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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.7. Certificates of indebtedness

RS 33:4160.7 - Certificates of indebtedness
The governing authority of any such municipality or parish complying with the provisions of this Chapter, shall have the power and is hereby authorized to issue, execute, negotiate, sell, and deliver negotiable interest-bearing coupon certificates of the municipality or parish in an amount not exceeding the total amount of the installments or deferred payments as provided for in R.S. 33:3986, said certificates to bear interest at a rate or rates as may be payable annually, and to mature serially over a period not exceeding twenty years, but in no event shall said 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. Said 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, and such certificates shall be secured by and payable in principal and interest from the irrevocable pledge and dedication of the funds to be derived from the special assessments hereinabove provided, which are payable in annual installments or deferred payments as provided for by this Chapter, which funds shall be set aside in a separate trust fund and shall not be drawn upon for any purpose other than to pay the principal and interest of said certificates.
Acts 1990, No. 782, §1, eff. July 24, 1990.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.8. Additional assessments

RS 33:4160.8 - Additional assessments
In the event the local and special assessments originally levied are insufficient for any cause whatsoever, to pay the principal and interest, or the principal or interest, in any one year of the said certificates outstanding at their respective maturity dates, then in this event the municipality or parish issuing such certificates under the provisions of this Chapter, through its governing authority, is hereby authorized, empowered, and obligated by ordinance to levy and collect, at such time or times as may be necessary, an additional local or special assessment on each lot or parcel of real estate in the municipality or parish or area involved, sufficient in amount to pay in full the said principal and interest, or the principal or interest of such certificates at their respective maturity dates. The amounts assessed in such ordinance or ordinances shall be due and collectible immediately on its passage and if not paid within thirty days from the date of its adoption, the governing authority of the municipality or parish 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 percent additional for attorneys' fees. A certified copy of each ordinance providing for the levy and collection of such additional local or special assessment shall be filed with the clerk of court of the parish in which the municipality or parish is located promptly upon its adoption, who shall forthwith record the same in mortgage records of the parish and when so filed and recorded shall operate as a lien and privilege against all the real estate therein assessed and shall prime all other liens except taxes, and prior recorded local or special assessments levied for streets or gas.
Acts 1990, No. 782, §1, eff. July 24, 1990.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.9. Sale and delivery of certificates; use of proceeds

RS 33:4160.9 - Sale and delivery of certificates; use of proceeds
The governing authority of the municipality or parish issuing the certificates may negotiate and deliver the certificates and collect the purchase price therefor and do any and all things necessary and incidental thereto or authorize the 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 certificates shall be expended solely in payment of the costs of the improvements and shall not be drawn upon for any other purpose.
Acts 1990, No. 782, §1, eff. July 24, 1990.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.10. Certificates as negotiable paper

RS 33:4160.10 - Certificates as negotiable paper
Certificates issued 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 thereof.
Acts 1990, No. 782, §1, eff. July 24, 1990.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.11. Inspection and acceptance of work

RS 33:4160.11 - Inspection and acceptance of work
The governing authority of any municipality or parish taking advantage of the provisions of this Chapter shall, upon the completion of any contract awarded as provided for herein, provide for the final inspection of the work performed thereunder and the improvements made, and if the work be found to have been completed satisfactorily in accordance with said contract, as evidenced by a certificate of the project engineer, the said governing authority shall by ordinance duly adopted approve and accept the said work and fulfill its obligations under the said contract after compliance with the laws of Louisiana relative to the completion of contracts involving public works, by full payment therefor of any and all amounts and balances due the said contractor, including all retained percentages of payments previously made thereon on engineer's estimates, and which percentages were retained pending the completion of the said work.
Acts 1990, No. 782, §1, eff. July 24, 1990.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.12. Employment and duties of engineer and attorney

RS 33:4160.12 - Employment and duties of engineer and attorney
A. Municipalities or parishes which take advantage of the provisions of this Chapter, be and they are hereby authorized through their respective governing authorities if they elect to do so to engage the service of an engineer and provide for his payment, who shall prepare all plans and specifications for said work and improvements herein authorized, and that the governing authority shall approve such plans and specifications by a proper resolution duly adopted. Such engineer, so employed, shall inspect the work as let in accordance with contracts hereunder and shall issue to the said contractor, his estimates thereon from time to time as the said work progresses, which estimates may be paid by the municipality or parish either in full or by the retention of ten percent thereof as retained percentage. The said engineer 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 said engineer shall render a report to the governing authority of the municipality or parish as to the completion of the work in a satisfactory manner, which report shall be duly certified to, and in addition thereto, the said engineer shall do and perform any and all engineering duties required of him in this Chapter.
B. The governing authority of the municipality or parish is also hereby authorized to employ an attorney to handle all legal work in connection with such improvements, herein authorized, and to 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 proceeding covering each and every project completed and shall file the same with the clerk or secretary of the municipality or parish. This filed transcript shall constitute a permanent record thereof.
Acts 1990, No. 782, §1, eff. July 24, 1990.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.13. Prescriptive period to question validity of proceedings

RS 33:4160.13 - Prescriptive period to question validity of proceedings
No contest or proceeding to question the validity or legality of any resolutions or ordinances adopted or proceedings had under the provisions of this Chapter 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 Chapter is not raised within thirty days from date of publication of the resolution or ordinance issuing said certificates and fixing their terms, the authority to issue said certificates, the legality 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.
Acts 1990, No. 782, §1, eff. July 24, 1990.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.14. Participation in payment of costs

RS 33:4160.14 - Participation in payment of costs
Any municipality or parish proceeding under the authority of this Chapter may participate in the payment of the total cost of any project authorized hereunder, in such a manner and to such extent that the governing authority of the municipality or parish may determine, provided that any funds so used by the municipality or parish 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 or parish may be allocated to any one or more projects as the governing authority of the municipality or parish may determine, and the amount of the municipality's or parish participation shall be deducted from the total cost of the improvements for the purpose of levying local or special assessments hereunder.
Acts 1990, No. 782, §1, eff. July 24, 1990.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.21. Establishment of system

RS 33:4160.21 - Establishment of system
The governing authority of the city of Lafayette may establish, acquire, construct, improve, extend, and maintain within said city 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 city or any other drainage facilities within the city. The governing authority of the city may levy and collect local or special assessments on real property to be benefitted within the city or the area served within the city 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 city or necessary to connect the system with any drainage facilities within the city, 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, within the city, all within the form and manner and subject to the limitations and restrictions herein contained.
Acts 1992, No. 472, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.22. Notice of intention to establish system; objections

RS 33:4160.22 - Notice of intention to establish system; objections
A. In order to take advantage of this Chapter, the governing authority of the city shall 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, rights of way, 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 published in the official journal of the city once a week for three consecutive weeks beginning not later than fifteen days before the date of the proposed hearing.
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 shall not order the construction of the proposed improvements if there is filed prior to or 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.
Acts 1992, No. 472, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.23. Specifications; advertising for bids

RS 33:4160.23 - Specifications; advertising for bids
A. The governing authority, after having given notice of its intention as above set forth and after disposing of all objections and having decided to order the construction of such improvements, may without further delay have the necessary plans and specifications for said work prepared and may authorize the advertisement for bids therefor, as provided by law. Said notice shall contain a general description of work contemplated, shall refer to plans and specifications which shall be placed on file with the clerk, secretary, or purchasing agent of the governing authority, shall designate the hour, date, and place for the reception and opening of bids, and may provide either that the contractor be required to accept certificates of indebtedness hereafter authorized if the governing authority elects to make such requirement or that they may be sold in such a manner and at such time as the governing authority may elect.
B. Drainage improvements authorized under the provisions of this Chapter may be combined, constructed, and installed as a part of road or street paving improvements undertaken by the city or jointly by the city with the parish or with the Department of Transportation and Development. Advertisement for bids on such projects shall be in accordance with the requirements of law applicable to road or street paving improvements ordered by the city, the parish, or the Department of Transportation and Development and it shall not be necessary that the project be advertised as otherwise provided in this Section. Where drainage improvements authorized under the provisions of this Chapter are included in and constructed as an integral part of a road or street paving project being undertaken by the city, the parish, or the Department of Transportation and Development, the lowest responsible bid received for the entire project shall govern, and assessments to be levied as hereinafter provided shall be based upon the total of the unit prices contained in the bid proposal and applicable to the drainage work included in the joint project as determined and certified by the city's engineer.
Acts 1992, No. 472, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.24. Awarding contract; resolution authorizing execution of contract

RS 33:4160.24 - Awarding contract; resolution authorizing execution of contract
A. Except in the case of joint projects undertaken as provided and authorized by R.S. 33:4160.23, the governing authority of the city or its authorized office or agent shall receive bids on the date and at the place and hour named in the notice calling for bids and shall there publicly open and tabulate the bids. The contract shall thereafter be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder who can furnish satisfactory security. The governing authority 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 work 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.
B. The contract awarded under the provisions of this Chapter shall be authorized by resolution or ordinance authorizing an officer of the governing authority to execute the contract for, on behalf of, and in the name of the city. It shall not be necessary to set forth the contract in full in the resolution or ordinance, but it shall be sufficient if the resolution or ordinance 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 or ordinance shall be published in one issue of the official journal of the city, and a certified copy thereof shall be filed with the clerk of court of Lafayette Parish and shall be by him duly recorded in the mortgage records of Lafayette Parish.
C. Where joint street and drainage projects are undertaken, bids shall be taken and received and the contract for such joint project awarded by the agency carrying out the street or road improvements, all in strict accordance and compliance with the provisions of law applicable to such street or road improvements.
Acts 1992, No. 472, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.25. Statement of cost of improvement; definitions

RS 33:4160.25 - Statement of cost of improvement; definitions
A. Upon the award of any contract under the provisions of this Chapter, the city shall forthwith require of an engineer a duly certified statement or report showing in detail the total cost of the improvements, including the cost of street intersections, engineer's and attorney's 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 to be benefitted in the proportion that its area bears to the total area to be assessed or in the proportion that its front footage bears to the total front footage to be assessed, as shall be determined by the governing authority. However, when the assessment is made on a front foot basis and any drainage line is constructed upon more than one side of any lot or parcel of real estate, the total front footage of such lot or parcel of real estate to be assessed shall be determined by taking the total front footage of said lot or parcel of real estate abutting all drainage lines to be constructed and dividing such total front footage by two. The report shall further describe each lot or parcel of real estate to be assessed with sufficient clarity to identify it.
B. As used in this Chapter:
(1) The words "front footage" shall mean the footage of each lot or parcel of real estate abutting the right of way or street, along which the drainage line is constructed.
(2) The words "square footage" shall mean the area of land measured in square feet to be improved or benefitted by the improvements to be constructed.
Acts 1992, No. 472, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.27. Certificates of indebtedness

RS 33:4160.27 - Certificates of indebtedness
The governing authority may issue, execute, negotiate, sell, and deliver certificates of the city of Lafayette in an amount up to the total amount of the installments or deferred payments as provided in R.S. 33:4160.26. The certificates shall bear interest at a rate or rates of interest as set forth in the ordinance providing for their issuance, shall be payable annually, and shall mature serially over a period not exceeding twenty years, but in no event shall the certificates extend over a longer period of time than the total period of time for the payment of the local or special assessments described in R.S. 33:4160.26. The certificates may be of such form, bear such date, be of such denomination, and may be subject to such provisions as may be limited or expanded by the provisions of the resolution or ordinance providing for their issuance and as may be most likely to insure the prompt payment and/or marketability. They shall be payable in principal and interest from the irrevocable pledge and dedication of the funds to be derived from the special assessments hereinabove provided which are payable in annual installments or deferred payments as provided for by this Chapter, which funds shall be set aside in a separate trust fund and shall not be drawn upon for any purpose other than to pay the principal and interest of the certificates.
Acts 1992, No. 472, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.28. Additional assessments

RS 33:4160.28 - Additional assessments
If the local and special assessments originally levied are insufficient, for any cause whatsoever, to pay the principal and interest, or the principal or interest, in any one year of the said drainage certificates outstanding at their respective maturity dates, the city, through its governing authority, is hereby authorized, empowered, and obligated by ordinance to levy and collect, at such time or times as may be necessary, an additional local or special assessment on each lot or parcel of real estate in the city or area involved sufficient in amount to pay in full the said principal and interest or the principal or interest of such drainage certificates at their respective maturity dates. The amounts assessed in such ordinance or ordinances shall be due and collectible immediately on its passage, and if not paid within thirty days from the date of its adoption, the governing authority 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 percent additional for attorney's fees. A certified copy of each ordinance providing for the levy and collection of such additional local or special assessment shall be filed with the Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court promptly upon its adoption, who shall forthwith record the same in mortgage records of the parish, and when so filed and recorded shall operate as a lien and privilege against all the real estate therein assessed and shall prime all other liens except taxes and prior recorded local or special assessments levied for streets, sewerage, water, and underground wiring.
Acts 1992, No. 472, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.29. Form and registration of certificates

RS 33:4160.29 - Form and registration of certificates
The said drainage certificates shall be signed by the regular or facsimile signatures of the mayor and council clerk on behalf of and in the name of the city and under the seal thereof. The seal of the city may be impressed or printed on the certificates.
Acts 1992, No. 472, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.30. Sale and delivery of certificates; use of proceeds

RS 33:4160.30 - Sale and delivery of certificates; use of proceeds
The certificates may be sold by negotiated sale or may be advertised for sale on sealed bids as provided by law. The governing authority may reject any and all bids received as a result of the advertisement, or the city may contract to deliver the certificates to the contractor as hereinafter provided at a price not less than the best bid received at the advertised sale. The governing authority may, by resolution, authorize the mayor to negotiate and deliver the certificates, to collect the purchase price therefor, and to do any and all things necessary and incidental thereto, or may authorize the 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 certificates shall be expended solely in payment of the costs of the improvements, and shall not be drawn upon for any other purpose.
Acts 1992, No. 472, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.31. Certificates

RS 33:4160.31 - Certificates
Certificates issued hereunder 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 thereof.
Acts 1992, No. 472, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.32. Inspection and acceptance of work

RS 33:4160.32 - Inspection and acceptance of work
The governing authority of the city shall, upon the completion of any contract awarded as provided for herein, provide for the final inspection of the work performed thereunder and the improvements made, and, if the work is found to have been completed satisfactorily in accordance with said contract, as evidenced by a certificate of the project engineer, the governing authority shall by ordinance duly adopted approve and accept the work and fulfill its obligations under the contract after compliance with laws relative to the completion of contracts involving public works by full payment therefor of any and all amounts and balances due the said contractor, including all retained percentages of payments previously made thereon on engineer's estimates and which percentages were retained pending completion of the work.
Acts 1992, No. 472, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.33. Prescriptive period to question validity of proceedings

RS 33:4160.33 - Prescriptive period to question validity of proceedings
No contest or proceedings to question the validity or legality of any resolutions or ordinances adopted or proceedings undertaken under the provisions of this Chapter shall be initiated 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 Chapter is not raised within thirty days from date of publication of the resolution or ordinance issuing said certificates, the legality thereof and the legality 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.
Acts 1992, No. 472, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4160.34. Participation in payment of costs

RS 33:4160.34 - Participation in payment of costs
The city of Lafayette may participate in the payment of the total cost of any project authorized hereunder in such a manner and to such extent that the governing authority of the city may determine, provided that any funds so used by the city 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 city may be allocated to any one or more projects as the governing authority may determine, and the amount of the city's participation shall be deducted from the total cost of the improvements for the purpose of levying local or special assessments hereunder.
Acts 1992, No. 472, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4161. Revenue-producing public utility defined

RS 33:4161 - Revenue-producing public utility defined
For the purposes of this Part, "revenue-producing public utility" means any revenue-producing business or organization that regularly supplies the public with a commodity or service, including electricity, gas, water, ice, ferries, warehouses, docks, wharves, terminals, airports, transportation, telephone, telegraph, radio, television, drainage, sewerage, garbage disposal, emergency medical services, and other like services; or any project or undertaking, including public lands and improvements thereon, owned and operated by a political subdivision authorized by the Constitution of Louisiana or by law to issue bonds, from the conduct and operation of which revenue can be derived.
Amended by Acts 1954, No. 570, §1; Acts 2003, No. 407, §1, eff. June 18, 2003; Acts 2014, No. 158, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4161.1. Stormwater management utility districts; parishes and municipalities

RS 33:4161.1 - Stormwater management utility districts; parishes and municipalities
A. The governing authority of any parish or municipality may create, by ordinance, a stormwater management utility district, referred to in this Section as the "district", for the purpose of managing stormwater flooding, including abatement of litter and other flood-causing sediments. The district shall be a political subdivision of the state as defined in the Constitution of Louisiana. The boundaries of the district shall encompass all of the territory of the respective parish or municipality. The governing authority of the respective parish or municipality shall be the governing authority of the district, referred to in this Section as the "board".
B. Any district created pursuant to this Section may create and operate one or more stormwater management utility systems within the boundaries of the respective district. The system shall be a revenue-producing public utility and shall have all of the rights, powers, and privileges granted to the utility pursuant to this Chapter and any other applicable provisions of law.
C.(1) Any district created pursuant to this Section may, by duly adopted resolution of the board, levy fees within the boundaries of the district to aid in the planning, construction, acquisition, extension, improvement, operation, and maintenance of stormwater management utility systems.
(2)(a) The fees authorized in this Section shall be imposed by resolution of the board. However, any resolution imposing fees shall be adopted only after a proposition authorizing the levy of the fees has been approved by a majority of the electors of the district voting at an election held for that purpose in accordance with the Louisiana Election Code. The purpose, term, and amount of the fees shall be as provided in the resolution.
(b) The board may provide in the resolution necessary and appropriate rules and regulations for the imposition, collection, and enforcement of the fees.
Acts 2022, No. 228, §1, eff. May 31, 2022; Acts 2023, No. 319, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4162. Power to own and operate; power to lease

RS 33:4162 - Power to own and operate; power to lease
A. Any political subdivision authorized by the Constitution of Louisiana or by law to issue bonds may construct, acquire, extend, or improve any revenue-producing public utility and property necessary thereto, either within or without its boundaries, and may operate and maintain the utility in the interest of the public.
B. A municipal corporation may lease waterworks systems, electric light and power plants, combined water and electric systems, garbage plants, sewerage works, electric street and interurban railways, gas plants, and distributing systems.
C. No municipal corporation may lease or purchase gas fields, wells, lands, or holdings for the purpose of drilling and operating gas wells.
D. A parish may lease gas plants, gas distributing systems, gas wells, gas lands, and holdings.
Acts 2014, No. 158, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4163. Sale and distribution of commodity or service; establishment of rates and regulations

RS 33:4163 - Sale and distribution of commodity or service; establishment of rates and regulations
The municipal corporation, parish, political subdivision, or taxing district may sell and distribute the commodity or service of the public utility within or without its corporate limits and may establish rates, rules, and regulations with respect to the sale and distribution.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4164. Contracts for obtaining water or electricity from another political subdivision or private person

RS 33:4164 - Contracts for obtaining water or electricity from another political subdivision or private person
A. Municipalities, parishes and waterworks districts, including the Bayou Lafourche Fresh Water District, or any other political subdivision or governing authority may make contracts extending over a period not exceeding forty years, with any municipality, parish, waterworks district, other political subdivision, or governing authority, for the sale or purchase of an adequate supply of water, either treated or untreated, to meet their requirements on such terms and conditions as may be specified in the contract; and may own, construct, maintain and operate the necessary pipe lines, canals, viaducts, pole lines and equipment beyond their corporate limits or area to obtain or furnish such a source of supply. The rate at which such water is sold may be different for parties within the political subdivision furnishing the water as compared to parties of the same class located outside the political subdivision furnishing the water, provided that the rates charged the various classes outside the subdivision shall be equal and uniform and shall not be in combination with or contingent upon the rate for any other service. The governing authority of the political subdivision contracting for the sale or purchase of water may bind such political subdivision, themselves and their successors in office to carry out the terms of any such contract.
B. Municipalities may obtain water or electric current under contracts extending over a maximum period of fifteen years with private persons, on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the parties. The governing authority of the municipality contracting for such water supply or electric current may bind the municipality, the governing authority and its successors in office to carry out the terms of any such contract.
Amended by Acts 1962, No. 489, §1; Acts 1974, No. 708, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4165. Contracts between municipalities for electric interurban railways; proration of ownership

RS 33:4165 - Contracts between municipalities for electric interurban railways; proration of ownership
Municipalities may cooperate, combine, and make contracts with each other and with municipalities in other states in the ownership, construction, acquiring, leasing, operation, and maintenance of electric interurban railways between points in this state, or between points in this state and other states, and electric power or hydroelectric power plants necessary in connection therewith.
The ownership of the interurban electric railway system shall be prorated, allotted, or distributed among the different municipalities that take advantage of the authority granted in this section in proportion to the amount invested by each municipality. The profit from the operation of electric interurban railways, or the loss sustained thereby, shall be divided in proportion to the amount invested by each municipality.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4166. Municipal contracts for obtaining gas

RS 33:4166 - Municipal contracts for obtaining gas
Municipalities may make contracts covering a period of years with each other relative to the purchase, sale, and distribution of gas. They may make contracts extending over a period of years with producers of gas and those engaged in the business of transporting gas through pipe lines, for the purchase of an adequate supply of gas and may own, construct, maintain, and operate the necessary gas pipe lines beyond their corporate limits to obtain the gas.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4167. Parish contracts for obtaining gas; expropriation

RS 33:4167 - Parish contracts for obtaining gas; expropriation
Parishes may make contracts covering a period of years with each other relative to the distribution and sale of gas. They may make contracts covering a period of years with owners of gas plants, gas wells, gas fields, gas lands, gas leases, gas holdings, gas pipe line companies, or gas distributing companies for the purchase or use of some or all of their products, or for the leasing or purchase of gas wells, gas fields, gas lands, gas leases, or gas holdings for the purpose of drilling and operating gas wells. They may expropriate, in the manner provided by law, existing gas plants, gas wells, gas distribution systems, or other property, within their respective boundaries, needed for the operation of the gas plants or distributing systems.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4168. Prohibition of garbage dumps and burning dumps

RS 33:4168 - Prohibition of garbage dumps and burning dumps
A municipality of over three hundred thousand population which has established garbage plants or incinerators under the provisions of this Sub-part shall not maintain or allow within its corporate limits any garbage or refuse disposal dumps or maintain or allow any burning dumps or dump heaps.
The duty of enforcing the provisions of this Section shall be upon the officers or employees charged with the maintenance of public health and safety by the municipal charter.
Whoever violates this Section shall, upon first conviction be fined not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned not less than one day nor more than fifteen days, and upon any subsequent conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars, or to imprisonment for a term of not less than fifteen days and not more than six months, or both.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4168.1. Prohibition of municipally owned, operated, or contracted incinerators in residential or commercial areas; certain municipalities

RS 33:4168.1 - Prohibition of municipally owned, operated, or contracted incinerators in residential or commercial areas; certain municipalities
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no municipality with a population of more than five hundred thousand shall maintain any municipally owned, operated, or contracted garbage plants or incinerators in any area of the municipality zoned for residential or commercial use. Any such garbage plant or incinerator located in any such area on September 1, 1984 shall be relocated within one year pursuant to this Section.
Acts 1984, No. 517, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 1984.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4169.2. Contracts for sewage and liquid and solid waste treatment and disposal; parishes with populations of one hundred thousand or more

RS 33:4169.2 - Contracts for sewage and liquid and solid waste treatment and disposal; parishes with populations of one hundred thousand or more
A. Any parish having a population of one hundred thousand or more according to the last federal census of record for which official figures have been made public may contract with public or private entities for the treatment and disposal of sewage and liquid and solid wastes and related services and may pledge or dedicate any parish revenues legally available for such purposes, including sales and use taxes, taxes, fees, and charges, as the governing authority may deem appropriate to the payment of the parish's obligations under such contract. Such contract shall contain such terms or provisions as the parish governing authority may deem appropriate, except that any contract or renewal thereof shall not exceed forty years. The contract and pledge of revenues by the parish shall be authorized by appropriate ordinance or resolution of the governing authority, which authorization shall be preceded by a public hearing, said hearing having been advertised in a newspaper of general circulation in the parish at least once and at least thirty days before adoption of the resolution or ordinance, without the requirement of any election, approval, or ratification of the electorate or any state board, commission, agency, authority, or office, except as may be required in the respective parish charters of such parishes, it being the intention of this Section to provide such parish with the greatest latitude in the negotiation and consummation of such contracts in order to take early advantage of rapidly changing business conditions.
B. All immunity of the state of Louisiana from liability under antitrust law is hereby extended to any parish acting within the scope of the grants of authority contained in this Section, and when so acting, a parish shall be presumed to be acting in furtherance of state policy.
Acts 1986, No. 350, §1, eff. June 30, 1986.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4170. Agreements with private utility companies

RS 33:4170 - Agreements with private utility companies
Any one or more municipalities owning and operating a revenue producing electrical utility as defined in R.S. 33:4161 of this Part, is hereby authorized to engage with one or more electric public utility companies as defined in R.S. 45:121, or with any one or more other municipalities owning and operating a revenue producing electrical utility, as aforesaid, or with a Rural Electric Association Cooperative on intrastate or interstate basis, in the financing, construction, maintenance, and operation of joint electric power generation and transmission facilities as owners or otherwise. All arrangements and agreements made under the authority of this Section shall be reduced to writing, and shall include, among other provisions, the proportionate share of the cost to be borne by the municipality. Any municipality and/or the electric public utility company or companies may construct or acquire the jointly owned facilities by negotiated contract without public advertisement or other limitations of the public contract law or other laws and title to such facilities shall vest in the parties to the written agreement in the proportion or manner set forth in such agreement. Notwithstanding any other provision of Louisiana law relative to the right of partition available to owners of property or portions of property, the right of partition shall not be available to any party with respect to any property acquired or held subject to the terms of said agreement; however, the agreement may provide for the sale, lease or other disposition of such property on such terms and conditions as may be set forth in the agreement. None of the property or facilities jointly owned, acquired or held, or property and facilities of a participant covered by the agreement shall be subject to expropriation by a party to the agreement or another party to any agreement entered into hereunder. The agreement shall be authorized by ordinance adopted by the governing body of the municipality or municipalities which are a party to the agreement and the ordinance shall be published in the official journal of the municipality, in the same manner as are other proceedings of the governing body. Notice of intention to adopt said ordinance shall be given by the governing body of the municipality, and shall be published one time in the official journal of the municipality at least seven days prior to the adoption of the ordinance.
Added by Acts 1975, No. 425, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4171. Financing agreements

RS 33:4171 - Financing agreements
Any municipality entering into an agreement pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 33:4170 may appropriate such sums as are necessary to fulfill its obligations under the terms of such agreement, and may incur debt and issue bonds for the purpose of providing the municipality's share of the cost of the construction and operation of joint generation and transmission facilities authorized under the provisions of R.S. 33:4170.
Added by Acts 1975, No. 425, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:4172. Public power authorities; creation; powers; financing

RS 33:4172 - Public power authorities; creation; powers; financing
Under the provisions of Article 6, Section 19 of the Constitution of 1974, the governing authority of any municipality may create a public power authority as a political subdivision of the state of Louisiana constituting a legal entity separate and apart from the municipal corporation. Prior to the creation of any such public power authority, the governing body of the municipality shall give a notice of intention, and hold a public hearing on such proposal. Such notice shall be published once a week for four successive weeks and the first publication shall be not less than thirty days before the date fixed for hearing. The notice shall be published in the official journal of the municipality creating the authority. Said authority shall be created as a body corporate under such corporate name and style as shall be provided by an ordinance which may grant to such authority any rights, powers, and authorities which may be possessed or exercised by the municipality under law. Specifically, said authority shall have all rights granted to the municipality by R.S. 33:4170 and may incur debt and issue bonds in its name for the purposes and in the manner established for the municipality in R.S. 33:4171. The governing authority of the municipality shall be the governing authority of the public power authority. The public power authority may contract with the municipality creating it or any other municipality, public power authority or electric public utility company for the generation, transmission, or sale of electric power for a term not exceeding forty years on such terms and conditions as may be specified in a written contract which may be negotiated and executed without any proceedings, notice or approval except as provided in this Section. The public power authority and its governing authority shall have power to sue and be sued and shall continue its existence until all bonds, including refunding bonds, issued by such authority have been finally paid and discharged. Each such public power authority shall have such powers relative to the construction, acquisition, improvement, operation and management of any public power project or improvement as shall be provided in the ordinance creating the same or as said ordinance shall thereafter be amended by the governing authority of the creating municipality.
Added by Acts 1975, No. 425, §1.