rates or charges or connection charges shall be sufficient in each year for the payment of the proper and reasonable expenses of operation, repairs, replacement, and maintenance of the sewerage system and for the establishment of the necessary sinking fund for the payment of the principal and interest of any revenue producing public utility bonds which may have been issued and sold for the purpose of constructing, acquiring, extending, or improving the sewerage system, and the governing authority of the municipal corporation shall adopt and enforce appropriate rules, regulations, and ordinances and exact penalties, and institute actions at law, for the prompt collection of the respective rates, charges, or connection charges fixed for service rendered by the sewerage system.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4003 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4003. Prohibition of privy vaults and cesspools

RS 4003 - Prohibition of privy vaults and cesspools Any municipal corporation, through its governing authority, may prohibit the construction of privy vaults and cesspools and suppress those already constructed.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4004 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4004. Compelling connection with sewerage system

RS 4004 - Compelling connection with sewerage system Any municipal corporation which has or which may hereafter construct, acquire, extend, or improve a sewerage system as a revenue producing public utility, shall compel the connection therewith by all owners of premises within three hundred feet of the sewerage system, and the governing authority of the municipal corporation may adopt the necessary ordinance or resolution enforcing the connections and exacting penalties for non-compliance therewith.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4041 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4041. Compelling connection with sewerage system

RS 4041 - Compelling connection with sewerage system Municipalities and sewerage districts having a public system of sewerage may compel the connection therewith by owners of premises within three hundred feet of the public sewer and may compel owners to connect with water mains or provide other means for flushing purposes.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4042 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4042. Notice to connect with sewer; plans and specifications; doing work or advertising for bids

RS 4042 - Notice to connect with sewer; plans and specifications; doing work or advertising for bids Whenever the governing authority of any municipality or sewerage district, having a public sewerage system deem it necessary for the public health that owners of one or more premises connect their premises with the public sewer, the owners shall be so notified by registered letter directed to their last known address. If the work of making connection with the sewer is not begun at the end of ten days from the day the registered notice is deposited in the post office, the governing authority shall notify the engineer to prepare plans and specifications for making the connection with the public sewer, including water, service pipe for flushing purposes. The plans and specifications shall be uniform. The owner upon written notice to the governing authority, before adoption of the ordinance ordering advertisement, as provided below, may have installed a more expensive equipment, which the owner must fully and accurately describe, the extra cost of which shall be charged to the particular owner ordering it. The plans and specifications shall be filed in the office of the governing authority of the municipality or sewerage district and the governing authority shall adopt an ordinance ordering and describing in general terms the contemplated sewerage connection giving the location of the premises and the name of the owner, and authorizing the clerk or secretary to advertise for bids. The advertisement shall be inserted at least twice in some newspaper published in the municipality or sewerage district, the first insertion to be not less than ten days prior to the date fixed for reception of bids and shall contain a general description of the contemplated sewerage connection. It shall refer to the plans and specifications on file and shall designate the hour, date, and place for the reception of bids. The governing authority of the municipality or sewerage district shall let the contract to the lowest responsible bidder, who shall furnish satisfactory security. The governing authority may reject any and all bids.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4043 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4043. Apportionment of cost

RS 4043 - Apportionment of cost The entire cost of all the sewerage connections, closets, equipment, pipes, water connections, service pipes, labor, engineering, etc., shall be ascertained by the engineer and the costs to each property shall be assessed according to the material used, and work done under contract in connecting the property with the public sewer and water main. The engineering expenses shall be charged in the proportion that the costs of each connection bears to the whole and the costs of the connection and engineering shall be borne accordingly by each property connected with the public sewer unless such are funded by ad valorem taxes or parcel fees pursuant to R.S. 33:3980.1. Acts 1999, No. 1167, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4044 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4044. Assessment against property; assessment lien

RS 4044 - Assessment against property; assessment lien The governing authority of the municipality or sewerage district shall, upon final and satisfactory completion of the work, accept the same by ordinance and provide for the levy of taxes or fees in accordance with R.S. 33:3980.1 or an assessment against the property connected with the sewerage in the amounts respectively due by the owners thereof, according to the rules of ascertainment and apportionment provided for in R.S. 33:4043, each assessment being separately numbered. A certified copy of the ordinance containing the assessment shall, upon its passage, be filed for record in the office of the recorder of mortgages in the parish in which the assessed property is situated, and the same, when so filed and recorded, shall operate as a lien and privilege in favor of the municipality and sewerage district against all properties therein assessed, which lien and privilege shall prime all other claims except taxes and previously recorded assessments for duly authorized public improvements, subject to R.S. 33:3671. Acts 1999, No. 1167, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4045 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4045. Amount assessed placed on tax rolls; installments; cash discount; enforcement of liability

RS 4045 - Amount assessed placed on tax rolls; installments; cash discount; enforcement of liability  The amounts assessed in the ordinance shall be placed upon the tax rolls divided in five equal installments, the first installment being due and payable at the same time as the taxes of the year in which the work is completed, and the other four installments will be due and collectable during the period that the regular taxes are collectable by the municipality or sewerage district. The day of delinquency of either of these installments shall be the 31st day of December of the year in which each installment falls due in principal or in interest. Each installment shall carry the same rate of interest as does the certificate issued by the governing authority of the municipality or sewerage district and the interest shall be paid annually on the unpaid installments. The owner of the property may pay in cash within ten days after the adoption of the ordinance accepting the work, and shall receive on account of the cash payment, a discount equal to five per cent per annum on the amount due and paid by him, which discount shall likewise be allowed by the contractor to the governing authority of the municipality or sewerage district.  In the event any owner of property subject to the lien and privileges hereinabove provided fails to pay the amount apportioned against his property at its maturity, the governing authority of the municipality or sewerage district may file a rule against the owner to show cause why the property should not be sold for the purpose of enforcing payment on the installments due; which rule shall be made returnable after five days of service in the manner required for ordinary citations, and shall be tried by preference. Judgment against the property holder shall be executed in the same manner as ordinary judgments.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4045.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4045.1. City of Lake Charles; amount assessed placed on tax rolls; installments; cash discount; enforcement of liability

RS 4045.1 - City of Lake Charles; amount assessed placed on tax rolls; installments; cash discount; enforcement of liability A. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:4045, in the city of Lake Charles the amounts assessed in the ordinance adopted pursuant to R.S. 33:4044 shall be placed upon the tax rolls and divided into equal installments. The number of required installments shall be determined by the governing authority of the city. The first installment shall be due and payable at the same time as the taxes of the year in which the work is completed and the remaining installments will be due and collectable during the period that the regular taxes are collectable by the city of Lake Charles. The day of delinquency of these installments shall be the thirty-first day of December of the year in which each installment falls due in principal or in interest. Each installment shall carry the same rate of interest as does the certificate issued by the governing authority of the city of Lake Charles, and the interest shall be paid annually on the unpaid installments. B. The owner of the property assessed under the provisions of this Subpart may pay in cash within ten days after the adoption of the ordinance accepting the work, as provided by R.S. 33:4044, and shall receive on account of the cash payment a discount equal to five percent per annum on the amount due and paid by him, which discount shall likewise be allowed by the contractor to the governing authority of the city of Lake Charles. C. In the event any owner of property subject to the lien and privileges authorized pursuant to this Subpart fails to pay the amount apportioned against his property at its maturity, the governing authority of the city of Lake Charles may file a rule against the owner to show cause why the property should not be sold for the purpose of enforcing payment on the installments due, which rule shall be made returnable after five days of service in the manner required for ordinary citations, and shall be tried by preference. Judgment against the property holder shall be executed in the same manner as ordinary judgments. Acts 2003, No. 970, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4047 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4047. Penalty for delinquency in paying assessment

RS 4047 - Penalty for delinquency in paying assessment Upon any delinquency on the part of the property owner in paying the assessment on or before the date of maturity, the property holder's assessment shall bear additional interest at the rate of one per cent per month as a penalty, which interest shall be collectible in the same manner as is provided for in the collection of the unpaid portion of the special assessment.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4048 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4048. Extension upon tax rolls of installments due

RS 4048 - Extension upon tax rolls of installments due When the assessment rolls for the year in which the work hereinabove provided for, has been filed before the work has been completed and accepted by the municipality, or sewerage district, the tax collector of the municipality or sewerage district shall extend upon the rolls for the year in which the work has been accepted the installments due by the owner of the property for that year, and each successive year thereafter the tax assessor shall extend upon the tax rolls the installments due for that year according to the ordinance levying the assessment.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4049 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4049. Prescription of right to contest proceedings

RS 4049 - Prescription of right to contest proceedings After the expiration of sixty days from the publication of the ordinance accepting the work, no person shall have the right to contest the regularity, formality, or validity of any proceedings under the provisions of this Sub-part.
LA Rev Stat § 33:4051 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes|§4051. Consolidation of districts by parish governing authority; approval of governing body; rights of consolidated district; governing body of district

RS 4051 - Consolidation of districts by parish governing authority; approval of governing body; rights of consolidated district; governing body of district The governing authority of any parish may create within such parish one or more consolidated sewerage districts comprised of one or more existing sewerage districts, together with, if so determined by the governing authority, territory not within the boundaries of an existing sewerage district. No sewerage district the governing body of which is not the governing authority of the parish may be included in any consolidated district without the approval of the governing body of such district to be evidenced by resolution, and no sewerage district lying wholly or partially within the limits of an incorporated municipality may be so included in a consolidated district without the consent of the governing authority of such municipality to be evidenced by resolution. Consolidated sewerage districts so created shall constitute sewerage districts within the meaning of Part III of Chapter 4 of Subtitle II of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, and as such shall enjoy all rights, powers, and privileges enjoyed by other sewerage districts under the provisions of said section, including the right to issue bonds, and shall have the right to issue certificates of indebtedness secured by local or special assessments. The governing authority of each such consolidated sewerage district shall be the governing authority of the parish creating the district. Added by Acts 1958, No. 276, §1 par. 1; Acts 2014, No. 158, §1.