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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.12. Legal status of plan

RS 33:140.12 - Legal status of plan
A. After adoption of the master plan or any part thereof, then and thenceforth no street, park, or any public way, ground, place, or space, no public building or structure, school or school site, or no public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, shall be constructed or authorized in the area of the adopted plan until and unless the location and extent thereof shall have been submitted to and approved by the commission; provided that in the case of disapproval, the commission shall communicate its reasons to the city council, and the city council, by a vote of not less than a majority of its entire membership shall have the power to overrule such disapproval and, upon such overruling, the city council, or the appropriate board or officer shall have the power to proceed; provided, however, that if the public way, ground, place, space, building, structure, school or school site, or utility be one the authorization or financing of which does not, under the law or charter provisions governing the same, fall within the province of the city council or other body or official of the municipality, then the submission to the commission shall be by the board or official having such jurisdiction, and the commission's disapproval may be overruled by such board by a vote of not less than a majority of its entire membership or by the official.
B. The acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, change of use, acquisition of land for, or sale or lease of any street or other public way, ground, place, property, or structure shall be subject to similar submission and approval, and the failure to approve may be similarly overruled. The secretary of the commission or his deputy shall issue a receipt showing the date, time, and sufficient description to identify any document submitted to it for approval. The failure of the commission to act within sixty days from the date of official filing shall be deemed approval, unless a longer period is granted by the city council, or other submitting agency or official, provided that the acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, change of use, acquisition of land for, or sale or lease of any street, or other public way, ground, place, property, or structure by the city council need not be submitted for approval by the commission unless in conflict with the master plan.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §12; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.13. Planning commission as platting authority

RS 33:140.13 - Planning commission as platting authority
After the commission has recommended and the city council has adopted a master plan in whole or in part, no plat of a subdivision of land lying within the area covered by the plan shall be filed or recorded until it shall have been submitted to and approved by the commission, and such approval entered in writing on the plat by the secretary of the commission. The clerk of court of Caddo Parish shall not file or record a plat of a subdivision without the approval of the commission as required by this Subpart; the filing or recording of a plat of a subdivision without the approval of the commission as required by this Section shall be void.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §13; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.14. Subdivision; regulations

RS 33:140.14 - Subdivision; regulations
A. In exercising the powers granted to it by this Subpart, the commission shall recommend regulations governing the subdivision of land within the metropolitan planning area. Such regulations may provide for the harmonious development of the metropolitan planning area; for the coordination of streets within subdivisions with other existing or planned streets or with other features of the master plan or official map of the metropolitan planning area; for adequate open spaces for traffic, recreation, light and air; and for the distribution of population and traffic which will tend to create conditions favorable to health, safety, convenience, or prosperity.
B. Such regulations may include requirements as to the extent to which and the manner in which streets shall be graded and improved and water, sewer and other utility mains, piping, connections, or other facilities shall be installed as a condition precedent to the approval of the plat. The regulations or practice of the commission may provide for the tentative approval of the plat previous to such improvement and installation; but any such tentative approval shall not be entered on the plat. Such regulations may provide that, in lieu of the completion of such work and installations previous to the final approval of a plat, the commission may accept a bond, in an amount and with surety and conditions satisfactory to it, providing for the securing to the municipality, the actual construction and installation of such improvements and utilities within a period specified by the commission and expressed in the bond; and the city council is hereby granted the power to enforce such bonds by all appropriate legal and equitable remedies. Such regulations may provide, in lieu of the completion of such work and installations previous to the final approval of a plat, for an assessment or other method whereby the municipality is put in an assured position to do such work and make such installations at the cost of the owners of the property within the subdivision.
C. Before recommending its subdivision regulations or any amendments thereto, the commission shall hold a public hearing thereon, at least ten days notice of the time and place of which shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality; certified copies of these regulations to be filed with the city council and the clerk of court of Caddo Parish. The commission shall then present its recommendation for subdivision regulations to the city council.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §14; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.15. Procedure on subdivision plats; appeals

RS 33:140.15 - Procedure on subdivision plats; appeals
A.(1) The secretary of the commission or his deputy shall issue a receipt showing the date, time, and sufficient description to identify any plat submitted to it for approval.
(2) The commission shall approve or disapprove the plat within sixty days thereof, otherwise the plat shall be deemed to be approved and a certificate to that effect shall be issued by the commission on demand; however, the applicant for commission approval may waive this requirement and consent to the extension of such period.
(3) The ground of disapproval of any plat shall be stated upon the records of the commission, with the recorded vote of each member included in the records.
(4) No plat shall be disapproved by the commission without affording a hearing thereon.
B. Any applicant or other person may appeal commission approval or disapproval of a subdivision plat to the city council under such procedures and provisions as shall be established in the subdivision regulations.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §15; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.16. Effect of plat approval on status of dedications

RS 33:140.16 - Effect of plat approval on status of dedications
The approval of a plat by the planning commission shall not be deemed to constitute or affect any acceptance by the municipality or public body of the dedication of any street or other ground shown upon the plat.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §16; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.17. Penalties for transferring lots in unapproved subdivisions

RS 33:140.17 - Penalties for transferring lots in unapproved subdivisions
If the owner or the agent of the owner of any land located within the area covered by the adopted plan transfers or sells or agrees to sell or negotiates to sell such land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat of subdivision of such land before such plat has been approved by such commission and recorded in the office of the clerk of court of Caddo Parish, the owner or the agent of the owner shall be subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each lot so transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to be sold; and the description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from such penalties. The municipality, through its attorney or other designated official, may enjoin such transfer of sale or agreement by action for injunction or may recover the penalty by civil action.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §17; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.18. Acceptance of and improvements in unapproved streets

RS 33:140.18 - Acceptance of and improvements in unapproved streets
After the adoption of a master plan, in whole or in part, as provided in R.S. 33:140.13, the municipality or other public body shall not accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave, or light any street within the area covered by the adopted plan, which conflicts with the plan unless such street shall have been accepted or opened as, or shall have otherwise received the legal status of, a public street prior to such attachment of the commission's platting jurisdiction, or unless such street corresponds in its location and lines with a street shown on a subdivision plat approved by such commission or on a street plat made by and adopted by such commission; provided, however, that the city council may locate and construct or may accept any other street if the ordinance or other measure for such location and construction or for such acceptance be first submitted to such commission for its approval, and, if disapproved by the commission, be passed by not less than a majority of the entire membership of the city council; and a street approved by the commission upon such submission, or constructed or accepted by such majority vote after disapproval by the commission, shall have the status of an approved street as fully as though it has been originally shown on a subdivision plat approved by the commission or on a plat made and adopted by the commission.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §18; Acts 1984, No. 550, §1; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.19. Building permits

RS 33:140.19 - Building permits
After the commission has recommended to the city council and the city council has adopted in whole or in part, a building permit plan, including both the full text of a building permit ordinance and the map or maps, showing the districts or zones in which building permits will be required, then and thereafter no building shall be erected in those areas without first having secured the required building permit.
Act 1962, No. 52, §19; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan.1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.20. Platting of street lines by planning commission

RS 33:140.20 - Platting of street lines by planning commission
After the commission has recommended and the city council has adopted a master plan in whole or in part, which includes at least a major street plan, or shall have progressed in its master planning to the state of the making and recommending a major street plan, such commission shall have the power to make or cause to be made, from time to time, plats on which are indicated the locations of the lines recommended by the commission as the planned or mapped lines of future streets, street extensions, street widenings, or street narrowings. The making or certifying of a plat by the commission shall not in and of itself constitute or be deemed to constitute the opening or establishment of any street or the taking or acceptance of any land for street purposes.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §20; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.21. Establishment of official map

RS 33:140.21 - Establishment of official map
After the commission has recommended and the city council has adopted a master plan which includes at least a major street plan, or the commission has progressed in its master planning to the state of the making and recommending of a major street plan, and shall have certified a copy of such major street plan to the city council, then the city council may establish an official map of the municipality. The official map shall show the location of the streets theretofore existing and established by law as public streets. Such official map may also show the location of the lines of streets on plats of subdivisions which have been approved by the commission. The city council shall certify the fact of the establishment of the official map to the clerk of court of Caddo Parish.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §21; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.22. Official map; additions and changes

RS 33:140.22 - Official map; additions and changes
The city council may add to the official map by placing thereon, from time to time, the lines of streets in accordance with the plat of any subdivision which have been approved by the planning commission. The city council may make, from time to time, other additions to or modifications of the official map by placing thereon the lines of planned new streets or street extensions, widenings, narrowings, or vacations. The placing of any street or street line upon the official map shall not, in or of itself, constitute or be deemed to constitute the opening or establishing of any street or the taking or accepting of any land for street purposes.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §22; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.23. Regulation of buildings in bed of mapped streets

RS 33:140.23 - Regulation of buildings in bed of mapped streets
A. For the purpose of preserving the integrity of the official map, the city council may provide by general ordinance or other legislative action that no permit shall be issued for any building or structure or part thereof on any land located between the mapped lines of any street as shown on the official map.
B. Any such ordinance or legislative act shall provide that the board of appeals, as provided for in this Subpart, shall have the power, upon an appeal filed with it by the owner of any such land, to authorize the grant of a permit for a building or structure or part thereof within any such mapped street location in any case in which such board finds, upon the evidence and arguments presented to it upon such appeal, that the property of the appellant of which such mapped street location forms a part will not yield a reasonable return to the owner unless such permit be granted, or that balancing the interest of the municipality in preserving the integrity of the official map and the interest of the owner in the use and benefits of his property, the grant of such permit is required by considerations of justice and equity.
C. Before taking any such action, the board of appeals shall hold a hearing thereon, at least ten days notice of the time and place of which shall be given to the appellant by mail at the address specified by the appellant in his appeal petition. In the event that the board of appeals decides to authorize a building permit, it shall have the power to specify the exact location, ground area, height, and other details and conditions of extent and character, and also the duration of the building, structure or part thereof to be permitted.
Acts 1962 No. 52, §23; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.24. Municipal improvements in streets; buildings not on mapped streets

RS 33:140.24 - Municipal improvements in streets; buildings not on mapped streets
A. Except in streets existing and established by law as public streets at the date of the establishment of the official map, no public water facilities, sewer, or other public utilities or improvements shall be constructed after such date in any street until such street is duly placed on the official map.
B. The city council may provide by ordinance that no permit for the erection of any building shall be issued unless a street giving access to such proposed building existed and was established by law as a public street at the time of the establishment of the official map or shall have been duly placed on the official map in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 33:140.21 and 140.22; provided, however, that such ordinance shall contain a provision whereby the applicant for such permit may appeal to the board of appeals, hearing upon which appeal and notice of the time and place of which shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality, and such board shall have the authority to authorize such a permit, subject to such conditions as the board may impose, where the circumstances of the case do not require the proposed building to be related to the existing streets or to streets as shown on the official map and where the permit would not tend to distort or increase the difficulty of carrying out the official map of the master plan of the municipality.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §24; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.25. Grant of power

RS 33:140.25 - Grant of power
For the purpose of promoting the public health, safety, morals, convenience, order, prosperity and general welfare, the city council is hereby empowered, in accordance with the conditions and the procedures specified in this Subpart, to regulate the location, height, bulk, number of stories and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of the lot which may be occupied, the sizes of yards, courts or other open spaces, the density of population, and the uses of buildings, structures and land for trade, industry, residence, recreation, civic activities, and other purposes, within the municipality.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §25; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.26. The zoning plan

RS 33:140.26 - The zoning plan
If the commission recommends to the city council a zoning plan, including both the full text of a zoning ordinance and the map or maps, representing the recommendations of the commission for the regulation by districts or zones of the location, height, bulk, number of stories, and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of the lot which may be occupied, the size of yards, courts and other open spaces, the density of population, and the uses of buildings, structures, and land for trade, industry, residence, recreation, civic activities, and other purposes, then the city council may exercise the powers granted for the purpose mentioned in R.S. 33:140.25 and may divide the municipality into districts or zones of such number, shape, and area as it may determine, and, for such purposes, may regulate the erection, construction, reconstruction, conversion, alteration, and uses of buildings and structures and the uses of land. All such regulations shall be uniform for each class or kind of building throughout each district, but the regulations in one district may differ from those in other districts.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §26; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.27. Method of procedure

RS 33:140.27 - Method of procedure
Before enacting the zoning ordinance or any amendment thereto, the city council shall hold a public hearing thereon, at least ten days notice of the time and place of which shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. The zoning ordinance, including the map or maps, may from time to time be amended; but no amendment shall become effective unless it be first submitted to and approved by the commission, or, if disapproved, shall receive the favorable vote of not less than a majority of the entire membership of the city council.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §27; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.28. Nonconforming uses

RS 33:140.28 - Nonconforming uses
A. The lawful use of a building or premises exactly as such use existed at the time of the enactment of any regulation affecting it may be continued although such use does not conform with the provisions of such regulation. The city council may provide for the termination of nonconforming uses either by specifying the period or periods within which they shall be required to cease or by providing a formula or formulas whereby the compulsory termination of a nonconforming use shall be so fixed as to allow a reasonable period for the recovery or amortization of the investment in the nonconformance or with adequate compensation by a court of competent jurisdiction.
B. The city council may in its discretion provide by ordinance for the resumption, restoration, reconstruction, extension, or substitution of nonconforming uses upon such terms and conditions as may be set forth in the ordinance.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §28; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.30. Enforcement and remedies

RS 33:140.30 - Enforcement and remedies
The city council may provide for the enforcement of any ordinance enacted under this Subpart. A violation of any such ordinance is hereby declared a misdemeanor. In case any building or structure is or is proposed to be erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, converted, or maintained, or any building structure, or land is or is proposed to be used in violation of any ordinance enacted under this Subpart, the building inspector, permit and zoning clerk, municipal counsel, or other appropriate authority of the municipality, or any adjacent or neighboring property owner who would be specifically damaged by such violation, may, in addition to other remedies, institute injunction, mandamus, or other appropriate action or proceeding to prevent such unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, conversion, maintenance, or use, or to correct or abate such violation, or to prevent the occupancy of such building, structure, or land.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §30. Amended by Acts 1978, No. 211, §1, eff. June 29, 1978; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.31. Conflict with other laws

RS 33:140.31 - Conflict with other laws
A. If regulations made under authority of this Subpart require a greater width or size of yards, courts, or other open spaces, or require a lower height of buildings or less number of stories, or require a greater percentage of lot to be left unoccupied, or impose other higher standards than are required in any other statute, the provisions of the regulations made under authority of this Subpart shall govern.
B. If any other provision of law requires a greater width or size of yards, courts, or other open spaces, or require a greater percentage of lot to be left unoccupied, or impose other higher standards than are required by the regulations made under authority of this Subpart, the provisions of such statute shall govern.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §31; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.32. Existing zoning ordinances

RS 33:140.32 - Existing zoning ordinances
Existing zoning ordinances of the municipality shall continue in effect until repealed by ordinances enacted under the authority of this Subpart.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §32. Amended by Acts 1976, No. 268, §1; Acts 1991, No. 166, §1; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.33. Grant of power

RS 33:140.33 - Grant of power
For the purposes of promoting the public health, safety, morals, convenience, order, prosperity, and general welfare, the city council is hereby empowered, in accordance with the conditions and procedures specified in this Subpart, to adopt housing codes prescribing minimum standards for the area, volume, light, air, ventilation, illumination, occupancy and density of occupancy, and sanitation of dwellings and dwelling places; to adopt building codes, plumbing codes, electrical codes and related measures to regulate the construction, reconstruction, alteration, extension, conversion, or maintenance of buildings; to regulate by building and housing codes or other measures or ordinances conditions of sanitation, including requirements for water supply and sewerage disposal and drainage; and to adopt such other ordinances, regulations, and plans as, in their judgment, are necessary to effect the rehabilitation of substandard dwellings and blighted areas within the municipality.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §33; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.34. Commission

RS 33:140.34 - Commission
The commission may prepare and recommend to the city council for adoption such codes, ordinances, plans, or other measures as, in its judgment, may be necessary to accomplish the purpose of this Subpart.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §34; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.35. Method of procedure

RS 33:140.35 - Method of procedure
Except for the adopting of the zoning ordinance or any amendment thereto by the city council, before adopting any code, ordinance, plan, or other measure pursuant to this Subpart, the city council shall hold a public hearing thereon, at least ten days notice of the time and place of which shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §35; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.36. Enforcement and remedies

RS 33:140.36 - Enforcement and remedies
The city council may provide for the enforcement of any code, ordinance, or other measure enacted under this Subpart. A violation of any such code, ordinance, or other measure is hereby declared a misdemeanor. In case any building or structure is or is proposed to be constructed, reconstructed, altered, extended, converted, or maintained in violation of any code or ordinance enacted under this Subpart, the building inspector, permit or zoning clerk, municipal counsel, or other appropriate authority of the municipality, or any adjacent or neighboring property owner who would be specifically damaged by such violation, may, in addition to other remedies, institute injunction, mandamus, or other appropriate action or proceeding to prevent such unlawful construction, reconstruction, alteration, extension, conversion, maintenance, or use, or to correct or abate such violation, or to prevent the occupancy of such building.
Acts 1962, No. 52, §36; Acts 2020, No. 294, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.50.1. General purposes

RS 33:140.50.1 - General purposes
A. It is the purpose and intent of this Subpart to authorize metropolitan planning in the town of Haughton and its environs and to provide for the creation, organization, powers, and duties of a metropolitan planning commission; for the regulation of the subdivision of land in the metropolitan planning area, as defined in this Subpart; for the making and adoption of an official map or maps to preserve the integrity of the major street plan and other plans by the regulation of buildings in mapped streets; for the making and adoption of a zoning plan and zoning ordinance or ordinances; for the adoption of ordinances prescribing minimum construction, health, and sanitation standards to prevent the spread of slums and to encourage and assist public and private agencies, corporations, and individuals in the rehabilitation and redevelopment of blighted areas; and for the adoption of other plans, ordinances, and measures to effectuate the purposes of this Subpart.
B. It is the further intent of this Subpart to provide for the planning and the effectuation of plans for the orderly physical development of the metropolitan planning area as a whole. In this Subpart, provision is made for unified planning of the area within the town of Haughton and environs; and, further, provision is made for joint or correlated action by the town council and the police jury in the adoption of ordinances or other measures to effectuate such unified plans.
Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.50.2. Separate actions by town council and police jury

RS 33:140.50.2 - Separate actions by town council and police jury
A. If joint or correlated legislative action is required, it is contemplated in this Subpart that such joint or correlated legislative action will be taken within a reasonable time after the submission of such ordinances or other measures to the town council or the police jury by the commission.
B. If such legislative action is not taken by either the town council or the police jury, nothing in this Subpart shall be construed to prohibit, prevent, or impair the other from taking such action unilaterally with respect to the territory within its lawful jurisdiction; in such case either the town council or police jury, as the case may be, that has failed to take such legislative action shall forfeit to the other all rights and privileges with respect to joint action, such as appointment of members of the board of adjustment, and such rights and privileges shall remain forfeited until such time as the joint or correlated action contemplated is taken.
Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.50.3. Conflict with other laws

RS 33:140.50.3 - Conflict with other laws
A. If other laws relating to the physical planning, zoning, airport zoning, effectuation of plans, platting, and other purposes of this Subpart are in conflict with the provisions of this Subpart, the provisions of this Subpart shall prevail; however, where such other laws or provisions thereof provide for other and additional duties, powers, authority, and responsibility, such other laws shall be applicable insofar as they are not in conflict with the provisions of this Subpart.
B. If the town council or police jury fails to make use of the provisions of this Subpart, the provisions of this Subpart shall not be construed to displace, amend, supersede, or affect existing planning or zoning laws of the state of Louisiana or of either jurisdiction.
Acts 2019, No. 75, §1
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.50.4. Delegation of authority

RS 33:140.50.4 - Delegation of authority
A. If, for reasons of convenience, economy, or effectiveness in the administration of plans, ordinances, or other measures, such as zoning, it is desired that the town council or police jury or department, bureau, or agent of either undertake the administration of such plans, ordinances, or other measures with respect to the territory of the other, the town council and police jury may enter into such arrangement as may be mutually agreed upon for such administration and to provide compensation therefor to the governing body or department, bureau, or agent thereof, commensurate with the value and extent of the administration and work involved.
B. Nothing in this Section shall be construed as authorizing the delegation by the town council or the police jury to the other or to any department, bureau, or agent thereof, of the legislative authority vested by law in such governing body.
Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.50.5. Definitions

RS 33:140.50.5 - Definitions
For the purposes of this Subpart, words and phrases used are defined as follows:
(1) "Commission" means the Haughton Metropolitan Planning Commission of Bossier Parish as provided for in R.S. 33:140.50.6.
(2) "Metropolitan planning area" means the town of Haughton and any areas outside of its boundaries which, in the commission's judgment, bear relation to the planning of the municipality; however, such metropolitan planning area shall not extend more than five miles beyond the municipality.
(3) "Municipal" and "municipality" mean the town of Haughton.
(4) "Parish" means Bossier Parish.
(5) "Police jury" means the governing authority of Bossier Parish.
(6) "Street" or "streets" means public thoroughfares, avenues, boulevards, roads, lanes, alleys, and other ways.
(7) "Subdivision" means the division of a lot, a tract, or parcel of land or a portion thereof, into two or more lots, sites, or other divisions, any one or more of which is to be platted as a lot of record for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development, and also means resubdivision, or the consolidation of lots or tracts or portions thereof into single lots, and, when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing, as to the land or area subdivided.
(8) "Town council" means the governing authority of the town of Haughton.
Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.50.6. Metropolitan planning commission; creation and appointment

RS 33:140.50.6 - Metropolitan planning commission; creation and appointment
A. The town council and the police jury may create a commission, to be known as the Haughton Metropolitan Planning Commission of Bossier Parish.
B.(1) The commission shall consist of five members as follows: two members appointed by the town council, two members appointed by the police jury, and one member appointed jointly by the town council and the police jury.
(2) All members of the commission shall be residents and qualified voters of the metropolitan planning area.
(3) The members shall serve four-year terms after initial terms as provided in this Paragraph. One member shall serve an initial term of one year, one shall serve two years, one shall serve three years, and two shall serve four years, as determined by lot at the first meeting of the commission.
(4) Members shall be eligible for reappointment.
(5) Members shall serve without compensation.
(6) Vacancies resulting from the expiration of a term or any other reason shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term in the manner of the original appointment.
Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.50.7. Organization; rules; staff

RS 33:140.50.7 - Organization; rules; staff
A. The commission shall elect its chairman from among its members. The term of the chairman shall be one year with eligibility for reelection. The commission shall adopt rules for the transaction of business and shall keep a record of its resolutions, transactions, findings, and determinations, and the recorded vote of each member to be included, and each record shall be a public record.
B. The commission may appoint such employees and staff as it deems necessary for its work, and if for convenience, economy, or effectiveness in the administration of plans, ordinances, or other measures, such as zoning, the commission desires to delegate certain authority to its employees and staff to act in its behalf, it may do so when such authority is specified in the plan, ordinance, or other measure.
C. The commission may contract with planners and other consultants for such services as it may require.
Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.50.8. Budget

RS 33:140.50.8 - Budget
The commission shall prepare an annual budget of its operating expenses, the total amount of which, exclusive of gifts, shall be within the total amounts appropriated for the purpose by the town council and the police jury. The municipality shall act as fiscal agent for the commission.
Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.50.9. Area of jurisdiction

RS 33:140.50.9 - Area of jurisdiction
The area of jurisdiction of the commission shall be the metropolitan planning area as defined in this Subpart. In its planning, the commission may take into consideration and may make plans for such other area as, in its judgment, bears relation to the metropolitan planning area, but the plans for such other area shall not have any legal or official status.
Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.50.10. Master plan

RS 33:140.50.10 - Master plan
A. It is the function and duty of the commission to make and recommend to the town council and the police jury a master plan for the physical development of the municipality, including any areas outside of its boundaries which, in the commission's judgment, bear relation to the planning of the municipality.
B. The master plan, consisting of maps, plats, charts, and descriptive and explanatory matter, shall show the commission's recommendations for such physical development, and may include, among other things, the general location, character and extent of streets, bridges, viaducts, parks, parkways, waterway and waterfront developments, playgrounds, airports, and other public ways, grounds, places, and spaces; the general location of public buildings, schools and school sites, and other public property; the general location and extent of public utilities and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned, for water, power, heat, light, sanitation, transportation, communication, and other purposes; the acceptance, widening, removal, extensions, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, or change of use of any of the foregoing public ways, grounds, places, spaces, buildings, properties, utilities, or terminals; a zoning plan for the regulation of the height, area, bulk, location, and use of private and public structures and premises, and of population density; the general location, character, layout, the extent of the neighborhood units and communities or groups of neighborhood units, of neighborhood and community centers; and of the general character, extent, and layout of the replanning of blighted districts and slum areas.
C. The commission may, from time to time, recommend amendments to extend or add to the plan.
Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.50.11. General purpose of the plan

RS 33:140.50.11 - General purpose of the plan
In the preparation of the master plan, the commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of the existing conditions and probable future growth of the municipality and its environs. The plan shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted, and harmonious development of the metropolitan planning area which will, in accordance with existing and future needs, best promote public health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity, or the general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development.
Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.50.12. Adoption of master plan

RS 33:140.50.12 - Adoption of master plan
A. The commission may recommend the adoption of the master plan as a whole, or, as the work of making the whole master plan progresses, may from time to time recommend a part or parts thereof, any such part to correspond generally with one or more of the functional subdivisions of the subject matter of the plan.
B.(1) The adoption of the plan or any part, amendment, or addition shall be by resolution carried by the affirmative vote of a majority of the town council, in the case of its applicability to the municipality, or by the police jury, in the case of its applicability to areas outside of the municipality.
(2) The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps, descriptive matter, and other matters intended by the commission to form the whole or part of the plan, and the action taken shall be recorded on the adopted plan or part thereof by the identifying signature of the secretary of the town council or the police jury, and a copy of the plan or part thereof shall be certified to each of the following: the town council, the police jury, the Bossier Parish school board, and the clerk of court and recorder of the parish, who shall record such plan or part thereof on the conveyance records of the parish.
C. The plan or part thereof shall take effect after the date it has been adopted by the town council, in the case of its applicability to the municipality, or by the police jury, in the case of its applicability to areas outside the municipality.
Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.50.13. Miscellaneous powers of the commission

RS 33:140.50.13 - Miscellaneous powers of the commission
A. The commission may make reports and recommendations relating to the plan and development of the area within its jurisdiction to public officials and agencies; public utility companies; civic, educational, professional, and other organizations; and citizens.
B. The commission may recommend to the executive or legislative officials of the municipality and parish, and to other public or semi-public boards, commissions, agencies, or other bodies, programs for public improvements and the financing thereof. All public officials shall, upon request, make available to the commission, within a reasonable time, such available information as it may require for its work.
C. Members and employees of the commission, in the performance of their functions, may enter upon any land, make examinations and surveys, and place and maintain necessary monuments and marks thereon.
D. The commission shall have such additional powers as granted by ordinances adopted by the town council or the police jury, as the case may be.
Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.50.14. Legal status of plan

RS 33:140.50.14 - Legal status of plan
A. After adoption of the master plan or any part thereof, no street, park, or any public way, ground, place, or space, no public building or structure, school or school site, and no public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, shall be constructed or authorized in the area of the adopted plan until and unless the location and extent thereof has been submitted to and approved by the commission; in the case of disapproval, the commission shall communicate its reasons to the town council or police jury, as appropriate, and the town council or police jury, by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its entire membership, shall have the power to overrule such disapproval and, upon such overruling, the town council, police jury, or the appropriate board or officer shall have the power to proceed. However, if the public way, ground, place, space, building, structure, school or school site, or utility be one the authorization or financing of which does not, under the law or charter provisions governing the same, fall within the province of the town council or police jury or other body or official of the municipality or of the parish, then the submission to the commission shall be by the board or official having such jurisdiction, and the commission's disapproval may be overruled by such board by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its entire membership or by such official.
B. The acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, change of use, acquisition of land for, or sale or lease of any street or other public way, ground, place, property, or structure shall be subject to similar submission and approval, and the failure to approve may be similarly overruled. The secretary of the commission or his deputy shall issue a receipt showing the date, time, and sufficient description to identify any document submitted to it for approval.
C. The failure of the commission to act within sixty days from the date of official filing shall be deemed approval, unless a longer period be granted by the town council, police jury, or other submitting agency or official, provided that the acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, change of use, acquisition of land for, or sale or lease of any street, or other public way, ground, place, property, or structure by the police jury or by the town council, as the case may be, need not be submitted for approval by the commission unless in conflict with such master plan.
Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.50.15. Effective date

RS 33:140.50.15 - Effective date
A. In creating a commission pursuant to this Subpart, the town council and the police jury shall, by mutual agreement, designate the date upon which the powers, duties, and authority of the commission shall take effect. Until such time, the planning commission for the town of Haughton shall be continued with all its powers and duties, and by the designated date, the planning commission for the town of Haughton shall turn over to the commission all of its records, plans, studies, or other instruments of its work and planning.
B. Upon the designated date, the powers of the planning commission for the town of Haughton in conflict with the provisions of this Subpart shall cease to exist; however, such plans or parts thereof as have been lawfully adopted by the planning commission for the town of Haughton, including but not limited to the subdivision regulations, major street plan, and zoning plan, shall continue in effect and shall be administered by the commission until repealed or replaced by the commission in accordance with this Subpart.
Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:140.50.16. Commission as platting authority

RS 33:140.50.16 - Commission as platting authority
After the commission has recommended and the town council and the police jury have adopted a master plan in whole or in part, no plat of a subdivision of land lying within the area covered by such plan shall be filed or recorded until it has been submitted to and approved by the commission and such approval entered in writing on the plat by the secretary of the commission. The clerk of court and recorder shall not file or record a plat of a subdivision without the approval of the commission as required by this Subpart; a plat of a subdivision filed or recorded without the approval of the commission as required by this Section is void.
Acts 2019, No. 75, §1.