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LA Rev Stat § 38:1844 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1844. Powers of board

RS 1844 - Powers of board  The board of commissioners may open all natural drains in the district, cut and open new drains, and do any other work of drainage they may deem necessary. They may enter into contracts for the construction of drainage work or they may construct drainage works under their own supervision, or with the aid and assistance of any governmental or state agency. They may employ an engineer and an attorney and fix their respective fees and provide for the payment thereof. They may do any and all things necessary and incidental to carry out the purposes of this Part.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1845 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1845. Incurring indebtedness; issuance of bonds

RS 1845 - Incurring indebtedness; issuance of bonds  All consolidated gravity drainage districts shall be subdivisions of the state. The districts may, through their governing authorities incur debt and issue negotiable interest bearing coupon bonds for the purpose of constructing gravity drainage works of the consolidated drainage districts, title to which shall be in the public. The indebtedness shall be incurred and bonds issued under the authority of and in the manner provided for in Title 39, Sub-title II, Chapter 4.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1846 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1846. Assumption of indebtedness of included districts

RS 1846 - Assumption of indebtedness of included districts  Consolidated gravity drainage districts created under this Part may assume the outstanding bonded debt and other indebtedness, all or any part thereof, of the respective drainage districts included therein, in the manner and subject to the limitations contained in this Part.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1847 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1847. Vote of taxpayers required for assumption of indebtedness

RS 1847 - Vote of taxpayers required for assumption of indebtedness  No debt or outstanding bonded indebtedness of any drainage district included in a consolidated gravity drainage district shall be assumed by the consolidated gravity drainage district until the assumption has been authorized by a vote of the resident property taxpayers of the consolidated gravity drainage district, qualified to vote under the Constitution and laws of this state, who vote at an election hereunder. The board of commissioners of a consolidated gravity drainage district may call a special election and submit to the qualified voters the question of assuming the outstanding bonded debt and other indebtedness of any one or more gravity drainage districts wholly within the consolidated gravity drainage district. In the submission of the proposition to the qualified voters the total bonded debt and indebtedness of all the drainage districts whose debts are to be assumed may be submitted as one proposition, or the proposition may be submitted to include one or more drainage districts bonded and other indebtedness, all or any part thereof, proposed to be assumed.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1848 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1848. Resolution ordering election

RS 1848 - Resolution ordering election  The election shall be ordered by resolution which shall state the amount of bonded debt and other indebtedness to be assumed, and shall designate the districts whose debts are to be assumed.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1849 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1849. Notice of election

RS 1849 - Notice of election  Notice of election shall be given, embracing substantially all matters required to be set forth in the resolution ordering the election, and the notice shall set forth further that the board of commissioners ordering the election will, in open session, at an hour, date, and place named, proceed to open the ballot boxes, canvass the returns, and declare the result. The notice shall be published for thirty days in a newspaper published in the parish or if there be no newspaper published in the parish, publication shall be made in a newspaper published in an adjoining parish and by posting in three public places in the parish. Four publications in a newspaper once a week shall constitute a publication for thirty days, provided thirty days intervene between the date of the first publication and the date of the election.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1850 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1850. Polling places, ballot boxes; election officials

RS 1850 - Polling places, ballot boxes; election officials  The board of commissioners ordering the election shall designate the polling places, shall provide the ballot boxes, ballots, valuation of property and a compiled statement of voters in number and amount, and shall fix the compensation of the election officers. It shall appoint, for each polling place, three commissioners and one clerk of election, all of whom shall be registered voters.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1851 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1851. Right to vote

RS 1851 - Right to vote  Only property taxpayers qualified as electors under the constitution and laws of this state shall be entitled to vote at any election hereunder. The qualifications of the taxpayers as voters shall be those of age, residence, and registration as voters, as prescribed by the constitution and statutes, without regard to sex. There shall be no voting by proxy.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1852 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1852. List of voters

RS 1852 - List of voters  The registrar of voters shall furnish to the election commissioners appointed to hold the elections a list of the taxpayers entitled to vote, together with the valuation of each taxpayer's property, as shown by the assessment roll last made and filed prior to the election. When any taxpayer's name and valuation of property has been omitted from the list or erroneously entered thereon, the commissioners of election may receive affidavits of the taxpayer's right to vote and the proper assessed valuation of his property, which affidavits shall be attached to the taxpayer's ballot. No defect or irregularity in, or omission from the list of voters furnished by the registrar of voters hereunder, shall affect the validity of the election, unless it be established that voters were thereby deprived of votes sufficient in number and amount to have changed the result of the election.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1853 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1853. Challenges

RS 1853 - Challenges  If the vote of any taxpayer be challenged, the commissioners of election shall permit him to vote and shall receive in writing the grounds of challenge, signed by the challenger, together with the challenged taxpayer's statement of his asserted right to vote, and shall attach the challenge and statement to his ballot.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1854 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1854. Form of ballots

RS 1854 - Form of ballots  The ballots to be used at a special election hereunder shall be in substantially the following form: "Shall _______________ (Name of Consolidated Gravity Drainage District) assume the outstanding bonded and other indebtedness of (Designation of district or districts debt or debts to be assumed) YES [ ]NO [ ]______________________________________ (Signature of Voter)  Notice to Voters: To vote in favor of the proposition submitted on this ballot, place a cross (X) mark in the square opposite the word 'YES'; to vote against it, place a similar mark opposite the word 'NO.' "
LA Rev Stat § 38:1855 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1855. Absence of commissioner or clerk of election

RS 1855 - Absence of commissioner or clerk of election  If any commissioner or clerk of election is unable, or fails or neglects to attend or serve at the polling-place designated at the hour fixed for opening, or within one hour thereafter, the commissioners present shall appoint or in the absence of all commissioners, the voters present shall elect the necessary number of commissioners and clerks, who shall have the same powers, compensation, and duties, as other commissioners and clerks and shall serve in the place and stead of the absentee or delinquent appointees.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1856 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1856. Oath of commissioners and clerks of election

RS 1856 - Oath of commissioners and clerks of election Commissioners and clerks of the elections, before opening the polls, shall be sworn to perform all the duties incumbent upon them. The oath shall be taken before any officer authorized to administer oaths, or by the clerk and each commissioner before any other commissioner. The commissioners of election may administer any oath and receive any affidavit provided for in this Part.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1857 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1857. Method of voting

RS 1857 - Method of voting  Each voter's name shall be written on his ballot. The commissioners of election shall receive the ballot of each voter, check his name on the list of voters furnished by the registrar as having voted, enter and number his name on the list of taxpayers voting, and immediately deposit his ballot in the ballot box, reserving to each voter the right to so fold his ballot that it shall not be known at the time of voting whether he voted for or against the proposition or propositions submitted.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1858 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1858. Voting hours

RS 1858 - Voting hours  The polls shall open, on the day appointed, at seven o'clock A.M. and shall remain open until and not later than six o'clock P.M. No election shall be vitiated by a failure to open the polls at the time prescribed, or by closing before the time prescribed, unless, on a contest, it be established that voters were thereby deprived of votes sufficient in number and amount to have changed the result of the election.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1859 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1859. Counting of votes

RS 1859 - Counting of votes  Immediately after the closing of the polls, the commissioners shall, in the presence of the bystanders open the ballot boxes, count the ballots found therein, check the ballots with the list of voters kept, proceed to count the votes in number and amount, keep in duplicate tally sheets showing the votes in number in favor of and against the propositions submitted and showing the valuation of property in favor of and against the propositions, make in duplicate a compiled statement of the vote in number and amount, both in favor and against each proposition. After swearing to the correctness of the numbered list of voters, the duplicate tally sheets, and duplicate compiled statements, they shall deposit the ballots, the registrar's list of voters, the numbered list of taxpayers voting, one duplicate tally sheet, and one duplicate compiled statement, in the ballot box, immediately seal the ballot box and within forty-eight hours after the closing of the polls, deliver the sealed ballot box with its contents to the board of commissioners ordering the election. They shall, within forty-eight hours after the closing of the polls, deliver the duplicate tally sheet and the duplicate compiled statement to the clerk of the district court of the parish in which the election has been held, who shall file the statement in his office. If the election commissioners, on counting the ballots, find that they do not correspond with the list of voters, they shall before examining and counting the ballots, examine the ballots for the purpose of finding the discrepancy. If it is found that any ballots have been duplicated the ballots shall be destroyed, or if it is found that the name of a voter has been omitted from the list of persons voting, the name of the voter shall be added to the list.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1860 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1860. Canvass of returns; declaration and promulgation of results

RS 1860 - Canvass of returns; declaration and promulgation of results  On the day and hour and at the place named in the notice of election, the board of commissioners ordering the election shall, in public session, open the ballot boxes, examine and count the ballots in number and amount, examine and canvass the returns and declare the result of the election. The result shall be promulgated by publication in one issue of a newspaper published in the parish, or in an adjoining parish where no newspaper is published in the parish.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1861 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1861. Proces verbal of canvass

RS 1861 - Proces verbal of canvass  The board of commissioners ordering the election shall keep a proces verbal of the canvass and shall forward a certified copy thereof to the Secretary of State, who shall record the same; another certified copy to clerk of the district court, who shall also record it in the mortgage records; and the remaining copy shall be retained in the archives of the office of the board of commissioners ordering the election.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1862 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1862. Preservation of ballots and returns

RS 1862 - Preservation of ballots and returns  The custodian of the archives or records of the board of commissioners ordering the election shall preserve, for a period of three months from the date of the promulgation of the election, the ballots and other returns thereof.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1863 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1863. Resolution for assumption of indebtedness

RS 1863 - Resolution for assumption of indebtedness  If a majority in number and amount of the qualified property taxpayers voting at the election shall vote in favor of the proposition for the consolidated gravity drainage district to assume the outstanding bonded debt and other indebtedness of any drainage district or districts, wholly within the parish, the board of commissioners of the consolidated gravity drainage district, after promulgation of the result of the election shall by resolution, on behalf of the consolidated gravity drainage district, assume the outstanding bonded debt or other indebtedness, which shall be fully set forth in the resolution as to the amount, rate of interest, maturity, numbers, denominations, and places of payment.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1864 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1864. Liabilities and duties; rights, revenues, and resources

RS 1864 - Liabilities and duties; rights, revenues, and resources  Upon the adoption of the resolution provided for in R.S. 38:1863, the consolidated gravity drainage district shall succeed to and become charged with all the liabilities and duties with respect to the assumption of the bonded and other indebtedness, and shall succeed to and be vested with all the rights, revenues, resources, jurisdiction, authority and powers, with respect to the bonded debt and other indebtedness assumed, of the district or districts whose debt shall have been assumed, under and by authority of this Part. The board of commissioners of the consolidated gravity drainage district shall apply the revenues and resources of the district or districts whose bonded and other indebtedness have been assumed to the payment, in principal and interest, of the entire debt assumed. Nothing in this Part contained however shall operate to extinguish the corporate existence of any drainage district or districts, and the district or districts shall continue to exist as a corporate entity until all debts and obligations have been paid.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1865 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1865. Tax levy for payment of indebtedness

RS 1865 - Tax levy for payment of indebtedness  The board of commissioners of any consolidated gravity drainage district assuming the outstanding bonded and other indebtedness of any drainage district or districts, shall impose and collect annually, in excess of all other taxes, a tax, on all the property subject to taxation by the board of commissioners under the constitution and laws of Louisiana, sufficient in amount to pay the interest annually or semiannually, and the principal falling due each year. The tax shall be levied and collected by the same officers, at the same time and in the same manner as the general taxes of the parish. Should any board neglect or fail for any reason to impose or collect sufficient taxes for the payment of the principal or interest of any bonded indebtedness assumed hereunder, any person in interest may enforce imposition and collection thereof in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and any suit, action, or proceeding brought by the person, in interest, shall be a preferred cause, and shall be heard and disposed of without delay. In the event of any default in the imposition and collection of taxes required for the payment of the principal and interest on any bonded debt assumed hereunder, the taxation officers of the state shall impose and collect the taxes and shall certify the taxes, and cause the taxes to be imposed and collected at the same time and in the same manner as the taxes for state purposes are imposed and collected in the consolidated gravity drainage district assuming the debt. All the articles and provisions of the Constitution of 1921, and all the laws in force or that may be hereafter enacted, regulating and relating to the collection of the taxes and tax sales shall also apply to and regulate the collection of the special taxes imposed under the provisions of this Part, through the officers whose duty it shall be to collect the taxes and moneys due the consolidated gravity drainage district imposing the special taxes.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1866 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1866. Compliance with other statutes not required

RS 1866 - Compliance with other statutes not required  This Part shall be full authority for the assumption of the outstanding bonded debt and other indebtedness of any drainage district or districts by the consolidated gravity drainage district in this Part authorized. No ordinance, resolution, or proceeding in respect to the assumption of any outstanding bonded debt or other indebtedness of any drainage district or districts, shall be necessary, except as required by this Part. No promulgation or publication of any resolution, ordinance or proceeding relating to the assumption of said debt shall be necessary, except as required by this Part. Any publication prescribed hereby may be made in any newspaper conforming to the terms of this Part, without regard to designation thereof as the official journal of the parish.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1867 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1867. Contest of legality of proceedings

RS 1867 - Contest of legality of proceedings  For a period of sixty days from the date of the promulgation of the result of any election held under the provisions of this Part, any person in interest may contest the legality of the election, the assumption of debt provided hereunder or the tax authorized, for any cause. After this time, no one shall have any cause or right of action to contest the legality, formality, or regularity of the election, debt assumption, or tax levy, for any cause whatsoever. If the validity of any election, debt assumption, or tax levy authorized or provided for under the provisions of this Part is not raised within the sixty days herein prescribed, the authority to assume the debt, the regularity thereof and of the taxes necessary to pay the debt shall be conclusively presumed and no court shall have authority to inquire into the matters. If any resolution be adopted or proceeding had more than thirty days after the promulgation of the result of the election, no contest, action, or proceeding to question the authority of legality of the resolution or proceeding so adopted 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 was adopted or proceeding had.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1868 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1868. Powers of election officials; offenses in connection with elections

RS 1868 - Powers of election officials; offenses in connection with elections  The commissioners and clerks of elections held under the provisions of this Part shall have the powers and duties in conducting the election, and in preserving order at the polls, as are conferred and imposed upon similar officers under the general election laws of this state. Whatever is declared in the general election laws to be a felony, other crime or misdemeanor, shall be such for any election held under the provisions of this Part and shall be punished in the same manner.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1869 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1869. Submission of several questions at one time

RS 1869 - Submission of several questions at one time  The board of commissioners of any consolidated gravity drainage district shall submit the question of the assumption of district debts to the qualified voters at the same time that an election shall be ordered for the purpose of incurring debt and issuing bonds authorized by law. If more than one proposition be submitted at the same special election, each proposition shall be so submitted on the ballot and shall be so stated in the notice of election so as to enable the voter to vote thereon separately.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1901 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1901. Acreage tax or forced contribution for maintenance, improvements, and repairs

RS 1901 - Acreage tax or forced contribution for maintenance, improvements, and repairs  The governing authority of any gravity drainage district or gravity sub-drainage district when authorized so to do by a vote of a majority in number and amount of the property tax payers qualified to vote under the Constitution and laws of this state in the gravity drainage district or gravity sub-drainage district, may levy and collect an acreage tax or forced contribution not to exceed thirty-five cents per acre per year on the land in the gravity drainage district or gravity sub-drainage district for a period not to exceed ten years. The acreage tax or forced contribution shall not be funded into bonds but shall be annually collected and used for the purpose of maintaining, improving, and keeping in repair the system of gravity drainage constructed in the gravity drainage district or gravity sub-drainage district, all within the limits prescribed in the provisions of Section 14 of Article XIV of the Constitution.