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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1901. Acreage tax or forced contribution for maintenance, improvements, and repairs

RS 38:1901 - Acreage tax or forced contribution for maintenance, improvements, and repairs
The governing authority of any gravity drainage district or gravity sub-drainage district when authorized so to do by a vote of a majority in number and amount of the property tax payers qualified to vote under the Constitution and laws of this state in the gravity drainage district or gravity sub-drainage district, may levy and collect an acreage tax or forced contribution not to exceed thirty-five cents per acre per year on the land in the gravity drainage district or gravity sub-drainage district for a period not to exceed ten years. The acreage tax or forced contribution shall not be funded into bonds but shall be annually collected and used for the purpose of maintaining, improving, and keeping in repair the system of gravity drainage constructed in the gravity drainage district or gravity sub-drainage district, all within the limits prescribed in the provisions of Section 14 of Article XIV of the Constitution.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1902. Ad valorem tax for maintenance, construction, and improvement

RS 38:1902 - Ad valorem tax for maintenance, construction, and improvement
The governing authority of any gravity drainage or gravity sub-drainage district when authorized to do so by a vote of the resident property tax payers qualified to vote in the drainage district or sub-drainage district, of a majority, both in number and amount, may levy and collect a tax not to exceed five mills on the dollar upon all property subject to taxation in the drainage district or sub-drainage district and to run for a period not to exceed ten years. The tax shall be used for the purpose of maintaining, constructing, and improving drainage works within the territorial limits of the drainage district or sub-drainage district. The tax shall not be funded into bonds but shall be collected annually by the tax collector of the parish in which the drainage district or sub-drainage district is located, for the use and benefit of the drainage district or sub-drainage district.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1903. Indebtedness and taxes for completion of drainage system

RS 38:1903 - Indebtedness and taxes for completion of drainage system
When debts have been incurred and ad valorem or acreage taxes have been levied, as authorized by the provisions of Section 14 of Article XIV of the Constitution of 1921, for the construction of a gravity drainage system, gravity drainage districts and gravity sub-drainage districts through their respective governing authorities may, without further submission to the property taxpayers, incur an additional indebtedness and levy an additional ad valorem or acreage tax or forced contribution, and fund the tax into bonds, all within the limits prescribed in the provisions of the Constitution for the purpose of perfecting and completing, or of paying the expense or cost of perfecting and completing, the system of gravity drainage, eighty per cent of which shall have been accomplished at the time of incurring the additional indebtedness and the levying of the additional taxes.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1904. Procedure

RS 38:1904 - Procedure
In any case where it becomes necessary, or it is desired, by the governing authority of any gravity drainage district or sub-drainage district to exercise the authority granted by R.S. 38:1903, the governing authority shall first cause to be made, by its supervising engineer or other competent engineer, an estimate of the work already done on the system of drainage which has been adopted, and if it be found by the estimate that eighty per cent, or more, of the system has been completed, the governing authority shall authorize, by proper ordinance, the creation of an additional indebtedness and shall levy an additional ad valorem or acreage tax or forced contribution, and fund the tax into bonds, for the purpose of perfecting and completing the system of gravity drainage, or of paying any indebtedness incurred or to be incurred in completing the system, not to exceed, however, twenty per cent of the total cost of the system of drainage. All other or further procedure for this purpose, shall be as provided by law for the creation of indebtedness, the levying of taxes and forced contributions and the funding of taxes into bonds by gravity districts or gravity sub-drainage districts for gravity drainage purposes, except that it shall not be necessary to submit the proposition to the vote of the property taxpayers.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1951. §§1951 to 1963 Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 785, §2, eff. July 22, 1985.

RS 38:1951 - §§1951 to 1963 Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 785, §2, eff. July 22, 1985.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1992. Right of parishes to create drainage districts; refusal of parish to join

RS 38:1992 - Right of parishes to create drainage districts; refusal of parish to join
Nothing in this Part shall be construed as abridging or affecting in any respect and there is hereby specially reserved to the parishes of Ouachita, Morehouse, and Richland and the property owners and the resident landowners of the parishes, and any part thereof, the right to organize, create, and maintain drainage districts and subdrainage districts, with all the privileges, powers, authority, and functions provided and conferred by the Constitution and general laws of Louisiana on the subject. Nothing in this Part shall be construed as abridging or affecting in any respect the right of either of the parishes acting in the interest of the property owners of the parish to refuse to join in and become a part of the levee and drainage district.
Amended by Acts 1952, No. 127, §13.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1993. Board of commissioners

RS 38:1993 - Board of commissioners
The corporation shall be governed, and all its corporate powers are vested in a board of five commissioners, three of whom shall be actual bona fide residents, and citizens, and owners of real estate in the Lafourche Basin Levee and Drainage District. The commissioners shall be appointed, one from each parish by the respective governing authorities of the parishes, who shall serve for four years, and two of the commissioners shall be appointed by the governor, who shall serve for six years. The commissioners appointed by the governor shall be residents of Louisiana and owners of real estate in the Lafourche Basin Levee and Drainage District, but may not actually reside within the district. The commissioners shall elect one of their own number president, one, vice-president, and one, secretary and treasurer, who shall serve for two years. The board shall elect its officers every two years, but all officers shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1994. By-laws, rules and regulations; meetings; statement of affairs; audit and inspection of books and vouchers

RS 38:1994 - By-laws, rules and regulations; meetings; statement of affairs; audit and inspection of books and vouchers
The board of commissioners may adopt all by-laws, rules, and regulations necessary for its own government and the proper conduct of its affairs, and fix the time for its meetings. The board shall meet at least once every three months. The secretary and treasurer shall make and publish a detailed statement of the affairs of the corporation on the first day of January and June of each year and all the books and vouchers of the corporation shall be subject to the audit and inspection of the State Auditor.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1995. Corporate powers

RS 38:1995 - Corporate powers
The corporation in its corporate name may sue and be sued, contract, purchase, own, lease, and mortgage property, real, personal, and mixed. The board may borrow money and issue negotiable bonds and secure the bonds by mortgage, pledge, and hypothecation of its property, real, personal, mixed, its taxes, local assessments, forced contributions, and acreage taxes. It may exercise the right of eminent domain and expropriate property according to law in and out of the district when necessary to drain the lands in the Drainage District and make and use a common seal. It shall have all the powers and authority conferred on corporations of this class and drainage and subdrainage districts by the Constitution and laws of Louisiana, and all powers and authority conferred on drainage and sub-drainage districts, organized under the general laws of Louisiana relative to drainage, sub-drainage and drainage districts.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1996. Name of corporation; domicile; citation and other process

RS 38:1996 - Name of corporation; domicile; citation and other process
The legal title of the corporation shall be the Lafourche Basin Levee and Drainage District. The domicile of the corporation shall be in the city of Monroe, Louisiana, where its principal office shall be maintained and all of its books and records kept. Citation and all other legal process shall be served on the president, and in his absence, on the secretary and treasurer, at the domicile of the corporation.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1997. Elections

RS 38:1997 - Elections
In all elections levying special taxes, local assessments, forced contributions, and acreage taxes, held in the Lafourche Basin Levee and Drainage District, the governing authority thereof shall proceed in the manner and according to the provisions of the Constitution and laws of Louisiana governing the elections in political subdivisions of the state.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1998. Levy and collection of taxes, assessments and forced contributions

RS 38:1998 - Levy and collection of taxes, assessments and forced contributions
All taxes, special taxes, local assessments, forced contributions and acreage taxes, levied, assessed and collected in the Lafourche Basin Levee and Drainage District shall be levied, assessed, and collected according to the Constitution and laws of Louisiana relative to the collection of taxes, special taxes, local assessments and forced contributions and acreage taxes in drainage districts organized under the general laws.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:1999. Classes of lands or sub-drainage districts

RS 38:1999 - Classes of lands or sub-drainage districts
The board of commissioners may divide the lands in the Lafourche Basin Levee and Drainage District into classes or sub-drainage districts, and tax, locally assess, and impose forced contributions and acreage taxes on the lands in the classes or sub-drainage districts in proportion to the benefits derived by the land from the drainage. All lands in the same class or sub-drainage districts shall pay an equal tax, local assessment, enforced contribution or acreage taxes.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2021. §§2021 to 2032 Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 785, §2, eff. July 22, 1985.

RS 38:2021 - §§2021 to 2032 Repealed by Acts 1985, No. 785, §2, eff. July 22, 1985.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2041. Creation of district; limits

RS 38:2041 - Creation of district; limits
There is hereby created the Rapides Parish Stormwater Management and Drainage District, composed of Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8 of the parish of Rapides. The district shall be a corporation and political subdivision of the state. The district is created for the purposes herein set forth and shall be responsible for all major drainage in Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8 of Rapides Parish, excluding the Red River and its levees, and local drainage along streets, highways, and roads.
Added by Acts 1982, No. 69, §1. Acts 1984, No. 787, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2042. Board of commissioners; qualification of members; appointment; tenure; vacancies; removal of members

RS 38:2042 - Board of commissioners; qualification of members; appointment; tenure; vacancies; removal of members
A. The control and management of the affairs of the Rapides Parish Stormwater Management and Drainage District shall be vested in a board of commissioners, which is hereby created. The board shall be composed of five qualified electors residing within the limits of the district, who shall serve without compensation.
The commissioners shall be appointed as follows:
(1) One member, who shall be a resident of the city of Alexandria, shall be appointed by the governing authority of the city of Alexandria.
(2) One member, who shall be a resident of the city of Pineville, shall be appointed by the governing authority of the city of Pineville.
(3) One member, who shall be a resident of Rapides Parish, shall be appointed by the Rapides Farm Bureau.
(4) One member, who shall be a resident of Rapides Parish shall be appointed by the Board of Directors of the Rapides Soil and Water Conservation District.
(5) One member, who shall be a resident of Rapides Parish, shall be appointed by the governing authority of Rapides Parish. The commissioners initially appointed shall draw lots to determine their terms of office, which shall be one, two, three, four, and five years, respectively; they shall serve until their successors have been appointed and qualified. The commissioners thereafter appointed at the expiration of the respective terms of the initial appointees shall be appointed in the manner of the original appointments for terms of five years.
B. Vacancies shall be filled in accordance with the procedure set forth in Subsection A of this Section. In case of neglect of duty by any commissioner, or his failure without good cause to attend regular meetings for three times successively, the respective appointing authority, on request of the board, shall remove the commissioner and appoint his successor.
Added by Acts 1982, No. 69, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2043. Meetings of board; officers; salaries and expenses

RS 38:2043 - Meetings of board; officers; salaries and expenses
The board shall convene and hold its first meeting in the city of Alexandria within sixty days after the appointment of commissioners. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum to do business. The board shall elect one of its members president and shall appoint a secretary, and shall fix the salaries or compensation of the president and secretary. The board shall designate the time and place for holding regular meetings. Special meetings may be held at such times and places as shall be specified by call of the president or of two of the commissioners. In the case of the death or resignation of the president, the secretary shall call the board together to fill the vacancy. In case of absence, inability, or failure to act of the president, the board shall appoint one of its number to serve as chairman, and the person so appointed shall perform all the duties of the president.
Added by Acts 1982, No. 69, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2045. Corporate status and powers of board; domicile; evidence of acts and proceedings; deposit of funds; warrants

RS 38:2045 - Corporate status and powers of board; domicile; evidence of acts and proceedings; deposit of funds; warrants
The board of commissioners shall constitute a body corporate in law, with all the powers of a corporation, and with all the powers and rights of a political subdivision of the state relative to the incurring of debt and the issuing of bonds therefor. The domicile of the board shall be designated by the members at the first regular meeting of the board. The board may buy and sell property, incur debt, and contract obligations in accordance with law, sue and be sued, and perform any and all acts in its corporate capacity and in its corporate name which are necessary and proper for carrying out the purposes and objects for which it is created. The board shall have a corporate seal, and copies of all the regulations and copies of proceedings of the board certified by its secretary, under its corporate seal, shall be received in all courts as prima facie evidence of the acts and proceedings of the board. All funds of the board shall be deposited in an account or accounts to the credit of the district and expended as provided herein.
Added by Acts 1982, No. 69, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2046. District tax; collection and allocation of proceeds thereof

RS 38:2046 - District tax; collection and allocation of proceeds thereof
For the purpose of providing revenue to carry out the objects contemplated hereby, the board may levy and collect annually a tax on all property in the district subject to a district tax under the authority of Article VI, Section 32 of the Constitution of Louisiana, pursuant to an election called by the board and held for that purpose. The assessors shall extend the tax on the tax roll, and the tax collector shall collect the district tax in the same manner as other district taxes are collected. The avails of this tax are to be used for the acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance, or operation of facilities or improvements, including the cost of relocating pipelines and public utility facilities.
Added by Acts 1982, No. 69, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2047. Authority to issue bonds

RS 38:2047 - Authority to issue bonds
In addition to the right to levy taxes as herein provided, the district shall have the power to issue bonds for the purpose of constructing, acquiring, extending, and improving drains and drainage facilities of the district pursuant to Article VI, Section 33 of the Constitution of Louisiana; Subpart A of Part III of Chapter 4 of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950; and other constitutional and statutory authority supplemental thereto. Such bonds may be issued in an amount not exceeding ten percent of the assessed valuation of the district at the time the bonds are issued. The bonds and the interest thereon shall be exempt from all taxation in the state of Louisiana.
Added by Acts 1982, No. 69, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2048. Liberal construction

RS 38:2048 - Liberal construction
This Part, being intended to carry out a function of the state to protect the health and welfare of the inhabitants of the portion of the state to be affected hereby, shall be liberally construed by the courts to effect its purposes.
Added by Acts 1982, No. 69, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2101. Creation of district by police jury

RS 38:2101 - Creation of district by police jury
A. As used in this Chapter the term "police jury" means the parish governing authority unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
B. The lands comprising one or more parishes or comprising any portion or portions of one or more parishes may be formed into an irrigation district. The police juries of the several parishes of this state may create and establish irrigation districts in the manner herein provided.
C. All land that cannot receive any benefit from the operation of an irrigation district shall be excluded from the district at the time it is created.
Amended by Acts 1956, No. 462, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2102. Creation of district upon petition of landowners; lands in more than one parish

RS 38:2102 - Creation of district upon petition of landowners; lands in more than one parish
Police juries shall create and form irrigation districts when a petition to do so is filed by the property owners owning a majority of the acres of land within the limits of a proposed irrigation district, outside of the corporate limits of incorporated towns and cities. The petition shall describe the area to be included in the irrigation district, shall designate the name and domicile of the district and the names of the first commissioners thereof, and shall be signed by the petitioners. The petition shall be accompanied by a map showing the area to be included within the proposed irrigation district and the boundaries thereof, by a certificate of the clerk of court and exofficio recorder of the parish or parishes in which the land is situated certifying to the ownership of the land to be included in the irrigation district, outside the corporate limits of incorporated towns and cities, together with the acreage of each owner, as appears from the records of his office. If the ownership of any land is unknown, this fact shall also be made to appear by the certificate. Clerks of court and recorders of the parishes of the state shall furnish the certificate.
In creating an irrigation district composed of lands situated in more than one parish, the petition to create the district must be signed by the property owners owning a majority of the acres of land in each parish within the proposed district, outside of the corporate limits of incorporated towns and cities. The petition shall be presented to the police jury of the parish having the largest number of acres of land in the proposed irrigation district, outside of the corporate limits of incorporated towns and cities, and the irrigation district shall then be created by ordinance of the police jury.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2103. Recordation of ordinance creating district; publication

RS 38:2103 - Recordation of ordinance creating district; publication
Certified copies of all ordinances of police juries creating irrigation districts under the provisions of this Part shall be recorded in the mortgage records of each parish in which any of the land is situated comprising the irrigation district.
The ordinance creating the irrigation district, after having been so recorded, shall be published once a week for two successive weeks in the official journal of each parish in which any lands of the district are situated. If there is no official journal in a parish, then copies of the ordinance shall be posted on the principal front door of the court house of the district court of each parish in which any lands of the district are situated, and shall also be posted at not less than four other public places within the irrigation district.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2104. Contesting legality of district; appeal

RS 38:2104 - Contesting legality of district; appeal
Any interested person desiring to contest the legality of any irrigation district created under this Part shall do so by suit against the irrigation district brought in the district court of the domicile of the district within sixty calendar days from the date of the second publication, or of the date of the last posting of the ordinance creating the district as herein provided. No right to bring any contest of legality shall exist and no court shall have jurisdiction to entertain any contest after the lapse of the sixty days.
If no contest is filed within the sixty days, it shall be conclusively presumed that in every particular the irrigation district was regularly and legally created, and that all lands embraced within the boundaries of the district are properly and legally included therein.
Any suit brought under the provisions of this section shall be tried summarily and by preference over all other cases and without the intervention of a jury. Appeal may be had as in other cases and shall be heard and determined in a summary manner.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2105. Name of district

RS 38:2105 - Name of district
Irrigation districts created under this Part shall be known as irrigation districts, with any other name or number that the police jury may designate. The name suggested in the petition shall be designated by the police jury unless the same conflicts with the name of an existing irrigation district created by the police jury, in which event the police jury shall exercise its discretion in designating the name of the irrigation district.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2106. Domicile; change of domicile; meetings to be held at domicile

RS 38:2106 - Domicile; change of domicile; meetings to be held at domicile
In the ordinance creating an irrigation district under this Part, the domicile of the district shall be designated. The commissioners of an irrigation district may at any time, by resolution, establish a different domicile, within the district, after having given notice of intention to change the domicile. The notice shall be signed by the president or secretary of the commissioners, and published once a week for thirty days in a newspaper published in the parish of the then existing domicile, or if there is no newspaper in the parish, then in a newspaper published in an adjoining parish. After publication of the notice, the commissioner by resolution may make the change of domicile. A copy of the resolution, when adopted, shall be recorded in the mortgage office of each parish in which any part of the district is situated.
Irrigation districts created under this Part shall be sued only in the court of their domicile, and not at any other place.
All meetings of the board of commissioners shall be held at the domicile of the irrigation district. By unanimous vote of all of the commissioners composing the board at a meeting of the board held at the domicile, the board may designate a different place at which meetings of the board may be held, as may be by the board of commissioners deemed most convenient to the board and the persons having business transactions therewith.
In the ordinance creating irrigation districts, there shall be designated a time and place for the commissioners of the district to hold their organization meeting.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2107. Board of commissioners; qualifications; term; compensation

RS 38:2107 - Board of commissioners; qualifications; term; compensation
All irrigation districts formed or created under the provisions of this Part shall be governed and controlled by five commissioners to be known as a board of commissioners. Each commissioner must be a qualified elector of Louisiana and must reside within the limits of the district. He must be the record owner of lands in the district of an assessed value of two thousand dollars, or must be the representative of some corporation owning lands in the district of an assessed value of two thousand dollars. A representative of a corporation shall be designated to represent the corporation by resolution of the board of directors to that effect. The holding of the office of irrigation commissioner shall not be considered in contemplation of law as dual office holding. No commissioner, unless he is the secretary-treasurer, shall receive compensation for his services, but he shall receive actual expenses while attending to the business of the district.
Commissioners shall serve for a term of four years and until their successors shall have been appointed and shall have qualified. Vacancies in the office of commissioner due to death, resignation, or other cause, shall be filled by the remaining commissioners for the unexpired term.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2108. Appointment of commissioners

RS 38:2108 - Appointment of commissioners
In the ordinance creating an irrigation district under this Part, the police jury creating the district shall appoint the five commissioners who shall constitute the governing authority of the district, and who shall possess the qualifications, as provided in R.S. 38:2107, and who are named in the petition for the creation of the district.
Upon the expiration of the four year term of the commissioners, and every four years thereafter, the police jury creating the irrigation district shall appoint five commissioners who are recommended by landowners within the irrigation district, and where there is more than one person recommended for the same office, the police jury shall appoint the person otherwise qualified who is recommended by landowners owning the largest number of acres of lands in the district, outside of the corporate limits of incorporated towns and cities.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2109. Oaths of commissioners

RS 38:2109 - Oaths of commissioners
Before entering upon his official duties, each commissioner of an irrigation district created under this Part shall take and subscribe to an oath before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths, that he will honestly, faithfully, and impartially perform the duties devolving upon him as a commissioner of the irrigation district in which he was appointed, and that he will not neglect any of the duties imposed upon him by this Part. The oaths of the commissioners shall be recorded in the record book of the irrigation district.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2110. Officers of board; bond of secretary-treasurer

RS 38:2110 - Officers of board; bond of secretary-treasurer
At the time and place designated by the police jury in the ordinance creating the irrigation district, or as soon thereafter as possible, the commissioners appointed in the ordinance shall meet and immediately organize by electing officers as follows: They shall elect from among their number a president to preside over the meetings of the commissioners and to perform any other duties as are usually required of presidents of corporate bodies. The vice-president shall perform the duties of the president in case of his absence or disability.
The commissioners shall also elect a secretary-treasurer, who need not be a commissioner, who shall perform all duties required of him by the commissioners.
The secretary-treasurer shall furnish bond in a sum fixed by the board of commissioners, which bond shall not be for less than one-fourth over and above any amount that may come into the possession of the secretary-treasurer, and which bond shall be increased or diminished accordingly. The premium on the bond shall be paid by the district. The secretary-treasurer shall receive compensation, not in excess of two hundred fifty dollars per month, as the board of commissioners may determine.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2111. Seal; selection of bank; warrants

RS 38:2111 - Seal; selection of bank; warrants
The board of commissioners shall adopt a suitable seal and shall select without the necessity of advertising or receiving bids therefor one or more solvent chartered banks of the state. Funds of the district shall be withdrawn or paid out only on warrants or checks of the board of commissioners signed in the manner provided by the board of commissioners.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2113. Letting contracts

RS 38:2113 - Letting contracts
Any and all contracts of the district may be let by the governing authority thereof without advertisement, but the governing authority may provide for a public letting of any of its contracts if it sees fit, on the terms, and subject to the conditions, which it may fix in the ordinance calling for bids. The person to whom the contract is awarded shall furnish, within the delay fixed by the governing authority, a bond of a surety company authorized to do business in Louisiana, in the amount required by law relating to contracts for public works, and conditioned that the work shall be performed in accordance with the plans and specifications and the terms of the contract, and the governing authority thereof shall demand any other bonds and obligations which the laws relating to public contracts require the contractor to give.
The governing authority may execute any and all work with its own force and equipment and under its own supervision, or the work may be executed on behalf of and for the benefit of the district by the United States of America, or any agency, department or commission thereof, or any other body which is now or may hereafter be organized under the laws of the United States of America.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2114. Records to be kept

RS 38:2114 - Records to be kept
The board of commissioners of irrigation districts organized under this Part shall cause to be kept a well bound book, entitled "record book of board of commissioners of (here insert name of irrigation district)" in which shall be recorded the minutes of all meetings, all proceedings, certificates, oaths of commissioners, bonds of employees and contractors, and any and all corporate acts. The records shall be in the possession of the secretary of the board and shall be open to inspection at all times by any person interested.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2115. Employment of attorneys, engineers, etc.; compensation

RS 38:2115 - Employment of attorneys, engineers, etc.; compensation
The board of commissioners of every irrigation district created under the provisions of this Part, may employ an attorney or attorneys, and fix his or their compensation. The board of commissioners may employ engineers, clerks, and other agents and employees, and fix their compensation.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2116. Levy of acreage tax or forced contribution

RS 38:2116 - Levy of acreage tax or forced contribution
Any irrigation district created under this Part may, through its governing authority, when petitioned to do so by landowners owning a majority of the acres of land in the district, outside of the corporate limits of incorporated towns and cities, levy and impose and order the assessment and collection of an acreage tax or forced contribution, not exceeding ten cents per acre per year for a period not exceeding forty years on each acre of land in the district, for the purpose of maintaining and operating the irrigation district or any property necessary for the purposes of the district.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2117. Lands within corporate limits not to be taxed

RS 38:2117 - Lands within corporate limits not to be taxed
Lands within the corporate limits of incorporated towns and cities, although within the limits of an irrigation district, shall not be liable to taxation for any purpose under this Part, nor shall these lands be considered in calculating the number or proportion of acres of land required to sign any petition or make any recommendation under this Part. The owners of the lands shall not, by reason of the ownership, sign any petition or participate in any election required or permitted under this Part.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2118. Lands to be taxed

RS 38:2118 - Lands to be taxed
All lands included within the boundaries of any irrigation district, except those lands within the corporate limits of incorporated towns and cities, shall be taxed. The fact that water from the natural or artificial waterways within the district is not used on certain lands within the boundaries of the district does not exempt that land from taxation.
Amended by Acts 1956, No. 461, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2119. Elections called by board

RS 38:2119 - Elections called by board
Irrigation districts created under this Part, in order to carry out the provisions of this Part relative to the proper administration of the affairs of the district, through their governing authority, may call elections in accordance with the terms, conditions and provisions of Chapter 4, Sub-title II of Title 39, and in accordance with applicable provisions of the Constitution and other laws of Louisiana.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2120. Landowners may petition for bond election

RS 38:2120 - Landowners may petition for bond election
Whenever landowners, owning not less than twenty-five per cent of the total acreage of the land in an irrigation district outside of the corporate limits of incorporated towns and cities, shall petition the governing authority of the district to call an election to submit to the property taxpayers therein qualified to vote, a proposition to authorize the incurring of debt and issuing of bonds for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, leasing, maintaining, and operating canals, locks, dams, reservoirs, storage basins, dikes, ditches, levees, flumes, machinery, and other works, or for the purchasing of works already constructed, in the district, the governing authority of the district shall call a special election for the purpose of obtaining the will of the property taxpayers qualified to vote in the district, in regard to the proposition to incur debt and issue bonds, as petitioned for as aforesaid.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2121. Conduct of elections

RS 38:2121 - Conduct of elections
All elections herein authorized, and the details and procedure relating to the voting of taxes and issuance of negotiable bonds, polling places, qualifications of voters, list of voters, challenging votes, form of ballots, notice to voters, election officers and their substitutes, election officers and their oaths, voting, opening and closing of polls, counting ballots, canvass of returns, proces verbal, preservation of ballots, issuing bonds and the resolution authorizing issuance of bonds, limit of indebtedness, maximum duration, interest on bonds, form of bonds, and the signing of bonds, resolution prescribing terms, maturity, registration as to principal, as to interest, levy of taxes, sale of bonds, sale at par, and application of premium, exemption from taxes, no other statutes applicable, validity of bonds, contests and time limited, application of proceeds, and penalties for violations, etc., shall be held and had, except as herein otherwise provided, under the provisions of Chapter 4, Sub-title II of Title 39.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2122. Bonds sold at public sale

RS 38:2122 - Bonds sold at public sale
Bonds authorized to be issued by the irrigation districts shall be sold at public sale for a price not less than that fixed by law, after advertisement for three weeks, the first advertisement to be at least fifteen days prior to the date set for the sale in the official journal of the parish. The governing authority of the district may reserve the right to reject any and all bids.
Amended by Acts 1968, No. 69, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2123. Collection of taxes

RS 38:2123 - Collection of taxes
Assessors of the various parishes in which irrigation districts or portions thereof are located shall, upon the levy of acreage taxes by the governing authority of any irrigation district created under this Part, extend the taxes upon the assessment rolls of their respective parishes against all land liable for the taxes. The taxes shall be demanded and collected by the respective sheriffs and ex-officio tax collectors at the same time and in the same manner as they demand and collect state and parish taxes due on the same and other lands and property in their respective parishes. Each respective sheriff and ex-officio tax collector shall pay over and account for all taxes collected for account of any irrigation district, to the secretary-treasurer of the district at the same time that he pays over state and parish taxes, and he shall be allowed the same commission for the collection of irrigation taxes as he is allowed by law for the collection of state and parish taxes.
All of the articles and provisions of the Constitution of Louisiana of 1921, and all laws providing for, regulating, and governing the collection of state and parish taxes and the creation of tax liens, penalties and methods and procedure for sales for delinquent taxes, shall also apply to regulate and govern the collection of the assessments of taxes authorized to be imposed or levied under the provisions of this Part.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2181. Venue of suits

RS 38:2181 - Venue of suits
A. A suit to annul a public contract on the ground of fraud, illegality, or violation of the contract, may be instituted against a contractor either in the parish of the domicile of the contractor or in the parish where the real or personal property involved is located, or in the parish, or any one of the parishes wherein the work under the contract is to be performed.
B. A suit arising under any public contract regarding the construction, alteration, or repair of any public works or for the purchase of materials or supplies, may be instituted either in the parish in which the public entity is located or in any other parish where, by law, such action may be instituted.
C. Any other provisions of the law to the contrary notwithstanding, the parties to a public contract may stipulate in the contract that the venue of any possible litigation arising under such contract shall be in the parish in which the public entity is located.
D. A suit to enjoin the award of a competitively bid public contract shall be instituted in the parish in which the public entity is located.
Acts 1991, No. 1044, §1; Acts 2003, No. 1061, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2182. Mandatory information requirement for contracts let without competition under the authority of an executive order

RS 38:2182 - Mandatory information requirement for contracts let without competition under the authority of an executive order
A. The provisions of this Section shall apply to any contract for a public work which is subject to the provisions of Chapter 10 of this Title, hereinafter referred to as "state Public Bid Law", which contract is let without competition pursuant to an executive order issued by authority granted under the Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act, which order grants exceptions to the requirements of the state Public Bid Law. Such provisions shall apply to contracts which have been or will be let without competition pursuant to executive orders related to Hurricane Katrina or Rita which granted exceptions to the requirements of the state Public Bid Law.
B.(1) For any contract subject to the provisions of this Section, the information cited in Subparagraphs (a) through (d) of this Paragraph shall be submitted by the primary contractor to the Office of Facility Planning and Control. The following information shall be submitted, in a format to be determined by such office, no later than forty-five days after the effective date of the contract, or forty-five days after June 29, 2006, whichever is later:
(a) The name of the primary contractor.
(b) The amount of the contract.
(c) The name of each subcontractor.
(d) The amount of each subcontract.
(2) Any change in subcontractors, or in the amount of a subcontract which exceeds twenty-five percent in the aggregate of the original subcontracted amount, shall necessitate the submission of updated information as required in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection.
(3) The primary contractor for each contract subject to the provisions of this Section shall be notified of the requirements of this Section by the contracting state agency. Such notification shall be made no later than ten days after June 29, 2006, for contracts which are currently in effect. Otherwise, the notification shall be made prior to execution of the contract.
C. The Office of Facility Planning and Control shall maintain a listing or registry of all information reported to it pursuant to the provisions of this Section.
D. Failure to submit all of the information required as provided in Subsection B of this Section shall be grounds for debarment. It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally fail to submit such information, which failure is hereby deemed to be a violation of the duty to provide the mandatory information. Whoever violates such provisions of Subsection B of this Section shall be fined in an amount not to exceed one-half of the contract amount and imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
E. The provisions of this Section shall not be subject to suspension pursuant to the authority granted to the governor by R.S. 29:721 et seq., the Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act.
Acts 2006, No. 726, §1, eff. June 29, 2006.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2184. Preference given to supplies, material, or equipment produced or offered by Louisiana citizens

RS 38:2184 - Preference given to supplies, material, or equipment produced or offered by Louisiana citizens
All public entities shall, in making purchase of supplies, material, or equipment, give preference to supplies, material, or equipment produced or offered by Louisiana citizens, the cost to the public entity and the quality being equal.
Acts 1991, No. 1044, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2188. Mandamus to compel performance of contract

RS 38:2188 - Mandamus to compel performance of contract
A. In the event that any person shall contract with any public entity with reference to the paving, grading, repairing, reconstructing, or care of any street, highway, bridge, culvert, levee, canal, ditch, or crossing, and shall fail or neglect to perform the contract, the public entity, any officer, or any five taxpayers thereof, may proceed by a writ of mandamus to compel the performance of the contract, or any part of the contract. The writ of mandamus shall be made returnable in five days, shall be tried by preference over all other cases, without a jury, in vacation as well as in term time, and in case of appeal shall be tried by preference in the appellate court.
B. In case any person shall fail or neglect to comply satisfactorily with any judgment against it in such a proceeding within the time fixed by the court which shall be a period within which the work can be reasonably done, the court, on contradictory motion and proof taken in the same case, shall issue a writ of distringas against the person, order the sheriff to do the work required to be done, and to apply the revenues and property of the person to defray the expenses incurred in executing the judgment of the court.
Acts 1991, No. 1044, §1.