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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3690.6. Statement or report of total cost; pro rata shares

RS 33:3690.6 - Statement or report of total cost; pro rata shares
The Jefferson Parish council shall then require of the engineer for the department of roads and bridges of Jefferson Parish a statement or report duly certified to and showing in detail the total cost of the improvements, including street intersections, engineer's and attorney's fees, if any, and other expenses incidental to the cost of said improvements, and showing the amount chargeable to each lot or parcel of real estate abutting the street or road owned by those property owners who have not paid in cash their pro rata share of the cost of the improvements, in proportion that the frontage of each such lot or parcel of real estate bears to all of the abutting lots or parcels of real estate to be improved. Such report shall give a legal description of each such abutting lot or parcel with sufficient clearness to identify it.
Acts 1962, No. 256, §6.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3690.7. Levy of local or special assessment

RS 33:3690.7 - Levy of local or special assessment
Upon receipt of the statement or report referred to in R.S. 33:3690.6, the Jefferson Parish council shall adopt an ordinance levying a local or special assessment on each lot or parcel of real estate abutting the street or road to be improved owned by those property owners who have not paid in cash their pro rata share of the cost of such improvements, in proportion that the frontage of each such lot or parcel of real estate bears to the total frontage of all the abutting lots or parcels of real estate to be improved, in accordance with the cost of the improvements as shown on said certified statement or report. The total of the amounts paid by the other property owners in cash and of the said local or special assessments shall represent the total cost of the improvements, including street intersections, engineer's and attorney's fees, if any, and all other costs incidental to the work.
Acts 1962, No. 256, §7.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3690.8. Collection of amounts assessed

RS 33:3690.8 - Collection of amounts assessed
The amounts assessed in the said local or special assessment ordinance shall be due and collectible immediately on its passage, and if not paid within ten (10) days from the date of publication of said ordinance, it will be conclusively presumed that any property owner whose property is affected thereby exercises the right and option, which is hereby authorized, to pay the amount due in equal semi-annual installments bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 6% per annum, payable semi-annually, and amortized over a period not exceeding two years, as provided for in the said local or special assessment ordinance and within the discretion of the Jefferson Parish council. The first installment shall become due on December 31st of the then current year and subsequent installments shall become due semi-annually thereafter. The failure to pay any installment or the interest thereon when due shall ipso facto cause all other installments and the interest thereon to become due and payable, and the Jefferson Parish council may within 30 days from the date of each default proceed, by an action either in rem against the property or in personam against the owner, or both, for the collection of the total amount due, including interest and 20% additional on principal and interest as attorney's fees.
Acts 1962, No. 256, §8.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3690.9. Filing of levying ordinance; lien and privilege

RS 33:3690.9 - Filing of levying ordinance; lien and privilege
A certified copy of the ordinance levying the local or special assessments as hereinbefore provided shall be filed with the clerk of court of Jefferson parish, who shall forthwith record the same in the mortgage records of said parish. Such ordinance, when so filed and recorded, shall operate as a lien and privilege against all real estate therein assessed, which lien and privilege shall prime all other claims and liens except taxes or prior recorded special assessment liens.
Acts 1962, No. 256, §9.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3690.11. Contesting validity; prescription

RS 33:3690.11 - Contesting validity; prescription
No contest, action or proceeding to question the validity or legality of any resolution, ordinance, notice or other proceeding adopted or published in accordance with the foregoing shall be begun in any court by any person for any cause whatsoever after the expiration of thirty days from the date when the resolution, ordinance, notice or proceeding was adopted or published and thereafter the legality and validity of such resolution, ordinance, notice or proceeding shall be conclusively presumed and no court shall thereafter have authority to inquire into such matters.
Acts 1962, No. 256, §11.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3691. Additional authority for street improvements

RS 33:3691 - Additional authority for street improvements
A. Whenever one or more roads or streets are located partially within the boundaries of two adjoining parishes, and outside of any municipality, the governing authority of either parish, with the consent of the governing authority of the other parish, may construct, pave, surface, or otherwise improve, together with the necessary curbs, gutters, aprons, drains, and headers, such streets or roads or any part thereof at such time or times as they determine. The governing authority which performs work authorized by this Section may levy and collect local or special assessments on the real property abutting such improvements sufficient in amount to defray the total cost of said work, including street intersections, all in the form and manner and subject to the limitations and restrictions provided in R.S. 33:3689.1 through 3689.19 except for the following provisions:
(1) The governing authority of each parish must approve the notice of intention to improve such roads or streets by resolution or ordinance.
(2) The governing authority proceeding under this Section may exclude from the description of property abutting streets or roads to be improved any lot or parcel found not to be benefitted by the proposed improvement, including wetlands determined by said governing authority to be not reasonably subject to development.
(3) The ordinance levying the local or special assessments must be recorded in the mortgage records of each parish.
(4) The assessments shall be at such rates as may be set forth in the ordinance levying the local or special assessments.
(5) Any paving certificates shall be issued subject to the provisions of Chapter 13 of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 and the provisions of that Chapter shall be controlling in the event of any conflict with the provisions of R.S. 33:3689.1 through 3689.19.
B. Any parish which performs work on streets or roads pursuant to this Section, with the approval of the governing authority of the adjoining parish, may include such streets or roads in its road system and shall thereafter treat such streets or roads as streets and roads of the parish performing the work.
Acts 1995, No. 262, §1, eff. June 14, 1995.
NOTE: See Acts 1995, No. 262, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3701. Railroad crossings; permits; sharing cost

RS 33:3701 - Railroad crossings; permits; sharing cost
A. Where the tracks of a railroad cross or limit access to a state highway or a street or alley of a municipality or parish, the governing authority may require that a railroad company notify the governing authority in writing prior to any work being done on the railroad crossing.
B. The governing authority shall have the authority to acquire and construct such public crossings as it deems necessary under its general expropriation authority and may require the railroad to pay one-half of the cost of constructing and maintaining a public crossing or viaduct over their tracks, or of constructing and maintaining a subway under their tracks, the other one-half of the cost of the construction and maintenance to be borne by the municipality or parish. The cost of the construction shall include all expenses incident thereto.
Amended by Acts 1982, No. 658, §1; Acts 2008, No. 596, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3702. Disagreement between municipality or parish and railroad; decision by public service commission

RS 33:3702 - Disagreement between municipality or parish and railroad; decision by public service commission
In cases mentioned in R.S. 33:3701 if the municipal or parish authorities and the railroads are not able to agree on the plans for the construction, payment for, or maintenance of, the public crossing, viaduct, or subway, the matter shall be left to the decision of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, provided, however, that after the commission's decision, the municipality or parish may defer action on the project.
Acts 2008, No. 596, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3703. Apportionment between railroads crossing street

RS 33:3703 - Apportionment between railroads crossing street
If there are more than one railroad crossing the street or alley or limiting access to a state highway, the one-half of the cost not paid by the municipality or parish shall be apportioned between or among the railroads according to the number of tracks of each railroad crossing the street or alley.
Acts 2008, No. 596, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3704. Payments due upon completion of work

RS 33:3704 - Payments due upon completion of work
In carrying out the work provided for in R.S. 33:3701 through 3703, the amount, if any, due to the municipality or parish shall be due and payable immediately after the work is completed and accepted, and the amount, if any, due the railroads, from the municipality or parish, shall also be due and payable immediately after the completion of the work, and either may recover the amounts due in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Acts 2008, No. 596, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3705. Railroads required to maintain lights at crossings

RS 33:3705 - Railroads required to maintain lights at crossings
A. Municipalities or parishes which have their streets lighted may require railroad companies to maintain lights at the intersections of their tracks within the limits of the municipality or parish, similar to and of equal power as those in use for the lighting of the streets.
B. Any railroad company affected by the exercise of the power conferred by this Section may appeal to the courts to test the necessity for and the reasonableness of any ordinance passed under the authority of this Section.
Acts 2008, No. 596, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3722. Establishment of building lines; building restrictions

RS 33:3722 - Establishment of building lines; building restrictions
Any municipality having a population in excess of fifty thousand may provide by ordinance for the establishment of a building line, on any street, provided that written notice of the introduction of the ordinance establishing the line is sent by registered mail to the last known address of each person owning property fronting on the street on which it is proposed to establish the building line. After the establishment of the line, no building or other structures shall be erected or moved and no existing buildings reconstructed or structurally altered, within the line established.
The line may be established on one or both sides of any street for the total length of the street or any part of it. The ordinance establishing the line shall set forth the name of the street and the part to which the line shall apply, and shall provide that the owners of property abutting on the street within the part affected by the line, shall take notice of and be bound by the provisions of the ordinance.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3723. Servitude over lands abutting street for street widening purposes; rights of abutting owners

RS 33:3723 - Servitude over lands abutting street for street widening purposes; rights of abutting owners
Upon the passage of the ordinance the municipality shall be held to have taken a servitude of passage over all lands abutting the part or of the street to which the building line ordinance is applied, and the owners of these lands shall thereupon be entitled to all the benefits accruing to owners of lands or other property taken by the public for public use, under the laws of eminent domain. The ordinance shall also set a date, not later than twenty-five years after the passage of the ordinance, on which the municipality shall widen the street to the line established. Between the time of the passage of the ordinance and the time fixed for widening the street, the owners of the land over which the municipality has acquired the servitude may make any use of the land not inconsistent with the right of the municipality under its servitude, or inconsistent with the provisions of this Sub-part, including the right to maintain upon the land any building, structure, or appurtenances existing thereon at the time of the passage of the ordinance.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3724. Determination of damages to landowners; prescriptions; measure of damages

RS 33:3724 - Determination of damages to landowners; prescriptions; measure of damages
The municipality may determine the damages to the owners of the lands under the law of eminent domain. The owners of the land may likewise institute in any court of competent jurisdiction their actions to have assessed the damages sustained by them. No action shall be brought by any owner of property affected by the ordinance for damages by reason of the taking of the servitude, unless the action has been brought within twelve months of the final passage of the ordinance establishing the line. This prescription shall not apply to any person under disability whose right to bring action is regulated or governed by any other law of Louisiana.
The measure of damage for the taking of the servitude under the ordinance shall be the difference between the value of the land at the time of the taking, without the servitude, and the value of the land at the time of the taking, subject to the servitude of the municipality. Nothing herein contained shall give any municipality any right, title, or interest to any building or improvement now existing on any land over which the municipality acquires a servitude or to the use or possession of any land within the line so established until the actual acquisition of the land as hereinafter provided.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3725. Acquisition of land for street widening

RS 33:3725 - Acquisition of land for street widening
At the end of the period designated in the ordinance the municipality shall proceed to widen the street named therein, and to that end shall acquire by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, the land necessary for the widening, and the owner shall be entitled to such damages as he may be entitled to under the law, where private property is taken for public use.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3726. Recovery of damages not arising from servitude

RS 33:3726 - Recovery of damages not arising from servitude
If, between the time of the passage of the ordinance and the widening of the street, the owners of land abutting the building line are damaged by the passage of the ordinance in any manner other than by taking of the servitude in the land, each shall have a right of action against the municipality for any damages; provided, however, that the action shall be brought within one year from the time it accrues, except that persons under legal disability may bring the action within such time as may be provided by law.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3741. Exchanging public property for other property for public purposes

RS 33:3741 - Exchanging public property for other property for public purposes
The governing authority of any municipality may, by ordinance, unless otherwise specifically prohibited or restricted by existing law, exchange any public property owned by said municipality, except municipally owned cemeteries, including streets or parts of streets, with property owners for any public purpose. The properties to be exchanged must be appraised by competent appraisers and shall be of approximately equal value. The governing body, however, may pay or receive any difference in value in cash. All contracts of exchange made under the provisions of this Section shall be in notarial form and by ordinance dedicating the property to a specific use.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 301, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3742. Damages resulting from change of grade of streets

RS 33:3742 - Damages resulting from change of grade of streets
In suits against municipalities for damages resulting from the change or alteration of the grade of streets or the disturbance of the natural contour of the ground, the damages to be paid to the owners of abutting property shall be determined after deduction has been made of all special benefits and the enhancement in value of the particular property so damaged by the performance of the public work.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3743. Curtailing width of street

RS 33:3743 - Curtailing width of street
Municipalities having a population less than seventy-five thousand and more than twenty-five thousand may curtail the width of any street or alley and sell the part not needed or exchange it for other ground to be used for street purposes as an equivalent for the strip of street not needed, provided that prior to the exchange a majority of the property taxpayers in the municipality voting at an election to be called for that purpose, approve the proposed sale or exchange.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3746. Prescription of claims, liens and privileges for local or special assessments for paving and sewerage improvements; reinscription

RS 33:3746 - Prescription of claims, liens and privileges for local or special assessments for paving and sewerage improvements; reinscription
A. Claims, liens, and privileges resulting from the levying of local or special assessments by any parish, municipality, sewerage district, or other special taxing district to cover the cost of constructing, paving, surfacing, resurfacing, or otherwise improving streets, roads, sidewalks, and alleys or the cost of the construction, installation, or maintenance of sewerage systems shall prescribe three years after the date on which the final installment or deferred payment of said local or special assessment becomes due and payable under the terms of the ordinance or resolution levying the assessment, provided that no acceleration of the due or payment date of any such installment or deferred payment as a result of default in payment thereof shall change the prescription date herein established and existing on the date of recordation in the mortgage records of said ordinance or resolution creating the levy.
B. In all cases where the cost of the paving has been advanced by any parish, municipality or other special taxing district, to be refunded in annual installments, the claims, liens, and privileges shall prescribe in the same manner as taxes, tax liens, and privileges.
C. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section, or of other law, to the contrary, upon written request of the executive officer of a municipality or the governing body of a parish or special taxing district, the clerk of court of the parish in which the municipality, parish, or special taxing district is located shall reinscribe and re-record ordinances levying local or special assessments. Upon reinscription, prescription on a claim for payment of local or special assessments shall be interrupted and the lien and privilege securing the claim shall be continued. In order to interrupt prescription and continue the lien and privilege, the ordinance shall be reinscribed prior to the expiration of the prescriptive period. Reinscription shall continue the claim, lien, and privilege for a period of ten years from the date of reinscription.
Amended by Acts 1954, No. 204, §1; Acts 1975, No. 709, §1; Acts 1982, No. 521, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3747. Written notice to non-resident and resident property owners prior to enactment of ordinances levying local or special assessments on property for improvements to streets, alleys, sidewalks, curbing or any part of them; invalidity of assessments made without such notice

RS 33:3747 - Written notice to non-resident and resident property owners prior to enactment of ordinances levying local or special assessments on property for improvements to streets, alleys, sidewalks, curbing or any part of them; invalidity of assessments made without such notice
Any municipality, incorporated parish seat, parish, or other governing authority shall, prior to the enactment of any ordinance levying a special or local assessment on property for improvements to streets, alleys, sidewalks, curbing or any part of them, whether said improvement be to construct, pave, surface, resurface or repair or otherwise to effect improvements thereto, and whether said improvements be initiated by petition of the property owners abutting said contemplated improvements or be initiated by such governing authority, give 30 days written notice to each nonresident and resident owner of property upon which such special or local assessment is contemplated to be levied. This notice shall contain a general description of the improvement, the location thereof, the estimated amount of the proposed assessment, and the terms of paying therefor. The notice shall be given by depositing said written notice in the United States mail, postage paid, and addressed to the nonresident and resident property owner at the address as it appears on the last approved tax roll on the property contemplated to be assessed. No special or local assessment shall be valid against property owned by nonresidents and residents or against such nonresidents and residents with respect to whom the provisions of this section are applicable, until thirty days after such time as notice is given as provided for herein. The provisions of this section shall also apply to additional local or special assessments levied pursuant to law where the original assessment produced funds insufficient to pay the principal and interest of the improvement. The word nonresident as used herein shall mean a person, firm, association or corporation domiciled outside the State of Louisiana and whose mailing address on said tax roll is outside the State of Louisiana. The certificate of the clerk or the secretary of the governing authority levying any such special assessments certifying that the foregoing provisions as to notice to nonresidents and residents have been fulfilled, shall establish a conclusive legal presumption that all requirements of this section have been legally satisfied.
Added by Acts 1964, Ex. Sess., No. 5, §1. Amended by Acts 1968, No. 522, §1; Acts 1974, No. 150, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3748. Municipalities in St. Mary Parish; property taxes and charges for drainage works

RS 33:3748 - Municipalities in St. Mary Parish; property taxes and charges for drainage works
A. The governing authority of any municipality within the parish of St. Mary shall have and is hereby vested with full power and authority to:
(1) Levy special taxes on all the property within the municipality for the purpose of maintaining, operating, constructing, and improving the drainage works in the municipality in the manner provided by the constitution and laws of this state after having been authorized to do so at a special election held in accordance with the provisions of the constitution and laws of this state.
(2) Levy and impose a charge for the purpose of maintaining, operating, constructing, and improving drainage works within the municipality, such charge to be imposed on a per acre basis, provided that prior to levying such charge, the governing authority shall give notice of intention by publication of a notice once a week for three consecutive weeks in its official journal, and shall thereafter hold a public hearing on the question of whether the governing authority should levy an acreage charge for the duration and in the amount set forth in the notice of intention. In the event a petition is received in opposition to the levy bearing the signatures of fifty or more adult residents of the municipality, such levy shall not be authorized without the consent of a majority of the electorate voting at an election held in such municipality in accordance with the election laws of this state. Any such charge authorized shall be levied by the governing authority of the municipality against each acre of land within the boundaries of the municipality, and the assessor of St. Mary Parish shall assess each parcel of property within the municipality and shall prepare an assessment roll in triplicate and shall provide a copy to the clerk of court and a copy to the tax collector of the parish and one copy to the governing authority of the municipality. The acreage of each parcel may be determined by land surveying or may be determined by controlled aerial photography and computer digitalization, performed in accordance with the United States National Map Accuracy Standards for photography at a scale of one inch to one hundred feet. The charge shall be due and payable annually at the same time as property taxes.
B. All laws providing for, regulating, and governing the collection of state and local taxes and the creation of tax liens, penalties, methods, and procedures for sales for delinquent taxes shall also apply to regulate and govern the collection of the charges authorized to be imposed or levied under the provisions of this Section and the charges shall be collected through the tax collector of the municipality in which may be situated the lands of the municipality at the same time and in the same manner that he collects the state and local taxes.
Acts 1993, No. 793, §1, eff. June 22, 1993.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3811. Division of parishes into waterworks districts

RS 33:3811 - Division of parishes into waterworks districts
Police juries may divide their respective parishes into one or more waterworks districts, with such name or numbers as the police jury may designate. The police jury may repeal any ordinance creating a waterworks district, or may abolish a waterworks district in its entirety or may change or alter the boundaries thereof; provided, however, that neither the existence nor the territorial boundaries of a waterworks district shall be changed in any manner which shall impair any obligations that may have been incurred by the waterworks district during the period of its existence. Before any order is entered in any manner affecting the existence or territorial limits of any waterworks district, the police jury shall
(1) Adopt a preliminary resolution declaring the intention of the police jury to abolish or alter the boundaries and fixing a date for hearing, and
(2) Give notice of the hearing by publication once a week for four consecutive weeks in the official journal of the police jury, the first publication being not less than thirty days before the date fixed for the hearing, and
(3) Hold a hearing thereon.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3811.1. Authority of Lafourche Parish Police Jury to expand powers of Lafourche water district

RS 33:3811.1 - Authority of Lafourche Parish Police Jury to expand powers of Lafourche water district
In addition to the provisions of R.S. 33:3811, the Lafourche Parish Police Jury may authorize the Lafourche water district to do and perform all acts in its corporate capacity and in its corporate name which are necessary and proper for the purpose of constructing and maintaining sewers and sewerage disposal works within its territorial limits.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 440, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3811.2. Authority of Calcasieu Parish Police Jury to expand powers of waterworks districts

RS 33:3811.2 - Authority of Calcasieu Parish Police Jury to expand powers of waterworks districts
In addition to the powers granted by R.S. 33:3811, the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury may create waterworks subdistricts within the boundaries of existing or future waterworks districts. These subdistricts shall be governed by the same board of commissioners that govern the waterworks district in which the subdistrict is located. The formation of these subdistricts shall not impair any obligations that may have been incurred by the waterworks district during the period of its existence.
Acts 2009, No. 350, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3813.1. Assumption Parish Waterworks District No. 1; waterworks commissioners; appointment; terms

RS 33:3813.1 - Assumption Parish Waterworks District No. 1; waterworks commissioners; appointment; terms
Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:3812 or R.S. 33:3813, the membership of the Assumption Parish Waterworks District No. 1 shall be composed of eleven members, nine to be appointed by the parish governing authority, one from each police jury ward, and two to be appointed by the governing authority of the municipality included in the district. Terms of the initial members shall be determined by the respective appointing authority, and thereafter all members shall serve at the pleasure of the respective appointing authority. Members in office on the effective date of this Act shall continue to serve until their successors are appointed and qualified. Except to the extent of any conflict with the provisions of this Section, the provisions of this Chapter shall apply to all members of the district and their successors.
Acts 1985, No. 681, §1, eff. July 16, 1985.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3813.3. N.E.W. Carroll Water District

RS 33:3813.3 - N.E.W. Carroll Water District
A. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:3812, the governing authorities of the parishes of East Carroll and West Carroll may create and provide, by resolution duly adopted by each governing authority, the N.E.W. Carroll Water District, hereinafter referred to as the "district". The district shall be comprised of the following territory in the parishes of East Carroll and West Carroll:
(1) An area bound on the North by the Arkansas-Louisiana State Line and on the West by Boeuf River and on the South by the following roads: Beginning at the intersection of Highway 585 and Allen Road extension continue East to the intersection of Allen Road and Highway 586, following Highway 586 East to the intersection of Highway 586 and Old Kilbourne Road North, then South on Old Kilbourne Road North to Oak Grove city limits, then East on Percy Martin Road to the intersection of Percy Martin Road and Highway 17 North, then North on Highway 17 to the intersection of Highway 17 and Stanford Road, then East on Stanford Road to the intersection of Philley Lane and Stanford Road, then South on Philley Lane to the intersection of Highway 2 and Philley Lane, then East on Highway 2 to the Bayou Macon River.
(2) An area bound on the North by the Arkansas-Louisiana State Line and on the West by the Bayou Macon River, on the South by the Schrock Road and on the East by the Bayou Macon Wildlife Area.
(3) An additional area bound on the East by the Mississippi River Levee and the South boundary being the community of Shelburn.
(4) The village of Kilbourne, including all of the area within the city limits of Kilbourne.
B.(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:3812, the district shall be governed by a seven-member board of commissioners. The board of commissioners shall be appointed by the governing authorities of the parishes of East Carroll and West Carroll, with the governing authorities appointing a majority of the seven-member board from residents of the parish of West Carroll.
(2) The term of each initial appointee to the board of commissioners and any subsequent appointee shall be for three years. The members of the board of commissioners shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing governing authority.
Acts 1995, No. 71, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3814. Petition for waterworks district

RS 33:3814 - Petition for waterworks district
Police juries shall form a waterworks district when petitioned to do so in writing by not less than twenty-five persons owning and assessed for lands in the district. Corporations may sign the petition only if they are domiciled in the district. The petitions shall set forth substantially the boundaries of the district and the names of the persons to be appointed by the police jury as the commissioners of the district. If the district includes one or more municipalities the petition may set forth the names of the persons to be appointed by the governing authority of said municipality or municipalities as commissioners of the district.
Amended by Acts 1964, Ex.Sess., No. 26, §3.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3815. Powers of waterworks districts

RS 33:3815 - Powers of waterworks districts
A. Any waterworks district thus created and named or numbered by a police jury shall constitute a body corporate in law, with all the powers of a corporation, and all powers necessary for it to carry out the objects for which it was created. The waterworks district may expropriate property for any purpose that it may find necessary in the operation of its waterworks system, and may acquire by donation or purchase any existing waterworks system in the district. Waterworks districts may dig and excavate the roads, streets, sidewalks, and alleys in the district for the purpose of laying pipeline or water mains. It may acquire any and all machinery necessary for the purpose of affecting the object for which it is formed and shall own all sites which are acquired either by donation, purchase, expropriation, exchange, or otherwise in full ownership.
B. Waterworks districts may cooperate with other waterworks districts within their respective parishes, or with private individuals, associations, corporations, or municipalities.
C. This Section shall not apply to any waterworks district created under Title 33 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 which owns property in an adjoining parish or parishes, except St. Tammany, Livingston, Washington, and Tangipahoa Parishes.
Acts 1991, No. 386, §1, eff. July 8, 1991.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3815.1. Additional powers of the Lafourche water district

RS 33:3815.1 - Additional powers of the Lafourche water district
Upon authorization by the Lafourche Parish Police Jury as provided in R.S. 33:3811.1, and in addition to the powers granted to the district in R.S. 33:3815, the Lafourche water district may expropriate property for any purpose that it may find necessary in the operation of its sewerage system, and may acquire by donation, purchase, or expropriation any existing system in the district. It may dig and excavate the roads, streets, sidewalks and alleys in the district for the purpose of laying and installing sewers and sewerage disposal works.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 440, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3815.3. Raw water intake regulations

RS 33:3815.3 - Raw water intake regulations
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to abandon any vessel or object of any kind in the restricted area surrounding a raw water intake facility for any public water purification system or other public facility producing potable water supplies.
B. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, including but not limited to Civil Code Article 456, the various waterworks districts or local political subdivisions with water intake facilities within their territorial limits may regulate, restrict, or prohibit the use of the banks, batture, or shoreline of any water body, within such restricted area.
C. "Restricted area", as used in this Section, means that area of the bank, batture, or shoreline within a reasonable distance of not greater than five hundred feet on a river, stream, or bayou, or not greater than three hundred feet on a lake or reservoir from a raw water intake facility, as determined by the waterworks district or local political subdivision having jurisdiction over such water intake facility, to adequately protect the raw water intake facility and the potable water supply from physical damage, pollutants, or other circumstances which would endanger public health, safety, or welfare.
D. The waterworks district or local political subdivision shall clearly mark each such restricted area protecting a water intake facility with signs or other markings on the bank designating the limits of the restricted area. Such signs or markings shall be of a size or nature so as to be clearly visible and readable to adequately warn persons approaching the restricted area.
E. Any person who violates the provisions of this Section or any ordinance adopted pursuant hereto shall be subject to a fine of five hundred dollars or imprisonment not to exceed six months or both. Each day of continuing violation constitutes a separate offense.
F. Nothing in this Section shall apply to:
(1) Seagoing vessels anchored or moored in federally established anchorages.
(2) Docks and other facilities located in a restricted area on the Mississippi River on July 16, 1991, or on other water bodies on July 1, 2010.
Acts 1991, No. 601, §1, eff. July 16, 1991; Acts 2010, No. 312, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3815.4. Waterworks District Number Three of Beauregard Parish; authorization to sell certain waterlines

RS 33:3815.4 - Waterworks District Number Three of Beauregard Parish; authorization to sell certain waterlines
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, specifically the provisions of R.S. 33:4341, the board of commissioners for Waterworks District Number Three of Beauregard Parish is authorized to sell and transfer, without voter approval, certain designated waterlines owned by the district for such price and pursuant to such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between both parties.
Acts 1992, No. 724, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3815.5. Waterworks District No. 3 of Rapides Parish; authority to acquire privately owned system in Grant Parish

RS 33:3815.5 - Waterworks District No. 3 of Rapides Parish; authority to acquire privately owned system in Grant Parish
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, Waterworks District No. 3 of Rapides Parish may acquire, by donation, one privately owned water system located in Grant Parish for the purpose of supplying water services to the residents of the parishes of Grant and Rapides. The district may acquire all property or facilities owned by any such system and may acquire all machinery deemed necessary by the district to maintain and operate the system. The district shall own in full ownership all property or facilities acquired pursuant to the provisions of this Subsection, and all such property or facilities shall be considered publicly owned by the district.
B. The district shall not acquire any water system pursuant to the provisions of Subsection A of this Section until the governing authorities of the district and the parish of Grant enter into an inter-governmental agreement that provides for the operation and maintenance of the system, including any expansion of the system's water lines, and requires the district to provide water services to the residents of the parish of Grant.
C. The provisions of this Section shall not be construed as to void the provisions of any inter-governmental agreement between the parishes of Grant and Rapides in effect prior to the effective date of this Section, and the district may continue to supply water services to the residents of the parishes of Grant and Rapides pursuant to any inter-governmental agreement between the district and the parishes of Grant and Rapides in effect prior to the effective date of this Section for as long as the agreement remains in effect.
Acts 2014, No. 626, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3816. Domicile of waterworks district

RS 33:3816 - Domicile of waterworks district
The police jury shall designate the corporate domicile of the district at some place within the district, at which domicile it shall be sued and service of citation made on the president, and in his absence, upon the vice-president, and in their absence, upon the secretary, who also may be the treasurer.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3817. Officers of board of commissioners of district; fiscal agent

RS 33:3817 - Officers of board of commissioners of district; fiscal agent
A. The police jury shall designate a time and place within the waterworks district for the commissioners to meet. The commissioners must meet within sixty days after the date of their appointment and elect officers as follows:
(1) They shall elect from among their number a president and a vice president. The president shall preside over the meetings of the board and perform other duties usually required of presidents of corporate bodies. The vice president shall act in the absence of the president.
(2) They shall elect as secretary a person assessed with property in his name or in the name of his wife to the amount of at least five hundred dollars. The secretary shall furnish a bond in a sum equal to the amount of taxes collected in the district and the amount of funds otherwise held by or collected by him during any one year. The premium on his bond shall be paid by the waterworks district.
B. The waterworks commissioners may, in their discretion, employ a president and a secretary on either a part-time or full-time basis and shall fix the salary of such positions, which shall not exceed three thousand six hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly. The president and secretary shall perform all of the duties required of them by the board of commissioners of the waterworks district. The secretary also may be treasurer.
(C)(1)(a) The board of commissioners of the water district shall, at the time of their organization, select one of the solvent chartered banks within the parish where the district is organized in which all of the money of the district shall be deposited.
(b) On the first Monday in June of any year in which the term of a fiscal agent expires, the board of commissioners shall elect a fiscal agent for a term of no more than three years.
(c) The board shall advertise its intent to select a fiscal agent at least fifteen days prior to the election in a newspaper published in the district, and if there is not a newspaper published within the district, then in the official journal of the parish where the district is located; however, the board of commissioners may renew the election of a fiscal agent for one additional term without such advertisement.
(d) Any funds received by the Lafourche water district from or for its sewerage system shall be maintained within the same or a separate account, as directed by the Lafourche Parish Police Jury.
(2) Any violation of this Subsection shall be sufficient grounds for the summary removal of the president and secretary of the board.
Amended by Acts 1952, No. 124, §1; Acts 1960, No. 418, §1; Acts 1974, No. 440, §1; Acts 1990, No. 751, §1; Acts 2003, No. 1100, §1, eff. July 1, 2003; Acts 2013, No. 11, §1, eff. June 2, 2014.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:3818. Powers of board of commissioners

RS 33:3818 - Powers of board of commissioners
A. The board of commissioners of the waterworks district shall have absolute control and authority over the waterworks in the district and shall adopt by-laws, rules and regulations for the proper conduct and operation of a waterworks system in their district. The board may employ the necessary labor for directing and installing a waterworks system in their district and may employ the services of an attorney when necessary and fix his fees or his salary.
B. The board may effect improvement in the water system and for this purpose enter into contracts for the performance of work or the purchase of machinery. The board itself may supervise work under its contracts, or may delegate the supervision to a licensed engineer who shall be a citizen of Louisiana.
C. Out of the funds deposited with the board by purchasers of water service as security to protect the board from loss by reason of extending water service to such purchasers, the board may make purchases of additional new water meters or water meters to replace those already in use; provided, however, that at least ten per cent of the total amount of such funds on deposit with the board at any one time shall be maintained in a cash reserve which shall not be used or encumbered for the purchase of water meters.
Amended by Acts 1962, No. 324, §1.