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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:493. Payment of interest

RS 38:493 - Payment of interest
For the purpose of paying the interest of the bonds, the levee board or levee and drainage board shall levy annually to an amount sufficient for that purpose the taxes and local contributions which levee boards and levee and drainage boards are authorized and empowered to levy or which they may hereafter be authorized to levy. From the first money realized from the taxes and local contribution, the state treasurer shall set apart annually the amount necessary to pay the interest and the money thus set apart shall not be diverted to any other purpose. The auditor in issuing his warrant for the payment of any interest coupons shall punch twice in the center each and every coupon so paid and shall paste the coupon so punched in a book or register to be kept by him for that purpose. Whenever the state shall have a fiscal agency in the city of New Orleans, the board of commissioners shall make the necessary arrangements through the state treasurer to have the interest paid at the New Orleans agency.
Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:494. Failure to levy taxes and local contributions; extension and collection

RS 38:494 - Failure to levy taxes and local contributions; extension and collection
In case of the failure of the levee board or levee and drainage board to levy the taxes and local contributions as provided for in R.S. 38:493 or in case from any other cause the taxes and local contributions are not so levied, the state auditor or whatever officer may at any time be charged with the functions of state auditor shall order the proper officers to extend the taxes upon the assessment rolls of the several parishes composing the levee district or levee and drainage district and shall order the proper officers of the parishes to collect the taxes and local contributions to an amount sufficient to meet the purposes provided for by R.S. 38:493, and the officers shall assess and collect the taxes and local contributions as ordered. The taxes and local contributions are now, once and for all levied and ordered to be collected to an amount sufficient to provide for the payment of the interest. The present levy of the taxes and local contributions shall be operative only in the event the taxes and local contributions are not otherwise levied either because of failure on the part of the levee board or levee and drainage board to perform the duty imposed upon it by R.S. 38:493 or from any other cause.
Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:495. Mandamus to enforce discharge of duties; injunction prohibited

RS 38:495 - Mandamus to enforce discharge of duties; injunction prohibited
Should any officer charged with the duty of collecting or disbursing the revenues under the provisions of this Subpart fail, neglect, or refuse to perform the duties devolving on him, the board or any holder of bonds issued under this Subpart may apply for and obtain from any court of competent jurisdiction a mandamus to compel the delinquent officer to proceed to discharge his duties pursuant to the provisions of this Subpart, and no court shall enjoin the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds or the levy and collection of the tax.
Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:496. Deposit of bonds with state treasurer; withdrawal

RS 38:496 - Deposit of bonds with state treasurer; withdrawal
The bonds authorized by R.S. 38:491 shall be deposited with the state treasurer as soon as they have been printed; and before the bonds have been signed by the president of the board and attested by the signature of the secretary of the board of commissioners as provided by R.S. 38:492, they shall be registered at the office of the auditor who shall keep a record of the bonds. The bonds shall not be withdrawn from the treasury of the state except upon the warrant of the state auditor issued upon the order of the board of commissioners and countersigned by the secretary and in pursuance of a resolution of the board adopted at a regular meeting and shall not be withdrawn except after having all matured coupons removed. All matured coupons taken from the bonds shall be cancelled by the treasurer. The auditor and treasurer of the state shall keep a record of the bonds and of the coupons, subject to the inspection of any persons interested, and the bonds thus withdrawn from the treasury shall be conclusively presumed to have been executed, issued, and negotiated by the board.
Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:497. Binding obligation of state

RS 38:497 - Binding obligation of state
This Subpart and the laws providing for the creation and government of the levee districts and levee and drainage districts and their authority or power to levy and collect taxes and local contributions and to issue bonds shall not be repealed or modified to the detriment of the bonds authorized by this Subpart. This obligation not to repeal or modify these statutes is declared to be binding on the state and to be part of the contract of the bonds.
Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:501. Authority to fund into bonds or other evidences of indebtedness

RS 38:501 - Authority to fund into bonds or other evidences of indebtedness
The boards of commissioners of the levee districts and levee and drainage districts of the state may fund into bonds or other evidences of indebtedness the proceeds of taxes in excess of five mills on the dollar that have been voted and carried upon taxable property situated within the alluvial portions of the districts subject to overflow for the purpose of raising additional funds for constructing and maintaining levees, drainage, levee drainage, and other purposes incidental thereto pursuant to the authority conferred by Article VI, Section 40, of the Constitution.
Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:502. Maturity of bonds; interest; certificate of district attorney

RS 38:502 - Maturity of bonds; interest; certificate of district attorney
A. The bonds issued under the authority of this Subpart shall mature annually upon dates to be determined and fixed by the issuing body, and the total amount of debt incurred or bonds issued shall not exceed in principal and interest the aggregate proceeds of the tax during the period for which the tax is levied, estimated upon the avails of the special tax upon the assessed value subject to the tax as shown by the assessment rolls last made and filed prior to the election authorizing the special tax. The bonds shall not bear a greater rate of interest than provided in R.S. 39:1421, et seq., and shall be payable annually or semiannually on dates to be specified in the bonds, and each of the bonds shall bear across its face printed in red letters the following certificate:
"I hereby certify that I have examined the proceedings prior and relative to the voting of the special tax, the resolutions, ordinances and other proceedings of ............. pursuant to which the series of bonds of which this is one was issued; that the said proceedings are regular in form; and that the proceeds of the special tax dedicated to the payment of same, estimated upon the tax roll of the .......... of ............ last made and filed prior to the election authorizing the special tax, that is to say, for the year 19..., will be ample for the payment of said bonds, principal and interest.
This the ............. day of ......... 19..
.................................
District Attorney.
.................................
Judicial District."
B. The foregoing certificate shall be signed by the district attorney of the judicial district in which the levee board or levee and drainage board is domiciled, and thereafter the bonds shall be incontestable for any cause, except as provided in Article VI, Section 35 of the Constitution of Louisiana. The district attorney shall receive as compensation for his services in making the examination and certificate required for this Subpart one-tenth of one percent of the total amount of bonds thus certified by him, but in no case shall he receive less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for this service which shall be paid by the levee board or levee and drainage board issuing the bonds.
Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:503. Ordinances and resolutions to be adopted; redemption prior to maturity

RS 38:503 - Ordinances and resolutions to be adopted; redemption prior to maturity
A. The levee board or levee and drainage board shall, through their respective governing bodies before the issuance of bonds under this Subpart, and in contemplation of the issuance, in each case, pass and adopt an ordinance or resolution setting forth substantially the denomination, maturity, form, and phraseology of the bonds and interest coupons and specifically dedicating the proceeds of the special tax voted for that purpose to the payment of the bonds, both principal and interest, as they mature and levying the tax for the whole term or series of years for which it was voted. The fund shall not be diverted to any other purpose so long as any bond of the series shall be outstanding and unpaid.
B. Nothing in this Section shall prevent the levee board or levee and drainage board from stipulating in the bonds that they may be redeemed at any time prior to maturity at the option of the levee board or levee and drainage board.
Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:511. Anticipation of revenues for five years; authority to borrow money and issue certificates of indebtedness

RS 38:511 - Anticipation of revenues for five years; authority to borrow money and issue certificates of indebtedness
The boards of commissioners of the duly organized levee districts and levee and drainage districts, in their discretion, may anticipate, for five years in advance of their availability, through the existing processes of law, their annual revenues, by borrowing any sums which in their judgment may be required for the needs of the district, duly recommended and approved by the office of engineering, and issuing certificates of indebtedness, upon the terms they may see fit, at rates of interest as provided in R.S. 39:1421 et seq., or by issuing refunding certificates of indebtedness for the refunding of any outstanding certificates of indebtedness and to secure the certificates by pledge of the revenues of the district for the year or years so anticipated.
Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985; Acts 2012, No. 753, §5.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:512. Form of pledge; rights of pledgee

RS 38:512 - Form of pledge; rights of pledgee
The pledge shall be either by notarial act or by an act under private signature, duly acknowledged. A copy of the act shall be filed with the state treasurer, another copy shall be filed with the state auditor, and a third copy shall be filed in the archives of the office of the levee district or levee and drainage district. Upon filing, the pledgee shall be entitled to payment of the sums advanced upon the pledge out of the revenues of the year or years so anticipated, as collected, by preference and priority over all persons, subject only to the legal rights of the holders of any bonds theretofore issued by the levee district or levee and drainage district.
Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:513. Levee districts reorganized, merged into, and consolidated with a parish

RS 38:513 - Levee districts reorganized, merged into, and consolidated with a parish
A. In addition to any rights, revenues, resources, jurisdiction, powers, authority, and functions granted by applicable provisions of this Chapter, any levee district reorganized, merged, and consolidated with a parish pursuant to Article VI, Sections 16 and 38 of the Constitution of Louisiana shall continue to have the rights, revenues, resources, jurisdiction, powers, authority, functions, and duties, including the levy and collection of any local assessment or forced contribution, authorized by law at the time of the reorganization, merger, and consolidation with a parish.
B. Only the provisions of R.S. 38:301(A) and (C)(1), 306(A) and (C), 314, 317, and 325, and Parts VI, and VII of this Chapter shall apply to levee districts reorganized, merged, and consolidated with a parish. To the extent that the provisions of this Chapter are applicable to such levee districts, the term "levee district" means the parish succeeding to the merged levy district, and the term "levee board" means the governing authority of the successor parish. The composition of the governing authority of any successor parish shall not be affected by this Chapter.
Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:514. §§514 to 1480.9 Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985.

RS 38:514 - §§514 to 1480.9 Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 785, §1, eff. July 22, 1985.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1481. Designation of place other than domicile for holding meetings

RS 38:1481 - Designation of place other than domicile for holding meetings
Hereafter, whenever the board of commissioners for any drainage district has organized by meeting at its domicile as designated by the police jury creating the drainage district, the board of commissioners for the drainage district, by unanimous vote of all of the commissioners composing the board, at a meeting of the board held at the domicile, may designate a public place for holding their meetings other than the domicile of the board. The public place so designated shall be either at the parish seat of the parish within which the drainage district is located or at the nearest town, which the drainage commissioners deem most convenient to the drainage board and the people having business transactions therewith.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1482. Improvement of canals for navigation purposes

RS 38:1482 - Improvement of canals for navigation purposes
Where any canals within a drainage district are suitable for the purpose of navigation, or by any additional works and expenditures may be made suitable to the purposes of navigation, the commissioners of the drainage district may enter into contracts with the commissioners of any navigation district, municipalities, corporations, or private individuals for the purpose of improving or maintaining of the canals. They may make rules and regulations for the use of the canals and impose any tolls they may deem proper for the maintenance of the canals. No part of the acreage or millage taxes which may have been imposed for the purpose of paying for the cutting of canals or for the retirement of the principal and interest on any bonds, or for the maintenance of drainage canals shall be used for the purpose of making the canals navigable. All additional revenues which may be derived from any contract under which the canals have been extended, widened, or deepened for the purpose of navigation, or any moneys received from tolls may be used not only for the purpose of maintaining the canals as navigable canals but for the betterment of the drainage system.
The commissioners of the drainage districts may construct along the banks of the canals, or contract in the same manner as provided in this Section with other parties to construct along and over the canal bank roads, trams, or other means of transportation which will enable the freer use of the canals and also furnish better means of transportation in the territories contiguous to the canals.
The drainage districts may resort to expropriation proceedings in the same manner and under the same conditions as they are now authorized to do for acquisition of the land necessary for the cutting of the canals as well as the land contiguous thereto necessary as banks of the canals.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1491. Drainage channels or outfall canals; Tangipahoa Parish

RS 38:1491 - Drainage channels or outfall canals; Tangipahoa Parish
A. All drainage channels or outfall canals in the parish of Tangipahoa created pursuant to law shall be public drainage channels or outfall canals.
B. On July 1, 2003, all drainage channels or outfall canals in the parish of Tangipahoa that have been or thereafter are kept up, maintained, or worked for a period of three years by authority of the governing authority of the parish or the governing board of any drainage district located in the parish shall be public drainage channels or outfall canals.
C.(1) The governing board of any drainage district located in the parish which has control over any public drainage channel or outfall canal provided for in Subsections A and B of this Section shall have authority to share the use of such public drainage channels or outfall canals with any sewerage district located in the parish if the sharing of such public drainage channels or outfall canals is for the benefit of the general population of the parish.
(2) The governing board of any drainage district located in the parish which holds a servitude over any drainage channel or outfall canal shall have the authority to share the use of such drainage channel or outfall canal with any sewerage district located in the parish if the sharing of such drainage channel or outfall canal is for the benefit of the general population of the parish.
D. If the governing board of any drainage district located in the parish grants the use of any drainage channel or outfall canal under its authority to any sewerage district located in the parish, the drainage district shall not be held liable for any act or omission of such sewerage district resulting in damage or injury to any such drainage channel or outfall canal or any component thereof.
Acts 2003, No. 1102, §1, eff. July 1, 2003.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1502. Copying and indexing records; recording and indexing proceedings

RS 38:1502 - Copying and indexing records; recording and indexing proceedings
Each clerk of court without the right to make any charge for the service shall copy and properly index into the book of drainage records any and all proceedings heretofore recorded in the mortgage records of his parish, and affecting any drainage or sub-drainage district. He shall record and index in the book any and all subsequent proceedings taken by any drainage or sub-drainage district, which are now required to be recorded in his mortgage records. For the recordation of subsequent proceedings, the clerk shall be entitled to collect from each drainage or sub-drainage district the recording charges now provided by law.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1503. Recording in drainage records

RS 38:1503 - Recording in drainage records
Whenever any law of this state now requires any proceeding of any drainage district or sub-drainage district to be recorded in the mortgage records of the parish or parishes in which the drainage or sub-drainage district is located, the proceedings shall not be recorded in the mortgage records but shall be recorded in the book of drainage records. This recordation shall be a full compliance on the part of the clerk and recorder with the requirement of the law designating the proceedings to be recorded in his mortgage office, and shall be a full compliance with the requirement of any provision of the drainage laws requiring any proceeding to be recorded in any mortgage office.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1504. Mortgage certificates

RS 38:1504 - Mortgage certificates
In furnishing a mortgage certificate in the name of any owner of any land located in any drainage or sub-drainage district within any parish, the clerk of court and ex-officio recorder of mortgages of the parish shall not set forth on the mortgage certificate any of the proceedings incident to the organization or bond issue of the drainage or sub-drainage district, but when the tax roll of any drainage or sub-drainage district has been filed with him for record, the clerk of court and ex-officio recorder of mortgages shall set forth on the mortgage certificate any delinquent or unpaid drainage tax owing by the land owner, just as he would report any delinquent state or parish tax on the mortgage certificate.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1521. Boards authorized to borrow money and pledge revenues

RS 38:1521 - Boards authorized to borrow money and pledge revenues
The board of commissioners of drainage districts may anticipate the current revenues of each year, in advance of their availability, by borrowing the sums which in their judgment may be required for the needs of the district for the current year, upon the terms they may see fit, at rates of interest not exceeding six per cent per annum, and secure the loans by a pledge of the revenues of the district for the current year.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1522. Form of pledge; filing; rights of pledgees

RS 38:1522 - Form of pledge; filing; rights of pledgees
The pledge shall be either by notarial act or by act under private signature, duly acknowledged, and a copy thereof shall be filed with the fiscal agent of the drainage district, and another copy shall be filed with the State Auditor. Upon filing, the pledgee shall be entitled to payment of the sums advanced upon the pledge, out of the revenues of the current year as collected, by preference and priority over all persons whatsoever, subject only to the legal rights of the holders of any bonds theretofore issued by the drainage district.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1541. Funding or refunding bonds

RS 38:1541 - Funding or refunding bonds
Any drainage district created or organized prior to the year 1921, or any sub-district of a drainage district, may, issue funding or refunding bonds, for the purpose of adjusting, readjusting, funding, refunding, extending, or unifying any or all of its authorized indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, or both, incurred in draining and reclaiming by means of levees and pumps any or all of the lands in the drainage district or sub-district.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1542. Denominations; form and terms; funds from which payable

RS 38:1542 - Denominations; form and terms; funds from which payable
The board of commissioners of any drainage district or of any sub-district, when petitioned to issue funding or refunding bonds by the owners of a majority of the acreage of the lands in the district or sub-district, after adopting a resolution to that effect, may issue funding or refunding bonds for the purpose of adjusting, readjusting, funding, refunding, extending, or unifying any or all of the authorized indebtedness bonded or otherwise, of the district or sub-district incurred in draining and reclaiming by means of levees and pumps any or all of the lands in the drainage district or sub-district. The funding or refunding bonds shall be in denominations of one hundred dollars or multiples thereof, shall bear interest, represented by coupons, at a rate not to exceed six per cent per annum, payable annually or semi-annually, shall run for a period not to exceed forty years, and shall mature and be payable annually, beginning not more than ten years after their date, all as may be determined by the board of commissioners. Both principal and interest shall be payable at some convenient banking house or trust company's office to be named in the bonds, which shall be signed by the president of the board of commissioners, attested by the signatures of the secretary of the board and the seal of the district, and shall show on their face the purpose for which issued. The coupons on the bonds may be signed by the facsimile signatures of the officers. The delivery at any time thereafter of any bonds and coupons so executed shall be valid, although before the date of delivery the person signing the bonds or coupons shall have ceased to hold office. The funding or refunding bonds shall be payable out of any funds of the district or sub-district, not otherwise dedicated, and shall be secured by a tax on all of the lands in the drainage district or sub-drainage district, or on the portion of the lands specified in the petition of the property owners.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1543. Acreage tax or forced contribution

RS 38:1543 - Acreage tax or forced contribution
The board of commissioners of the drainage district or sub-drainage district, so long as any of the bonds are outstanding shall, in addition to all other taxes, annually levy, assess, and order the collection of, until the funding or refunding bonds are fully paid, an acreage tax or forced contribution against each acre of land in the drainage district or sub-drainage district, as the case may be, or on each acre of land as specified in the petition of the property owners in an amount sufficient to pay the bonds in principal and interest, plus ten percent for emergencies. The acreage tax or forced contributions shall not exceed two dollars and fifty cents per acre per annum. The levy of the acreage tax shall be a tax lien on the land against which it is assessed.
The secretary of the drainage district or sub-drainage district shall prepare each year a tax assessment book assessing the annual tax, and shall file a copy of the book with the clerk of court and recorder and a copy with the sheriff and tax collector of each parish in which any lands so assessed with and liable for the acreage tax are situated. The acreage tax shall be collected and payment enforced in the same manner provided for the collection of other taxes.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1544. Funding or refunding bonds

RS 38:1544 - Funding or refunding bonds
Any drainage district or sub-drainage district organized prior to the adoption of the Constitution of 1921, and not reorganized under the provisions of the Constitution of 1921, and the laws carrying same into effect, which have heretofore, upon petition of the property taxpayers and in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of Article 281 of the Constitutions of 1898 and 1913, and the laws carrying the Constitutions into effect, incurred debts against the lands within the drainage district or sub-drainage district, for the purpose of reclaiming the lands therein, and issued negotiable bonds to represent the indebtedness, may, for the purpose of readjusting, funding, refunding, extending or unifying any or all of its authorized indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, or both, issue and sell funding or refunding bonds, and with the proceeds of the sale thereof pay the indebtedness, or may exchange the funding or refunding bonds with the holders of the outstanding indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, in payment thereof, all in the manner as hereinafter provided.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1545. Resolution by board of commissioners; form and terms of bonds; sale or exchange

RS 38:1545 - Resolution by board of commissioners; form and terms of bonds; sale or exchange
Funding or refunding bonds shall be issued by the board of drainage commissioners of the drainage district or sub-drainage district, by resolution to that effect, adopted upon the petition of not less than a majority in acreage of the property taxpayers, resident and non-resident, in the drainage district or sub-drainage district. The funding or refunding bonds shall be in any denomination or denominations of one hundred dollars, or multiples thereof and shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding five per cent per annum, payable annually or semi-annually. They shall run for a period not to exceed forty years, and shall mature and be payable annually, beginning not more than five years after their date of issue, as may be determined by the board of drainage commissioners. Bonds due each year, after they begin to mature, shall be for such amount that when the annual interest is added thereto the total amount to be paid each year, including principal and interest, shall be as nearly equal as practicable. The funding or refunding bonds shall be sold or exchanged at not less than ninety per cent of par. The amount due in any year in principal and interest of the bonds, which together with the cost of maintaining the drainage of the district or sub-district shall not be greater than the amount which will be realized from a forced contribution or acreage tax not to exceed three dollars fifty cents per acre per annum levied or to be levied for the year upon all of the lands of the district or sub-district. A certified copy of the resolution of the board of drainage commissioners authorizing the issuance of the funding or refunding bonds shall be published in two successive issues, within a period of ten days, of the official journal of the parish in which the drainage district or sub-drainage district is situated. Publication shall constitute due notice of the action to all persons interested.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1546. Forced contribution or acreage tax

RS 38:1546 - Forced contribution or acreage tax
The board of drainage commissioners of any drainage district or sub-drainage district issuing funding or refunding bonds as above provided shall, as long as any bonds remain outstanding, levy annually upon the lands in the drainage district or sub-drainage district, forced contributions or acreage taxes in an amount sufficient to maintain the drainage of the land and to pay interest annually, or semi-annually, and the principal of funding or refunding bonds falling due each year, or the amount which may be required for any sinking fund providing for the payment of the funding or refunding bonds at maturity. The forced contributions or acreage taxes for all purposes shall never exceed three dollars and fifty cents per acre per annum. The taxes shall be assessed and collected in the same manner provided in R.S. 38:1789, 38:1790 and 38:1791.
The assessors shall receive as compensation for making the assessment roll the fees fixed by law on all ad valorem taxes and the sum of seventy five dollars for the listing of property to serve as a basis to collect the acreage tax which shall be paid him by the drainage district. The fee of seventy five dollars shall constitute the total charge for all rolls made for the district or subdistrict therein and the cost shall be divided between the original district and any subdrainage districts therein issuing bonds or levying a tax.
The tax collectors shall receive for all services rendered in collecting and paying the taxes provided for in this Part one-tenth of one per centum on the amount collected and paid in.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1547. Adjustment, compromise and settlement of claims

RS 38:1547 - Adjustment, compromise and settlement of claims
In issuing, funding or refunding bonds under the provisions of this Part, the board of drainage commissioners of any drainage district or sub-drainage district may enter into any agreement or agreements with holders of outstanding bonds or other indebtedness, for the settlement, adjustment, and compromise of all amounts due thereunder or thereupon, as well as to adjust, compromise, and settle any and all claims against any and all bondholders or other persons who may own lands within the drainage district or sub-drainage district, whether growing out of the levy and assessment of acreage taxes against the lands, or otherwise, to the end of causing the redemption of lands located in any drainage district or sub-drainage district theretofore adjudicated to the state, or the drainage or sub-drainage district, all with a view of rehabilitating and reestablishing the integrity of the drainage district or sub-drainage district and placing the lands of the district upon the assessment rolls.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1548. Contest of validity of proceedings

RS 38:1548 - Contest of validity of proceedings
Whenever funding or refunding bonds have been ordered to be issued, and forced contributions and acreage taxes have been levied, or authorized to be levied, any land owner having property situated within the limits of any drainage district or sub-drainage district during sixty days next following the date of publication of the resolution, as required in this Part, may appeal to the courts for the purpose of testing the regularity, formality, legality, constitutionality, or validity of the proceeding, of the funding or refunding bonds authorized to be issued, and of the forced contributions or acreage taxes levied or authorized to be levied. After this time the regularity, formality, legality, constitutionality, and validity of the proceeding shall be conclusively presumed, shall be absolutely incontestable, and no one shall have any right or cause of action to contest the regularity, formality, legality, constitutionality, or validity of the proceedings, of the funding or refunding bonds authorized to be issued, or of the forced contributions or acreage taxes levied or authorized to be levied. If the regularity, formality, legality, constitutionality, or validity of the proceedings, of the funding or refunding bonds, or of the forced contributions or acreage taxes, are not questioned within the sixty days the authority of the board of drainage commissioners of any drainage district or sub-drainage district to issue and sell or exchange the funding or refunding bonds, the legality and constitutionality of the bonds, as well as the legality and constitutionality of the acreage taxes or forced contributions, levied or authorized to be levied, to pay the bonds, shall be conclusively presumed and no court may inquire into any of these matters.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1571. Transfer of property from drainage district to municipality; resolution of board of commissioners

RS 38:1571 - Transfer of property from drainage district to municipality; resolution of board of commissioners
Drainage districts organized under the laws of this state, the territorial limits of which drainage district lie wholly within the boundaries of any municipality, and all the bonded and other indebtedness of which has been paid and satisfied, may be liquidated and finally dissolved, and all the canals, works and property of the drainage district, and the control thereof, may be transferred to the municipality within which the drainage district lies, all by resolution of the board of commissioners of the district. The resolution shall be adopted at a special meeting, called and held for the purpose. The meeting shall be preceded by a notice, published by the president of the board, for at least ten days, in a newspaper published in the municipality, notifying the public of the calling of the meeting, and that the foregoing proposition will be considered and acted upon at the meeting.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1572. Acceptance of transfer by municipality

RS 38:1572 - Acceptance of transfer by municipality
Any municipality may by ordinance, passed by its governing authority, accept the transfer, from any drainage district whose territorial limits lie wholly within the boundaries of the municipality and all of whose bonded and other indebtedness has been paid, and satisfied, of the canals, works, and property of the drainage district. The title to the property shall remain in the public.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1573. Effect of transfer

RS 38:1573 - Effect of transfer
The effect of any transfer, when completed and accepted from a drainage district to a municipality, of the canals, works and other property of the drainage district, shall be to vest in the municipality, full and complete control, for any and all public uses of all canals, works, and other property thus transferred, the title thereof to remain in the public. The governing authorities of the municipality shall have full and complete control thereof for the public and may, thereafter, use the canals, works and property for drainage purposes, navigation purposes, or for both, or for any other use which the needs of the public may dictate.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1574. Petition and resolution; liquidation of affairs

RS 38:1574 - Petition and resolution; liquidation of affairs
Any drainage district or subdrainage district organized under Act No. 317 of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana for the year 1910, and acts amendatory thereof, the lands in which have been drained or reclaimed by the landowners or by drainage district or subdrainage district by leveeing and pumping, when requested by written petition, signed by the landowners owning ninety-five percent of the lands in the drainage district or subdrainage district, whether the landowners are bondholders or not, and whether the drainage district or subdrainage district has or has not issued bonds, shall, through its governing authority, adopt a resolution declaring the drainage district or subdrainage district to be thereby dissolved; and its governing authority shall proceed to liquidate its affairs.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1575. No dissolution without consent of bondholders or retirement of bonds

RS 38:1575 - No dissolution without consent of bondholders or retirement of bonds
If the drainage district or subdrainage district has bonds issued and outstanding, the resolution dissolving the drainage district or subdrainage district shall not become effective until the holders of all outstanding bonds have filed with the governing authority thereof their written consent to the dissolution or until the outstanding bonded indebtedness has been retired.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1576. Title to pumping plants, canals, ditches, rights-of-way and other property

RS 38:1576 - Title to pumping plants, canals, ditches, rights-of-way and other property
Upon the dissolution, of the drainage district or subdrainage district, all pumping plants, canals, ditches, rights-of-way, and other property theretofore acquired by it, by donation, purchase, expropriation, or otherwise, shall revert to the owners from whom they were acquired, their heirs, successors, transferees and assigns. If the drainage district or subdrainage district has an outstanding bonded indebtedness, all pumping plants, canals, ditches, rights-of-way, and other property may, with the consent of the landowners owning ninety-five percent of the lands in the drainage district or subdrainage district, be conveyed to the bondholders, free and clear of any claims of the landowners.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1577. Conveyance of pumping plants, etc., to bondholders upon surrender of bonds

RS 38:1577 - Conveyance of pumping plants, etc., to bondholders upon surrender of bonds
The governing authority of the drainage district or subdrainage district which has adopted a resolution of dissolution, may enter into a contract with the holders of the outstanding bonds of the drainage district or subdrainage district, with the consent and approval of the landowners owning ninety-five percent of the lands therein, whether the landowners are bondholders or not, whereby the drainage district or subdrainage district will convey to the holder or holders of the bonds the pumping plants, canals, ditches, rights-of-way, and other property owned by the drainage district or subdrainage district upon surrender, cancellation, and retirement of the outstanding bonds and vest in the holder of the bonds title to the pumping plants, canals, ditches, rights-of-way and other property.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1580.1. Subdrainage districts

RS 38:1580.1 - Subdrainage districts
A. The governing authority of Jefferson Parish may form one or more subdrainage districts out of the territory comprising a consolidated drainage district, by ordinance to that effect, defining the limits of the subdrainage district. The subdrainage district may be enlarged or diminished and the boundaries thereof changed by the governing authority, by ordinance to that effect.
B. The subdrainage district so created shall be designated as "Subdrainage District _________ of Consolidated Drainage District No. ___ of the Parish of Jefferson" and any subdrainage district so created shall constitute a special district within the meaning of Article VI, Section 19 of the Constitution of Louisiana, shall be a political subdivision of this state, and enjoy all rights, powers, and privileges enjoyed by other drainage districts under the constitution and laws of this state, including the right to issue bonds and levy taxes and special assessments.
C. After the creation of any subdrainage district, notice of the creation, stating the boundaries of the district, shall be published one time in the official journal of the parish. Thirty days after such publication, the creation of the subdrainage district shall become incontestable, and no court shall have jurisdiction to entertain litigation questioning the legality of the creation of such district.
D. The governing authority of the parish of Jefferson shall be the governing authority of any subdistrict created hereunder.
Acts 1993, No. 77, §1, eff. May 26, 1993.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1581. Establishment of system

RS 38:1581 - Establishment of system
A. The Jefferson Parish Council, governing authority of all Jefferson Parish drainage districts pursuant to its home rule charter, either within or without the corporate limits of a municipal corporation, may establish, acquire, construct, improve, extend, and maintain within Jefferson Parish drainage districts a drainage system or systems, including such drainage facilities as may be required, with all necessary equipment and installations in connection therewith, including such extensions as may be proper to connect the system or systems with the drainage facilities of the district or any other drainage facilities whether within or without any such district.
B. The parish council may levy and collect local or special assessments on real property to be benefitted within the district or the area served within the district sufficient in amount to defray the total cost of said work, including the cost of street intersections and installations and connections necessary to connect the system with the main drainage system of the district or necessary to connect the system with any drainage facilities whether within or without the district, including the cost of establishing, constructing, improving, and extending any such drainage facilities, whether by purchase, lease, or otherwise, or including the cost of the construction of complete drainage facilities, including levees and pumping facilities, either within or without the districts, all within the form and manner and subject to the limitations and restrictions herein contained.
Added by Acts 1983, No. 708, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1582. Notice of intention to establish system; objections

RS 38:1582 - Notice of intention to establish system; objections
A. Any drainage district taking advantage of this Part shall, through its governing authority, be required to adopt a resolution giving notice of its intention to establish, acquire, construct, improve, extend, and maintain such drainage system or systems and other improvements herein authorized. Such notice shall generally include the improvements contemplated, a list of streets or portions thereof or area or areas which are to be improved or drained, and the manner of payment therefor. Such notice shall further contain substantially all things set forth in said resolution and shall state that the authority ordering the giving of such notice will, in open session on the date and at the time and place named, hear all objections to the proposed improvements and the manner of payment therefor. Such notice of intention shall be forwarded to each affected property owner of record by U.S. mail at least twenty days prior to the date of the public hearing. The drainage district, through its governing authority, shall cause to be executed an affidavit attesting to the fact that such notice has been mailed to each affected property owner of record, which affidavit shall serve as a proof of mailing.
B. After hearing and passing on the objections, the governing authority may order the proposed improvements constructed in the manner hereinafter provided. However, the governing authority of any district shall not order the construction of the proposed improvements if there is filed at the public hearing written objections to the proposed improvements signed by the property owners owning more than one-half of the total front feet of property which will be assessed to pay the cost of said improvements, if the assessments are to be on a front foot basis, or signed by the property owners owning more than one-half of the total square footage of property which will be assessed to pay the cost of such improvements, if the assessments are to be on a square foot basis. Such majority shall be determined after considering the front footage or square footage of all properties to be assessed and the owners of such portion shall be determined by the conveyance records of the parish.
Added by Acts 1983, No. 708, §1.