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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:378. Use of collections

RS 25:378 - Use of collections
The collections of the Old State Capitol may be lent in part subject to approval by the secretary. The secretary shall insure proper safeguards for their maintenance and return and shall insure that proper records are kept. The collections shall be available for the use of educational projects, subject to the approval of the secretary.
Acts 1990, No. 726, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:379. Establishment and location; purpose and use

RS 25:379 - Establishment and location; purpose and use
A. The facility known prior to June 6, 1991, as the Louisiana State Museum-Shreveport is hereby renamed the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum. The Louisiana State Exhibit Museum is established as a facility in the city of Shreveport under the overall jurisdiction of the Department of State, as more specifically provided in this Chapter and in R.S. 36:744(F).
B. The Louisiana State Exhibit Museum shall be a pre-historical, historical, cultural, scientific, and technological educational institution whose primary purpose shall be to research, collect, preserve, and present, as an educational resource, documents, artifacts, objects of art, and the like that reflect the social history, cultural history, natural history, and culture of Louisiana emphasizing the northwest region of Louisiana.
Acts 1991, No. 9, §1, eff. June 6, 1991; Acts 2021, No. 20, §4.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:379.1. Regional museum governing board; creation; domicile; appointment and compensation of members

RS 25:379.1 - Regional museum governing board; creation; domicile; appointment and compensation of members
A. The Regional Museum Governing Board of the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum is hereby created in the Department of State.
B. The domicile of the board shall be the city of Shreveport.
C. The board shall be composed of the following members, all of whom shall have a knowledge of, and an interest in, art, history, including political history, and cultural restoration:
(1) Eleven members shall be appointed by the secretary of state.
(2) The secretary of state or his designee shall serve as a member.
(3) The state archivist shall serve as a member.
D. Each appointed member shall be confirmed by the Senate and shall serve a term concurrent with that of the secretary of state. Each member shall serve until his successor is appointed and takes office.
E. Members of the board shall serve without compensation.
Acts 1991, No. 9, §1, eff. June 6, 1991; Acts 1992, No. 459, §1, eff. July 1, 1992; Acts 2003, No. 525, §1, eff. June 22, 2003; Acts 2018, No. 439, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:379.3. The Louisiana State Exhibit Museum, administration; Department of State, powers and functions

RS 25:379.3 - The Louisiana State Exhibit Museum, administration; Department of State, powers and functions
A. The Louisiana State Exhibit Museum shall cooperate with Louisiana schools and institutions of higher education in the teaching of social history, cultural history, natural history, art, science, technology, and the culture of Louisiana emphasizing the northwest region of Louisiana.
B. The board shall have custody of, and, together with the Department of State, shall administer, manage, operate, maintain, and preserve the buildings, collections, and exhibitions of the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum located in the city of Shreveport including, but not limited to, the museum.
C. Notwithstanding any provision of the law to the contrary, and in particular the provisions of R.S. 41:1212, the board may enter into contracts and agreements with any public agency or nonprofit corporation which has been established for the primary purpose of supporting the programs and activities of the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum, including the Friends of the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum, for the establishment of exhibits on the property of and in the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum. Any public agency may enter into contracts and agreements with the board for the purposes mentioned in this Subsection.
Acts 1991, No. 9, §1, eff. June 6, 1991; Acts 2020, No. 212, §1, eff. June 11, 2020.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:379.4. Operating funds; appropriations by the legislature

RS 25:379.4 - Operating funds; appropriations by the legislature
A. The Department of State shall include in its annual budget request submission, as required by R.S. 39:32, a request for funds necessary for support of the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum. The governor shall include in the executive budget submitted to the legislature sufficient funding for the support of operations of the museum.
B.(1) If sufficient funds necessary for the operation of the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum are not appropriated by the legislature, and funds from other local, public, or private sources are not available for this purpose, the Department of State is authorized to temporarily close the museum to the public until such time as sufficient funds necessary for the operation of the museum are appropriated by the legislature. The Department of State shall maintain the museum during any period of temporary closure.
(2) The Department of State may accept and use, in accordance with law, gifts, grants, bequests, donations, endowments, or funds from any public or private source to support the operations of the museum.
Acts 1991, No. 9, §1, eff. June 6, 1991; Acts 1992, No. 459, §1, eff. July 1, 1992; Acts 2012, No. 765, §1, eff. June 12, 2012.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:379.5. Donations and loans; disposition of property

RS 25:379.5 - Donations and loans; disposition of property
A. The Department of State and the board, jointly or separately, may solicit and accept funds, governmental grants, donations, and contributions of lands, buildings, monies, relics, works of art, or other property on behalf of and as additions to the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum either in the form of loans or in the form of donations inter vivos or mortis causa, and the Department of State may acquire them by purchase, lease or otherwise, subject to the terms, conditions, or limitations contained in the instrument by which such property is acquired. However, the board may enter into any and all contracts with any person, lender, or donor that it may deem fit, proper, and necessary to accept and receive such lands, buildings, monies, relics, works of art, or other property on behalf of and as additions to the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum. The museum may serve as the beneficiary of any public trust heretofore or hereafter created for such purpose pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 9:2341 et seq.
B. The board is granted the authority of deaccession with respect to any collection of the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum and, for such purpose, is exempted from laws relative to the sale or disposal of surplus property. The board shall establish policies and procedures necessary to carry out this authority in an orderly manner.
C.(1) Any property which has been deposited with the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum, by loan or otherwise, and which has been held by the museum for more than ten years, and to which no person has made claim shall be deemed to be abandoned and, notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 1 of Title XII of Book III of the Louisiana Civil Code, shall become the property of the museum, provided that Paragraph (2) of this Subsection has been complied with.
(2)(a) At least once each week for two consecutive weeks, the board shall cause to be published in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the parish of Caddo, a notice and listing of the property.
(b) The notice shall contain:
(i) The name and last known address, if any, of the last known owner or depositor of the property.
(ii) A description of the property.
(iii) A statement that if proof of claim is not presented by the claimant to the board and if the claimant's right to receive such property is not established to the satisfaction of the board within sixty-five days from the date of the second published notice, the property will be deemed to be abandoned and shall become the property of the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum.
(3) If no valid claim has been made to the property within sixty-five days from the date of the second published notice, title to the property shall vest in the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum free from all claims.
Acts 1991, No. 9, §1, eff. June 6, 1991.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:379.6. Use of collections

RS 25:379.6 - Use of collections
Any collection of the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum may be lent in part, subject to approval of the board. The board shall insure proper safeguards for its maintenance and return and shall insure that proper records are kept. The collections shall be available for use in educational projects, subject to the approval of the board.
Acts 1991, No. 9, §1, eff. June 6, 1991.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:379.7. Secretary of state; rules and regulations

RS 25:379.7 - Secretary of state; rules and regulations
The secretary of state may adopt policies, rules, and regulations for the operation of the museum in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.
Acts 2020, No. 212, §1, eff. June 11, 2020.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380. Establishment and location; purpose and use

RS 25:380 - Establishment and location; purpose and use
A. The Louisiana State Cotton Museum is established as a facility in the parish of East Carroll under the overall jurisdiction of the Department of State, as more specifically provided in this Chapter and in R.S. 36:744(F).
B. The Louisiana State Cotton Museum shall be a pre-historical, historical, cultural, scientific, and technological educational institution whose primary purpose shall be to research, collect, preserve, and present, as an educational resource, documents, artifacts, objects of art, and the like that reflect the social history, cultural history, natural history, and culture of Louisiana emphasizing the northeast region of Louisiana.
Acts 1992, No. 152, §2, eff. June 5, 1992; Acts 2021, No. 20, §4.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.1. Governing board; creation; domicile; appointment and compensation of members

RS 25:380.1 - Governing board; creation; domicile; appointment and compensation of members
A. The governing board of the Louisiana State Cotton Museum is hereby created in the Department of State.
B. The domicile of the board shall be in the parish of East Carroll.
C.(1) The board shall be composed of members who all have a knowledge of and an interest in cotton and cotton production.
(2) The board shall be composed of the following members:
(a) Five members shall be appointed by the secretary of state from a list of ten names submitted and nominated by the legislative delegation from the parishes of East Carroll, West Carroll, Madison, Franklin, Richland, Morehouse, Ouachita, Tensas, Caldwell, and Concordia from an area composed of the following parishes: East Carroll, West Carroll, Madison, Franklin, Richland, Morehouse, Ouachita, Tensas, Caldwell, and Concordia.
(b) Six members shall be appointed by the secretary of state from a list of ten names submitted and nominated by the Friends of the Louisiana State Cotton Museum.
(c) The secretary of state or his designee shall serve as a member.
(d) The museum chief administrative officer and the museum director, if any, shall each be an ex officio member of the board.
D. Each appointed member shall be confirmed by the Senate and shall serve a term concurrent with the secretary of state. Each member shall serve until his successor is appointed and takes office.
E. Members of the board shall serve without compensation.
Acts 1992, No. 152, §2, eff. June 5, 1992; Acts 1995, No. 52, §1; Acts 2003, No. 662, §1, eff. June 27, 2003; Acts 2006, No. 451, §1; Acts 2020, No. 212, §1, eff. June 11, 2020.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.2. Duties and powers of the board

RS 25:380.2 - Duties and powers of the board
A. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of official business. All official actions of the board shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the members present and voting.
B. The board shall:
(1) Meet at least three times a year at the call of the board chairman.
(2)(a) Create an executive committee consisting of the chairman and vice chairman of the board and other board members as the board may determine.
(b) A majority of the members of the committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. However, when the board has delegated to the committee full power to act with respect to a matter, affirmative action by a majority of the entire committee membership shall be required.
(c) The committee shall meet at least quarterly, except in those months in which the board meets, or at the call of the chairman.
(d) The committee shall consider such matters as are referred to it by the board. It shall execute such orders and resolutions as shall be assigned to it at any meeting of the board, and it shall also take such action as is necessary when an emergency requiring immediate action arises during the interim between board meetings. All acts of the committee shall be submitted to the board for ratification or rejection at its next meeting except in matters in which the board has delegated to the committee full power to act.
(3) Adopt bylaws, including but not limited to the following:
(a) The election and responsibilities of the officers of the board, including a chairman and vice chairman to serve terms of two years.
(b) The selection and responsibilities of advisors to the board.
(c) The appointment, duties, and functions of standing and special committees of the board, including the appointment of nonboard members to such committees and their functions.
(d) The preparation of a budget and plan for funding sufficient to maintain standards necessary to qualify for and maintain the accreditation of the American Association of Museums.
(4) Advise the secretary of state on all matters relating to the operations of the Louisiana State Cotton Museum and shall have such other functions as are otherwise provided in this Chapter and R.S. 36:744(F).
(5) Establish and use an identifying seal pertaining to museum business.
C. The board may:
(1) Individually, or in cooperation with any nonprofit corporation established to support the Louisiana State Cotton Museum, seek and expend funds from any source, public or private, to support programs of the museum.
(2) Hold meetings in any of the parishes named in R.S. 25:380.1(C)(2)(a) as directed by the executive committee.
Acts 1992, No. 152, §2, eff. June 5, 1992; Acts 2020, No. 212, §1, eff. June 11, 2020; Acts 2021, No. 20, §4.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.3. Operating funds; appropriations by the legislature

RS 25:380.3 - Operating funds; appropriations by the legislature
A. The Department of State shall include in its annual budget request submission as required by R.S. 39:32 a request for funds necessary for support of the Louisiana State Cotton Museum. The governor shall include in the executive budget submitted to the legislature sufficient funding for the support of operations of the museum.
B. Funds appropriated by the legislature to the Department of State for operation of the Louisiana State Cotton Museum shall be used solely for that purpose and in accordance with the budget plan developed by the board to maintain accreditation standards. No administrative costs of any kind shall be charged by the Department of State for any services associated with placement of the museum within the jurisdiction of that office.
C.(1) If sufficient funds necessary for the operation of the Louisiana Cotton Museum are not appropriated by the legislature, and funds from other local, public, or private sources are not available for this purpose, the Department of State is authorized to temporarily close the museum to the public until such time as sufficient funds necessary for the operation of the museum are appropriated by the legislature. The Department of State shall maintain the museum during any period of temporary closure.
(2) The Department of State may accept and use, in accordance with law, gifts, grants, bequests, donations, endowments, or funds from any public or private source to support the operations of the museum.
Acts 1992, No. 152, §2, eff. June 5, 1992; Acts 2012, No. 765, §1, eff. June 12, 2012.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.4. Donations and loans; disposition of property

RS 25:380.4 - Donations and loans; disposition of property
A. The Department of State and the board, jointly or separately, may solicit and accept funds, governmental grants, donations, and contributions of lands, buildings, monies, relics, works of art, or other property on behalf of and as additions to the Louisiana State Cotton Museum either in the form of loans or in the form of donations inter vivos or mortis causa, and the Department of State may acquire them by purchase, lease, or otherwise, subject to the terms, conditions, or limitations contained in the instrument by which such property is acquired. However, the board may enter into any and all contracts with any person, lender, or donor that it may deem fit, proper, and necessary to accept and receive such lands, buildings, monies, relics, works of art, or other property on behalf of and as additions to the Louisiana State Cotton Museum. The museum may serve as the beneficiary of any public trust heretofore or hereafter created for such purpose pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 9:2341 et seq.
B. The board is granted the authority of deaccession with respect to any collection of the Louisiana State Cotton Museum and, for such purpose, is exempted from laws relative to the sale or disposal of surplus property. The board shall establish policies and procedures necessary to carry out this authority in an orderly manner.
C.(1) Any property which has been deposited with the Louisiana State Cotton Museum, by loan or otherwise, and which has been held by the museum for more than ten years, and to which no person has made claim shall be deemed to be abandoned and, notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 1 of Title XII of Book III of the Louisiana Civil Code, shall become the property of the museum, provided that Paragraph (2) of this Subsection has been complied with.
(2)(a) At least once each week for two consecutive weeks, the board shall cause to be published in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the parish of East Carroll, a notice and listing of the property.
(b) The notice shall contain:
(i) The name and last known address, if any, of the last known owner or depositor of the property.
(ii) A description of the property.
(iii) A statement that if proof of claim is not presented by the claimant to the board and if the claimant's right to receive such property is not established to the satisfaction of the board within sixty-five days from the date of the second published notice, the property will be deemed to be abandoned and shall become the property of the Louisiana State Cotton Museum.
(3) If no valid claim has been made to the property within sixty-five days from the date of the second published notice, title to the property shall vest in the Louisiana State Cotton Museum free from all claims.
Acts 1992, No. 152, §2, eff. June 5, 1992.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.5. Use of collections

RS 25:380.5 - Use of collections
Any collection of the Louisiana State Cotton Museum may be lent in part, subject to approval of the board. The board shall insure proper safeguards for its maintenance and return and shall insure that proper records are kept. The collections shall be available for use in educational projects, subject to the approval of the board.
Acts 1992, No. 152, §2, eff. June 5, 1992.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.6. Secretary of state; rules and regulations

RS 25:380.6 - Secretary of state; rules and regulations
The secretary of state may adopt policies, rules, and regulations for the operation of the museum in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.
Acts 2020, No. 212, §1, eff. June 11, 2020.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.10. Establishment and location; purpose and use

RS 25:380.10 - Establishment and location; purpose and use
A. The Edward Douglass White Historic Site is established as a facility in the parish of Lafourche under the overall jurisdiction of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, as more specifically provided in this Chapter and in R.S. 36:801.8.
B. The Edward Douglass White Historic Site shall be a prehistorical, historical, cultural, scientific, and technological educational institution in the office of the state museum of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism whose primary purpose shall be to research, collect, preserve, and present, as an educational resource, documents, artifacts, objects of art, buildings, and landscape and the like that reflect the social, political, and legal history, cultural history, natural history, and culture of Louisiana emphasizing the southern region of Louisiana.
C. All references to the Edward Douglass White State Commemorative Area shall be deemed to refer to and shall be replaced by the term Edward Douglass White Historic Site.
Acts 1993, No. 507, §2, eff. July 1, 1993; Acts 2001, No. 1111, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.11. Governing board

RS 25:380.11 - Governing board
The Board of Directors of the Louisiana State Museum in the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism shall be the governing board of the Edward Douglass White Historic Site. The board shall have and exercise all powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities authorized for it by law, including the provisions of R.S. 25:341 et seq.
Acts 1993, No. 507, §2, eff. July 1, 1993; Acts 2001, No. 1111, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.13. Operating funds; appropriations by the legislature

RS 25:380.13 - Operating funds; appropriations by the legislature
Any funds appropriated by the legislature to the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, office of the state museum, for operation of the Edward Douglass White Historic Site shall be used solely for that purpose and to meet accreditation standards. No administrative costs of any kind shall be charged by the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism for any services associated with placement of the Edward Douglass White Historic Site within the jurisdiction of that office.
Acts 1993, No. 507, §2, eff. July 1, 1993; Acts 2001, No. 1111, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.15. Use of collections

RS 25:380.15 - Use of collections
Any collection of the Edward Douglass White Historic Site may be lent in part, subject to approval of the board. The board shall insure proper safeguards for its maintenance and return and shall insure that proper records are kept. The collections shall be available for use in educational projects, subject to the approval of the board.
Acts 1993, No. 507, §2, eff. July 1, 1993.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.21. Establishment and location; purpose and use

RS 25:380.21 - Establishment and location; purpose and use
A. The Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum is established as a facility in the parish of Caddo under the overall jurisdiction of the Department of State as more specifically provided in this Chapter and in R.S. 36:744(F).
B. The Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum shall be a historical, cultural, scientific, and technological educational institution whose primary purpose shall be to research, collect, preserve, and present, as an educational resource, documents, artifacts, objects of art, and the like that reflect the social, cultural, and economic history of the oil industry in Louisiana and the Caddo Parish area in particular.
Acts 1997, No. 1091, §1; Acts 2001, No. 130, §1; Acts 2021, No. 20, §4.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.22. Governing board; creation; domicile; appointment and compensation of members

RS 25:380.22 - Governing board; creation; domicile; appointment and compensation of members
A. The governing board of the Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum is hereby created in the Department of State.
B. The domicile of the board shall be in the parish of Caddo.
C.(1) The board shall be composed of members who all have a knowledge of and an interest in oil and oil production.
(2) The board shall be composed of the following members:
(a) Eleven members shall be appointed by the secretary of state from a list of fifteen names submitted by the Caddo Pine Island Oil and Historical Society.
(b) The secretary of state or his designee shall serve as a member.
(c) The museum director and the museum chief administrative officer, if any, shall each be an ex officio member of the board.
D. Each appointed member shall be confirmed by the Senate and shall serve a term concurrent with the secretary of state. Each member shall serve until his successor is appointed and takes office.
E. Members of the board, including the advisors to the board, shall serve without compensation.
Acts 1997, No. 1091, §1; Acts 2001, No. 130, §1; Acts 2020, No. 212, §1, eff. June 11, 2020.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.23. Duties and powers of the board

RS 25:380.23 - Duties and powers of the board
A. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of official business. All official actions of the board shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the members present and voting.
B. The board shall:
(1) Meet at least three times a year at the call of the board chairman.
(2)(a) Create an executive committee consisting of the chairman and vice chairman of the board and other board members as the board may determine.
(b) A majority of the members of the committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. However, when the board has delegated to the committee full power to act with respect to a matter, affirmative action by a majority of the entire committee membership shall be required.
(c) The committee shall meet at the call of the chairman.
(d) The committee shall consider such matters as are referred to it by the board. It shall execute such orders and resolutions as shall be assigned to it at any meeting of the board, and it shall also take such action as is necessary when an emergency requiring immediate action arises during the interim between board meetings. All acts of the committee shall be submitted to the board for ratification or rejection at its next meeting except in matters in which the board has delegated to the committee full power to act.
(3) Adopt bylaws, including but not limited to the following:
(a) The election and responsibilities of the officers of the board, including a chairman and vice chairman, who shall serve terms of two years.
(b) The selection and responsibilities of advisors to the board. The board may appoint not more than five advisors who shall serve without compensation.
(c) The appointment, duties, and functions of standing and special committees of the board including the appointment of nonboard members to such committees and their functions.
(d) The preparation of a budget and plan for funding the museum at a level sufficient to maintain standards necessary to qualify for and maintain the accreditation of the American Association of Museums.
(4) Advise the secretary of state on all matters relating to the operations of the Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum.
(5) Establish and use an identifying seal pertaining to museum business.
(6) Perform such other functions as are otherwise provided in this Chapter and R.S. 36:744(F).
C. The board may individually, or in cooperation with any nonprofit corporation established to support the Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum, seek and expend funds from any source, public or private, to support programs of the museum.
Acts 1997, No. 1091, §1; Acts 2001, No. 130, §1; Acts 2020, No. 212, §1, eff. June 11, 2020; Acts 2021, No. 20, §4.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.24. Operating funds; appropriations by the legislature

RS 25:380.24 - Operating funds; appropriations by the legislature
A. The Department of State shall include in its annual budget request, required by R.S. 39:32, a request for funds necessary for support of the Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum. The governor shall include in the executive budget submitted to the legislature sufficient funding for the support of operations of the museum.
B. Funds appropriated by the legislature to the Department of State for operation of the Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum shall be used solely for that purpose and in accordance with the budget plan developed by the board to maintain accreditation standards. No administrative costs of any kind shall be charged by the Department of State for any services associated with placement of the museum within the jurisdiction of the department.
Acts 1997, No. 1091, §1; Acts 2001, No. 130, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.25. Donations and loans; disposition of property

RS 25:380.25 - Donations and loans; disposition of property
A. The Department of State and the board, jointly or separately, may solicit and accept funds, governmental grants, donations, and contributions of lands, buildings, monies, relics, works of art, or other property on behalf of and as additions to the Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum either in the form of loans or in the form of donations inter vivos or mortis causa, and the Department of State may acquire them by purchase, lease, or otherwise, subject to the terms, conditions, or limitations contained in the instrument by which such property is acquired. However, the board may enter into any and all contracts with any person, lender, or donor that it may deem fit, proper, and necessary to accept and receive such lands, buildings, monies, relics, works of art, or other property on behalf of and as additions to the Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum. The museum may serve as the beneficiary of any public trust heretofore or hereafter created for such purpose pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 9:2341 et seq.
B. The board is granted the authority of deaccession with respect to any collection of the Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum and, for such purpose, is exempted from laws relative to the sale or disposal of surplus property. The board shall establish policies and procedures necessary to carry out this authority in an orderly manner.
C.(1) Any property which has been deposited with the Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum, by loan or otherwise, and which has been held by the museum for more than ten years, and to which no person has made claim shall be deemed to be abandoned and, notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 1 of Title XII of Book III of the Louisiana Civil Code, shall become the property of the museum, provided that Paragraph (2) of this Subsection has been complied with.
(2)(a) At least once each week for two consecutive weeks, the board shall cause to be published in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the parish of Caddo a notice and listing of the property.
(b) The notice shall contain:
(i) The name and last known address, if any, of the last known owner or depositor of the property.
(ii) A description of the property.
(iii) A statement that if proof of claim is not presented by the claimant to the board and if the claimant's right to receive such property is not established to the satisfaction of the board within sixty-five days from the date of the second published notice, the property will be deemed to be abandoned and shall become the property of the Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum.
(3) If no valid claim has been made to the property within sixty-five days from the date of the second published notice, title to the property shall vest in the Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum free from all claims.
Acts 1997, No. 1091, §1; Acts 2001, No. 130, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.26. Use of collections

RS 25:380.26 - Use of collections
Any collection of the Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum may, subject to approval of the board, be lent in part. The board shall insure proper safeguards for its maintenance and return and shall insure that proper records are kept. The collections shall be available for use in educational projects, subject to the approval of the board.
Acts 1997, No. 1091, §1; Acts 2001, No. 130, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.27. Secretary of state; rules and regulations

RS 25:380.27 - Secretary of state; rules and regulations
The secretary of state may adopt policies, rules, and regulations for the operation of the museum in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.
Acts 2020, No. 212, §1, eff. June 11, 2020.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.41. Establishment and location; purpose and use

RS 25:380.41 - Establishment and location; purpose and use
A. The Dew Drop-America's Rock and Roll Museum, referred to in this Chapter as the "museum", is established as a facility in the parish of Orleans, within the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, referred to in this Chapter as the "department", as more specifically provided in this Chapter.
B. The museum shall be a historical, cultural, scientific, and technological educational institution whose primary purpose shall be to research, collect, preserve, and present, as an educational resource, the music, recordings, pictures, documents, artifacts, objects of art, and the like that reflect the social, cultural, and economic history of rock and roll music in the state of Louisiana and in the Orleans Parish area in particular.
Acts 2022, No. 519, §1, eff. June 16, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.43. Operating funds; appropriations by the legislature

RS 25:380.43 - Operating funds; appropriations by the legislature
The department may include in its annual budget request, required by R.S. 39:32, a request for funds necessary for support of the museum. The governor shall include in the executive budget submitted to the legislature sufficient funding for the support of operations and maintenance of the museum and its exhibits.
Acts 2022, No. 519, §1, eff. June 16, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.45. Use of collections and property

RS 25:380.45 - Use of collections and property
Any collection or other property of the museum may, subject to approval of the board, be lent in part. The board shall ensure proper safeguards for its maintenance and return and shall ensure that proper records are kept. The collection or other property shall be available for use in educational projects, subject to the approval of the board.
Acts 2022, No. 519, §1, eff. June 16, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.51. Establishment and location; purpose and use

RS 25:380.51 - Establishment and location; purpose and use
A. The Louisiana Delta Music Museum is established as a facility in the town of Ferriday, parish of Concordia, under the overall jurisdiction of the Department of State as more specifically provided in this Chapter and in R.S. 36:744(F).
B. The Louisiana Delta Music Museum shall be a historical, cultural, scientific, and technological educational institution whose primary purpose shall be to research, collect, preserve, and present, as an educational resource, the music, recordings, pictures, documents, artifacts, objects of art, and the like that reflect the social, cultural, and economic history of the music of the Louisiana Delta and the Concordia Parish area in particular.
Acts 2001, No. 850, §1; Acts 2021, No. 20, §4.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.52. Governing board; creation; domicile; appointment and compensation of members

RS 25:380.52 - Governing board; creation; domicile; appointment and compensation of members
A. The governing board of the Louisiana Delta Music Museum is hereby created in the Department of State.
B. The domicile of the board shall be in the parish of Concordia.
C. The board shall be comprised of the following members:
(1) Eleven members shall be appointed by the secretary of state having a knowledge of and an interest in music of the Louisiana Delta. They shall be appointed by the secretary of state from an area composed of the following parishes: Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Morehouse, Ouachita, Richland, Tensas, and West Carroll.
(2) The secretary of state or his designee shall serve as a member.
(3) The museum chief administrative officer and the museum director, if any, shall each be ex officio members of the board.
D. Each member shall serve until his successor is appointed and takes office.
E. Each appointed member shall be confirmed by the Senate and shall serve a term concurrent with the secretary of state.
F. Members of the board shall serve without compensation.
Acts 2001, No. 850, §1; Acts 2003, No. 338, §1, eff. June 13, 2003; Acts 2005, No. 23, §1, eff. July 1, 2005; Acts 2006, No. 451, §1; Acts 2020, No. 212, §1, eff. June 11, 2020.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.53. Duties and powers of the board

RS 25:380.53 - Duties and powers of the board
A. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of official business. All official actions of the board shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the members present and voting.
B. The board shall:
(1) Meet at least three times a year at the call of the board chairman.
(2)(a) Create an executive committee consisting of the chairman and vice chairman of the board and other board members as the board may determine.
(b) A majority of the members of the committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. However, when the board has delegated to the committee full power to act with respect to a matter, affirmative action by a majority of the entire committee membership shall be required.
(c) The committee shall meet at the call of the board chairman.
(d) The committee shall consider such matters as are referred to it by the board. It shall execute such orders and resolutions as shall be assigned to it at any meeting of the board, and it shall also take such action as is necessary when an emergency requiring immediate action arises during the interim between board meetings. All acts of the committee shall be submitted to the board for ratification or rejection at its next meeting except in matters in which the board has delegated to the committee full power to act.
(3) Adopt bylaws, including but not limited to the following:
(a) The election and responsibilities of the officers of the board, including a chairman and vice chairman, who shall serve terms of two years.
(b) The selection and responsibilities of advisors to the board. The board may appoint not more than five advisors who shall serve without compensation.
(c) The appointment, duties, and functions of standing and special committees of the board, including the appointment of nonboard members to such committees and their functions.
(4) Advise the secretary of state on all matters relating to the operations of the Louisiana Delta Music Museum.
(5) Establish and use an identifying seal pertaining to museum business.
(6) Perform such other functions as are otherwise provided by this Chapter and R.S. 36:744(F).
C. The board may individually, or in cooperation with any nonprofit corporation established to support the Louisiana Delta Music Museum, seek and expend funds from any source, public or private, to support programs of the museum.
Acts 2001, No. 850, §1; Acts 2020, No. 212, §1, eff. June 11, 2020; Acts 2021, No. 20, §4.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.54. Operating funds; appropriations by the legislature

RS 25:380.54 - Operating funds; appropriations by the legislature
A. The Department of State shall include in its annual budget request, required by R.S. 39:32, a request for funds necessary for support of the Louisiana Delta Music Museum. The governor shall include in the executive budget submitted to the legislature sufficient funding for the support of operations of the museum.
B. Funds appropriated by the legislature to the Department of State for operation of the Louisiana Delta Music Museum shall be used solely for that purpose and in accordance with the budget plan developed by the board. No administrative costs of any kind shall be charged by the Department of State for any services associated with placement of the museum within the jurisdiction of the department.
C.(1) If sufficient funds necessary for the operation of the Louisiana Delta Music Museum are not appropriated by the legislature, and funds from other local, public, or private sources are not available for this purpose, the Department of State is authorized to temporarily close the museum to the public until such time as sufficient funds necessary for the operation of the museum are appropriated by the legislature. The Department of State shall maintain the museum during any period of temporary closure.
(2) The Department of State may accept and use, in accordance with law, gifts, grants, bequests, donations, endowments, or funds from any public or private source to support the operations of the museum.
Acts 2001, No. 850, §1; Acts 2012, No. 765, §1, eff. June 12, 2012.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.55. Donations and loans; disposition of property

RS 25:380.55 - Donations and loans; disposition of property
A. The Department of State and the board, jointly or separately, may solicit and accept funds, governmental grants, donations, and contributions of lands, buildings, monies, artifacts, relics, audio and video recordings, motion picture films, works of art, or other property on behalf of and as additions to the Louisiana Delta Music Museum either in the form of loans or in the form of donations inter vivos or mortis causa, and the Department of State may acquire them by purchase, lease, or otherwise, subject to the terms, conditions, or limitations contained in the instrument by which such property is acquired. However, the board may enter into any and all contracts with any person, lender, or donor that it may deem fit, proper, and necessary to accept and receive such lands, buildings, monies, artifacts, relics, audio and video recordings, motion picture films, works of art, or other property on behalf of and as additions to the Louisiana Delta Music Museum. The museum may serve as the beneficiary of any public trust heretofore or hereafter created for such purpose pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 9:2341 et seq.
B. The board is granted the authority of deaccession with respect to any collection of the Louisiana Delta Music Museum and, for such purpose, is exempted from laws relative to the sale or disposal of surplus property. The board shall establish policies and procedures necessary to carry out this authority in an orderly manner.
C.(1) Any property which has been deposited with the Louisiana Delta Music Museum, by loan or otherwise, and which has been held by the museum for more than ten years, and to which no person has made claim shall be deemed to be abandoned and, notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 1 of Title XII of Book III of the Louisiana Civil Code, shall become the property of the museum, provided that Paragraph (2) of this Subsection has been complied with.
(2)(a) At least once each week for two consecutive weeks, the board shall cause to be published in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the parish of Concordia a notice and listing of the property.
(b) The notice shall contain:
(i) The name and last known address, if any, of the last known owner or depositor of the property.
(ii) A description of the property.
(iii) A statement that if proof of claim is not presented by the claimant to the board and if the claimant's right to receive such property is not established to the satisfaction of the board within sixty-five days from the date of the second published notice, the property will be deemed to be abandoned and shall become the property of the Louisiana Delta Music Museum.
(3) If no valid claim has been made to the property within sixty-five days from the date of the second published notice, title to the property shall vest in the Louisiana Delta Music Museum free from all claims.
Acts 2001, No. 850, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.56. Use of collections

RS 25:380.56 - Use of collections
Any collection of the Louisiana Delta Music Museum may, subject to approval of the board, be lent in part. The board shall ensure proper safeguards for its maintenance and return and shall ensure that proper records are kept. The collections shall be available for use in educational projects, subject to the approval of the board.
Acts 2001, No. 850, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.57. Secretary of state; rules and regulations

RS 25:380.57 - Secretary of state; rules and regulations
The secretary of state may adopt policies, rules, and regulations for the operation of the museum in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.
Acts 2020, No. 212, §1, eff. June 11, 2020.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 25 - Libraries, Museums, and Other Scientific › §25:380.91. Establishment and location; purpose and use

RS 25:380.91 - Establishment and location; purpose and use
A. The Mansfield Female College Museum is established as a facility in the town of Mansfield, parish of DeSoto, under the overall jurisdiction of the Department of State as more specifically provided in this Chapter and in R.S. 36:744(F).
B. The Mansfield Female College Museum shall be a historical, cultural, scientific, and technological educational institution whose primary purpose shall be to research, collect, preserve, and present, as an educational resource, the books and papers, pictures and photographs, documents, artifacts, objects of art, and the like that reflect the social, cultural, and economic history of women's education in northwest Louisiana and the DeSoto Parish area in particular.
Acts 2003, No. 592, §1, eff. upon appropriation of funds; Acts 2004, No. 229, §1; Acts 2021, No. 20, §4.