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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3304. Awarding the contract

RS 33:3304 - Awarding the contract
The governing authority shall meet in open session on the date and at the place and hour named in the notice calling for sealed bids for the construction of the works, and open the bids and award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder who can furnish satisfactory security. They may, however, reject any and all bids, and at any time, within a period of thirty days from the date of the reception and opening of the bids, award the contract for the works without further advertisement, provided that no contract shall be let for an amount greater than that specified in the lowest sealed bid received from a responsible bidder. Any contract awarded under the provisions of this Sub-Part, shall be authorized by resolution empowering the authorized officer of the municipality, and the clerk or secretary to execute the contract, on behalf of and in the name of the municipality. It shall not be necessary to set forth the contract in full in the resolution, but it shall be sufficient if the resolution refers to a copy of the contract on file in the office of the clerk or secretary where it is available for public inspection. The resolution shall be published in one issue of the official journal of the municipality and a certified copy thereof shall be filed with the clerk of court of the parish in which the municipality is located and shall be by him duly recorded in the mortgage records of the parish without expense to the municipality. Where the work is undertaken by the municipality, the bids received for materials, equipment and supplies shall be opened, and awarded or rejected as hereinabove provided.
Amended by Acts 1956, No. 430, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3305. Statement of cost of improvement; liability of abutting property

RS 33:3305 - Statement of cost of improvement; liability of abutting property
The municipality, upon award of any contract under the provisions of this Sub-part may, and upon completion of such work, whether under contract or undertaken by the municipality, shall forthwith, require of the engineer of the municipality a duly certified statement or report, showing in detail, the total cost of the improvements, including street intersections, engineers' and attorneys' fees, and all other expenses incidental to the cost. The report shall also show the amount of the cost chargeable to each lot or parcel of real estate abutting the improvements in proportion that its frontage bears to all of the abutting lots or parcels of real estate to be improved and shall give a brief description of each parcel or lot of real estate with sufficient clearness to identify it; and the foregoing provisions shall affect and include lots or parcels of real estate located outside of the municipality abutting a street inside such municipality which has been or may be improved under the provisions of this Sub-part.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 192, §2; Acts 1956, No. 407, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3307. Issuance of certificates for payment of cost

RS 33:3307 - Issuance of certificates for payment of cost
Municipalities complying with the provisions of this Sub-part may issue, execute, negotiate, sell, and deliver negotiable interest bearing coupon certificates of the municipality in an amount not exceeding the total amount of the installments or deferred payments as provided for in R.S. 33:3306, the certificates to bear interest not exceeding six per centum per annum payable annually and maturing serially over a period not exceeding twenty years. In no event shall the certificates extend over a longer period of time than that provided for by the ordinance levying the local or special assessments which may be payable in annual installments. The certificates shall be of such form, date, denomination, and payable in principal and interest at such time and place as the governing authority may determine; the certificates shall be secured by and paid from, in principal and interest, the irrevocable pledge and dedication of the funds derived from the levy and collection of the special assessments on the real property abutting the improvements and shall be payable in annual installments or deferred payments as provided for by this Sub-part, which funds shall be set aside in a separate fund and shall not be drawn upon for any other purpose than to pay the principal and interest of the certificates.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 525, §2; Acts 1960, No. 325, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3308. Additional assessment to meet deficiency; enforcement

RS 33:3308 - Additional assessment to meet deficiency; enforcement
In the event the local and special assessments originally levied are insufficient to pay the principal or interest or both in any one year, of the certificates outstanding at their respective maturity dates, then the municipality issuing the certificates, through its governing authority, shall levy and collect, at such time as may be necessary, an additional local or special assessment on each lot or parcel of real estate abutting the street, road, sidewalk or alley improved, sufficient in amount to pay in full the principal or interest or both of the certificates at their respective maturity dates. The amounts assessed in the ordinance shall be due and collectible immediately on its passage and if not paid within thirty days from the date of its adoption, the municipality shall proceed against the property for the collection of the amount of the additional local or special assessment so levied, plus interest thereon and ten per cent additional for attorney's fees. A certified copy of each ordinance providing for the levy and collection of the additional local or special assessment shall be filed with the clerk of court of the parish in which the municipality is located promptly upon its adoption, who shall forthwith record the same in the mortgage records of the parish and when so filed and recorded the ordinance shall operate as a lien and privilege against all the real estate therein assessed.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3309. Form of certificates; registration

RS 33:3309 - Form of certificates; registration
The certificates shall be signed by the chief executive officer of the municipality and by its clerk or secretary, on behalf of and in the name of the municipality and under the seal thereof. The interest coupons shall be signed with the facsimile signature of the said officers, and before delivery, shall be registered in the mortgage record of the parish in which the municipality is located as to the serial number, or numbers, amount, rate of interest, dates due, and streets, roads, or alleys, or parts thereof improved. Each of the certificates shall bear the following endorsement:
"This certificate registered in the Mortgage Records of the Parish of __________ on this the _____ day of _______________, 20___.
_______________________________
Clerk of Court and Ex-Officio
Recorder of Mortgages,
Parish of _________________"
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3310. Delivery of certificates; use of proceeds

RS 33:3310 - Delivery of certificates; use of proceeds
The governing authority of the municipality issuing the certificates, may, by resolution, authorize the chief executive officer, and the clerk or secretary, to negotiate and deliver the paving certificates and collect the purchase price therefor and do any and all things necessary and incidental thereto, or authorize delivery to the contractor of all or any of the certificates in payment of their contractual obligation covering the improvements. The funds derived from the sale of the paving certificates shall be expended solely in payment of the costs of the improvements, and shall not be drawn upon for any other purpose.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3311. Certificates to have requisites of negotiable paper

RS 33:3311 - Certificates to have requisites of negotiable paper
Certificates issued hereunder shall have all the requisites of negotiable paper, and shall not be invalid for any irregularity or defect in the proceedings for their issuance, sale, or delivery, and shall be incontestable in the hands of bona fide purchasers or holders for value.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3312. Final inspection of work; completion of payments

RS 33:3312 - Final inspection of work; completion of payments
The governing authority of any municipality taking advantage of the provisions of this Sub-part, shall, upon the completion of any contract awarded as provided for herein, provide for the final inspection of the work performed and the improvements made, and if the work is found to have been completed satisfactorily in accordance with the contract, as evidenced by a certificate of the engineer for the municipality, the governing authority shall, by ordinance, approve and accept the work and fulfill their obligations under the contract by full payment of all amounts due the contractor, including all retained percentages of payments previously made thereon on engineer's estimates, which percentages were retained pending the completion of the work.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3313. Engineer to prepare specifications; inspections and reports; employing attorney; transcript of record of proceedings

RS 33:3313 - Engineer to prepare specifications; inspections and reports; employing attorney; transcript of record of proceedings
Municipalities which take advantage of the provisions of this Sub-part may through their governing authorities engage the services of an engineer and provide for his payment. This engineer shall prepare all plans and specifications for the work, and the governing authority shall approve them by a resolution. The engineer shall inspect the work as let in accordance with contracts hereunder and shall issue to the contractor, his estimates thereon from time to time as the work progresses, which estimates may be paid by the municipality either in full or by the retention of twenty per cent thereof as retained percentage; provided that where the work is undertaken by the municipality the engineer so employed shall inspect the work as it progresses and shall be responsible for the performance and completion thereof in accordance with the plans and specifications. Upon final completion of the work the engineer shall render a report to the governing authority of the municipality as to the completion of the work in a satisfactory manner, which report shall be duly certified, and in addition, the engineer shall perform all engineering duties required of him in this Sub-part. The governing authority of the municipality may employ an attorney to handle all legal work in connection with the improvements, and provide for the payment of his fee. The attorney, in addition to his other duties, shall prepare a complete transcript of the record of the proceedings covering each project completed hereunder and shall file the same with the clerk or secretary of the municipality. This filed transcript shall constitute a permanent record of the municipality.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3314. Portion to be paid by owner of railway track in street

RS 33:3314 - Portion to be paid by owner of railway track in street
In the event a railway bed or track, other than one owned by the municipality, occupies a portion of a street, road or alley, the owner of the railway shall pay of the total cost of the work, the proportion that the area occupied by the railroad bears to the total area of the street, road or alley to be improved and also the cost of the extra work made necessary by the presence of the track in the street, road or alley.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3317. Construction and maintenance by parish government of streets and roads within municipality

RS 33:3317 - Construction and maintenance by parish government of streets and roads within municipality
Wherever streets and roads within a municipality are constructed and maintained by the parish government and not by the city government, the parish government shall have all of the powers and duties otherwise imposed on municipalities by the provisions of R.S. 33:3301 through 33:3316.
Added by Acts 1950, No. 397, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3318. Participation by municipality

RS 33:3318 - Participation by municipality
Any municipality proceeding under the authority of this Subpart may participate in the payment of the total costs of such project in the manner and to the extent that the governing authority of the municipality may determine, provided that any funds so used by the municipality shall be in such amounts as it may have available for such purpose and from sources other than the imposition of special assessments. Such participation by the municipality may be allocated to any one or more projects as the governing authority of the municipality may determine and the municipality may establish a reasonable formula providing adjustments and contributions for corner lots where street improvements are made on more than one side of a lot. Any contributions heretofore made by a municipality in accordance with this section are hereby ratified and confirmed.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 430, §2. Amended by Acts 1958, No. 238, §1; Acts 1978, No. 428, §1, eff. July 10, 1978.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3319. Prescriptive period to question validity of proceedings

RS 33:3319 - Prescriptive period to question validity of proceedings
No contest or proceeding to question the validity, legality, ranking, or status of any resolutions or ordinances adopted or proceedings initiated under the provisions of this Subpart, including but not limited to the ranking or status of such resolutions or ordinances operating as a lien and privilege as provided in R.S. 33:3306, shall be begun in any court by any person for any cause whatsoever, after the expiration of thirty days from the date when the resolution, ordinance, or proceeding was published, and after such time the regularity of such resolution, ordinance, or proceeding shall be conclusively presumed. If the validity of any certificates issued under the provisions of this Subpart is not raised within thirty days from the date of publication of the resolution or ordinance issuing said certificates and fixing their terms, the authority to issue said certificates, the legality, ranking, and status thereof and of the local or special assessments necessary to pay the same shall be conclusively presumed and no court shall thereafter have authority to inquire into such matters. Moreover, the time period for recordation of a debt as a privilege and lien as set forth in Civil Code Art. 3274 shall not apply to the ranking and status of a lien and privilege as authorized by R.S. 33:3306.
Added by Acts 1956, No. 430, §3. Amended by Acts 1958, No. 238, §1; Acts 1988, No. 810, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3331. Petition for street improvement; power of municipality to improve and defray cost

RS 33:3331 - Petition for street improvement; power of municipality to improve and defray cost
Upon the written petition of not less than sixty per cent of the resident abutting real estate owners in number and assessed valuation on the street or alley, or portion thereof to be improved, any municipality, the city of New Orleans excepted, may improve the streets and alleys or any part of them one block or more in length within its corporate limits, and may levy and collect special taxes or local assessments on the property abutting the street or alley to be improved for the purpose of defraying the entire cost of the improvement; and this shall include authority to levy and collect special taxes or local assessments on property located wholly or partly outside the corporate limits abutting such street or alley located entirely within the corporate limits.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 192, §4.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3332. Abutting owner's liability; liability of owner of railway track in street

RS 33:3332 - Abutting owner's liability; liability of owner of railway track in street
The entire cost of the improvement shall be paid by the owners of real estate abutting upon the street or alley, or portion thereof to be improved, according to the frontage of the property owned by them, provided that, where a railroad bed or track occupies a portion of the street or alley to be improved, the owner of the railway shall pay the entire cost of the paving of the space occupied by the roadbed, including the extra work made necessary by the presence of the track. In the event the railroad bed and track is owned by the municipality, it shall pay only for the extra work made necessary by the presence of the track in the street.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3333. Specifications; advertising for bids and awarding contract

RS 33:3333 - Specifications; advertising for bids and awarding contract
Whenever the governing authority resolves to make an improvement under the provisions of this Sub-part, they shall prepare plans and specifications of the work to be placed on file in the office of the municipal clerk or engineer, and shall adopt an ordinance ordering and describing in general terms the contemplated improvement, and authorizing the clerk or secretary to advertise for bids therefor. The advertisements shall be inserted at least twice in some newspaper published in the city, the first insertion to be not less than ten days prior to the date fixed for the reception of the bids, and it shall contain a general description of the contemplated work, and shall designate the hour, date, and place for the reception and opening of the bids. The governing authority shall let the contract to the lowest responsible bidder who can furnish satisfactory security, but shall have the right to reject any and all bids, in which case the municipality may purchase the material and have the work done, the cost of the work when completed to be assessed and paid for as provided in this Sub-part.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3334. Acceptance of work; assessment of abutting property

RS 33:3334 - Acceptance of work; assessment of abutting property
Upon the final and satisfactory completion of the work, the governing authority shall accept it by ordinance, and provide for the assessment of all abutting real estate and railroad tracks and roadbeds in the amounts due by the owners thereof, including such real estate as may be located wholly or partly outside of the corporate limits, according to the rule of apportionment stipulated in this Sub-part. A certified copy of the ordinance containing the assessment shall, within thirty days after its passage, be filed for record in the office of the recorder of mortgages in the parish in which the assessed property is located, and when so filed and recorded shall operate as a lien and privilege in favor of the municipality, or its transferees, against the real estate and railroad tracks therein assessed.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 192, §5; Acts 1954, No. 649, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3335. Enforcement of assessments

RS 33:3335 - Enforcement of assessments
The amounts assessed in the ordinance shall be due and eligible immediately upon its passage, and if not paid within thirty days thereafter the municipality, or its transferees, may proceed by suit against the assessed properties and the owners thereof, to enforce collection of the amounts of the assessments together with six per cent per annum interest from date of acceptance, and ten per cent of the amount of the judgment as attorney's fees.
Amended by Acts 1954, No. 650, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3336. Installment payments; notes evidencing deferred payments; municipality as abutting owner

RS 33:3336 - Installment payments; notes evidencing deferred payments; municipality as abutting owner
The governing authority of the municipality may provide in the ordinance accepting the work and making the assessment that the property owners therein assessed (including the municipality where it owns property abutting on the street paved), availing themselves of the privilege within thirty days after the passage of the ordinance, may (1) pay in cash twenty per cent of the amount of their indebtedness and pay the balance in four equal annual installments, or (2) pay in cash ten per cent of the amount of their indebtedness and pay the balance in fifteen equal annual installments. As evidence of these deferred payments the property owners shall sign (1) four promissory notes, each for twenty per cent of the amount due and payable one, two, three and four years after date respectively, or sooner at the option of the maker, or (2) fifteen promissory notes each for six per cent of the amount due and payable one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen years after date respectively, or sooner at the option of the maker. In either case the notes shall be made payable to the order of the municipality, dated thirty days after the passage of said ordinance, bear interest at a maximum rate of six per cent per annum from date until paid, payable annually, and ten per cent attorney's fees if placed in the hands of an attorney for collection after maturity, which notes when paraphed by the clerk or secretary of the municipality to identify them with the ordinance levying the assessment, shall carry with them in the possession of any bona fide owner the lien and privilege above provided. In making the assessments for the work done as above provided the municipality shall be considered and treated as any other property owner as to lots or land owned by it abutting on the street or alley improved under this Sub-part, and the governing authority of the municipality shall have the right to issue certificates, notes, or other evidences of debt, to represent the deferred payments on its assessment, levied against it in the ordinance accepting the work and levying the assessment therefor and fixing the terms of payment. At the time of the issuance of the certificates, notes, or other evidences of debt the governing authority shall, by ordinance, provide for their payment and shall set aside, dedicate, and pledge so much of the general revenues of the municipality in each year, for the years through which the certificates, notes, or other evidences of debt may run, as may be necessary to pay them in principal and interest as they mature. This dedication and pledge shall be incorporated in the certificates, notes, or other evidences of debt when issued, and shall constitute a fixed charge against the general revenues of the municipality.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 525, §3; Acts 1954, No. 601, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3337. Transfer of assessments and notes to contractor; borrowing money; issuance of note and certificates of indebtedness

RS 33:3337 - Transfer of assessments and notes to contractor; borrowing money; issuance of note and certificates of indebtedness
The assessments and the notes executed by the property owners, may be transferred by the city, without recourse, to the contractor at their face value, and the contractor, or his transferees shall enjoy the lien and privilege and all other rights provided in this Sub-part accruing to the municipality ordering the work. In the event that the municipality itself undertakes the work, it may borrow money to the extent of the estimated costs of material and work to be done, and as security, pledge the claim for costs, which it holds against the owners of the property abutting on the improvements, issuing temporarily and pending the completion of the improvement, its own note, bearing not more than six per cent per annum interest, which interest shall form a part of the cost of the improvements, and upon completion of the improvement, or each unit thereof, shall issue to the lender its certificate of indebtedness, bearing not more than six per cent interest per annum, to represent the unpaid portion of the money borrowed, payable according to the average maturities of the deferred payments, authorized under R.S. 33:3336 which certificates when tendered to the lender shall be accepted and operate as a cancellation pro tanto of the amount borrowed. Upon the tender to the lender of all certificates and cash collected and the transfer by the municipality to the lender of the judgments it may have obtained against defaulting assessment debtors or as much thereof as may be necessary to retire the loan in principal and interest, the loan shall be cancelled and the municipality relieved of all further liability therefor. The municipality may pledge the notes of the property owners as security for the payment of the certificates.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3338. Ratification of prior paving and assessments

RS 33:3338 - Ratification of prior paving and assessments
All paving done and all assessments made in the manner permitted or authorized by R.S. 33:3301, 33:3305, 33:3306, 33:3331, and 33:3334, as amended by Act 192 of 1950, are hereby ratified and confirmed to the same extent and with the same effect as if specifically authorized prior to such Act.
Acts 1950, No. 192, §6.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3351. Petition for street improvements; power of municipality to improve and defray cost

RS 33:3351 - Petition for street improvements; power of municipality to improve and defray cost
Municipalities having a population exceeding five hundred and all incorporated parish seats, upon the written petition of the owners of not less than a majority of the lineal front footage of the property abutting on the street or alley may pave, gravel, macadamize, resurface, repair, or otherwise improve the streets, alleys and curbing, or any part of them one block or more in length, within the corporate limits, and may levy and collect special taxes or local assessments on the property abutting the street, curbing, alley or sidewalk for the purpose of defraying the cost of the improvement.
Amended by Acts 1974, No. 343, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3352. Liability of owner of railway track in street

RS 33:3352 - Liability of owner of railway track in street
In the event a railway bed or track, other than the one owned by the municipality, occupies a portion of a street or alley, the owner of the railway thereof shall pay of the total cost of the work the proportion that the area occupied by the railroad bed bears to the total area of the street or alley to be improved, and also the cost of extra work made necessary by the presence of the track in the street or alley to be improved.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3353. Liability of municipality

RS 33:3353 - Liability of municipality
The municipality may pay of the total cost the proportion that the net area of the street intersections bears to the total area of the street, alley or curbing to be improved; and, in the event a municipally owned railroad is on the street or alley the municipality shall pay in addition only for the cost of the extra work made necessary by the presence of the track in the street or alley to be improved.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3355. Petition for payment of entire cost by property owners

RS 33:3355 - Petition for payment of entire cost by property owners
In lieu of the above, and upon the written petition of the owners of sixty per cent of the lineal front footage of the property abutting on any street or alley, the entire costs, of the improvements, shall be paid by the owners of the real estate abutting upon the streets or alleys, to be improved, according to the frontage of the property owned by them provided that where a railroad bed or track occupies a portion of the street or alley to be improved, the owners thereof shall pay the entire costs of paving of the space occupied by the railroad bed, including extra work made necessary by the presence of the track, and provided further that in the event the railroad bed or track, including street railroad bed or track, is owned by the municipality, it shall pay only for the extra work made necessary by the presence of the track in the street.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3356. Preparation of specifications; ordinance ordering improvement; advertising for bids and awarding contract

RS 33:3356 - Preparation of specifications; ordinance ordering improvement; advertising for bids and awarding contract
Whenever the governing authority of any municipality resolves to make any improvement authorized by this Sub-part, it shall prepare plans and specifications of the work to be placed on file in the office of the clerk or engineer, and shall adopt an ordinance or resolution, ordering and describing in general terms the contemplated improvement and authorizing the clerk or secretary to advertise for bids therefor, which advertisement shall be inserted at least twice in some newspaper published in the municipality, or if there is no newspaper published therein, then in a newspaper having general circulation therein, the first insertion to be not less than ten days prior to the date fixed for the reception of the bids. The advertisement shall contain a general description of the contemplated work and shall designate the hour, date, and place for the reception and opening of the bids. The governing authority of the municipality shall then let the contract to the lowest responsible bidder who can furnish satisfactory security. The governing body may reject any and all bids, and instead of letting the contract to the lowest bidder, the municipality may purchase the material and have the work done, in which case the costs of the work when completed, shall be assessed and paid as herein provided.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3357. Acceptance of work; assessment and lien

RS 33:3357 - Acceptance of work; assessment and lien
Upon final and satisfactory completion of the work, the governing authority shall accept it by ordinance or resolution and provide for the assessment of all abutting real estate, railroad tracks, and road beds in the amount due by the owners thereof, according to rules of apportionment adopted under the provisions of this Sub-part. A copy of the ordinance containing the assessment, certified by the clerk, shall, within thirty days after its passage, be filed for record in the office of the recorder of mortgages of the parish, and when so filed and recorded, shall operate as a lien and privilege in favor of the municipality or its transferees against the property assessed.
Amended by Acts 1954, No. 602, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3358. Enforcement of assessment

RS 33:3358 - Enforcement of assessment
The amounts assessed in the ordinance or resolution, shall be due and eligible immediately upon the passage of the ordinance or resolution and if not paid within thirty days after the passage of said ordinance or resolution, the municipality, or its transferees may proceed by suit against the assessed properties and the owners thereof to enforce collection of the amounts of the assessments, together with six per cent per annum interest from date of acceptance of the work and ten per cent of the amount of the judgment as attorney's fees.
Amended by Acts 1954, No. 651, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3359. Installment payments; notes evidencing deferred payments

RS 33:3359 - Installment payments; notes evidencing deferred payments
The governing authority of the municipality, however, may provide in the ordinance accepting the work and making the assessment, that the property owners availing themselves of the privilege within thirty days after the passage of the ordinance or resolution, may pay in cash ten per cent of the amount of their indebtedness and pay the balance in nine equal annual installments, and as evidence of the deferred payments, the property owners shall sign and execute nine promissory notes, payable to the order of the municipality, each for ten per cent of the amount due by him, dated thirty days after the passage of the ordinance accepting the work, maturing respectively on or before one to nine years, both inclusive, from date, or sooner, at the option of the owner, bearing a maximum rate of six per cent per annum interest from date, interest payable annually, and ten per cent attorney's fees if placed in the hands of an attorney for collection after maturity, which notes when paraphed by the municipal clerk or secretary to identify them with the ordinance levying the assessment, shall carry with them in the possession of any bona fide owner the lien and privilege above provided.
Amended by Acts 1954, No. 603, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3360. Transfer of assessments and notes to contractor

RS 33:3360 - Transfer of assessments and notes to contractor
The assessments and the notes executed by the property owners, may be transferred by the municipality, without recourse, to the contractor at their face value and the contractor or his transferees shall have the lien, privilege, and all other rights herein provided, accruing to the municipality.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3381. Street improvements authorized

RS 33:3381 - Street improvements authorized
Municipalities, except New Orleans, having a population exceeding one thousand, and all incorporated parish seats may pave, gravel, macadamize, resurface, repair, or otherwise improve their streets and alleys and curbing, or any part of them one block or more in length within its corporate limits and may levy and collect special taxes or local assessments on the property abutting the street, curbing, alley, or sidewalk for the purpose of defraying the cost of the work. The costs shall include all expenses necessary in the performance of the work.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3382. Portion of cost chargeable to owner of railway track in street

RS 33:3382 - Portion of cost chargeable to owner of railway track in street
In the event a railway bed or track, other than one owned by the municipality, occupies a portion of a street or alley, the owner of the railway shall pay of the total cost of the work the proportion that the area occupied by the railroad bed bears to the total area of the street or alley to be improved, and also the cost of extra work made necessary by the presence of the track in the street or alley to be improved.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3383. Liability of municipality

RS 33:3383 - Liability of municipality
The municipality shall pay of the total cost the proportion that the net area of the street intersections bear to the total area of the street, alley or curbing to be improved. In the event a municipally owned railroad is on the street or alley, the municipality shall pay only for the cost of extra work made necessary by the presence of the track in the street or alley to be improved.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3385. Petition for payment of entire cost by property owners

RS 33:3385 - Petition for payment of entire cost by property owners
In lieu of the above and upon the written petition of the owners of more than fifty per cent of the lineal foot frontage of the property abutting on any street or alley, the entire costs of the improvements shall be paid by the owners of real estate abutting on the street or alley to be improved, according to the frontage of the property owned by them, provided that where a railroad bed or track occupies a portion of the street or alley to be improved, the owners thereof shall pay the entire cost of paving of the space occupied by the railroad bed including extra work made necessary by the presence of the track, and provided further that in the event the railroad bed or track is owned by the municipality it shall pay only for the extra work made necessary by the presence of the track in the street.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3386. Preparation of specifications; ordinance ordering improvement; advertising for bids; awarding and recording contract

RS 33:3386 - Preparation of specifications; ordinance ordering improvement; advertising for bids; awarding and recording contract
Whenever the governing authority of any municipality resolves to make any improvement authorized by this Sub-part, it shall prepare plans and specifications of the work to be placed on file in the office of the clerk or engineer, and shall adopt an ordinance or resolution, ordering and describing in general terms the contemplated improvement and authorizing the clerk or secretary to advertise for bids therefor, which advertisement shall be inserted at least twice in some newspaper published in the municipality, or if there is no newspaper published therein, then in a newspaper having general circulation therein, the first insertion to be not less than ten days prior to the date fixed for the reception of the bids. The advertisement shall contain a general description of the contemplated work and shall designate the hour, date and place for the reception and opening of the bids. The governing authority shall then let the contract to the lowest responsible bidder who can furnish satisfactory security, but shall have the right to reject any and all bids. The contract shall be recorded in the mortgage records of the parish where the work is to be done.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3387. Acceptance of work; assessment and lien

RS 33:3387 - Acceptance of work; assessment and lien
Upon final and satisfactory completion of the work, the governing authority shall accept the same by ordinance or resolution and provide for the assessment of all abutting real estate, railroad tracks, and road beds in the amount due by the owners thereof, according to the rules of apportionments adopted under the provisions of this Sub-part. A copy of the ordinance containing the assessment, certified by the clerk, shall within thirty days after its passage be filed for record in the office of the recorder of mortgages of the parish, and when so filed and recorded it shall operate as a lien and privilege in favor of the municipality or its transferees against the property therein assessed, and shall be enforceable against the property assessed regardless of any changes of ownership.
Amended by Acts 1954, No. 604, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3388. Enforcement of assessment

RS 33:3388 - Enforcement of assessment
The amounts assessed in the ordinance or resolution, shall be due and eligible immediately upon the passage of the ordinance or resolution and if not paid within thirty days after the passage of the ordinance or resolution, the municipality or its transferees shall have the power to proceed by suit against the assessed properties and the owners to enforce collection of the amounts of the assessments, together with six per cent per annum interest from date of acceptance of the work and ten per cent of the amount of the judgment as attorney's fees.
Amended by Acts 1954, No. 605, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3389. Installment payments; notes evidencing deferred payments

RS 33:3389 - Installment payments; notes evidencing deferred payments
The governing authority of the municipality, however, may provide in the ordinance accepting the work and making the assessment, that the property owners, availing themselves of the privilege within thirty days after the passage of the ordinance or resolution, may pay in cash ten per cent of the amount of their indebtedness and pay the balance in equal annual installments over a period not to exceed fifteen years from the date of said passage. Where the paving is done on petition of the property owners as provided in Section 3385 of this Sub-part, they shall pay in cash ten per cent of the amount of their indebtedness, and may request in their petition that the balance be paid in equal annual installments over some fixed period of time not to exceed fifteen years from the date of passage of the assessment ordinance or resolution, and if such petition is accepted and approved by the governing authority of the municipality, the deferred payments shall be made accordingly.
As evidence of the deferred payments in either case, the property owners shall sign and execute promissory notes payable to the order of the municipality in equal annual installments covering the period of time allowed for payment of said balance as set forth in the assessment ordinance or resolution, said notes to be paid on or before maturity, at the option of the property owner, bearing interest not to exceed six per cent per annum from date of said notes, payable annually, and ten per cent attorneys fees if placed in the hands of an attorney for collection after maturity, which notes when paraphed by the municipal clerk or secretary to identify them with the ordinance or resolution levying the assessment, shall carry with them in the possession of any bona fide owner the lien and privilege provided by existing laws.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 525, §4; Acts 1952, No. 280, §1; Acts 1954, No. 606, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3390. Transfer of assessments and notes to contractor

RS 33:3390 - Transfer of assessments and notes to contractor
The assessments and the notes executed by the property owners, may be transferred by the municipality, without recourse, to the contractor at their face value and the contractor or any of his transferees shall have the lien, privilege and all other rights herein provided, accruing to the municipality.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3391. Sale of paving certificates

RS 33:3391 - Sale of paving certificates
In order to meet the payments due to the contractor in the amounts represented by deferred payments as provided for in this Sub-part the municipality may issue and sell after due advertisement for not less than fifteen days paving certificates in an amount not exceeding the total of the deferred payments authorized herein. The certificates when issued shall be direct obligations of the municipality secured in principal and interest by the deferred payments due and owing by the several property owners, which deferred payments shall constitute a special fund for this purpose only. The paving certificates shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent per annum payable annually and shall mature in not more than fifteen annual installments of approximately even amounts and may be called for payment in whole or in part at any interest payment period.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 525, §5.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3401. Street improvements; power to levy tax or assessment

RS 33:3401 - Street improvements; power to levy tax or assessment
The municipalities (the City of New Orleans excepted) having a population exceeding one thousand and all incorporated parish seats, may pave, gravel, macadamize, re-surface, repair or otherwise improve the streets and alleys, or any part thereof not less than one block in length within the corporate limits and may levy and collect special taxes or local assessments on the real estate abutting the street or alley to be improved, for the purpose of defraying a part of the cost of the improvement as hereinafter provided.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3402. Sharing costs; liability of owner of railway track in street; apportionment of cost on petition for improvement

RS 33:3402 - Sharing costs; liability of owner of railway track in street; apportionment of cost on petition for improvement
The owners of real estate abutting the street or alley to be improved shall pay two thirds of the entire cost of the improvement in proportion to the respective frontages of the abutting property owned by them and the municipality shall pay one third. Where a railway bed and track other than one municipally owned, occupies a portion of the street or alley, the owner shall pay in the proportion that the space occupied by its roadbed bears to the total area of the street or alley to be improved. In the event the railway bed and track is municipally owned, it shall be responsible only for the cost of the extra work made necessary by the presence of the track in the street or alley to be improved. In the event the space occupied by the railroad track is paved with a different material, the entire extra cost of the paving shall be borne by the owner.
If the owners of property abutting any street or alley, or any portion thereof one block or more in length, desire to initiate the construction of an improvement to the street, they may, by petition signed by more than one-half of the owners and representing more than one-half the assessed valuation of the property abutting the street, request the governing authority to construct the desired improvement, in which case the total cost of the improvement shall be apportioned as follows:
A. In the event a railway bed or track other than one municipally owned, occupies a portion of the street or alley, the owner thereof shall pay of the total cost of the work, the proportion that the area occupied by the roadbed bears to the total area of the street or alley to be improved.
B. The municipality shall pay of the total cost, the proportion that the net area of the intersection bears to the total area of the street or alley to be improved. In the event a municipally owned railway be on the street or alley, the municipality shall pay, in addition, only for the cost of the extra work made necessary by the presence of the track in the street or alley to be improved.
C. The abutting property owners shall pay for the balance of the cost of the paving or other improvement as herein provided in proportion to the respective frontages of the properties owned by them.