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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2552. District as political subdivision and budgetary unit; purpose; free use of water by municipalities of Ruston and Farmerville

RS 38:2552 - District as political subdivision and budgetary unit; purpose; free use of water by municipalities of Ruston and Farmerville
The Bayou D'Arbonne Lake Watershed District shall be a political subdivision of the State of Louisiana and a budgetary unit of the State of Louisiana, which shall have as its purpose the conservation of soil and water, developing the natural resources and wealth of the district for sanitary, agricultural and recreational purposes, as the same may be conducive to the public health, safety, convenience or welfare or of public utility or benefit. The creation of the Bayou D'Arbonne Lake within the said district as hereinafter authorized shall be for the purpose of conserving the soil and water and developing the natural resources and wealth of the district for sanitary, agricultural or recreational purposes, as the same may be conducive to the public health or public utility or benefit.
The municipalities of Ruston and Farmerville are hereby authorized to draw upon and use any water resources or water supply of Bayou D'Arbonne Lake for the benefit and consumption of the residents of those municipalities and such other persons who may use or be served by the water supply system of those municipalities. No charge therefor shall be assessed against said municipalities or any persons served by them. The board of commissioners of the Bayou D'Arbonne Lake Watershed District shall comply and cooperate with said municipalities in their exercise of the authority granted herein.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §2. Amended by Acts 1970, No. 542, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2553. Body corporate; powers

RS 38:2553 - Body corporate; powers
The Bayou D'Arbonne Lake Watershed District 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 as provided by the laws of the state relating to the incurring of debt and the issuing of bonds therefor. This district, through its board of commissioners, may incur debt and issue negotiable bonds in accordance with the power and authority and in the form and manner, and with the effect and security now or hereafter provided by the constitution and laws of the state of Louisiana. This district, through its board of commissioners, may incur debt and contract obligations in accordance with law, sue and be sued, have a corporate seal, and do 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 object for which it is created. It shall have the power of eminent domain and may expropriate property for all its purposes and objectives. Through its governing authority, the district may conserve the fresh water supply within its boundaries for the benefit of the inhabitants and property owners within said district and state, to provide water for commercial, municipal and any other uses, both within and without the district. It may construct, lease, maintain, acquire, enlarge and operate any machinery or do any other thing necessary for the use and purpose of the district. It may own in full ownership all servitudes, rights of way, flowage rights and may acquire same by donation, prescription, purchase, expropriation, or otherwise.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §3.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2554. Dam construction; board of commissioners created

RS 38:2554 - Dam construction; board of commissioners created
The department of public works is hereby granted the power and authority and is hereby directed to build and construct such dams and other works as may be necessary or beneficial to carry out the purposes of this Part and to create and impound an industrial water supply, in accordance with a survey and estimates to be made and established by the engineers of the said department. The board of commissioners of the Bayou D'Arbonne Lake Watershed District, with its powers and duties as defined herein, is hereby created and established for the purpose of aiding and assisting the said department of public works during the actual construction stage and process of this project, and is established as the governing authority of said district after the completion of the construction process by the said department of public works of the state of Louisiana.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §4.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2555. Board to govern; membership; tenure; vacancies; compensation

RS 38:2555 - Board to govern; membership; tenure; vacancies; compensation
A. Commencing September 12, 1980, the said district shall be governed by the board of commissioners of the Bayou D'Arbonne Lake Watershed District, to be composed of seven commissioners appointed by the governor, each of whom shall be a qualified elector of the state of Louisiana and who resides within the limits of Lincoln or Union parishes. Any vacancy in the office of commissioner, due to death, resignation, or any other cause, shall be filled by the governor for the unexpired term. Each appointment by the governor shall be submitted to the Senate for confirmation.
B. The members of the board of commissioners shall receive no compensation for their services.
C. Each member of the board of commissioners shall serve a term of four years from the date of his appointment to the board.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §5. Amended by Acts 1966, No. 448, §1; Acts 1970, No. 542, §1; Acts 1980, No. 375, §1; Acts 2003, No. 774, §10.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2556. Oaths

RS 38:2556 - Oaths
Before entering upon his official duties, each commissioner of the district created hereby shall take and subscribe to an oath before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths, that he will honestly, faithfully, and impartially perform the duties devolving upon him as a commissioner of said district and that he will not neglect any of the duties imposed upon him hereby. The oaths of the commissioner shall be recorded in the oath book of the parish of which said commissioner is a resident.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §6.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2557. Election of officers; record book; public inspection

RS 38:2557 - Election of officers; record book; public inspection
Immediately after the commissioners have been appointed by the governor, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the commissioners shall meet and immediately organize by electing officers as follows: They shall elect from among their number a president, who shall preside over the meetings of the board and perform such other duties as are usually required of presidents of corporate bodies, and also a vice president, who shall perform the duties of the president in case of his absence or disability.
The board shall cause to be kept a well-bound book entitled "Record Book of Bayou D'Arbonne Lake Watershed District", in which shall be recorded the minutes of all meetings, all proceedings, certificates, oaths of commissioners, bonds of employees and contractors, and any and all corporate acts. The records shall be in the possession of the secretary of the board and shall be open to public inspection at all times by any person interested.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §7.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2559. Rules and regulations

RS 38:2559 - Rules and regulations
In order to accomplish the purposes of the district, to protect the works, improvements and property of the district, both real and personal; to secure the best results from the construction, operation, and maintenance thereof, and to prevent damage to the district by the misuse of any works, improvements or properties or by the pollution or misuse of the waters of the district or any water course therein, the board of commissioners may make and enforce such rules and regulations as it shall deem necessary and advisable.
(1) To protect and preserve the works, improvements and properties owned or controlled by the district, prescribe the manner of their use by public corporations and persons, and preserve order within and adjacent thereto;
(2) To prescribe the manner of building bridges, roads, or fences or other works in, along or across any channel, reservoir or other construction of the district;
(3) To prescribe the manner in which ditches, sewers, pipelines or other works shall be adjusted to or connected with the works of the district or any water course therein and the manner in which the water courses of the district may be used for sewer outlets or for disposal of waste;
(4) To prescribe the permissible uses of the water supply, provided by the impoundment constructed as hereinafter set forth and to collect therefor and the manner of its distribution and to prevent the pollution or unnecessary waste of such water supply;
(5) To prohibit or regulate the discharge into sewers of the district of any liquid or solid waste deemed detrimental to the works and improvements of the district;
(6) To coordinate and cooperate with the state department of public works, and be guided by the plans and program of the said department, in the construction by the latter of a necessary and adequate dam and impoundment on Bayou D'Arbonne at or near Section 23, Township 20 North, Range 1 East, Union Parish, Louisiana;
(7) REPEALED BY ACTS 1993, NO. 830, §2.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §9; Acts 1993, No. 830, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2560. Department of public works; general powers

RS 38:2560 - Department of public works; general powers
The department of public works of the state of Louisiana is hereby authorized to do and to perform all acts necessary to construct, lease, acquire in any manner, maintain, and operate dikes, dams, reservoirs, storage basins, locks, levees, flumes, conduits, spillways and any and all structures necessary, suitable or convenient for the purpose of the construction and creation of Bayou D'Arbonne Lake and the dam creating such lake located on or near the Northwest Quarter of Section 23, Township 20 North, Range 1 East, Union Parish, Louisiana across Bayou D'Arbonne, in accordance with appropriate plans of the engineers of the said department of public works and the survey or surveys made or to be made by the department in connection with the creation and construction of the said Bayou D'Arbonne Lake.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §10.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2561. Enumerated powers

RS 38:2561 - Enumerated powers
In order to accomplish the purposes of the district and the creation and construction of the said lake, the state department of public works is hereby authorized:
(1) To purchase, hold, sell and convey land and personal property and execute such contracts as may be deemed necessary or convenient to enable it to properly carry out the purpose of the construction of the said dam, spillway across said Bayou D'Arbonne and the creation, control and organization of Bayou D'Arbonne Lake;
(2) To acquire servitudes, rights of way and flowage rights, by purchase or expropriation;
(3) To assist in conserving the soil and water and in developing the water resources of the district;
(4) To contract for the construction of the proposed works and improvements;
(5) To construct any drainage works or improvements for the control, retention, diversion or utilization of water; retard runoff of water and soil erosion; construct any ditch, channel improvement, dike, dam or levee and repair, improve and maintain any of said improvements or structures;
(6) Acquire such personal property, by gift or purchase, as is necessary in the construction of said dam and the creation of the said D'Arbonne Lake;
(7) To do any and all things necessary or incident to the fulfillment of the purposes of this Part.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §11.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2562. Execution of work; contracts; bond

RS 38:2562 - Execution of work; contracts; bond
The state department of public works may execute any and all work with its own force and equipment and under its own supervision or the work may be executed on behalf of and for the benefit of the said district by the state of Louisiana, or any agency, department or commission thereof by contract and the contract for all or any part of the work herein authorized may be let by the state department of public works, with or without advertisement, on the terms and subject to the conditions which the said department may determine. The person or firm to whom the contract or contracts is awarded shall furnish, within the delay fixed by the department of public works, a bond of a surety company authorized to do business in the state of Louisiana, in the amount required by the laws relating to contracts for public work, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the work in accordance with the plans and specifications of the engineers of the state department of public works and the terms of the contract. The department may demand any other bonds and obligations which the laws relating to public works contracts require the contractor to give.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §12.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2563. Right of eminent domain

RS 38:2563 - Right of eminent domain
The state department of public works is hereby granted the power of eminent domain and the right to expropriate any and all lands, flowage rights, servitudes, and rights of way necessary and convenient for the construction of the said dam, spillway, reservoir, storage basins, locks, levees, flumes, conduits, spillways or other structures necessary, suitable or convenient in connection with the construction thereof, as well as for the creation of the said lake, impoundment and reservoir within the boundaries as hereinabove set forth.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §13.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2564. Supervisory control over board

RS 38:2564 - Supervisory control over board
All the powers and duties conferred upon the board of commissioners herein shall be subject to the supervisory control of the department of public works of the state of Louisiana and to the wildlife and fisheries commission of the state of Louisiana or its successor, with jurisdiction by the latter over the fish, game and wildlife of the state of Louisiana and of the said Bayou D'Arbonne Lake Watershed District.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §14.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2566. Contracts let by board; bond

RS 38:2566 - Contracts let by board; bond
Subject to the supervisory control of the state department of public works, any and all contracts of the district may be let by the board of commissioners, with advertisement, on the terms and subject to the conditions which it may fix in the ordinance or advertisement calling for bids. The person or firm to whom any contract is awarded shall furnish, within the delay fixed by the board, a bond of a surety company authorized to do business in the state of Louisiana, in the amount required by the laws relating to contracts for public works, and conditioned that the work shall be performed in accordance with the plans and specifications of the engineers of the state department of public works, and the terms of the contract, and the board shall demand any other bonds and obligations which the laws relating to public works contracts required the contractor to give.
The board of commissioners and the state department of public works may execute any and all work with its own force and equipment and under its own supervision or the work may be executed on behalf of and for the benefit of the district by the state of Louisiana, or any agency, department or commission thereof.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §16.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2567. Playgrounds, parks and other facilities; limitation

RS 38:2567 - Playgrounds, parks and other facilities; limitation
The board of commissioners, under the supervisory control of the state department of public works, shall have the power to cause to be created and constructed playgrounds, picnic grounds, grounds for recreation parks, and any and all other facilities to accommodate the public and to provide adequate access to the said lake, as may within the opinion of the said board become necessary but not to exceed two acres at any one place, and said district shall have the right of eminent domain and expropriation in the exercise of such powers.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §17.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2568. Attorney general as counsel

RS 38:2568 - Attorney general as counsel
The attorney general of the state of Louisiana and his assistants shall be and are hereby designated as counsel for the state department of public works and the said district in the execution of the purposes of this Part and are hereby charged with the responsibility of representing the said state department of public works and the board of commissioners in any and all matters when called upon to do so.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §18.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2569. Management of fish, game, and wildlife

RS 38:2569 - Management of fish, game, and wildlife
A, B, C. REPEALED BY ACTS 1993, NO. 830, §2.
D. The board of commissioners of the Bayou D'Arbonne Lake Watershed District shall have authority to establish and cause to be enforced rules and regulations pertaining to all commercial establishments which may be constructed for the purpose of commercializing and making commercial use of the facilities provided by the said lake; to license and permit such establishments and to levy and collect a fee, to be fixed by the commission, for the privilege of making commercial use of the facilities of said lake, or to refuse to license or permit any commercial establishment to use the facilities provided by said lake.
E. The rules and regulations established and promulgated by the board of commissioners of the Bayou D'Arbonne Lake Watershed District shall provide penalties for any such commercial establishment operating without a permit or license, and such rules and regulations shall be enforced by the sheriff of the parish within which the district is situated, as hereinafter provided and violations thereof prosecuted by the district attorney of the judicial district within which the Watershed District is situated, as hereinabove provided.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §19. Amended by Acts 1962, No. 194, §4; Acts 1993, No. 830, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2570. Property exempt from taxation

RS 38:2570 - Property exempt from taxation
The lands which lie within and form the D'Arbonne Lake proper shall not be subject to any ad valorem taxation or any other tax of any nature whatsoever by either the state of Louisiana or any of its political subdivisions, for so long as the said lands shall form and lie within the lake proper. All property acquired, however, regardless of the manner in which it is acquired or the source from which it is acquired, shall thereafter become the property of the state of Louisiana for the use and benefit of the Bayou D'Arbonne Lake Watershed District.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §20.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2571. Grant of state lands to district; right of mineral leases unabridged

RS 38:2571 - Grant of state lands to district; right of mineral leases unabridged
All lands belonging to the state of Louisiana which are enclosed in the said area, as provided in R.S. 38:2551, and which are necessary to the erection and maintenance of said Bayou D'Arbonne Lake are hereby granted to the Bayou D'Arbonne Lake Watershed District for the purposes herein set out, but this grant shall in no wise abridge the right of the state to lease the said land for the production of oil, gas and other minerals under the general laws of the state as now provided.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §21.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2572. Individual mineral leases unabridged

RS 38:2572 - Individual mineral leases unabridged
The provisions of this Part shall in no wise abridge the right of any individual from whom the flowage rights, rights of way and servitudes may have been acquired by any means however to lease said lands for the production of oil, gas and other minerals and the right of such lessee or his assignee to produce or cause to be produced oil, gas or other minerals therefrom.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 9, §22.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2573. Bayou D'Arbonne Lake dam and spillway; name

RS 38:2573 - Bayou D'Arbonne Lake dam and spillway; name
A. The dam and spillway at Bayou D'Arbonne Lake is hereby named the "T.T. Fields Dam and Spillway".
B. The Department of Transportation and Development is hereby directed to erect and maintain appropriate signage of this designation.
Acts 2015, No. 33, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2604. Governing board; membership; tenure; vacancies; domicile

RS 38:2604 - Governing board; membership; tenure; vacancies; domicile
A. The district shall be governed and controlled by a board of five commissioners, each of whom shall be a qualified elector of Bossier Parish residing within and owning property within the district. The successors to the present members of the board of commissioners shall be appointed as follows: one by the police jury of Bossier Parish; one by the mayor and governing authority of the city of Bossier City; one by the mayor and governing authority of the village of Benton; one by the Bossier Parish School Board; and the fifth, by the Board of Commissioners of the Bossier Levee District.
B.(1) Any vacancy in the office of the board of commissioners due to death, resignation, or any other cause shall be filled by the remaining commissioners for the unexpired term within forty-five days, if the appointment is not made by the appointing authority pursuant to the provisions of Paragraph (2) of this Subsection.
(2) If a vacancy arises pursuant to the provisions of Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, the appointing authority shall appoint a member of the board of commissioners within thirty days and send notice to the board of commissioners no later than forty-five days after the vacancy by email or regular mail, or both. If the appointing authority fails to timely fill the vacancy, the board of commissioners shall fill the vacancy as provided for in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection.
(3) No later than August 15, 2021, the board of commissioners shall notify each appointing authority listed in Subsection A of this Section as to the expiration date of that appointing authority's appointment to the board of commissioners.
C. Each member of the board of commissioners shall serve a term of five years from the date of his appointment to the board. Notwithstanding R.S. 42:2 or any other provision of law to the contrary, at the end of the term of a member of the board of commissioners, the office shall be considered vacant and the member shall not discharge any duty of office. The vacancy shall be filled as provided for in this Section.
D. The board shall be domiciled at Benton, Louisiana.
Added by Acts 1958, No. 292, §4. Amended by Acts 1966, No. 448, §2; Acts 2021, No. 476, §1, eff. June 29, 2021.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2605. Oaths; per diem allowance

RS 38:2605 - Oaths; per diem allowance
Before entering upon his official duties, each member of the board of commissioners shall take the oath or affirmation required by Article XIX, Section 1, of the Constitution of Louisiana.
Each member of said board shall be entitled to receive, out of available funds of the district, a per diem allowance of forty dollars for each meeting of the board which he attends, but no such allowance shall be paid for more than thirty-six meetings in any calendar year.
Added by Acts 1958, No. 292, §5. Amended by Acts 1967, No. 101, §2; Acts 1974, No. 422, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2606. Election of officers; record book; public inspection

RS 38:2606 - Election of officers; record book; public inspection
Immediately after the members of the board of commissioners have been appointed, or as soon as thereafter is practicable, they shall meet and organize by electing from their number a president, vice-president, and secretary who shall perform the duties normally required of such officers. The board shall also cause the name by which the district is to be known to be recorded in a bound book which shall also be the depository of the minutes and proceedings of the board, certificates, oaths of commissioners, and any and all corporate acts of the board. This book shall be in the custody of the secretary of the board and shall be open for public inspection at all reasonable times.
Added by Acts 1958, No. 292, §6; Acts 2021, No. 476, §1, eff. June 29, 2021.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2607. Fishing activities; prohibition of certain gear

RS 38:2607 - Fishing activities; prohibition of certain gear
The Wildlife and Fisheries Commission may prohibit the recreational and commercial use of hoop nets, gill nets, trammel nets, strike nets, seines, wire nets, wire traps, and slat traps on Cypress Bayou Reservoir and Black Bayou Reservoir. In addition, the board of commissioners of the Cypress-Black Bayou Recreation and Water Conservation District shall maintain public access to Cypress Bayou Reservoir and to Black Bayou Reservoir.
Acts 2002, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 55, §1, eff. April 18, 2002.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2608. Enumerated powers

RS 38:2608 - Enumerated powers
In order to accomplish the purposes of the district and to secure the best results from the construction, operation and maintenance of the works and improvements of the district and to prevent damage to the property of the district, the board of commissioners may make such rules and regulations as it shall deem advisable to:
(1) Protect and preserve the works, machinery, improvements and property owned or controlled by the district and to prescribe the manner of their use;
(2) Prescribe the manner of buildings, bridges, roads, fences or other works in, along or across any channel, reservoir or other construction of the district;
(3) Prescribe the manner in which ditches, sewers, pipelines or other works shall be adjusted to or connected with the facilities of the district or any water course within the district and the manner in which the water courses of the district may be used for the disposal of waste;
(4) Prescribe the permissible uses of the waters of the district made available by its facilities and to prevent the pollution or the unnecessary waste of such water;
(5) Prohibit or regulate the discharge of sewers into the district of any liquid or solid waste deemed detrimental to the waters or facilities of the district.
Added by Acts 1958, No. 292, §8.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2609. Parks, playgrounds and picnic areas for use of district facilities

RS 38:2609 - Parks, playgrounds and picnic areas for use of district facilities
The district shall have the authority to create, construct and administer such recreational parks, playgrounds and picnic areas as the board shall consider necessary for the use and enjoyment of any water facility owned or controlled by the district and shall provide adequate access to any lake or reservoir created by the district for the use of the public.
Added by Acts 1958, No. 292, §9. Amended by Acts 1966, No. 198, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2610. Engineering services by Department of Public Works

RS 38:2610 - Engineering services by Department of Public Works
The Department of Public Works, State of Louisiana, shall furnish to the district such engineering services as it shall require and may cooperate with the district in the construction of any work or facility considered necessary by the district and said department to the purposes of the district. Any moneys appropriated by the state or said department shall be expended under the supervisory control of said department and the board of commissioners of the district may by appropriate contract subject any project to the supervisory control of said department.
Added by Acts 1958, No. 292, §10. Amended by Acts 1966, No. 198, §3.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2611. Retention of mineral rights

RS 38:2611 - Retention of mineral rights
Whenever it shall become necessary for the district or the department of public works, state of Louisiana to acquire the fee simple title to any land for the purpose of constructing any work or facility within the district, the owner thereof in his own behalf or in behalf of his assigns in the event of a prior assignment may retain the mineral rights to such property together with the right to grant mineral leases and servitudes thereon. No form of prescription shall divest such owner or his assigns of these rights so long as the district, the department of public works or some other department or agency of the state retains the ownership of the property, but should ownership pass into private hands, the prescription of non-user provided by R.C.C. Arts. 789 and 3546 shall apply as in the usual case.
Added by Acts 1958, No. 292, §11.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2612. Tax exemption; lease of lands for production of minerals

RS 38:2612 - Tax exemption; lease of lands for production of minerals
Should the district or the department of public works acquire servitude, right of way or flowage right over any property as distinguished from the fee simple title thereto such property shall not be subject to any ad valorem tax or tax of any nature by the state of Louisiana or any political subdivision thereof so long as such property is used for the purpose of the district. The provisions of this Part shall in no wise abridge the right of any individual, person, firm or corporation from whom a servitude, right of way, or flowage right may have been acquired to lease the land subject thereto for the production of oil, gas or other minerals and to produce or cause to be produced oil, gas or other minerals from such property.
Added by Acts 1958, No. 292, §12.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2656. REPEALED BY ACTS 1993, NO. 211, §1 AND ACTS 1993, NO. 830, §2.

RS 38:2656 - REPEALED BY ACTS 1993, NO. 211, §1 AND ACTS 1993, NO. 830, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2701. Creation

RS 38:2701 - Creation
There is hereby created a recreation and water conservation district to be known as the "John K. Kelly Grand Bayou Reservoir District".
Acts 1958, No. 474, §1; Acts 1989, No. 176, §1; Acts 1993, No. 120, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2703. District as political subdivision and body corporate; purpose and powers

RS 38:2703 - District as political subdivision and body corporate; purpose and powers
A. The district so created shall be a political subdivision and budgetary unit of the state of Louisiana which shall have for its purpose the development of the wealth and natural resources of the district by the conservation of soil and water for agricultural, recreational, commercial, industrial, and sanitary purposes.
B. It shall constitute a body corporate in law with all powers, rights, privileges, and immunities of a corporation. It shall have the power to sue and be sued, to buy and sell, to levy taxes, to negotiate and execute contracts, and to incur debts and issue negotiable bonds in payment thereof under and in accordance with existing laws. It shall have the authority to acquire by purchase, donation, expropriation, or otherwise every type and specie of property, including servitudes and rights of use, necessary to its purpose, and to lease, build, operate, and maintain any works or machinery designed to accomplish the purposes of the district.
C. It shall have complete control over the supply of fresh water made available by its facilities which shall be administered for the benefit of the persons residing or owning property within the district, and if it should be for the benefit of the district it shall have the authority to sell such water for irrigation, municipal, and industrial uses both within and outside the district.
D. The district shall constitute an agency of the state of Louisiana designed to carry out an essential governmental function of the state, all of the property of which district shall be exempt for taxation. It shall have the authority to cooperate and contract with the government of the United States or any department or agency thereof and to accept grants and donations of property and money therefrom. It shall have the authority to cooperate with the state of Louisiana or any political subdivision, department, agency, or corporation of said state for the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities designed to accomplish the purpose for which the district is created on any basis including the matching of funds and by participating in projects authorized by any federal or state law as it shall see fit.
Acts 1958, No. 474, §3; Acts 1989, No. 176, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2704. Board of commissioners, appointment; tenure; vacancies; compensation

RS 38:2704 - Board of commissioners, appointment; tenure; vacancies; compensation
A. The district shall be governed and controlled by a board of seven commissioners, each of whom shall be a qualified elector of Red River Parish residing within and owning property within the district. The members of the board of commissioners shall be appointed by the governor for a five year term. Any vacancy in the office of commissioner due to death, resignation, or any other cause shall be filled by the governor for the unexpired term.
B. Members of the board of commissioners shall receive no compensation for their services. The board shall be domiciled at Coushatta, Louisiana.
C. Each appointment by the governor shall be submitted to the Senate for confirmation.
Added by Acts 1958, No. 474, §4; Amended by Acts 1966, No. 448, §4; Acts 1985, No. 834, §1, eff. July 23, 1985; Acts 1989, No. 176, §1; Acts 1990, No. 146, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2705. Oaths

RS 38:2705 - Oaths
Before entering upon his official duties each member of the board of commissioners shall take an oath before an officer authorized by law to administer an oath that he will faithfully, honestly, and impartially perform his duties.
Acts 1958, No. 474, §5; Acts 1989, No. 176, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2706. Election of officers; record book

RS 38:2706 - Election of officers; record book
Immediately after the members of the board of commissioners have been appointed by the governor, or as soon as thereafter is practicable, they shall meet and organize by electing from their number a president, vice-president, and secretary who shall perform the duties normally required of such officers. The said board shall also select the name by which the district and any lake in the district is to be known and cause it to be recorded in a bound book which shall also be the depository of the minutes and proceedings of the board, certificates, oaths of commissioners, and any and all corporate acts of the board. This book shall be in the custody of the secretary of the board and shall be open for public inspection at all reasonable times.
Acts 1958, No. 474, §6; Acts 1989, No. 176, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2708. Rules and Regulations

RS 38:2708 - Rules and Regulations
In order to accomplish the purposes of the district to protect the works, improvements, and property of the district, both immovable and movable; to secure the best results from the construction, operation, and maintenance thereof, and to prevent damage to the district by misuse of any works, improvements, or properties or by the pollution by solid or liquid or substance or misuse of the waters of the district or any water course therein, the board of commissioners may make and enforce such rules and regulations as it shall deem necessary and advisable:
(1) To protect and preserve the works, improvements, and properties owned or controlled by the district, prescribe the manner of their use by public corporations and persons, and preserve order within and adjacent thereto.
(2) To prescribe the manner of building bridges, roads, fences, including fences for the control of livestock or other works in, along, or across any channel or extending into the reservoir.
(3) To prescribe the manner in which natural or artificial drains, ditches, sewers, pipelines, or other works shall be adjusted to or connected with the works of the district or any water course therein and the manner in which the water courses of the district may be used for sewer outlets for disposal of waste.
(4) To prescribe the permissible uses of the water supply, provided by the impoundments constructed, and to prevent the pollution or unnecessary waste of such water supply.
(5) To prohibit or regulate the discharge into sewers of the district of any liquid or solid waste deemed detrimental to the works and improvements of the district.
(6), (7) REPEALED BY ACTS 1993, NO. 830, §2.
Acts 1958, No. 474, §8; Acts 1989, No. 176, §1; Acts 1993, No. 830, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2710. Supervision by Department of Transportation and Development

RS 38:2710 - Supervision by Department of Transportation and Development
All of the powers and duties relative to construction and letting of contracts for construction required to be advertised by R.S. 38:2211 and 2212 conferred upon the district shall be subject to and exercised under the supervisory control of the Department of Transportation and Development of the state of Louisiana, which department shall furnish to the district such engineering services as it shall require and may cooperate with the district in the construction of any work or facility considered necessary by the district and said department to the purposes of the district.
Acts 1989, No. 176, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2711. Contracts let by board; bond

RS 38:2711 - Contracts let by board; bond
At the discretion of the Commission, any and all contracts of the district may be let by the board of commissioners, with advertisement, on the terms and subject to the conditions which it may fix in the ordinance or advertisement calling for bids. The person or firm to whom any contract is awarded shall furnish, within the delay fixed by the board, a bond of a surety company authorized to do business in the state of Louisiana, in the amount required by the laws relating to contracts for public works, and conditioned that the work shall be performed in accordance with the plans and specifications of the engineers, and the terms of the contract, and the board shall demand any other bonds and obligations which the laws relating to public works contracts required the contractor to give. However, the provisions for advertising and procuring bond may be dispensed with by the commission so long as said actions comply with Louisiana law.
Acts 1989, No. 176, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2712. Mineral rights

RS 38:2712 - Mineral rights
Whenever it shall become necessary for the district or the Department of Transportation and Development, to acquire full ownership of any land for the purpose of constructing any work or facility within the district, the owner thereof in his own behalf or in behalf of his assigns in the event of a prior assignment may retain the mineral rights to such property together with the right to grant mineral leases and servitudes thereon. No form of prescription shall divest such owner or his assigns of these rights so long as the district, the department, or some other department or agency of the state retains the ownership of the property, but should ownership pass into private hands, the prescription of nonuse provided by R.S. 31:27 shall apply as in the usual case.
Acts 1989, No. 176, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2713. Tax exemption; mineral leases unabridged

RS 38:2713 - Tax exemption; mineral leases unabridged
Should the district or the Department of Transportation and Development acquire servitude, right of use, or title in full ownership to immovable property or any other property, such property shall not be subject to any ad valorem tax or tax of any nature by the state of Louisiana or any political subdivision thereof so long as such property is used for the purpose of the district. The provisions of this Part shall in no way abridge the right of any individual, person, firm, or corporation from whom a servitude or right of use may have been acquired to lease the land subject thereto for the production of oil, gas, or other minerals and to produce or cause to be produced oil, gas, or other minerals from such property so long as said leases are subject to the terms and conditions of the servitude executed in favor of the commission.
Acts 1989, No. 176, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2715. Playgrounds, parks, and other facilities; limitation

RS 38:2715 - Playgrounds, parks, and other facilities; limitation
The board of commissioners shall have the power to cause to be created and constructed playgrounds, picnic grounds, grounds for recreation, parks, and any and all other facilities to accommodate the public and to provide adequate access to the proposed lake, as may within the opinion of the board become necessary, and the district shall have the right of eminent domain and expropriation in the exercise of such powers.
Acts 1989, No. 176, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2716. Management of fish, game, and wildlife

RS 38:2716 - Management of fish, game, and wildlife
A, B, C. REPEALED BY ACTS 1993, NO. 830, §2.
D. The board of commissioners shall have authority:
(1) To establish and cause to be enforced rules and regulations pertaining to all commercial establishments which may be constructed for the purpose of commercializing and making commercial use of the facilities provided by the reservoir; and
(2) To license and permit such establishments and to levy and collect a fee, to be fixed by the commission, for the privilege of making commercial use of the facilities of the lake, or to refuse to license or permit any commercial establishment to use the facilities provided by the lake.
E. The rules and regulations established and promulgated by the board of commissioners shall provide penalties for any commercial establishment operating without a permit or license, and the rules and regulations shall be enforced by the sheriff and violations thereof prosecuted by the district attorney of the judicial district within which the reservoir district is situated, as hereinabove provided.
Acts 1989, No. 176, §1; Acts 1993, No. 830, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2717. Management of improvements

RS 38:2717 - Management of improvements
A. The board of commissioners shall have the right to regulate the construction and use of all piers, docks, bridges, and other improvements built or erected on any part of the district to be inundated by the proposed lake and shall further have the right to regulate and control the erection of any improvements of any kind whatever within the area between the 138.5 contour line and the 147.5 contour line or within 1320 feet perpendicular to the 138.5 contour line, whichever distance is greater. The board of commissioners shall have the authority and power to regulate the improvements by the issuance of permits for same and fix a fee for the issuance thereof.
B. The board of commissioners may charge an annual fee for the permit to maintain improvements on or within the area between the 138.5 contour line and the 147.5 contour line or within 1320 feet perpendicular to the 138.5 contour line whichever distance is greater.
Acts 1989, No. 176, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2751. Creation

RS 38:2751 - Creation
There is hereby created a water conservation board to be known as the Bayou DeSiard-Bayou Bartholomew Cut-Off Loop Water Conservation Board of Ouachita and Morehouse Parishes, Louisiana.
Added by Acts 1962, No. 308, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2752. Board as political agency; purpose

RS 38:2752 - Board as political agency; purpose
The board shall be a political agency of the state of Louisiana and, subject to the limitations and restrictions set out in this Part, shall have authority to establish, maintain and protect a favorable level of fresh water in Bayou DeSiard and Bayou Bartholomew Cut-Off Loop in Townships 18, 19 and 20 North, Ranges 3 and 4 East, in the Parishes of Ouachita and Morehouse, state of Louisiana, to be available for all beneficial uses and purposes.
Added by Acts 1962, No. 308, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2753. Powers

RS 38:2753 - Powers
The board shall have the power to sue and be sued; to buy and sell; to exercise the right of expropriation; to own, maintain and operate property, both movable and immovable, to acquire servitudes, rights of way and flowage rights, to negotiate and execute contracts; to cooperate with the state of Louisiana or any agency or political subdivision thereof or with the government of the United States or any department or agency thereof on any basis that the board shall deem advisable for the joint or separate construction, ownership, operation and maintenance of pump facilities, pipelines, floodgages, water conveyors and other devices, equipment and property; to accept gifts or contributions of any nature from the state of Louisiana or the United States or any agency or political subdivision thereof; and to make and collect reasonable charges or fees for its services in connection with the water made available by any facilities provided by said board; provided, no charges shall be assessed against any municipality or other political subdivision, and that in exercising the powers and authority aforesaid, the board shall cooperate with, and shall act under the supervision and control of, the Louisiana Department of Public Works.
Added by Acts 1962, No. 308, §3.