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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2870. Rules and regulations

RS 38:2870 - Rules and regulations
A. In order to accomplish the purposes of the district, to protect the works, improvements, and property of the district, both real and personal; 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 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 as follows:
(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, or fences, or other works in, along, or across any channel, reservoir, or other construction of the district.
(3) To prescribe the manner in which 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 or 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) To establish rules and regulations and cause them to be enforced with regard to activities engaged in upon any public water body in the district which are not regulated by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission or the United States Army Corp of Engineers.
(7) To manage and control surface and groundwater levels in the district. Any rule or regulation pertaining to the management and control of groundwater levels in the district shall be subject to approval by the Groundwater Resources Commission.
B. Any person who violates the rules and regulations established and promulgated by the board of commissioners pursuant to this Section shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for more than sixty days, or both. Each day of violation shall constitute a separate offense.
Added by Acts 1966, No. 299, §10; Acts 1993, No. 830, §2; Acts 2004, No. 390, §1; Acts 2005, No. 81, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2872. Contracts of the district

RS 38:2872 - Contracts of the district
Contracts of the district shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 10 of this Title, relative to public contracts (R.S. 38:2181 et seq.).
Added by Acts 1966, No. 299, §12; Acts 2005, No. 81, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2873. Playgrounds, parks and other facilities; limitation

RS 38:2873 - 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 said lake, as may within the opinion of the said board become necessary, and said district shall have the right of eminent domain and expropriation in the exercise of such powers.
Added by Acts 1966, No. 299, §13.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2874. Management of fish; commercial establishments

RS 38:2874 - Management of fish; commercial establishments
A. The Wildlife and Fisheries Commission may regulate, restrict, or prohibit the recreational or commercial use of hoop nets, gill nets, trammel nets, strike nets, seines, wire nets, slat traps, and wire traps on Lake Claiborne.
B.(1) The board of commissioners of the Claiborne Parish Watershed District shall have authority 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 said lake or its watershed; 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 said lake, or to refuse to license or permit any commercial establishment to use the facilities provided by said lake.
(2) The rules and regulations established and promulgated by the board of commissioners of the Claiborne Parish Watershed District shall provide penalties for any such commercial establishment operating without a permit or license, and such rules and regulations shall be enforced by the sheriff and violations thereof prosecuted by the district attorney of the judicial district within which the watershed district is situated, as hereinabove provided.
Added by Acts 1966, No. 299, §14; Acts 1993, No. 830, §2; Acts 2004, No. 541, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2875. Management of improvements

RS 38:2875 - Management of improvements
The board of commissioners shall have the right to regulate the construction and use of all piers, docks, bridges and other improvements built or erected on any part of the district to be inundated by Lake Claiborne and shall further have the right to regulate and control the erection of any improvements of any kind whatever within one mile from the 185.0 foot contour shoreline of Lake Claiborne. The board of commissioners shall have the authority and power to regulate said improvements by the issuance of permits for same and fix a fee for the issuance of same.
The board of commissioners is authorized to charge an annual fee for the permit to maintain improvements on or within one mile of the shores of Lake Claiborne.
Added by Acts 1966, No. 299, §15.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2876. Property exempt from taxation

RS 38:2876 - Property exempt from taxation
The lands which lie within and form the Lake Claiborne proper shall not be subject to any ad valorem taxation or any other tax of any nature whatsoever by either the State of Louisiana or any of its political subdivisions, for so long as the said lands shall form and lie within the lake proper. All property acquired, however, regardless of the manner in which it is acquired or the source from which it is acquired, shall thereafter become the property of the State of Louisiana for the use and benefit of the Claiborne Parish Watershed District.
Added by Acts 1966, No. 299, §16.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2877. Grant of state lands to district; right of mineral leases unabridged

RS 38:2877 - Grant of state lands to district; right of mineral leases unabridged
All lands purchased by the State Bond and Building Commission for the State of Louisiana, which are enclosed in the said area and which are necessary to the erection and maintenance of said Lake Claiborne are hereby granted to the Lake Claiborne Watershed District, as provided in R.S. 38:2864, for the purposes herein set out, but this grant shall in no wise abridge the right of the state to lease the said land for the production of oil, gas and other minerals under the general laws of the state as now provided.
Added by Acts 1966, No. 299, §17.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2878. Individual mineral leases unabridged

RS 38:2878 - Individual mineral leases unabridged
The provisions of this Part shall in no wise abridge the right of any individual from whom the flowage rights, rights of way and servitudes may have been acquired by any means however to lease said lands for the production of oil, gas and other minerals and the right of such lessee or his assignee to produce or cause to be produced oil, gas or other minerals therefrom.
Added by Acts 1966, No. 299, §18.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2901. District as agency of the state and budgetary unit; purpose

RS 38:2901 - District as agency of the state and budgetary unit; purpose
The Jackson Parish Watershed District so created shall be a political subdivision of the State of Louisiana, shall constitute a waterworks district under the provisions of Article XIV, Section 14 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana for the year 1921, as amended, and shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities hereinafter set forth. Additionally, the district shall be an agency of the State of Louisiana and a budgetary unit thereof which shall have for its purpose the conservation of soil and water, developing the natural resources and wealth of the district for sanitary, agricultural, industrial and recreational purposes, as the same may be conducive to the public health, safety, convenience or welfare or of public utility or benefit of the citizens of the State of Louisiana. The creation and maintenance of a lake within the said district shall be for the purpose of conserving the soil and water and developing the natural resources and wealth of the district for sanitary, agricultural, industrial and recreational purposes, as the same may be conducive to the public health and public utility and benefit of the citizens of the State of Louisiana.
Added by Acts 1968, No. 589, §1. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 316, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2902. Powers

RS 38:2902 - Powers
The Jackson Parish Watershed District shall constitute a body corporate in law with all the powers, rights, privileges and immunities of a public corporation, with power to sue and be sued, to incur debt and contract obligations in accordance with law, have a corporate seal and do and perform all acts in its corporate capacity and in its corporate name which are necessary and proper for carrying out the purposes and objects for which it is created. It shall have the power of eminent domain and may expropriate property for all its purposes and objectives. Through its governing authority, the district may conserve the fresh water supply within its boundaries for the benefit of the inhabitants and property owners within said district and state, to provide water for commercial, municipal and any other uses, both within and without the district. It may, acting through its own governing authority or through the department of public works, construct, lease, maintain, acquire, enlarge and operate any machinery or do any other thing necessary for the use and purpose of the district. It may own in full ownership all servitudes, rights of way, flowage rights and may acquire same by donation, prescription, purchase, expropriation, or otherwise. 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 gifts, 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 said state, for the construction, operation and maintenance of such facilities designed to accomplish the purposes for which the district is created on any basis, including the matching of funds and by participating in projects authorized by the federal or state law as it shall see fit.
Added by Acts 1968, No. 589, §1. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 316, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2903. Board of commissioners created

RS 38:2903 - Board of commissioners created
The Board of Commissioners of the Jackson Parish Watershed District, within its powers and duties as defined herein, is hereby created and established as the governing board of the Jackson Parish Watershed District.
Added by Acts 1968, No. 589, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2904. Board to govern; membership; tenure; vacancies; compensation

RS 38:2904 - Board to govern; membership; tenure; vacancies; compensation
The said district shall be governed and controlled by the Board of Commissioners of the Jackson Parish Watershed District, to be composed of seven commissioners, each of whom shall be a qualified elector of the state of Louisiana who resides within the limits of Jackson Parish. The commissioners shall be appointed by the Jackson Parish Police Jury and shall serve terms of four years and until their successors have been appointed and have qualified; except that one of the initial appointments shall be for a term of one year, two shall be for a term of two years, two shall be for a term of three years, and two shall be for a term of four years. Any vacancy in the office of commissioner, due to death, resignation or any other cause shall be filled by an appointment of the Jackson Parish Police Jury.
The members of the board shall receive no compensation for their services, but may be reimbursed for expenses actually incurred in the performance of official duties.
Added by Acts 1968, No. 589, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2905. Oaths

RS 38:2905 - Oaths
Before entering upon his official duties, each commissioner of the district created hereby shall take and subscribe to an oath before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths, that he will honestly, faithfully and impartially perform the duties devolving upon him as a commissioner of said district and that he will not neglect any of the duties imposed upon him hereby. The oaths of the commissioner shall be recorded in the oath book of Jackson Parish.
Added by Acts 1968, No. 589, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2906. Election of officers; record book, public inspection

RS 38:2906 - Election of officers; record book, public inspection
Immediately after the commissioners have been appointed by the Jackson Parish Police Jury, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the commissioners shall meet and immediately organize by electing officers as follows: They shall elect from among their number a president, who shall preside over the meetings of the board and perform such other duties as are usually required of presidents of corporate bodies, and also a vice president, who shall perform the duties of the president in case of his absence or disability.
The board shall cause to be kept a well-bound book entitled "Record Book of Jackson Parish Watershed District," in which shall be recorded the minutes of all meetings, all proceedings, certificates, oaths of commissioners, bonds of employees and contractors, and any and all corporate acts. The records shall be in the possession of the secretary of the board and shall be open to public inspection at all times by any person interested.
Added by Acts 1968, No. 589, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2908. Rules and regulations

RS 38:2908 - Rules and regulations
In order to accomplish the purposes of the district, to protect the works, improvements and property of the district, both real and personal; 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 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, or fences, or other works in, along or across any channel, reservoir or other construction of the district;
(3) To prescribe the manner in which 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 or 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.
Added by Acts 1968, No. 589, §1; Acts 1993, No. 830, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2910. Contracts, let by board; bond

RS 38:2910 - Contracts, let by board; bond
Any and all contracts of the district may be let by the board of commissioners, with advertisement, on the terms and subject to the conditions which it may fix in the ordinance or advertisement calling for bids. The person or firm to whom any contract is awarded shall furnish, within the delay fixed by the board, a bond of a surety company authorized to do business in the State of Louisiana, in the amount required by the laws relating to contracts for public works, and conditioned that the work shall be performed in accordance with the plans and specifications of the engineers, and the terms of the contract, and the board shall demand any other bonds and obligations which the laws relating to public works contracts required the contractor to give.
Added by Acts 1968, No. 589, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2911. Playgrounds, parks and other facilities; limitation

RS 38:2911 - 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.
Added by Acts 1968, No. 589, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2912. Management of fish, game, and wildlife

RS 38:2912 - Management of fish, game, and wildlife
A, B, C. REPEALED BY ACTS 1993, NO. 830, §2.
D. The board of commissioners shall have authority 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 lake or its watershed; 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, and the rules and regulations shall be enforced by the sheriff and violations thereof prosecuted by the district attorney of the judicial district within which the watershed district is situated, as hereinabove provided.
Added by Acts 1968, No. 589, §1; Acts 1993, No. 830, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2913. Management of improvements

RS 38:2913 - Management of improvements
The board of commissioners shall have the right to regulate the construction and use of all piers, docks, bridges and other improvements built or erected on any part of the district to be inundated by the proposed lake and shall further have the right to regulate and control the erection of any improvements of any kind whatever within one mile from the 185.0 foot contour shoreline of the proposed lake. The board of commissioners shall have the authority and power to regulate the improvements by the issuance of permits for same and fix a fee for the issuance thereof.
The board of commissioners is authorized to charge an annual fee for the permit to maintain improvements on or within one mile of the shores of the proposed lake.
Added by Acts 1968, No. 589, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2914. Property exempt from taxation

RS 38:2914 - Property exempt from taxation
The lands which lie within and form the proposed lake proper shall not be subject to any ad valorem taxation or any other tax of any nature whatsoever by either the state of Louisiana or any of its political subdivisions, for so long as the said lands shall form and lie within the lake proper. All property acquired, however, regardless of the manner in which it is acquired or the source from which it is acquired, shall thereafter become the property of the State of Louisiana for the use and benefit of the Jackson Parish Watershed District.
Added by Acts 1968, No. 589, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:2915. Individual mineral leases unabridged

RS 38:2915 - Individual mineral leases unabridged
The provisions of this Chapter shall in no wise abridge the right of any individual from whom the flowage rights, rights of way and servitudes may have been acquired by any means however to lease the lands for the production of oil, gas and other minerals and the right of such lessee or his assignee to produce or cause to be produced oil, gas or other minerals therefrom.
Added by Acts 1968, No. 589, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3000. Creation; location

RS 38:3000 - Creation; location
The Jackson-Bienville Parishes Watershed District is hereby created out of the watershed of Dugdemona Bayou located in Jackson and Bienville parishes.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 600, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3001. District as agency of the state and budgetary unit; purpose

RS 38:3001 - District as agency of the state and budgetary unit; purpose
The Jackson-Bienville Parishes Dugdemona Watershed District shall be an agency of the State of Louisiana and a budgetary unit thereof, which shall have as its purpose the conservation of soil and water, developing the natural resources and wealth of the district for sanitary, agricultural, industrial and recreational purposes, as the same may be conducive to the public health, safety, convenience or welfare or of public utility or benefit of the citizens of the State of Louisiana. The creation and maintenance of a lake within the said district shall be for the purpose of conserving the soil and water and developing the natural resources and wealth of the district for sanitary, agricultural, industrial and recreational purposes, as the same may be conducive to the public health and public utility and benefit of the citizens of the State of Louisiana.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 600, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3002. Powers

RS 38:3002 - Powers
The Jackson-Bienville Parishes Dugdemona Watershed District shall constitute a body corporate in law, with all the powers of a corporation, and with all the powers and rights of a political subdivision of the state as provided by the laws of the state relating to the incurring of debt and the issuing of bonds therefor. This district, through its board of commissioners, may incur debt and issue negotiable bonds in accordance with the power and authority and in the form and manner, and with the effect and security now or hereafter provided by the constitution of the State of Louisiana. This district, through its board of commissioners, may incur debt and contract obligations in accordance with law, sue and be sued, have a corporate seal, and perform any and all acts in its corporate capacity and in its corporate name which are necessary and proper for carrying out the purposes and objects for which it is created. It shall have the power of eminent domain and may expropriate property for all its purposes and objectives. Through its governing authority, the district may conserve the fresh water supply within its boundaries for the benefit of the inhabitants and property owners within said district and state, to provide water for commercial, municipal and any other uses, both within and without the district. It may through the department of public works, construct, lease, maintain, acquire, enlarge and operate any machinery or do any other thing necessary for the use and purpose of the district. It may own in full ownership all servitudes, rights of way, flowage rights and may acquire same by donation, prescription, purchase, expropriation, or otherwise.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 600, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3003. Board of commissioners created

RS 38:3003 - Board of commissioners created
The Board of Commissioners of the Jackson-Bienville Parishes Dugdemona Watershed District, within its powers and duties as defined herein, is hereby created and established as the governing board of the Jackson-Bienville Parishes Watershed District.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 600, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3004. Board to govern; membership; tenure; vacancies; compensation

RS 38:3004 - Board to govern; membership; tenure; vacancies; compensation
The said district shall be governed and controlled by the Board of Commissioners of the Jackson-Bienville Parishes Dugdemona Watershed District, to be composed of seven commissioners, each of whom shall be a qualified elector of the State of Louisiana who resides within the limits of Wards 2 and 3 of Jackson Parish or of Wards 1 and 6 of Bienville Parish. Four of the commissioners shall be appointed by the Jackson Parish Police Jury. Three of the commissioners shall be appointed by the Bienville Parish Police Jury. All commissioners shall serve terms of four years and until their successors have been appointed and have qualified; except that one of the initial appointments made by each police jury shall be for a term of one year, two made by the Jackson Parish Police Jury shall be for a term of two years, one made by the Jackson Parish Police Jury shall be for a term of three years, and two made by the Bienville Parish Police Jury shall be for a term of four years. Any vacancy in the office of commissioner, due to death, resignation or any other cause shall be filled by an appointment made in the same manner.
The members of the board shall receive no compensation for their services, but may be reimbursed for expenses actually incurred in the performance of official duties.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 600, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3005. Oaths

RS 38:3005 - Oaths
Before entering upon his official duties, each commissioner of the district created hereby shall take and subscribe to an oath before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths, that he will honestly, faithfully and impartially perform the duties devolving upon him as a commissioner of said district and that he will not neglect any of the duties imposed upon him hereby. The oaths of the commissioner shall be recorded in the oath book of Jackson Parish and Bienville Parish.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 600, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3006. Election of officers; record book, public inspection

RS 38:3006 - Election of officers; record book, public inspection
Immediately after the commissioners have been appointed, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the commissioners shall meet and immediately organize by electing officers as follows: They shall elect from among their number a president, who shall preside over the meetings of the board and perform such other duties as are usually required of presidents of corporate bodies, and also a vice-president, who shall perform the duties of the president in case of his absence or disability.
The board shall cause to be kept a well-bound book entitled "Record Book of Jackson-Bienville Parishes Dugdemona Watershed District," in which shall be recorded the minutes of all meetings, all proceedings, certificates, oaths of commissioners, bonds of employees and contractors, and any and all corporate acts. The records shall be in the possession of the secretary of the board and shall be open to public inspection at all times by any person interested.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 600, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3008. Rules and regulations

RS 38:3008 - Rules and regulations
In order to accomplish the purposes of the district, to protect the works, improvements and property of the district, both real and personal; 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 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, or fences, or other works in, along or across any channel, reservoir or other construction of the district;
(3) To prescribe the manner in which 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 or 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) REPEALED BY ACTS 1993, NO. 830, §2.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 600, §1; Acts 1993, No. 830, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3010. Contracts, let by board; bond

RS 38:3010 - Contracts, let by board; bond
Any and all contracts of the district may be let by the board of commissioners, with advertisement, on the terms and subject to the conditions which it may fix in the ordinance or advertisement calling for bids. The person or firm to whom any contract is awarded shall furnish, within the delay fixed by the board, a bond of a surety company authorized to do business in the State of Louisiana, in the amount required by the laws relating to contracts for public works, and conditioned that the work shall be performed in accordance with the plans and specifications of the engineers, and the terms of the contract, and the board shall demand any other bonds and obligations which the laws relating to public works contracts require the contractor to give.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 600, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3011. Playgrounds, parks and other facilities; limitation

RS 38:3011 - 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.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 600, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3012. Management of fish, game, and wildlife

RS 38:3012 - Management of fish, game, and wildlife
A, B, C. REPEALED BY ACTS 1993, NO. 830, §2.
D. The board of commissioners shall have authority 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 lake and its watershed; 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, and the rules and regulations shall be enforced by the sheriff and violations thereof prosecuted by the district attorney of the judicial district within which the watershed district is situated, as hereinabove provided.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 600, §1; Acts 1993, No. 830, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3013. Management of improvements

RS 38:3013 - Management of improvements
The board of commissioners shall have the right to regulate the construction and use of all piers, docks, bridges and other improvements built or erected on any part of the district to be inundated by the proposed lake and shall further have the right to regulate and control the erection of any improvements of any kind whatever within one mile from the 185.0 foot contour shoreline of the proposed lake. The board of commissioners shall have the authority and power to regulate the improvements by the issuance of permits for same and fix a fee for the issuance thereof.
The board of commissioners is authorized to charge an annual fee for the permit to maintain improvements on or within one mile of the shores of the proposed lake.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 600, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3014. Property exempt from taxation

RS 38:3014 - Property exempt from taxation
The lands which lie within and form the proposed lake proper shall not be subject to any ad valorem taxation or any other tax of any nature whatsoever by either the State of Louisiana or any of its political subdivisions, for so long as the said lands shall form and lie within the lake proper. All property acquired, however, regardless of the manner in which it is acquired or the source from which it is acquired, shall thereafter become the property of the State of Louisiana for the use and benefit of the Jackson-Bienville Parishes Dugdemona Watershed District.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 600, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3015. Individual mineral leases unabridged

RS 38:3015 - Individual mineral leases unabridged
The provisions of this Chapter shall in no wise abridge the right of any individual from whom the flowage rights, rights of way and servitudes may have been acquired by any means however to lease the lands for the production of oil, gas and other minerals and the right of such lessee or his assignee to produce or cause to be produced oil, gas or other minerals therefrom.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 600, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3051. District authorized; creating resolution; membership

RS 38:3051 - District authorized; creating resolution; membership
The governing authority of the parish of East Baton Rouge is hereby empowered to create a special conservation district within said parish to be known as "Greater Baton Rouge Water Conservation District" hereinafter sometimes called "district" by the adoption of a creating resolution. Before adoption of creating resolution a notice of intention to create district shall be published three times in the official journal of the parish not less than fifteen days prior to the date set for the holding of a public hearing thereon. Creating resolution shall provide that governing authority of district shall consist of sixteen members subject to the provisions of R.S. 38:3054 hereof and shall be designated and known as "Water Conservation Commission" or "Commission". In the creating resolution the governing authority of the parish of East Baton Rouge shall appoint sixteen persons to serve on the Water Conservation Commission as follows:
One representative selected by the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce
Two representatives selected by the Baton Rouge Water Works Company
One representative selected by Ethyl Corporation
One representative selected by Gulf States Utilities Company
One representative selected by Humble Oil & Refining Company
One representative selected by the Louisiana Conservation Department
One representative selected by the Louisiana Department of Public Works
One representative selected by the Louisiana State Health Department
One independent geologist selected by the parish council
Two city-parish council members selected by the parish council
One East Baton Rouge Parish senator and one state representative selected by the parish council
One representative selected by the AFL-CIO
The Louisiana State Geologist shall serve ex officio as a member of the Commission. The authorizing resolution shall further designate the domicile, first meeting, date, time and place, and shall provide that notice of the creation of such district shall be published one time in the parish official journal. The district, with the Commission acting as its governing authority, shall constitute a subdivision of the State of Louisiana as authorized by the Constitution of Louisiana.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 682, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3052. Powers

RS 38:3052 - Powers
In addition to the powers herein provided, the district, acting through the Commission, shall have the power to study ground water conditions in the greater Baton Rouge area with the view of water conservation, with particular interest on possible effects of salt water encroachment, and to determine ways and means of protecting ground water conditions in all aspects, including depletion, detrimental salt water encroachment, taking into consideration requirements of industry, agriculture and domestic consumption, and to make appropriate recommendations for preventive or remedial action.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 682, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3053. Officers; compensation; meetings; local services agreement

RS 38:3053 - Officers; compensation; meetings; local services agreement
At the first meeting, Commission shall elect from among their members a president, vice-president and secretary. Members of the Commission shall serve without compensation or per diem. Meetings of the Commission shall be conducted in accordance with the public meetings law of Louisiana and in accordance with rules of procedure adopted by Commission. The official minute book and records of the Commission shall be subject to the public records act of Louisiana except that any drilling and production records deemed by the Commission to be of a confidential nature and provide1 District for its lawful purposes shall be exempted from this requirement. The treasurer and director of finance of the parish of East Baton Rouge shall serve as such fiscal officers of the Commission. A local services agreement or agreements under the authority of R.S. 33:1321 et seq. is hereby authorized to be entered into between the district, the parish of East Baton Rouge and the city of Baton Rouge. Such agreement may provide operating funds for purposes of the district. Commission shall incur no liability or obligation that cannot be paid by district from funds lawfully available to it.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 682, §3.
1As it appears in Acts 1970, No. 682 and in the original House Bill No. 1635.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3054. Additional parish

RS 38:3054 - Additional parish
Limits of district may be extended to include one or more additional parishes affected by ground water resources common to East Baton Rouge Parish such additional parish or parishes are hereinafter referred to as "Additional Parish". No additional parish shall be included within district except upon approval thereof by the governing authority of additional parish and commission. Notice shall be given of a public hearing to be conducted by governing authority of additional parish in accordance with the requirements therefor as above required for creation of district hereunder. The action of governing authority approving inclusion of additional parish within district shall provide for appointment of two citizens and residents of additional parish to serve as members of commission.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 682, §4.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3055. Cooperative agreements; information

RS 38:3055 - Cooperative agreements; information
Commission is authorized and empowered to make such inquiries as it may deem necessary for its purpose and may through committees or representatives of commission conduct meetings and enter into cooperative agreements with any agency, or subdivision of the State of Louisiana or the U.S. Government and commission may provide information and obtain information.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 682, §5.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3056. Assistance; advisory subcommittees

RS 38:3056 - Assistance; advisory subcommittees
The director of public works and the parish attorney shall serve in an advisory capacity to the commission, subject to call by the commission. The office of parish clerk shall furnish such clerical assistance as may from time to time be required by the commission. The commission shall be, and is hereby authorized to appoint such advisory subcommittees as may be deemed appropriate for the purpose of working with the commission in the study of various phases of water supply, usage, ground water conditions and special reports of salt water encroachment.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 682, §6.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3057. Technical assistance

RS 38:3057 - Technical assistance
In addition, and subject to the availability of funds, pursuant to a local services agreement between the commission and the parish of East Baton Rouge and the city of Baton Rouge, the commission may employ experts and consultants for such technical assistance as may be required or deemed necessary in order to secure appropriate facts and information and to make recommendations relevant to the preventive or remedial steps which may be required to protect existing ground water levels, the prevention of depletion and effects thereof, with particular emphasis on conditions detrimental to the ground water supply from salt water encroachment.
Added by Acts 1970, No. 682, §7.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3071. Legislative finding; purpose

RS 38:3071 - Legislative finding; purpose
A. The orderly utilization of groundwater resources is hereby found and declared to be a matter of public interest.
B. It is the purpose of this part to provide for the efficient administration, conservation, orderly development and supplementation of groundwater resources by the establishment of a groundwater conservation district composed of the parishes of Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 678, §1; Acts 2019, No. 200, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3072. District and board; creation

RS 38:3072 - District and board; creation
A. There is hereby created the Capital Area Groundwater Conservation District, hereinafter called "district," which shall be a body politic and corporate and a political subdivision of the state of Louisiana and shall be composed of the parishes of Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana.
B. There is hereby created a board of commissioners for the Capital Area Groundwater Conservation District who shall administer the affairs of the district. The membership of the board shall be as provided by R.S. 38:3074.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 678, §1. Amended by Acts 1976, No. 231, §1; Acts 2019, No. 200, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 38 - Public Contracts, Works and Improvements › §38:3073. Definitions

RS 38:3073 - Definitions
Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the following meanings for purposes of this Part:
(1) "Beneficial purpose" or "beneficial use" means the use of groundwater for domestic, municipal, industrial, agricultural, recreational, or therapeutic purposes or any other advantageous use.
(2) "Board" means the board of commissioners of the district formed in accordance with this part.
(3) "Commissioner" means a commissioner of the district who has been appointed or elected in accordance with this part.
(4) "Department of Public Works" means the Department of Public Works of the city of Baton Rouge and parish of East Baton Rouge.
(5) "District" means the groundwater conservation district formed in accordance with this part.
(6) "Governing body" means the police jury, commission, council, or other governing body of the parish.
(7) "Groundwater" is water suitable for any beneficial purpose percolating below the earth's surface.
(8) "Just and equitable share" of the groundwater underlying a tract within an area subject to an order limiting pumping rates means that portion of the recoverable groundwater within an aquifer which is to be apportioned to such tract on the basis of demonstrable geologic and hydrologic data taking into consideration the volume of groundwater in storage, the maximum perennial recharge potential, and any groundwater use priorities established by the board.
(9) "Mississippi River alluvial aquifer" occurs beneath the flood plain of the Mississippi River and includes the sand and gravel units of the Mississippi River alluvial valley deposits.
(10) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental board, commission, district, political subdivision, or public or private organization of any character, including any agency, corporation, and quasi-public corporation of the federal, state, municipal, or local government.
(11) "Premises" as used herein, means a tract or tracts of land, whether or not contiguous, operated by a single person and used principally for bona fide agricultural or horticultural purposes or the production of aquatic life for human consumption.
(12) "User" means any person who produces groundwater in the district for any beneficial use, in excess of fifty thousand gallons for any day during any calendar year from a well or wells owned or operated by such person or from a well or wells owned or operated solely for the production of water used by such person.
(13) "Well" or "water well" shall mean any well drilled or constructed for the principal purpose of producing groundwater.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 678, §1. Amended by Acts 1976, No. 231, §1; Acts 1980, No. 738, §1; Acts 2014, No. 795, §1.