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LA Rev Stat § 38:1902 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1902. Ad valorem tax for maintenance, construction, and improvement

RS 1902 - Ad valorem tax for maintenance, construction, and improvement  The governing authority of any gravity drainage or gravity sub-drainage district when authorized to do so by a vote of the resident property tax payers qualified to vote in the drainage district or sub-drainage district, of a majority, both in number and amount, may levy and collect a tax not to exceed five mills on the dollar upon all property subject to taxation in the drainage district or sub-drainage district and to run for a period not to exceed ten years. The tax shall be used for the purpose of maintaining, constructing, and improving drainage works within the territorial limits of the drainage district or sub-drainage district. The tax shall not be funded into bonds but shall be collected annually by the tax collector of the parish in which the drainage district or sub-drainage district is located, for the use and benefit of the drainage district or sub-drainage district.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1903 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1903. Indebtedness and taxes for completion of drainage system

RS 1903 - Indebtedness and taxes for completion of drainage system  When debts have been incurred and ad valorem or acreage taxes have been levied, as authorized by the provisions of Section 14 of Article XIV of the Constitution of 1921, for the construction of a gravity drainage system, gravity drainage districts and gravity sub-drainage districts through their respective governing authorities may, without further submission to the property taxpayers, incur an additional indebtedness and levy an additional ad valorem or acreage tax or forced contribution, and fund the tax into bonds, all within the limits prescribed in the provisions of the Constitution for the purpose of perfecting and completing, or of paying the expense or cost of perfecting and completing, the system of gravity drainage, eighty per cent of which shall have been accomplished at the time of incurring the additional indebtedness and the levying of the additional taxes.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1904 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1904. Procedure

RS 1904 - Procedure  In any case where it becomes necessary, or it is desired, by the governing authority of any gravity drainage district or sub-drainage district to exercise the authority granted by R.S. 38:1903, the governing authority shall first cause to be made, by its supervising engineer or other competent engineer, an estimate of the work already done on the system of drainage which has been adopted, and if it be found by the estimate that eighty per cent, or more, of the system has been completed, the governing authority shall authorize, by proper ordinance, the creation of an additional indebtedness and shall levy an additional ad valorem or acreage tax or forced contribution, and fund the tax into bonds, for the purpose of perfecting and completing the system of gravity drainage, or of paying any indebtedness incurred or to be incurred in completing the system, not to exceed, however, twenty per cent of the total cost of the system of drainage. All other or further procedure for this purpose, shall be as provided by law for the creation of indebtedness, the levying of taxes and forced contributions and the funding of taxes into bonds by gravity districts or gravity sub-drainage districts for gravity drainage purposes, except that it shall not be necessary to submit the proposition to the vote of the property taxpayers.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1921 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1921. Repealed by Acts 2018, No. 661, §5.

RS 1921 - Repealed by Acts 2018, No. 661, §5.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1951 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1951. §§1951 to 1963 Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 785, §2, eff. July 22, 1985.

RS 1951 - §§1951 to 1963 Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 785, §2, eff. July 22, 1985.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1992 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1992. Right of parishes to create drainage districts; refusal of parish to join

RS 1992 - Right of parishes to create drainage districts; refusal of parish to join  Nothing in this Part shall be construed as abridging or affecting in any respect and there is hereby specially reserved to the parishes of Ouachita, Morehouse, and Richland and the property owners and the resident landowners of the parishes, and any part thereof, the right to organize, create, and maintain drainage districts and subdrainage districts, with all the privileges, powers, authority, and functions provided and conferred by the Constitution and general laws of Louisiana on the subject. Nothing in this Part shall be construed as abridging or affecting in any respect the right of either of the parishes acting in the interest of the property owners of the parish to refuse to join in and become a part of the levee and drainage district.  Amended by Acts 1952, No. 127, §13.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1993 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1993. Board of commissioners

RS 1993 - Board of commissioners  The corporation shall be governed, and all its corporate powers are vested in a board of five commissioners, three of whom shall be actual bona fide residents, and citizens, and owners of real estate in the Lafourche Basin Levee and Drainage District. The commissioners shall be appointed, one from each parish by the respective governing authorities of the parishes, who shall serve for four years, and two of the commissioners shall be appointed by the governor, who shall serve for six years. The commissioners appointed by the governor shall be residents of Louisiana and owners of real estate in the Lafourche Basin Levee and Drainage District, but may not actually reside within the district. The commissioners shall elect one of their own number president, one, vice-president, and one, secretary and treasurer, who shall serve for two years. The board shall elect its officers every two years, but all officers shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1994 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1994. By-laws, rules and regulations; meetings; statement of affairs; audit and inspection of books and vouchers

RS 1994 - By-laws, rules and regulations; meetings; statement of affairs; audit and inspection of books and vouchers  The board of commissioners may adopt all by-laws, rules, and regulations necessary for its own government and the proper conduct of its affairs, and fix the time for its meetings. The board shall meet at least once every three months. The secretary and treasurer shall make and publish a detailed statement of the affairs of the corporation on the first day of January and June of each year and all the books and vouchers of the corporation shall be subject to the audit and inspection of the State Auditor.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1995 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1995. Corporate powers

RS 1995 - Corporate powers  The corporation in its corporate name may sue and be sued, contract, purchase, own, lease, and mortgage property, real, personal, and mixed. The board may borrow money and issue negotiable bonds and secure the bonds by mortgage, pledge, and hypothecation of its property, real, personal, mixed, its taxes, local assessments, forced contributions, and acreage taxes. It may exercise the right of eminent domain and expropriate property according to law in and out of the district when necessary to drain the lands in the Drainage District and make and use a common seal. It shall have all the powers and authority conferred on corporations of this class and drainage and subdrainage districts by the Constitution and laws of Louisiana, and all powers and authority conferred on drainage and sub-drainage districts, organized under the general laws of Louisiana relative to drainage, sub-drainage and drainage districts.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1996 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1996. Name of corporation; domicile; citation and other process

RS 1996 - Name of corporation; domicile; citation and other process  The legal title of the corporation shall be the Lafourche Basin Levee and Drainage District. The domicile of the corporation shall be in the city of Monroe, Louisiana, where its principal office shall be maintained and all of its books and records kept. Citation and all other legal process shall be served on the president, and in his absence, on the secretary and treasurer, at the domicile of the corporation.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1997 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1997. Elections

RS 1997 - Elections  In all elections levying special taxes, local assessments, forced contributions, and acreage taxes, held in the Lafourche Basin Levee and Drainage District, the governing authority thereof shall proceed in the manner and according to the provisions of the Constitution and laws of Louisiana governing the elections in political subdivisions of the state.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1998 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1998. Levy and collection of taxes, assessments and forced contributions

RS 1998 - Levy and collection of taxes, assessments and forced contributions  All taxes, special taxes, local assessments, forced contributions and acreage taxes, levied, assessed and collected in the Lafourche Basin Levee and Drainage District shall be levied, assessed, and collected according to the Constitution and laws of Louisiana relative to the collection of taxes, special taxes, local assessments and forced contributions and acreage taxes in drainage districts organized under the general laws.
LA Rev Stat § 38:1999 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§1999. Classes of lands or sub-drainage districts

RS 1999 - Classes of lands or sub-drainage districts  The board of commissioners may divide the lands in the Lafourche Basin Levee and Drainage District into classes or sub-drainage districts, and tax, locally assess, and impose forced contributions and acreage taxes on the lands in the classes or sub-drainage districts in proportion to the benefits derived by the land from the drainage. All lands in the same class or sub-drainage districts shall pay an equal tax, local assessment, enforced contribution or acreage taxes.
LA Rev Stat § 38:2021 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§2021. §§2021 to 2032 Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 785, §2, eff. July 22, 1985.

RS 2021 - §§2021 to 2032 Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 785, §2, eff. July 22, 1985.
LA Rev Stat § 38:2041 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§2041. Creation of district; limits

RS 2041 - Creation of district; limits  There is hereby created the Rapides Parish Stormwater Management and Drainage District, composed of Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8 of the parish of Rapides. The district shall be a corporation and political subdivision of the state. The district is created for the purposes herein set forth and shall be responsible for all major drainage in Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8 of Rapides Parish, excluding the Red River and its levees, and local drainage along streets, highways, and roads.  Added by Acts 1982, No. 69, §1. Acts 1984, No. 787, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 38:2042 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§2042. Board of commissioners; qualification of members; appointment; tenure; vacancies; removal of members

RS 2042 - Board of commissioners; qualification of members; appointment; tenure; vacancies; removal of members  A. The control and management of the affairs of the Rapides Parish Stormwater Management and Drainage District shall be vested in a board of commissioners, which is hereby created. The board shall be composed of five qualified electors residing within the limits of the district, who shall serve without compensation.  The commissioners shall be appointed as follows:  (1) One member, who shall be a resident of the city of Alexandria, shall be appointed by the governing authority of the city of Alexandria.  (2) One member, who shall be a resident of the city of Pineville, shall be appointed by the governing authority of the city of Pineville.  (3) One member, who shall be a resident of Rapides Parish, shall be appointed by the Rapides Farm Bureau.  (4) One member, who shall be a resident of Rapides Parish shall be appointed by the Board of Directors of the Rapides Soil and Water Conservation District.  (5) One member, who shall be a resident of Rapides Parish, shall be appointed by the governing authority of Rapides Parish. The commissioners initially appointed shall draw lots to determine their terms of office, which shall be one, two, three, four, and five years, respectively; they shall serve until their successors have been appointed and qualified. The commissioners thereafter appointed at the expiration of the respective terms of the initial appointees shall be appointed in the manner of the original appointments for terms of five years.  B. Vacancies shall be filled in accordance with the procedure set forth in Subsection A of this Section. In case of neglect of duty by any commissioner, or his failure without good cause to attend regular meetings for three times successively, the respective appointing authority, on request of the board, shall remove the commissioner and appoint his successor.  Added by Acts 1982, No. 69, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 38:2043 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§2043. Meetings of board; officers; salaries and expenses

RS 2043 - Meetings of board; officers; salaries and expenses  The board shall convene and hold its first meeting in the city of Alexandria within sixty days after the appointment of commissioners. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum to do business. The board shall elect one of its members president and shall appoint a secretary, and shall fix the salaries or compensation of the president and secretary. The board shall designate the time and place for holding regular meetings. Special meetings may be held at such times and places as shall be specified by call of the president or of two of the commissioners. In the case of the death or resignation of the president, the secretary shall call the board together to fill the vacancy. In case of absence, inability, or failure to act of the president, the board shall appoint one of its number to serve as chairman, and the person so appointed shall perform all the duties of the president.  Added by Acts 1982, No. 69, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 38:2045 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§2045. Corporate status and powers of board; domicile; evidence of acts and proceedings; deposit of funds; warrants

RS 2045 - Corporate status and powers of board; domicile; evidence of acts and proceedings; deposit of funds; warrants  The board of commissioners shall constitute a body corporate in law, with all the powers of a corporation, and with all the powers and rights of a political subdivision of the state relative to the incurring of debt and the issuing of bonds therefor. The domicile of the board shall be designated by the members at the first regular meeting of the board. The board may buy and sell property, incur debt, and contract obligations in accordance with law, sue and be sued, and perform any and all acts in its corporate capacity and in its corporate name which are necessary and proper for carrying out the purposes and objects for which it is created. The board shall have a corporate seal, and copies of all the regulations and copies of proceedings of the board certified by its secretary, under its corporate seal, shall be received in all courts as prima facie evidence of the acts and proceedings of the board. All funds of the board shall be deposited in an account or accounts to the credit of the district and expended as provided herein.  Added by Acts 1982, No. 69, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 38:2046 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§2046. District tax; collection and allocation of proceeds thereof

RS 2046 - District tax; collection and allocation of proceeds thereof  For the purpose of providing revenue to carry out the objects contemplated hereby, the board may levy and collect annually a tax on all property in the district subject to a district tax under the authority of Article VI, Section 32 of the Constitution of Louisiana, pursuant to an election called by the board and held for that purpose. The assessors shall extend the tax on the tax roll, and the tax collector shall collect the district tax in the same manner as other district taxes are collected. The avails of this tax are to be used for the acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance, or operation of facilities or improvements, including the cost of relocating pipelines and public utility facilities.  Added by Acts 1982, No. 69, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 38:2047 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§2047. Authority to issue bonds

RS 2047 - Authority to issue bonds  In addition to the right to levy taxes as herein provided, the district shall have the power to issue bonds for the purpose of constructing, acquiring, extending, and improving drains and drainage facilities of the district pursuant to Article VI, Section 33 of the Constitution of Louisiana; Subpart A of Part III of Chapter 4 of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950; and other constitutional and statutory authority supplemental thereto. Such bonds may be issued in an amount not exceeding ten percent of the assessed valuation of the district at the time the bonds are issued. The bonds and the interest thereon shall be exempt from all taxation in the state of Louisiana.  Added by Acts 1982, No. 69, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 38:2048 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§2048. Liberal construction

RS 2048 - Liberal construction  This Part, being intended to carry out a function of the state to protect the health and welfare of the inhabitants of the portion of the state to be affected hereby, shall be liberally construed by the courts to effect its purposes.  Added by Acts 1982, No. 69, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 38:2101 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§2101. Creation of district by police jury

RS 2101 - Creation of district by police jury  A. As used in this Chapter the term "police jury" means the parish governing authority unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.  B. The lands comprising one or more parishes or comprising any portion or portions of one or more parishes may be formed into an irrigation district. The police juries of the several parishes of this state may create and establish irrigation districts in the manner herein provided.  C. All land that cannot receive any benefit from the operation of an irrigation district shall be excluded from the district at the time it is created.  Amended by Acts 1956, No. 462, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 38:2102 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§2102. Creation of district upon petition of landowners; lands in more than one parish

RS 2102 - Creation of district upon petition of landowners; lands in more than one parish  Police juries shall create and form irrigation districts when a petition to do so is filed by the property owners owning a majority of the acres of land within the limits of a proposed irrigation district, outside of the corporate limits of incorporated towns and cities. The petition shall describe the area to be included in the irrigation district, shall designate the name and domicile of the district and the names of the first commissioners thereof, and shall be signed by the petitioners. The petition shall be accompanied by a map showing the area to be included within the proposed irrigation district and the boundaries thereof, by a certificate of the clerk of court and exofficio recorder of the parish or parishes in which the land is situated certifying to the ownership of the land to be included in the irrigation district, outside the corporate limits of incorporated towns and cities, together with the acreage of each owner, as appears from the records of his office. If the ownership of any land is unknown, this fact shall also be made to appear by the certificate. Clerks of court and recorders of the parishes of the state shall furnish the certificate.  In creating an irrigation district composed of lands situated in more than one parish, the petition to create the district must be signed by the property owners owning a majority of the acres of land in each parish within the proposed district, outside of the corporate limits of incorporated towns and cities. The petition shall be presented to the police jury of the parish having the largest number of acres of land in the proposed irrigation district, outside of the corporate limits of incorporated towns and cities, and the irrigation district shall then be created by ordinance of the police jury.
LA Rev Stat § 38:2103 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§2103. Recordation of ordinance creating district; publication

RS 2103 - Recordation of ordinance creating district; publication  Certified copies of all ordinances of police juries creating irrigation districts under the provisions of this Part shall be recorded in the mortgage records of each parish in which any of the land is situated comprising the irrigation district.  The ordinance creating the irrigation district, after having been so recorded, shall be published once a week for two successive weeks in the official journal of each parish in which any lands of the district are situated. If there is no official journal in a parish, then copies of the ordinance shall be posted on the principal front door of the court house of the district court of each parish in which any lands of the district are situated, and shall also be posted at not less than four other public places within the irrigation district.
LA Rev Stat § 38:2104 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements|§2104. Contesting legality of district; appeal

RS 2104 - Contesting legality of district; appeal Any interested person desiring to contest the legality of any irrigation district created under this Part shall do so by suit against the irrigation district brought in the district court of the domicile of the district within sixty calendar days from the date of the second publication, or of the date of the last posting of the ordinance creating the district as herein provided. No right to bring any contest of legality shall exist and no court shall have jurisdiction to entertain any contest after the lapse of the sixty days.  If no contest is filed within the sixty days, it shall be conclusively presumed that in every particular the irrigation district was regularly and legally created, and that all lands embraced within the boundaries of the district are properly and legally included therein.  Any suit brought under the provisions of this section shall be tried summarily and by preference over all other cases and without the intervention of a jury. Appeal may be had as in other cases and shall be heard and determined in a summary manner.