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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3075. Meetings; election of officers

RS 38:3075 - Meetings; election of officers
A. Immediately upon passage of this part, the nominations or appointments as appropriate shall commence. Within thirty days of the date of their appointment, the board of commissioners of the district shall meet, and it shall meet at its domicile no less than quarterly thereafter. At its organizational meeting the board shall: elect a chairman, vice-chairman, and treasurer; establish its domicile within the district; take nominations for the member to be nominated by the board; and it shall begin immediately formulation and consideration of a plan for the conservation of groundwater and where appropriate, prevention or alleviation of damaging or potentially damaging land surface subsidence and groundwater quality degradation. At its second meeting, the board shall nominate, from among the nominees presented at the first meeting, the member to be nominated by the board and shall immediately submit his name to the governor.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 678, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3077. Suits and failure to bring suit

RS 38:3077 - Suits and failure to bring suit
A. Whenever it appears that a person is violating or is threatening to violate any provision of this part or a rule, regulation, or order made hereunder, the board shall bring suit to restrain that person from continuing the violation or from carrying out the threat.
B. Venue shall be in the district court in the parish in which the board is domiciled.
C. In any such suit, the board may obtain injunctions, prohibitory and mandatory, including temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions as the facts warrant.
D. If the board fails to bring suit within ten days to restrain a violation of this part or any rule, regulation, or order issued hereunder, any person in interest adversely affected by the violation who has notified the board in writing of the violation or threat thereof and has requested the board to sue, may bring suit to prevent any or further violations, in the district court of the parish in which the board is domiciled. If the court holds that injunctive relief should be granted, the board shall be made a party and shall be substituted for the person who brought the suit, and the injunction shall be issued as if the board has at all times been the complaining party.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 678, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3078. Limiting rate of production; notice

RS 38:3078 - Limiting rate of production; notice
Any order limiting rates of production of groundwater, except emergency orders issued as hereinafter provided, shall be issued only after sixty days notice and a public hearing. The board shall give notice by registered mail to all users of groundwater reasonably known to it within the district within which pumping is to be limited. In addition, the board may give notice to such other individual landowners and well owners as it deems appropriate. However, the board shall also give notice by publication as hereinafter provided of the hearing on the prospective order.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 678, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3079. Pumping charges

RS 38:3079 - Pumping charges
A. The pumping charge assessed against each user of groundwater within the district shall be fixed annually upon at least thirty days notice to each user within the district known to the board and general notice by publication; however, the charges assessed against users of groundwater shall not be increased without a public hearing held for the purpose of fixing the pumping charges and opportunity for the submission of all pertinent data concerning total rates of consumption of groundwater within the district, estimated rates of consumption by users within the district, the costs and expenses which must be met during the coming year, costs and expenses which must be met by the pumping charge, and the manner in which the computation of the pumping charge is made. Any user within the district shall have the right to make a presentation by testimony and adduction of evidence and exhibits, and any other interested person shall have the right to be heard by making a personal statement of reasonable length. Any user intending to make a presentation at the hearing resulting in the assessment of pumping charges shall so advise the board at least five days in advance of the hearing and shall indicate the estimated time to be consumed by his presentation. When necessary, in its discretion, the board may limit the time allotted users for their presentations. Further, no pumping charge shall be made against the quantity of water pumped from wells screened in the Mississippi River alluvial aquifer, wells with a total depth of less than four hundred feet, wells used exclusively for bona fide agricultural or horticultural purposes, or wells not capable of producing fifty thousand gallons or more per day.
B. Pumping charges may be made payable by users monthly or on any other reasonable basis set by the board.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 678, §1. Amended by Acts 1976, No. 231, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3081. Court review and injunctive relief

RS 38:3081 - Court review and injunctive relief
A. Any aggrieved person of the district may, within thirty days after the adoption of any rule, regulation, order or taking of other action by the board, file suit in the district court in which the board is domiciled, to contest the said rule, regulation, order or other action taken. The court may affirm the decision of the board or remand the case for further proceedings. The court may reverse or modify the decision if substantial rights of the appellant have been prejudiced because the administrative findings, inferences, conclusions, or decisions are:
(1) In violation of constitutional or statutory provisions;
(2) In excess of the statutory authority of the board;
(3) Made upon lawful procedure;
(4) Affected by other error of law;
(5) Arbitrary or capricious or characterized by abuse of discretion or clearly unwarranted exercise of discretion; or
(6) Manifestly erroneous in view of the reliable, probative, and substantial evidence on the whole record. In the application of the rule, where the board has the opportunity to judge of the credibility of witnesses by firsthand observation of demeanor on the witness stand and the reviewing court does not, due regard shall be given to the board's determination of credibility issues.
On institution of any such suit, the court shall issue an order setting the matter for trial, as by summary process, and such suit shall be tried in term time, or in vacation, with the greatest possible dispatch. Pending a hearing, the court may grant a temporary restraining order suspending the action of the board upon a showing of immediate and irreparable injury in accordance with the provisions of Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure Article 3603.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 678, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3082. Falsification of documents to evade regulations; penalty

RS 38:3082 - Falsification of documents to evade regulations; penalty
A. No person shall for the purpose of evading this part, or any rule, regulation, or order made thereunder:
(1) Make or cause to be made any false entry or statement of fact in any report required to be made by this part or by any rule, regulation, or order made hereunder; or
(2) Make or cause to be made any false entry or omit an entry in an account, record, or memorandum kept by any person in connection with the provisions of this part or of any rule, regulation, or order made thereunder; or
(3) Remove out of the jurisdiction of the state, or destroy or mutilate, alter, or by any other means falsify any book, record or other paper, pertaining to the matters regulated by this part or by any rule, regulation, or order made thereunder.
B. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 678, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3083. Violations; penalty; jurisdiction; attorney general to conduct suit; complicity

RS 38:3083 - Violations; penalty; jurisdiction; attorney general to conduct suit; complicity
A. Whoever knowingly and willfully violates a provision of this part or a rule, regulation, or order of the board made hereunder, shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars a day for each day of violation and for each act of violation, if a penalty for the violation is not otherwise provided in this part.
(1) The place of suit to recover this penalty shall be selected by the board, as may be appropriate, in the district court of the parish of the residence of any one of the defendants, or in the district court of the parish where the violation took place.
(2) Suit shall be at the direction of the board, and shall be instituted and conducted in its name by the attorney general or by the district attorney of the district under the direction of the attorney general.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 678, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3084. Aiding and abetting violation

RS 38:3084 - Aiding and abetting violation
Whoever knowingly and willfully aids or abets a person in the violation of a provision of this part, or any rule, regulation, or order made hereunder, shall be subject to the same penalties provided herein for the principal violator.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 678, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3085.1. Creation; purposes

RS 38:3085.1 - Creation; purposes
The Iatt Lake Water Conservation District, referred to in this Part as the "district," is continued with the territorial boundaries, organization, and functions provided for in this Part. The district shall be a body politic and corporate and a political subdivision of the state of Louisiana, composed of all of the territory of the parish of Grant, exclusive of the territory located within any municipality or waterworks district.
Added by Acts 1975, No. 28, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3085.3. Purposes

RS 38:3085.3 - Purposes
A. The general purpose for which the district is created is to make available an adequate fresh water supply for industrial and other consumption in the Grant Parish area, and the district may furnish fresh water to cities, towns, villages, industries, corporations, and persons both within and outside of the district.
B. The particular purposes of the district are:
(1) Preserve, store, control, conserve, utilize, and distribute the waters of the lakes, streams, and other bodies of water in the district.
(2) Prevent the pollution and blocking of such streams.
(3) Prevent contamination.
(4) Acquire, maintain, and operate facilities, including the construction of new ditches, channels, dams, and levees, and to do such work as may be necessary to the drainage of lands in the district.
(5) Prevent the escape of any such waters until employed to the maximum advantage of the public generally in aiding the development of agriculture, commerce, and industries, and in insuring a fair and just distribution of all of the waters for all of the people of the area for the accomplishment of the district's purposes.
C. The state Department of Public Works shall cooperate with the board insofar as is practicable in the furnishing of information and advice for the accomplishment of the district's purposes.
Added by Acts 1975, No. 28, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3085.6. Bonds; contest of legality

RS 38:3085.6 - Bonds; contest of legality
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. After this time no one shall have any cause or right of action to contest the legality of the resolution or of the bonds authorized thereby for any cause whatsoever. If no suit, action, or proceeding is begun contesting the validity of the bond issue within this thirty day period, the authority to issue the bonds and to provide for their security and payment in the matter provided in the resolution, 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. 28, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3085.7. Bonds; investment; taxes

RS 38:3085.7 - Bonds; investment; taxes
All bonds issued under the provisions of this Part shall constitute negotiable instruments within the meaning of the law of this state relating to commercial paper. Savings banks, insurance companies, homestead associations, trustees, and other fiduciaries may invest the funds in their hands in bonds of the district, and the bonds shall constitute legal investment for such funds. The district shall not be liable for money paid for beneficiaries, minors, wards, or interdicted persons to their trustees, tutors, or curators on account of such bonds. The bonds may be used for deposit with any officer, board, municipality, or other political subdivision of the state in any case in which deposits or security is required by law.
Added by Acts 1975, No. 28, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3086.1. Creation; purposes

RS 38:3086.1 - Creation; purposes
There is hereby created a body politic and corporate, to be known as the Teche-Vermilion Fresh Water District (hereinafter referred to as "District"), for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and protecting a fresh water supply in Bayou Teche and the Vermilion River in the parishes constituting the district for the benefit of the area comprising the district and the residents thereof.
Acts 1969, No. 41, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3086.2. Location; composition; additions

RS 38:3086.2 - Location; composition; additions
The territory comprised within said district shall consist of the parishes of Iberia, Lafayette, St. Martin and Vermilion. Additional parishes may be added to the district by resolutions duly adopted by the police jury of each parish then included in the district, upon receipt by each of said police juries of a resolution adopted by the police jury requesting inclusion of its parish in the district. The effective date of the inclusion of an additional parish within the district shall be the date on which the appropriate resolution is adopted by the last police jury granting such inclusion.
Acts 1969, No. 41, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3086.3. Board of commissioners; membership; tenure; officers; vacancies; compensation

RS 38:3086.3 - Board of commissioners; membership; tenure; officers; vacancies; compensation
A. The affairs of the district shall be governed by a board of commissioners, whose membership shall be as follows:
(1) One member from each of the parishes constituting the district, to be selected and appointed by the governing authority of their respective parishes.
(2) One member from St. Landry Parish, to be selected and appointed by the governing authority of the parish, who shall have the right to vote only on matters pertaining to drainage and flooding.
(3) One member domiciled within the jurisdictional boundaries of the district who is a civil engineer or a civil engineer with a focus in hydrology to serve in an advisory role without having the right or privilege of voting, selected and appointed by the governor from a pool of four candidates, one each from the parishes of Iberia, Lafayette, St. Martin, and Vermillion, agreed on and selected by the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate whose districts, or a part thereof, are within the jurisdictional boundaries of the district.
B. The terms of the first four commissioners shall be two terms of one year and two terms of two years, respectively, to be determined by the drawing of lots by the commissioners. Thereafter, all appointments shall be for two years.
C. The board shall elect a chairman, vice chairman, and a secretary-treasurer and may employ such other employees as may be necessary, and fix their respective salaries.
D. The commissioners shall be paid seventy-five dollars per diem for official meetings of the board, not to exceed one meeting per month, and actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. The commissioners also shall be paid such per diem and expenses for special meetings of the board, not to exceed six such special meetings per year.
E. The board shall fix its own meeting dates and adopt such rules and regulations as may be necessary for its own government.
F. The commissioner appointed from the parish of St. Landry shall not receive per diem from the board; however, the governing authority of St. Landry Parish may pay per diem to him or his designee in an amount to be determined by the parish governing authority.
Acts 1969, No. 41, §3. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 65, §1; Acts 1976, No. 118, §1; Acts 1984, No. 624, §2; Acts 1988, No. 67, §1; Acts 1989, No. 93, §1; Acts 1995, No. 974, §1; Acts 2021, No. 361, §1, eff. Jan. 8, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3086.4. Board of commissioners; domicile; powers; bonds and taxes; bonding of treasurer

RS 38:3086.4 - Board of commissioners; domicile; powers; bonds and taxes; bonding of treasurer
The domicile of said board shall be at Lafayette, Louisiana. The district herein created shall have the power to sue and be sued, through its board of commissioners, and service of process in any such suit against said district shall be made upon the chairman of the board, the vice-chairman or upon the secretary-treasurer, but this provision shall not constitute a waiver of the governmental immunity to which the district is entitled. The district shall have authority to incur debt, issue bonds and levy taxes for the retirement of same, under the provisions of Article XIV, Section 14, including but not by way of limitation, Paragraph (a) thereof, of the Constitution of Louisiana, and to levy special taxes under the provisions of Article X, Section 10 thereof, in accordance with the provisions of law carrying these articles into effect and particularly the provisions of the pertinent sections of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 providing for an election. Ad valorem taxes so levied shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as state and parish taxes. The treasurer shall be bonded in such sum as the board may require, the premium on said bond to be paid by the district.
Acts 1969, No. 41, §4.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3086.5. Powers

RS 38:3086.5 - Powers
The district shall have the power to buy and sell; to own, maintain and operate property within and without the district; to acquire servitudes and rights-of-way within and without the district; to grant and fulfill assurances of local participation in connection with any federal project; to negotiate and execute contracts; to expropriate, if necessary, in the manner prescribed by Louisiana law the rights-of-way required to construct the project set forth in House Document No. 524, 89th Congress, 2d Session, Teche-Vermilion Basin, Louisiana and authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1966. The power of expropriation vested in the Board of Commissioners of the Teche-Vermilion Fresh Water District is hereby restricted to the acquisition of the rights-of-way specified in the aforementioned Act of Congress and document. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as impairing the right and authority of municipalities as defined by the constitution, including police juries of the several parishes involved, to create and maintain and operate waterworks districts and sub-waterworks districts as is presently provided for in Sections 3811 through 3821, both inclusive, of Title 33 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 under the provisions of Article XIV, Section 14 of the Constitution of 1921, or as may be hereafter provided by the legislature under said Article or under any amendment to the Constitution of 1921 which may be hereafter adopted. The district is authorized to cooperate with the state of Louisiana and/or any agency or political subdivision thereof and/or the United States government and any of its agencies on any basis which the district shall deem advisable in the establishment, construction, operation and maintenance of the fresh water system herein provided for, including but not by way of limitation the joint or separate construction, ownership, operation or maintenance of pump facilities, pipe lines, floodgates, water conveyors and other devices, equipment and property and to accept gifts or contributions of any nature from the state of Louisiana or the United States or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any private or corporate individual.
Acts 1969, No. 41, §5. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 465, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3086.6. Engineering services by Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority

RS 38:3086.6 - Engineering services by Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board is authorized and directed to provide such engineering assistance, advice and supervision and shall provide such reports, investigations, surveys, plans and specifications as the board of commissioners may require. It shall be the duty of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board to provide an appropriate representative to attend meetings of the board of commissioners when attendance is requested by the board.
Acts 1969, No. 41, §6; Acts 2012, No. 464, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3086.21. Creation; purposes; definitions; jurisdiction

RS 38:3086.21 - Creation; purposes; definitions; jurisdiction
A. There is hereby created a body politic and corporate to be known as Bayou Lafourche Fresh Water District, for the purpose of furnishing fresh water from any available fresh water source, including any ground water and surface water sources to the water purification facilities serving the incorporated villages, towns, and cities along Bayou Lafourche and within or adjacent to the boundaries of the district, as provided in this Part.
B. As used in this Part, the following terms and phrases shall have the following meanings, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Board" means the board of commissioners of the Bayou Lafourche Fresh Water District.
(2) "District" means the Bayou Lafourche Fresh Water District.
(3) "Watercraft" means anything used or designated for navigation on water.
(4) "Waterway" means Bayou Lafourche or any navigable bayou or river, or portion thereof, located within the geographical boundaries of the district.
Acts 2003, No. 187, §1; Acts 2015, No. 34, §1, eff. May 29, 2015.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3086.22. Location; composition

RS 38:3086.22 - Location; composition
A. The Bayou Lafourche Fresh Water District shall be composed of all of Lafourche Parish, except that portion of the parish having a front of two hundred feet on Bayou Des Allemands and running back westerly a distance of thirty-eight thousand six hundred ninety-five feet, being one hundred feet on each side of the center line of the main line track of the Texas and New Orleans Railroad; that portion of Ascension Parish lying along both banks of Bayou Lafourche between the Mississippi River and the boundary line between the parishes of Assumption and Ascension, and within lines drawn on each side of the bayou for a distance of four thousand two hundred feet from the center of the bayou, as established by government survey; and all of Assumption Parish and Terrebonne Parish.
B. The northern boundary line of the district shall be the toe of the main Mississippi River levee divorcing the waters of Bayou Lafourche from the Mississippi River, on the river side of the levee as now located, and the southern boundary of the district shall be the southern boundary of Lafourche Parish.
C. All property subject to taxation within the district as hereby constituted shall be subject to the levy of the special taxes heretofore authorized for the maintenance and operating expenses of the district and for the payment of the outstanding bonds of the district.
Acts 2003, No. 187, §1; Acts 2005, No. 2, §1.
NOTE: See Acts 2005, No. 2, §2, relative to implementation.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3086.25. Bayou Lafourche; fresh water maintenance

RS 38:3086.25 - Bayou Lafourche; fresh water maintenance
The purpose of this Part is to make it possible for the fresh water district which is hereby created to provide and maintain in Bayou Lafourche a source of fresh water supply from Donaldsonville to the Gulf of Mexico and that nothing in this Part is to be construed as impairing the right and authority of the municipalities as defined by the constitution, including police juries of the several parishes involved, to create and maintain and operate waterworks districts and sub-waterworks districts as is presently provided for in R.S. 33:3811 through 3832, or as may be hereafter provided by law. Any waterworks district or sub-waterworks district so created shall not be permitted to take its supply of water from the Bayou Lafourche Fresh Water District herein created except after adequate compensation paid therefor to the Bayou Lafourche Fresh Water District in accordance with the rates prescribed by the governing authority of the district under the powers herein conferred, which rates shall be equal and uniform for all municipalities and industries purchasing such water within the district.
Acts 2003, No. 187, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3086.26. Engineering services by Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority

RS 38:3086.26 - Engineering services by Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board is authorized and directed to provide such engineering assistance, advice, and supervision and shall provide such requests, investigations, surveys, plans, and specifications as the board of commissioners may require. It shall be the duty of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board to provide an appropriate representative to attend meetings of the board of commissioners when such attendance is requested by the board. The board of commissioners may hire employees and fix their compensation and terms of employment as the board may determine to be necessary in order to carry out the purposes of this Part.
Acts 2003, No. 187, §1; Acts 2012, No. 495, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3086.27. Board of commissioners; fresh water district

RS 38:3086.27 - Board of commissioners; fresh water district
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, each member of the board of commissioners of a multi-parish fresh water district from any parish with a population of not greater than twenty-three thousand seven hundred persons and not fewer than twenty-three thousand one hundred persons according to the most recent federal decennial census shall be appointed by the governor.
B. Appointments made pursuant to the provisions of this Section shall be from a list of names submitted to the governor by the governing authority of each parish. Each list shall contain twice the number of names as the number of appointments to the board from that parish.
Acts 2011, No. 241, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.1. Creation

RS 38:3087.1 - Creation
There is hereby created a recreation and water conservation district to be known as the "Poverty Point Reservoir District".
Acts 1992, No. 888, §2, eff. July 8, 1992.
NOTE: SEE R.S. 36:511, AS ENACTED BY ACTS 1998, 1ST EX. SESS., NO. 144, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.2. Location

RS 38:3087.2 - Location
The district shall be comprised of the area north of Delhi and south of the Warden community between the eastern edge of the Macon ridge and the west bank of Bayou Macon.
Acts 1992, No. 888, §2, eff. July 8, 1992.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.3. District as political subdivision and body corporate; purpose and powers

RS 38:3087.3 - District as political subdivision and body corporate; purpose and powers
A. The district so created shall be a political subdivision of the state of Louisiana which shall have for its purpose the development of the wealth and natural resources of the district by the conservation of soil and water for agricultural, recreational, commercial, industrial, and sanitary purposes. The creation and maintenance of a lake within the district shall be for such purposes.
B. It shall constitute a body corporate in law with all powers, rights, privileges, and immunities of a corporation. It shall have the power to sue and be sued, to buy and sell, to levy taxes, to negotiate and execute contracts, and to incur debts and issue negotiable bonds in payment thereof under and in accordance with existing laws. It shall have the authority to acquire by purchase, donation, expropriation, or otherwise every type and specie of property, including servitudes and rights of use, necessary to its purpose, and to lease, build, operate, and maintain any works or machinery designed to accomplish the purposes of the district.
C. It shall have complete control over the supply of fresh water made available by its facilities which shall be administered for the benefit of the persons residing or owning property within the district, and if it should be for the benefit of the district it shall have the authority to sell such water for irrigation, municipal, and industrial uses both within and outside the district.
D. The district shall constitute an agency of the state of Louisiana designed to carry out an essential governmental function of the state, all of the property of which district shall be exempt from state and local sales and use taxation. It shall have the authority to cooperate and contract with the government of the United States or any department or agency thereof and to accept grants and donations of property and money therefrom. It shall have the authority to cooperate with the state of Louisiana or any political subdivision, department, agency, or corporation of the state for the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities designed to accomplish the purpose for which the district is created on any basis including the matching of funds and by participating in projects authorized by any federal or state law as it shall see fit.
Acts 1992, No. 888, §2, eff. July 8, 1992.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.4. Board of commissioners, appointment; tenure; vacancies; compensation

RS 38:3087.4 - Board of commissioners, appointment; tenure; vacancies; compensation
A. The district shall be governed and controlled by a board of ten commissioners, each of whom shall be a qualified elector of the state of Louisiana who resides within the limits of Richland, Madison, West Carroll, and East Carroll parishes. The members of the board of commissioners shall be appointed by the governor as follows:
(1) One member shall be appointed from a list of nominees submitted by the governing authority of Richland Parish.
(2) One member shall be appointed from a list of nominees submitted by the governing authority of Madison Parish.
(3) One member shall be appointed from a list of nominees submitted by the governing authority of West Carroll Parish.
(4) One member shall be appointed from a list of nominees submitted by the governing authority of East Carroll Parish.
(5) Six members shall be appointed at the discretion of the governor, two of whom shall be minorities.
B. Initial appointments shall be made for staggered terms as specified herein and at the termination of these initial terms of office, each term of office shall be for six years. Initial terms shall be as follows as designated by the governor:
(1) Two members, consisting of two appointments from names submitted by the governing authorities, shall be appointed for two-year terms.
(2) Two members, consisting of two appointments from names submitted by the governing authorities, shall be appointed for four-year terms.
(3) Six members, consisting of six appointments at the discretion of the governor, shall be appointed for six-year terms.
C. Any vacancy which occurs prior to the expiration of the term for which a member of the board of commissioners has been appointed shall be filled by the governor for the unexpired term.
D. Members of the board of commissioners shall receive no compensation for their services.
Acts 1992, No. 888, §2, eff. July 8, 1992; Acts 1993, No. 890, §2; Acts 2018, No. 226, §1, eff. May 15, 2018.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.5. Oaths

RS 38:3087.5 - Oaths
Before entering upon his official duties each member of the board of commissioners shall take an oath, before an officer authorized by law to administer an oath, that he will faithfully, honestly, and impartially perform his duties.
Acts 1992, No. 888, §2, eff. July 8, 1992.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.6. Election of officers; record book

RS 38:3087.6 - Election of officers; record book
Immediately after the members of the board of commissioners have been appointed by the governor, or as soon thereafter as is practicable, they shall meet and organize by electing from their number a president, vice president, and secretary who shall perform the duties normally required of such officers. The board shall also select the name by which any lake in the district is to be known and cause it to be recorded in a bound book which shall also be the depository of the minutes and proceedings of the board, certificates, oaths of commissioners, and any and all corporate acts of the board. This book shall be in the custody of the secretary of the board and shall be open for public inspection at all reasonable times.
Acts 1992, No. 888, §2, eff. July 8, 1992.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.8. Rules and regulations

RS 38:3087.8 - Rules and regulations
In order to accomplish the purposes of the district to protect the works, improvements, and property of the district, both immovable and movable, to secure the best results from the construction, operation, and maintenance thereof, and to prevent damage to the district by misuse of any works, improvements, or properties or by the pollution by solid or liquid or substance or misuse of the waters of the district or any water course therein, the board of commissioners may make and enforce such rules and regulations as it shall deem necessary and advisable:
(1) To protect and preserve the works, improvements, and properties owned or controlled by the district, prescribe the manner of their use by public corporations and persons, and preserve order within and adjacent thereto.
(2) To prescribe the manner of building bridges, roads, fences, including fences for the control of livestock or other works in, along, or across any channel or extending into the reservoir.
(3) To prescribe the manner in which natural or artificial drains, ditches, sewers, pipelines, or other works shall be adjusted to or connected with the works of the district or any water course therein and the manner in which the water courses of the district may be used for sewer outlets for disposal of waste.
(4) To prescribe the permissible uses of the water supply, provided by the impoundments constructed, and to prevent the pollution or unnecessary waste of such water supply.
(5) To prohibit or regulate the discharge into sewers of the district of any liquid or solid waste deemed detrimental to the works and improvements of the district.
(6), (7) REPEALED BY ACTS 1993, NO. 830, §2.
Acts 1992, No. 888, §2, eff. July 8, 1992; Acts 1993, No. 830, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.10. Supervision by Department of Transportation and Development

RS 38:3087.10 - Supervision by Department of Transportation and Development
All of the powers and duties relative to construction and letting of contracts for construction required to be advertised by R.S. 38:2211 and 2212 conferred upon the district shall be subject to and exercised under the supervisory control of the Department of Transportation and Development of the state of Louisiana, which department shall furnish to the district such engineering services as it shall require and may cooperate with the district in the construction of any work or facility considered necessary by the district and said department to the purposes of the district.
Acts 1992, No. 888, §2, eff. July 8, 1992.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.11. Contracts let by board; bond

RS 38:3087.11 - Contracts let by board; bond
Any and all contracts of the district shall be let by the board of commissioners under the provisions of the Public Bid Law, R.S. 38:2181 et seq.
Acts 1992, No. 888, §2, eff. July 8, 1992.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.12. Mineral rights

RS 38:3087.12 - Mineral rights
Whenever it shall become necessary for the district or the Department of Transportation and Development, to acquire full ownership of any land for the purpose of constructing any work or facility within the district, the owner thereof in his own behalf or in behalf of his assigns in the event of a prior assignment may retain the mineral rights to such property together with the right to grant mineral leases and servitudes thereon. No form of prescription shall divest such owner or his assigns of these rights so long as the district, the department, or some other department or agency of the state retains the ownership of the property, but should ownership pass into private hands, the prescription of nonuse provided by R.S. 31:27 shall apply as in the usual case.
Acts 1992, No. 888, §2, eff. July 8, 1992.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.13. Tax exemption; mineral leases unabridged

RS 38:3087.13 - Tax exemption; mineral leases unabridged
Should the district or the Department of Transportation and Development acquire a servitude, right of use, or title in full ownership to immovable property or any other property, such property shall not be subject to any ad valorem tax or tax of any nature by the state of Louisiana or any political subdivision thereof so long as such property is used for the purpose of the district. The provisions of this Part shall in no way abridge the right of any individual, person, firm, or corporation from whom a servitude or right of use may have been acquired to lease the land subject thereto for the production of oil, gas, or other minerals and to produce or cause to be produced oil, gas, or other minerals from such property so long as said leases are subject to the terms and conditions of the servitude executed in favor of the commission.
Acts 1992, No. 888, §2, eff. July 8, 1992.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.14. Playgrounds, parks, and other facilities; limitation

RS 38:3087.14 - Playgrounds, parks, and other facilities; limitation
The board of commissioners shall have the power to cause to be created and constructed playgrounds, picnic grounds, grounds for recreation, parks, and any and all other facilities to accommodate the public and to provide adequate access to the proposed lake, as may within the opinion of the board become necessary, and the district shall have the right of eminent domain and expropriation in the exercise of such powers.
Acts 1992, No. 888, §2, eff. July 8, 1992.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.15. Management of fish, game, and wildlife

RS 38:3087.15 - Management of fish, game, and wildlife
A, B, C. REPEALED BY ACTS 1993, NO. 830, §2.
D. The board of commissioners shall have authority:
(1) To establish and cause to be enforced rules and regulations pertaining to all commercial establishments which may be constructed for the purpose of commercializing and making commercial use of the facilities provided by the reservoir.
(2) To license and permit such establishments and to levy and collect a fee, to be fixed by the commission, for the privilege of making commercial use of the facilities of the lake, or to refuse to license or permit any commercial establishment to use the facilities provided by the lake.
E. The rules and regulations established and promulgated by the board of commissioners shall provide penalties for any commercial establishment operating without a permit or license.
Acts 1992, No. 888, §2, eff. July 8, 1992; Acts 1993, No. 830, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.32. Location

RS 38:3087.32 - Location
The district shall be comprised of the territory within Voting District Six of Bienville Parish as such district was established on June 17, 1995.
Acts 1995, No. 443, §1, eff. June 17, 1995.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.33. District as political subdivision and body corporate; purpose and powers

RS 38:3087.33 - District as political subdivision and body corporate; purpose and powers
A. The district so created shall be a political subdivision of the state of Louisiana which shall have for its purpose the preservation, promotion, and development of the wealth and natural resources of the district by the conservation of the soil and water of Kepler Creek for agricultural, recreational, commercial, and sanitary purposes and by the regulation of aquatic plant growth.
B. It shall constitute a body corporate in law with all powers, rights, privileges, and immunities of a corporation. It shall have the power to sue and be sued, to buy and sell, to levy taxes, to negotiate and execute contracts, and to incur debts and issue negotiable bonds in payment thereof under and in accordance with existing law. It shall have the authority to acquire by purchase, donation, or otherwise every type and specie of property, including servitudes and rights of use necessary to its purpose, and to lease, build, operate, and maintain any works or machinery designed to accomplish the purposes of the district.
C. It shall have complete control over the supply of fresh water of Kepler Creek which shall be administered for the benefit of the persons residing or owning property within the district, and if it should be for the benefit of the district it shall have the authority to sell such water for irrigation, municipal, and industrial uses both within and outside the district. However, the district shall have no authority to regulate or control any use by any municipality, district, or other person of such water supply which use was being made by such municipality, district, or other person on June 17, 1995, including no authority to charge or collect any fee or charge therefor.
D. The district shall be deemed to be designed to carry out an essential governmental function, and all of the property of the district shall be exempt from state and local sales and use taxation. It shall have the authority to cooperate and contract with the government of the United States or any department or agency thereof and to accept grants and donations of property and money therefrom. It shall have the authority to cooperate with the state of Louisiana or any political subdivision, department, agency, or corporation of the state for the management of the waters of Kepler Creek and the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities designed to accomplish the purpose for which the district is created on any basis including the matching of funds and by participating in projects authorized by any federal or state law as it shall see fit.
Acts 1995, No. 443, §1, eff. June 17, 1995.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.34. Board of commissioners, appointment; tenure; vacancies; compensation

RS 38:3087.34 - Board of commissioners, appointment; tenure; vacancies; compensation
A. The district shall be governed and controlled by a board of five commissioners, each of whom shall be a qualified elector of the state of Louisiana, owning property within the district. Each of the five commissioners shall reside in Bienville Parish.
B. The initial members of the board of commissioners shall be appointed by the Bienville Parish Police Jury. The initial members of the board shall serve as follows: two commissioners shall serve a two-year term and three commissioners shall serve a four-year term. Commissioners shall draw lots for their initial terms at the first commission meeting. Thereafter, all commissioners shall serve four-year terms. After the initial appointments, upon expiration of a term of a member of the board of commissioners, the police jury shall appoint a successor from a list of two names submitted by the board of commissioners. A commissioner may not serve more than two consecutive terms of any length, even if one term is shorter than four years. Any vacancy in the office of commissioner due to death, resignation, or any other cause, other than expiration of a term of office, shall be filled by the president of the board with majority approval of the board for the remainder of the unexpired term.
C. Members of the board of commissioners shall receive no compensation for their services.
Acts 1995, No. 443, §1, eff. June 17, 1995.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.35. Oaths

RS 38:3087.35 - Oaths
Before entering upon his official duties each member of the board of commissioners shall take the oath of office provided by Article X, Section 30 of the Constitution of Louisiana before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths.
Acts 1995, No. 443, §1, eff. June 17, 1995.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3087.36. Election of officers

RS 38:3087.36 - Election of officers
Immediately after the members of the board of commissioners have been appointed, or as soon as thereafter is practicable, they shall meet and organize by electing from their number a president, vice president, and secretary who shall perform the duties normally required of such officers.
Acts 1995, No. 443, §1, eff. June 17, 1995.