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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:334.36. Acquisition of lands; public aid; construction of works of public improvement

RS 34:334.36 - Acquisition of lands; public aid; construction of works of public improvement
A. The board is authorized to acquire by purchase, donation, expropriation, or otherwise any lands in the district needed for railways, wharves, sheds, buildings, canals, channels and other facilities required for the operation of the board and to be owned and operated by the board. The board may also provide that payment for such lands be made out of the funds under its control not otherwise specifically appropriated.
B. The board is further authorized to receive by gift, grant, donation or otherwise, any sum of money, aid or assistance from the United States, the State of Louisiana, or any of the political subdivisions thereof, for the purpose of carrying out the objects and purposes of this Part.
C. The board is authorized to make and construct any of the works of public improvements in the district and anything in connection therewith that may be necessary or useful for the business of the board; to purchase machinery or materials and equipment for performing such work, and to supervise the making of the same or to make and construct such works through contracts with others, and generally, to do all other acts necessary or proper to carry out the powers vested in it with regard to such works of public improvement.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 604, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:334.37. Contracts; bids

RS 34:334.37 - Contracts; bids
Whenever any work is to be let by contract under the provisions of this Part, the board shall comply with the provisions of R.S. 38:2211 et seq.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 604, §1; Acts 2001, No. 655, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:334.40. Annual taxes

RS 34:334.40 - Annual taxes
The board shall levy annually the tax as provided herein on all property situated within the district under the same methods, terms and conditions and at the same time as state and parish taxes are levied, assessed and collected; these taxes shall be secured by the same lien upon the property subject to taxation within the district as taxes for state and parish purposes; the property subject to any taxes within the district shall be sold for failure to pay the same in the same manner as property is sold for delinquent state, parish and other taxes.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 604, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:334.41. Collection of taxes

RS 34:334.41 - Collection of taxes
The provisions of the constitution and all laws regulating the collection of taxes and the creating of tax liens and mortgages, tax penalties and tax sales shall also apply to the collection of all taxes authorized by this part. The sheriff and ex-officio tax collector of the parish of St. Mary shall make a monthly settlement with the treasurer of the board of commissioners and receive from him a receipt for the amount of taxes paid over, in the same manner as tax collectors are required to settle with the auditor of the state. The tax collector shall receive from the treasurer the same quietus for a full settlement of taxes due and exigible in any given year and account for the delinquents or deductions in the same manner as though accounting to the auditor of the state for state taxes. The tax collector shall retain from taxes collected by him for the district the commission thereon allowed him by law on special taxes and shall deposit the amount thereof with the parish treasurer to the credit of the sheriff's salary fund. Upon failure of the tax collector to comply with the provisions of this part the board of commissioners shall proceed against him and the sureties on his official bond for the collection of whatever money may be owing to the board of commissioners for such special taxes.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 604, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:335.1. Creation and territorial limits

RS 34:335.1 - Creation and territorial limits
The Central Louisiana Regional Port, hereinafter referred to as the "port", is hereby created as a political subdivision of the state, and its territorial limits shall be concurrent with that of the parish of Rapides, excluding any private port facility.
Acts 1987, No. 440, §1; Acts 1992, No. 770, §1; Acts 2015, No. 434, §1, eff. July 1, 2015.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:335.5. Testing validity of bonds; prescription; sale of bonds

RS 34:335.5 - Testing validity of bonds; prescription; sale of bonds
A. For a period of thirty days after the date of the adoption of any resolution of the board of commissioners authorizing the issuance of its bonds or notes, any person interested may test the legality of the resolution, after which time no one shall have any cause of action to contest the regularity, formality, or legality of the resolution or to draw in question the legality for any cause whatever, and it shall be conclusively presumed that every legal requirement has been complied with and no court shall have authority to inquire into the matters after the lapse of thirty days.
B. Any bonds issued in accordance with the provisions of this Part shall be sold to the highest bidder, at a public sale, for not less than par and accrued interest, after advertisement once a week for not less than thirty days by the board of commissioners in the manner prescribed by Title 39, Section 1426 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 as amended. If, after advertisement as hereinabove provided, no bids are received or if the bids as received are considered in the discretion of the board of commissioners to be unsatisfactory, the board may publicly negotiate for the sale of the bonds.
C. The provisions of this Part shall not be deemed to supersede the requirements of R.S. 39:501 through 514.* Notwithstanding any provisions of this Part to the contrary, the provisions of R.S. 39:1421 through 1429 shall be applicable to the Alexandria Regional Port.
Acts 1987, No. 440, §1; Acts 1992, No. 770, §1.
*Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 545, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:335.6. Advertisement

RS 34:335.6 - Advertisement
The prohibition contained in R.S. 43:111 against advertising in any newspaper, book, pamphlet, or periodical shall not apply to the board of commissioners of the Alexandria Regional Port in carrying out its functions and duties under the constitution and laws of this state.
Acts 1987, No. 440, §1; Acts 1992, No. 770, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:338.1. Special tax; bonding; election

RS 34:338.1 - Special tax; bonding; election
For the purpose of obtaining funds for the maintenance, operation and improvement of the facilities of the district, each port, harbor and terminal district heretofore or hereafter created under the constitution and laws of this state is hereby authorized to levy on the taxable property within the district a special ad valorem tax not in excess of ten mills on the dollar of assessed valuation and to pledge all or part of the revenues therefrom to the payment of bonds to be issued by the district, provided the levy of the tax and the issuance of the bonds shall have been authorized by vote of a majority in number and amount of the property taxpayers qualified to vote in an election to be called and held for that purpose in accordance with existing laws.
Acts 1969, No. 43, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:338.2. Collection of special tax

RS 34:338.2 - Collection of special tax
Any special tax authorized as provided herein shall be levied, assessed and collected on the property within the district under the same methods, terms and conditions and at the same time as state and parish taxes are levied, assessed and collected; the tax shall be secured by the same liens upon the property subject to taxation within the district as taxes for state and parish purposes; the property subject to the tax within the district shall be sold for failure to pay the same in the same manner as property is sold for delinquent state, parish and other taxes under the laws of the state. The provisions of the constitution and all laws regulating the collection of taxes, the creating of tax liens and mortgages, tax penalties and tax sales shall also apply to the collection of the taxes herein authorized.
Acts 1969, No. 43, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:338.4. Refunding bonds

RS 34:338.4 - Refunding bonds
The governing authority of the district by resolution may authorize the issuance of refunding bonds, and such refunding bonds may be either sold and the proceeds applied to or deposited in escrow for the retirement of outstanding bonds or they may be delivered in exchange for the outstanding bonds. The total of principal and interest to be paid upon any such refunding bonds shall not exceed the total of the principal amount of the bonds to be refunded, the premium (if any) payable upon their redemption and the interest which would have been paid upon such bonds were they not to be refunded.
Acts 1969, No. 43, §4.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:340.1. Revenue producing structures

RS 34:340.1 - Revenue producing structures
Any revenue producing wharf, dock, warehouse, elevator, industrial facility, or other structure owned or to be acquired by such districts from the proceeds of bonds issued by them is hereby declared to be a revenue producing public utility as that term is used and defined by the constitution and laws of the state in connection with the issuance of revenue bonds of political subdivisions of the state.
Added by Acts 1975, No. 101, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:340.2. Authority to issue bonds; security

RS 34:340.2 - Authority to issue bonds; security
A. As a grant of power in addition to any other authority to issue bonds, port, harbor, and terminal districts are authorized, with the approval of the State Bond Commission, to issue negotiable bonds for any purpose within the authority delegated them and to pledge for the payment of the principal and interest of such negotiable bonds the income and revenues derived or to be derived from the properties and facilities maintained and operated by them, or received by the districts from other sources.
B. In addition to the pledge of income and revenues to secure said bonds, the districts may further secure their payment by a conventional mortgage upon any or all of the properties constructed or acquired or to be constructed and acquired by them.
C. Such districts further are authorized to receive by gift, grant, donation, or otherwise any sum of money, aid, or assistance from the United States, the state of Louisiana, or any political subdivision thereof and, unless otherwise provided by the terms of such gift, grant, donation, in its discretion, to pledge all or any part of such moneys for the further securing of the payment or the principal and interest of their bonds.
Added by Acts 1975, No. 101, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:340.3. Bonds, procedures

RS 34:340.3 - Bonds, procedures
A. Such bonds shall be authorized by a resolution of the governing authority of the district and shall be of such series, bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times not exceeding forty years from their respective dates, bear interest at such rate or rates not exceeding the maximum rates provided in R.S. 39:1424, 39:1425, as the same now exists or may be hereafter amended, payable semiannually, be in such denominations, be in such form, either coupon or fully registered without coupons, carry such registration and exchangeability privilege, be payable in such medium of payment and at such place or places, be subject to such terms or redemption not exceeding one hundred five percent of the principal amount thereof, and be entitled to such priority on the revenues of the district as such resolution or resolutions may provide.
B. The bonds shall be signed by such officers as the district determines, and coupon bonds shall have attached thereto interest coupons bearing the facsimile signatures of such officer or officers of the district as it shall designate.
C. Any such bonds may be issued and delivered notwithstanding that one or more of the officers signing the bonds or the officer or officers whose facsimile signature or signatures may be upon the coupons have ceased to be such an officer or officers at the time the bonds actually have been delivered.
D. The bonds shall be sold for not less than par and accrued interest to the highest bidder at a public sale after advertisement by the district in the manner provided by R.S. 39:1426, as the same now exists or may be hereafter amended, reserving to the district the right to reject any and all bids and to readvertise for bids.
E. If after advertisement as hereinabove provided no bids are received, or if such bids as are received are considered in the discretion of the governing authority of the district to be unsatisfactory, the governing authority may publicly negotiate for the sale of the bonds without further advertisement.
Added by Acts 1975, No. 101, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:340.4. Bonds; contestability

RS 34:340.4 - Bonds; contestability
A. No proceedings in respect to the issuance of any such bonds shall be necessary except such as are contemplated by this Subpart.
B. For a period of thirty days after the date of publication of the resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds hereunder any persons in interest shall have the right to contest the legality of the resolution and the legality of the bond issue for any cause, but after that time no one shall have any cause or right of action to contest the legality of the resolution or of the bonds authorized hereby for any cause whatsoever.
C. If no suit, action, or proceedings is begun contesting the validity of the bond issue within the thirty days herein prescribed, the authority to issue the bonds and to provide for the payment thereof, the legality thereof, and of all of the provisions of the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds shall be conclusively presumed, and no court shall have authority to inquire into such matters.
Added by Acts 1975, No. 101, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:340.6. Nothing to affect Port of New Orleans

RS 34:340.6 - Nothing to affect Port of New Orleans
Nothing in this Subpart shall add to or detract from the provisions of law relative to the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans, the rights under all of said provisions being preserved.
Added by Acts 1975, No. 101, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:340.11. Title to property

RS 34:340.11 - Title to property
A. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, title to property and improvements thereon acquired by a port, harbor, or terminal district shall vest in the district.
B.(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any port, harbor, or terminal district may lease any land or buildings owned or acquired by it, or sublease any land or buildings leased as lessee by it, for processing, manufacturing, or commercial business purposes.
(2) The lease or sublease may run for any term not to exceed forty years at a fixed rate. Upon expiration of a primary term of forty years, the lease or sublease may be extended for a term not to exceed ninety-nine years, provided the lease contains a clause for readjustment of the rentals upon expiration of the primary term.
(3) Any port, harbor, or terminal district may ratify, confirm, or approve any lease or sublease entered into pursuant to this Subsection, whether as lessor or lessee, provided the governing authority of the port, harbor, or terminal district authorizes the lease or sublease.
C. The provisions of Subsection B of this Section shall not apply to the Caddo Bossier Parishes Port Commission.
Acts 1985, No. 604, §1, eff. July 13, 1985; Acts 2018, No. 587, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:340.12. Purpose

RS 34:340.12 - Purpose
It is the intent of the legislature by means of this Subpart to establish a procedure to promote public health and safety and prevent the spread of infectious diseases by controlling rodent populations entering Louisiana from vessels and barges.
Acts 1997, No. 554, §1, eff. July 3, 1997.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:340.13. Control, testing, and monitoring center; establishment

RS 34:340.13 - Control, testing, and monitoring center; establishment
Each port and terminal accepting vessel and barge traffic entering Louisiana waters may establish and maintain a rodent control, testing, and monitoring center. The purposes of the center shall be the detection, evaluation, control, and prevention of infectious diseases spread by rodents from the vessels and barges. The port and terminal may impose reasonable inspection requirements to implement the provisions of this Subpart.
Acts 1997, No. 554, §1, eff. July 3, 1997.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:340.14. Fees

RS 34:340.14 - Fees
Each port authority participating in this program may promulgate rules and regulations, including the charges to be levied on vessels and barges to pay for the necessary costs of administration and enforcement of the provisions of this Subpart.
Acts 1997, No. 554, §1, eff. July 3, 1997.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:340.15. Employment of personnel or contractors

RS 34:340.15 - Employment of personnel or contractors
The port or terminal may employ personnel or contractors in accordance with law to implement the provisions of this Subpart. The cost of the personnel or contractors shall be paid for by the fees authorized by this Subpart. The port or terminal shall keep records in accordance with law of the fees collected and amounts expended to implement the provisions of this Subpart.
Acts 1997, No. 554, §1, eff. July 3, 1997.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:340.21. Port security and safety plan; statewide

RS 34:340.21 - Port security and safety plan; statewide
A. In addition to the authority granted in this Chapter and by other state or federal laws and regulations, ports in the state of Louisiana shall have the authority to develop and undertake port security and safety plans for protection of all persons, maritime facilities, and vessels operating within their respective physical and operational jurisdictions. Such plans will set forth how the port will deter and respond to transportation security incidents utilizing authority granted in this Chapter and in other state and federal laws and regulations, including but not limited to the "Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002", United States Code Title 46, Subtitle VI, Chapter 701.
B. The port commissions, districts, and authorities in the state of Louisiana shall have the authority to enter into cooperative endeavor agreements with federal, state, and local political subdivisions or agencies to implement a port security and safety plan as required by the Maritime Transportation Security Act. In addition, the ports in the state of Louisiana together with other governmental agencies may enter into cooperative endeavor agreements with privately owned and operated facilities, vessels, and fleets to implement applicable security and safety plans. All security and safety plans for ports and privately owned or operated facilities, vessels, and fleets in the state of Louisiana shall be classified as "Security Sensitive Information".
C. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, information developed relative to public and private security plans, vessel or fleet security plans, port or facility vulnerability assessments, security and safety plans, or other information related to security plans, procedures, or programs for facilities or vessels shall not be required to be disclosed to the public and shall not be deemed a public record under the provisions of R.S. 44:1 et seq.
D. Nothing in this Subpart shall prevent the disclosure of information pertaining to the names of consultants competing for business from public entities or consultants selected through the public bidding process nor the amount of fees paid by the public entity to such consultants for implementing port security and safety plans, procedures, or programs for port commissions, districts, authorities, privately owned or operated facilities, vessels, and fleets.
Acts 2003, No. 667, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:340.31. Samuel B. "Sammy" Nunez, Jr., Building

RS 34:340.31 - Samuel B. "Sammy" Nunez, Jr., Building
Notwithstanding R.S. 42:267 or any other law to the contrary, the board of commissioners of the St. Bernard Port, Harbor and Terminal District may name the administration/security building of the port located at 100 Port Boulevard in Chalmette in honor of Samuel B. "Sammy" Nunez, Jr., a living person who contributed to the growth and well-being of St. Bernard Port, Harbor and Terminal District; served as a state representative from St. Bernard Parish from 1964 through 1969; served as a state senator from 1969 through 1996 from St. Bernard Parish; and was inducted into the Louisiana Political Hall of Fame on January 30, 2010.
Acts 2010, No. 35, §1, eff. May 26, 2010.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:341. Canals and locks useful to vessels in sea food industries; free navigation

RS 34:341 - Canals and locks useful to vessels in sea food industries; free navigation
The commissioner of wildlife and fisheries is authorized to acquire by lease, purchase, or expropriation, from the owners thereof, any system or systems of canals and locks, or any canal or lock located in the coastal parishes of the state bordering the Gulf of Mexico, useful to vessels engaged in the sea food industries of this state, and to cause such canals and locks to be operated so that the same shall be open to free navigation by all vessels.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:342. Acquisition of same by expropriation

RS 34:342 - Acquisition of same by expropriation
For the public purposes contemplated in R.S. 34:341, the commissioner of wildlife and fisheries shall endeavor to acquire the needed canals and locks by amicable agreement with the owners thereof, failing which he may expropriate the needed properties in accordance with the general expropriation laws of the state. An agreement of purchase or lease contemplating the acquisition of the needed properties may be made by the commissioner upon a basis of annual or semi-annual installment payments bearing not more than seven per centum per annum interest with vendor's privilege or other security clauses; he may also execute the necessary acts of purchase or lease and issue the required interest-bearing notes or evidences of indebtedness, which notes or other evidences of indebtedness shall be properly paraphed for identification with the acts of purchase or lease. The commissioner may provide in his annual budget for the payment of the obligations so incurred.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:343. Purpose of law

RS 34:343 - Purpose of law
Whereas the commissioner of wildlife and fisheries derives large revenues from licenses paid by motor boats engaged in the fishing industry and from severance taxes imposed by law upon the sea food products coming from the coastal parishes of this state, the purpose of R.S. 34:341 and 34:342 is to foster and develop these sea food industries by affording free navigation and lockage in the canals and locks to be acquired, controlled, and operated, under the provisions thereof, while benefiting, in like manner, all other users of said canals and locks.
Because of the equities involved the provisions of R.S. 34:341 and 34:342 shall be broadly construed.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:344. Navigation locks in Mississippi River; operation and maintenance

RS 34:344 - Navigation locks in Mississippi River; operation and maintenance
The Department of Public Works shall maintain and operate all navigation locks, lock facilities and appurtenances thereto when they form a part of a levee system, including the navigation locks, lock facilities and appurtenances constructed in the main line Mississippi river levee near Empire, in the Parish of Plaquemines, and the navigation locks in the main line Mississippi river levee situated near Ostrica, in the Parish of Plaquemines.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:345. Private canals; charges for vessels publicly owned

RS 34:345 - Private canals; charges for vessels publicly owned
Wherever the right of expropriation has been, or may be, exercised in the location of a canal for the transportation of vessels or carriers, the owners thereof, or those in control thereof, shall not charge for the transportation, or passage through the canal, of any boat or vessel belonging to the State of Louisiana, or any board or commission or subdivision thereof, more than five cents per linear foot of the boat or vessel, for a single passage one way.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:346. Canal companies; right of way through state lands

RS 34:346 - Canal companies; right of way through state lands
Any domestic corporation established for the purpose of cutting canals in this state shall have the right of way through any land belonging to the state for the canal and the use of the banks thereof to deposit the dirt excavated therefrom.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:361. Navigation canals and improvement of water courses by municipalities and parishes; title to vest in the public

RS 34:361 - Navigation canals and improvement of water courses by municipalities and parishes; title to vest in the public
The constructing, deepening, widening, improving and maintaining of navigation canals, and navigation channels, and the deepening, widening, improving and maintaining of existing streams, lakes and other water courses for navigation purposes, and the acquiring of property for such purposes, including the acquiring of adjoining property for industrial development, but no part of which shall be more than one-half mile from the center of such canals, channels, streams, lakes, and other water courses are declared to be works of public improvement, the title to which shall vest in the public and for public purposes.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 398, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:362. Acquisition of property and construction of works; authority

RS 34:362 - Acquisition of property and construction of works; authority
The municipalities, as well as the parishes of the state are authorized to acquire property for any of the works of public improvement, enumerated in R.S. 34:361, either by purchase, donation, or expropriation, and to make any of the said works and anything connected therewith as they may deem necessary in order to make the same effective; and, having acquired the same, to lease such portion of said property as they deem proper for industrial development. For this purpose they are especially authorized to enter into contracts for these works, or to purchase machinery and to supervise the making of these works, and other acts necessary to carry out this grant.
In the case of municipalities, this authority exists, whether the works lie wholly within or wholly without their corporate limits, or partly within and partly without their corporate limits.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 398, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:363. Co-operation with state or federal government; financial aid

RS 34:363 - Co-operation with state or federal government; financial aid
The municipalities or parishes are further authorized to cooperate with the state or federal government in performing any of the works, and to receive from, and furnish to the federal government, any financial aid or assistance for the completion and maintenance of any of the said works.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:364. Acquisition of property and donation to federal government

RS 34:364 - Acquisition of property and donation to federal government
When the works authorized in this Part, are undertaken solely by the federal government, the governing authorities of the municipalities or parishes are authorized to acquire by purchase, donation or expropriation, any property necessary for the federal government in the construction of such works, and to donate to the federal government the property so acquired.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:365. Bond issues; special taxes

RS 34:365 - Bond issues; special taxes
The said municipalities or parishes, through their governing authorities, are authorized to incur debt and issue negotiable bonds for the construction of the works of public improvement, and for such other public purposes outlined in this Part; and to that effect, they are authorized to call any special elections that are necessary to levy taxes, incur debt, and to issue and sell negotiable bonds, all in conformity with the constitution and other laws.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:366. Board of advisors

RS 34:366 - Board of advisors
The governing authorities of the several municipalities or parishes are authorized to appoint three responsible citizen tax payers as a board of advisors, to serve without compensation, to assist them in letting contracts, performing and supervising the works authorized and in the expenditures of public funds therefor.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:368. Special taxes; annual levy

RS 34:368 - Special taxes; annual levy
The special taxes imposed for the purpose of providing for the payment of principal and interest on the bonds of any municipality or parish issued for any purpose herein authorized, shall, each year be levied, assessed and collected on the property taxed, under the same terms and conditions and at the same time as state and parish taxes; the said taxes shall bear the same liens upon the property as state, parish, municipal, and other special taxes; the property shall be sold for delinquent taxes in the same manner as property is sold for delinquent state, parish, municipal, and other taxes.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:369. Collection of special taxes; duties of parish collector

RS 34:369 - Collection of special taxes; duties of parish collector
The provisions of the constitution and all laws regulating the collection of taxes, the creation of tax liens, mortgages, tax penalties and sales, shall apply to and regulate the collection of special taxes for the purposes enumerated in this part.
Where the taxes have been levied by a parish, the sheriff and ex-officio tax collector for the parish in which the property is located shall make monthly settlements with the parish treasurer and receive from him a receipt for the amount of the special taxes paid over, in the same manner as the tax collectors are required to settle with the auditor of the state, and he shall receive from the parish treasurer the same quietus for a full settlement of taxes due and exigible in a given year and account for the delinquents or deductions in the same manner as though accounting to the auditor of the state for state taxes. The sheriff and ex-officio tax collector shall retain from the special taxes collected by him, when paying over proceeds of the same, the commission thereon, and shall deposit the said commission with the parish treasurer to the credit of the sheriff's salary fund, all as provided by law. Upon failure of the tax collector to comply with the provisions of this Section, the governing authorities of the parish shall proceed against him and the sureties on his official bond, for the collection of whatever amount may be due the parish.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:381. Duty of agency to construct facility

RS 34:381 - Duty of agency to construct facility
Whenever any agency of the state undertakes the construction or creation of a lake it shall construct adequate permanent public access and boat launching facilities and parking areas on or for the lake. Such facilities and parking areas shall be constructed at the time of the creation or construction of the lake.
Acts 1968, No. 652, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:382. Areas requiring facility; connection to public road

RS 34:382 - Areas requiring facility; connection to public road
Publicly owned access sites consisting of at least one boat launching ramp and one parking area shall be constructed or provided where the tracts of land are comprised of at least five acres and shall be located on the shoreline of the new lake, adjacent to public roads or connected to a public road by right of way acquired for public use.
Acts 1968, No. 652, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:383. Number of access sites

RS 34:383 - Number of access sites
The number of access sites which shall be constructed shall be determined by the size of the lake as follows:
(1) For lakes of less than two thousand, five hundred acres, at least one access site;
(2) For lakes of from two thousand, five hundred to five thousand acres, at least two access sites; and
(3) For lakes of over five thousand acres, at least two access sites for the first five thousand acres and one access site for each additional ten thousand acres.
Acts 1968, No. 652, §3.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:402. Corporate status and powers; suits and service of citation

RS 34:402 - Corporate status and powers; suits and service of citation
Navigation districts created by the legislature shall be political corporations invested with all the powers, privileges, rights and immunities conferred by law upon other corporations of like character. They shall have authority to sue and to be sued, and to stand in judgment under their corporate name.
All legal process shall be served upon the president, or in his absence upon the vice-president, and in the absence of both, upon the secretary, at the domicile of the district; and all suits or proceedings initiated by the district shall be brought in the corporate name through the president.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:403. Board of commissioners as governing authority; terms and compensation; vacancies; meetings; quorum

RS 34:403 - Board of commissioners as governing authority; terms and compensation; vacancies; meetings; quorum
Navigation districts shall be governed by a board of commissioners whose qualifications, appointment and initial terms of office shall be established by the laws creating each district.
At the first meeting of the board of commissioners, which shall be held as soon after the election and appointment of all commissioners as practicable, the commissioners shall determine their respective terms of office by lot. Thereafter their successors shall be appointed, or elected, to serve for a term of four years. All commissioners shall serve until their successors are appointed or elected and qualified, and in event of a vacancy, a commissioner to fill the unexpired term shall be appointed or elected by the authority from whom the former member derived his appointment or election.
The commissioners of said district shall serve without compensation, but they shall be entitled to receive all necessary expenses incurred in attending meetings of the board, or while attending to the business of the board. In event the secretary should be also a commissioner of the district, he shall be paid a salary for his services, to be fixed by the board.
The board of commissioners may meet at the domicile or elsewhere within the district, at their discretion.
A majority of the members of the board of commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:404. Officers and employees of board

RS 34:404 - Officers and employees of board
The board of commissioners shall elect a president and a vice-president from among their number, who shall serve for a term of not more than two years, and a secretary who may or may not be a member of the board. The board shall employ such other officers, attorneys, engineers and employees as may, in its discretion, be necessary, and fix their compensation.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:405. Bond of secretary of board

RS 34:405 - Bond of secretary of board
The secretary of each board of commissioners shall give bond, with a surety company authorized to transact business in Louisiana as surety, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties and accounting for all funds of the district, in a sum to be fixed by the board, the premium on such bond to be paid out of the funds of the district.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:407. Improvement and maintenance of navigation; advice of department of public works; cooperation with federal and state agencies

RS 34:407 - Improvement and maintenance of navigation; advice of department of public works; cooperation with federal and state agencies
Navigation districts shall have, with respect to the improvement and maintaining of navigation, the advice of the Department of Public Works, and it shall be the duty of the department to make such surveys, inspections and investigations; render such reports, estimates and recommendations; and furnish such plans and specifications as the board of commissioners of the district may request. Navigation districts may cooperate with the government of the United States, and contribute financially to the expense of such improvements and projects as may be adopted by the federal government; they may cooperate also with all agencies of this state in all undertakings, the result of which will be the furtherance of the objects for which the districts are created.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:408. Cooperation with federal government or other agencies

RS 34:408 - Cooperation with federal government or other agencies
A. Part II of Chapter 10 of Title 38 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 19501 shall apply to navigation districts.
B. The boards may undertake such work with their own organization subject, however, to the provisions of Part II, Chapter 10 of Title 38 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 19501; they may also contribute to the cost of any work undertaken by the government of the United States, or agencies of the state of Louisiana, which will further the objects for which districts are created.
Amended by Acts 1978, No. 56, §1.
1R.S. 38:2211 et seq.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:409. Elections to levy special tax

RS 34:409 - Elections to levy special tax
For the purpose of providing funds to carry out the objects and purposes for which created, navigation districts through their board of commissioners, after approval of the qualified electors of the district at an election held in accordance with Chapter 6-A of the Louisiana Election Code,1 may levy by resolution annually a special tax not to exceed one mill on the dollar upon all the taxable property within the district, to run for a period of not more than ten years.
The board shall not be required to levy the full one mill tax, but their failure to levy the full tax in any one year shall not permit them to exceed the one mill tax for any subsequent year.
Amended by Acts 1978, No. 56, §1.
1R.S. 18:1281 et seq.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:422. Assessment and collection of tax; procedure

RS 34:422 - Assessment and collection of tax; procedure
A copy of the resolution levying the tax, certified by the secretary of the board of commissioners of the district, shall be transmitted to the tax assessor of each parish within the district on or before June 1st of the year in which the tax is to be assessed and collected, and it shall be the duty of each assessor to assess the tax and extend the same upon the tax rolls of his parish. The tax shall be collected by the sheriff and ex officio tax collector of each parish in the same manner as taxes levied by the state. The several tax collectors shall make settlements for taxes so collected with the Division of Administration and state treasurer for the account of the respective navigation districts, and the funds so derived shall be withdrawn upon the warrant of the secretary of the respective boards of commissioners, countersigned by the president or vice president thereof. The taxes assessed shall constitute the same liens upon the property assessed; shall bear the same penalties; and collection thereof shall be enforced in the same manner and at the same time as parish taxes.
Amended by Acts 1978, No. 56, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:423. Levee boards, provisions not to affect

RS 34:423 - Levee boards, provisions not to affect
Nothing contained in this Chapter shall deprive the levee boards of their authority with respect to levees within their respective districts.
Added by Acts 1975, 1st Ex.Sess., No. 48, §1, eff. Feb. 20, 1975.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:441. Creation of district; purpose

RS 34:441 - Creation of district; purpose
There is created a navigation and river improvement district which shall be known as the "Red River Navigation District of Louisiana" composed of the Parishes of Caddo and Bossier, for the purpose of improving Red River with respect to the navigation thereof within the State of Louisiana.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:442. Domicile

RS 34:442 - Domicile
The domicile of the district shall be fixed by the board of commissioners provided for in R.S. 34:444 and may be changed at the pleasure of the board; the domicile shall be within the district, where the secretary shall reside and at which domicile shall be kept all the books and records of the district.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:444. Board of commissioners; members

RS 34:444 - Board of commissioners; members
The Red River Navigation District of Louisiana shall be governed, and its affairs managed and controlled by a board of commissioners composed of six members, all of whom shall be qualified electors, domiciled in the district and owning land within the district. They shall be chosen as follows: on or before January 1, 1929, the police jury of each of the parishes within the district shall elect, in such a manner as each may determine, three citizens thereof possessing the requisite qualifications, to serve as a member of the board. The term of office of the commissioners first selected shall date from their election or appointment and qualification, three of whom shall serve until January 1, 1931; and three until January 1, 1933.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:445. Powers and duties of board; duties of secretary

RS 34:445 - Powers and duties of board; duties of secretary
A. The board shall adopt bylaws, rules, and regulations for its own government and for the government of its officers and employees and prescribe their duties. The board shall devise, adopt, and carry out plans through financial cooperation with the government of the United States and otherwise; it shall also adopt rules and regulations for the carrying into effect and perfection, of a system having for its object the improvement of Red River from the Louisiana-Arkansas state line to its mouth, so as to secure and maintain the navigability thereof. The board shall apply for and receive allocation of funds, supplies, machinery, and personnel for such purposes, from the government of the United States. It shall keep a record of its proceedings which shall be published at least once in a daily newspaper having a general circulation in the district, within thirty days after each board meeting. The board shall, at each meeting, examine all its accounts and operations; determine in what manner the work of the board shall be undertaken, and provide the means to carry it out.
B. The secretary shall keep full and complete records of all receipts and expenditures of the district; he shall safely keep and preserve all books, records, reports, contracts, vouchers, and correspondence relative to the affairs of the district, and maintain a perpetual inventory of its property of all descriptions.
Acts 1999, No. 634, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:446. Anticipation of revenues; certificates of indebtedness

RS 34:446 - Anticipation of revenues; certificates of indebtedness
The boards of commissioners may anticipate for one year, fifty per cent of its annual revenues from taxation, based on the total assessment of the district for the previous year, and for that purpose may issue certificates of indebtedness, bearing not more than six per cent interest, maturing not more than one year after date, signed by the president or vice-president and by the secretary, and in such form as the board may determine.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:461. Creation of district; purpose

RS 34:461 - Creation of district; purpose
There is created a navigation and river improvement district which shall be known as the "Jennings Navigation District of Louisiana", composed of the territory embraced in Ward 2 of the parish of Jefferson Davis, for the purpose of improving the Mermentau River and other streams with respect to the navigation thereof within the state of Louisiana, by extending the navigation thereof to the corporate limits of the city of Jennings, and for such other purposes as are provided for in this Chapter.
Amended by Acts 1978, No. 56, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 34 - Navigation and Shipping › §34:463. Incidental powers of district

RS 34:463 - Incidental powers of district
For the purpose of improving and maintaining navigation on the Mermentau River and other streams, the Jennings Navigation District may construct, maintain and operate a navigation canal or canals in Ward 2 of the Parish of Jefferson Davis, and it may own, construct, lease or operate dredge boats, snag boats, pile drivers, docks, wharves, sheds, elevators, warehouses, barges and such other equipment and machinery as may be necessary therefor.